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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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teruakohatu wrote: post #33

I want this device! > lasts a full day on a charge The iPod Classic could do 36 hours of playback so I wonder why this can only manage 24 hours. > 2200-mAh battery with a standard, 3-pin JST connector For years I have wanted a MP3 player with a 18600 battery. If the developers are reading this, consider a version with a 18600, even if the form factor is not as ergonomic. > Firmware supports MP3, FLAC, Opus, and Vorbi…

The form factor up around that kind of battery size is actually pretty ergonomic (though I do have big hands). I've got a phone in that range (just under 1lb) and it's nice. Solid. I like the heft of it, it feels like I'm carrying around a filofax.

Maybe not for joggers though.

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

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Post by hypercube33 »

yzydserd wrote: post #69

The music player I had in the early 2000s was great: a 2001 IOmega HipZip that took 40MB Clik! disks. I'd pop 3 albums on 3 disks for a day of listening around the city. No complaints at all. Nostalgia. https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/gfk65j...

I had an iRiver 350 slim so 700mb cds but it fit in my pocket and ran all day. The UI was wayyy better than any other CD MP3 player I could find and let you just store albums in folders and use the multi line remote to browse and play.

I wish they'd taken it to SD card storage but my palm pilot could so I ended up using that

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

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Post by rasz »

bentley wrote: post #16
jszymborski wrote: post #5

SD-card capable with Opus support, that's all I ever want frankly, and this has it. Will certainly be interested to see what price this launches at.

> Will certainly be interested to see what price this launches at. $249. https://chaos.social/@jacqueline/111586778394138531

heavily under $50 BOM

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

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Post by m45t3r »

ShadowBanThis01 wrote: post #38
teruakohatu wrote: post #33

I want this device! > lasts a full day on a charge The iPod Classic could do 36 hours of playback so I wonder why this can only manage 24 hours. > 2200-mAh battery with a standard, 3-pin JST connector For years I have wanted a MP3 player with a 18600 battery. If the developers are reading this, consider a version with a 18600, even if the form factor is not as ergonomic. > Firmware supports MP3, FLAC, Opus, and Vorbi…

No AAC is also absurd.

Maybe an issue with patents? All the formats there are open source with the exception of MP3, that from what I remember had its patents expired a few years ago.

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

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Post by camel-cdr »

teruakohatu wrote: post #33

I want this device! > lasts a full day on a charge The iPod Classic could do 36 hours of playback so I wonder why this can only manage 24 hours. > 2200-mAh battery with a standard, 3-pin JST connector For years I have wanted a MP3 player with a 18600 battery. If the developers are reading this, consider a version with a 18600, even if the form factor is not as ergonomic. > Firmware supports MP3, FLAC, Opus, and Vorbi…

> lasts a full day on a charge

It's an ESP32, so I wonder if you could extend that via software, as in disable EVERYTHING you don't need and run in the lowest power mode possible while doing playback.

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

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Post by jbushell »

mingus88 wrote: post #67
Minor49er wrote: post #2

This looks promising. Pretty much all modern portable music players are janky Android devices with awful hardware and software. I've been looking for something to dethrone the Zune HD for me, which has a small form factor and intuitive interface

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

The newer Walkman models seem to all just be android skins unfortunately.

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

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Post by szszrk »

IWeldMelons wrote: post #61
Minor49er wrote: post #2

This looks promising. Pretty much all modern portable music players are janky Android devices with awful hardware and software. I've been looking for something to dethrone the Zune HD for me, which has a small form factor and intuitive interface

Sansa AFAIK is still non-Android.

Sansa, Fiio, there are some nice options both for tiny sports players and "hifi" market.
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