i realized i’m a big local music enjoyer, all the music i listen to is stored in files and i even have vlc on my phone to listen to it. (all of them are legally downloaded of course!!) sadly yesterday i moved all those files to my chromebook and it really slowed it down, (the files total 1gigabyte, woa). so why not get an mp3 player?? that can save storage on my phone and chromebook.
by the way i did try youtube music one time but i realized, what if youtube music disappeared?? all the music would be gone! so yea that’s why i prefer local files
I would put the price of an mp3 player as additional budget for a phone, like more storage (or pop in an SD card, if it has a slot). having another thing to log around (and keep charged, and so on) would be annoying to me. not being able to take calls with the same headphones I listen to music would be as well (as rare as that is these days). there are great apps for playing local music files, with high quality output if the source material permits it.
It’s halarious because back when they started integrating cameras Into phones, the literal opposite was said. Don’t put all your devices into one, if one goes the whole thing is useless. Better to have your phone die and still be able to take pictures.
Funny how things have totally flipped.
I still much prefer a separate audio device for music that can play lossless audio formats, along with a mobile amp. No reason to half ass your music playback with a phone.
Sure! You can get an iPod classic that’s had the storage upgraded, and I’ve heard it’s a really great option for people who don’t want to use their phone or online services for music.
yea thank you!! i don’t dislike music streaming, i’m just worried because since you don’t own the files, they can stop existing at any time
Where can you buy an iPod classic nowadays? I agree though if you can find a classic it is the best purely music player that has ever been made. The battery life was awesome in those things.
I still have my iPod Classic from I think 2007 - I even found a Bluetooth gadget that plugs into the headphone jack so I can listen on my hearing aids. The battery life is indeed awesome. I also use it in my car, which has a usb slot. I dread the day it dies, they stopped making them years ago.
You could go all out fancypants and set up your own streaming service. The advantage is that you can set it all up on an old pc or even a raspberry pi with an external hdd. You can than stream all your music to your phone and chromebook via some app like plex or jellyfin. It’s super convenient. The disadvantage is that it’s a bit technical to set up. It takes some research and some tweaking. But there’s no hurry, so you could look it up some time, see if it’s something your willing to reasearch and if it is, you can go further from there. It eventually took me a full weekend to set up my whole streaming suite (not just music), but I spent dozens of evenings researching it before. Only setting up a plex server should take too long.
I did this with Plex. And it’s really not that difficult. I found setting up the server pretty quick. The biggest disadvantages I found are/were:
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The Plex music cataloguer can be a pain to with with because it doesn’t find matches to your media more often than you’d think. So that required quite a lot of time of manual intervention.
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I sometimes run into excessive buffering, even though my media server (which is just a little i5 PC) is just in the next room. I think that’s more an issue with Wi-Fi in my house. But I’ve found myself falling back to using my mp3s on my phone out of impatience.
Overall I’ve been happy with this setup though.
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Absofruitly. Sounds like the perfect thing for your use case. Only downside is it’s another thing to carry around, but if that’s not an issue I vote yay.
I purchased a Walkman some years ago. It handles most file types, but most importantly, it handles lossless formats like flac, which the format I rip my CDs to.
You can choose to transfer files directly to it, or use Sony’s Music Center, which works like iTunes (Apple Music?).
If you wanna pair quality with a decent price, this might be something to consider. It has a built-in DAC, not that I’ve used it a whole bunch, it’s still pretty cool that it has this ability.
I too got burned on music streaming services. When Spotify replaced my Hotel California with a cover song bad enough to make my ears bleed. Local files forever.
Store your mp3s on a cloud storage, and use androids CloudPlayer to stream them anywhere. I got 24 gb of mp3s on onedrive. And it takes up no space on my laptop because I’ve set it to download on demand. And the files are always downloaded to my main computer so that my backup picks them up.
