I had been wanting something similar recently and ended up buying a Hifi Walker H2 and loading rockbox on it. Works great, and it’s a total nostalgia trip to be using rockbox again after so many years!

Wheels will always be the best way to navigate music libraries.

Oh, nice! That undercuts the price of the FiiO JM21 by about half, which was the other entry-level audiophile music player I was looking at if I ever decided to splurge on one:

https://www.amazon.com/JadeAudio-JM21-Snapdragon-Bluetooth-P...