Do you still use Ipods/MP3 player/Walkman etc

PTH2009

Do you still use an Ipod/MP3 Player/Walkman etc or with the arrival of easy to access streaming services/mobile data do you exclusively use your phone ?

Nowadays i would use my phone to listen to music 90% of the time (Spotify mostly with a few mp3's) but still keep my Ipod touch updated and bring it along when i'm on trips to save battery on my phone/on planes etc

Wireless bluetooth buds are also a life saver, had 2 pairs of galaxy bubs and have an older sport ones (bubs with a short chain/magnet)

Mrs OBumble

Tell us more about things you used in the olden days, grandad.

Tork

Not for years. I took my iPod out of a drawer a while ago and charged it up for old time's sake. The iPod click wheel was a really nice navigation system in its time but I've been spoiled by phone touchscreens. My phone has far more spare space on it than the iPod ever did but I have never bothered to put much music onto it. Mostly I use Spotify. If I'm going to be out an about for the day and plan to use my phone heavily, I bring a power bank with me.

Montage of Feck

My old classic ipod, battered and bruised as it is, is connected to the car stereo and gets used daily. Will stay that way until I get a car with wireless android auto.
The prices for ipod's is extortionate on ebay at the moment so still most be plenty of demand.

paddydriver

Just remember if we'd spent the same amount of money on Apple shares at the time we'd be rich.. But yes, have a few iPod's etc sitting around that have not seen light of day in long time.

PsychoPete

Still carry a boom box on the shoulder

AllForIt

My phone has a high end audio chip thus is way better than any mp3 player I previouly owned. So no, but I still have a few mp3 players that still work, 5 or so. I'm loath to bin them. Actually the odd time I'll take the mp3 player when out jogging, say if my phone is low on power. I still have a Sansa Clip that works, it's an inch in length. iPods were my least favourie mp3 player incidentally. I didn't like that circle navigation thing at all. Cowen's had the best sound quality followed by Sony, imo.

McGinniesta

I recently bought a turntable and a cassette converter.
My vinyl has been stored away for too long

paddydriver

McGinniesta wrote: »

I recently bought a turntable and a cassette converter.
My vinyl has been stored away for too long

2 x SL1210's still in situ.. give them a spin every now and then. A fairly large vinyl collection of 1990's club music. Can't beat vinyl for true authenticity

For Forks Sake

iPod? Pah.

Wibbs

Me. Earlier.

andekwarhola

I can absolutely see why people prefer the ceremony and sound of physical music like vinyl or CD but using MP3 players over streaming seems almost wilfully retro.

Each to their own obviously.

Lewis_Benson

Use my phone for streaming audio, and my turntable when listening at home.

Nigel Fairservice

I remember saving for what seemed like ages in the mid 2000s from my college job to save for an iPod Nano. I spent ages ripping all my cds. I loved the click wheel on it. Before that I had been using a portable cd player that ate batteries before upgrading to a mini disc.

I still have my mp3 collection from 15 odd years ago (and all my cds, haven't touched them in years) but these days I just use Spotify.

Pamsteer

I use my phone exclusively. I tend to stream podcasts but when I get some time I plan to download a lot of them so that I don't have to listen to ads or have to listen to a particular sequence, especially when driving.

Church on Tuesday

I still use a CD player. Sounds better to me, I turn everything off and just sit back and listen. I need to have the art lyrics/thanks booklet.

Recently got a record player for the first time. It's great and I love how you are more or less forced to listen to a record from start to finish just a great experience and not disposable like listening to music on a phone. CDs are dirt cheap though so most of the time I'll get the CD but if I really like an album and I don't already have it, I'll get the Vinyl.

Use Youtube to listen to music if I'm curious about new music or if I'm just browsing online.

Best MP3 I had hands down was a Phillips GoGear.

BalcombeSt4

Still listen to Mp3's but just use a USB to transport them, Ipods & Iplayers were a nightmare, made sorting out music feel like a chore which it shouldn't & they only played a certain format which didn't work on other media players. Wav files had the best sound of any digital format but they were also about x5 times bigger than a mp3,wma acc etc..

Strumms

Spotify on my phone does me..it never misses a beat on WiFi or 4G... all you can eat data with 3 thankfully ...

When I was living and working abroad I had a decent Sony CD Walkman, I had an hour to travel to and from work and it had me relaxed, just made best of mix cds so I’d have about an hours worth of music.

After that a really brilliant bit of kit, a creative Zen, anybody remember these ? Tiny but some sound.

Thargor

andekwarhola wrote: »

I can absolutely see why people prefer the ceremony and sound of physical music like vinyl or CD but using MP3 players over streaming seems almost wilfully retro.

Each to their own obviously.

