Re:Does not inspire confidence (Score 3, Informative)

The Karma is the ONLY HD based player which does gapless playback properly. It's the main reason I have one (and would never buy an iPod).

wrong. the archos jukebox with the free, open source rockbox firmware has supported gapless playback for years.

apple and most car mp3 head unit manufacturers can't figure this out. it is a show stopper for me.

the archos doesn't have a problem with not turning off - the opposite, it turns off unexpectedly sometimes. similar problem, but doesn't require smacking it hard enought to interrupt power (holy shit show stopper).