digital audio players

  • Spotify’s Car Thing Is Baffling, but Works as Advertised

    Spotify’s Car Thing Is Baffling, but Works as Advertised

    I love my old car. It’s officially a teenager — 13, to be exact — but its in-dash entertainment setup makes it seem a whole lot older. For the longest time, I’ve been using the Android Auto app on my smartphone as my car’s “infotainment” system. Years ago, I yanked out the 30-pin proprietary iPod…


  • I Miss Apple’s Best iPod

    I Miss Apple’s Best iPod

    Of all the portable music players Apple has released over the past 20 years, the original iPod shuffle remains my favourite. It wasn’t my first iPod, and 16 years after its debut I’ve owned countless iterations of the iPhone, but I loved the shuffle for its basic design and functionality, not in spite of them.