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The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by em-bee »

antisthenes wrote: post #85
mingus88 wrote: post #67

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Sony Walkman. It’s wild that 40+ years after they pretty much invented the portable music player, people need to be reminded that they still exist The NW-a30 I bought years again sounds exactly like what you are looking for. The software is not android, it’s snappy and intuitive and Sony has decades of experience making these devices

I just looked at the choices. An 8gb for $79 (why is 8gb of storage still a thing when stores are giving away 32gb flash drives for free?) or a $799 player that costs more than my phone and desktop computers combined. Nah. This ain't it.

the most important use of my phone is to play audio. to the point that i almost considered getting a pinephone so that i could run something else besides android and get a better FOSS audio player (and a keyboard). but i decided against it because it was just a bit to expensive for what it offers.

now if only i could find a decent FOSS audio player for android. it is critical that the player interface orders files by directory structure and displays the filename because a lot of audiobooks and audio drama series or podcasts use the series title in all files and don't have a file specific title (and those that do mess it up by not having episode or chapter numbering. this often makes the individual chapters/episodes indistinguishable from each other. unfortunately most available audio players assume that the title is enough to pick a file, but that really only works for songs, not audio books, audio drama or podcasts.

sorry for the rant.

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by yaomtc »

dsr_ wrote: post #66
yaomtc wrote: post #12

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Some older portable media players are supported by Rockbox, which supports Opus. Unclear if there's any supported devices currently in production. As for SD cards, I know SanDisk devices on that list supported microSD cards. https://www.rockbox.org/

You can get an XDuoo X3ii for $125. It's not exactly in-production, but it will be new in-box. https://www.linsoul.com/products/xduoo-x3ii I wish it were the size of a Clip+.

I don't see any support for Vorbis or Opus here, what about support by Rockbox?

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by crotchfire »

user3939382 wrote: post #60
bwoodward wrote: post #47

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I tested mine and it came out to around 65hrs w/ rockbox playing FLACs. I've also got a Sansa Clip+ that is super small and great with Rockbox.

I had an RCA Lyra RD1021, it was almost the size of a matchbox. I’m still tempted to use it while running instead of a phone.

I can't imagine trying to use a phone to listen to music while running.

The Sansa Clip has physical buttons. I can operate it without having to look at it.`

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by crotchfire »

hakfoo wrote: post #15
yaomtc wrote: post #12

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Some older portable media players are supported by Rockbox, which supports Opus. Unclear if there's any supported devices currently in production. As for SD cards, I know SanDisk devices on that list supported microSD cards. https://www.rockbox.org/

I was expecting to see them say "it runs Rockbox." I put it on my Sandisk E200 back in the day; 2Gb and then I stuck in another 2Gb card. It was so responsive, and the scroll-wheel UI was so convenient. The wheel seized up (still usable, but had to turn it like a safecracker instead of with your thumb), so I gifted it to a co-worker's son. What I always wanted to see was something with an "old Blackberry" style side-…

I want to know where to source that blackberry jog-wheel.

I can't seem to find any PCB-mounted jogwheels that both (a) rotate in a plane parallel to the board and (b) are meant to be operated by touching the edge of the wheel (rather than its face, like the dial on the Sansa Fuze) and (c) don't cause the depth of the device along the axis perpendicular to the PCB to become huge (i.e. like a knob-style encoder without the knob).

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by fold3 »

peanut-walrus wrote: post #34

Looks like something you would order for $15 from aliexpress. Am I missing something about this?

To be fair, It's more comparable to MP3 players in the 50 to 100 usd range. (See zishan, f.audio, hiby, shanling, fiio, xduoo) The difference is it is using open source hardware and software. Chinese MP3 players have little repairability, limited to no modding and a terrible OS. This tries to fix that. Still expensive in my opinion but I'm waiting to see if people make interesting things out of it.

Re: The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

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Post by yencabulator »

em-bee wrote: post #91
antisthenes wrote: post #85

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I just looked at the choices. An 8gb for $79 (why is 8gb of storage still a thing when stores are giving away 32gb flash drives for free?) or a $799 player that costs more than my phone and desktop computers combined. Nah. This ain't it.

the most important use of my phone is to play audio. to the point that i almost considered getting a pinephone so that i could run something else besides android and get a better FOSS audio player (and a keyboard). but i decided against it because it was just a bit to expensive for what it offers. now if only i could find a decent FOSS audio player for android. it is critical that the player interface orders files by…

Have you tried https://github.com/mdmt1/sabp_native ?
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