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Standalone MP3 players are increasingly useful, now that: 1) Most smartphones lack a headphone jack 2) Most smartphones lack an SD card slot 3) Your phone is probably the most important thing you have on your person, and conserving the battery life is more important than listening to music I unfortunately ditched my Sansa Fuse mp3 player after I got my first smartphone, because the Galaxy S2 felt like a straight upgr…
My daughter started asking to use my old digital cameras about 3 or 4 years ago, the ones from the early 2000s. "Why would you want to use those?" I asked her. "Your phone's camera is way better." She said she liked "the look" (of the photos) and mentioned that some people she followed on Instagram used them. Turns out there's a universe of retro photo accounts using film, old digital cameras, and old video cameras.…
Standalone MP3 players are increasingly useful, now that: 1) Most smartphones lack a headphone jack 2) Most smartphones lack an SD card slot 3) Your phone is probably the most important thing you have on your person, and conserving the battery life is more important than listening to music I unfortunately ditched my Sansa Fuse mp3 player after I got my first smartphone, because the Galaxy S2 felt like a straight upgr…
I got an iPod last year and have been really enjoying what's possible with them. Using rockbox opens up a lot of features, especially usb file transfer and flac. I've gone so far as to make my own themes to build upon the old UI https://github.com/D0-0K/adwaitapod
It's been to 56 countries with me, been frozen at -40C/F many times, used at +50C and about a bazillion corrugations and nightmarish dust. Still going strong.
Still using my 2006 iPod. I've replaced the battery (easy, $8) and replaced the hard drive with an SDXC adapter which bumped the capacity from 80GB to 256GB. Such a great device. My car knows how to control it so I mostly just leave it in the car. Also great on airplanes, with the card conversion it has many hours of battery life. Amazing how every comparable device made today is so much worse.
> Also great on airplanes, with the card conversion it has many hours of battery life. How many? > Amazing how every comparable device made today is so much worse. Music devices are like cameras, the best one is always the one you actually have with you. That said, nothing will compare to the tinny sound of a Rio PMP processing 128kbps mp3s that have been recompressed to 32kbps. Sounded like angels in your ears were…
Depending on the device you use, you can squeeze out > 40h of pure listening time.
> Music devices are like cameras, the best one is always the one you actually have with you.
Hehe, nice comparison. But the iPod is not about having the BEST sound quality. It's more about being decent enough in every feature it has. Pretty sure iPods can't compete with the Hi-Res DAPs like Fiio M11 Plus, Astell&Kern, iBasso and others in terms of sound quality. But the user experience may still be better, depending on your personal taste.
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It's weird to think that for people without clear memories of it, the 2000's might be imagined in the style of early digital photos the same way the 70's look like Super 8 footage or the early 20th century is sepia toned in my head.
Something that occurred to me the other day regarding my own "memories" of times before I was born: From 1965–Present, the world is in color. The tone shifts a bit, but it's all in color. 1900–1964: Black and white. The world was actually black and white. Sometimes people moved around at a weird frame-rate :) 1800–1899: Color, but very much sepia toned. The whole world was slightly dirty and brownish, but the sky was…
The click-wheel patent Apple had has finally elapsed.