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I'd pay some serious money to have an iPod like that again. Just music, no bullshit, long battery life, top notch UI/UX. We went backwards.

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I started moving towards my own offline music library after getting pissed off with the record labels removing stuff from streaming services for no reason. Sometimes artists do it too, a lot of Adam Kay's offerings from a decade or so ago have been thoroughly memory-holed presumably in a pre-emptive attempt to avoid controversy for their vulgar humour now he's much better known as a public figure.

I'm not sure I would do it from scratch today but I had a large offline library between ripping CDs and Napster (which was mostly replacing music I only had on old vinyl) pre-streaming so most of my collection is online. I've thought of filling in the gaps with purchases but, for the time being, I figure the missing "classics" I'd want, I should generally be able to buy if I want to at some point.

Damn. I need to make sure to back that up somewhere. To be fair, some are in very, very poor taste. But a lot of them are genuinely hilarious.

I'd definitely advise it, I never did and I've not been able to find copies anywhere including Discogs. There was one CD on eBay but I was outbid on it just yesterday.

The Apple Watch can stand alone as a wireless wrist-mounted music player. It almost reminds me of an iPod nano but that’s maybe still too many frills.

These exist. Mostly they have moved upmarket to serious audiophile nerds, but some are still below the price of an OG iPod.

https://www.whathifi.com/us/best-buys/portable/best-portable...

Can't speak to the UI/UX, but they do one thing, for people who care a lot about that one thing.

The modern walkman is like this. You can drag and drop mp3 files onto it. There's no wifi or Bluetooth. It's got a crazy long battery life.

If only I could add Spotify playlists to it

>There's no wifi or Bluetooth.

>If only I could add Spotify playlists to it

There is nowadays and i think you can. Otherwise correct.

this is the one I have and was thinking of: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders...

FiiO.

Thanks. My buddy just lost his beloved original Nano last week, and the FiiO M5 looks like it may be a worthy successor.

Looks like something I would like.

What do people use to manage podcasts and keep downloads synchronized, and remove podcasts I've listened to? Does it handle resume for in-progress podcasts?

If I read https://www.head-fi.org/threads/fiio-m5-compact-and-versatil... correctly, it treats a podcast recording as a song and doesn't have a way to resume.

Or am I misunderstanding?

This is the way. Decent hardware, support for FLAC, and the ability to run android apps if streaming is your thing.

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