Any iPod classic Users

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Just bought a iPod classic. Intending to stick a big SD card and battery in it for when we go backpacking. Just collecting up my CDs to rip to it now. :)
 
It was a risk but I just bought a brand new sealed iPod classic 5th Generation. Very happy with it.

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Ryan-3 said:
Just bought a iPod classic. Intending to stick a big SD card and battery in it for when we go backpacking. Just collecting up my CDs to rip to it now. :)
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Just got round to doing this last night. Took some fiddling and the ordering a thick rear case but it's running rock box with a 128GB SD card and 3000 mah battery. Perfect for backpacking whilst keeping the phone secured away.
 
I grabbed a broken screen 5.5 30gb ipod from ebay just after xmas with the intention of reducing dependancy on phone and streaming services. Dropped in 256gb microsd card big battery new front cover and new screen. Total cost is about £150 I think when all in, which seems silly but ive got it setup really nicely now. Syncs my podcasts and music very well, signed up to icloud match to get top quality files onto it. Struggling with audiobooks a bit though.
In general I love it, listened to so many actual albums as albums and not getting distracted by apps on phone when just going to change song etc, and am currently hunting for a speaker with a dock for cheap, then going to do my daughter one.

Feek said:
You'll use it for ten minutes, nostalgia will wear off and it'll go back in the drawer.
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I was concerned about this, but i genuinely love it, converted back to wired headphones for almost all my music/meetings and such now (from LG tonefree 9s). Lots of annoying things but its nice to not need to carry my phone everywhere.
 
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It would be excellent to have a modern device like this. Mines just awaiting its thick rear cover to be built, but it's expected to have something mental of at least a 7 day battery life whilst playing music. 2 efficiency cores, OLED display and simple software would be epic.
 
Decided to rip all my TS albums to Apple Lossless and got the Classic out of the box. Some reason when restored it in my M4 Mac Mini it gave me a "iPod Busy" error, tried different USB ports with no luck. I even formatted it in Disk Utility to start again.

Then tried it with my older iMac running a few generation older of Apple Music, same error.

I had to get my 2010 MBP running god knows what Mac OS with actual itunes before it worked, first time as well. Once restored I put it back into my M4 Mini and moved the music across.

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Bought a 5.5 from Cex not too long ago to mod. Finally got around to it. Put in a new 2000ma battery should be good for a few days continuous use. Along with a 512gb nvme SSd. Stuck rock box on it too for some lossless audio in flac playback
 
My 5yo daughter is currently using mine to explore our music collection and is utterly loving it. It's a 120GB 6th gen that for some reason I distinctly remember buying from Curry's (formerly Curry's PC World) one night after work back in 2008 to replace my old 30GB 5th gen which kept running out of space. Interestingly I didn't actually use it much after that because work meant far less music time than I had during my uni day's. It means it's in basically pristine condition with light use.

There is something quite pure (probably just nostalgic!) about using a dedicated portable device to listen to music on that isn't connected to the internet and can't receive notifications.
 
cokecan said:
My 5yo daughter is currently using mine to explore our music collection and is utterly loving it. It's a 120GB 6th gen that for some reason I distinctly remember buying from Curry's (formerly Curry's PC World) one night after work back in 2008 to replace my old 30GB 5th gen which kept running out of space. Interestingly I didn't actually use it much after that because work meant far less music time than I had during my uni day's. It means it's in basically pristine condition with light use.

There is something quite pure (probably just nostalgic!) about using a dedicated portable device to listen to music on that isn't connected to the internet and can't receive notifications.
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I enjoy pressing the eject tray on my CD player and watching the dot matrix LCD load up the track names (if the album supports it). lol
 
Raymond Lin said:
I enjoy pressing the eject tray on my CD player and watching the dot matrix LCD load up the track names (if the album supports it). lol
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sounds like bliss tbh! lol makes it more of an event as you have to do more to get the music playing in a similar way to Vinyl
 
Mannnn this thread is hitting all the nostalgia buttons!

SOOO wish I still had my old school iPod now ! Great little devices, I wish they'd make a new one but in the classic format - A18 chip iPod please with 240x180 screen :D
 
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