I want to have it always plugged to the power and to an external speaker so I dont care about its battery life

some must haves:

  • aluminum
  • not more than 80£
  • reliable (ideally buy for life as muxh possible for tech)

good to have:

  • easily repairable
  • I can remove the battery

does this thing exist?

  • LettucePrey@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The UI is a bit janky, but the Hiby R1 (what I have) is a decent audio player for not much money. It has a plastic casing though and it’s not easy to remove the battery. I don’t think it fits enough of your criteria unfortunately, but wanted to mention it just in case.

    • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Hiby R2 buttoned one is solid as well but my issues with it are twofold:

      • with large libraries you spend a LOT of time scrolling as the UI does not skip to letters after a bit of scrolling
      • the bluetooth in connection ONLY works when you are the only one using it. Otherwise you get clipping.

      I got a snowsky echo mini to replace it and it’s terrible. It’s a scam, honestly. I really wanted to like it but after taking it out to two dog walks and spending 45 minutes of the one hour walk in silence due to myriad of issues, I can safely say avoid it unless you want a mp3 player to play a few mp3 files from a small library.

      • same UI issue of scrolling through lots of folders taking ages.
      • does not offer seamless playing as advertised, it takes a solid minute or two to load an folder with 3 flac songs in it. If it loads at all…
      • does not support memory cards up to 256gb
      • crashes when updating library, crashes when playing some songs
      • does not play all the formats as advertised, often crashing.
      • when going through files, half the screen real estate is taken up by listing storage, of which there can be only two: sd card and internal.

      Sure it sounds as lterally every other dap (it sounds good) and can drive a lot of cans (like every other dap) but for the price it is bad.

      I am now looking for a dap that is good with big media libraries and has a solid bluetooth chip that can receive audio without clipping on public transit.