The music from streaming sites is butchered with compression, once you hear the difference its hard to go back, I'd rather just listen to Radio Nova or 4fm than try to ignore that tinny weak Spotify sound.

I use a Sansa Clip Zip on the go, replaced all my mp3s and cds with FLAC versions for lossless audio a while back, it's the size of a postage stamp but takes a 128gb sd card and is known for its amazing sound, I don't know what I'll do when it dies, I'll be lost without it. At home I still output Winamp to a massive Sony hifi that's nearly 20 years old now.

AllForIt

Strumms wrote: »

Spotify on my phone does me..it never misses a beat on WiFi or 4G... all you can eat data with 3 thankfully ...

When I was living and working abroad I had a decent Sony CD Walkman, I had an hour to travel to and from work and it had me relaxed, just made best of mix cds so I’d have about an hours worth of music.

After that a really brilliant bit of kit, a creative Zen, anybody remember these ? Tiny but some sound.

I remember that one, never owned it though. I had quite a few Creative mp3 players, the Zen Micro being my favourite. It had a whopping 4gb of hard drive memory which I swapped out for a 16GB compact flash card, which was quite the upgrade at the time.

Strumms

Anything I’ve had manufactured by creative was very good, their outlier headphones are on right now, superb..

Graces7

Not even heard of most of those things. And I don't have TV or radio just a simply pay as you go phone and youtube. .

Silence, and the ocean wind, my music.

muppetkiller

I've got a Astell & Kern AK70II which was a pretty high end DAP a few years ago. I can't listen to streaming music for some reason. Maybe its psychological but I don't feel anything when I hear it. Can beat the feeling of listening to your favorite CD's and Vinyl on a Hifi

Use an ipod touch as i listen to a lot of podcasts and have big playlists on spotify which eats into a lot of the memory

theteal

Not since the Sony Ericsson K750/W800 phones were released. I've been copying that ever growing music folder between phones for quite a while now.

biko

I just hum.

theteal

andekwarhola wrote: »

I can absolutely see why people prefer the ceremony and sound of physical music like vinyl or CD but using MP3 players over streaming seems almost wilfully retro.

Each to their own obviously.

CD is digital, same files as the MP3 player just in more awkward form. As for streaming, not much use when a good 1/3 of my rail commute has no signal, I'll have my local media, thanks.

Yes, mostly for travel though. Cheap mp3 clips on and if it breaks / gets lost it's not a big deal.

andekwarhola

andekwarhola wrote: »

I can absolutely see why people prefer the ceremony and sound of physical music like vinyl or CD but using MP3 players over streaming seems almost wilfully retro.

Each to their own obviously.

And when you are 30000 feet in the air? Or going through a tunnel? Or outside Europe?

Lots of occasions where there's **** all signal

RayCon

Still use my iPod Touch 3rd Gen as there are albums I have on it that aren't available on Spotify (eg. XTC - Apple Venus)

o1s1n

biko wrote: »

I just hum.

What's your favourite humming noise?

seamus

I still have a pretty big MP3 collection on my home server that I never use any more. I used to keep about 30GB of music on my phone(s) to listen to, but as has been said, I've had absolutely zero issues using Spotify for the last couple of years, so I have no music on my phone now. Spotify buffers quite far ahead, which means any dead spots in coverage cause no interruption.

Haven't had to fly for work in about 6 years, and when you fly with kids you don't get any opportunity to stick in earphones and zone out. But if I ever find myself flying again (sob), I could stick some music on my phone.

My daughter has an MP3 player because they're cheap as chips and she's too young for internet access.

GLaDOS

I swapped from MP3 to smartphone when it became difficult to get MP3 players with large storage that weren't an ipod (I refused to be forced to use itunes). I did love my creative zen before that. I still use locally stored music rather than streaming for the most part. Some stuff isn't on spotify and I like to support smaller artists by buying directly.

theblackstuff

i found my old Sony walkman, and a few tapes, connected it to the aux in the car, old school.......

Hyperbollix

I was a late adopter of smartphones and persevered for a good few years with my Sansa MP3 player. It's small size was handy for exercise. I used to download podcast files on my laptop (back in the days when podcasts weren't cool) and port them over to the MP3 player via USB for listening when running/walking. A wired set of headphones as well. Christ, it's hard to believe that's only a few years ago. Seems positively antiquated now.

I'd rather use something smaller that a phone but it's just too damn handy nowadays with podcast apps, data connection on the go, etc

Decuc500

I listen to my 160GB ipod all the time. That and vinyl and cd's are how I listen to music.

Don't think I'll ever use Spotify or stream music until there is no other choice.

O'Neill

Don't understand what's so obsolete about ipods or mp3 players in general. Your phone only holds so much storage.

