I’m looking for a BIFL (or at least last me for a while) music player that can play .wav files, has a lot of storage, is portable, and the parts are able to be replaced/upgraded. I’ve heard about using iPod classics but it seems like they’re unable to play .wav files. Any reccomendations?

    • zagaberoo@beehaw.orgEnglish
      91·
      2 days ago

      I once had a debate with my audiophile uncle about how lossless compression results in identical inputs to the DAC, but he clung to the illusory superiority of WAV.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        “okay. all i hear is words. i know the WAVs work and i like how they sound. can you please just make the WAVs work?”

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I can see someone not caring about the wasted space in 2024, but does WAV have the ability to store ReplayGain tags?

    • countrypunk@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Nah, I’m aware of flac, but I’ve had issues with compatibility that I don’t have with wav files.

      • danAEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        What type of issues? Did you get error messages?

          • danAEnglish
            7·
            2 days ago

            Which players? FLAC has been around for over 20 years, so players that don’t recognize it probably need to be updated :D