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One of the major advantages for me of the ipod, is that if youre out you can listen to music without draining vital battery on phone. Nothing worse than battery dying n not being able to make calls or texts while youre out.
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May 12, 2022 - 1:53 AM
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Rameau
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I've had my ipod for around 15 years, & it's changed the way I listen to music (what an amazing invention), & it's still working fine. I did buy a newer ipod a few years ago, but the itunes on my computer said the software was wrong (or something), so it's sitting in a draw. I have been looking at other MP3 players (or DAPs as they're known now, Digital Audio Players, as they use lossless formats, like FLAC). I treated myself to one late last year (£200), & it's very good. My itunes library is on a very old computer that's on its last legs, but it looks quite a simple thing to copy it all onto a micro sd card & all the DAPs you buy now have a sd card slot, so just buy a DAP, put your library onto a card & slot the card in.
I do use these players at home & not outside, when I'm out walking I have a little portable DAB radio, & I've stopped using earbuds, as I'm thinking that they give your eardrums too much of a bashing. After a lifetime of using headphones I've got to 71 without developing tinnitus, & I don't want to chance it now.
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Hang in there, old buddy.
Thats the one ive got, but 120 is way insufficient for my collection. I now have to sync only certain genres until its full up. "Italian soundtracks" "French soundtracks" and "Ennio soundtracks" and i havent got room for anything else.
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So they can sell us something that costs more, doubtless.....
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I have never had one, so I guess now is not the time to get one either.
On the go, I use my phone (Samsung Galaxy) to listen to music, I prefer to use one device for everything. My phone has hundreds of GB storage, plays Qobuz streaming or local files, in whatever audio quality makes sense for the headphones. It even plays high-res FLACs and even ALACs, so I definitely have no need burden myself with another device. It's also highly customizable and I can choose between whatever player I want to use. So I see indeed no advantage at all to use another device (which may even require another charger) for music, but I see lots of disadvantages.
If my smartphone does something as well as another device, I replace that device. I like to travel lightly and carry as few devices with me as I need.
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May 13, 2022 - 1:35 AM
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Thor
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Sorry to hear it. I've never used my phone for music playing and never will, for several reasons. Phone is for phone stuff. In fact, I only use it for texting and calling -- and obviously the necessary apps to work in contemporary society (but even for social media, I prefer to use my computer).
I have my old, trusted iPod that I got in 2009 or thereabouts -- same one as pictured above. Can store 120 GB, and came to my rescue a few years ago when I lost all my music in a double harddrive crash (at that time, it stored about 75% of my entire collection). Later, it ran into some trouble, however. The cord is broken, so it's very hard to charge these days (I'll have to add pressure at a certain point and leave it very carefully). Plus I can't connect it to my computer iTunes anymore, because a) it won't register and b) last time I did, it screwed up my computer's USB port, for whatever reason. BUT....it still works on its own, with the music collection I had some 5-6 years ago. And I still bring it along for holidays, long bus/train rides etc.
I think it's a bit sad that everything needs to be centralized these days, into a single entity that has all kinds of functions beyond music listening; I consider this yet another departure from proper listening habits, reducing it to some kind of background "noise". But then again, I'm getting old and a little bit of a relic in many ways, now in my mid 40s.
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Used to have the iPod classic with 30GBs - which lived relatively long - and one with a larger disk that didn't do it too long. I then switched to FiiO and I'm happy with those 
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My Zune just keeps going, more than 10 years after MS abandoned it.
NK
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I don't use a mobile phone. I'm still using an 8 GB iPod Touch. It's a little cramped these days, and I have to make the hard decisions about what to remove so something else can be added.
If iPod is off the table, I'm thinking my next player will be a FiiO.
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If we're talking about Sony Walkman's, I so wish I'd bought the Sony Sports Discman. That yellow machine had such a lovely design. It was expensive (Sony always was overpriced), but I could have afforded it (just), they still go for a lot of money s/h on eBay.
I found a yellow Sony Walkman that still works. Wonder if it's worth anything.
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