November 7, 20205 yr 8 minutes ago, xtrnuno41 said: Talking about walkman's . Still have one, getting older brand new. Just bought it before mp3 came out, of course switched then and the walkman moved into the closet, but it is still there. Also a high tech Aiwa cassette player, getting older, brand new. Both bought on wrong moment. Ha! I remember them days and having to carry the Walkman while jogging. We've come far, needless to say.
November 7, 20205 yr Author 1 hour ago, UncleMhee said: Surely you jest......Bht 1990 https://www.sony.co.th/en/electronics/walkman/nwz-b180-series I must have missed that A previous link started at about 100K and that stopped me looking any further
November 7, 20205 yr On 11/6/2020 at 5:06 PM, Daffy D said: I'm looking for a MP3 player something like the Walkman used to be. Hope I'm not the only one that remembers those Anyway don't want an Apple product, too expensive and don't need a phone with all it's gizmos. Just a simple player with headphones that will play MP3 music or an audio book, and drown out all the village noises while I'm relaxing in the shade in the hammock in the afternoons would do just fine. Cheers Sorry, cannot advise. I have used iPhone to listen to my music or BBC Worldnews while exercise walking in the park. I do have an old iPod which is fitted to my radio speakers when in the office ... soft romantic Thai music, Gregorian Chants or my '60s downloaded song when the spirit hits me.
November 7, 20205 yr Author 2 minutes ago, moose7117 said: A Walk-non-gender-specific ? Do you have a link for A Walkperson player
November 7, 20205 yr Btw there is a software i like to use for upgrading my music. You can make it anyway you like it. If you have poor sound, not strong signal, you can boost it and many other things. Like adding treble or bass. You can cut clipping, distort it, put reverb to it, well many things. It also adds other possibilities from other programs, like guitarrig. Up till now it is still free and it is called audicity. I love that program very much.
November 7, 20205 yr Author 3 minutes ago, wwest5829 said: Sorry, cannot advise. I have used iPhone to listen to my music or BBC Worldnews while exercise walking in the park. I do have an old iPod which is fitted to my radio speakers when in the office ... soft romantic Thai music, Gregorian Chants or my '60s downloaded song when the spirit hits me. Oh my lord now really scraping the bottom of my memory barrel. Haven't heard or even thought about Gregorian Chants since my school days.
November 7, 20205 yr On 11/6/2020 at 5:40 PM, Crossy said: Any reason not to just use your phone? jogging, biking, exercising it's of course possible to use smartphone in a belt with Bluetooth headset, but less of a hassle with just Mp3 headphones.
November 7, 20205 yr What's the modern day equivalent of a Walkman ? A sleeping woman. ???? Or a MP 4 player that fits in your ear.
November 7, 20205 yr On 11/6/2020 at 11:06 AM, Daffy D said: I'm looking for a MP3 player something like the Walkman used to be. Hope I'm not the only one that remembers those You can still bay a Walkman, but it will not play cassette-tapes – I just bought one that can play musicasettes for my daughter, that's a trend be teens to play real old-fashioned tapes, with that sound quality – take a look at these Lazada suggestions, the also have more affordable Chinese products, if you are not specifically looking for a Sony, just repeat the search without a brand name...????
November 7, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, Daffy D said: Oh my lord now really scraping the bottom of my memory barrel. Haven't heard or even thought about Gregorian Chants since my school days. I use Gregorian Chants to relax when having massage, it's great...????
November 7, 20205 yr 19 hours ago, VBF said: Well, I have some old 78 RPM records of my father's including this one which I've remastered to FLAC files, then down to MP3 to play on my phone Now THAT'S a generation jump! Cool, but I skip the difficult generation jumps and just play the originals on my still going strong genuine player that don't need neither to be online, nor running dry of powerbank...
November 7, 20205 yr The modern equivalent of a walkman is downloading Spotify or Apple Music (it's available on Android) on your phone. Spotify is free but you have to listen to ads between songs. But it only costs 129 baht per month and you get the first month free to try it. 60 million songs or something like that
November 7, 20205 yr I download videos from Youtube, then convert them to MP3 using a file converter. https://www.freefileconvert.com/ Transfer to my phone, use earbuds with a Bluetooth connection to the phone. Very good sound quality, have about 500 musical pieces on the phone. I can move about 10 metres away from the phone before the sound cuts out.
November 7, 20205 yr This was my travel companion for many years: The Archos Gmini MP3 player, handy little piece of kit, plug it into the laptop and drag and drop files onto it , fits in the palm of your hand.
November 7, 20205 yr 20 hours ago, VBF said: Well, I have some old 78 RPM records of my father's including this one which I've remastered to FLAC files, then down to MP3 to play on my phone Now THAT'S a generation jump! My earliest memories of hearing music from a machine was from a wind up phonograph that had the choice of 78 or 33 rpm playing speeds. My Mother had a small collection of some (to me) horrible fragile discs she would play occasionally. They eventually failed to play despite the coin placed on the arm to keep it in the groove even as that coin progressed from farthing to halfpenny then penny! The only one that I have inherited and which still plays (mostly) is a relatively new one in her collection that she did not like is Stanley Holloway reciting the tale of Albert and the Lion and on the B side Sam Joins the Army. Even as a child I had to enjoy and laugh at the sardonic humour . Having the life experience of going from watching a crude needle extract sound to emanate from an ornate horn to now experiencing sound of good quality injected via wireless ear buds from a source unseen is my personal equivalent to the experience my parents had to witnessing the technology of telephony, flying machines becoming a standard means of military assignation and secondary new form of convenient public transport , nuclear weapons as the demonstrable incentive to adhere to collective submission to a select agenda and onward onward. Now it has all been incorporated into a hand held device or smaller. The variables of that device can now provide many of the wishes of society bar physical flight (exceptions being booking flights or announcing one prior to leaping off a building !) The progression of such relatively rapid progress may be implants that allow selectivity in application of the practical, enjoyable and the inevitable indoctrination of ? How strange is it that which society has been so welcoming to adopt in the belief that it somehow empowers them to express themselves , participate in social outcomes, resist manipulative dominance etc they have enabled by funding exactly the opposite of their presumed objectives. I could expand and expound further but will relent except to say that if there be those who have objection to my discourse should hark back to the response to my much earlier question to the OP. That response removed any question as to specifics of topic in the interest of eliciting comment in the context of an open forum. Modern "Walkman" equivalent? Why not a cheap harmonica and blow to hearts content ?????
