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Wish Apple reintroduced the iPod (classic, shuffle). Can’t listen music on my phone while running or playing sports (alone), it’s just too clumsy.

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Me too. I’d love an iPod with classic interface, but it pulls WiFi and Apple Music from my iCloud account and stores my library offline. Nice big output for high end headphones and high end DAC and they’d have a banger.

There's a plethora of devices ranging from $25 to thousands for playing exclusively music. The iPod was a nice piece of hardware, but for sports, I would just buy a cheap one and put my playlist on it.

I got this little iPod nano-shaped Chinese Mp3 player[1]. It plays music and uses .m3u playlist files that are easy enough to edit on your PC. You can even set bookmarks in MP3 files so if you have a large audiobook file, you can save your place in it. It has some idiosyncrasies (such as not playing songs in order by default; the alphabetization is weird) but the killer features are: it's small, and I have literally never once run out the battery. I do charge it occasionally, but even after several hours of hiking, the battery indicator is at 3/3 bars.

It takes a micro SD card so you can load music however you want and then just plug the SD card in

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZVDMEL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

I feel like Apple Watch + AirPods is the spiritual successor. That's my running and gym setup, anyway.

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