Do people still use MP3 players?

[Meghans Dad]

Still using my 80G Zune. Not paying 3K for a portable DAP and will not go back ti iPods, with all the extraneous stuff you got with the necessary software.

 

[thisheregiraffe]

Just wanted to say that the best sound for a portable music player is with the old Sony MiniDisc players (it now seems to have a cult following). I’m still using the one I purchased about 25 years ago. If I convert a CD to the ATRAC format (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding) that it uses, It somehow ends up sounding better than the CD (I always figured it had something to do with Sony’s digital conversion tech). I would recommend it for any audiophile types.

I loooooved my old MiniDisc player. Wish I had kept it.

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

 

[lunarpollen]

I have a couple bought offa the 'zon.

Wow I'm gonna have to check out what's available nowadays... Just a couple years ago, there was virtually nothing new being made with microSD slots (except cell phones)... I would like to have a dedicated music player again and let my phone just be a phone...

 

[Phaenomenal]

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.

I have a galaxy player that I've been using since 2010ish when I got tired of battling with my ipod. Pretty sure they don't make them anymore though I can still buy new batteries when they don't keep a charge very long. It's somehow managed to keep up with bluetooth capabilities, so I can use the newest ear buds/bone conducting headphones with it in spite of its age and I've been able to move away from wired headphones.

 

[troy mcclure]

I have a Zune I can sell you.....

 

[Rip Van Dan]

I still use an iPod. The only thing I don’t like about it is the ridiculously short battery life.

I have two of the iPod Gen 6, which are the really small ones. I liked it a lot and put all my music on it. Then the screen got broken and I could no longer navigate with it. So got another one and it worked fine right up until it fell out of the car one night and I didn't discover it until the next morning after it had rained all night. Tried to dry it out, still wouldn't work. This was back in about 2013 or 2014. If I could find someone who could do it, I could probably put the good screen from the one that got wet onto the one that had the broken screen but would otherwise work, but I'm not even sure people still repair these.

 

[jazzyvee]

I still use my 80gb ipod classic for learning setlists via my pjb big head. i bought a used 160gb ipod that i keep in the car as plugged into the usb, it can be operated from the dashboard. I don't keep music on my phone.

 

[Anthony White]

What HiFi are even reviewing them and writing best-ofs in 2021:
Best portable MP3 players 2021: from budget to hi-res music players | What Hi-Fi?

 

[BC Blackmur]

Just picked up a new one to replace my 1GB Sansa that I've had for 10+ years. Went thru 2 batteries, still works fine but takes forever to start up.
I'm a cheap old f* and won't spend a dime on streaming services, never paid for mp3s. My CD library is big enough for me.
Buy the music, suppot the Arrists.

*art

 

[sxaxsx]

I still have an Ipod Classic that holds 80 gigs. The battery life is less than spectacular. There are cheap android phones you could buy just for that purpose. Just make sure it has a headphone jack and a SD card slot and you are good. Or just check goodwill auctions and ebay for a used Ipod.

 

[Nephilymbass]

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.

You can get 7th gen iPod classic that’ll hold 256 gigs of music for like $300. I was tempted to get one for a while because every iphone I’ve owned lacked that kind of memory space. But now with the cloud and streaming and stuff it’s really replaced all that. Unless you maybe live somewhere where you constantly have issues with reception. I mostly use YouTube these days. I’ll use streaming services occasionally and if Im on a trip out of town and lose service I do have some music on my phone and a few CDs in the car. For me it’s less of a hassle these days because I don’t have to upload CDs on my computer or buy the songs again to put them on an iPod. But yeah I still use iTunes a bit with my iPhone. Even though my phone doesn’t have a ton of memory I can still go into iTunes and listen through the cloud. As you can see here

 

[DirkP]

For music it is Spotify most of the times and a Technics 1210 with a good preamp and speakers for vinyl.
But I like to listen to books and podcasts before sleeping and don't want to sleep besides my iPhone - no, I'm not afraid of radiation etc., I simply don't like it. So I bought a WLAN-Radio with a usb-port.
I simply like to download podcasts and books, I might be interested in and just listen or go to the next one with a remote in my hands.
Looking at screens all day long I don't like reading or even worse staring at my phone at nights.

 

[Hounddog409]

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.

I have like 6k mp3 on my phone. Dont buy an apple POS, and they copy right over like a thumb drive.

 

[ElectroVibe]

The Ipod Classic from what I've heard, holds less music per gig. Is that right?

 

[Leigh Semmens]

First, MP3s are garbage. They literally delete a quarter to a third if your music to compress it. I use FLAC because it is true, lossless, compression, and supports 24-bit hi rez audio..

Until your hearing is destroyed by (in my case - a severe MVA) something and you lose many of the frequencies for "HiFi". MP3 works just as well for me it (sometimes) even cuts through the Tinnitus!

 

[Polkatronixx]

Creative Labs Zen was my favorite brand by far.

I remember a friend of my sister had a Creative Zen something-or-other and it flew off his belt when he was biking over the Brooklyn Bridge. It ended up landing on the roof of a building. He cycled down to the building and had to get the security guard to grab it for him from the roof. When it was handed to him, it was still playing. Other than some superficial marks, it was fine.

 

[MonetBass]

The Ipod Classic from what I've heard, holds less music per gig. Is that right?

Storage is storage. What makes the difference is the bit rate of the file or the file type. Songs purchased on iTunes are 256Kbps AAC now, I believe (correct me if I'm wrong). MP3 format is slightly smaller than the AAC equivalent, and of course FLAC is much larger.

 

[ElectroVibe]

Storage is storage. What makes the difference is the bit rate of the file or the file type. Songs purchased on iTunes are 256Kbps AAC now, I believe (correct me if I'm wrong). MP3 format is slightly smaller than the AAC equivalent, and of course FLAC is much larger.

No. I was talking about the Classic line versus others like the Touch. Like it stores data differently.

 

[vvvmmm]

Wow I'm gonna have to check out what's available nowadays... Just a couple years ago, there was virtually nothing new being made with microSD slots (except cell phones)... I would like to have a dedicated music player again and let my phone just be a phone...

I have a cuppla AGPTEK players. Cool thing is you use a micro-USB cord to the computer to open the player's drive and/or the microSD and just drag your files (any format - I like FLAC) into whatever folder you create, ex., the the album, artist, style ...