Khajiit
You can't go wrong here.....
In a world were we've been herded into an all in one smartphone based system, this little guy is a breath of fresh air. It's like going back to the early 00s when your MP3s came from a stack of CDs you'd ripped or infected the family PC with stuff you'd found on Limewire. You didn't need subscriptions, data, or a wifi connection Local content was were it was at. Things have changed a bit since them, mainly Audio Quality and file size. the 8GB this thing comes with is great, you can store a bunch of music or books on there, but you can also slip a micro sd card into it (up to 256gb) to literally carry WEEKS of listening. For something incredibly small and light (it's about as large and heavy as a box of matches) it runs for a good 12+ hours. SnowSky claim 15 hours of playback but this is likely with low screen brightness etc. so in the real world you'll probably charge this maybe once a week with a couple of hours a day listening time- ideal if you're commuting. To use you've got buttons and menus- like I said, back to the 00s, so no touch screen. They aren't simple menus either, they're nested and you have to go down a few levels to get into some option lists and functions like the EQ settings. Even a month or so on I'm still having to think about what I'm doing and not able to get by on memory yet. The more complicated functionality might be a deal breaker for some but I'm loving the more mindful experience and the tactile feedback from the buttons. It's easy to load up with audio and supports may file formats inc the new gold standard FLAC. it's literally drag and drop from your PC. This is how you set your playlists up too, you just group tracks into a folder and transfer the folder to the Echo Mini- it doesn't support playlists transferred from your PC annoyingly, I'm hoping some day a FW update will fix this, but until then grouping tracks in a 'playlist folder' and is the best workable solution.Ive also just discovered it will display the song lyrics when the