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Hands On With The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy; A Game Boy-Inspired Music Player With Audiophile Ambitions
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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I remember carrying around a walkman with a tape. then a walkman with a cd. then a small mp3 player, and then finally a phone.
I simply do not understand why people want to go backward. So inconvenient.
I can take my phone and stream music from my server. If I really want to I can download to the phone (simple drag and drop KDE connect style or syncthing if I want to go that route). I use only FLAC by the way.
Does nobody remember how annoying moving files around actually is?
I don't have ads on my phone, and I can turn off everything else if I want to only have it as a music player for a period of time. Adding another device just seems silly.
Edit: worth saying: thanks for posting this though, I am interested in seeing gadgets and it is an interesting design and has unique features.
Its the same situation where people purposely downgrade their phones to flip phones.
Sometimes simplicity is more convenient and secure. Especially when you don't need all the gimmicks a modern device has - it is a difference of paying $100 or $1000+
Thank you! Don't worry, zero offense taken! These things are pretty niche these days, so you're well and truly in the majority with that POV!
This is the important part here, the quality of those files is dependent on the DAC your phone has. Phones don't place much emphasis on high-quality DAC implementation because they’re built more for things like for convenience, battery life, and mass-market audio (think Bluetooth earbuds and streaming compression). They’ll play your FLACs for sure, but the internal DAC and amp stage are usually an afterthought rather than a focus.
This one's built around the Cirrus Logic CS43198 chip, which has one purpose in life: make sound good!
In the end these won't be super convenient for most. But there's plenty of people who want to drop using their phone for everything now, or who want to try out a new way of listening to music.
True about the DAC, but if I am out and about I am not sure I don't notice that much, and Bluetooth is so much easier. I know the degradation on bluetooth.
But I do have a high quality DAC cirrus based USB c dongle for when I want it to sound good.
I do notice that for the price, this whole device is really not much more than a high quality dongle so that's pretty good.