|
Is there any MP3 player which has a good battery life, a AA main battery, and a SDHC (or larger) capacity expandable slot?
|
#
¿
Mar 30, 2017 13:32
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 8, 2024 20:44 |
|
|
dpush posted:Back in 2006 or so I got a creative zen with 32 gigs of storage with up to 64 gig SD card expansion, a 30 hour battery, fully customizable menus, a programmable button that I could set to shuffle all, and it was tiny and sounded amazing. After the battery life wore down to 4 hours per charge from being used mostly in a -20 environment for years, I broke down and got a Phillips GoGear Ariaz. It was a downgrade at 16 gigs with a 20 hour battery, a bloated ui, and would need to be hard reset often enough to be annoying. The power button shorted out years ago and screen has finally given out, I'm back in the market and everything is worse than the go gear. The FiiO stuff looks nice but costs to much for something that would get left in a hot car. I'd kill for a Zen X-fi. Unfortunately nobody accepts murder and wants like 400 to 700 bucks for a used one that has a decade old battery in it. This is me but with my iRiver H320. I bought it because it could record and play OGG, eventually installed Rockbox, then gradually got sucked into replacing the battery, then the HDD, then replaced the HDD again with a CompactFlash adapter. My unit finally got past the point where the screws were willing to grip anymore and I bought a Zen Vision M instead... but a year ago I found a good deal on a H320 on eBay and replaced it. I have a mSATA adapter which should hopefully work. My phone is a pale imitation of the capabilities my MP3 player had in loving 2005. And I really wish I would have gotten one of those iRiver iFP series that runs for 25+ hours on a single AA 
|
|
#
¿
Nov 4, 2017 05:47
|
|
|
Hadlock posted:I'm looking for something that can do 24-40 hrs playback time between charges and live on a boat near saltwater basically it's whole life. Going offshore periodically for 8-16 hours at a time, and want a separate device with a display so guests can pick and choose their own songs/playlist. I use my phone for tidal info, nav charts etc etc and don't need it getting dropped by guests down below Why don't you build a full-passive mITX PC or NUC with IPwhatever weather-sealing to drive the speakers, and then have an iPad connect over wifi/bluetooth to allow selecting the tunes? Sub Rosa posted:Moto E4. Pretty easy to remove the ads from the "with special offers" one from Amazon. I saw that just today and I was wondering if the bootloader was unlocked. Chairchucker posted:I can't specifically speak for the Fiio X5 3rd gen, which is the one you'd probably be looking at for Bluetooth connectivity, but I'm really liking my 2nd gen, with the aforementioned caveats that there's a lot of confusing stuff I had to Google. Oh also if it gets too hot it just stops, but it's probably easy enough stopping it from getting to those kind of temperatures. I have both an X5ii and a refurb X5 (which I picked up when they were on clearance from Adorama for like $150). They have good DACs and really solid headphone amps as these things go, but the UI is terrible and you will hate yourself for any use-case more complex than "play this album that is in its own unique folder". There's probably a way to do it but I'm too lazy to google it down. Rockbox was more intuitive even 10 years ago. The ipod-style jogwheel is great though and I would love to see it with native Rockbox support. Also, the potential capacity is absurd, you can just throw a pair of 128GB microSD cards in no problem, so it's actually a pretty good value overall. And yes they definitely get hot. And the screen on the first-gen X5 is not flush with the rest of the unit, and it scratches more easily than the later units. Fiio is very clearly still figuring out their poo poo, but it's a solid effort for a basic audiophile MP3 player. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Nov 4, 2017 |
|
#
¿
Nov 4, 2017 05:49
|
|
|
jim close posted:Also has anyone had experience replacing the hard drive in an iPod classic? I thought I read someone did it earlier in the thread but it's been a while. I've been debating on this for a while and I figured when I open it up to change the battery that I would either go with a mSata or with the SD adapter. I've watched videos of tear downs, just not the best with taking apart electronics. I've done it on my iRiver and it's supposed to be pretty similar overall. What's your question here, hardware selection or replacement process or what? I would definitely go with the mSATA since it's guaranteed to speak an IDE-like protocol. I think that or UDMA is the distinction between why some CF cards worked and some did not - which I personally experienced. My high-end camera CF card (Sandisk Extreme IV 4 GB) worked and my low-end Transcend CF card (32 GB?) did not. This was with Rockbox, and ymmv if the iPod Classic does something weird. There might be a Rockbox build for iPods of most generations if you want to try it. The build for the iRiver H320 was pretty good even years ago but ymmv. I haven't kept pace with it for the last few years. I had persistent problems with the adapter/card working lose with movement. iRiver had a grippy trivet-like silicone pad to cushion the drive, in hindsight I would have glued the adapter to the silicone pad or added an additional slice of silicone to provide some pressure. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Nov 4, 2017 |
|
#
¿
Nov 4, 2017 08:05
|
|