I’m looking for a BIFL (or at least last me for a while) music player that can play .wav files, has a lot of storage, is portable, and the parts are able to be replaced/upgraded. I’ve heard about using iPod classics but it seems like they’re unable to play .wav files. Any reccomendations?

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        I once had a debate with my audiophile uncle about how lossless compression results in identical inputs to the DAC, but he clung to the illusory superiority of WAV.

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          “okay. all i hear is words. i know the WAVs work and i like how they sound. can you please just make the WAVs work?”

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          20 hours ago

          I can see someone not caring about the wasted space in 2024, but does WAV have the ability to store ReplayGain tags?

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        Nah, I’m aware of flac, but I’ve had issues with compatibility that I don’t have with wav files.

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              21 hours ago

              Which players? FLAC has been around for over 20 years, so players that don’t recognize it probably need to be updated :D