It's 2004. How do you listen to music on the go? Hardmode:

>>60758580
My phone, with wireless bluetooth earphones.

>>60758580
On my sony Walkman

>>60758580
what is a walkman

>>60758626
I prefer wired bluetooth headsets myself

I had an iriver 256MB thing that ran on a single AA. Total garbage

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>>60758580

>>60758580
Portable CD player with MP3 decoder.

RCA Lyra 64mb plus a very expensive 256mb SD card. I definitely don't miss transcoding everything to 96k WMA to save space on the player.

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I had this

>>60758758
This

Creative Zen Micro

>>60758580
Nomad Jukebox Zen

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Are you all plebs?

>>60758580
iPod or Zune
>hardmode: only the garbage the two replaced for a reason

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I guess a based early 2000's sony Walkman. Or an iriver 1gb with a radio.

>mfw i could record music stations with it

>>60758731
>>60758803
my brothers

>>60758580
> How do you listen to music on the go?
With a CD player. WIth a cassette player if I'm poor.

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>not enjoying yours music with a true looseless format

>>60758580
>not reading your music directly from music sheet
pleb

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I use a Fiio X3. You don't need to reflash the firmware with Rockbox, as it already plays basically any format

>>60758580
I used a portable CD player along with everyone else at my school who wanted to listen to music on the go. I didn't even know MP3 players existed at the time.

>>60758629
>>60758665
We're talking about 2004, not the 90s.

>>60763796
>digital
>no loss
unless you've got infinitely many quantization levels, there is always loss with digital formatting

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>>60763893

>>60758580
I don't

I had a shitty chink mp3 player

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>>60758580
No name chink shot that looks like this

>>60763940
I could have sworn those were called Discmans.

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>>60764084
There are Walkman and Discman models

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God tier.

HDD in a portable? You bet you'll have parking heads often.

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>>60758580

I used to take this to gym class. Still have it too. It's pretty rare now.

>>60761335
That player was the shit

>>60763898
There's also loss with analogue.
But thanks for the truism, that's what this thread needed.

>>60764250
my brother

What's a Zune?

>>60765339
What's a Google?

>>60761335
this

Disney mix stick with 256mb memory with a 512mb SD memory card.

Had to listen to stuff on the bus to school since the driver was playing crap.

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bought this at a pawn shop for 40 bucks.
700MB disc full of Mp3's = 8-12hrs worth of music

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I used a iRiver Spinn
Ok, it was a few years after 2004, but the touch control impressed everyone
Also incredible design

>>60765640
damm, i thought i was the only one

>>60766033
Did you put porn flash games on it too ?

>>60758731
This

>>60758580
nothing. i didnt have a pmp till 2009. zune hd 16gb.

I tape a ring of spoons around my leg and it clanks while I walk.

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Minidisc player.

Yet another new technology prepped to be 'the 'future' which disappeared relatively quickly.

I had 2 options back then .
My Sony minidisc player and my Sony smartphone.
Apple did not invent the smartphone.

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>digital fags

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In 2004 I probably had someting like that

>ITT: when Sony was the true god of the audio gear

My phone, It plays Für Elise, kinda, in bad chiptune quality.

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>>60763940
>>60766949
this and pic related

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>>60758580
>>60758626
With my brand new Motorola Razr. Can you believe how thin this thing is!

>>60764119
I had never seen a walkman model cd player, that pic above was the first. then again sony used to launch 50 different models of the same thing, it kinda made it hard to keep up with them.

>>60758731
this
i remember a friend getting a 128mb one for something around 150 USD here in argentina and then another friend got one with 512mb but for 100USD a week later, 128 mb dude got BTFO

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Used this in 2005, it was great.

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Got one from a 7up contest

>>60758731
/thread

Had a 128MB one back in the day.

Hell, I still want to use one of those nowadays but they're rare as fuck now, unless you deal with chinks.

Iriver ofc

>>60761335
128MB here. Lowest model, but fuck did it sound pretty good for such a tiny player.
Too bad I could only afford shitty chinese AAA batteries that last 2 hours each.

>>60766538

Fuck yeah brother! I used to have a minidisc player. those were the shit!

>>60761335
this, have a (you)

on mine the screen went blank due to cold weather, so I navigated the songs blind

>>60758580
No one used the zune.

>>60758580
I had an iaudio x5. Fucking loved it until the hdd died in 2009. Wish they still weren't $280.

