Best way to listen to music or podcasts while running? with your phone or without?

SprintTriathlon wrote:

guadzilla wrote:

You can get a small Sony Walkman MP3 player. Fairly small and light, and stashes anywhere. I use those and Aftershockz bone conduction headphones, both on the bike and the run, and it works very well for me.

I sweat a lot in my head when running, how do the Aftershockz fare in that respect?

I don’t know how much you sweat, but I doubt it would be an issue, I’ve used mine in the rain before without an issue

Looking for someone to mug wrote:

Wearing headphones, earbuds, or anything else while you run outside just makes you an easy target by someone that wants to mug, assault, or rape you. Do you really want to do this in NYC? I wouldn't do it anywhere except maybe at an indoor gym.

Just BEING in NYC makes you an easy target. Nothing to do with headphones.

.mp3 player from the early 2000's

My ipod nano is about dead and was looking for a new device too. Good thread.

Why did Apple stop making Ipod nanos? They were a very good device.

I don't want to carry my phone at the gym or when I run. The nano was great.

I prefer to listen to music and podcasts from Spotify while running. And I often download Spotify music and podcasts to my device for offline listening through TunesKit Spotify Music Converter. As my mp3 player is not supported the original format of Spotify music and all Spotify music is protected by DRM, I use the converter to get DRM-free Spotify files for listening without limitation.

I have the sandisk clip jam, and while it may be okay for listening to music it's absolutely terrible for listening to podcasts. The prev/back & next/ff buttons are extremely finicky, very easy to accidentally press, and impossible to use reliably.

The reason why this is so bad for podcasts is that if you are listening to a podcast that's an hour long and halfway through you decide you want to fast-forward through a commercial, 50% of the time when you try to hold the next/ff button it will incorrectly detect a button press instead of a hold or in addition to a hold. So it will skip to the next podcast. Then when you try to go back to the podcast you were on and fast forward to where you were, it's impossible to get there because before you can fast forward that far it will inevitably decide at some point that you have clicked next instead of held the button to fast forward. The back button is also very sensitive and easy to bump while you're trying to adjust the volume or the position of the clip or anything else. And once you accidentally jump to the previous or next podcast, then you're completely screwed because it doesn't remember where you were on your original podcast and there's no way to get back to it.

So I cannot emphasize enough how terrible the sandisk clip is for podcasts. The only way to listen to a podcast on the sandisk clip is to start at the beginning and listen straight through to the end with it carefully placed so that nothing--not a piece of clothing or a breath of wind--ever touches any of the buttons. It's fine for music if you can tolerate manually copying songs and manually creating static playlists in today's world of streaming automatic dynamically generated playlists.

Why don't you bring your phone with you when you run. Believe me, the phone should be all the time with you. I advise you to buy support for the phone and attach it to your hand and it will be perfect. Another advice is to buy wireless headphones to be comfortable to run. If you want to hear only a type of music but you cannot download it, use https://mp3juices.red/, it helps you to download everything from anywhere for free. I use it for some months and all the songs from it are in good quality.

willitrue wrote:

Why don't you bring your phone with you when you run. Believe me, the phone should be all the time with you. I advise you to buy support for the phone and attach it to your hand and it will be perfect. Another advice is to buy wireless headphones to be comfortable to run. If you want to hear only a type of music but you cannot download it, use

https://mp3juices.red/

, it helps you to download everything from anywhere for free. I use it for some months and all the songs from it are in good quality.

My friend was just looking for this information. Thanks

For me, I usually listen to Spotify music, podcasts, etc. while I'm running, of course, with iPhone. But this will consume data, and also money while listening to Spotify, as I'm only a free user.

Fortunately, Tunelf Spotify Music Converter helps me out, since it's able to help you download all Spotify songs to MP3, so that I can listen to them offline, even if I'm a free subscriber. Have used it for several months, and satisfied with it.

I tired the Garmin 645 music with Jaybird Bluetooth active earbuds. I felt like a millennial with the look of the earbuds.

I only ran with the setup once. First issue was that the watch and earbuds kept losing sync. I read that was probably due to the fact I wear my watch on my left arm and the Bluetooth connection is in the right earbud.

Second problem is that they kept falling out of my ears when I sweat. I tried all 3 size rubber pieces. That was a deal breaker for a $600+ setup.

I had been running with an old iPhone (no cellular) and old wired Yurbud headphones. They are the best. However as you mentioned holding an iPhone is too bulky, and I sweat like crazy in the summer (live in FL). I gave up and have been going sans music for 2 months.

Any good small WiFi MP3 players that I can still use my Yurbuds?

My method is to download music and podcasts as offline files so that I can import them to my portable MP3 player for listening while jogging. This innovative way doesn't need a phone nearby or use cellular data. I have been Spotify fans for many years so I choose to download music and podcasts from Spotify by the AudKit Spotify Playlist Downloader. This tool really works well.

I agree with most of the comments above : phone + Spotify/Soundcloud/Qubus/Pandora (whatever you prefer). There are so many decent music and podcasts https://webstreamingsites.com web streaming services these days. On most of them you can also download stuff in case if you run in the area with the poor mobile network. Ipod nano is another great device which you can use for those purposes. The good thing about it is a light weight and small size and the bad - limited space (not that phone has unlimited, but all the new phones have much more memory space than the ipod)

You can put offline music on a portable device. Making music offline is very simple. Tunelf Deezer Music Converter is a tailored product for Deezer Music users. DeeKeep allows you to easily download songs, albums, playlists and podcasts from Deezer Music for offline listening. You can enjoy them offline on any music player without any restrictions.

You can choose a compact Sony Walkman MP3 player. It is quite light and easy to carry around. I often use Aftershokz bone conduction headphones when cycling and running, and the experience is really good.

One of the things that no one really talks about is that Apple essentially killed owned music when it stopped making the iPods.

iTunes was an app on everyone’s desktop and phone, and people used to listen to music they bought (albums and singles). You’d drag it to a device and go running. I still have an external hard drive with like 500 albums on it, built over a decade of burning cds, buying iTunes albums, and using download codes after buying physical albums.

Now, you rent music on Spotify or Apple Music and have no ability to take that offline unless you have a device that is licensed by these streaming services (e.g., Mighty).

Even if Apple started making the iPod Shuffle again, most people wouldn’t have the mp3 library that they may have had in 2010. And iPods sure a heck wouldn’t let users use music from Spotify or another non-Apple service.

Sad…

Mighty is still the best option, but it is slow and clunky to use and feels like a HUGE step backwards tech-wise.