Useful guide(s) • Converting an iPod video 5G/5.5G to a rockboxed player with an msata SSD and a 3000 mAh battery nullvoid.station.moe/Freedom-Hardware/Video5G-Rockbox/ • Rockbox 3.14 released, battery life for Sansa clip claims to be doubled for some • Got any? Want them included in the OP of future /pmp/ threads? Then post them itt! • We're also in need of possible /pmp/ OP pics, slap some fake album art together in photoshop or alter some album tags (for those on Sansa's) take a good picture of your mediaplayer of choice displaying said /pmp/ album
News • /csg/ represent • user nominates the first gen Zune as the best-feeling device • user reports in with his funky looking /pmp/ • user uses a Dragonfly Black to drive his dt990 250ohm • Sansa brothas • user's /pmp/ of choice is a Sony Walkman cassette player • Anons reminisce about their first /pmp/ what was your first portable media player? • user uses a cheap DAP that's lightweight and tiny • After a year and a half of use the battery life on user's RUIZU X02 has gone down • user's iPod fulfills his music needs • user shows off his iron man iPod • user reviews the FiiO X3ii • user reviews the FiiOX1 2 and Shure 215 • user wonders why his rockboxed iPod video takes forever to load FLAC files • user uses his watch as a /pmp/ device Why use a pmp and not a phone? • Aside from this tired old bait (seriously don't take it) dedicated devices are subjectively more comfortable when you want a dedicated player with a large storage capacity • you want a small player for physical activities • you want a dedicated player in situations where you don't want your phone tied to any cords
Those are terrible reasons to use a dap instead of a phone, much better reasons would be being able to use physical buttons letting you use it in your pocket, having a long battery, and not having to worry about something happening to your phone.
Angel Fisher
waiting for my xduoo and kz ate for that chink sounding music
Ian Jenkins
Upgrading ipod classic 160gb to 512gb 1/2 x SD/2 x micro SD/1 x sata drive. Should I pay more for micro sd card, in the middle for sd card or less for sata drive? Is double the price justified for being able to continue using the micro sd cards in the future? Or should the sata drive fulfill its duty for a while? Should I pretend I'll need 256/512 sd card in the future and get sd card?
Can you give me a push?
Benjamin Gutierrez
waiting for kz-ate as well... looks like shipping just arrived in my country
gonna pull the trigger on the kz zs5 they are what i really wanted
Brody Carter
Buttons are the number one reason I use a dap. I work in a clean room and cannot get into my pockets unless i leave the building so buttons are a must. In line remote dosent work so well because we are not really allowed to listen to music and grabbing at your neck is a dead giveaway.
also having 2x256 gb worth os music is kind of nice.
Mason Barnes
>found my Zune 30GB >it still works Noice.
Daniel Phillips
Is there anything out there like the clip and zip anymore? must have: >dedicated hardware nav buttons AND volume buttons >screen capable of smoothly displaying at least multiple lines of text >great battery life >compact as possible I've seen the ruizu or whatever stuff without the volume buttons and the bricks by cowon and fiio which aren't really bad I was just wondering if there was anything else.
Jeremiah Fisher
>apocalyptica ewww
Jose Robinson
Just a generic photo i found on google.
Grayson Flores
My iPod Classic's HDD died, is it seriously that hard to crack it open and replace it with an iflash adaptor?
Mason Gonzalez
Best one under 40 bucks?
Hudson Anderson
nope i can even do it with my fingernails
Jaxon Perez
Liar pants on fire
Colton Ward
No, replacement batteries come with plastic pry tools. So replace your battery while your at it.
Parker Howard
if you haven't done it before, you have a fair chance of breaking something. the connectors are very fragile and the backplate is very finicky and easy to damage when you're prying it apart. that said, if you're very careful you can do it consistently without damaging anything.
nice digits sd > microsd > mSATA. if it's a thin 160gb you might want to check and make sure whatever adapter you buy will fit in the case.
Kevin Ortiz
So what's the best cheap PMP that can use Rockbox?
My choice used to be the Sansa Clip, but they're not around anymore.
Jonathan Miller
No Japanese character support is a bummer, but everything else seems pretty solid. Only capped to 30GB though and I'm not sure how the battery life is yet.
Carter Sullivan
Does the sd card mod use less power on an ipod 5g?
Samuel Morgan
Yes, but not considerably less. It should be heavily documented.
