I’m looking for a BIFL (or at least last me for a while) music player that can play .wav files, has a lot of storage, is portable, and the parts are able to be replaced/upgraded. I’ve heard about using iPod classics but it seems like they’re unable to play .wav files. Any reccomendations?
Without running afoul of the BIFL ethos, I wonder why you can’t just use your smartphone?
No smartphones are BIFL, but you’re always going to have one, and even if you insist on WAV instead of MP3 or FLAC, you can still fit a pretty big music collection in local storage.
No headphone jack, and I want a dedicated device so I’m not as reliant on my phone.
This doesn’t address the phone reliance bit, but you can stick a passthrough USB-C audio interface on the end of your headphones cable.
Stuff like this:
https://www.amazon.com/JacobsParts-Headphone-Charging-Passthrough-Converter/dp/B09HJQJSWY
Then you don’t tie up your USB-C jack.
Ooh, nice. I didn’t realize those exist. Is there any impact on audio quality?
I have a OnePlus Nord w/a headphone jack, use Musicolet player, have SD card that supports up to 2GB if I remember correctly (I’m using a smaller card right now). Supports wav & flac (which is what I use). It’s a great player, and sometimes I use it as a phone. :)
I hope you meant 2TB not 2GB
Fixed. Yes I did.