[Shiny!]

Hey, do you have any other standalone devices for playing music? I'd love to see them, whether they're digital or even analog!

I'll start! I have two 4th generation iPods, one's color and one's monochrome, both 20GB, from a few years ago when they weren't as hard to find on eBay for reasonable prices. The monochrome one unfortunately won't power on...  It's perhaps due to the third-party replacement battery I'm using, my color one is lucky enough to still have a working original battery so I didn't need to replace it, shame because I much prefer the monochrome one! I've been wanting to try swapping their batteries to see if it makes a difference, but last time I tried I couldn't get it unplugged so I gave up lol

I've never had any luck charging them over USB, but a few months ago I got a FireWire charger and it works perfectly, that seems to be a common thing for the 4th gens

   

[jacqueline]

The inspiration and the new fancy:

   

Every so often I unlock the iPod just to check that it's still on almost full charge, with the last thing I was listening to paused. It's a shame they've gotten so expensive over the last few years (tho it's good for me I suppose!)

[redshift]

I've got this Hiby R3 Pro that I don't love, next to a Playdate for scale

   

The Hiby is nicely compact and has great battery life, but it's really slow to start up and *really* slow to update its database after I add music.  And the UI and queue management are pretty terrible.

I loved my iPod Classic, and I used it all the time, but it went to family years ago.  I've had a couple other players, but the only other one I loved was my chonky Creative Nomad Jukebox.  It was too big to carry around much, but it was great for car use.

[ailurux]

I took this pic the other day to show what I currently use for listening. I also have a sony walkman cassette player but it's stopped working at some point, and I still need to find the time to figure out why.

Wired IEM's: Moondrop Chu II
Cassette Player: I'm not entirely sure, it was a gift from Jacqueline to replace aforementioned sony walkman
Headphones: Bose QC35
Music Player: Tangara obvs lol
Bluetooth earphones: Skullcandy Method Active
A couple of my favourite albums on cassette: Suede - Coming Up and Jeff Buckley - Grace

[nanocodebug]

Found the plans for this one online and assembled it, I think it's called the Tangara?
I don't have any other portable music players at the moment, though I still have my DS which I did use as an mp3 player for a while through a flashcart.

[jacqueline]

omg nanocodebug is that a melodio self-mate??

[mspl]

omg nanocodebug is that a melodio self-mate??

Wait, seriously, did somebody already rip this off?

[neckspike]

had to grab some images from search but

My first one? A Rio PMP 500. Yeah with the Smart Media Cards and weird proprietary USB connector. Look it was amazing in 1999.
   

After that I had an Archos Gmini XS 200 which frankly I loved but unfortunately broke the screen 😩
   
I still have the 1.8" PATA drive out of this on my desk, it's cute.

I still have this Sandisk Sansa Clip (first gen before the QA went to total shit) around somewhere and I use it sometimes but it's not the expandable version so it only holds 8 GB of music. That's still a decent amount of music but I wanna bring ALL of it y'know? Tried buying a new one and it started once and then died forever the second time I turned it on, this is apparently very common. They feel like there's nothing at all inside now, which impressive bc it was a small light device to start.
   

[p2502]

My current player is a Fiio MK3s (pictured), before I've had some old MP3 player from Philips but I've unfortunately lost that while moving somewhere

When I'm at home I listen to Beyerdynamic DT-990 or T1 gen3, on the go I have Fiio FHS1 and in the last year or so I'm more and more using noise canceling Sony WH-100XM4 when I'm outside.

[rayne]

this is my sweet lil md player, i made the bag myself - it's a JVC / Victor XM-S5, with the remote from a JVC / Victor XM-ZX5 - the battery life is great, and it drives my moondrop ssrs really nicely

[redshift]

this is my sweet lil md player, i made the bag myself - it's a JVC / Victor XM-S5, with the remote from a JVC / Victor XM-ZX5 - the battery life is great, and it drives my moondrop ssrs really nicely

Oooh, if we're talking MiniDisc...  Here's my beloved MZ-R55, still working great.  (Other than the gumstick battery, of course.)  Someday I'd like a NetMD player so I don't have to break out the S/PDIF to record at glorious 1x and destroy my thumbs typing in titles...

