Ipod

[Mikenike]

Who still uses theirs?

There is NOT a better way to browse and listen to music. The interface, button, circle thing, is genius and nobody has come close. I wish cell phones came close, but they suck MP92s dick.

You know every once in awhile you do get something right. I still have and use my second gen nano. Has like 1000 songs on it and takes three days to listen all the way though

Aww. Someone is thinking about my dick.

On a slightly related note my ipod has its very own "ex's" playlist. It is made up entirely of songs added by the various girlfriends i loaned it to over the years. Sometimes i like to listen to it and judge their taste in music while i look at their titty pics on my old phones i refuse to get rid of.

 

[78bronco460]

I have an iPod shuffle gen 2 I used on jobsites clipped into my hard hat suspension. It still works.

 

[reptillikus]

I could geek out about ipods for hours

Ive got several, these 3 are currently sitting in front of me at the desk

Left: 6th gen, running RockBox, 400gb sd card conversion
center: 5.5 gen, full clear case obviously, 400gb sd card
right: 7.5 gen, 512gb sd card

Ive got a couple others that work, plus a full case full of parts for building or fixing them. Used to fix & sell them on ebay 5-10 years ago. Just sold one to a coworker last week actually.

I use the RockBox'ed one every day in the garage, but i use a FiiO M6 in the truck or at work, because Android/Bluetooth.

Why? Because i prefer to own music instead of streaming it.

 

[Takotruckin]

I very much like not having to use my phone for music.

Why??

My issue lately has been the phone being the music source as well as the recording device. Often I go to take a video of my kids dancing or singing and the stupid phone can’t play music and record at the same time so a separate music source would be really handy.

 

[PAE]

Have a minidisc player somewhere and tony robbins reminds me of an est training a high school acquaintance kidnapped me to go see.

I have a couple of the old white ones. I got them from Tony Robbins and listen to his books and never used to them again.

I recently got a iPod touch with his new books. I have not taken it out of the box.

Use my phone as my iPod in the jeep and the van

 

[fordguy]

I could geek out about ipods for hours

Ive got several, these 3 are currently sitting in front of me at the desk

Left: 6th gen, running RockBox, 400gb sd card conversion
center: 5.5 gen, full clear case obviously, 400gb sd card
right: 7.5 gen, 512gb sd card

Ive got a couple others that work, plus a full case full of parts for building or fixing them. Used to fix & sell them on ebay 5-10 years ago. Just sold one to a coworker last week actually.

I use the RockBox'ed one every day in the garage, but i use a FiiO M6 in the truck or at work, because Android/Bluetooth.

Why? Because i prefer to own music instead of streaming it.

rockbox, SD conversion, I have never hears of these, I need to look it up!

you fucking rock bro

I think Im going to buy the i10 nano adapter

where do you guys download music these days? warez dead?

 

[reptillikus]

ok, so:

Rockbox is a replacement OS for ipods. Its not exactly plug and play, and you cant sync with iTunes, but now that i have it i love it.
Link -> Rockbox.org

iflash.xyz sells kits to convert an ipod from the original HD to SD cards. They work great, ive used several of their adapters for years with zero issues.

I get a lot of music these days from Bandcamp, but if youre looking for less-than-legal options then Soulseek is the way to go.

 

[ndtguy]

Still have mine. Hooked up in my f150. Great for road trips when the local stations die (Vegas has some really good stations where other places I’ve travelled were the opposite).

 

[fordguy]

ok, so:

Rockbox is a replacement OS for ipods. Its not exactly plug and play, and you cant sync with iTunes, but now that i have it i love it.
Link -> Rockbox.org

iflash.xyz sells kits to convert an ipod from the original HD to SD cards. They work great, ive used several of their adapters for years with zero issues.

I get a lot of music these days from Bandcamp, but if youre looking for less-than-legal options then Soulseek is the way to go.

bro you literally time machined me like 15 years, ive never heard if sny of these

 

[reptillikus]

Haha dude it's awesome. My music library on my PC is close to 40k tracks now, and Rockbox, and upgrading to SD cards, has allowed me continue to carry my music library with me.

 

[87manche]

Zune was better

 

[reptillikus]

Zune was better

Wtf is wrong with you

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

I still have a cassette deck in the truck

 

[Jes]

I have this old 20 gig unit that just died(again). Battery won't charge or hold a charge.

