Why do they still make MP3 players??

[RILEYISMYNAME]

Smartphones are perfectly good audio players, so why would you need an MP3 player? Well, there are some situations where a good MP3 player can actually make sense...

 

 

 

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[SeraphicWings]

while it is TECHNICALLY an mp3 player (because it can play mp3, duh), calling it an mp3 player make it sound like some cheap $25 player selling on some used hardware store

 

[Chris Pratt]

Old people...

[Acid Panda]

personally  i would like to know how the old ipods compare

[BobVonBob]

Posted this a little soon there Riley?

 

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Just now, BobVonBob said:

Posted this a little soon there Riley?

 

Original Title: Are MP3 players making a comeback YT 2 match 60 75

[mahyar]

well an mp3 player if well engineered can play any format with a very good sound quality and cheap price !

[RILEYISMYNAME]

13 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

Posted this a little soon there Riley?

 

I give it to you early, as a treat

[Vishera]

6 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

Old people...

The peak of MP3 popularity was in the middle of the 2000s,so even some current day teenagers were part of it.

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1 minute ago, RILEYISMYNAME said:

I give it to you early, as a treat

And the youtube comments are confused about the origins of my very early comment.

[Chris Pratt]

18 minutes ago, Vishera said:

The peak of MP3 popularity was in the middle of the 2000s,so even some current day teenagers were part of it.

It's called a joke.

[Elvara]

Except for sports well mostly swimming, it would be annoying to have that and my phone on me at the same time. Actually still have the last mp3 players I bought a Sony NWD-B103F that look like a huge usb key, I remember getting that one because it did FM radio... I'm impressed it still works last sond added was in 2008.

[sub68]

I have a mp3 player for a lot of my music. my daily driver is a modified Sony NW E3945.

I use it because it doesn't drain my phone and I don't want to have distractions on my phone 

[samcool55]

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[Neamow]

Is it just me or did the price, technology level and storage size of AVERAGE consumer MP3 players not progress at all in the past 15 years? I was checking my local store and the most popular middle-of-the-road was some Sony player with a tiny non-touch screen and hardware buttons, with just 4 GBs of storage, for 90 EUR???

 

I kept checking and it's pretty much impossible to get anything more than 16 GB of built-in storage or more than a 2-inch touch-screen, unless you go for super high-end players which cost hundreds, and some even thousands of EUR/USD. And even those are super bulky and not thin.

 

How are they able to economically compete with phones? I can get an entire phone for 200 EUR which can play all the music formats in acceptable quality, has a huge touch screen and a decent battery, 64 or 128 GB of memory, is thin, and on top of everything is a PHONE - I'd expect a similar device with all the phone features removed could not cost more than half of that. But apparently that doesn't exist.

 

What's the point of buying an MP3 player when I can get a phone with built-in storage that's many times larger than a similarly priced player, when I'm getting a phone with all its features as extra? How does that economically make sense?

[DJRWolf]

A few times I would be playing music with my phones built-in music player when all of a sudden the music would stop and Amazon Music would opening it's self up and start playing. I am not talking I bumped something or anything because the phone would just be sitting there in my car's center console and this would happen plus I could not uninstall Amazon Music as it was "baked into" the phone.

 

Bought a Samsung Clip Jam MP3 player to handle car music after that happened a few times.

[The Torrent]

This video was PAINFUL.

 

It hurt because they had NO CLUE what they where talking about.

 

the m11 has ‘versatility’? Wtf? Not even mention the different dac’s inside them? Not even try them all with high quality headphones? 
 

you think people spend 2 grand on a&k dacs because they have more settings?!

[The Torrent]

4 hours ago, Neamow said:

Is it just me or did the price, technology level and storage size of AVERAGE consumer MP3 players not progress at all in the past 15 years? I was checking my local store and the most popular middle-of-the-road was some Sony player with a tiny non-touch screen and hardware buttons, with just 4 GBs of storage, for 90 EUR???

 

I kept checking and it's pretty much impossible to get anything more than 16 GB of built-in storage or more than a 2-inch touch-screen, unless you go for super high-end players which cost hundreds, and some even thousands of EUR/USD. And even those are super bulky and not thin.

 

How are they able to economically compete with phones? I can get an entire phone for 200 EUR which can play all the music formats in acceptable quality, has a huge touch screen and a decent battery, 64 or 128 GB of memory, is thin, and on top of everything is a PHONE - I'd expect a similar device with all the phone features removed could not cost more than half of that. But apparently that doesn't exist.

 

What's the point of buying an MP3 player when I can get a phone with built-in storage that's many times larger than a similarly priced player, when I'm getting a phone with all its features as extra? How does that economically make sense?

It’s about audiophile dac’s and amps. It’s about the technology for signal processing they use inside, something they just dodged in the video.

[Luscious]

I remember when Sony showed off their first Hi-Res Audio walkman at CES many years ago. For a high-end $$$$ piece of tech you would think they did their homework, except the actual engineer straight up walked away without answering when I asked him why they only put a 5-band EQ on a FLAGSHIP product.

 

It's perfectly fine to piss off a product engineer, but it is a cardinal sin when you insult an audiophile. Sony learned a lesson that day.

 

For someone who's not tech savvy a basic MP3 player still makes sense, or for those instances where you don't want to take an expensive smartphone.

[Andreas Lilja]

Battery life can last multiple days compared to a smartphone.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

I'd argue that you might be better off with a used iPod. But that's if you need an mp3 player at all. They're a very specialised product but they do have their place

[Derkoli]

Meanwhile, some audiophiles have setups like this instead of a basic MP3 player:

 

 

I honestly think MP3 players/DAP's still exist for battery life reasons, and some better sound quality for low efficiency headphones.

 

Some phone's have god awful outputs, and just can't drive some low efficiency headphones.

[PlayStation 2]

Realizing that there's people on this forum who aren't old enough to remember when the original iPods were the shit makes me realize that I'm old lmfao

[VLONE]

Who edited this video? Never seen an editing style like this on this channel before, and while I don't dislike it, I think the test color bar transition screens were a bit annoying 

[Sprawlie]

4 hours ago, Communist_Empire said:

Stupid question but could you add all your downloaded Spotify songs on your PC to your MP3 player. Or not?

Don't know, but many of these stand-alone players, especially if they're offline likely don't support Spotify playlists, or files if not in mp3.