Recomendations for dedicated audiobook/music player for long distance thru hikes

Would an Apple iPod Touch meet your needs?  3.1 ounces.

The iPod is only 3.1 ounces???  That lighter than I thought.  It looks massive.  I wish they had something like the Nano still…that might be more like what I’m look for.

You can get nanos used. Still trading one screen for another. Why not use your phone?

I recently bought a SanDisk mp3 player after looking for something lighter/better. There really hasn’t been much innovation in dedicated mp3 players in the last decade.

I don’t have any problem with Audible content – just convert it to mp3 then access it through the folder view.

I don’t use my phone on longer hikes cause my phone battery  is reserved for more critical apps, so I like to keep its screen off as much as possible.  Also I hate digging it out of my pocket to change songs…the MP3 player is stuck on my shirt.

The Sandisk Clip was a decent player back ‘in the day’.  They have various capacity players that are light and have a clip. That might be a good choice.

I won’t recommend what to use (I use my iPhone to listen to Audible books), but I will suggest that you don’t try to use an Apple Watch for Audible.  My wife and I were on vacation this summer and I thought it might be nice to be able to listen to my books without having to take my phone to the pools.  At best, it’s cumbersome to transfer books to the watch and it kept losing track of where I was.  I gave up after a frustrating day of trying to make it work.

As with Justin, mp3s played through the folder view. If the chapters are playing in the wrong order, edith the metadata.

Apologies, I was misremembering. Playing through folder view brings up the chapters in the wrong order for me, but SD card>Books pays them in the right order.