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Looking for a decent portable music player (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm currently eyeing either an iPod classic 5th gen or a Surfans F20, but definitely want input and suggestions on getting a decent portable music player.

Basically, I'm trying to find something that has good audio quality, is not touch screen, reasonably durable, repairable, upgradable, etc. Big storage capacity is a plus. I don't wanna stream from it or have Bluetooth, mainly just wanna play audio files I load onto there and listen with my ear monitors. Totally fine altering hardware and software in order to get it to the point that meets what I'm looking for.

Any recommendations for this? Many thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So i had a similar thought as well. I haven't had the time to actually do it but there has been some success with people modding the 5th gen ipods with an SSD and larger battery. All portable players are just so ridiculously over priced. So this seems like it hypothetically could be a really good alternative.

I know this also isn't what you're looking for but there have been some older android phones purpose built with audio in mind and have high quality dacs built in. They would probably also make for a very good cheap portable player.