/pmp/ personal music player general This thread is for the discussion portable mp3/FLAC/OGG Vorbis players. >inb4 phone
Useful Guide(s) • The General /pmp/ Guide has been updated again, thanks to your efforts → spit.mixtape.moe/view/fefcb363 • 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/ • Third party battery guide iflash.xyz/3rd-party-extended-battery-guide/Guide for iPod 6G/7G needs adding/making • Rockbox 3.14 released, significant battery increase compared to 3.13. The battery increase was from the cpu scaling patches, which has been available on dev builds for a (long) while. • Reminder to use Rockbox DEV builds when available. • Use the SonyNWDestTool to remove the volume limiter/warnings on most of the Walkman series rockbox.org/wiki/SonyNWDestTool
>tfw I worked a shitty office jobe with a 4 hour round trip bus/metro rail commute over the last summer >tfw lost my rockbox'd iPod Classic somewhere along the ride >Tfw somwhere
Logan Diaz
Why is the fucking click wheel upside down?
Robert Cook
>inb4 phone what Neanderthal uses a devoted mp3 player these days next you'll tell me you own a discman
Jackson Butler
Turns out the internal storage of my Clip+ died and I can't start it up anymore, resetting and holding down the volume when plugging it in boots rockbox but then it goes into kernel panic. What's a good replacement recommendation?
Owen Sullivan
Should i revive my 4th gen iPod (broken hold button ribbon) or start looking for 5th gens to kit out? It refuses to play nice with a microsd mod but I have a new battery in it.
Elijah Smith
fiio v3
Andrew Bennett
whats wrong with having a dedicated player?
Aaron Wilson
>discman Nah, i rock the blue CrossTrainer.
Henry Jackson
Grayscale or photo?
Sebastian Cooper
Greyscale 20gb.
Samuel Kelly
what's right with having a dedicated player? your phone literally has all the functions of an mp3 player. this isn't like an ereader where you can point to stuff like ink displays or whatever, your phone literally has the same software. it's the same device, but it does more and faster. there is no reason for an individual to own both.
Jaxon Long
Not hip enough
Cameron Campbell
Get a photo one instead and use the one you have for parts
Nicholas Scott
Is there any noticeable difference besides the screen? I only use rockbox on it.
Isaac Ramirez
Do $3000 A&Ks and Walkmans actually have better sound than a $50 Sansa Clip or standard smartphone?
Nicholas Ross
What phone has the best audio to use as a pmp? I don't want to have two electronic devices in my pocket.
Jonathan Jackson
It's more compatible with the SD card mods (No 60gb storage limit bullshit)
Charles Evans
Mine worked but only if it was formatted on a mac, making rockbox not. I'll look into it I guess.
Jackson Brooks
you're right a phone has the same functions as an mp3 player. but i like to carry a big library around, i can't really do that on my phone(non expandable storage). and i don't always have reliable coverage to stream music. i can fine tune the volume too my like on my phone. it's either too loud or not loud enough, i can get it just right on my mp3 player. also it saves battery life on my phone
Brody Gray
so im thinking of buying the cowon plenue d, this the best pmp out that aint too expensive?
Landon Davis
I have one of these (120gb) that I lost the chord for, so I can't charge it. I don't even know if I'll be able to put music on it honestly
Lincoln Perez
Rockboxed xduoo x3 battery life is so shit it makes me sad
Benjamin Price
>chord Heh
Hunter Sanders
Proprietary USB cable.. whatever you wanna call it. Fuck off
Colton Long
You Can Probably Buy A Replacement On Amazon.
Jonathan Campbell
What player is this?
Brayden Baker
fuck
Jacob Sanders
off
Elijah Clark
>non expandable storage found your problem, currently have ~200GB on my phone
John Collins
Retard you spelled it chord, as in a musical chord, not a cord. Fucking dumbass
Leo Gonzalez
Calm down, user. It was a joke. I assumed you typed chord on purpose. Puns are great. >chord (kôrd, kōrd) >n. Music A combination of three or more pitches sounded simultaneously. >n. Harmony, as of color. >v. To be in accord; agree.
Matthew Robinson
What's a decent cheap pmp that has a small profile and takes a micro sd
Angel Gutierrez
Buy a sony a35/45 A25 if you don't want touch.
Brayden Green
Most phones don't let you fine tune the volume to a comfortable or enjoyable level. The music is always too quite or too loud on mine, so I just gave up using it as a portable player.
Brayden Davis
So does anyone have a Pioneer XDP-30R? If so, how is it?
David Brown
shanling m2s even if i did have expandable storage. i would still have mp3 player.
