I used to use my NWZ-A17 every day until the pandemic started. It was small, light, has physical buttons I could press when it was in my parka's inner pocket, I

I used to use my NWZ-A17 every day until the pandemic started. It was small, light, has physical buttons I could press when it was in my parka's inner pocket, I didn't have to recharge it every night. Now I work from home and I have migrated to my smartphone. I use it infrequently enough that I am not annoyed by what the streaming service tries to get me to listen to. And owning a dumb mp3 player comes with its own drawbacks. If artist A has released 20 albums, artist B only five and I have both discographies on my player, that doesn't mean I want to listen to artist A four times as often when I ask for a shuffled playlist. Back when I owned a 256MB mp3 player (and felt like a king among people with floppies) I would hand-pick a playlist that would fit. With dozens of gigabytes of storage I have no desire to do that and I want the player to come up with a good playlist for me.