I brought an MP3 Player like an year ago as:

  • to conserve battery life on my phone
  • Google Pixel didn’t have MircoSD slot or headphone jack without use of headphone USB-C dongle

So I look around for any good second-hand MP3 players which I did look at the iPods because of DankPod’s video which he often mods the iPod. I did tried to mod it but it was annoying to do and I have ended up damaging it which is easy to do when you are trying to mod the iPod to use an SD-Card adapter instead of the hard drive which no longer works. Instead of doing a second try and buying another iPod which can cost around £30-60 depending on the model in question, I just brought a SanDisk’s Sansa Clip Zip which has MircoSD slot and also can have Rockbox flashed. I mainly have Rockbox just for the themes and last.fm Scrobble plugin. It’s bit clunky the menus but you do get used to it and it has a lot of options in the settings which I recommend reading the manuals on their website about it.

My experience with it is that I used my phone less for listening to music has I have more storage for my .flac music library. It hasn’t replaced any of the music streaming services for me as I used two of them for different purposes. For my MP3 Player, it’s music I already owned and at least liked the song so I got an album if I have already got it and streaming services to discover music I hadn’t listen to or got just yet.

  • Mugita Sokio@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    I’ve been wanting to use an iPod with Rockbox for some time, actually. Maybe a Classic 5th Gen (non-video) or a 4th Gen would do. I’m not entirely sure about that.

  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de
    10·
    2 days ago

    I also got one of these old Sansa clips. Used to have Rockbox on it too. Did you know it runs Doom?

    • MonsterTrick@piefed.worldOPMEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I vaguely remember trying to run Doom and had a laugh the fact that it can even run that game. Love Doom

  • BigPotato@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    “Chi-fi” MP3 players or DAPs are actually in a good place right now, if you end up looking again (if that Sansa goes the way my old one did) don’t be afraid to check out Fiio, Shanling, or Hiby as well. At the least bit, the UIs are a bit more modern.

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    2 days ago

    Loved my old Samsung player 20 years ago or so.
    Only slighty bigger as the AAA that powered it, great sound and was a total long-runner, being one of the first devices to feature a (tiny, single colour) OLED display.

    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
      6·
      2 days ago

      I had the second LG Soul around 2000ish.

      It was revolutionary at the time, especially with the little inline remote control letting you see what was playing and skip to and from the start of tracks. At the time, only large CD players had that functionality.

      One of the handful of times that tech made me cool for ten minutes in school 😊 good times!

  • FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    Damn that takes me back… Might try digging up my old MP3 and MP4 players, though I’m sure they did not stood the test of time