It’s funny to have been on the front end of the rapid consolidation of devices only to see the tail end of it when we distribute them again.
I remember, back in like 2005, camera phones and media phones were starting to properly come out, and I didn’t want it. I had a cell phone and an mp3 player and a digital camera, and I kinda liked it that way.
I mean it’s definitely pretty phenomenal. I actually still have an 80 gig iPod from back in the day. It is a superior music player.
But I just can’t see myself carrying that around and my phone. Nowadays, most of the music that I listen to is Pandora or YouTube music.
I have a mp3 collection on my phone but it’s very curated.
I miss my Palm and Ipaq…
I had a palm centro and it was the coolest phone in my highschool. I had a non-phone palm device before that too, as a hand-me-down. It had the writing system for text input which was really cool. I loved those Palm devices.
People here are complaining about another device to carry around, android phones not having enough storage, streaming being better etc.
There are programs and apps to stream your own. I have a nas (network attached storage) where I keep my music. It came with a music player and a mobile app out of the box that can stream and cast my collection. Plex can also do it quite easily. I’m sure there are others too.
I find Navidrome to be pretty fantastic. I set it up on an orange pi I had laying around just last week.
Plexamp is just wonderful, even if the Plex music library management is slightly lacking. Before I moved my music to a Plex server on my NAS I used DoubleTwist’s Cloud Player and streamed my own music out of my Google Drive storage. This was 10 years ago, but it did the job well enough. However Plex made all my music available all the time directly on my phone. No moving of files to cloud storage necessary. Easy switch.
This is the way.
i alwaya have 512GB android phones and happy with my MP3 collection, and a few movies thats all I’ve done for the last few pones sans SD card. There are still a few adnroid phones with an SD slot. My Nokia XR 20 has an SD slot and a headphone jack. I use it as a backup phone on my bike though with a Quad lock
I have an Echo Mini, and I have come to really enjoy using it, both as a DAP and a usb DAC. I will say, the software isn’t great. For example, whenever I add new files to the SD card, “favorites” are just wiped out, rendering the feature basically useless. Sorting is weirdly inconsistent. These are things that could be fixed with firmware updates,
I don’t get why the firmware is closed source. Don’t they have much more to gain by opening it and allowing enthusiasts to help improve it? What is the benefit of keeping the source secret?
Just spotted that there’s been a firmware update.
Just be careful, updating basically resets all settings and favorites, dark mode to light etc
I mean, natch, lol. But thank you for letting me know! Point 3 looks interesting.
What’s the benefit of this device when you can just put your audio files directly on your phone or laptop already?
Ideally, higher quality audio circuitry.
I was alone, falling free, trying my best not to forget
Nice! I’ve been eyeing these for awhile. This was a great read and has me convinced to get one.
Thank you!
I’ve had a great time trying these out, and finding the one which will stick with me. You’ll have a great time with this, and while it is in the post you can start getting, building and curating your music collection! :P
(which color will you opt for?)
I didn’t know they were on AliExpress, so now I’m definitely after that dark green. Was looking at the black with a red button because I didn’t like the light blue or pink amazon had.
I have curated my music for awhile. I still prefer burning discs and listening to those in the car instead of streaming lol.
I have no comment on this product, but i respect their music choices. Meds absolutely fucks.
It’s not bad but they are usually useless unless you have high quality music, even then you need some quality headphones or IEMs to make proper use of it. I’m not against it but software usually sucks and updates are really rare, until then I’m not sure I can buy another one.
No.
