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If I wanted an MP3 player again, in 2023, and wanted to rip cds to it and put digitally purchased albums on it, as actual owned files (not inside an proprietary ecosystem where I pay to only listen to that track within that service) could I still do that? What would I need? I don’t own, and can’t afford, a “real computer”, but i recall having lots of compatibility issues at the time between my mp3 player and computer os anyway. I’ve got an ipad and a pixel. Is there any feasible, non-ridiculously-difficult way to do this? Do they still sell any mp3 players? Do any of the old ones work with modern tech? I miss hearing my music on a simple, quiet, offline device without ads or streaming services.

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[–] PotentiallyAnApricot@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I hadn’t looked into it, as I’d gotten used to assuming that my phones won’t have the memory space for music - but that’s a smart idea. I’ll have to look into that.

[–] Soggytoast@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

4gb of storage is infinite music, just use your phone

[–] bquintb@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably is an audiophile with a FLAC collection 😄

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, FLAC users always eventually accept mp3 as the superior format 😄.

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have at least 70gb of music on my phone

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On my phone music takes up 14.95GB for 1,132 songs which on average is around 13.5MB per song. Great majority of it is 320K MP3s, but it is all over the place. The worst one is 32K AAC, and the best one is 24-bit 96kHz FLAC.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Re-encode everything above 192 Kbps to Opus 128 Kbps and thank me later

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

You'll have enough room for sure

Most phones ship with at least 64GB of storage and songs aren't very big files

You'll probably have like 25+GB free and that's enough for a lot of songs.

Let's say the file sizes are 2.5MB per minute (which is pretty close to standard for high quality MP3s) then you could fit 10000 minutes of music on there. So if your songs are on average 5 minutes long then you could fit 2000 songs on there.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

MP3s compress pretty well, depending on the bitrate you rip your CDs at. Your Pixel should be able to easily store upwards of 300 hours of audio without much issue.

[–] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Just pirate the music you want as mp3 files directly on your phone. No computer required. And if you only have a small amount of storage on your phone you can download like a hundred songs and then delete the ones you're tired of to make room for new ones, and if you ever wanna hear the old songs again you can just download them again.

[–] yukichigai@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MP3s compress down a lot, as low as 1 meg a minute for acceptable quality depending on the content. Newer codecs like Opus and AAC can easily do that with much better quality, and your Pixel will definitely be able to play them.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, hell. Opus is totally awesome.

[–] yukichigai@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Opus consistently impresses me with how good audio sounds at ridiculous compression levels, both music and speech. 4 minutes of music not even breaking 900k and it sounds just as good as the ol' 128kbps mp3s, and that's stereo. Can't even imagine how much you could squeeze down mono audiobooks.

[–] Bebo@sffa.community 3 points 1 year ago

You can simply load up mp3 files into a spare/old phone (or your present phone/iPad) and use vlc media player. Your phone will be your mp3 player. I do the exact same thing with old phones lying at home.