>>60769018

i bought that ipod shuffle for 200 dollars new

i left it on my car seat and some rain came in through the window. literally a few drops of water fell through the buttions and managed to nuke that entire amarphous plastic blob... 200 dollar teenage bucks down the drain

i am still angry about that.... thanks apple

>>60758580
I used a discman that could read mp3s back then. Pretty ok, but was eyeing a proper mp3 player.

>>60763940
had almost the same model, in blue. Super nice!

>>60769263
>No one used the zune.
Not even the staff at Microsoft, apparently.

>>60769313
I mean it was a decent player. Everyone makes fun of it for the brown color but I liked it. The hd had a nice digital radio built in. the software was nice to use too. It just didn't have any apps not even youtube.
I wish I could get my zune hd syncing with linux. it "works" just anything i put on it shows up as unknown artist.

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I had a Zen Micro followed by a Zen Micro Photo which I held onto until the Zune HD came around. I loved them all.

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>>60761335
(you)
(me)

>>60758731
Fucking this. I never got why anyone bought iPods.

>>60769350
I loved the Zune software. Zune Pass was really ahead of its time too, shame no one used it.

As for apps, it may not have had many, but I played the shit out of Audiosurf on that thing.

>>60766949
Are you implying CDs are analog?

>>60758580
on my shitty toshiba laptop, with windows media player and acquired from limewire

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What the hell people. None of you still rocked one?

>>60769586
Is dat a PMP300?

I rocked the shit out of one of those. And that weird blue one they made not long afterwards.

>>60758580
>can't use my first gen iPod nano because of the battery might go note 7 on me
Feels bad man

NAS streams an internet radio station (ogg 10 and v0) with mpd. Or copy flac to my phone.

>>60765357
>What's a google?

It's supposed to be 2004 in this thread. Zune wasn't around until 2006.

>>60758580
>>60769648
oh my bad; i can't read it's 2004. I had a Creative Zen. I loved the buttons on the side to easily change tracks or seek without taking it out of my pocket.

>>60758580
I had the bands follow me around and play songs on demand. Truest sound known to man.

>>60769472
Audiosurf was great, there was some nice homebrew from zuneboards too. A decent emulator for gb games. Shame some game called vangard something never took off. I should spin up a vm just for my hd.

>>60768777
>argentina
Better go buy the latest NogaNet headphones

>>60761335
My nigga

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I use this, I'm looking for a similar model since this one have 7 years and I'm afraid it will fuck up.

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Probably the Minidisc Walkman N707

I didn't get an iPod until the 3rd gen nano.

>>60758580
personal roving mariachi band, specializing in IDM covers

but really, portable cd player, with a cassette adapter for the car
>It's a Sony

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I got one of these CD walkmans.

>>60758731
I was always ashamed of having this in public while white kids were rocking iPods. Thanks dad. Also, it was 64mb so I could fit maybe like 25-30 tracks.

>>60763873
I got this as a gift. Shitty UI designed by Chinese, understanding of tags are as good as their understanding of English, a few quips with buttons and shit, but it sounds alright I guess. This was coming from an iPod Nano 7th gen.

Fuck music, start using future knowledge to make money

i remember using a CD player with over the head headphones.
didn't fall for the mp3 meme until the iPod nano that had the pencil next to it in the ads.

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>>60769686
ahh, this baby

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2006 but fuck, I loved this thing. The later ones were good too

>>60763940

Fuck now you made me remember I had a panasonic cd player with these shitty headphones. Would listen to metallica CD on bus-ride home from 3rd grade in 2000.

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I think it might have been 2005, but I had one of these bad boys, and iriver T30. Shit even supported downloading from subscription services, or from Limewire, which was my personal preference at the time.

Filled up every one of those 256MB and used it until I got a flash Zune years later. After that I think I got a Creative Zen Stone. Still have all of them.

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>>60758580

literally what i had in 2004.

>>60770740
Shit I forgot about that thing, I used to have one too

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>>60770740
also i don't remember the model number (I do remember it was a Sony) but looked like this and could play MP3 CDs.

>>60764084
>>60764119
I think they got rid of "discman" when they introduced the new logo which was in 2000 according to Wikipedia.

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Same way I always have; with vinyl.

You didn't expect me to sacrifice audio quality, did you?

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>>60770740
>>60770787
A few years later I got one of these. Piece of shit couldn't use non-lexar drives.

