I have a large music library that I don’t have much storage left for on my phone. There are of course other ways of solving this problem, but are there any good dedicated music players like iPods still around?
Ideally I’d like it to have Bluetooth functionality for wireless headphones, at least 512GB of storage, and an SD card slot. Possibly physical buttons as well.
Yeah. Your phone.
Some people are actively trying to pull out of using their phones for everything. A phone is a phone, its for communicating. If you have a smartphone, sure use it as a PDA. It isn’t for anything else and won’t offer the best experience without concessions, nowadays those concessions often being privacy.
If you’re carrying a smartphone on you at all you’re already getting all the privacy negatives. I don’t see how playing MP3s through VLC is making that any worse.
And if I carry a modern dumb phone designed for privacy and listen to my music on an mp3 nugget?
Plus it’s not just about privacy, thats just a big thing.
Consider this scenario: every time you want to listen to a song, you have a to grab your record from next to the cocaine, take it over to the record player next to the heroin, and do your best not to shoot up or rip a line while you get everything set up. That’s what using a smartphone is like for a lot of people. There’s nothing wrong with the device itself but the way they’re used as insidious addiction peddlers with the ticky-tocks and the instant-reels and the infinite-scrolling endless stream of mid content and ragebait.
My P10P XL has no micro SD slot, and no 3.5mm jack. Plus I don’t want to lug it around when I’m out walking etc.