Best MP3 player for long haul travelling?

Any advice here?

Obviously one that has it's own rechargeable battery is a big plus. But it has to be one that you can just plug into a wall and charge up...The ones that rely on usb ports sound crap because everytime you need to recharge the mp3 player you have to find an internet cafe and charge it up by hooking it up with one of the computers there, so sod that. 2GB would be enough for me but no less.

I'm looking to spend around £70.00 (about $120-130 US). Can I get anything decent for this.

Looked through amazon and through the shop magazines here but most seem to be either depedent on AAA batteries or require a USB port for recharging.

Is the ipod my only option?

 

I would not recommend an Ipod and I have one. For about 30 dollars over your budget you could get the Zen V....I've heard good things about it. But I highly highly do not recommend any of the Ipods. I've had nothing but trouble with mine with zero support from Apple, and I several of my friends have the same probs. Apple makes quanity of quality.

 

I don't trust anything with an operating systems, I bring a MD player, you can fit 5/6 albums on a MD these days, they are infinitely more reliable than mp3 players.

 

I got an IRiver before I went to Europe. It relies on AAA batteries but the way I found around the inconveniance of that was by buying a pack of 4 Energizer lithium camera/extended use batteries. They were more expensive but I could listen to that MP3 player for what had to have been at least 6 days of contiunous play on one single battery. I ran out of the 4 batteries at around the end of the trip which lasted a month and a half. Without those tunes and a few good books I would've been overwhelmed with boredom on the long train rides especially in Eastern Europe with round trips lasting from 22 hours up to 27 hours. Also the IRiver is pretty inconspicuous and small with differing memory options. Im happy with it so far, it stood up to backpacking Europe including mountain hiking trips, and more abuse stateside for the last year and a half.