Oh poor Pinch...
My first MP4 player that I regularly used. Fully customizable desktop and startup/shutdown images, an excellent FM radio, along with the usual music functions.
And then I had to remove her without Safely Removing the Hardware.
Normally, some players would have no problem with that, but this time, she got stuck at a "Updating Playlists" screen, and so, I turned her off using the master switch and turned it on again, hoping it was just a temporary problem.
Pinch would never wake up again.
Since then, I have got a myriad of other MP4 players, which are Hazel, Jelly, and Nora. They assist me with the FM radio recording I do, but only Hazel comes close to matching Pinch's radio reception quality. And on top of that, none of them are as customizable as Pinch was. No custom wallpapers or startup/shutdown images.
I am trying to see if any Menards I go to still has some leftover stock of those "Altus" MP4 players, which is what Pinch was. I may not find one again, but I do have a slight hope that I do find another one.
And if I do, Pinch shall live again.
Since then, Hazel is my main player, with Nora as a backup with all my Christmas music. Jelly only records FM, and the others may join in on that at certain times. I am testing out a Polaroid iPod Nano knockoff, and while the battery life is good,
it has no support for Ogg Vorbis files! I may end up scrapping the Polaroid.