[thekingofrome]

I took my music collection offline at the start of this year, so I would lose my final reason to "need" to carry a smartphone around. It took me about 16 hours over two days to plan, organize and acquire all the music I would otherwise have listened to on Spotify.

In the end the experience was far inferior. My wireless earphones were harder to manage and connect, the UI and build quality were outright unpleasant ($40 price tag, wasn't willing to spend more), and podcasts wouldn't save the point I last stopped at. Not only that, but the MP3 player didn't recognize the track number from within the MP3 data, meaning that albums were played with the tracks in alphabetical order, until I found a program that could change the file names to contain said number at the start of the file name.

The problem was clearly the really crappy MP3 player I got, but I couldn't find anything better that was reasonably priced in the market available to me in Europe. If I could find something then I'd love to give it another shot.