Give Your Old Phone a Second Life as an MP3 Player

In the age of the smartphone, there’s something appealing about a device that can’t do everything. If you listen to music on your primary phone, then every song can be interrupted by pings, emails or low-battery warnings. But there’s an easy solution to this problem — and it might already be in your house.

Back in the days before smartphones, it seemed like everyone had an MP3 player. The best-known device was the iPod, which debuted in 2001. It wasn’t the first portable media player, but it definitely helped popularize the idea of putting 1,000 songs in your pocket.

MP3 players continued to exist alongside smartphones for some time and even added support for additional music file formats like WAV, AAC, WMA and FLAC. But as music streaming replaced the traditional practice of buying digital albums and tracks, it wasn’t long before having a separate music player...

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