November 7, 20205 yr if for just in hammock, you have a few options depending how far from other devices you may own, if your PC or TV has Bluetooth and is in range of your hammock, you could just buy some bluetooth ear buds otherwise a cheap android phone will suffice
November 7, 20205 yr 5 hours ago, khunPer said: Cool, but I skip the difficult generation jumps and just play the originals on my still going strong genuine player that don't need neither to be online, nor running dry of powerbank... Bit of a PITA when the rubber band snaps though, innit? ????
November 7, 20205 yr sandisk makes good cheap MP3 players, much smaller than phone and holds thousands of songs....
November 8, 20205 yr On 11/6/2020 at 5:06 PM, Daffy D said: Anyway don't want an Apple product, too expensive and don't need a phone with all it's gizmos. Buy a cheap phone & delete all the apps you don't want... use the free camera to take a shot of the sea view while you relax.
November 8, 20205 yr 20 hours ago, Daffy D said: Music and audio books is not a problem. I got lots on the computer, just need a unit that will play SD cards. Most Android phones play external SD cards.
November 8, 20205 yr 5555 There was a gizmo that kind of added a stereo effect to a non-stereo car radio. Ah, the good ol' days.
November 8, 20205 yr On 11/7/2020 at 12:03 AM, Daffy D said: Didn't know you could do that Will it play MP3 ? Yes providing you have the correct software in it. ThIs is als available free (Google Play)and most smartphones will have it in the factory O.S., as bought. Ask at the shop. If the phone will hold a separate S.D card you can put an almost unlimited amount of music on it. A good walkman product will have better sound production than a cheap phone but this is purely subjective. I have a 10 year old pink Samsung player and it is outstanding.
November 8, 20205 yr Popular Post On 11/6/2020 at 7:42 PM, Eindhoven said: It will be able to play anything, with a suitable player installed; such as VLC Player. I cannot listen to .mp3 music. Quality is too low. Usually use FLAC or .ape for storing and listening. Phone will also give you the option of viewing video if you feel like it. I do not think you will hear the difference between mp3 or flac when listening on a phone, or via the internet eg YouTube. OK, if you put the flacs or even wavs on your SD card and listen through very good headphones/buds you may hear a slight difference. But the DA converters in 'normal' smart phones will not be the best.
November 8, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, KannikaP said: I do not think you will hear the difference between mp3 or flac when listening on a phone, or via the internet eg YouTube. OK, if you put the flacs or even wavs on your SD card and listen through very good headphones/buds you may hear a slight difference. But the DA converters in 'normal' smart phones will not be the best. You think wrong. If you cannot hear the difference then I don't know what to tell you. Either your hearing is gone or your perception. I have the same songs; lossless and mp3 320kbps. Everything is lacking with the mp3 conversions in comparison. This on phone, laptop etc I have no idea why you would even suggest such a thing. It is totally erroneous. Not unlike someone saying there is no difference between VHS video and DVD Video, as long as you play the video on a tiny two inch TV. You will hear the difference on a normal set of 2:1 speakers or any headphones that aren't the cheapest of the cheap.
November 8, 20205 yr 34 minutes ago, Eindhoven said: You think wrong. If you cannot hear the difference then I don't know what to tell you. Either your hearing is gone or your perception. I have the same songs; lossless and mp3 320kbps. Everything is lacking with the mp3 conversions in comparison. This on phone, laptop etc I have no idea why you would even suggest such a thing. It is totally erroneous. Not unlike someone saying there is no difference between VHS video and DVD Video, as long as you play the video on a tiny two inch TV. You will hear the difference on a normal set of 2:1 speakers or any headphones that aren't the cheapest of the cheap. Yes, my hearing IS gone if you consider above 11kHz to be gone. After 40 odd years playing live music it's not unexpected.
November 8, 20205 yr 11 minutes ago, KannikaP said: Yes, my hearing IS gone if you consider above 11kHz to be gone. After 40 odd years playing live music it's not unexpected. 11 kHz seems relatively limited. I haven't been tested of late, so make no further comment regarding that. I play too...but took precautions. But even with that, if you know how things should sound, you especially should hear the difference. Lossless a much fuller, more complete presentation.
November 8, 20205 yr 9 minutes ago, Eindhoven said: 11 kHz seems relatively limited. I haven't been tested of late, so make no further comment regarding that. I play too...but took precautions. But even with that, if you know how things should sound, you especially should hear the difference. Lossless a much fuller, more complete presentation. Analogous ist best, so Live Music is best. If you dance to it and move your head, your ears won't be too exposed to the hammering beat. And you can always step back from the amps, smoke a cigarette or drink beer with the bar girls around. I never use earphones for that reason. I must move with the music, and it's also some kind of exercise.
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