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Hands On With The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy; A Game Boy-Inspired Music Player With Audiophile Ambitions (gardinerbryant.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cute design, though probably only good for carrying a few favourite albums around, as without a scroll wheel, it’ll be painfully slow to navigate through larger music collections.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    I have about 100 albums on my little DAP and it isn't as bad as you're probably thinking. If I had thousands of albums, yeah, that would be a no go, but I really don't want to be text searching on my music player generally. As long as it has filter menus for artist and genre and the UI isn't totally brain dead it is likely fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    100 albums is quite a small collection, I believe I have more than that on my phone.

    If I can not easily browse through 1000 artists this has no value to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    I only put around 100 or so albums at a time on my DAP and/or phone, my full music collection is easily 100 times that large. It would be insane to try have that on any portable device since the collection is always growing and being curated/tagged. Also, most of my music listening is from my desktop, not my DAP or phone, so 100 albums that I swap out now and then is ideal.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    I mean, I have more than 100 albums in CDs in my car; probably some 200 or 300. I'd expect a digital device to be able to stash more music than my car can.

    But I do see the use of swapping music in and out; it is what I do with my phone, but that is mostly due to limited storage; if I could I'd store way more than that in my phone.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I think we just listen to music differently. I found that having too much music on a device, be it a phone, DAP , sometimes just USB drive, was more trouble than it was worth. I was having a hard time distilling down my music collection like that, where with the 100 or so albums it was meant to be a quick sampling that didn't need to cover all the bases.

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