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?

  • countrypunk@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    No headphone jack, and I want a dedicated device so I’m not as reliant on my phone.

    • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      A Qudelix solves the first part but not the second. Though you might be able to bluetooth it to your computer if you’re at home and your place is small.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          20 hours ago

          Well, absent some kind of sample rate conversion that I wouldn’t expect running into, the audio is identical from a digital standpoint, so up until the point where it sees analog conversion, no.

          Once you convert it to analog…I mean, it’s a DAC. Could be better or worse than a DAC built into your phone. Nothing intrinsically requires one be better than the other.

          I had a phone with a headphones jack, some time back, that had poor power regulation on its internal DAC. If I was charging my phone in my car while playing back music, noise leaked into the audio. I wound up getting a tiny Bluetooth receiver with its own DAC and plugging that into the car’s auxiliary audio input to avoid that. That phone didn’t have a great DAC.

          But I’m sure that you can also make a USB-C audio interface with a bad DAC. I have a USB-powered analog mixer that also lets a noticeable amount of noise in when plugged into my USB hub. I put it on a dedicated USB power supply to reduce that.

          As far as I know, nobody’s tried rounding up a bunch of USB-powered DACs, feeding them dirty power, and measuring the amount of noise that comes out of them, so… shrug Probably have to try one and see how that one compares.

    • Zier@fedia.io
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      1 day ago

      I have a OnePlus Nord w/a headphone jack, use Musicolet player, have SD card that supports up to 2TB if I remember correctly (I’m using a smaller card right now). Supports wav & flac (which is what I use). It’s a great player, and sometimes I use it as a phone. :)