If you replace the firmware on an iPod classic with Rockbox, it supports wav out of the box!
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That’s cool but uh… that’s pretty far from out of the box.
You can source a modified iPod (5.5 Gen with Wolfson DAC) that comes with:
- Rockbox preinstalled
- an upgraded battery(3 days continuous playback, tested this week)
- 256GB or 512GB solid-state drive
With 4,756 CC tunes, it makes for an excellent compact jukebox.
Sony Walkman are the only company that takes making music players seriously today that I can think of. Probably not repairable so not really BIFL but worth taking a look.
75 for that ancient thing with 8 gb storage?
No, I meant one of the more premium ones in the page I linked. BIFL rarely, if ever means the cheapest option.
Mine is scheduled to be shipped on 31 Jan! I bought it exactly because it seems like a BIFL music player!
Pretty excited to see mine show up in checks notes march of next year.
Why wav, out of curiosity?
I assume they want full quality audio but don't know that flac exists
Nah, I'm aware of flac, but I've had issues with compatibility that I don't have with wav files.
What type of issues? Did you get error messages?
Lotta times in file players it'll say unregonized file type
Which players? FLAC has been around for over 20 years, so players that don't recognize it probably need to be updated :D
Apple music, Protools, Logic (although those two are DAWs), VLC
Weird that VLC is not playing FLACs for you, is that on iOS?
Hmmm, I've been wanting something similar but haven't had any luck finding new good options (closest bring those premium expensive Sony's, but not repairable). It never occurred to me until now, I could probably just build one using a Pi Zero or something similar
I just got done watching a video where a dude built a TinyLlama computer to install DOS and a DOS based MP3 player. Since it's DOS based, you should fairly easily be able to install a WAV file player on it instead, or in addition to an MP3 player..
Without running afoul of the BIFL ethos, I wonder why you can't just use your smartphone?
No smartphones are BIFL, but you're always going to have one, and even if you insist on WAV instead of MP3 or FLAC, you can still fit a pretty big music collection in local storage.
No headphone jack, and I want a dedicated device so I'm not as reliant on my phone.