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looking for a solid portable audio player (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to have it always plugged to the power and to an external speaker so I dont care about its battery life

some must haves:

aluminum
not more than 80£
reliable (ideally buy for life as muxh possible for tech)

good to have:

easily repairable
I can remove the battery

does this thing exist?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hiby R2 buttoned one is solid as well but my issues with it are twofold:

with large libraries you spend a LOT of time scrolling as the UI does not skip to letters after a bit of scrolling
the bluetooth in connection ONLY works when you are the only one using it. Otherwise you get clipping.

I got a snowsky echo mini to replace it and it's terrible. It's a scam, honestly. I really wanted to like it but after taking it out to two dog walks and spending 45 minutes of the one hour walk in silence due to myriad of issues, I can safely say avoid it unless you want a mp3 player to play a few mp3 files from a small library.

same UI issue of scrolling through lots of folders taking ages.
does not offer seamless playing as advertised, it takes a solid minute or two to load an folder with 3 flac songs in it. If it loads at all..
does not support memory cards up to 256gb
crashes when updating library, crashes when playing some songs
does not play all the formats as advertised, often crashing.
when going through files, half the screen real estate is taken up by listing storage, of which there can be only two: sd card and internal.

Sure it sounds as lterally every other dap (it sounds good) and can drive a lot of cans (like every other dap) but for the price it is bad.

I am now looking for a dap that is good with big media libraries and has a solid bluetooth chip that can receive audio without clipping on public transit.