Those high prices also apply to humans
Those high prices apply to humans even more. I paid about 3 times more for virtually identical titanium screws and plates when purchased from human orthopaedic stuff supplier, with for-humans certificates, than from a vet orthopaedic supplier (screws: ~$40 vs. ~$15, plates ~$400 vs. ~$120, as far as I remember).
trekstor makes portable players that can natively play mp3, ogg, flac, wma and wave, they show up in the computer as an external drive so files can be transfered via windows explorer or such, (no iTunes needed, so you can transfer from or to any computer without any special software on it), and it can be used to carry any files. File transfer and battery charging are done via standard USB. Unlike certain iPods, battery is removable so it can be replaced without service involved. There's even a recording feature and microphone built-in, but don't expect quality. It's interesting that it has a
parametric equalizer. Of course, music library functionality is provided to access tracks by tags (albums, artists etc) rather than filenames. There are even features like: "play songs I haven't listen to for a long time", or something like that. I am talking about the vibez model, I am not sure about other ones.