Blake Flores
well it's half the battery life (plenue has 100 hours), but from vids the display looks way more responsive. im guessing audio quality doesnt differ much on these price ranges?
Liam Diaz
>Pioneer makes DAPs Holy shit, any with physical controls?
>It seemed to me that depending on the music there is an artificial processing done by the player so that the sound does not get aggressive, for example when we have extreme highs that sometimes turn out to be strident, a little aggressive, the A35 seems to cut that part. ill stick with the plenue d thank you
Jack Foster
I have the same problem with mine
Brayden Phillips
>your phone literally has all the functions of an mp3 player The vast majority of phones cheap out on the DAC since the average consumer doesn't really give half a shit about audio quality and is only going to use cheap 5$ earbuds anyways. Having a dedicated MP3 player is basically required if you care about audio quality. It also has the added benefit of not burning through your cellphones battery like crazy, having dedicated buttons instead of having to fumble around with a touchscreen inside your pocket or even requiring you to pull the damn thing out. Sometimes you also just don't want to carry your entire fucking cellphone in your pockets when you could just have a tiny sleek MP3 player that's a tenth of the size in there.
Anthony Clark
I have an old android phone. HTC one v ... is it possible to just turn it into a music player for mp3 and flac. like wipe the android OS and put something else?
Ryan Reed
No Just shut off wireless/mobile and use a player app.
Hunter Nguyen
(you)
Jace King
What is the best sansa clip? I know the clip+ is considered the best but it's not in production anymore, and i don't want to buy a second handed one..
Gabriel Wilson
don't bother
Cooper Morris
Go with something like a Shanling M1 instead. The Sansa Clip+ was mostly good because of how fucking cheap it was. Now that it's out of production and the price jumped up it's really not worth it anymore.
Anthony Parker
is the m1 the best shanling player? which one will i get the most listening time per charge out of?
Juan Lee
You are right, thanks.
Michael Lewis
looking at getting a nice dap/pmp, was thinking about getting the refresh of the onkyo x1-a that should be coming out spring this year, does anybody know anything about that, or have any comments on the player? the only info I could find about it was in japanese/chinese press releases and I could only figure out so much from google translate
Matthew Lewis
The M1 is just their cheapest and smallest players. If he was looking at the Sansa Clips I don't think he'd really be willing to throw down 300$
William Price
of course not user
Robert Gonzalez
Nah, it's like with cars. People just pay ten times the price to have a nice Ferrari sticker on their car instead of it saying Toyota
John Bell
I saw a guy with a portable cd player not too long ago. He was in his 50s though.
Eli Wood
Didn't know about 3.14, nice. Still rocking hdd here, no complaints
Thomas Parker
since my sansa clip's headphone socket died after five years every similarly priced copy of it has suffered the same fate within a few months.
is there anything I can get as hardy as it?
Lincoln Ward
Then you do not want a replacement, so why did you post? Silly boi. If cable is missing, get cable if want use device. If no want use device, why even mention it exists?
Thomas Bennett
Buy another one from the 2nd hand market. You know you want. You know you need.
I had my iPod Classic go through a wash cycle in my pants pocket late last autumn. Of course it was dead. For a while I toyed with the idea of getting a big ass SD card for my phone and starting to use that as my main music playing device, but even finding a music player app where everything just clicks turned out all but impossible, Starting to really miss that hunk of metal and HDD, I just said fuck it and started looking for a used Classic for a decent price. Feels good again now, man.
Anthony Johnson
Buy another one from the 2nd hand market. You know you want it. You know you need it.
I had my iPod Classic go through a wash cycle in my pants pocket late last autumn. Of course it was dead. For a while I toyed with the idea of getting a big ass SD card for my phone and starting to use that as my main music playing device, but even finding a music player app where everything just clicks turned out all but impossible, Starting to really miss that hunk of metal and HDD, I just said fuck it and started looking for a used Classic for a decent price. Feels good again now, man.
I was trying to decide between this and a FiiO X5 gen 3.
Hunter Morris
>I had my iPod Classic go through a wash cycle in my pants pocket late last autumn. Of course it was dead. Mine survived that lol. Later it broke anyway for another reason though.
How do you all transfer mp3s to big sd cards? I have a 256 gb card but it's cheap and slow as fuck (theoretically 10 mb/s write), and robocopy keeps crapping out at some point.
Colton Cook
The iPod Classic really was a god amongst PMPs.
The UI was so clean and straightforward, great storage, decent enough battery. Back in the day I watched so many movies and documentaries on it whilst in class too.
