i thought the Zens were supposed to be pretty decent too?
My X-Fi really isn't. I've only had it for a year and I have to put an insane amount of pressure on 2 of the buttons. To select the previous track I have to press 4 buttons, really annoying. It crashes a lot. Has an awful filestructure so you can't easily put music on it. The random album feature isn't really random. Navigating on it isn't all that great... I wouldn't call it a good player at all.
The X-Fi 2 is probably an improvement because of the revamped interface, but I'm definitely looking for something else.