On 2018-02-07, Flasherly wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:38:59 -0500, Seymore4Head
wrote:

I want an AC stereo alarm clock with USB mp3 player. Pretty basic
features. I want to be able to put mp3s on a USB stick and play for
30 min or so at night.

Anyone have one they want to recommend?

I am seeing USB clocks, but I have yet to see one with a USB port on
any of the previews. I suspect that USB might be a smaller version
than the USB I have on my thumb drive.

It'll be a transformer then, these days. Not many new units, Chinese
builds, that is which pretty much qualifies what you want to do with
USB. Many are also going to be, both or besides USB, Micro TF cards
(smartphone memory);- some compatibility issues with that, whereas USB
is basically don't exceed the unit's stated stick capacity.

Mine are powered viz a cell phone battery that recharges off USB
and/or will interact, 2-way, with a computer OS viz the USB port ROM
ID. Basic copy files or play out to the computer, newer car
line-inputs and stuff like that. Couple hour playback or six with a
better battery replacement.

Dunno, but my better one, populated and switchable for both TF and
USB, is something like 96G of storage from MP3 files I downconverted
to 128K sample rates. Tens of thousands, directly addressable by a
four- or five-digit keypad, for 9999 or 99999 songs.

There's a clock. Some probably have alarms. The Chinese think it's
cute to market them as: Old Folks' Music Players. That everyone,
who's anyone, evidently, would use something more complicated, like a
smartphone. Only dumb anti-computer people, old or mentally infirmed,
would use that sort of gadget.

In any event, that's the general $10 or $20US tract. Almost
exclusively EBay out of Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Central China. They're
also on Amazon, with Chinglish representatives, hustling through
Amazon's rating systems, lessor or similar items at two to three
times, additional, for middlemen markups.

Play them both if you're new, for narrowing in on what you want and
what's actually out there. (I wanted something to hang from my car's
radio knob. A Korean car manditorily equipped with SIRUS subscription
reception, along with a bunch of other sh*t, in order to mark it up an
additional $1000 for Western Marketing Interests.)

Or go buy yourself a BOSE system for $500+US.

Or get a "micro/mini system" like Yamaha, Denon or Onkyo. The thing is
that the alarm setting is called "programmable timer".