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...(since my smaller, preferred choice is out of commission as seen in a recent photo)...
Not anymore...my super-awesome soldering skills saved it!
Dredging up an old dead thread perhaps, but this is earth-shattering news.
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...(since my smaller, preferred choice is out of commission as seen in a recent photo)...
I used to have that generation of RCA Lyra. They're actually pretty decent.
One AAA battery (great battery life IIRC as well), SD card slot, decent sound quality, decent controls.
Mine was stolen in a high school class however. After that I had a basic 128MB Panasonic player, after which I went Zen Micro. When that died due to a terrible mistake on my part, I bought a Zen Vision:M...the iPod killer in features and sound quality (unfortunately for popularity, more literally also size and weight - dropping a ZV:M on an iPod would almost certainly damage the iPod).
The ZV:M does not have an easily replaceable battery, though. Ultimately, 4 screws and you've got access to it, but that's not exactly convenient when you're on the go.
Congrats Kishy on fixing your Zen Microphoto? I have never owned an ipod. I got a Creative Zen Micro 8 GB (mono color, music & FM only), definitely over 5 years ago. I wish I had the vision. There came a point, where I had to consolidate what I was carrying, so for now, my mp3 player, is my phone. It isn't an audiophile experience and I can't listen to quiet stuff in really noisy situations. (I still break out my mp3 player, notebook, or DS, or missing PSP, for extended listening sessions on the go, where I don't want to eat my phone battery).
Well, maybe a pair of Sennheiser MM100 or MM450 would work better, than my Insignias with my phone, but at $50 I'm a lot more forgiving of Insignias faults, compared to the $200 & $450 price tags of the other two. At the time, the MM100 and MM450, weren’t on the market, either. Also, the MM100 sound bleed, apparently a lot more than my Insignias. People can really only hear what I'm listening to if I don't have the insignias over my ears and yet still on.
Yeah, if a product doesn't have serviceable batteries, then it reduces the lifespan (and is kind of annoying because the buyer should have the right to maintain what they paid for). But I guess most devices are meant to be thrown away and only used for so long until the "next model" comes out and are forced to buy it.
Looks easier than I thought. I'm gonna try taking apart my flaky Sansa Clip non-plus.
This thread brings to mind a project I've been putting off for years now. I have a old Creative Nomad IIc (128 MB) Yes, that's MB. Does anyone know if those can be modded to accept larger media?
I've googled "Nomad IIc" but I can't seem to find relevant results, this thing is OLD.