Glad to hear its still somewhat alive!

Noise-cancelling is a must-have for me. It significantly increases quality of life to have it with you, wherever you go.

And I like the high-quality look and haptic feeling of the NWZ-E585. It looks like a classy audio device. And it feels really good in your hand.

I assumed it was only possible when on the headset as it needed to be measured and cancelled based on the direction of the sound.

I'm failing how a device in your pocket can cancel any ambiant noise

I assume also there are jack-to-bluetooth adapters for wireless.

I guess the noise-cancelling has to be built into the mp3-player to avoid this. I have not seen elegant in-ear headphones with built-in noise-cancelling yet.

Bose QC35 are wireless but also come with a optional 2.5mm to 3.5mm jack cord.

I imgaine that there's lots of alternatives on the market too.

Very good

I suppose that's more or less important whether you're running in a busy city or out in the countryside though.

Either way, recent high end smart/sport watches usually have some sort of music playback support for folks who want to exercise with music but don't want to lug around a phone.

You may not hear mountain lion, but you may hear stray dog.

I have a Garmin smart watch that supports audio playback but it's a hassle to use because I have to load or sync recordings in advance. Streaming audio on my phone is much more convenient. Plus I have my phone with me anyway in case I want to take a picture due Strava or something.

I will personally attest to the Sansa clip + $10 earbuds being the best workout audio combo available.

I've collected 3 over the years in case any of them die off. While the battery life is still good I should probably get around to researching replacement batteries/cells while I still can.

The only failure I've had with one so far was the front buttons; and I bought a broken one for parts years ago that had the exact same issue...

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-clip-jam-8gb-mp3-player...

> Sansa Clip Sport / Clip Jam / Clip Sport Go / Clip Sport Plus

> These are based on an Actions Semiconductor ATJ2127 chips, with under 100KB of available memory and all audio decoding happening inside dedicated hardware. A rockbox port to these (and other ATJ2127) targets will not happen, as it would require an immence undertaking and due to resource limitations, the end result would lack most of the features that rockbox users have come to expect.

I was using mine in the very early days of Android existing. Some people had them, but I didn't yet. I got my first Android phone, moved my music over, and was ... massively disappointed. My favorite phone incident was sitting on some flight, trying to listen to music, and my phone wouldn't play it through the headphones, speakers only, annoying everyone nearby. I didn't listen to music on that flight and promptly switched back to a device that did not have a physical speaker.

Over time, phones rebuilt trust and I got a lot of use out of that, until Google Play Music got shut down and deleted all my music (no problem, I have it all locally). Now I have no idea what people do and simply go without. I guess people don't have music libraries any more and just listen to the radio for $10/month? No thanks. (I use foobar2000 on my desktop, and don't listen to music away from my home anymore. Thanks technological progress?)