I think phones have generally taken over MP3 players because you can do everything an MP3 player does on your phone.
But I recently bought one because I just like a single device having that unique purpose of playing music.
I think phones have generally taken over MP3 players because you can do everything an MP3 player does on your phone.
But I recently bought one because I just like a single device having that unique purpose of playing music.
I own a digital audio player (DAP), but it’s not limited to MP3s—I play a lot of Ogg, Opus, & FLAC files too. The device I use offers Bluetooth pairing in both directions as well as being a digital audio converter (DAC) via USB on devices where the built-in DAC is poor quality. I like that don’t have to wear down the battery of my phone for music, & while my phone has SD card support, 3.5 mm headphone jack, & a great quality DAC, there may be a future where these audio requirements are removed from all phones, laptops, & other devices on the market. My biggest issue with the device is being Chinese, they’ve made modifications to the Linux kernel which run on the device but don’t publish these modification which is a violation of GPL-2.0 (other smaller complaints are the UI uses flags for languages, the edges of touch screens do action yet the screens not big enough so if not careful you can exit a scrolling view, & it could definitely be lighter weight).