The only zen you’ll find on the mountain tops is the Zen you bring up there with you.
Alan Watts
The only zen
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I always preferred Zen:
https://www.amazon.com/creative-zen-mp3-player/s?k=creative+zen+mp3+player&rh=p_89%3ACreative+Labs&dc&qid=1591477557&rnid=2528832011&ref=sr_nr_p_89_1
Well, you need to bring your kind of Zen with you up to the top of the mountain, Felix, so Alan wasn’t wrong.
That’s the only kind of zen I’ve got, mountain or not. 🙂
(It’s gotten pricey since they stopped making Zens.)
Felix, mine had 32 GB plus another 32 GB on the SD card. A lovely little device for its time – the only real problem was that it couldn’t remember my place in a book, if the book was on the card (plus 64 GB seemed a lot at first but a few year’s of ripping CDs proved it inadequate).
I only did music so I went 8+32GB.
Holds all my CDs and converted LPs easy since I used WMA way back when.
Main virtue remains tbe battery life.
Still, $500?
Nope. You can get an older unlocked Android phone for $30-70 and some hold 128GB cards. Much better playback software up to and including KODI.
Depending on what you listen it can be very zen-like. 😉
Yes, $500 – no way!
My current mobile music device (basically for sitting out in the garden) is a repurposed Kindle Fire HDX 7 64 GB (cheap from a sale at the start of 2015). Too slow/outdated for anything else but fine when I keep the Wi-Fi turned off. I could use my phone but then I’d notice phone calls and messages coming in which I’d prefer to ignore. I do actually have my previous android phone – no SIM cards of course – so maybe I should follow your suggestion and use this.
One advantage of trailing edge phones as PDA/media players is the Bluetooth support in a pockerable form factor.
Wireless earbuds are getting both good and affordable.