>>60764475
Anyone here know what this was without googling it?

>>60758731
I had the baby blue transparent one...siiiiiiiiiiiick

>>60758731
I still have mine in working condition somewhere in a box with old stuff.

>>60758580
BOOM BOX, NIGGA

>>60771339
Don't you mean Ghetto Blaster?

>>60758731
I had one of those till I saved up enough for an Ipod. I use to sleep all high school because i'd stay up all night downloading music and then sorting out which songs I wanted to take to school.

>>60758731
i had a couple of these, 128M then 512M
they could even play ogg vorbis, pretty nice
i don't listen to much much anymore though

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>>60771339
Found the nigger

Fuckers like you still do this only with bluetooth speakers now.
Fuck you

>>60771509
from what i can find on image search, ghetto blaster refers pretty specifically to the tall thin pre-CD-era boom boxes.

>>60761335
>>60769465
These were the real deal

>>60758580
A fucking smartphone, dumbass. Do you know it?

>>60770213
i still have the red one somewhere

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I didn't have a computer growing up until I was a senior in high school and bought a laptop with my own money, so I had to use the family stereo system to listen to my dad's old Pink Floyd cds.

I got an iPod nano 5th gen, the one with the camera, for Christmas. Still miss that thing, it was great even though it required iTunes.
Sold it for an iPod touch before smartphones became big.

>>60771610
so in 2004 do you have a Palm Treo, or a Windows Mobile device for a smart phone?

>>60771610
those were too expensive
someone i knew had a winmo2003 phone though, was pretty cool

>Hardmode
>No iPod (implying it's good)
>No Zune (what the fuck is Zune?)
If it were any good I'd use my phone with Bluetooth if not wired headphones

Portable CD player my nigga.

>>60772003
>implying iPods aren't good

i have 3 old ipods all with rockbox with battery and harddrive mods

they all sync up to my linux and android just fine and i use a speaker hub and remote i got a resale shop for $2

one is dedicated to christmas music for Smörgåsbord

>>60769586
Too 3rd world to own it, but i want it

>>60758580
Back then I had a portable cdplayer

sansa

>>60758580
Same way I do now, in my car. I was probably still using cds in 2004 though.

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this in your hand with headphones plugged

>>60772656
>not a PowerBook
Pleb

>>60771029
first thought was cybiko, but it looked weird. i owned the original model. wish i still had it, but that shit just disappeared at some point.

are there any ultra-cheap, barebones players that have good sound without dumb bells & whistles? something like $25 max i could grab on ebay,

>>60761335
Yes, nigga!

How do I do this in 2017? Phones are too expensive to store much on and alternatives like Spotify are shit

>>60772889
>buy a DAP
>put music on it
>use it

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This is the lesser-known Sandisk Sansa. I got it in January 2007 (it was on clearance, it was released rather earlier than that) and I still use it to this day whenever I go out.

The rubber band is because I broke the plastic clip that holds the cover for the AAA battery.

>>60772914
Still have to pay more than I'm willing for decent audio quality

or do you know something specific

>>60773000
Just get a 5th gen iPod Classic, toss an SSD or SD card(s) in it if you want a lot of storage

>>60772997
Sansa was the shit

>>60773015
That's still about 250dollars, why is this shit so expensive in this day and age

>>60773081
What? It cost me $70 to get a Classic, a 120GB SSD, and the adapter.

Sony Network Walkman.
It still works actually, but I think the headphones jack is damaged. Sound goes through but it sounds distant and you can't hear some instruments. It's like you have the jack always plugged halfway through

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>>60773081
Because they're discontinued and Applel.
There are other chinky alternatives if you want an iPod lookalike without the iTunes aids.

>>60769942
Never had any issues with tags except for the occasional album art that shows on Foobar but not on the X3ii. Besides that I agree with you, and also want to add the screen is a burning garbage pile and playlist managing was a pain in the ass until I figured a way to use Foobar and Grepwin to automate it.

>>60773150
I think the biggest dumbfounded shock was when I was holding down a volume button on the side and it skipped the track instead. I might be recalling it wrong but I'm pretty sure it was this. If this thing could be customized top to bottom like Foobar then it's great.

>>60773091
In what fairytale country do you live, a 120GB SSD alone costs 70 here.

