Can someone explain what the point of portable music players in 2019 is...

Can someone explain what the point of portable music players in 2019 is? I keep seeing threads about them and they seem to have a little Jow Forums cult around them, but why?

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I'd rather have its battery go to shit instead of my phone. Quality doesn't matter. I wish I had one.

If I had to guess its because they are bored and battling crippling retardation with any kind of interaction they can get.

Worthwhile headphones need to be plugged in to work.
Phones in 2019 no longer have headphone jacks.

If you can't tell the difference between a cult and necessity, I've got some Intel stock to sell you.

>Can someone explain what the point of portable music players in 2019 is?
same as it always was
to listen to music on the go

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My sansa clip+ gets 26 hours of battery life, and with some replacement batteries I got from aliexpress, should last for a damn long time before it kicks the bucket. Try finding a phone like that.
It also sounds way better than the cheap sound card in my phone.

communication is the best retardation retardant

I have a (pretty old now) music player that I like for two reasons. One, takes a AAA. Rechargeable is fine. If I forget about charging it and it dies, I put in a new battery. When one of my NiMH AAAs wears out, I don't have to find some specialist battery size or open the thing up to swap it, I just put in a new one. This has been a key factor in the thing lasting 12 years. Two: physical buttons. I can control it without looking at it, and one-handed, too. Especially handy if you want to use it while driving, but it's always nice to just reach into your pocket and hit "next" when you want a different song, instead of having to take it out and fuck with a touchscreen.

My brother has one. He also has a cheap, pay-as-you-go phone of questionable quality. He'd rather use the MP3 player. He bought it for $20 on ebay, for crying out loud.

sounds pretty based

i don't see the point either. my phone can stream online music and use wireless headphones, it's superior in every way to any retarded discrete device in 2019.

ignore portable media player advocates, they all have terminal autism and only do it to be "different and quirky"

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Same reason why I use a wrist watch for my time.
Don't always need my phone, water resistant for swimming/shower, don't charge it for years, smaller, dedicated buttons, no updates, simple but dependable.

I use my phone only for called or to tether.
My PC is for browsing.

LG still has headphone jacks and they're connected to a seriously beefy internal DAC

They're fun gadgets to play with. I don't have one but I played with a Sansa clip and I can see the appeal

my mp3 player is the size of my thumb
has great battery life and doesn't have a way for several trillion dollar companies to spy on me.

@72000799
>stream online music
>wireless headphones
>calls other retarded
I know i'm being rused so I wont give you an upvote

how is anything that I said wrong though?

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small, light, very long battery life

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Longcat is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong

dedicated devices > general purpose shit like smartphones

But my phone is with me anyways the majority of the time, so "small" is competing with "nothing extra" here.

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>f you can't tell the difference between a cult and necessity, I've got some Intel stock to sell you.
The only real necessities are food, clothing and shelter.
Literally everything else is an extra.

"Necessity"... kill yourself.

>Same reason why I use a wrist watch for my time.
Imagine how fucking stupid you would have to be to make a comparison like this and actually believe it.

Its to boring to be a deliberate troll. This guy is legitimately mentally disabled.

I bought mine to use while cycling, because my phone kept falling out of my pocket. Now I'm used to it and like the simplicity of it. I use it most often in my car with an aux cable.

I'd rather have several devices that can only do one thing well with good battery life than a single device that does a thousand things half-assed and with poor battery life.

Any phone can play music for days straight even with bluetooth enabled so the entire premise of your argument is predicated on the fact that you are literally retarded.

Much better audio quality.
Much better battery life.
Buttons.
Good interface, no android/ios bullshit.
The advantage of having a sepparate device.
Basically, phones are just bad for the task and even a cheap old mp3 player does its job better.

I use a cheap ass (< 20$) player to listen to music while working out. It just plays music and nothing else, so I can avoid bringing my phone and all its potential distractions with it.
However, I don't see the point of expensive, (((premium))) dedicated players either, at least for me. I rarely listen to music when outside and not working out, and on those rare occasions when I do, my phone is enough. I mostly listen to music at home anyway, where I have an actually good setup.

>@
holy shit kill yourself

Phone isn't small enough and it's still shitty touchscreen controls. Also, I don't use, nor do I want, bluetooth. And no, no modern phone outside of a flipphone or some behemoth with a gigantic battery can play music for days straight, you fucking liar.

