1. I am listening to 80s music channel and a song I like comes on. At any time while the song is playing if I hit the love button, the song will be saved to my music from beginning until the end.

2. The system automaticaly saves 2 hours of your favorite channels. The advantage of this is that you can play and fast forward one song at a time and again save your favorite songs quickly.

3. Sure you can pay $1.00 per song but in my prior post the 200 songs would cost me $200.00 dollars.

4. I don’t know the name or artist of all the songs I like to be able to buy them, with this system at anytime I listen to a song I like I hit the love button and its saved, titled by artist,song title and genre.

5. Sometimes I don’t remember songs I like until I hear them again, all I do is press the love button at anytime the song is playing and the song is mine.

6. I dont need an IPOD and a SAT RADIO.

7. And by having it always available I am able to take it out of my car and listen to music when I want to, outside of my car.

8. I can listen to download mp3s, books on tape, etc. from my computer and listen to it in my car or out.

9. I can record shows like Howard Stern.

10.I can pause talk radio shows while getting gas and resume when done.

11.I have 223 songs and it is only 40 percent full.

These are just a few reasons why I love this unit.

The only drawback is that you can’t save the songs to your computer, but what do you expect.

P.S. if for whatever reason you still want an IPOD you can still use this unit as a song saver. you can then purchase the songs you listen to most for your IPOD.

IPODs devices are only as good as their content and this device makes it easy to get content.

First, a lot of people don’t understand the technology. The storage is Flash ram, 30gb is a hard disk size, but this device does NOT have a hard disk. If 30GB flash existed, it would be around $1800(at $60/gb).

Second, even with the music recording unlucked, it’s no more than an XM2GO… you can only save the entire recording, not individual songs. If you delete the recording, all music goes with it.

Third, the My Channels option is nice, but it just records the songs that you listen to on your three favorite channels… so it usually records the songs you DON’T click “love” for. If you’re lucky enough to have a home dock, you COULD leave the device on all nice and see what songs you have available for your “My Sirius Songs”. Still, these songs are often talked over with DJ’s or channel ID’s.. it IS recording from radio.

Fourth, there are NO PRESETS.. what they call PRESETS is really a Favorite Channel list.. and everytime you restart the system, you have to hit the browse button 3 times to get back to browse your favorites. This is terrible, I’m used to having buttons, AND the option of seeing 6 channels by preset or channel to get a good idea of what’s playing. With the S50, it’s one channel at a time.

I’ll drop the numbers here…

I love the IPOD functionality, but for the price, i can get a nice IPOD. I’d rather pay .99 cents for a song than have it premted by station ID or a DJ.

For the price, I’m buying an IPOD with cripped Sirius Radio functionality(just in simple usability). I could get a MUCH better IPOD for this price. And use a BETTER receiver(Sportster?) to find my new music.

Maybe they’ll get it right next time, but they went for style and glitz over functionality. I hate the this device.