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This thing is amazing! I barely used my phone at all in the morning and all through the afternoon as I went about my business. I got sucked in for the evening onwards, but baby steps.
... I'll need to download more music, and get a bigger SD card. I've already played and replayed every single one of them I had loaded onto my Echo Mini these past 2 days.
I’ve been looking at this kind of thing a lot lately and it really only makes me want to get an older iPod and shove a terabyte and a new battery into it
Yes. Do eet. There's even FOSS firmware for them now, in the form of rockbox.
Rockbox has been around for ages, I was using it back in like 2010. Great little firmware
Rockbox was around back when I had a click wheel iPod. Crazy that it's still around.
That was great! I still have an mp3 player floating around somewhere with rockbox on it. It really revolutionized mp3 players for me because the included software/apps to transfer music to them were usually such trash. I had a Microsoft mp3 player, a Zune. What a pain in the ass trying to put music on that thing.
I tried rockbox on my ipod mini with 256GB flash mod and it just would not work.
Bluetooth on something like this seems nice though... With one of these and a UE BOOM speaker or something, and you can blast your entire music library anywhere. Or even just BT headphones.
Damn, I kind of want one now.
Check-out this video that came out recently on Youtube: This iPod is built different | @WolfgangsChannel