I’m looking for a BIFL (or at least last me for a while) music player that can play .wav files, has a lot of storage, is portable, and the parts are able to be replaced/upgraded. I’ve heard about using iPod classics but it seems like they’re unable to play .wav files. Any reccomendations?
If you replace the firmware on an iPod classic with Rockbox, it supports wav out of the box!
That’s cool but uh… that’s pretty far from out of the box.
You can source a modified iPod (5.5 Gen with Wolfson DAC) that comes with:
- Rockbox preinstalled
- an upgraded battery(3 days continuous playback, tested this week)
- 256GB or 512GB solid-state drive
With 4,756 CC tunes, it makes for an excellent compact jukebox.
Why wav, out of curiosity?
I assume they want full quality audio but don’t know that flac exists
Nah, I’m aware of flac, but I’ve had issues with compatibility that I don’t have with wav files.
What type of issues? Did you get error messages?
Lotta times in file players it’ll say unregonized file type
Which players? FLAC has been around for over 20 years, so players that don’t recognize it probably need to be updated :D
Apple music, Protools, Logic (although those two are DAWs), VLC
Weird that VLC is not playing FLACs for you, is that on iOS?
Sony Walkman are the only company that takes making music players seriously today that I can think of. Probably not repairable so not really BIFL but worth taking a look.
