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Anyone use standalone mp3 players with built in speakers? Thoughts on what's good? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 month ago by corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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The past few years, I've been doing most of my music listening off my phone. I use soulseek and just download right to my music folder, but with that comes obsessively hunting for obscure bands and filling up memory fast.

I don't use headphones and just let my phone speakers play it pointed at my head out of my breast pocket. I started seeing that some companies make phone sized mp3 players with built in speakers for less than 50. Excuse the Amazon link, but it's just intended to show what im actually looking at.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mp3+player+with+speaker+built+in&crid=20S689G6SAIXJ&sprefix=mp3+player+with+speaker%2Caps%2C108&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_23

So yeah, anyone use these? Do you like the one you have? Is it louder than your phone?

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[-] dirtybeerglass@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Get a Bluetooth speaker with an SD card slot !

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Do they make any pocket size speakers?

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

how big are your pockets?

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/4001034946259.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa for one example

https://mifoshop.com/index.php?route=product/product&manufacturer_id=1&product_id=17&sort=p.price&order=ASC

there are options, smaller you go the worse the sound quality will be but if it's vs phone speakers almost anything should beat that no problem. A lot of this mifa brand support microSD

also re: microsd capacity

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks!

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

also if you really want a screen and nice interface to navigate music, since these bt speakers aren't gonna have basically any browsing capability, old ipods and ipod accessories might be the other way to go. 2nd gen and up ipod touch is closest to what you describe, or something crazy like this lol, plus an older proper ipod https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/509091-REG/iMainGo_IMAINGO_iPod_Portable_Speaker_Case.html

the old hard drive based ones have a pretty sick scene of people replacing the drives with SSDs or micro SDs

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