I really wish I had gotten the nano version of the 5c. The full size sticks out my laptop and I always get nervous I'm going snap it off. They can be inconvenient when you don't have them on you, but that's exactly the point. I carry one on my keys with me everyday and it's handled the beating no problem.
Yeah really would be good to have a separatly hosted status page or something, but I understand that is a luxury. Considering Jonah has freely volunteered to host it's hard to complain.
SanDisk is certainly the way to go. They literally make an mp3 player specifically for your use case.
I would Google around budget audiophile mp3 player and see if there is something else that might fit your preference better.
YES! I was hoping someone would make this