>>60773131
I don't care about anything i just want it to be cheap and have decent audio quality with lots of space to boot

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>>60758580
I only really listen to music in the car. I have a Pioneer head unit that is explicitly advertised as being able to play CDRs. I have a 256 disc leather CD wallet.

In 2005 it will be stolen from my passenger seat at a gas station while I'm inside getting a Sobe Lizz Blizz, and I'll buy an iPod and ipod-ready head unit, and never burn another CD ever again.

>>60758580
some shit Coby mp3 CD player. 700mb of .mp3s on a 10c disk was very cost effective.

>>60773182
>In what fairytale country do you live
The US. I just went through my purchase history and looked at the prices, turns out it was $88 total, still far from $250.
>iPod
$40
>SSD
$43
>adapter
$5

>>60773204
My 2001-model car has a cassette deck, so I have one of those little fake-tape adapters that you can plug a device into. It'd be more elegant to replace the head unit with something that does that natively, but that sounds like work. And it'd cost more than twenty bucks.

>>60772914
>he knows correct terminology
>he doesnt call it a mp3 player

all i need to hear now is that you use foss containers and codecs we can be bros

>>60773373
Yeah, I use ALAC

>>60758580
Either one of these:
A sony discman (god i miss it... it was damn good, with excellent sound quality)
A nokia phone, with an MMC card that could play MP3 (and some other codecs, i forgot). It was pretty baller at the time.

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One of these, Creative NOMAD
It's not a CD player

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>512Mb

I was king of the hill back then

>>60773583
I remember around 2000 or so I got some chink shit MP3 player that had 32MB of memory. Which you could expand by sticking a SmartMedia card into it. My classmates thought this was a really cool thing to have.

>>60773409
i needed to hear this.

i use FLAC for archiving and oggs for mobile and streaming

i use rockbox on a DAP and kodi on linux/lineage ARM devices

>>60773752
I generally use ALAC as I prefer iPods' stock firmware over Rockbox but I'm down to just a 2GB Nano right now so I'm Rockboxing it and transcoding my favourite albums to Opus

>>60773810
thats pretty cool man

i approve of all loseless open formats

>>60758580
In 2004, I carried around a portable CD player, with custom burned MP3 discs and earbuds.

>>60773230
links pls, can't find these cheap black magic prices in yurop

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I was still using my trusty DD33 and even in 2004 I got some raised eyebrows in the tram because of it but I didn't give a shit.

When you make mixtapes you care a lot more about what music you want to have on the go and not just throwing all of your albums randomly at your portable device.

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>RAZR V3i

>>60774064

>Sony Walkman DD series

clack .......... clack .......... clack .......... clack .......... clack .......... clack .......... clack .......... clack .......... clack .......... clack ..........

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I had this and a ton of burned cds.

>>60774040
Can't even find the SSD for that price anymore, this was in 2015
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FASTDISK-SSD-Solid-State-Drive-1-8-inch-mSATA3-Hard-Disk-Solid-State-Drive-120GB-/252832164803
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-mSATA-PCI-E-SSD-Solid-State-Hard-Drive-to-40pin-ZIF-CE-Cable-Card-Adapter-/252732114427
Now search eBay for broken iPods and pick up one with a broken HDD

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>>60758580
This thing. It was huge and ate batteries like shit but I loved the hell out of it! It even had a shoulder strap you could clip on to it. After that I switched to the glorious Hi-MD masterrace (God that thing was comfy).

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I miss AIWA...

>>60774102
Me too... But I think they're making a comeback in some form...

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>>60774078
Just found it, it still works, but only barely.

minidisc. once they became cheap, everyone had one, but they broke after 2 months and mp3 players destroyed them 2-4 years after minidisc made it to the mass market

>>60769409
nice i had a creative zen m 32gb back in the day

still have a 3rd gen ipod touch from back in t he day it was 64gb

the point of rockbox is you can change every detail

including multiple preset battery capacities
1000mah 2300mah 4200mah for example

dark themes or what every you want
multple settings for equalization and tremple/bass ect multiple storage types like flash(sd ssd usb) or hdd

you can hookup a optical drive or 3.5mm for <-> transfer

>run programs like doom or microclinux stuff

multiple codex/container options
favs playlist importing and backup

ability to interact with android or linux or windows or osx without requiring itunes bloat

>tfw

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>>60758580
My phone, obviously. My car radio doesn't accept USB, and I'm not driving around with thousands of CDs flying everywhere

>>60758580
Sansa clip bitch

>>60774617
I'd just like to add that I used a screenshot of my current phone, since I really cant be arsed to find my admittably very cool Motorola

>>60758580
Rockboxed Sansa Clip Zip.

