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.
The ones that do, also went mainly touch screen only and cost a fortune.
There are sub 200 dollar DAPs (digital audio player) with physical buttons that run android and thus can run all your streaming services.
Though I’d argue using a DAP for streaming is kinda wasting your money, but if you really want to the function is there at a reasonable price.
You can also use wired headphones with a 3.5mm jack with them.
I just use a flac library I made myself and listen to it with a DAP that cost me less than 100 dollars. Makes the experience much engaging to me personally.
I totally agree. I still have a large mp3 and flac collection.
When Spotify came a long I used both for a while. But my Spotify playlists became so full of completely random tracks, it was never financially viable to even buy 10%, and its become more difficult to do so legally.
For the bands/artists I really like, I’ve bought CDs or if that’s not possible, bought digital versions.
I am attempting to transition away from streaming completely, but I have playlists which are 100+ hours long; which I’ve curated myself. I have a dozen others which are 8-20.
You could accuse me of having too much music. That i can’t possibly listen to most of it. Perhaps there is some truth in that. When you’ve had access to an unlimited buffet, it’s difficult to go back to a set menu.
Yes, ultimately I want to own all my most listened to music, but for now it would be nice to do both and have a player with physical buttons.
I don’t use streaming, but I have high hopes for Snowsky. The Echo Mini is very close to what I want, and the slated release for the Echo (normal?) is soon.
I’m very grateful to 2010 me who decided to rip my family’s CD albums into a hard drive, which has stayed with me through multiple countries, pcs, and listening devices. Built on with Bandcamp and Soulseek.
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.
There are sub 200 dollar DAPs (digital audio player) with physical buttons that run android and thus can run all your streaming services.
Though I’d argue using a DAP for streaming is kinda wasting your money, but if you really want to the function is there at a reasonable price.
You can also use wired headphones with a 3.5mm jack with them.
I just use a flac library I made myself and listen to it with a DAP that cost me less than 100 dollars. Makes the experience much engaging to me personally.
Most decent headphones still seem to have physical buttons. The big ones. With earbuds you’re kinda out of luck
Wat. The decent headphones are industry standard dt770 and certainly have no buttons.
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.
You said decent headphones. That excludes earbuds
You had me in the first half, but streaming on Spotify can go right to Dell.
I totally agree. I still have a large mp3 and flac collection.
When Spotify came a long I used both for a while. But my Spotify playlists became so full of completely random tracks, it was never financially viable to even buy 10%, and its become more difficult to do so legally.
For the bands/artists I really like, I’ve bought CDs or if that’s not possible, bought digital versions.
I am attempting to transition away from streaming completely, but I have playlists which are 100+ hours long; which I’ve curated myself. I have a dozen others which are 8-20.
You could accuse me of having too much music. That i can’t possibly listen to most of it. Perhaps there is some truth in that. When you’ve had access to an unlimited buffet, it’s difficult to go back to a set menu.
Yes, ultimately I want to own all my most listened to music, but for now it would be nice to do both and have a player with physical buttons.
I don’t use streaming, but I have high hopes for Snowsky. The Echo Mini is very close to what I want, and the slated release for the Echo (normal?) is soon.
I’m very grateful to 2010 me who decided to rip my family’s CD albums into a hard drive, which has stayed with me through multiple countries, pcs, and listening devices. Built on with Bandcamp and Soulseek.
Motorola maps volume buttons so that a long press skips instead of adjusting volume when screen is off. I really miss that one.