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the unsurpassed music player
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>>100328582
That's not ncmpcpp with mpd
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>>100328582
Agreed, although I prefer the 4th gen model with the monochrome screen

>>100328592
Desktop software != portable hardware
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You can see all the dead skin cells and crud that has collected around the button ring. How do you get that crap out of there?
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>>100328642
1. you clean it
2. you stop being a disgusting faggot
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>>100328665
Seriously, mine has never gotten to that stage, what the fuck is OP doing with that thing
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>>100328582
>>100328637
>the faint humming and whirring as the hard drive disks spin up
it doesn't get more comfy than this
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>>100329132
to me it sounds like its saying
>"b-durr..."
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i need this to become real
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>>100329337
SEXOOOOOOOOO
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>>100329337
nice.
want
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>>100329132
I had to flash mod mine because the hard drive died, and I miss that sound and feeling every time I use it so much.

>>100329337
Me too. That's sexy as fuck. Unfortunately if it were ever actually made by Apple, they'd probably fuck it up by not including a headphone jack.
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>>100328582
>blocks your path
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>>100328642
>How do you get that crap out of there?
opening it? lmao
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>>100331232
There's a small part of me that always wants to go buy one of those on eBay anytime I see them, despite already having a dozen iPods.

Redpill me on them, what makes them that much better?
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>>100328582
>fixed battery
actually its dogshit
mp3 player should use standard size rechargeable batteries and have the ability to detect battery chemistry and how to rechardge them if you want to be taken seriously.
also LOL that fucking 30 pin connector bullshit
im just salty mine got to the stage where the connector is worn out you have to hold it in and the battery holds so little charge it takes 20 minuts just to turn on
lets be real the only 'good' thing about it was how many songs it stored
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>>100331376
just install a new bigger battery and an usb c port if you need it that much
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>>100328582
was surpassed the second it released
>unsurpassed
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>>100328582
For me, it's the Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox.
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>>100329337
that should theoretically be diy-able these days. dunno how much would machining the case cost, but the rest are pretty simple by today's standards.
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>>100329337
>make cool mockup of imaginary device
>can pick LITERALLY ANYTHING to show as the song onscreen
>choose generic nigger beats number 323423451
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>>100331713
If you're DIYing it and can't machine it yourself, just 3D print it
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>>100328582
I used an iPod Classic until like 2018. Got a FiiO player and have loved it. Only problem is that when you're playing music through bluetooth there can be audio hiccups which is just unacceptable. Pretty wild that iPod Classic is still number 1 after all these years. Wish I'd never sold mine.
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>>100331737
nah these days there's online options to just send your design and receive it by mail. as in machining cases. just don't know the tolerances and end price for that kind of design.
display is peanuts, battery. and pcb shouldn't be that hard. you need a CPU for whatever OS, maybe something rockbox compatible, tho I'd like 24/96 on it. DAC and some amplifier front end and that's that. maybe bluetooth or something.
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>>100331724
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>>100329337
Nice mockup.
But 5g is overkill and expect very poor battery life.
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>>100331795
Niggers aren't welcome here
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>>100331778
I imagine it'd be so much more expensive though. I might look into it, it would be much nicer.

I'm working on basically exactly this right now. It's just a Pi Zero, a cheap OLED, a click wheel, and a battery in a 3d printed box. For now I'm using an external FiiO DAC, I might build one into it down the line. I think the Pi Zero can do Bluetooth audio but I haven't tried it. You can build Rockbox to run under Linux as an application but I'm writing my own MPD front end instead for the hell of it.
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>>100331939
you should try experimenting with one chip solutions, or CPU+DAC. no need to go all audiophool on it. pick something with decent specs and should be alright (supposing you properly implement on pcb). I've been thinking starting a PCB project for such a player. but I'm pretty shit with software so I'd just rip off soomething compatible with rockbox. dunno any other player OS and sadly it doesn't do 24bit 96kHz.
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autism and Kicad is a match made in heaven
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I still have one but it only holds 20gb, crap battery, and no Bluetooth
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>>100332027
Yeah I'm not an audiophile by any means. I hate SMD soldering & I figured anything I can do with through hole (ESP, AVR, etc.) would be too limited, plus I had a spare Pi Zero lying around so it seemed like the best choice for me. The DAC I'm using is just one of the cheap dongle ones FiiO does. If I'd used a full size Pi I'd have just used the headphone jack on the board, but the power draw is so much higher than on the Zero & I'm trying to get as long a battery life as I can out of this thing. There's probably better suited SBCs out there for sure though.

