Most of these tests to ensure someone is a #millennial seem like things that anyone can figure out, but I don't see any possible way for kids these days to understand the #iPod scroll wheel #interface without seeing someone else use it first.
I also enjoy the adrenaline-fuelled task of transferring 250 tracks to the 4G, knowing that it won’t charge over USB and that transferring data seems to rinse the battery.
Will it hoover up all the tracks before the battery dies and it has to go back to Mama Firewire? Or will it get to track 247 before shitting out and I have to start it again? #iPod
There are only two things I’d change about this 4G;
Make the USB charging actually work.
Have the backlight be dimmable.
With those two things fixed it’d be the perfect music player for me.
The screen is fine in daylight, but try using it at night and it’s like staring directly into the sun. It is possible by installing RockBox, but I don’t like RB at all. I’d far rather run the OG firmware. #iPod
I know people legitimately shit on Apple for their business practices and making relatively new devices if not obsolete then not a million miles away...
But the fact I can plug a 20 year old #iPod into my Mac to repair a corrupted SD card is pretty bloody cool actually.
Got a 7th gen #iPod Classic here that flat refuses to work. I’ve also got a 5G Classic that works (albeit on the OG HDD) and given that they take the same HDD, in theory I should be able to swap them across.
The 5G’s working drive does not work in the 7G. At all. I’ve tried swapping the ribbon cable too, but no dice.
There doesn’t appear to be anything physically wrong with the 7G at all, so I’m not sure what’s happened.
Also, the 5G #iPod is refusing the charge. It’s on the FireWire charger, but where it keeps bootlooping it’s using what scant power it can draw to try and reboot. Then the screen lights up with the sad iPod, drains the battery, and it boots again.
Managed to finally get the 5G into disk mode and figured out that the HDD in it was the shagged one. It wouldn’t mount to either macOS or my Windows install. So swapped it out for the other one which is recognised by both.
But it won’t format.
So I guess that 20 year old HDD is now toast.
Bugger.
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*Because I know you’re all DYING to know how it’s going
I wanted an electronics project and also wanted a dedicated music player so I'm solving both with the same purchase.
@killyourfm convinced me so I picked up this old iPod video/classic on eBay. I'm giving it a bit of a charge then I'm going to see what all needs replacing. Hopefully it's functional just rough because I'd like to use it as I go. #iPod#iPodClassic#music#RetroTech
Went all black with the case. New screen and battery and a 64GB CF card for storage. Dumped my #Bandcamp collection as FLACs on there to run through #Rockbox
Found this cheap at resale. It didn't come with the cable. Being a man of a certain age, I have a milk crate full of old cables. And, well, that came in handy. So, wives. Scoff. Scoff all you want!
Hardest #iPod repair until now: click wheel connection restored, dead hard drive replaced and boot loop fixed by restoring with iPod Updater (iTunes can’t connect to download firmwares anymore).
Join us TODAY, March 13th, for a #livestream with Cool Tech Zone's @jacqueline, as we dive into #Tangara, "the #music player you wish you had in the early 2000s." Learn about their campaign to build a better #iPod with @crowdsupply by heading over to our #YouTube channel at 4pm Eastern to join the fun! 🤘🎵🤘
Join us tomorrow, March 13th, for a #livestream with Cool Tech Zone's @jacqueline, as we dive into #Tangara, "the #music player you wish you had in the early 2000s." Learn about their campaign to build a better #iPod with @crowdsupply by heading over to our #YouTube channel at 4pm Eastern to join the fun! 🤘🎵🤘
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