 

[Roc Doc]

I still have one of these, I used it in my office with a couple KEF speakers during my time at Wynn. Sounded great, if a little weak (13wpc), but fine for a small office, and it looked cool and had a remote.

 

[Boss]

I haven't used my Ipod classic since around 2010ish. Wife's ipod touch took a shit (uses it in her 2010 cts, only thing compatible is older apple stuff) I dug the classic out of a drawer were it lived. Charged it and it fired right up.

 

[grapehead]

Yep got a mini or nano or whatever the one about the size of a quarter for music while working out.

Surprised it still holds a charge, gotta be at least 15 years old.

 

[Motorcharge]

Zune was better

Was gonna say, no iPod, but I still have 2 of the original Zunes. One for parts and one that still works perfectly. UI and software actually hold up really well. Shame Microsoft did their typical bullshit and ruined the platform with DRM.

Ironically, Apple music and trying to use a modern iphone for your own music is fucking awful. Itunes is as trash as it was 25 years ago and you still have to use 3rd party software to move your own music on to an iphone. Then the way the phone handles audio couldn't be more retarded. Everything on the device will interrupt playback and the audio controls are complete dogshit. Like back/forward don't skip tracks, they rewind/fast forward like it's a damn cassette player so you can't just hit back to relisten to the same song, you have to rewind all the way through it. iOS will also randomly go back to the last thing you listed to on Apple Music even if it was months ago. There were a ton of times where my car bluetooth would connect and instead of opening Spotify I listed to that morning it would open Apple Music and just start playing from the middle of some song I listened to on that program months ago. Was one of the big reasons I ended up going back to Android a few months ago.

 

[Motorcharge]

Haha dude it's awesome. My music library on my PC is close to 40k tracks now, and Rockbox, and upgrading to SD cards, has allowed me continue to carry my music library with me.

Buy a cheap used workstation and turn it into a home server. It's pretty easy to setup to be able to stream all your music at home to your phone anywhere assuming you've got a decent and unlimited internet connection at home. Other than the actual storage I'm into my home server for less than $100 vs several hundred for just an out of the box NAS setup. Add another $50 if you want to run Unraid vs TrueNAS though if you're just streaming TrueNAS is free and works well enough.

 

[Dan_Goodwin]

I still have a Mini, 80gb video and 2 generations of ipod touch in a drawer that still get used from time to time for shop stereo duty. I spent a pile of money on itunes buying Xtreme 4x4 episodes.

 

[jeeptj19992001]

The iPad will never catch on.
The "Zune" is the future as well as batamax. ...

 

[Ummduh]

Buy a cheap used workstation and turn it into a home server. It's pretty easy to setup to be able to stream all your music at home to your phone anywhere assuming you've got a decent and unlimited internet connection at home. Other than the actual storage I'm into my home server for less than $100 vs several hundred for just an out of the box NAS setup. Add another $50 if you want to run Unraid vs TrueNAS though if you're just streaming TrueNAS is free and works well enough.

Do we have a thread for this? I'm getting to the point I'm looking into a 2 or 4 bay nas but in general prefer to do things the hard way lol

 

[WaterH]

I could geek out about ipods for hours

Ive got several, these 3 are currently sitting in front of me at the desk

Left: 6th gen, running RockBox, 400gb sd card conversion
center: 5.5 gen, full clear case obviously, 400gb sd card
right: 7.5 gen, 512gb sd card

Ive got a couple others that work, plus a full case full of parts for building or fixing them. Used to fix & sell them on ebay 5-10 years ago. Just sold one to a coworker last week actually.

I use the RockBox'ed one every day in the garage, but i use a FiiO M6 in the truck or at work, because Android/Bluetooth.

Why? Because i prefer to own music instead of streaming it.

So do they Bluetooth to your car stereo? That’s what I want. Can you still get music to put on one? Can you move music from one to another? You got any you want to sell that are loaded with old rock a roll?

 

[bad zuki]

ok, so:

Rockbox is a replacement OS for ipods. Its not exactly plug and play, and you cant sync with iTunes, but now that i have it i love it.
Link -> Rockbox.org

iflash.xyz sells kits to convert an ipod from the original HD to SD cards. They work great, ive used several of their adapters for years with zero issues.

I get a lot of music these days from Bandcamp, but if youre looking for less-than-legal options then Soulseek is the way to go.

Thank you. The only streaming service i have is music. I'll be getting rid of that this winter.

