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Pioneer hates their customers
I have been talking with their "customer service" people with nothing to show but frustration but now its anger. Every CS rep refers me to another person and afters hours of wasted time I get to a supervisor who then tells me to call CS. These folks are genius at doing nothing so my only action is to throw this piece of junk in a landfill and buy anything that does not have anything to do with Pioneer.

Easily my worst purchase ever
I purchased the XMP3 player back in December and have been as patient as possible. The signal strength is horrible. You can't walk and listen unless you have saved channels. The internet service is now not included with the normal rate. Getting this worthless piece of plastic and the horrible services with XM have caused me to now have a 0 dust collector. This is easily the worst purchase I have made in this lifetime. I wish I could assign it a negative star review rate.

Great second act of the already great Inno
** update June 23, 2009 **
After some weirdness that started about 3 or 4 days ago (freezing, shutting down, hanging etc - mostly while listening to MP3's on my SDHC class 4 8GB card), my unit began to hang regularly every few songs. Took it back to Best Buy, and exchanged for brand new unit with no hassles.

Still love the XMP3 - just as long as this new one behaves OK - which it seemed to out of the box, but time will tell. Clearly, the other one had some electronic flaw that appeared after some use. Seems like other people have reported similar failures. Hopefully these are just bad units which can happen in complex pieces of electronics. We'll see.

Based on this failure, you should be SURE to keep your receipt, and packaging, and know the return policy of wherever you're getting the unit from. Best Buy store purchase / exchange worked great for me.
*** end of update - original review follows ***

I previously owned the Inno2, and loved it. When the XMP3 came out with the 8GB SDHC slot (=tons of personal music), and the price came into range (bought mine for 9.99 with free car kit from a major electronics box store), I jumped on it.

Now I've got plenty of room for my music library, plus all the excellent things about the original Inno2 on the new XMP3 (recording songs, playing your own library of mp3 AND WMA's).

The only negative (and this could be a HUGE negative for some people), is that the XM2GO music manager WILL NOT INSTALL on Vista 64-bit, or XP 64-bit computers (also there is no Mac version).

So, what that means is you won't be able to organize your XM radio recorded content into playlists which are mixed together with your own mp3 and .wma library. (You can still create your own .mp3 and .wma playlists, and sync your device using Windows Media player - I'm using version 11).

Also, creating playlists using the XMP3 alone (without software) is much harder, and extremely tedious (in my opinion) when compared with the Inno2, but that's not the way you'd normally want to do it anyway.

BUT... don't let any of the above sound too negative though. Windows Media Player (exact version I'm using is 11.0.6002.18005) works great with my XMP3 and easily / reliably sync's my playlists right onto the device and this works great. I had to learn how to set up syncs (I had never done this before, and didn't understand the terminology or steps), but I was able to learn it and have it work correctly the first time. I haven't had any trouble at all with this and it works automatically now when I plug in the device.

What I remember of the directions to set this up:
- start Windows Media Player (see the version I used above)
- connect your XMP3 to your PC using the USB cable
- initially I selected to just open the files in the pop up box, but you do have the option of telling it to sync right there (this may just work)
- I then went to the Windows Media Player (WMP) "Sync" tab, selected the XMP3 and selected set up "Set up sync"
- check the box "Sync this device automatically"
- RIGHT hand side playlists (it pulls in all the songs + the playlist) that will be synced to your XMP3 - NOTE - it defaults to putting all of them on - so click on any that you don't wan't on your xmp3 and hit the remove button
- LEFT hand side = PC Playlists that are not part of your sync, because of the default above, it will be empty initially
- Hit finish when you're all done
- Now everytime you plug in your device, it will download any new songs in your playlist to your device, and update the playlist itself on your XMP3 (works great)

I think I might actually prefer just dealing with one program (Media Player). I would be nice to organize those XMP3 radio recorded songs too, but oh well.

Everything else about this player is great.

A compatibility note to previous Inno2 users: the connector at the bottom of the XMP3 has a slightly different configuration and longer pin than the Inno2, and it docks vertically, so your car kit mounting piece will not work from the Inno2, but all other plugs (antenna, 5V power, audio output jack) are identical.

Also, I have the Inno2 sports arm band for jogging, and the XMP3 fit in this snugly even though it's smaller than the Inno2. The Inno2 was always difficult to get in and out of the arm band, and the XMP3 seems to fit it perfectly now - bonus.

One final comment is that the other reviewers that have given this player positive marks are right on the mark.

Don't let anyone's negative comments on this player dissuade you from buying it. Any flaws are on the order of small imperfections in exactly meeting personal preferences. As a whole this thing works great, is easy to use, about a versatile a device as there is, and looks good too.

My best gadget by far
I have enjoyed XM for years, almost as long as my TIVO. XM was a love/hate thing right off the bat. I loved the selection and lack of commercials for many stations. I have come to enjoy audio versions of my favorite news programming while driving. What I didn't like was having to pay additional subscription fees for each vehicle, home & office and not being able to rewind something important that I didn't quite get.

The Pioneer XMP3 fixed all the problems for me. It does everything it's advertised to do and does it all very well. There are good reviews here that detail it's features well enough. And there are features you just bump up against as you fiddle with it. For the most part it is pretty intuitive, even for an old duffer.

The big deal for me is; 1.) not having to pay additional subscriptions for home, office and vehicle, 2.) recording programming per the schedule I set, and 3.) Having a buffer full of good music for listening while in a doctors office where I can't get a satellite signal. And I can replay any recording (including the the buffer) as much as I want.

XM's best portable reciever
Im totally satisfied with Pioneer's XMP3 portable player. I purchased this one to relplace my old Delphi XM2go. Its smaller, lighter, more memory and just plain looks better!!!
I would recomend this to anybody...