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I can now confirm that this brand new MP3 player has a REAL clickwheel! Not just a mechanical wheel. An actual wheel with a touch pad that clicks for song and file navigation! And yes, the centre is a button that clicks too! Why am I excited about this? As we all know, Apple stopped making iPods. The iPod Classic, Nano, and Shuffle was discontinued long, long ago. And very few non-Apple MP3 players since have had clickwheels. This one was bought off Amazon for $83.99 and has a 64GB of storage—which is slightly more than what my iPod Classic had right before it was stolen. This also uses Rockbox firmware, which gives it an intuitive iPod-like UI and functionality. You can look at photos and watch movies on it—even read books, but who would read books on this thing? Whatever, it’s here. But there’s more! This MP3 player can play lossless .flac files. Which is something my iPod couldn’t do. It also has Bluetooth connectivity. And it sports an FM radio. How does it sound, though? Well, I’m listening on Audio-Technica ATH-M50x headphones—plugged right into the 3.5mm jack—and it sounds great. As good as an iPod, perhaps better. This thing purports to have 25 hour of audio playback with wired headphones at half volume. I’m not sure about this, but I’m testing it. Nevertheless, this is where my old iPod Classic has the edge because it offered 30 hours of audio playback. One further benefit: it works with Linux. Nothing like iTunes is required. It’s just a matter of dragging and dropping files onto the device—which makes it way more useful to me than an iPod since, well, I like to use my Bazzite desktop PC for CD ripping. If this just acts like an iPod, I am very happy. And yes, since this is cheap, I expect there to be “surprises”. But so far, this is a suitable—and cheap—iPod replacement! For all of you wanting the link, here is where I found it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0GX9H3CPJ RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/dcbea8c1-6685-4dcb-95e1-99026e5a1fd5