I'm pretty sure Rockbox is the only firmware option, but it doesn't do 24/96 like you say. Linux is complete overkill but at least you've got a lot more software options, and all the basic low-level functions are taken care of for you.

You should definitely go for it with the custom PCB thing. iPods are getting more expensive and parts for them are getting scarcer, I think there's definitely demand for a decent modern replacement.
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>>100332292
the pi zero chip is nice bcause it has I2S and you can interface any DAC to it. nothing wrong with linux it's just a massive power draw on what should be a long battery lasting device. pi also doesn't have MCLK I think so you'd need to add a clock as well (for I2S) and slave the pi
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>>100328582
>the unsurpassed music player
Wrong
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is there a music player that has cellular internet and can connect to your home music server?
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>>100328582
The 5th gen iPod is so based
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>>100332502
>translucent case
C O M F Y
O
M
F
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>>100332495
your mobile phone
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>>100328582
Too mainstream, even roastie tubers are getting in on the meme
Time to dump your iPods, it's fucking over
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>>100332400
I'm not a hardware guy at all, so I didn't even think of trying to hook up a DAC over anything other than USB. Definitely going to look into I2S, thanks. Seems a little more involved but it'd be so much better to have it built in.

Agreed on wanting the battery lasting as long as possible & Linux being a problem for that. I've got a 10Ah battery out of a power bank so it should still last long enough. It'll be a little chunky, but whatever. I could try porting Rockbox down the line if I'm not happy with the battery life.
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>>100332577
cleaner to run off I2S as a shield. have a look at the ones here, may find some schematics or work out the traces from higher res photos
https://community.volumio.com/t/guide-list-of-i2s-dacs-for-raspberry-pi/1015
PCM5102 is pretty simple to implement. not top specs but pretty decent.
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>>100331795
Stop saying "le"
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>>100331315
indestructible, god tier ui for the time, superior sound quality, easy to side load games on. still have my zune 30 and zune hd.
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>>100328582
That's the wrong pic, let me correct you.
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shoo-shoo itoddlers
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>>100328582
Has anyone use those Chinese knockoffs, and how do they fare?
Really, having a phone, all I want is a media player that has an iPod style interface. The wheel and readout and such.
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>>100333238
got something similar and found some old music on it. wild times
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>>100332450
i miss google play music so much
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>>100332450
I have a moto x4. What model is this, because I had to examine it to see the difference.
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>>100334496
>I miss corporate_product so much
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>>100335134
moto g5
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>>100332837
Does it do flac?
Can you mod more storage and battery life into one?
Ive modded my 5th gen ipod video but I hate that rockbox wont do video, and the normal OS wont do flac.
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>>100331795
I look and say that
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>>100328582
A quick web search says otherwise.
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>>100332149
buy a bigger battery and an sd card mod
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>>100335542
They did WMA lossless, not flac.
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>>100335542
not sure about flac but yes to the other two mods
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>>100328582
>no dsd support
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>>100331922
Yes they are.
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I used to own a Creative ZEN Vision:M which shits on any player apple sheeple think is the shit.
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>>100328582
I'll stick to using my phone
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>>100331724
>selling product
>must appeal to the market
>appeal to the market's majority taste in order to sell the product
>an anon is surprised
what boggles me more is the blur around the cover. this should be a crime punishable by death
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Anything decent-ish i can buy today for around 100?
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>>100331795
>implying hatred for non-whites is some illogical thing and not based on years of observation
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Seriously though, what does g recommend as a plain MP3 player. Has to have USB-C charging and decent battery life, I'm not too fussed about anything else.

Seems impossible to find. Everything is either ancient micro-USB crap, or a glorified Android device with 20 minutes battery life, or placebo tier audiophile crap for $200+
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>>100339848
>micro SD CRAP!!