Sebastian Myers
I was just wondering because I saw some people debating the ssd vs the hdd and saying that the ssd could consume more power. I figured a card mod would be a little less.
Thomas Green
Man I fucking loved my brown Zune back in the day till some nigger or spick took it when I got expelled and had to go to secondary school with a bunch of juvenile criminals.
Funny Spotify will go down as the first big music provider to popularize the subscription method but if you had a Zune you'd know the Zune store did it first.
John Fisher
I gave up reading shit for it, I just need a new jack and I'm good to go after a new battery.
>SSD HAS BETTER QUALITY AUDIO THAN HDD Nigger, no it fucking doesn't. Where do these people get off?
Joshua Sullivan
no idea really I figure a 3000mah battery would make uptime differences negligible anyway
Easton Collins
Recently busted my phone because I'm a retard and I need something to listen to music with while I'm out on the town. What can I pick up that's cheap?
David Adams
Are there any players that take two SD cards? Will something like a fiio X5 take SD cards instead of micros in the future?
Elijah Cox
>sd cards what fucking year is this
Matthew Nguyen
This thread makes me want to find and revive my ipod video 5g.
Adrian Ortiz
>babby's first reply
Jaxson Sanchez
I see the OP got a similiar style to /csg/.
Why not making a pastebin with reviews and recommended pmp?
I mean the news are cool and shit, but a photo with a couple of lines is pretty much useless.
This could alllow more discussion about such reviews and avoid posts like "recommend me a good pmp for the #2039043 time".
Adam Moore
What's the name of that device?
Jaxson Moore
he said SD not micro. Who the hell still uses those?
Brandon Nguyen
People that want more storage and don't need the microSD form factor, dipshit.
Isaiah Cruz
>Can't tell the audio quality difference by the soldering materials used on the circuit board
Why are there filthy plebs sharing this board with me?
Carter Butler
What's the differants between a dap and pmp?
Thomas Nguyen
RUIZU's
Nathaniel Lopez
>pastebin
A infographic would be nicer
David Ross
>"recommend me a good pmp for the #2039043 time". Which at this point go unanswered. I've lurked through three of these threads and have not once seen a concrete recommendation for an entry pmp.
Ethan White
Xduoo x10
Carter White
I love my Sansa Clip+. I'm not sure if I can go higher than 32GB for external storage, though. I wish the screen was a bit better so picture flow didn't look so bad.
Brody Foster
>looking at pictures on it ¥ou wat
Michael Wood
Have you replaced the clip behind the player? It looks different.
Nicholas Flores
it broke off and I propped it up with MicroSD card adapters for the picture >picture flow included on clip+ rockbox it's a shit screen but it'd be neat if it looked better
Kayden Myers
The one on /csg/ is pretty much useless besides "Get this meme because I say so".
Also never updated.
Daniel Lewis
Do it!
Xavier Hughes
>Get this meme because I say so >Also never updated.
So like everything on Sup Forums
Owen Sanchez
Nothing, op just wants to use a different word to make it special
Adam Turner
Found the best deal everrrrrrrrr
Jackson Garcia
>I'm not sure if I can go higher than 32GB for external storage
You can.
Justin Miller
I just stream my audio from Youtube++, close the app and use wireless headphones.
Really that simple. Would it be a waste of money to buy a pmp?
Carson Hernandez
My old (mini USB) Sansa Clip is starting to have a weird problem where the backlight only works at like 10% strength or something so it's very hard to see and impossible in any bright light, until I give the player a good whack, at which point it starts working normally for a while. How much time do I have left /pmp/?
I don't even remember the brand but it was a 1.5gb player my mom bought for my birthday off overstock.com and it cost $120. This was 2002 or 2003 I think. I killed it with a corrupted MP3 I had gotten off LimeWire.
Adrian Clark
weak af
Joshua Garcia
Anybody know? Players with 2 slots, micro or standard sd?
How many songs you got in it? And how's the performance with the 2x256gb?
Carter Davis
>5th Gen iPod (Video) Stuck on Apple logo, I can hear the harddrive clicking it's probably dead, but ifixit says Apple logo means bad logic board. Anyone know if just harddrive failure can cause it?
Ryan Brooks
SSD in general has less power draw, but some high capacity mSATA drives take a huge spike of power when starting up, and with some drives the ipod's battery won't be sufficient to start the drive. so beware of mSATA if you're upgrading ipod storage. some work fine, many don't.
