fellow dankpods enjoyer spotted

The old Creative MuVo would pull apart, exposing a male USB connector for easy drag & drop loading of MP3s. Such a great design.

How does Scarlet Fire sound on it?

The only drawback is that it only holds 1GB... my old CD rips had to be compressed to hell and back.

You may be able to crack it open and upgrade that storage. I have a similar little MP3 player with 16GB on an internal microSD card. It's possbile to swap out the internals.

I've got an iPod Classic 160Gb, from 2007 I think. Still runs fine, synchs and everything. I hate everything Apple about it - the weird 12-pin connection, having to use iTunes, the fact that it's been discontinued - but otherwise it's grand. I got it a wee Bluetooth dongle that fits into the headphone jack so I can listen on my hearing aids.

I'm almost scared to use it, because it would be hard to replace. I'm often out of phone signal range, and it's good to have all my music, audio books, podcasts etc still available. What else can do this? The Cloud is useless without a phone signal.

perfect for gym workouts or jogging in the wilderness. no need for access to internet and highly likely sealed against moisure/sweat and extremely light and with aux cords to prevent your earphones from falling. you only have uoload your playlist first 1GB is enough for maybe 50-200 tracks so yeah

I'm a person who doesn't like to carry stuff. I often leave my home with nothing but keys: music is on my watch, all my payments are on my watch. I don't need an MP3 player or a phone. The less I carry, the better.

It's been a while, but I was deep into SanDisk Sansa mp3 players. The Fuse was my favorite. uSD, FM radio, up to 8gb.

We really have gone backwards.

Honestly why the fuck is simplicity avoided now? Every product wants to be the most complicated shit ever, and therefore fails constantly. This device illustrates that simplicity means less failure. Awesome post.

I am finally this weekend sending my old Creative Zen Vision:M to the recyclers as it will no longer charge. It was one of the last players to have a mini-hard-disc before solid state became the norm. It carried me through many a bike ride, that thing. They made cool gear.

I've been thinking of picking up something I can install rockbox on for a while, but I've been getting a lot of mileage out of Youtube Music Revanced (hacked yt music app with no ads without paying for premium).

That said,I've been putting off replacing my phone (screen is held on with tape) because I can't easily get a new one with a headphone jack. So maybe new phone without, use bluetooth and ytmusic vanced in the car, then a dedicated old school mp3 player for non-car listening.

I had one of those. Maybe it's still in the basement somewhere.

I still have my Sansa Clip+ and Creative Zen and they work great to this day. Very simple to use and the Clip even has custom firmware that does all sorts of cool stuff. It even plays Doom!

I like music players with an interface and I hate using my phone. I've had a fiio Ive used since 2015 or something. Love everything about it.

I hate that apps like Spotify show album art. I don't care for album art or little animations. The fact that this is not customizable at all reeks of incompetence.

Don't get me started on playlists or how "liking" stuff works. I'm shocked there really isn't anything else out there that's toppling Spotify over like the garbage can of a service it is.

This makes me want to bust out my first gen iPod shuffle.

I've got a 1GB Insignia Sport mp3 player from 2006 or 2007 that I check every few years and still worked last time I used it. Good for audiobooks or maybe 80 songs on shuffle. I got a lot of mileage out of it over the years, lovely little bit of electronics.

Sansa running rockbox ftw.

Is this dull? My interest is way too piqued right now. I wonder where my ~Y2K MP3 player is.

You determine what’s acceptable but what you accept, and people keep buying things that are objectively worse.

The Life And Times Of Scrooge by Tuomas Holopainen

Damn I forgot about that album. It's so awesome. Thanks.

I was trying to move to Finland back when that came out and just got an overflow of memories.

Gen 1 iPod Shuffles are like that too. I have one that still works fine and you don't need crappy iTunes to manage music, it mounts like a regular USB drive.

This is rather interesting