[TheEaterOfSouls]

Similar experience here. I grabbed a few Clip Zip/Plus players in 2015 because I figured they'd get harder and harder to find (prices were ridiculous) and might still use one for music/audiobooks if it weren't for the fact that I pretty much exclusively use bluetooth now. They were fast, had amazing battery life, and just did what they did really well. Maybe I'm just "doing something wrong" (I've never made real use of a streaming service, strip my audiobooks of DRM and play them in a media player rather than a dedicated app etc) but the modern phone experience just seems like a step backward when it comes to this.