Digital Audio Players (DAPs)

[woodbar]

No, it appears to have been picked up twice when I commented. No idea why.

Gremlins in the machine!

 

[RTHerringbone]

Micro SD cards aren't cheap, are they? I figure that 1TB is absolutely ample for me as I don't need access to ~50k tracks at max quality, so 1TB can save me a few quid.

Are there any brands to favour / avoid, and do things like read / write speeds actually matter for audio, or are they more relevant for other media types?

 

[Al ears]

Micro SD cards aren't cheap, are they? I figure that 1TB is absolutely ample for me as I don't need access to ~50k tracks at max quality, so 1TB can save me a few quid.

Are there any brands to favour / avoid, and do things like read / write speeds actually matter for audio, or are they more relevant for other media types?

One TB?, How much music do you want on a card?

 

[RTHerringbone]

One TB?, How much music do you want on a card?

I thought it represented a compromise from the 2TB that the DAPs I'm looking at can take 😆

What sort of card size do you typically use?

In reality I'm not really likely to ever need as many as 1,000 songs on there so I can easily scale right back as there's no point having masses of redundant space. I think I'd probably go slightly overboard with 256GB just for headroom but even that's moot because I can obviously just add / remove tracks as I see fit anyway.

 

[Dave_]

I thought it represented a compromise from the 2TB that the DAPs I'm looking at can take 😆

What sort of card size do you typically use?

In reality I'm not really likely to ever need as many as 1,000 songs on there so I can easily scale right back as there's no point having masses of redundant space. I think I'd probably go slightly overboard with 256GB just for headroom but even that's moot because I can obviously just add / remove tracks as I see fit anyway.

Even a 128GB card will hold several thousand lossless tracks....

 

[Jasonovich]

Micro SD cards aren't cheap, are they? I figure that 1TB is absolutely ample for me as I don't need access to ~50k tracks at max quality, so 1TB can save me a few quid.

Are there any brands to favour / avoid, and do things like read / write speeds actually matter for audio, or are they more relevant for other media types?

Beware of SD fakes, particularly Sandisk and Samsung.
I buy from Amazon because there's no fuss if I need to return.
The good memories are, Kingston, Lexar, Sandisk, Samsung, Integral and Amazon Basics.

Slightly off topic, I only wish DAPs use CFexpress like digital cameras, less fragile and much faster. I guess, speed while necessary in video and photography, not so crucial in audio.
It'll be nice to have CFexpress reliability and longevity, happy to pay a little extra for it.