Thread 127545404

Now that cassettes have priced everyone out, are iPods going to become cool again?

Why not just buy a cheap android and use it only for music?

>>127545404 (OP)
Is that an Itouch or one of the early Iphones?

>>127545404 (OP)
Cassettes are better for home listening anyway, portables are shit compared to component hifi tape decks. If you buy an ipod, see if it's Rockbox compatible

>>127545404 (OP)
The 260 gb iPod classic needs to make a comeback right fucking now

>>127545404 (OP)
There's a bit of an iPod thing going on, Youtubers are shilling them.

I got the battery in my Classic replaced for like $20 and I keep a playlist of 2000s music on it for when I want to pretend I'm not living in this shit decade

I still used my gen 1 Zune as late as 2020. I'd still use it if MP3 blogs were still a thing.

The gen 2 Nano was my daily driver in freshman year. Loved it.

Anyone have one of these fat bitches?

>>127546093
iDerp

>>127545511
No aesthetic

>>127545404 (OP)
Apparently 5th gen iPods had the best sound quality without using extra amps and things, so if you're buying used, grab one of those and just get the battery replaced at an electronics repair shop

Are you zoomers seriously listening to cassettes? Records I understand. CDs I understand. What the fuck.

would rather just use my phone with an SD card tbqhwy. i dont know why it would make sense to add another device to your daily carry.

>>127545404 (OP)
they already are you out of touch dipshit

>>127547172
>I don't know why
So that your phone can have battery for communication or other stuff. Same with those chinkhelds people buy for retro games.

>>127545539
The 1st is an ITouch. The 2nd is an Ipod. I dont know if its the IPod Video or the Nano or what but its one of them.

I still rock my 256gb ipod touch, has wired and bluetooth so best of both worlds

iPods already have value on the collector's market and they have a modding scene to make them actually useful. You can replace the old spinning drives with SD cards. As someone who actually carried around hard drive based mp3 players in the 2000s I highly recommend doing this. Just one drop and your hard drive is fucked. I never wanted an iPod, I had pic related. I miss some things about it but this had 20GB of hard drive storage. My phone has 256GB of flash memory. It also has superior codec support.

>>127548449
True, replacing that shit with an SD would be better, i dont like having to use
>iTunes
Its such a shitty software and i dont like the shilled music there
I know i dont have to buy shit but i dont wanna download
>Mac
Software

>>127548467
Well putting a SD card into the iPod won't change the need for iTunes. I never owned an iPod but my sister did have an iPod Nano. As the administrator of our family computer when I was a teenager I installed some alternative software for syncing music to that iPod instead of iTunes. To me this step, which was also required by my first mp3 player, pic related, was such a fucking hassle that I'd rather have just owned something like the iRiver. What I did like about the iPod was the controls. Scrolling through a huge list of directories on the iRiver was a pain in the ass. The Creative Nomad Jukebox I owned before actually solved this in a firmware update by allowing you to use the volume wheel to scroll through menus, which wasn't a thing when I first got it.

This thing ruled

>>127545404 (OP)
these are already expensive again too. You missed the ground floor of literally anything, it's too late for you.

>>127549043
I owned that too. My main complaint is that the wheel was made out of rubber and over time it became sticky and nasty. Otherwise it was great. SD card support, could run rockbox.

>>127549043
These were the only real competitors to the iPod in my opinion
I remember having a Sansa Clip and putting RockBox on it so I could do things with it like play Doom and emulate Gameboy games on its microscopic monochrome display. It was virtually unusable but I still thought it was really cool for the novelty

>>127545404 (OP)
right now MD is the next one, zoomers will have a hard time figuring it out but it's definitely cool. it can be expensive and fucky because you never know when discs will work or get corrupted (even new old stock can be fucky), but it works. get a netMD writer and a player (some can do both) and use that.

>>127545404 (OP)
iPods have never stopped being cool

>>127546767
you don't even need someone else to do it. all you need to do is unplug the battery and plug a new one in. takes about 2 minutes.

>>127545404 (OP)
>the wanted
OP is not a fag