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so cool! For your next trick, how about a super long battery life MP3 player? A friend asked if I knew of an MP3 player that would be good for a two-week hike

so cool! For your next trick, how about a super long battery life MP3 player? A friend asked if I knew of an MP3 player that would be good for a two-week hike with no access to electricity, and it really seems like there's nothing out there beyond carrying around a bunch of batteries.

michaelmior 2y ago
There are other options such as chargers powered by solar power, hand crank, fire, etc.
walterbell 2y ago
FiiO M3 Pro? https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-M3-Pro-Resolution-Touchscreen/dp/B086Z65V49 https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-M3-Pro-Resolution-Touchscreen/dp... > 15 hours battery life and 35 days standby time: Adopt 1000 mAh high-capacity lithium-ion battery and USB-C charging technology. The M3 Pro has a battery life up to 15 hours and standby time up to 35 days. That means if you listen 3.5 hours every day, the M3 Pro can go for a whopping 1 week before needing to be charged again!
- taid9iK- 2y ago
  My Cowon D2 might be old but it still goes on for days and days and ... you get it, it's awesome!
- mixermachine 2y ago
  15 hours seems not that much considering an iPod nano can do 30 hours (according to Apple)
- latexr 2y ago
  Fifteen hours is not enough for a two-week hike. That gives you one hour of listening per day, maximum.
ramses0 2y ago
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAJ3KQB https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAJ3KQB ...probably at least 10-25 hours playback on a single battery, which means 8 batteries gives you 80 hours of listening (2 weeks). For that space though, you could scavenge a solar garden light charger and get indefinite listening with ~4 batteries. 1 loaded, 3 charging, with a nominal "fully charge 3 batteries with 16 hours of daylight", which means a ~33% duty cycle. One sunny day charges 3 batteries, which means you have 45 hours of charge before needing to obtain another 16 hours of sunlight.
- codazoda 2y ago
  I was surprised to see that company is still around. I used to love their cameras because of their limitations. Unless I’m mixing them up with a similarly named company.
Rinzler89 2y ago
>A friend asked if I knew of an MP3 player that would be good for a two-week hike with no access to electricity, and it really seems like there's nothing out there beyond carrying around a bunch of batteries. Go on the used market and look for old iRiver players if you can, preferably the T10. They take AA batteries and last forever (45+ hours), have a rugged sporty design and had the best non-Apple quality and UX. The only downside is the small flash storage on them for today's standards but only the old players were feature AA batteries, before they all switched to sealed internal lithium meaning they are now dead. But on the upside the name brand players from 20 years ago had higher quality MP3 decoding SoCs and audio DACs, while the new MP3 players with AA batteries you can buy today are all bottom of the barrel chinesium e-waste.
fmj 2y ago
A modded iPod classic is hard to beat. Replace the HDD with a CF card (many of the SD and SATA adapter boards don't have support the drive's power saving features) and stick the biggest battery you can get in there. I've seen people get 100+ hours of playback from a modded iPod.
bufferoverflow 2y ago
Just bring a power bank.

michaelmior 2y ago

There are other options such as chargers powered by solar power, hand crank, fire, etc.

walterbell 2y ago

FiiO M3 Pro? https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-M3-Pro-Resolution-Touchscreen/dp/B086Z65V49 https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-M3-Pro-Resolution-Touchscreen/dp... > 15 hours battery life and 35 days standby time: Adopt 1000 mAh high-capacity lithium-ion battery and USB-C charging technology. The M3 Pro has a battery life up to 15 hours and standby time up to 35 days. That means if you listen 3.5 hours every day, the M3 Pro can go for a whopping 1 week before needing to be charged again!

taid9iK- 2y ago
My Cowon D2 might be old but it still goes on for days and days and ... you get it, it's awesome!
mixermachine 2y ago
15 hours seems not that much considering an iPod nano can do 30 hours (according to Apple)
latexr 2y ago
Fifteen hours is not enough for a two-week hike. That gives you one hour of listening per day, maximum.

ramses0 2y ago

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAJ3KQB https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAJ3KQB ...probably at least 10-25 hours playback on a single battery, which means 8 batteries gives you 80 hours of listening (2 weeks). For that space though, you could scavenge a solar garden light charger and get indefinite listening with ~4 batteries. 1 loaded, 3 charging, with a nominal "fully charge 3 batteries with 16 hours of daylight", which means a ~33% duty cycle. One sunny day charges 3 batteries, which means you have 45 hours of charge before needing to obtain another 16 hours of sunlight.

codazoda 2y ago
I was surprised to see that company is still around. I used to love their cameras because of their limitations. Unless I’m mixing them up with a similarly named company.

Rinzler89 2y ago

>A friend asked if I knew of an MP3 player that would be good for a two-week hike with no access to electricity, and it really seems like there's nothing out there beyond carrying around a bunch of batteries. Go on the used market and look for old iRiver players if you can, preferably the T10. They take AA batteries and last forever (45+ hours), have a rugged sporty design and had the best non-Apple quality and UX. The only downside is the small flash storage on them for today's standards but only the old players were feature AA batteries, before they all switched to sealed internal lithium meaning they are now dead. But on the upside the name brand players from 20 years ago had higher quality MP3 decoding SoCs and audio DACs, while the new MP3 players with AA batteries you can buy today are all bottom of the barrel chinesium e-waste.

fmj 2y ago

A modded iPod classic is hard to beat. Replace the HDD with a CF card (many of the SD and SATA adapter boards don't have support the drive's power saving features) and stick the biggest battery you can get in there. I've seen people get 100+ hours of playback from a modded iPod.

bufferoverflow 2y ago

Just bring a power bank.