I think I'll buy another one one day.
Kevin Rodriguez
>>I had my iPod Classic go through a wash cycle in my pants pocket late last autumn. Of course it was dead. >Mine survived that lol. Later it broke anyway for another reason though. Lucky bastard! Right after coming out of the washer, I switched the hold on and disassembled the iPod (props to Apple for making the case a really bitch to get open!) to dry out any water inside, of which there was surprisingly little. I then let it dry out for a few weeks before trying to start it up. Battery seemed to receive power (judging by the indicator LED on the powerbank I used for charging that time), but it didn't give any other signs of life. Zero. Nada. I suspect at least the HDD got fucked up beyond repair.
Oh yeah, prices on the 2nd hand market definitely seemed to have settled down when I shopped around for mine. While some people were expectedly asking pretty obscene sums for MIB units, the prices of used 160GB iPod Classics seemed to float between 120 and 150€ on average, with occasional fluctuations beyond either side. I ended up getting mine on an Ebay auction and paying 100€ plus shipping, a pretty solid deal I think. A few scuffs on the outside, but the battery seems to be holding up well and the HDD is doing great, with zero reallocs or sectors pending.
Eli Adams
Alright, the parts thing isn't a bad idea depending on what's broken. I never got to do a CF upgrade on my old one, but I did do a battery swap.
Carter Clark
Unless you live in a fucked up city and you want to, say, jog, but don't want to get your phone stolen, but a cheap device.
Gavin Johnson
>Implying 200 GB is enough lol
Josiah Walker
My phone doesn't have physical controls
David Thompson
anybody comment on this?
Parker Stewart
I've had xDuoo x3 for almost 2 years now, should I upgrade?
Benjamin Price
Shanling m1
Xavier King
just use a phone nigga lmao
Sebastian James
it looks like a cute player but reviews say its UI shits itself sometimes and freezes. Is this true or is this pajeet disinfo
Carter Rogers
no
Josiah Bailey
which gen is that?
Carter Moore
why not
Mason Ortiz
zune hd was aesthetic as fuck
Jeremiah Foster
It's so good, shame it never caught on. I wish someone would come around and let it be able to sync with something other than the zune software. I know zmtp was broken a while ago but the damn device uses some strange uuid method to organize the artists instead of the damn mp3 tag. I would try to myself but I'm retarded when it comes to this kind of thing. The hd radio on it is a really nice touch.
Aaron Fisher
>tfw just upgraded from a chink player to a iPod classic (with iFlash Quad adapter and Rockbox) feelsgoodman
Hunter Murphy
Can I put a 256gb SD on my iPod photo? or does that one have a storage limit like the grayscale one?
Juan Adams
If you can replace a battery you can do the cf mod
Joshua Watson
My DAP works better as a DAP than my phone does.
Brody Johnson
I just picked up a 30GB ipod video 5th gen from craigslist for $70. Thinking of doing the sd card mod and rockbox
Alexander Bennett
I read that the ipod 5.5gen ssd mod draws more than the sd mod. Im thinking about buying this zif-sd board from aliexpress. aliexpress.com/item/chink-zif-sdadapter/32269933384.html Anyone knows if this would work? The dimensions should be correct.
Cameron Robinson
My SD card died. Can I get a good sounding dap for $300 with one or more SD card slot, good DAC, moderately powerful amp? Iems are ibasso it03, er4sr, gr07, headphones are msr7 and m50(non x)
Matthew Watson
What player is that
Brody Rivera
that's a nice cable shanling m1
Jayden Nelson
I heard iPods can be Rockbox'd. May I have some tips to get started on that? I have an old Nano 4G iirc.
Joshua Campbell
My phone doesn't have a DAC
Jaxon Gray
Yes it does.
Elijah Brooks
I don't think you can
Hudson Hernandez
>My phone doesn't have "dedicated" a DAC Fixed
Eli Hall
>No splashy bloated android that boot in 5mn. Instant play. >No digitally altered eq, instead you swap op amp. >No skipping tracks in 256gb library with corporate streaming tidal/Spotify that gives you adhd. You focus on what's on now that you get off from your local storage and carefully selected because you care. >Big clicky buttons and a volume pot you can use without ever looking at it. Just try to use a touchscreen in your pocket.
Mason Hill
i miss those.
Joshua Gomez
>Bring out phone to change songs >Gets stolen 10 seconds later Mp3 players are out of their radar so it safe to bring those out in my shithole
Jeremiah Phillips
>tfw I have my iPod Classic organized autisically to my liking
It still baffles me that smartphones actually made certain aspects of tech regress.