Dunno how much longer it'll last. I had to resolder the jack port twice, the battery is going to shit, the buttons are getting seriously old... I'm struggling to even find a proper music player on Android, with replaygain support, a decent digital amp, crossfading, wide format support... and that isn't buggy, doesn't use 800MB RAM, isn't riddled with ads, and has a fucking simplistic and functional GUI and not some overly complicated bloated shit that's a pain to use.

Alternatively, I'm considering in the future getting some SBC with a decent audio output, slapping a battery on it, and running proper music decoding. It could have the functional complexity of a shuffle player for all I care, as long as the decoding is good.

Otherwise I'll turn to Sony, the last company to make decent players, albeit quite expensive, and more and more riddled with bullshit they don't need. A good MP3 player doesn't even need a color screen, just a large lowres monochrome display to show the playlist clearly.

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What else can I use than my brand new PocketZip by Iomega!!!

>>60774617
What app is that?

>>60774756
Spotify

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Rio Karma, motherfuckers, the best DAP ever made even to this day.

>not one mention of the Karma till I came to this thread
>SON I AM FUCKING SERIOUSLY DISAPPOINT
>you god damned maggots know nothing at all

>>60774644
Is Sony the way to go for mp3 players?

And advantage to players to just using your phone?

>>60758580
Mp3 cd player

>>60772997
I had this one.

First the USB port went then the headphone jack went. Kinda miss it.

>>60775478
For now yes, they're the only ones making good music players now, to the best of my knowledge.

Also the advantages are:
>separate device that can be used or lent separately from a phone
>much more battery life than phone
>smaller, lighter, tougher than phone
>better sound quality than most phones that really have shitty DACs
>hardware buttons and UI designed for music playback

>>60773131
Ipods are Rockboxable anon. That's why they're so godly. An Ipod with a microSD and Rockbox is the last player you'll need.

>>60758580
>zen vision m 64gb model

too easy.

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In 2004 was a poorfag going to a white trash middle school, so this. Had never even heard of mp3 players at that point.

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I got one of these for Christmas. I can't remember if there was a specific reason I wanted it or if it was because I was a contrarian not wanting the trendy iPod.

>>60769508
CDs are analog.

A laser read a "stamp" that is "burned" on to the surface of a disk much the same way a needle reads the surface of a vinyl disc.

a shitty chink mp3 player with 128MB storage space

>>60771578
>live in a major city
>people literally play music through their cell phones
>they're never white
>and its always shit nigger music

>>60778265
Well by those standards, everything is analog. The laser reads the data from the disk in the form of 1 and 0, and a processor decodes the information into audio. A record needle reads an analog waveform from the record, which can then be amplified without any need for decoding. So i'd say the CD is very digital indeed

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>>60764250
>>60765245
MiniDisc master race

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>>60772997
Mah nigga. I went through two of these, still have both kicking around. First one's headphone jack gave out. Glorious 512mb capacity.

>>60773525
>batteries took 4 hours to charge
>battery life was 4 hours
>3.5 hours if you used the backlight

>>60778265
everything is physically analog
digital is a logical interpretation of an analog signal
like a cd, the pits and lands aren't completely perfect, but they have a great enough contrast that they can be accurately interpreted as being a logical 0 or 1, deriving a perfect, digital signal, from an imperfect, physical/analog pattern

vinyl and other "analog" formats on the other hand, have no such contrast or interpretation, the signal they store is the signal that is used, as-is

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>>60758580
Frontier Labs Nex IIe

- replaceable standard batteries
- replaceable memory with CF cards
- jog dial for comfy navigation
- equalizer

I hum to myself as I walk down the street

>>60758580
https://streamable.com/9k0xw

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something like this, no screen at all and 64mb

What's a really cheap, bare bones smart phone with expandable memory I can use for an MP3 player?

>>60778502
>>60770213
i had both of these. loved them

>>60769263
I did, and it was fucking amazing until a gym teacher stole it from my gym locker. The gym teachers at our school were known for opening the locks and stealing from the students

>>60758580
Around then I had this sexy motherfucker.
512mb of memory.

I used it for 3-4 years, then the buttons broke and I used it mostly as a flash drive. Also had a built in memory card reader and radio.