Aha! TIL! That’s very good to know, actually. Sadly they still don’t ship to sweden, it is a really cute player
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FWIW, I’ve heard some pretty good things about the echo mini. I’m still waiting for mine (ordered it from a UK retailer) but I’ll report back when it arrives.
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yeah i looked around a bit and people seem to really like it especially for the price… if i do order it itll be at the end of the month or next month but i will also report back
I’ve got these guys ready to go for some modding!
Will want USB-C and Bluetooth added. I don’t think I could ever go back to wired earbuds.
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I still love my wired headphones. No battery to worry about, and people can see me wearing them no matter how long my hair gets. And I don’t like sticking things in my ears.
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I would go through a pair every couple weeks, the cords are a pain at the gym, always getting caught in the weights. The cables would rip non stop as they get caught 
Which is one reason why I want to clean out my garage and get my own barbell, weights, squat rack, and bench. That way I can just set up a little stereo and put on some Rammstein – and not have to worry about photobombing twenty-somethings recording their workouts for Pentagram or DikDik.
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Turns out the drive is dead so looking for parts to for replacing/modding now! Good thing with these old ipod classics is that no soldering is needed! I actually never moved on from wired headphones apart from when running or in the gym.
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I bet you could get a SSD in there. Might give better performance and save battery.
Yep! Looking at iflash.xyz or some ssd adapters on aliexpress. Just need to figure out the correct parts. And also to replace the battery when I’m at it! Once that’s done I’m really keen on some old docking station that nobody wants any more…
This is where I got to, then paused.
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huh, now I wonder if my old iPod could be resurrected. Unfortunately iFixit doesn’t ship the iPod parts to Canada, even if it does have them listed, which means… a new rabbit hole LOL
lucky for me it’s an iPod 5, which the entrance to the rabbit hole says is the most common and easiest to find parts for.
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i feel like id lose wireless headphones so easily too
I’ve been using exactly this player for a few months now! It’s been pretty good, though the UI can be slightly slow to navigate if you have too many files on it. I can’t think of anything specific to mention atm but if there’s anything you wanna know about it let me know as I’ve been very actively using it for a bit now. I was originally gonna mod my dad’s old ipod video, but it’s just so expensive to get the hardware I want compared to a new thing like this that’s also much easier to add music to as just files instead of needing iTunes or something.
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pleased to report i received my fiio echo mini on wednesday 
i brought it to the office today to try it out during the day, i only put a couple of albums on it because i dont have a sd card yet but still
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my mini review of the fiio echo mini:
i put like… 20 different albums i think? and around 100 audiobooks on it (on an sd card lol. the audiobooks alone are over 10GB since theres 100 of them so it wouldnt fit on the 8GB internal storage). tho i need to edit my audiobooks’ metadata to make their covers smaller cause they dont display on the mp3 player lol
ive listened to both music and audiobooks and both were fine and enjoyable. ive seen people complain about the controls being complicated but i didnt even need to look at the manual to understand them. i like how clicky the buttons are… so satifsying
i cant really judge sound quality because my headphones cost me less than 5€ at action but all the reviews ive seen on that front were pretty positive. so its probably good
my only issue with it so far is that i cant play everything from a genre or everything from an artist its always album per album, folder per folder or all songs at once. (unless i just havent found how to make it do that?) but i dont really wanna remove all the albums from their folders itd make it a lot harder to navigate on the computer. tho ive seen they have a forum where you can ask for features so maybe ill go on there and ask for it. (they’re currently testing a setting to invert the volume buttons because a couple of people kept asking so it works) getting regular software updates like that is definitely a big plus for me cause any issues that might appear will probably get fixed
anyway i really like it. waiting a month for the gold color to restock was worth it
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learned about this miku music player recently and it looks really cool but its like wayyy overkill to play music on. like why does it have a camera? atp thats just a phone and it kind of defeats the idea of a separate music player
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Hi! I do a lot of REALLY LONG roadtrips each year, and I was looking for one that’s less than $100 and will connect and play via USB to a modernish car (Toyota, if that matters).
I really like the price point and look/features of the Innioasis Y1 but it doesn’t play on cars via USB where a lot of older DAP do. Any luck on that front?
Old faithful, purchased 25 years ago. Still works! I don’t use it all that often, but it’s nice to throw on a CD every once in a while.
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I tried using iPods in recent years but stock iPod software sucked (when trying to use with modern computers, or basically impossible without a lot of hoops on linux), and rockbox felt waaayyy too unstable, felt like every other skin I tried was laggy, crashed, unpolished, etc.
I experimented using a unihertz jelly star as my daily driver phone for a year (how is the iPhone 13 mini still the smallest, most usable/updated flagship phone on the market?! my hands hurt on these huge phones ;_;), but eventually put it on the shelf… until I realized it’d probably make a banging mp3 player.
can confirm this! it runs android so your choice of music player app is plentiful and putting files on it is as easy as drag and drop, including linux. glad to have finally ditched streaming platforms since i only listen to the same 20 albums anyways until I find a new obsession to repeatedly play. glad to finally be growing my CD collection too :3
and as many others have pointed out, having a dedicated music player is nice so that I can leave my phone in my bedroom, take my music into the living room and not be distracted by having my phone and all its distractions always nearby. and the small screen of the jelly star makes it just inconvenient enough to not be tempted to scrooolllll again but I can also do things like listen to radio stations that stream online around the world, I have a few favorite stations in lands far from mine.
and for all yall in this thread still rocking iPods… I salute you. I love the little nuggets
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