Threre is nothing wrong with micro SD (don't buy the 1TB). Forget everything youtubers have ever told you. They get paid to have fake controversial opinions.
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>>100335179
Thx
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>>100339881
What's this about? It's a third time in two days I've seen someone shit talk SD cards. What YouTuber are they parroting?
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>>100328582
I have one and recently tried to play music on it, and was surprised by how music sounds so.... dogshit on it. kys nostalgiafag
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>>100332576
the ipod meme was around 2021 or so, i member some aussie made them popular for a while.
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>>100339770
I hadn't even noticed that blur. That's fucking hideous.
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>>100339881
>>100340121
Nobody mentioned SD cards, it was micro USB they were complaining about, and rightfully so
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>2009 MP3 player has higher capacity than most flagship phones do TODAY

I know how they did it, why the fuck did they stop doing it?
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>>100337906
>>100337919
LMAO zunetards really shilling this crap without flac support
>>100342628
Because hard drives have a hard limit in terms of physical size. Those tiny micrdrives on the iPod mini were never going to get to 160gb. Flash storage really is the way, but is still considerably expensive to this day, and the jews at apple and samsung, google etc removed expandable sd slots so they can nickle and dime us
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>>100332502
Its dogshit, every 5th gen we've owned freaks out with ALACs, even after I use the built in "convert to apple lossless" on itunes/apple music
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>>100329337
diable all internet communication abilities first.
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>>100339848
>Seriously though, what does g recommend as a plain MP3 player. Has to have USB-C charging and decent battery life, I'm not too fussed about anything else.
Shanling m0 pro
Hiby r3 gen II
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>>100328582
This doesn't look like a Rockbox'd Sansa Clip+...
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>>100343074
>the jews at apple and samsung, google etc removed expandable sd slots so they can nickle and dime us
Im loath to defend the phone manufacturers since they have been fucking everything up for the last decade but the reason they removed micro sd card slots is because retarded nomalfags and especially third worlders keep buying $3 "1tb" micro sd cards from chink scammers and then complaining that their phones are slow as shit and all their pictures disappear. It's the only thing phone manufacturers have removed that is actually justified because brown people just love to buy fake sd cards and nobody can stop them
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>Xduoo X2S
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>>100343147
I put rockbox and mine is alright with FLAC files, but gets angry with 24 bit/really large files,
I'll assume it's running out of ram lol
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>>100342413
Oh, you're right. I just read the reply.
I guess I've only seen two people complaining about micro SDs.
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>>100328582
You can physically make a superior music player from scratch and digitally download the best software to it for less than 100$. Why would you want some shitty proprietary hardware device?
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>>100344966
almost all hardware is proprietary, including DACs. you could maybe make an "open" R2R DAC but 8 or 10bit max.
https://www.tek.com/en/blog/tutorial-digital-analog-conversion-r-2r-dac
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>>100345129
>you could maybe make an "open" R2R DAC but 8 or 10bit max.
Let me guess, you need more.
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Best served with Rockbox!
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let's see a few designs for your "ideal" player. similar to >>100329337 the scroll wheel is cheap as fuck on aliexpress like 5-6$.
I found picrel 2.5" screen (same size as ipod classic 6th gen) which is some amoled 450x600 resolution. think this tech should play better with battery? stock ipod classic 6th gen res is 320x240 so this would be a massive upgrade. costs like 23$ a pop.
or maybe ideally design the pcb to fit the aluminium 6th gen classic? tho the display upgrade might not be possible.
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>>100345370 me
forgot picrel
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>sync your library with our dumb slow software please goy
No thanks I'd rather copy and paste and delete the folders I want
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actually a full ipod classic 6th gen metal case set is some 20$ with shipping with wheel included lol wat
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>>100343826
I said no audiophile shit
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>>100331795
>brown
>person
does not compute
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>>100342496
Touchscreen slop & for 5x the cost of even a modded iPod
>>100343147
Use Rockbox if you must use lossless, but I guarantee you can't actually hear the difference
>>100343826
Cheap Chinese shit, poorly made and no soul, touchscreen slop
>>100343863
They're fucking ugly and far too small, although the SD card slot is nice to have built in I'll grant you
>>100343977
Are you fucking serious?
>>100345226
Windows Media Player skin is a humiliation ritual
>>100345370
Some kind of OLED is absolutely the way to go, Godspeed
>>100345454
Use Rockbox if you must avoid iTunes, but it's actually completely fine
>>100345753
Who gives a shit?
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are there schematics for any player supported by rockbox?
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>>100346396
>humiliation ritual
Umm, no? It's surprisingly well designed, a product of someone's love for WMP.
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>>100339848
iPod classic with expanded battery + oxyl mods usb c
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>>100345753
>I said no audiophile shit
You said no $200 audiophile shit
Neither of those are $200, both are the least shitty options and have volume knobs and physical play/pause and << >> buttons, the hiby has 20 hours of battery life, is reasonably small, doesn't run android and works pretty well.
Nobody else buys portable music players anymore because everyone uses wireless shit with their cellphones, so the remaining brands cater to the only buyers left in the market which is people who care about audio quality and want to use wired headphones.
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>>100346558
>from Canada
Any alternatives? Seems pricey.
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>>100345753
>>100346819
Disregard this i suck cocks, the hiby is big, i guess they discontinued their smaller player
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>>100347109
Buy used ipod 5.5 plus a replacement battery and the adapter that lets you replace the hdd with an sd card
Or buy a refurbished ipod from eoe
https://eoe.works/collections/apple-ipod-video-5th-5-5-enhanced/products/new-apple-ipod-video-classic-5th-5-5-enhanced-black-black-black?variant=34563472916617
Or don't buy old obsolete technology
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>>100347407
I have the iPod. Pricey is the mod kit.
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>>100347425
Oh then fuck the usb c adapter and just get a battery and sd adapter from eoe
Just make sure you get the right combination of adapter and battery for the model you have, some fit the thing backplate models, some fit the thicker ones. They also have cheap replacement 30 pin cables so you can grab one if you don't have any
https://eoe.works/collections/ipod-classic-6th-7th-generation-replacement-parts
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>>100347499
>shipping cost
fml
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I'd like to make a custom MP3 player, but I'd like something with a little more personality to the design than just a brick with a wheel and a display, but anything I can think of only makes it less convenient.
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>>100332837
Why it failed though?
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>>100348138
Something using this could be cool, although you'd probably have to find a way to make it less thick:

