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Could fedi folks pleeease recommend me a #mp3player that doesn't get bricked easily in the battery department? Mine is suddenly no longer lasting more than an hour after charge 😦
ETA: Thank you everyone for your help!
I was reminded of resurrecting my Rio 600 several years back after randomly finding the painfully proprietary USB cable.
I had to spin up a Windows XP virtual machine and add original drivers, but Windows Media Player 9 finally decided to play ball. Even got it upgraded to the final firmware version and loaded up some new-at-the-time songs.
Well, the iPod is officially a bust, so I must search for other avenues.
My choices of #MP3player / #DAP are then:
- Ultra low-cost machine, with quite possibly VERY crappy sound for under €40;
- Proper DAP that's over €100 with some being able to run #Rockbox as an alternative firmware. Currently eyeing the #HIFIWalkerH2.
- Weirdly enough, some retro consoles like the #R36S and its variants, which can also run Rockbox as an app.
So, Fedi, what say you on this topic? What do you suggest?
Just found my 2nd ever #MP3Player while checking/emptying "random old crap" boxes.
The first one was a 128MB unit that failed after an airplane flight to the UK after approx. 1/2 year of use.
This bad boy features a whopping 1GB of storage. At some point the battery compartment failed so I modded it to take a bigger AA battery. The USB cover features slots for a cable tie to route the headphone wires out of the pocket without a mess.
The soft touch paint turned into a horrible goo and collected a lot of dust.
This thing was in daily use for approx. 8 years.
Edit: just checked the online manual. No date, but it mentions Windows98SE. Do you remember installing drivers for USB mass storage devices? That was wild...
For what I can only attribute to my phone guzzling down power even with local-only apps for music and podcasts, I, a terminally-online person that is rarely more than 1m away from a PC or smartphone with a constant Internet connection, and even self-host my own services, am considering... stepping down a notch and move to a more... "analog" world.
Actually, analog is the wrong word. "#Disconnected" might be a better one.
So I'm wondering if I could actually make a switch to something like a Nokia 7110 and an #MP3player.
Weirdly enough, MP3 players these days are apparently either cheap and crappy, or expensive and iffy, or VERY expensive, or expensive Android mini tablets with barely any battery life...
So I just put a bid on a modded 120GB iPod Classic I can slap Rockbox on, hopefully I win it.
If anyone in the EU has an #iPod they don't want that's compatible with #rockbox, please let me know!
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