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You can find many music players from second-hand markets, still in good conditions. I purchased one for 15 dollars from eBay (it used to cost a hundred dollars)

You can find many music players from second-hand markets, still in good conditions. I purchased one for 15 dollars from eBay (it used to cost a hundred dollars) and installed Rockbox, now it can decode sounds in all encodings, including Vorbis and Opus, and I can even use it as a TOTP authentication token or Morse Code keyboard for your computer (I don't recommend one to use it as such tools, it's not good at doing these jobs, but I tried because I could... If you are a hardcore programmer, you can even try programming a 3D demoscene on the player!) If you insist on buying a new one, the Hi-Fi community still makes audio-only music players as well.

nonamenoslogan 7y ago
Agreed, lots of no-name Chinese mp3 players out there at good prices; buy a box of 10 of the super simple $5 USB/SDHC models and you’ll be set for years to come.
voltagex_ 7y ago
Which $15 player runs Rockbox?
- stevewillows 7y ago
  It won't be $15 -- but an affordable player that is great with Rockbox is the SanDisk Clip+. It's got a decent screen, really small form factor, microSD. My main Rockbox'd unit is an iPod Video (5.5) with an iFlash Quad (up to 4x microSD cards) and a 2000mAh battery. Not the most expensive project, but not as cheap as the Clip+. My guess is that the parent is talking about the Sansa c200 or something similar.
  - kick 7y ago
    It looks like there's a few iPod Video models on eBay for $16.
    - stevewillows 7y ago
      Make sure they're not for parts. All you really need is the main logic board, but it's nice to start with a complete unit. The best iPod Video is the Enhanced / 5.5 that has the 'search' item. An 80gb version of this also has more RAM, which I don't think is utilized at this time, but it might down the road. This may not be accurate now, but it was a few years ago. The 80gb will come with the fat back. If you do the mod I did, you can use the slim back from the 30gb.

nonamenoslogan 7y ago

Agreed, lots of no-name Chinese mp3 players out there at good prices; buy a box of 10 of the super simple $5 USB/SDHC models and you’ll be set for years to come.

voltagex_ 7y ago

Which $15 player runs Rockbox?

stevewillows 7y ago
It won't be $15 -- but an affordable player that is great with Rockbox is the SanDisk Clip+. It's got a decent screen, really small form factor, microSD. My main Rockbox'd unit is an iPod Video (5.5) with an iFlash Quad (up to 4x microSD cards) and a 2000mAh battery. Not the most expensive project, but not as cheap as the Clip+. My guess is that the parent is talking about the Sansa c200 or something similar.
- kick 7y ago
  It looks like there's a few iPod Video models on eBay for $16.
  - stevewillows 7y ago
    Make sure they're not for parts. All you really need is the main logic board, but it's nice to start with a complete unit. The best iPod Video is the Enhanced / 5.5 that has the 'search' item. An 80gb version of this also has more RAM, which I don't think is utilized at this time, but it might down the road. This may not be accurate now, but it was a few years ago. The 80gb will come with the fat back. If you do the mod I did, you can use the slim back from the 30gb.