https://github.com/scottbez1/smartknob

If you're into wireless headphones/earbuds, maybe go for a wearable form factor, like a smartwatch or something

Or maybe just build something without a regular display at all?
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>>100329337
if done by Apple would be a fucking shame and be useless for me. I don't care about closed OS. I want to own and use the hardware the way I want it, not the way Apple wants it.
can the latest programming AIs realistically code a OS at this point?
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>>100343935
If that was true then we'd all be stuck using chromebooks and whatever the most retard proof tech is out rn. I'm not inclined to agree that its because of 3rd worlders with a fetish for getting scammed off temu/ali express we don't have sd cards anymore...
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>>100348138
I think we'd need to settle on hardware first (pcb). once that's set you can think about case design.
side buttons for power/volume can be borrowed from phone parts that are out there. if you're going with custom aluminium case design. but that's the last step of the design. we need a CPU chip, a DAC chip, some power management, storage, display control, and software which could be rockbox or at least part of it. once everything is working as electronics then you can fit them in various case designs or whatever.
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>>100348211
>Something using this could be cool, although you'd probably have to find a way to make it less thick:
>https://github.com/scottbez1/smartknob
That is cool, but the problem isn't just the thickness, but I think the knob would get in the way of stuffing into a pocket. It'd need a way to disable it so you don't accidentally crank-up the volume by walking or shifting in your seat.

>If you're into wireless headphones/earbuds, maybe go for a wearable form factor, like a smartwatch or something
I've also been thinking about making a smartwatch, but the amount of crap I'd like to cram into it would probably hurt the battery life and storage space to the point I'd rather just have a separate device.

>Or maybe just build something without a regular display at all?
I do like the idea of adding voice recognition, so it'd just play the name of the song I ask for, but if I'm out in public and it's not working, I don't want to be seen shouting "I glued my balls to my butthole again" because that's the only way I can get it to play.

