Products · Broad category
Portable music players
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 20 years (2007–2026), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Portable music players, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Track ordering is random, some tracks don't show, and playback position is forgotten on stop2026-01-24
- Current players are hard to use: huge battery-draining touch screens, dreadful Android OS, unclear menus2023-09-10
- Navigating large libraries is painful due to inconsistent naming and poor tags2021-10-26
- Navigating other MP3 players' awkward buttons and UI was annoying2018-09-01
- Earlier portable MP3 players had terrible user experience before the iPod2016-11-04
- Rival players have crappy playlist systems, lots of buttons, and confusing interfaces2007-08-24