 

[Motorcharge]

Do we have a thread for this? I'm getting to the point I'm looking into a 2 or 4 bay nas but in general prefer to do things the hard way lol

I'm not sure it really warrants a thread. It's very straight forward until you start getting into multiple arrays and even then it's not complicated. It only gets expensive if you need a ton of storage space and you really only do for movies. If you're talking just music, photos, documents, etc a few Terabytes is plenty.

Buy anything cheap with a Xeon chip. Any used Dell, HP, etc workstation, all of them will support at least up to 4 drives. With Unraid you need a USB stick, an SSD for cache, and your storage drives. Assuming you don't need a ton of storage, just one main drive and a matching 2nd one for backup. I have something like 250k+ plus songs stored and the total drive space is less than 100 gigs. Western Digital hard drive QC is dogshit these days, Seagate has always sucked, suggest getting Toshiba NAS drives.

There's tons of Unraid guides on Youtube and it's easier to setup than TrueNAS is. Basically just install Unraid on the USB stick, install the physical drives, boot, follow Youtube to setup then install plugins/dockers for whatever you want to do. Youtube has tons of easy to follow guides on that as well.

I've done TrueNAS and Unraid, they're both solid but imo Unraid simplifies a lot of shit and is worth the few bucks for the license.

You can also realistically skip the Workstation purchase and just use an old PC but those old Xeon chips are designed to run 24/7, use very little electricity, and generally run barely above room temp.

 

[87manche]

Truenas is what freenas turned into yes?
It was decent, but not user friendly.
Haven't messed with it in a long time.

 

[Roc Doc]

Buy anything cheap with a Xeon chip. Any used Dell, HP, etc workstation, all of them will support at least up to 4 drives. With Unraid you need a USB stick, an SSD for cache, and your storage drives. Assuming you don't need a ton of storage, just one main drive and a matching 2nd one for backup. I have something like 250k+ plus songs stored and the total drive space is less than 100 gigs. Western Digital hard drive QC is dogshit these days, Seagate has always sucked, suggest getting Toshiba NAS drives.

A buddy of mine that is a high level network guy pointed me to a www that publishes MTBF stats for the various HDD/SSD mfg's., although I can't remember the name of the site at the moment. He got me into a Crucial 2TB that I've used for several years with zero issues.

 

[Roc Doc]

Oh, and I am NOT an Apple fanboi, but I did use iTunes for many years as my primary player until my 80GB Classic died, then switched over to JRiver as my software. I used the SM Pro Audio DIDOCK when I was doing corporate events, I could mute the channel in the main PA, and use the headphone output to cue up the next track. They're not made anymore and I still have one in a tote waiting for someone that needs balanced outputs. I really should ebay or reverb it.

https://c.media-amazon.com/images/I/61zIhU3Uf1L._AC_SL1200_.jpg

 

[Motorcharge]

Truenas is what freenas turned into yes?
It was decent, but not user friendly.
Haven't messed with it in a long time.

I believe so, I used it after they merged so I'm not sure how they compare. I was able to follow Youtube videos enough to get it working, but it was over complicated for no real reason. I wouldn't overlook it as a free option though.

A buddy of mine that is a high level network guy pointed me to a www that publishes MTBF stats for the various HDD/SSD mfg's., although I can't remember the name of the site at the moment. He got me into a Crucial 2TB that I've used for several years with zero issues.

It's only their HDDs, their SSDs are fine. I purchased multiple of their Red HDDs that were dead out the box for my server. Had another friend with similar problems earlier this year. That's an awful lot of dead drives just between two people for it to be just coincidence. Turned me off enough that I wasn't going to risk having to deal with getting replacements in 6 months if one died on me.

Toshiba got recommended to me by a friend who does major data center sales and setup. No issues so far, but I also only switched to them about 6 months ago.

 

[Roc Doc]

I believe so, I used it after they merged so I'm not sure how they compare. I was able to follow Youtube videos enough to get it working, but it was over complicated for no real reason. I wouldn't overlook it as a free option though.


It's only their HDDs, their SSDs are fine. I purchased multiple of their Red HDDs that were dead out the box for my server. Had another friend with similar problems earlier this year. That's an awful lot of dead drives just between two people for it to be just coincidence. Turned me off enough that I wasn't going to risk having to deal with getting replacements in 6 months if one died on me.

Toshiba got recommended to me by a friend who does major data center sales and setup. No issues so far, but I also only switched to them about 6 months ago.

He was not a WD or Seagate fan either.