   

[Shiny!]

this is my sweet lil md player, i made the bag myself - it's a JVC / Victor XM-S5, with the remote from a JVC / Victor XM-ZX5 - the battery life is great, and it drives my moondrop ssrs really nicely

Oh I love how that looks MiniDisc stuff always looks so nice

[rayne]

Oooh, if we're talking MiniDisc...  Here's my beloved MZ-R55, still working great.  (Other than the gumstick battery, of course.)  Someday I'd like a NetMD player so I don't have to break out the S/PDIF to record at glorious 1x and destroy my thumbs typing in titles...

i have a standalone md deck in my hifi which has netmd, i think it's a lot better than having to track down working & affordable portable md players with netmd, as they are very coveted by collectors

also, the colour of your md player made me literally shriek with happiness!

Oh I love how that looks MiniDisc stuff always looks so nice

i love it too! i've got some really nice glitter disks too which make me so happy, i'd love to get the md remote or something similar working with tangara when i delve into  custom faceplate design

[redshift]

i have a standalone md deck in my hifi which has netmd, i think it's a lot better than having to track down working & affordable portable md players with netmd, as they are very coveted by collectors

Ooh, nice! I don't have room for one right now, but I'd love it in the future. And then a portable player (not recorder) with better battery life.

I imagine full-size decks would be easier to repair, too, and I'm not very skilled in that area, so that would be welcome.

What kind of standalone deck do you have? Would you recommend it?

[rayne]

i have a standalone md deck in my hifi which has netmd, i think it's a lot better than having to track down working & affordable portable md players with netmd, as they are very coveted by collectors

Ooh, nice!  I don't have room for one right now, but I'd love it in the future.  And then a portable player (not recorder) with better battery life.

I imagine full-size decks would be easier to repair, too, and I'm not very skilled in that area, so that would be welcome.

What kind of standalone deck do you have?  Would you recommend it?

i've got a Sony MDS-JE780, I really like it! it's got NetMD, optical and RCA audio connections, it's even got a PS/2 keyboard port for titling discs if that's your thing

i use it primarily via NetMD, a wrote a small Go utility to transfer albums over from the cli, which is pretty handy

and yeah it's really easy to open up and work on, i already swapped the power cord on it over to an australian one (i got it from the UK) and have done a belt replacement on the disc loading assembly and it's all working 100%

MDLP is also handy, the quality is totally fine imo and you can fit a couple of CDs on a single MD that way, useful for albums which span two discs (like Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile, for example)

[buzzyrobin]

Hey, do you have any other standalone devices for playing music?

My phone! 

… more recently my tangara

and then before that, this bad boy:

   
   

[mspl]

I tried to upgrade my G3 ipod to a CF drive large enough to hold everything I own and it didn't really work out (glitchy), so now it's disassembled on my desk. Since then iTunes has gone to crap and I have accepted that I must now forge into the wilderness for my own music management software and I eagerly await a Tangara machete for blazing that new trail.

[bnys]

Hope I’m not too late to participate! Top row are two 6 GB 2nd gen iPod Minis, and a PSP 1000. Bottom row is an iPod 5.5 gen with a big battery and flash mod, iPod 2nd gen with the touch wheel, Tangara, and a super thin Panasonic SL-CT800 MP3 CD player.

[polyrain]

Aside from listening from my laptop (since I seem to be always have it on me ), my nano has been my music device of choice for like 7 years now. I can't get over the tiny touch screen even after all this time

[momoninja]

Here is my 38c3 themed tangara I made at the workshop of Peter, Mona, Ekki, André and Nicci from ZTL and Coredump Team.