MP3 player with Bluetooth and able to take large capacity SD cards?

[MarcLister]

I commute into work a few times a week and I like to listen to music on the walk to the station and on the train. I wear hearing aids and have recently bought a cool little gadget that I can use to listen to music without having to fit cables directly to my hearing aids. It uses a loop cable around my neck that my hearing aids can receive audio through wirelessly. Currently I have the device plugged into a Fiio M3K using a cable but I would like to use the Bluetooth function of the device so I only have that hanging off my neck and not the Fiio M3K as well which is just more cables.

Is there a reasonably priced MP3 player that has Bluetooth, so the hearing aid gadget can connect to it, but that also can take large capacity SD cards? I have a 400GB SD card so the MP3 player would need to accommodate SD cards of a similar capacity, perhaps up to 512GB or even 1TB. By reasonably priced I mean no more than a few hundred. I have found some other Fiio portable DACs but they are either £800-900 or well over £1k so this is out of the equation.

If there isn't I was thinking of getting a decent Android smartphone and just using that as an MP3 player.

 

[MarcLister]

MicroSDXC. Yes that's what I'm starting to think. Get a smartphone with Bluetooth that takes up to 512GB or 1TB microSD and just don't bother with a SIM card. My Oneplus 8T doesn't have the ability to take microSD hence thinking of either a Bluetooth enabled MP3 player or, more likely, a smartphone.

 

[MarcLister]

Completely forgot about Sony Walkman's! Thanks for the reminder.

That NW-AW306 looks good but a bit steep really at £350. I'll check out reviews for it tomorrow and see if its worth that for me.

 

[MarcLister]

Take a look at the HiBy R series. I use a R3 Pro with a 512GB microsd.

The Android powered R5 has been dropping in price recently and is down to £339 on Amazon. That supports up to 2TB cards.

Will do, thanks. I ended up getting the Motorola for £170 but will keep an eye on bespoke devices like this.

Just add the amount of music the device (smartphone) can hold then. You can’t listen to it all at once.

I can barely fit 1/5 of my music collection onto my phone with the space I have left. I can't listen to it all at once but having everything with me means I can choose from everything and not less than 1/5 of my collection.

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Or Acer predator 21x

Haha, slightly overkill! $9k+?! I did actually see a guy on the train platform years ago using a laptop to listen to his music. Obviously wasn't an MP3 player kind of person!

I use an Astell & Kern SR25 as my main player. However, I bought a Hidizs AP80 Pro-X around the same time for gym use.

Ultra small profile, takes a Micro SD card up to 512GB, accepts lots of file types, HiBy Os and the sound is excellent. Bi-directional Bluetooth supported. Big improvement on the custom iPod I was using previously.

Around £150 at the moment. Paid about £200 for mine. Zero issues with it in apx. 10 months.

Now that looks cool. With tax its probably a similar price to the Motorola I bought but I will check this out for a future purchase.