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buying an mp3 player

  1. #1
    iphone sucks dick when it comes to music now, they always want me to sign up for their shitty music service and now i can't even play songs that are supposedly downloaded on my phone without wifi. at work i don't get wifi a lot of the time so i want something that i can just fucking play music on without having to see a bunch of fucking ed sheeran advertisements and prompted for a password 52 times.

    i want something that i can organize the music by just having it in folders, and that i can just drag and drop it in there. also with bluetooth. i don't want to be sold some shitty chinese bullshit that they try to beef up by adding a step counter and sleep tracker and speaker and all that bullshit. i just want something that plays mp3's like they did 10 years ago before all this stupid bullshit came out. i also dont want to spend over 40 bucks on it. i know theres gotta be like a $20-30 one out there that does what i need it to but theres so much chinese bullshit and i just don't want to spend my time sifting through it all so does anyone have any recommendations?

    thanks.
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    kroz weak whyte, frothy cuck, and former twink
    This one seems legit
    https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Playback-Lossless-Recorder-Supports/dp/B07G3RL1N3/ref=pd_bxgy_147_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07G3RL1N3&pd_rd_r=30da2cf0-f688-11e8-a473-c98e48cd2d8e&pd_rd_w=vBeJf&pd_rd_wg=7IByF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=6725dbd6-9917-451d-beba-16af7874e407&pf_rd_r=HJJJ447HC4T58XMVADKM&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=HJJJ447HC4T58XMVADKM


    Hell I might get one since I hate using my phone to listen to music when I'm going on hikes.
  3. #3
    I use a Moto E that I got for $10, it has expandable storage and Bluetooth + headphone jack so it serves my purposes fine as a music player.
  4. #4
    Soyboy III: The Quest for 911 Truth Tuskegee Airman [oppositely expose the hypermetropia]
    I want to buy an MP3 player just cos they used to be one of those things I used to love having with me, but I never use my old iPod.

    Same for my Flip cam, my actual camera, my speakers, my memory sticks, my maps, my compass, my gps, my gameboy, my scientific calculator etc.

    Phone does all that shit now, but it's just not as cool as having the actual device in your hand.
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    hydromorphone victim of incest [insincerely conduce my paisley]
    Another reason Android trumps apple.
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    Originally posted by Mr Gay Men Watch I use a Moto E that I got for $10, it has expandable storage and Bluetooth + headphone jack so it serves my purposes fine as a music player.

    I had to look up what a moto E is but it seems like they're significantly more expensive than $10, where did you buy yours?


    Originally posted by hydromorphone Another reason Android trumps apple.

    It was a gift so I can't really complain. I like iphone til they pulled this bullshit. Using Itunes to upload music back in the day wasn't too bad but now it's just ridiculous. Actually a lot of companies make their products really fucking hard to use because they're trying way too hard to add fancy bullshit.

    Like I was just buying weed and looking at the price list on weedmaps and they have all these options to sort by "my favorites" or like most recent added and a bunch of other shit but no way to sort by price. Who the fuck is going to go on weedmaps and keep track of what their favorite strains are so they can sort by it? Everyone knows that's not how you buy drugs, when you buy drugs you have like 50 bucks and you want to know what you can get for it. I don't understand how people have such bad ideas.
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  7. #7
    Flatulant_bomb Tuskegee Airman
    I want my, I want my MP3...Money for nothing and chicks for free..
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    Originally posted by Bill Krozby This one seems legit
    https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Playback-Lossless-Recorder-Supports/dp/B07G3RL1N3/ref=pd_bxgy_147_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07G3RL1N3&pd_rd_r=30da2cf0-f688-11e8-a473-c98e48cd2d8e&pd_rd_w=vBeJf&pd_rd_wg=7IByF&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=6725dbd6-9917-451d-beba-16af7874e407&pf_rd_r=HJJJ447HC4T58XMVADKM&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=HJJJ447HC4T58XMVADKM


    Hell I might get one since I hate using my phone to listen to music when I'm going on hikes.

    That one looks good but there's another amazon listing for it that has more reviews and the rating is lower. Also they are useful for if you want to play music somewhere you don't necessarily want your phone laying out like if you're at work and go to the bathroom or something someone could potentially swipe your phone.
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    kroz weak whyte, frothy cuck, and former twink
    Originally posted by OG_GREENPLASTIC_JOHNSON_III Also they are useful for if you want to play music somewhere you don't necessarily want your phone laying out like if you're at work and go to the bathroom or something someone could potentially swipe your phone.

    yeah that too for sure. plus I'm not a big computer geek-guy really but I'm almost sure one of those mp3 players can hold more music than my phone can considering I already have a lot of other shit on it. and also you could hook it up to your sound system and still have your phone on you moving around your place or whatever.

    Post what you end up getting. I haven't had an mp3 player in forever.

    Any of you gonts remember these lol? I had one in middle school and I remember some kid got really pissed saying he doesn't need that midgit technology while he had a huge ass sony discman player oooooooh how times have changed.

  10. #10
    Originally posted by OG_GREENPLASTIC_JOHNSON_III I had to look up what a moto E is but it seems like they're significantly more expensive than $10, where did you buy yours?

    Black Friday 2015 or smth. Sucks I can't find anything that cheap online rn. But for sure you can find cheapo androids at pawn shops and shit, get one and load it with WINAMP or something, ezgg.
  11. #11
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Yeah, getting an android with expandable storage seems to be the way to go these days. The state of "I want a device that can hold my music library" is pretty shitty. Apple makes nothing with sufficient storage, the former good MP3 player manufacturers have all either gone out of business or mutated their lines into some weird hybrid "everything but a phone" abomination presumably to compete with the ipod touch. Low end android phones are so shoddily constructed as to be barely worth using so the one product that actually works well for the job is a higher end android and you just have to accept you're paying hundreds of dollars for shit you didn't really ask for because no one will just build a well made MP3 player anymore.
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    Flatulant_bomb Tuskegee Airman
    Why do we even call them phones anymore? I know it started out as a phone but, the phone is just an app on a device. What should we call them?
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    "phone" needs access to cellular networks.
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    kroz weak whyte, frothy cuck, and former twink
    Originally posted by Flatulant_bomb Why do we even call them phones anymore? I know it started out as a phone but, the phone is just an app on a device. What should we call them?

    just because its easy to just call them phones as thats their most important basic function.
  15. #15
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    FIIO's one of the better brands lately, high-end components and the prices aren't ridiculous like most of those brands. I have an x3:

    https://www.fiio.com/x3mkiii

    COWON's good too but I haven't used one of theirs in years
  16. #16
    Originally posted by Flatulant_bomb Why do we even call them phones anymore? I know it started out as a phone but, the phone is just an app on a device. What should we call them?

    palmtop computers.
  17. #17
    I find humming tunes to myself works great, it's cheap and equipment free...It doesn't have bluetooth capability though.
  18. #18
    Originally posted by aldra FIIO's one of the better brands lately, high-end components and the prices aren't ridiculous like most of those brands. I have an x3:

    https://www.fiio.com/x3mkiii

    COWON's good too but I haven't used one of theirs in years

    Honestly you shouldn't really spend more than $50 for a music player in 2018, excluding capacity. Unless you are going to load FLAC files on it, there's not much of a point in going high end, and even then the objective data shows that high quality MP3 pretty much covers our hearing range without a problem.

    The DAC can make a difference but in my experience, it's usually minor, but it is also very cheap to buy an external amp if you want audio quality.
  19. #19
    All the cool hipsters are using portable minidisk players again.
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    stl1 Cum Lickin' Fagit
    8 tracks rule!
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