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> OPUS with the voip profile and fit tons of content to listen to offline on whatever a humble storage your portable device has left.

I'm glad you're saving that old 64MB player from landfill but the size of podcasts isn't a problem from even budget phone perspective.

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Not really true, I've got 51.7GB/128GB of just podcasts on my phone.

Sadly my old "64 MB" (not really, it's 128 MB IIRC) player doesn't support OPUS. It's there where I have to fallback to AAC or MP3. But it luckily supports FLAC and Vorbis (which weren't listed in the specs) so I have some FLACs and OGGs on it as well. It also lacks speed adjustment so I had to pree-upspeed books with Audacity during the days when first Android devices were a luxury thing. If only it had support for OPUS, pitch-preserving speed adjustment and position persistance it could indeed make a great audiobook/podcast listening device.

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