I want an old school mp3 player again but most of them probably don't work properly anymore...
I also want 1 million headpats~
@ReignOfRaining
Might be easier to give you 1 million heads to be patted once.
Thats not too bad but I really don't have the disposable income for this kind of stuff~
I want the one with the up/down buttons and the big screen. I like the weight of it. I want my mp3 player to double as a pocket defense brick~
best feature is that it has a headphone jack and no bluetooth~
@ReignOfRaining they're unfortunately quite expensive, but iPods are super moddable and as a result they last pretty well. any 5/6/7th gen with an iFlash and Rockbox becomes a pretty fuckin good media player

i have a modded 5th gen, personally, and ive had it for a couple years already, even in spite of its age
@ReignOfRaining it was a fantastic investment in my journey to own as much of my own media as possible, genuinely- such a nice feeling having it and knowing no one can fuck with it
@ReignOfRaining
u can still get old phones and like make them only play audio files
did this to mother's pixel 3a
@ReignOfRaining iriver may still make them it was their whole thing
@[email protected] I can look into it, anything retro is way outside my budget~
@ReignOfRaining i mean you could look into modern dedicated music players
if you want an actually older one, old ipods are usually the way to go, since they last quite well and a lot of people are selling them off for scrap prices or literally giving them away.
there is like, sony walkman mp3s, but that's aboyt it when it comes to recognizable brands, since a lot of good companies would collapse and get bought out by cheap manufacturers around the time those were popular so you got a
lot of junk
@ReignOfRaining outside of ensuring it's not actual trash you should look into basically only 2 things: the memory capacity (including whether you can add extra storage with an sd card or sth) and format support (older players might not support formats like FLAC and only accept actual mp3)