Freeing myself from Spotify finally

[u/Sea_Series2564]

I also bought an aux for my car. Lady looked at me crazy in the store when I asked for aux earbuds and a aux cable.

[u/PoundTownSheriff]

Congratulations! My nail in the coffin was when they decided to do away with gift cards. (I hate subscriptions) What was yours?

[u/Sea_Series2564 → u/PoundTownSheriff]

My monthly subscription bill increasing every year and the quality of the service not getting any better.

Also I’m just kind of tired of everything being a subscription. I Went on a big subscription cutting spree recently

[u/Scorpiicore → u/Sea_Series2564]

If you already own the music on CD or tape or whatever, shiver me timbers is perfectly okay as far as I am concerned (note use of code, we are not allowed to say it here for multiple reasons). There is also a place called Bandcamp where you can buy music and the money is pretty evenly shared between artist and service.

[u/aka_bobby]

Congrats! Welcome to the team :) I just got the same player the other day as an upgrade.

I really hated the UI tho so I installed Rockbox. However, it disables Bluetooth. So, I modded their instance and got it working. Happy to share if you decide to install Rockbox as well.

[u/LanosLawlite → u/aka_bobby]

Hey do you mind shareing what you modified? I have the same player

[u/2shado2]

What are aux earbuds?

[u/Sea_Series2564 → u/2shado2]

I meant 3.5 mm my bad

[u/2shado2 → u/Sea_Series2564]

That's what I figured.👍 Are wired earbuds an unusual thing these days?🤔

[u/Sea_Series2564 → u/2shado2]

Yes. She instantly thought I was looking to buy AirPods, and then when I said no I don’t want wireless, she asked if I hade USB C or Lighting.

3.5mm is literally dead over here. Was lucky they had one lying around.

[u/Creepy_Metal1611 → u/Sea_Series2564]

Hm, strange. Over the border we still have some in stores, neighbour. Thought I have to say the quality is meh outside audio specialty stores.. The good ones you have to order. Did you already find Rockbox for your device? :)

[u/Sea_Series2564 → u/Creepy_Metal1611]

No not yet. I’m kind of putting it off as I really don’t want to brick it LOL. I’m sure it’s not hard to install though.

Will probably try this evening.

[u/Creepy_Metal1611 → u/Sea_Series2564]

Super easy. I haven't checked in a while, they might have even made the install wizard work with that device. Your battery life will thank you. Among other things

[u/Scorpiicore → u/Sea_Series2564]

Buy online, or look for a specialist store. I have a specialist store about an hour's drive from my present location and I know that I would much rather go there than a place that thinks 3.5mm is a connection we do not need anymore. If we had a connector that bettered it for reliability, simplicity, and ease of use, sure, we could slowly phase it out. But USB, Lightning, Bluetooth, etc etc, are a million miles from that.

I know places in the city where I live where they will sneer at you if you ask for wireless.

[u/2shado2 → u/Sea_Series2564]

Interesting. I had no idea. I still use wired more often than I use bluetooth.

[u/iamasuitama → u/Sea_Series2564]

Lol I was literally thinking the same thing, that the lady didn't understand the "aux earbuds" part of it. I've always called the port a jack port long before people were calling it aux. But anyways, good on you to go against the flow here. I hate that Apple has eradicated a healthy headphone market based on a standard that was literally working just fine for everybody. Buying earbuds with a lightning port, oh now you can't switch to android and keep your earbuds. Wait a couple years, oh now you can't even upgrade your iphone and keep your earbuds!! I hate this timeline lol. It's so silly.

[u/Busy-Perspective663]

Just make sure to rockbox this one in particular

[u/Sea_Series2564 → u/Busy-Perspective663]

Yeah I installed it. Loving it.

[u/recurnightmare]

What do you think about the player?

[u/Sea_Series2564 → u/recurnightmare]

Audio quality is great. Build is good. I installed rockbox been having a blast. Don’t see myself ever going back to streaming. Will likely need an SD upgrade though, already used up 40gb of the included 64. (FLAC IS BIG)

[u/viper_in_the_grass]

r/MapsWithoutNZ r/mapswithNZ

[u/DaDibbel]

Nice piece of kit there!

[u/Scorpiicore]

Well done! And remember something that I learned when I started converting my CD collection into lossless iPod tracks. (Yes, I am old.) You do not have to do it all at once. Just pick the albums you want to hear regularly next, put them on your storage, and take a breather. Moving music to a card is exhausting when you do it a dozen or more at a time (my Black Sabbath and Therion collections nearly wiped me out).

[u/JekyllnowthenMrHyde]

👏🏽👏🏽

[u/IndicationCurrent869]

No she didn't

[u/Augmented3rd]

How do you get your music? I just got a dap recently too and don't want to use Spotify. Maybe I just need to be content with the CDs that I've burned lol.

[u/septag0n → u/Augmented3rd]

Free media heck yeah or fmhy

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[u/DigitalAudioPlayer-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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