Recommend me a Mobile Choons Gizmo!

[smangus]

Hi All

If you could benefit me with your digital wisdom I'd be most grateful, I'm considering buying a portable mp3 (+whateverelseformatwise) player for my daily commute etc. I have a phone which is ok but the memory is ltd (32Gb) and built in so not expandable . So after consideration have decided to purchase something dedicated for portable use. All music will be ripped from my CD collection to PC if that makes any difference and I haven't got much preference for any format FLAC,MP3 etc so am not fussed about this.

Can you recommend a player for me? Anything considered , budget about- £150-200 maybe a bit more at a stretch for the right unit.

Any advice and comments gratefully received!

Cheers Andy

edited to add , would prefer something not Appley, thanks.

[Sherwood]

How important is sound quality? Very good or excellent SQ?

[smangus]

Very good should do it , although it's a subjective thing. if it costs slightly more for excellent then I'd consider it. I'm not really au fait with the differences between formats so much , maybe I should do some research! lol

[LC1979]

2nd hand iPod 5.5 gen with new battery, ssd and Rockbox installed. Not easy to beat with that budget.

[struth]

2nd hand iPod 5.5 gen with new battery, ssd and Rockbox installed. Not easy to beat with that budget.

Interesting... i see that is a change of operating system. Whats it like in comparison to ios? Does it still do chromecast , spotify etc

[WAD62]

Hi All

If you could benefit me with your digital wisdom I'd be most grateful, I'm considering buying a portable mp3 (+whateverelseformatwise) player for my daily commute etc. I have a phone which is ok but the memory is ltd (32Gb) and built in so not expandable . So after consideration have decided to purchase something dedicated for portable use. All music will be ripped from my CD collection to PC if that makes any difference and I haven't got much preference for any format FLAC,MP3 etc so am not fussed about this.

Can you recommend a player for me? Anything considered , budget about- £150-200 maybe a bit more at a stretch for the right unit.

Any advice and comments gratefully received!

Cheers Andy

edited to add , would prefer something not Appley, thanks.

Time for a new 'not appley' phone then, with an expandable SD card slot (up to 200GB), and Poweramp for FLAC, a Samsung S5 would fit the bill...oh and it makes calls too

P.S. If you're going to the trouble of ripping your CDs do it to FLAC, with DBpoweramp, it's something you only want to do once...

[smangus]

2nd hand iPod 5.5 gen with new battery, ssd and Rockbox installed. Not easy to beat with that budget.

Thank will I need ichoons to use it though?

[smangus]

Time for a new 'not appley' phone then, with an expandable SD card slot (up to 200GB), and Poweramp for FLAC, a Samsung S5 would fit the bill...oh and it makes calls too

P.S. If you're going to the trouble of ripping your CDs do it to FLAC, with DBpoweramp, it's something you only want to do once...

yeah but other than the memory my phone is fine fancy a separate gadget , Thanks for the FLAC heads up, is DB Poweramp a programme?

[WAD62]

yeah but other than the memory my phone is fine fancy a separate gadget , Thanks for the FLAC heads up, is DB Poweramp a programme?

I think the Fiio portables are pretty well respected...

http://www.ea-audio.co.uk/fiio_music_players.html

...yes DBpoweramp is ripping, tagging, etc. software...

https://www.dbpoweramp.com/

...not free, but well worth it IMHO

Check sum digit accurate rip DB comparisons, automatic tagging from 5 amalgamated sources, art work, batch conversion etc.

It also worth investing in a good quality external cd/dvd drive, the bigger the better, makes the task much quicker and more accurate

[LC1979]

No, hence the Rockbox firmware alternative. More flexible in terms of file format, but can't recall off the top of my head if it does flac as haven't used it in a few years, would have to check! Apple music devices used to be pretty good in terms of sound quality, and that was one of the best. Only limitations were storage capacity and battery life, both easily remedied!