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  • I miss physical buttons for when I’m listening to music.

    Having to unlock my phone to skip a track or advance a podcast is really annoying.

    I used to be able to click a button in my pocket. I could even slide a bit to skip forward and back 30 seconds.

    I also like to listen to music in bed in the dark. The bright screen, the messing around with the unlock, really breaks the flow.

    Yes I have earphones that are touch sensitive, but poking it messes with any good isolated fit I’ve achieved, the touch doesn’t always register and after a while, one ear starts to hurt. Especially when you need to tap three times to restart a track.

    I’ve now got this stupid setup with a BT dongle in a usb a-c converter; which plugs into my phone and controls a tiny physical keyboard.

    There are lots of mp3 players, but they don’t support streaming platforms. The ones that do, also went mainly touch screen only and cost a fortune. There is one physical Spotify player with buttons but it’s just a dumb cube with very basic functionality.