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Are there any good modern MP3 players? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have a large music library that I don't have much storage left for on my phone. There are of course other ways of solving this problem, but are there any good dedicated music players like iPods still around?

Ideally I'd like it to have Bluetooth functionality for wireless headphones, at least 512GB of storage, and an SD card slot. Possibly physical buttons as well.

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[+] fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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[–] lemming@anarchist.nexus 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looked up prices for these and they're all around $120, modded iPods ranging between $150-$900 and Sony Walkman one is around $900.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would anyone spend $900 on a modded iPod?

[–] lemming@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The ones that go up that high is mainly because of the 2TB storage space but you also get all the modern bells and whistles.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Additionally, for the H2 and F20, there are rockbox CFW if you don't like the firmware it came with.

Rockbix is a custom firmware dating back decades giving relatively easy and logical way to browse and play your own music.

[–] asiago@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 month ago

as an owner and regular user of the H2, i feel it important to point out that it also works as a USB DAC.

it also displays lyrics for anything you have .lrc files for - the collection of mp3s on my 512GB microsd card took me about a month to get lyric files for. I created a set of scripts that would either look online and download them, or ran them through some speech-to-text on linux to create them from scratch. This last part was critical as I have a huge number of old-time radio shows and drama which obviously wouldn't ever have lyrics for, but is a lot of fun to read along.

those two features (the USB DAC and the lyrics file support) are what sold me on the utility of this player. Overall, it's a fantastic device and I enjoy the snot out of it.