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Music & radio playing device for 2020 (no subscription)

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  • 26-09-2020 3:32pm
    #1
    gaiscioch
    Registered Users Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭


    OK, the heading is a bit of a mess but here’s what I want. And, yes, I’ve never felt as old as I do writing this.

    I have thousands of songs/audiobooks currently in MP3 format (it was once cutting edge). I realise MP3 is an outdated format hence I didn’t say I want an MP3 player. I used to have an iPod Classic 250GB and all my music was on that and I had a dock in the kitchen which also had a radio and that’s the sort of thing I want again - updated, of course.

    Now, everything is sitting on my laptop, still under the genre and playlists I made years ago (with many audiobooks in particular added to it in the intervening years). I want to keep all of that order and transfer it to a music/audiobook playing device (ahem!) worthy of 2020. Crucially, I don’t want to pay a subscription, nor do I wish to talk to Alexa or anybody else, nor do I wish to have advertisements. I’d just like to disengage from all the commercialism and play my music or audiobooks quietly in the background while I read or whatever free from other people’s music choices, advertisements or “suggestions”.

    What good quality music-playing technology can I buy that I can put in the kitchen and listen to my own music and/or the radio on occasion? Thanks.


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    Gonzovision
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,723 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Couple of things off the top of my head.

    Keep the laptop and get a bluetooth speaker.
    Keep the laptop and get a wireless speaker and use the laptop as a network share for your music and audiobooks. This will allow you to control it from your phone or tablet, once the laptop is left turned on of course.

    Buy a NAS and transfer your music to that, if you want to remove the laptop and use that as your music server.

    Let us know what sort of budget you have in mind, and what your main requests are. i.e sound quality, portable, etc.


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