Elijah King
The honker is happy with this thread
Oliver Cox
What is that?
Nolan Baker
>OP is using your photo for a fucking general What have I done
Hudson Howard
could I get a recommend or two on waterproof pmp/mp3 players?
preferably the cheapest that is ok
Alexander Phillips
I don't need amazing amounts of storage, 4/8gb should be ok
it doesn't need to be mega waterproof, just enough that when I'm working out I don't shortcircuit it with sweat like my last one
Tyler Howard
So what's the deal with the Sansa Clip's? I just looked them up on Amazon/eBay and see some people are selling them for hundreds of (Canadian) dollars. Are they some uber player that I wasn't aware of?
Asking because I have a Sansa Clip+ in a box somewhere that I never used and I've been mulling around the idea of getting a dedicated music player instead of my phone.
Julian Ortiz
spending money on wireless headphones was a waste of money
Adrian Butler
The prices are marked up high because Sandisk no long makes the player. It's a solid player if you install Rockbox on it
Tyler Sanders
I was considering purchasing an Xduoo X3, but they list about 8 hours of battery life for it. I timed the usage of my sansa clip sport from fully charged until the "low battery" message appears, and I use it more than 8 hours a day. So I won't be getting an X3 since the battery is too small. Also found out the clip sport will run 17+ hours on a single charge (including some periods at max volume) which is pretty good I suppose.
Colton Thompson
rockbox should improve on battery life
Lincoln Green
Rockbox doesn't work on clip sport, unfortunately.
Ryan Brooks
Oh wait you meant on X3, my bad. Do you know by how much? I know there's some charts out there but I can't find one for X3.
Hudson Harris
It's a discontinued meme player which is known for very good sound quality. If you never used yours then you can sell it and get more than you paid for it or start using / enjoying it. If you get a good price for yours then you can probably buy a more modern one that's got equally good sound quality.
Charles Ward
A guide of recommended pmp on different price ranges would be better than the useless wall of news.
Sebastian Sullivan
but a spinning hard drive is the cause of the rotational velocidensity phenomenon. I also don't see how a device that has a high speed spinning disk and read head cannot possibly create audible microvibrations that distort the sound. With a pair of Sony MDR-J10 I could easily hear my iPod's hard drive seeking if I pulled the cable taut.
Adrian Sullivan
Can I use RockBox on the Xduoo X2?
Thomas Morris
don't think so
Jordan Edwards
What's the difference between using rockbox and the stock firmware? Is there a risk of bricking or is it 100% safe? Can I re-flash the stock firmware in case of something happened? Does sandisk even still have the firmware? Or do we have a repo for them?
Julian Jones
How much spoonfeeding do you need exactly? All the info is right there on the rockbox site.
Carter Rogers
is that pokemon on a clip?
I see you can't read shit but how does it play out of curiosity?
Colton Peterson
I think it does, I could play Doom on my ipod classic lol
Eli Peterson
Rockbox has better SD card and codec support, and a lot more, just read their website. You can also make the UI look the way you want. I think you can restore the stock firmware too, but I've never tried it. Also, you can't install Rockbox without the original firmware binary from Sandisk.
Jaxson Morris
>What's the difference between using rockbox and the stock firmware? See . You can go to the Rockbox site for info specific to your device.
For me personally, I chose to Rockbox my Clip Zip because the stock firmware insisted on showing the album art. Problem was, half the time it didn't even show up (if your art is over 100 kb or something, stock firmware won't show it), and it looked like shit on the screen anyhow. Rockbox allows me to use a theme with plain text.
>Is there a risk of bricking or is it 100% safe? I've had mine freeze from time to time, but restarting always fixes it, it never totally bricked on me.
>Can I re-flash the stock firmware in case of something happened? Yes, you can get rid of Rockbox completely and go back to using the stock firmware. You can also dual-boot (pushing a certain button combo while powering on will boot the stock firmware.)
>Does sandisk even still have the firmware? I think so. You'll have to check the Sansa site, I haven't had to check in a while.
Asher Peterson
the difference is pokemon on the sansa is likely emulation, whereas doom was likely playing natively on the ipod
Christian Wilson
Still neat regardless
Christian Wood
so where do I go for recommendations on mp3 players?
Ayden Jenkins
A Zune can still be used as a basic MP3 player right? I looked up some information and I find is "you can't use the streaming service anymore".