Reviews of the best mp3 players you can buy in 2025. “MP3 players — or digital audio players, as they should more accurately be called — are seeing a small resurgence…”
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Really digging single-use devices these days. They seem to be better at doing their one thing and using them keeps me off of the time suck of my smartphone. Love my Supernote Nomad for note-taking at work and my Boox Palma for reading. Probably can't add an MP3 player to my daily carry, but I still love checking these out.
CD players, too! With smartphones (and smartwatches and Bluetooth headsets) banned in Vermont schools this year, my son mentioned getting a CD player. (We have a healthy collection of CDs at home.) I hunted for one for his birthday just before school resumed and burned him a bunch of MP3 CDs with albums he requested.
He came home the first day of school and said, "yeah, everyone has them."
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