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Yeah I'm old enough to remember how exciting it was when anti-skip CD players came out...

Not able to upload images anymore for some reason, but I love the Sandisk Clip Sport for this.

People look at me weird when I tell them I have a dedicated MP3 player instead of using my phone.

No, I don't want to run down my phone battery for music. Yes, I want a device I can leave sitting on the counter playing music that isn't my phone I have to keep walking over to check.

That being said, SO many of the dedicated MP3 players out there are TRAAAAAAAAAAASH. My last one's 3.5mm jack broke after a couple years. My new one's SD card slot broke after 4 months. I guess the best method is just buying the cheapest one so when it breaks you don't feel too bad about it. They're all made by Asian companies that have no website or contact numbers or any kind of presence at all other than the Amazon page they're selling their garbage on.

My husband got me a Creative Zen Micro for birthday and he had added in a bigger HDD and a new battery, it really works like a dream. It was a bit difficult to get around at first as it's from like 2004, but once I realised that I don't need to mess around with my XP PC to get it work, that Gnomad2 exists and works smoother, I'm all good. And the sound quality is so good, 320 kbps MP3. And the player fits into my headphone case!!

// Hubby wants to edit to say that HDD was replaced with SD card adapter + 16 Gb card (only Sanddisc card worked on it.)

Maan, I had Exactly that mp3 player, big and bulky and not especially better IMO. You slid out the whole part with the display to access the USB-A IIRC.

Seriously why is sending music to an iPhone from a Linux computer not directly possible in fucking 2026? I need to use VLC but its artist grouping sucks, it cannot assign the same track to multiple artists.

You have to look with a magnifying glass to find music players without touchscreen.

Do they not make those arm strap things to hold your mp3 player/phone on your upper arm anymore? I can control the music through my headphones (with voice or actual buttons) so the thing actually playing music doesn't matter all that much, personally.

I need a music player to replace AIMP. F-droid so far has been unable to provide me with a suitable drop-in replacement.

I remember getting a little 128MB USB MP3 player. Carried it with me everywhere until it died.

Years later getting an 8gb Sony MP3 player that just refused to die.

Smartwatch?

Running tights with tight-fitting pockets allow for comfortably carrying a phone when out on a run.

Half-tights for the summer season.

VLC on a phone?

Too lazy to check but do they make any portable music players that support opus and not just mp3?

My Nintendo DS (Moonshell) technically supports vorbis, but it struggles with its 4Mb of memory sometimes lol.

I still use my iPod nano.

I won't lie here. I miss my Zune. Of course, it would be unusable garbage by this point.

Counter point, the screen is easier navigation for choosing albums to play.

FiiO still makes a few reasonably sizes DAPs that could work for running.

My old Garmin watch doubles as a mp3 player, is quite nice for running since I don’t have to carry anything

I have given up on portable musical electronic until I can find something that isn't defective, because my old source, best buy all became defective in 2021. All headphones I've ever gotten have been defective cheap garbage, made with miniscule little wires and cheap connections, as if it's unforeseeable the cord would get yanked.

It's not like these are all cheap products either, paying 30 dollars for headphones, I expect more than 50 cents worth of raw materials. I don't even know why we have forced labour factories overseas if we are paying more than we did back when we made our own quality products.

Wall Street is a fucking joke.