portable audio player with massive storage

hi everyone. i hope you are doing well.

i am looking for a portable music player that has a storage capacity of over 250gb. who here has experience with cowon? I heard they are good but like most electronics companies their product line and website is a completely confusing and incomprehensible mess!

Maybe a player that supports microSD cards and I can just get a nice hefty one or two? would be ideal to take about 250-300gb of flacs around with me, and hopefully not with a completely shit sound card.

Any thoughts? what to the techie nerds around here use? I'm too busy browsing vineyard vines for the latest lilac chinos to find the right model and any help would be appreciated.

hugs and kisses,

your pal - d-lo

Cowon at least used to get a lot of praise, I know Obel has (or had) one and he rated it pretty highly if I remember.

If I were gonna go for a local-storage player, I would definitely consider a Cowon.

A mate just bought a Fiio X1 which seems like a good iPod classic ripoff, and relatively cheap. It can play flacs, soundcard is supposed to be really good and it has (I think) two SD-slots. Not sure if you can do more than 128gb with that now though?

  On 5/14/2015 at 7:48 PM, Herr Jan said:

A mate just bought a Fiio X1 which seems like a good iPod classic ripoff, and relatively cheap. It can play flacs, soundcard is supposed to be really good and it has (I think) two SD-slots. Not sure if you can do more than 128gb with that now though?

you can get higher capacity SD cards, and it should still work with them

Just checked, the X1 only has one slot for SD cards up to 128GB. Not great for big collections.

Edit: And the newer versions are much more expensive.

well sony is coming out with that new player, don't remember when

I had a couple of the Cowon players many years ago, they were great back then. Haven't checked them out in years though.

Have you considered having your music in the cloud and stream it to a device rather than putting all your music on one device? Both Google Music and iTunes Match allow you to do this, and there are plenty of DIY options out there to do this as well.

  On 5/14/2015 at 9:10 PM, Joyrex said:

Have you considered having your music in the cloud and stream it to a device rather than putting all your music on one device? Both Google Music and iTunes Match allow you to do this, and there are plenty of DIY options out there to do this as well.

cloud storage is a good idea certainly, however a big barrier to this is the carriers. Data is really expensive over in the States, and it's getting to be the same over here in the UK too. I'm lucky because I get a staff deal with O2, and get completely unlimited data (without any fair usage threshold), but the networks are starting to realise that calls and texts are being superseded by data allowances.

flol

haha! that is easily your best solution. If you use a macbook it will get hot enough so you can just fry your bacon on it too!

  On 5/14/2015 at 9:10 PM, Joyrex said:

Have you considered having your music in the cloud and stream it to a device rather than putting all your music on one device? Both Google Music and iTunes Match allow you to do this, and there are plenty of DIY options out there to do this as well.

That's not too bad, but then you still have the issues of occasionally not having a connection and the cost of unlimited data. I'd rather have all my tracks archived offline on my PC to put on a portable player.

Hey D-lo, y u want to lug flacs around with you on a portable? Unless you're planning to plug it in to a high-end hi-fi everywhere you go, lossless is kill (sorry, overkill). If even the most golden ears cannot regularly discern a decent-bitrate mp3 from its lossless original on a good soundsystem, you're sure as hell not going to notice anything on headphones in downtown traffic.

FWIW I keep a lossless/flac library of my music on HD and when I want to take it with I transcode to lame (v4) for my sansa clip w/ 16gb sd card. Presto, all the music in 1/10 the storage space.

Also I owned two cowon players years ago, first one died after less than a year (play button borked & would no longer respond), so I got a completely different model, only for it to die on me after 6 months the exact same way. IMO they're well designed but too cheaply made even by consumer electronix standards.

  On 5/14/2015 at 9:18 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 5/14/2015 at 9:10 PM, Joyrex said:

Have you considered having your music in the cloud and stream it to a device rather than putting all your music on one device? Both Google Music and iTunes Match allow you to do this, and there are plenty of DIY options out there to do this as well.

cloud storage is a good idea certainly, however a big barrier to this is the carriers. Data is really expensive over in the States, and it's getting to be the same over here in the UK too. I'm lucky because I get a staff deal with O2, and get completely unlimited data (without any fair usage threshold), but the networks are starting to realise that calls and texts are being superseded by data allowances.

 

That's true... although, unless you spend a LOT of time outside of WiFi range, that wouldn't be a factor say if you're like me and besides the car, the most listening you do is at home or at your job (if your job offers WiFi).

two or three used ipod classics, put rockbox on it. :D

  On 5/14/2015 at 9:48 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 5/14/2015 at 9:18 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 5/14/2015 at 9:10 PM, Joyrex said:

Have you considered having your music in the cloud and stream it to a device rather than putting all your music on one device? Both Google Music and iTunes Match allow you to do this, and there are plenty of DIY options out there to do this as well.

cloud storage is a good idea certainly, however a big barrier to this is the carriers. Data is really expensive over in the States, and it's getting to be the same over here in the UK too. I'm lucky because I get a staff deal with O2, and get completely unlimited data (without any fair usage threshold), but the networks are starting to realise that calls and texts are being superseded by data allowances.

 

That's true... although, unless you spend a LOT of time outside of WiFi range, that wouldn't be a factor say if you're like me and besides the car, the most listening you do is at home or at your job (if your job offers WiFi).

 

for my personal situation, I have to travel upwards of 3 hours each day on public transport to get to work, on buses. Also when I'm going to Liverpool, Manchester, or any other place for events or just to take pictures, I'm taking public transport.

It's pretty easy to chew through a lot of data that way. Also, coverage issues factor in, especially on the trains to and from Manchester/Liverpool. Of course, the public transport situation in the US is a bit different than that over here, but depending on your lifestyle it may be a consideration. I don't know about over there, but public WiFi can be abhorrently mediocre. Even the WiFi provided at my workplace (one of the two O2 call centres in the UK) is woefully terrible most of the time.

Are we talking about streaming FLAC here? lol

Public wifi. In Connecticut. Bahahahaha yeah osc is right it's a different situation over here. It doesn't exist!!

speaking of mp3 players, does anyone want to buy an ipod nano 7th generation? 100 dollars, USA only, cant be bother paying 40$$ to ship overseas

oh and the Fiio X1 is really nice, perfect for those with medium size collections (120gb)