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Do people still use MP3 players?

#41
ElectroVibe said:
To be honest, I've gone back to traditional radio.
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OMG we agree on something! I listen to radio on my computer or phone + bluetooth speaker all day long. As I write this I'm locked in to WBGO out of Newark. Whenever I travel I go straight to the left of the dial and if I find a station I like I download its app so I can listen back home.

ElectroVibe said:
Do people still even use Ipods?
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Yes, I have an iPod Shuffle loaded with Stevie Wonder that's required equipment when I go running. (When they came out I was kinda "WTH?," but it's perfect in this application.) When Apple discontinued them I bought a few more "just in case" because they're not very weather-friendly. Apart from being featherweight it wouldn't serve the purposes you describe.
 
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#42
i have a couple, including an ipod, but i haven't used them in years (i would if i thought they'd be handy in a 'situation').

for music listening: at home = one of several 'systems', car = radio, mostly, but that includes all the channels on sirius xm in one car.
 
#46
I haven't used an iPod in a few years but my 2010 Volvo SUV has a usb port in the glove compartment and I have a 1Tb hard drive hooked up to it with a ton of music on it. It was cool for a while be still easier to navigate music on my phone. My wife hated it too.
I have my private car (wife no drive it) 2002 Volvo s60 with a 256Gb Flash drive in the receiver with a ton of music and I use that time to time. Just put it on shuffle.
 
#47
10-15 years ago, I had a Creative Zen Nano Plus—what an annoyingly long, up-its-own-ass name—but it was great for working outside. I used it a lot. I also liked that it had a line input for direct recording stereo audio-to-.mp3. That turned out to more useful for recording guitar and bass ideas than loading music.

I just uncovered that thing in a drawer a few weeks ago and realized I couldn’t remember why I stopped using it. I put a new battery in it and it powered up, but the screen was screwy and some of the controls were unresponsive. Oh well, it earned its keep.
 
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I don't use my phone for music, camera and texts mostly.

I still have a Zen (from Walmart) that I think I paid $20 for. It's around 10 years old and still chugs along. I use it daily when I walk during my lunch break. It has a radio too. I've been through alot of sets of ear buds. When this one does finally kick off I'll shop hard to find another.

In my job I am constantly interrupted by or using the phone so like to get away from all contact on my break. And the Zen is way smaller than my cell phones.
 
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I have two, with Micro SD cards. I fill them with downloaded live music, and my own stuff I am working on.

For me, the issue with using the phone for music, along with the inconvenience of also using the phone as a phone, is you still gotta bring headphones. It's easier to just have the little player and earbuds in a belt pouch, and I get to listen to downloaded stuff vs. the CDs I use on my home stereos (I have 7 of such stereos, thousands of CDs).
 
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Actually I have like 3 of them... My Ipod touch for carrying around, a small Ipod that I use when I'm doing exercise -small, weightless and I don't feel bad if it falls or I lost it-, and a high-end Astell & Kern AK100 II that I'm selling in the classifieds... This one sounds amazing, but I almost never use because I don't want anything happens to it!!!

I think I'm actually old-school... I use a lot of Spotify and other streaming plataforms, but I love the feeling of "have" the music that I love with me... Foolish I know, but what can I say!!
 
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ElectroVibe said:
I used to buy MP3 players up until roughly 10 years ago and I loved them. But after a while they became harder to find. As in, finding them in stores.

Did a better method come along? Such as Spotify or some kind of online storage?

I still like the idea of a smaller device dedicated to music that is light and easy to carry.

To be honest, I've gone back to traditional radio. Yes, for 10 years. But if I could find a good player to hold lots of music, maybe hundreds of albums. Or perhaps a way of selecting a dozen albums at a time, and then switching them out each day. If that's easy to do.

I'd even be open to online options, none of which I have used, with the exception of youtube.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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I used to have an ipod shuffle. Cool little thing to have, and some scripting saved me from interacting with that crap that was iTunes on windows.

But eventually, the cellphone with storage replaced it. Even the cheapest phone comes with a few GB of storage where you could place all the digital music you already own.

I'm carrying my phone everywhere. There's no reason to carry around yet another device just for one thing when the phone does just as well. These days I'm using Youtube music (have subscription). I have a playlist that's I've set to local download, just throw stuff there every now and it automatically downloads to the phone, or just stream it over cellular data (which I tend to avoid because my connection is not unlimited, so if I pre-download my cell phone bill is cheaper).

I can't stand regular radio. The ads are so annoying, and they come right on the dot on every station so there's a 5 minute window where every station that I like is playing ads at the same time.
 
#56
I have a decent little collection of late 20th and early 21st century personal tech for my students to look at. It is funny how every year they get further away from knowing what an iPod or palm pilot is. Surprisingly, they know what know what a Nintendo NES is.

I don’t use mp3 players though. I kind of stopped listening to music in general. If anything, maybe a little Pandora sometimes. Or I might search a song on youtube.
 
#57
Kawai2g4b said:
I use a Sony Walkman that can expand to about 300GB with an expansion SD card. Since it can play FLAC and WAV files, I can load whatever project I have in development and get a realistic representation through wired headphones. It wasn’t cheap but I find it very user-friendly.
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Did you find that in the aisle with the rotary phones? JK...I had a cassette walkman!
 
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ElectroVibe said:
I used to buy MP3 players up until roughly 10 years ago and I loved them. But after a while they became harder to find. As in, finding them in stores.

Did a better method come along? Such as Spotify or some kind of online storage?

I still like the idea of a smaller device dedicated to music that is light and easy to carry.

To be honest, I've gone back to traditional radio. Yes, for 10 years. But if I could find a good player to hold lots of music, maybe hundreds of albums. Or perhaps a way of selecting a dozen albums at a time, and then switching them out each day. If that's easy to do.

I'd even be open to online options, none of which I have used, with the exception of youtube.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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Yes! I have a Sony mini disc hooked up to a Montgomery Wards boom box from the 80's that I use when I'm down in the cellar cleaning or putzing around. I had a Creative mp3 player I would love to use but the screen died - it was early OLED which didn't last, the screen just faded away.
 

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