i realized i’m a big local music enjoyer, all the music i listen to is stored in files and i even have vlc on my phone to listen to it. (all of them are legally downloaded of course!!) sadly yesterday i moved all those files to my chromebook and it really slowed it down, (the files total 1gigabyte, woa). so why not get an mp3 player?? that can save storage on my phone and chromebook.
by the way i did try youtube music one time but i realized, what if youtube music disappeared?? all the music would be gone! so yea that’s why i prefer local files
I would put the price of an mp3 player as additional budget for a phone, like more storage (or pop in an SD card, if it has a slot). having another thing to log around (and keep charged, and so on) would be annoying to me. not being able to take calls with the same headphones I listen to music would be as well (as rare as that is these days). there are great apps for playing local music files, with high quality output if the source material permits it.
It’s halarious because back when they started integrating cameras Into phones, the literal opposite was said. Don’t put all your devices into one, if one goes the whole thing is useless. Better to have your phone die and still be able to take pictures.
Funny how things have totally flipped.
I still much prefer a separate audio device for music that can play lossless audio formats, along with a mobile amp. No reason to half ass your music playback with a phone.