>>100348436
>I think we'd need to settle on hardware first (pcb). once that's set you can think about case design.
I already know I don't want the case to be too much bigger compared to a typical iPod, simply because I'd still like the thing to be able to fit in my pocket. (Unless I can find another way to comfortably lug it around)
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>>100331208
>they'd probably fuck it up by not including a headphone jack.
It's ridiculous that Apple made a device smaller and thinner than any of their phones and managed to fit a 30 pin and headphone jack on the same side and yet claim their phones can't possibly fit it, despite their smallest and thinnest phones also having headphone jacks.
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>>100328582
>"hey i just got this new ipod, what do you want to listen to?"
>"how about some warren zevon?"
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>>100348533
>It'd need a way to disable it
You'd just have a hold switch same as on iPods.

>I've also been thinking about making a smartwatch, but the amount of crap I'd like to cram into it would probably hurt the battery life and storage space to the point I'd rather just have a separate device.
You could always go in a slightly more Pip-Boy-esque direction rather than building a watch exactly. Not necessarily so horrifically bulky, but maybe something around the size of a Raspberry Pi, kinda like picrel.

>I do like the idea of adding voice recognition, so it'd just play the name of the song I ask for, but if I'm out in public and it's not working, I don't want to be seen shouting "I glued my balls to my butthole again" because that's the only way I can get it to play.
I feel like voice recognition would be awkward as fuck in general in any public place. But going complete displayless I think is worth exploring. Maybe have the whole front of the device be a capacitative touch input surface and use a haptic motor for feedback?

To a certain extent I think a brick with a wheel and a display is probably inevitable without building something kinda gimmicky. The wheel is such a great input method for something like this, and the minimalism of it being the only input on the face of the device is a great design.
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>>100328582
I want to try the taptic engine mod but never get around to it. Pretty sure I've got a couple of them lying around
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>>100349166
>You'd just have a hold switch same as on iPods.
Oh, right.

>>100349166
>You could always go in a slightly more Pip-Boy-esque direction rather than building a watch exactly.
I was already working my way towards that. I haven't even made it yet and I'm struggling with getting it down to something smaller than a credit card, because I'm trying to cram-in a bunch of features you don't typically find in a smartwatch.

>I feel like voice recognition would be awkward as fuck in general in any public place.
Yes, but it'd be convenient at home. I could say "Alexa play Despacito" and I'd at least know the thing is in earshot if the song starts playing.

>But going complete displayless I think is worth exploring. Maybe have the whole front of the device be a capacitative touch input surface and use a haptic motor for feedback?
How will I know what songs I'm selecting? A big part of why I want this is because I want to decentralize and not have everything saved on my computer. (And maybe even go back to watching videos on a TV)

>To a certain extent I think a brick with a wheel and a display is probably inevitable without building something kinda gimmicky. The wheel is such a great input method for something like this, and the minimalism of it being the only input on the face of the device is a great design.
Yeah, I know. And the brick-like formfactor also works so well because all the internal components are just as boxy. I could design something cylindrical around that 32mm knob suggestion, but a pill bottle-shaped mp3 player would largely be a waste of space inside and be weird to keep in a pocket.
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>>100349514
I recovered one from some iphone 7 or something. also found some pads to connect to it. do I drive it with AC sine or square signal or what
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>>100349541
There's a YouTube video that shows how, iirc you just replace the Piezo with it
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>>100349552
ah so some audio click signal then. ye that should work.
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>>100349537
>I was already working my way towards that. I haven't even made it yet and I'm struggling with getting it down to something smaller than a credit card, because I'm trying to cram-in a bunch of features you don't typically find in a smartwatch.
I feel like it doesn't need to be smaller than a credit card though to be honest. You could go iPod size or maybe even a little bigger than that before it becomes unwieldy.

>Yes, but it'd be convenient at home. I could say "Alexa play Despacito" and I'd at least know the thing is in earshot if the song starts playing.
Sure, but that's better suited to a larger, non-portable device with speakers and mains power rather than a battery.

>How will I know what songs I'm selecting?
You wouldn't at all, you'd be making a fancy iPod Shuffle. It's just interesting to try and come up with something that isn't just a brick with a screen and a wheel like you say, even if any such suggestion is inherently much less practical. It's definitely something that has its place, I don't always want to listen to something specific, and with streaming services and tailor made playlists it'd probably actually be much more practical today than it was when iPod Shuffles were an actual product you could buy.

