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I bought a Fiio X3 about seven years ago, specifically because you can put an SD card into it and have effectively unlimited storage. If you're an audiophile, you can have thousands of FLAC files instead of MP3s. Not only does the audio player still work, its battery life barely seems to have declined at all and I still use it occasionally. (The main reason I don't use it as often as I used to is just because I don't listen to music as much as I used to.)
Depending on your preferred genres, most artists will upload their music to Bandcamp as well as streaming platforms. There's no subscription fee for Bandcamp, you just pay when you want to buy a release from a specific artist. If you buy a release, you can listen to it as often as you like via the Bandcamp app, OR you can download the release in your preferred file format (MP3 at a range of bitrates, FLAC, even WAV if you're feeling nuts) and upload it to your personal audio player.
I've never had a Spotify subscription and never intend to get one, firstly because as previously mentioned I don't listen to music very much anymore, secondly because I loathe SaaS on general principle, and thirdly, because for all the talk of it being a "great way to discover new music", everything I've read about it indicates that its suggestion algorithms work the same way as every other such algorithm: it shows you "new" artists which sound extremely similar to the artists you already like. Just because I like listening to Weezer doesn't mean I want to listen to Weezer knockoffs every day.
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