THIS IS CROSSPOSTED FROM TOUYHOUSE. I'm copy pasting for Reach...

Yesterday, I went into a wild goose chase rabbit hole after encountering a tumblr post that reminded me of the 'good ol' days' of smartless ipods. I had hand-me-down ipod nano and ipod classic 6 (i think?), the latter in particular had 3000 songs from the latter owner, so I would sit and listen to music I'd never find, like MCR, Billy Talent (they had the fallen leaves song.. from the warrior cat MVs!) and more. The ipod nano had the Ginga Densetsu Weed intro I downloaded from youtube... It was awesome... Sadly I don't own either of those ipods anymore -- lost. In any case, current era Me, I miss being able to listen to music, and to own music - I have CDs I don't listen to, can't listen to, and I'm really overcome with nostalgia of dragging dropping music from a CD into an mp3 player. Sure, phones work nicely, but it also means nowadays I'm gazing at my apps while I listen to music >_< and at least for personal media... I don't like apple music's layout on iPhone.

I've spent a few hours yesterday getting more and more confused with the concept of "DAPs" (digital audio players") that all cost a fortune and are built with android (the smartphone?), so they're more expensive than I'd want and have less pressable physical buttons (and... too many options to choose). There's ipods, and sony walkman, though they can also be expensive and I'm scared of making bad decisions. Too many options, too many options.

So, I'm posting on the ToyHouse (possibly crossposting to sheezy too) ((HI SHEEZY)) to see if anyone has anything about MP3 players, possibly even suggestions. Reddit has made me more confused aaaand the internet in general's annoying to navigate. I wish there was an informational website about all of this, but I can't seem to dive deep enough to find one in the weeds.