>A big part of why I want this is because I want to decentralize and not have everything saved on my computer.
I'm in a similar boat--I'm trying to not just use my phone & computer for everything--but I don't think centralisation is all that bad inherently. I'm still using a NAS to store everything, then streaming or copying from it as necessary.

>I could design something cylindrical around that 32mm knob suggestion, but a pill bottle-shaped mp3 player would largely be a waste of space inside and be weird to keep in a pocket.
You could have a round PCB or two underneath the knob, parallel to the top of it, containing the CPU/DAC/etc. It should be possible to produce something more hockey puck than pill bottle.
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>>100349824
>I feel like it doesn't need to be smaller than a credit card though to be honest.
I was talking about my smartwatch. And now that I look through the features I was planning for the smartwatch, the only thing the MP3 player would have that it doesn't is USB-C and a 3.5mm jack. The main concern is still storage space.

>Sure, but that's better suited to a larger, non-portable device with speakers and mains power rather than a battery.
I don't really see the point in having another device. I was making the MP3 player in hopes that I could have enough storage capacity I wouldn't need to use my desktop. Getting another audio player in addition to that just seems redundant.

>I'm in a similar boat--I'm trying to not just use my phone & computer for everything--but I don't think centralisation is all that bad inherently. I'm still using a NAS to store everything, then streaming or copying from it as necessary.
Not me. I don't stream if I can help it. I want to disconnect as much stuff as I can from the internet.

>It should be possible to produce something more hockey puck than pill bottle.
A lot of the internals would still be wasted space.
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Maybe I am too much of a tech utilitarian but bros what the fuck is the point of this aside from clutter. Ipods were cool and had some good designs, but the price of a music player could just go into more storage for your phone. It just reeks of tech fetishism.
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>>100348545
>It's about depth, not width
t. my wife
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>>100351825
My iPod is from 2008, I bought it on a once-in-a-lifetime trip and have been using it since. It does its job well enough and reminds me of the times when I was young and careless.
Phones rarely have headphone output these days and their storage is more limited. Add to this the fact that they don't WHIRR in your hand when changing songs.
I keep my iPod in the office, for portable listening I just use NewPipe with Bluetooth headphones and pretend that the triple compressed and bass boosted crap I'm hearing is anything like the real song.
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>>100341786
Dankpods?
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>>100347616
Just buy a 30 dollar AGPTEK media player and stick a sdcard in it you dont need retro apple branding for mp3s/radio
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>>100328582
its been surpassed by a single app on these babies just like the digital camera and the pda. stop living in the past
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>>100353996
fuck your soulless shit device
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-pWlSwDXAQ
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>>100354010
>fuck your soulless shit device
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>>100354053
it's just I'm not carrying a spying device that I also need to baby or else I'm paying for its repair. like what
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>>100349514
it's very easy to do, just solder two pads from the taptic engine to where the piezo speaker would go near the audio jack. I did it on my 6th gen with one from an iphone x. got annoying after a week and i took it off.
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>>100353996
beyond bloat
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>>100348354
your reply doesn't follow at all smartphones are the most retard proof tech, because they are made for retards third worlders don't own computers.
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>>100332450
I entered this thread because I knew I'll find you G5 anon. God bless you.
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Thoughts on the Nano?
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>>100328582
ipod was the first and last time I ever bought an apple product. I hated how I couldn't just set up music in a sensible folder structure on my own, instead having to fuck around with a million tags. All because apple's retarded file structure doesn't allow you to just drag and drop files onto the storage. No, gotta use the tags, gotta use itunes, fuck you.
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>>100328582
My 80GB one lasted less than a year back in 2010.
Awful. Just awful.

They'd bug all the time.
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>>100357147
i love the nano. (2012)
still use it from time to time
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>>100357147
2010+ was ok.
The rest were garbage.

As soon as touch screens emerged I was happier with music players.
The clickwheels used to break easier than the screens and were harder to navigate with.

