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Lurkington123 t1_j1mrnin wrote

I genuinely can’t believe Apple iPod’s are almost ~20 years old and were that good, yet after all these years nobody else can make a portable music device to save their life… It’s a real shame they are discontinued. I’ve used a bunch of modern “DAPs” and they are ALL garbage unless you spend like 3 grand on a totl Sony model or Astell&Kern… They are bloated with gimmicky features, use outdated software, the interfaces are laggy and cumbersome to navigate, they have poor battery performance, zero customer service because they are all based out of China etc.

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uDontInterestMe t1_j1n6rny wrote

I love the click wheel - the ability to do something without looking at a screen is a wonderful thing!

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Sprinkles-Hour t1_j1or1op wrote

The music device market has been totally gentrified by audiophiles

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kuddlesworth9419 t1_j1tpkij wrote

There are still really good music players out there. XDuoo made some really nice stuff but they seem to be pulling out because they are removing models from their website. I think I paid £80 for my X3. I wanted to upgrade to the X3II but it's been removed now. My X3 is still going strong and the battery can be repalaced if it dies.

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mriidul t1_j1nvf2s wrote

honestly you can still buy an ipod nano or touch second hand and itll be a good option. they’re even getting more expensive as time goes on.

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sponge_welder t1_j1ougha wrote

It's really wild to me that there isn't a big open source project for portable media players. There's Rockbox, but it doesn't seem to be ported to many modern players.

In the radio control hobby there are like 4 major manufacturers of transmitters and they all run the same open source firmware, which gives the community control over the hardware and for the most part makes things run very well.

It would be awesome to see something like that revolutionize the portable audio scene. Someone start a software project and release a good, STM32-based reference design so that the hardware will be reliable and people can implement good features in software that can run on lots of different devices

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99available t1_j1o9lcu wrote

I still use a SanDisk Clip Jam. Sometimes you just want an MP3 player. That takes microcards.

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Lurkington123 t1_j1oacvn wrote

That’s what I’m using! The Clip Jam is such a little beast. I actually prefer it over most DAPs. It’s not as good as the old Zip which can use Rockbox, it doesn’t play flacs or do anything fancy and the bass is a little thin but it’s perfect for what I need for running or when I’m at the gym. This thing can take a beating and the battery lasts FOREVER.

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99available t1_j1odf3o wrote

I just bought a Jam because I thought I'd lost my old Sansa Clip (now sans a clip). It does what I need it to do. Frankly my ears are shot so anything beyond 320vb MP3 is wasted on me.

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JakeGrey t1_j1prazy wrote

I suppose it was inevitable when a MicroSD card and a music player app for your smartphone could do the same job. Except now we're expected to rent our albums instead of buy them.

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fvb955cd t1_j1nwd96 wrote

I liked my 20-teens Sony Walkman. Only stopped using it because of Spotify. Maybe a little less clean of a ui but for like $50 I would still be using it but for a better, different form of media player. That'd still affect my ipod classic, which I had to pay$100 to replace 3 times (and the 4th likewise lost headphone functionality).

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