AllForIt

O'Neill wrote: »

Don't understand what's so obsolete about ipods or mp3 players in general. Your phone only holds so much storage.

They don't stream silly! So using a smarphone one doesn't have to use the storage at all.

I was just about to get a 128GB card for my phone (inexpensive nowadays) for music but got Tidal (spotify equivialnt) instead. Thanks Bargain Alerts

crossmolinalad

Loads of good old music on mp3 discs so i bought last month a new mp3 player to listen them again

biko

o1s1n wrote: »

What's your favourite humming noise?

It's called "fluorescent lights".

pauliebdub

Just Spotify on my phone. Used have iPods etc but not any more

ohnonotgmail

Strumms wrote: »

Spotify on my phone does me..it never misses a beat on WiFi or 4G... all you can eat data with 3 thankfully ...

When I was living and working abroad I had a decent Sony CD Walkman, I had an hour to travel to and from work and it had me relaxed, just made best of mix cds so I’d have about an hours worth of music.

After that a really brilliant bit of kit, a creative Zen, anybody remember these ? Tiny but some sound.

I still have the big brother of that Zen

Badly Drunk Boy

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I still use a CD player. Sounds better to me, I turn everything off and just sit back and listen. I need to have the art lyrics/thanks booklet.

Recently got a record player for the first time. It's great and I love how you are more or less forced to listen to a record from start to finish just a great experience and not disposable like listening to music on a phone. CDs are dirt cheap though so most of the time I'll get the CD but if I really like an album and I don't already have it, I'll get the Vinyl.

Use Youtube to listen to music if I'm curious about new music or if I'm just browsing online.

Best MP3 I had hands down was a Phillips GoGear.

I agree with every point you make there, even about the Phillips GoGear.

This is the model I had:


It was a small little thing but the battery would last for weeks.

Church on Tuesday

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I agree with every point you make there, even about the Phillips GoGear.

This is the model I had:


It was a small little thing but the battery would last for weeks.

Yeah for the price they were great little units. I had two, the first I had I lost in a house share. I loved how it would finish playing the song before the battery went

NewbridgeIR

I only got a smart phone in 2016 so used a discman until then when commuting on bus / train.
My daughter uses it occasionally.
Been WFH for over a year so most music listening is via turntable or CD player. I still buy loads of both formats.
If I go out walking, I bring the phone and use Spotify or iTunes.
Driving - CDs.

Tork

O'Neill wrote: »

Don't understand what's so obsolete about ipods or mp3 players in general. Your phone only holds so much storage.

High end phones have loads of space. I have a OnePlus and it has 190GB free.

NewbridgeIR

Tork wrote: »

High end phones had loads of space. I have a OnePlus and it has 190GB free.

Yes, it's changed in recent years. I have 256GB of which iTunes takes up 90GB. My iTunes on my PC is about 150GB but I rotate what goes on the phone. I use 320 kbps bit rate for the mp3s which is fine for that sort of listening and doesn't take up huge room.

retalivity

I still use Winamp.
Have circa 15000 mp3s which the oldest are probably 20 years old now, use them and winamp on the home computer hooked up to speakers and juts put it on random...never found anything to better it.
Spotify, streaming etc, I never bothered with...why would I pay for something that I already have?
Never listen to music when walking/running/cycling, have a 2gb USB stick in the car with mp3s that I can play though the radio.
Have a few old mp3 players lying about, a project in the back of my mind is to bring them back to life and use, some of them are gorgeous pieces of kit.

sxt

Your not a music fan if your best source of listening to music is a phone and phone earphones

NewbridgeIR

sxt wrote: »

Your not a music fan if your best source of listening to music is a phone and phone earphones

I was recently told that "Anybody who purchases CDs or still has them in their collection can't call themselves a true music fan."

The guy who said it to me was a 100% Born Again Vinyl Junkie who ignored the format until recent years.

I've bought vinyl since 1981, CDs since 1986. I love both formats. But the increasingly popularity of the former has really brought out a weird form of snobbery and oneupmanship that wasn't there in the past.

Strumms

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

I was recently told that "Anybody who purchases CDs or still has them in their collection can't call themselves a true music fan."

The guy who said it to me was a 100% Born Again Vinyl Junkie who ignored the format until recent years.

I've bought vinyl since 1981, CDs since 1986. I love both formats. But the increasingly popularity of the former has really brought out a weird form of snobbery and oneupmanship that wasn't there in the past.

The vinyl junkie is ok, but the vinyl snob like the one you mention is a weird dickhead specimen.. they think they are some hard boiled muso.... and everything and everyone is wrong for playing CD’s and listening to Spotify... :rolleyes:

A fella I worked with years ago was one.. a total zzzzzzzz with him. A borefest of a human, they all are.