>iTunes was also pure cancer
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>>100356707
cooool
do you own one?
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>>100357372
the 2012 is excellent, the small form factor is great for small form factor stuff
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>>100357363
It's too big though.
The 2010 one was amazing. I used to jog and powerwalk to high school with that thing and it was like a shuffle, nearly weightless.
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fuck it, I am getting one of those ruizu / agptek shits, spent like three days looking for something and its either that or a 1000 USD memephile grade chinese thing that still get bad reviews
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>opus --vbr-96 --music --fullband
>avif artwork in 300x300
>Foldplay for navigation
this meets all my needs. level 2 autism quite suffice
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3rd gen is best gen
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>>100342496
based wm1a enjoyer. picrel is literally me rn
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if it plays sounds, it's already good enough.
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>>100359368
do audio pedophiles really?
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>>100329337
God I wish this existed, looks sexy as fuck.
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>>100359368
BASED
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>>100359368
holy fuck I am not falling for this, just keep using your phone boys, maybe get decent iems/ headphones but that's it. don't fall for this.
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>>100353449
>you dont need retro apple branding
This iPod is the only Apple device I have ever owned. I just like using it.
But thanks for the suggestion.
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>>100356707
Cheaply made, unrepairable, unupgradable, Chinese trash. A pale imitation of the real deal. We don't need more e waste.

>>100357147
They were okay at the time, but now they're even less repairable and upgradable than regular iPods, so I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole. They don't have nearly enough storage, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Except, of course, for the last couple generations, which were touchscreen slop.

>>100357253
You don't tag your media? Are you retarded?

>>100357271
>>100357363
>>100357372
>>100357395
>>100357413
>>100358707
Entirely incorrect

>>100358385
Fuck off and buy a real iPod
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>>100362764
>Entirely incorrect
are you a retard?
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>>100362775
yes
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>>100362775
Which point is this regarding?
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>>100362775
maybe i am, what's it to you
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>>100329337
Anon, I..
>>100331232
No
>>100332502
Facts
>>100332837
Mine forgets what it is if the battery is drained
>>100335542
Zune max storage is firmware locked to 128gb, so basically no. And good luck stuffing a battery in there
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>>100328582
But I have a hi-fi setup that blows this out of the water
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i miss my old ipod shuffle, man, where could it have gotten to? 2005 was so long ago...
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>>100359368
audiopedophiles are delusional.
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>>100366118
No you don't
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>>100348148
microsoft didn't really market it at all, and they totally fucked up app support on it. plus "ipod vs everything" else was the "blue vs green bubble" of the mid 2000s so normies and kids were conditioned into not accepting anything else regardless
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Soul
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>>100343863
I had one of these and the buttons kept breaking one by one. I was so upset.
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>>100365875
what bluetooth adapter is that?
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>>100328582

I got one for Christmas when I was 20. It lasted three months before it died on me. It fell two feet from my pocket to the pavement while I was getting something out of my car.

I got a Zune the next Christmas. It's still working 16 years later.
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>>100332292
engee here
I LOOOVE SMD soldering
the initial investment is high, and you'll go through a lot of flux and pcb cleaner solvent
a good hot air work station is costly, I recommend Quick brand, buy the expensive one

but the moment you master it
the surface tension of solder works for you so well
soldering and de soldering is super easy
we're talking about a 10x productivity increase
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I don’t get it. What can it do the first iPhone can not?
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>>100331232
yuck
electronic trash
ugly product design
the name of bill gates brings a frown unto people's face
>>100348148
it offers not much else
and it's UGLY
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>>100332450
I still have one of those in a drawer. Since the battery went bust never touched it again. Are those chink batteries any good? Or will they explode in your pocket? Well, the original didn't last for very long before it ballooned, was kinda scary.

Any particular place to get a battery or they are all the same and any Aliexpress chink will do?
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>>100352938
yeah I get this but its entirely aesthetic reasons. This is valid in itself, but it conflicts with the anti-bloat narrative I often see with ipods. I'm glad it connects you to a better time and gives you good vibes but it seems like cope to go out of your way to buy one if you already have a smart phone.
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>>100370039
Kokkia
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>>100372802
thank you, that little shit is expensive.
i want it.
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I played so many doom2 wads on this little shitter
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>>100366118
>t.



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