I don't want my friends touching my phone with their masturbating hand?
I don't want niggers stealing my phone?
I own a flip phone, an mp4 player, and a tablet for apps
No (((contact fees)))

Don't bother replying to the idiot fishing for (You). This faggot spams the board daily and I still haven't seen a single non-retarded post from him. He's literally the dumbest monkey on Jow Forums.

My apgtek A02 gets 60 hours lf playback. Pretty sweet.

Because smartphones are cancer and shouldn't be used by anyone and any other solution is not as efficient.

i for one use it to play my music.

i have sansa clip, it's small (essential for running), has better sound, better battery

yeah, well that's your lifestyle mr bugman

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Well I don't disagree, I don't own a dedicated camera either, I prefer the one in my phone because it's the camera I always carry with me anyway.
But I don't deny that a dedicated, full size camera does the job better, and I think the same goes for small mp3 players.

>Any phone can play music for days straight
My phone doesn't last a day in airplane mode.

Does anyone have a non jpg artifact’d set of these?

Not me, only these jpg's

i got an ipod classic so i dont have to have music on my phone i try out custom roms and change them out frequently and its a hassle having to copy my music accross all the time, onotop of that the battery lasts up to a week where as my phone will die faster if its playing music in the day

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Have you done the flash storage mod and/or upgraded the battery capacity to get that run time? Also what ROMs are you using other than the obvious ones like RockBox and I guess iPodLinux if you're a hipster?

>says the tripfag

It's a cult thread like /tpg/, just a Jow Forums time killer hobby.

I used to keep my own (pirated) music library, and I was using a player. Then I started streaming music a few years ago and I don't want to go back. Listening to some fifty artists you know of over and over gets old fast, finding new ones is difficult, managing a 100 gb collection is retarded. I got around the battery life problem by getting a non garbage phone, which was coincidentally far cheaper than samshit flagships and the like.

I use an ipod shuffle while I jog. The reason being it's more convenient to carry and I don't have to worry about losing or dropping my phone while jogging.

by roms i mean on my phone, but yeah i have an iflash board with a 128gb sd card and running rockbox

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What I don't understand is why people get legit mad about this. So what some people like to use MP3 Players on the current year?

There are bands still releasing vinyl and fucking casettes, so what gives. Let people enjoy their shit for as long as they can. We're going to miss these days in 2030 when everything is on the cloud and there's no physical release of anything.

>superior in any way
Worse sound quality, extra battery to charge and if for some reason you have no internet, no music for you.

inb4 "th-those reasons don't count! I can't hear the difference anyway!"

nice, I picked up a 400GB card on prime day last week and added it to my iPod 5.5G with the meme Wolfson DAC running Rockbox, so similar setup to you. Pretty hard to beat 2bh.

This is like the cutest thing I've ever seen.

hai theyre peak comfy, have you got one of the bigger batteries or just using an original one?

my mental state is dependent on music playing and having it interrupted by notifications in my phone is a deal breaker.

>Can someone explain what the point of portable music players in 2019 is?
boomer nostalgia

>its a hassle having to copy my music accross all the time
We said only buy phones with SD slots but nobody listened...

My ipod classic 80gb from 11 years ago still works. Why throw away good tech? Plus my iShit doesn't have headphone jack.

not like my fucking phone could drive my headphones and even if it could my phone only as like 8 gbs of free storage.

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>but why
pretentious fa/g/g/its

What are the advantages of getting an iPod Classic 5.5 over some newer mp3 player?

Seems like it would be more prudent to get a phone where you can replace the battery relatively easy.

Unless you only use local storage then I would say mp3 players are a waste. I still have an iPod classic 160 gb that I leave hooked up to me car stereo via USB, works really well. But I use my smartphone for everything else. I hate carrying around shit so less is more to me.

No phones with modern specs offer that anymore, not even sub 200 phones. The oldest argueably relevant phones that have replaceable batteries are the LG V20, and maybe some old low-end Samsungs. (And they're really old now.)
No, whatever phone you're going to post about isn't good enough.

LG V20s have pretty nice dacs though.

LG V20 is

Since almost a decade ago you cannot get a smartphone which runs modern software and has physical buttons anymore.

V20 is goat

But that's simply false

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He said "runs" and "modern"

yes

CUTE BUN