Repurposing old smartphones for audio players never made any sense to me as I normally run my smartphones until the battery is dead, and battery life is the rea

Repurposing old smartphones for audio players never made any sense to me as I normally run my smartphones until the battery is dead, and battery life is the reason that I have dedicated portable audio player. I used to use Rockbox on an old Sandisk Clip - it was great and did exactly what I needed. Then it died and I discovered that Rockbox doesn't work on the newer Sandisk devices. You'd have thought that the few basic features that I needed would have been implemented in their interface by now, but you still can't tell it to play all your albums in a sensible track order. Selecting Play All in the albums menu doesn't play all your albums in album order, instead it plays track 1 off all the albums, followed by track 2 off all the albums, then track 3... In the end I had to fall back to writing a simple script to create a playlist of all the tracks in album order - it's not a great solution but it's workable.