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[–] dellhiver@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

I miss physical buttons for when I'm listening to music.

Having to unlock my phone to skip a track or advance a podcast is really annoying.

I used to be able to click a button in my pocket. I could even slide a bit to skip forward and back 30 seconds.

I also like to listen to music in bed in the dark. The bright screen, the messing around with the unlock, really breaks the flow.

Yes I have earphones that are touch sensitive, but poking it messes with any good isolated fit I've achieved, the touch doesn't always register and after a while, one ear starts to hurt. Especially when you need to tap three times to restart a track.

I've now got this stupid setup with a BT dongle in a usb a-c converter; which plugs into my phone and controls a tiny physical keyboard.

There are lots of mp3 players, but they don't support streaming platforms. The ones that do, also went mainly touch screen only and cost a fortune. There is one physical Spotify player with buttons but it's just a dumb cube with very basic functionality.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Most decent headphones still seem to have physical buttons. The big ones. With earbuds you're kinda out of luck

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wat. The decent headphones are industry standard dt770 and certainly have no buttons.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Ah well I'm just a pleb with a pair of QC45 lol, not expensive enough to have whatever shitty touch thing some new expensive headphones have.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

You said decent headphones. That excludes earbuds

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