Mighty Audio: The MP3 player for Spotify users

[suicidalfranco]

source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/51215664/mighty-streaming-music-without-your-phone

 

Mighty Audio is an MP3 player targeted at all those who decided to make music streaming their sole source of music entertainment, to more precise, targeted to those who live and breath Spotify. This new MP3 looks really familiar, something that has been available for more than a decade, ring a bell?

Jokes aside, the Mighty takes what made great the Shuffle and takes it out of the 2000s; how can you rebuild this wheel you might ask, well simple: no iTunes (or computers in general) needed for music syncing!

The mighty relies on blutooth connectivity and your smartphone to sync with your Spotify library, which may be something really painfully slow to do, but is a step in the right dirrection if you ask me, maybe next, if this kickstart company survives, they could implement wifi syncing (even having the Mighty as wireless hotspot like the wireless hard drives) to make their solution better than what one has to go through with iTunes (i know that the Shuffle isn't the MP3 player of that kind, but frankly, iTunes way is better then the drag and drop method of non Apple MP3 players, unless you have Rhythmbox or Banshee, but that's just me).

To use this device a Premium Spotify account will be required (duh!), and you'll have to download the Mighty app for iOS or Android, have those two and you'll be able to enjoy your music outside without relying on your phone.

 

So far their kickstarter campaign sits at 160k$ and needs to reach 250k$ to meet their goal with 25 days remaining. Real question is: will we see this with Luke on kickfarted?

 

Want to know more about it? technobuffalo has had the chance to have an hands-on with the device: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/02/27/might-audio-hands-on-this-crazy-spotify-powered-music-player-really-works/

 

 

[CommandMan7]

Every kickstarter mp3 player I can think of turned out bad, I think this will be no different. If this device relies on your smartphone, then why not just play songs from your smartphone?

[suicidalfranco]

13 minutes ago, CommandMan7 said:

Every kickstarter mp3 player I can think of turned out bad, I think this will be no different. If this device relies on your smartphone, then why not just play songs from your smartphone?

it relies on your smartphone only to get the tracks, done that you can leave your smartphone at home/in the car or whatever

[ivan134]

31 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

it relies on your smartphone only to get the tracks, done that you can leave your smartphone at home/in the car or whatever

Why would anyone leave their phone at home or in their car? Pointless product is pointless.

[Centurius]

It's the kind of product that sounds really nice at first but when you really think about it actually is kind of crap.

[atrash]

 

Less than $79. Plays all the songs you want.

[QueenDemetria]

Here's a million dollar idea: Just use a Bluetooth headset adapter since it uses the same technology, and isn't locked down to any app or ecosystem. Even better is that you can get them cheaper than $80, sigh...

 

At least they added 4GB of storage, hopefully they implement it right. This device really doesn't any sense to me, and this is coming from somebody that uses a iPod Nano 6th gen(AKA my workout buddy :3).

[AlTech]

27 minutes ago, QueenDemetria said:

Here's a million dollar idea: Just use a Bluetooth headset adapter since it uses the same technology, and isn't locked down to any app or ecosystem. Even better is that you can get them cheaper than $80, sigh...

 

At least they added 4GB of storage, hopefully they implement it right. This device really doesn't any sense to me, and this is coming from somebody that uses a iPod Nano 6th gen(AKA my workout buddy :3).

RIP. This doesn't have enough storage for music ......................

 

My music library is around 11Gb so that's problematic + the OS we don't see + drivers we don't see. I would have liked 32Gb storage.

[QueenDemetria]

20 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

RIP. This doesn't have enough storage for music .....................

It gets even better when you do the math behind their claims. They claim it can store up to 48 hours of music, which 48 hours of 320kbps audio is just shy of 7GB(rough math, actual size might vary), so that means that you either have to compromise on audio quality to get 48 hours(128kbps comes out to 2.7GB roughly, so you could fit all 48 hours) or deal with less than 12 hours of music. Then again, its not like it matters anyways since the battery is only estimated to last for 5 hours on a charge(1/3 of the iPod nano they are comparing it to). If anything, the abysmal battery life is more of an issue than the storage.

[AlTech]

28 minutes ago, QueenDemetria said:

It gets even better when you do the math behind their claims. They claim it can store up to 48 hours of music, which 48 hours of 320kbps audio is just shy of 7GB(rough math, actual size might vary), so that means that you either have to compromise on audio quality to get 48 hours(128kbps comes out to 2.7GB roughly, so you could fit all 48 hours) or deal with less than 12 hours of music. Then again, its not like it matters anyways since the battery is only estimated to last for 5 hours on a charge(1/3 of the iPod nano they are comparing it to). If anything, the abysmal battery life is more of an issue than the storage.

Why can't somebody just make a good music device?

 

Store 64GB of music. Connect to streaming services and have an app for all smartphones and not be a screwup.

[QueenDemetria]

3 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Why can't somebody just make a good music device.

 

Store 64GB of music. Connect to streaming services and have an apple for all smartphones and not be a screwup.

People have great ideas, but execute poorly. Since this thing runs Android and has plenty of storage(and lets face it, it wouldn't cost them much more to make it 8/16GB), they could easily make it run Spotify/Soundcloud/GPMusic/Groove/Pandora/etc. and integrate all of these apps nicely, but they are fixed on the idea of making it Spotify only(and from what I'm reading, you cant copy MP3's to it, so without Spotify this device is worthless, although I imagine custom ROMs could make this a pretty cool device). 

 

This product is very "first gen", far from something I would recommend backing.

 

Edit: And since I know how Android works with HID devices and its accessibility options, the work is all done for them, there is no excuse for them to leave out other streaming(or even straight MP3's). Sigh...

[rattacko123]

...so its pretty much an ipod shuffle...

[EndlessOyster]

whats the point if i need my smart phone with me anyway, just plug my headphones into my smart phone and the device becomes pointless.

[PlayStation 2]

Does this not defeat the purpose of what an MP3 player is used for?

It's far more practical to get a used 5th gen iPod touch and throw Spotify and some music on there.