r/ipod

I modified a generic 30-pin bluetooth transmitter to fit flush with the case and added a power switch so it can remain connected when not in use.

saw this at Walmart earlier in the school supplies and had to grab one! it fits my iPod, charger, and buds!

it won’t like hold a charge but it got this spot idk what to do with it can anyone help?

I bought that silver iPod Classic Gen 7 a while back, thought I’d bricked it trying to install RockBox and came onto this sub for help (which you all gave, thank you!). Unfortunately, I browsed the sub and fell in love with all the other iPod models again, recalling how iconic they were when I was growing up. You guys made me go full iPod monkey and this is entirely on you.

My favourites here are the 7 Classic (for pure FLAC Rockbox IEM listening joy), the 3 Classic (for monochrome goodness and hefty chunkiness), the Mini 2 (for same reasons as the 3 Classic), and the Nano 2 for pure aesthetic.

I’m still restoring the Nano 1 in picture as well as the black Gen 7.

And that Tivoli player is fantastic with its Kloss sound engineering, fold out iPod dock, detachable speaker, and blue backlight.

got an ipod and immediately downloaded my comfort vids for on the go and ofc kenji is on there

Did a bit of surgery on a dead Nike+ sensor unit with a flat battery. Not many people have discussed on replacing the batt on these so i wanted to have a look myself! On paper it sounds easy since it uses a CR2032 coin cell battery but the first obstacle is getting inside. Getting the sensor itself open is an absolute pain! I’ve seen others try different methods such as slicing through the seams of the two plastic bits holding it together with thin metal wire since it seems to be molded together. (No clips holding it down at all) I decided to just drill a hole into the side and just peel it apart bit by bit with a pair of pliers til' i had just the bare board and battery. The batt itself was held together by some metal contacts and the worst part of all.. the battery seemed to be spot welded in! This makes it nearly impossible to just slide or tape in a new battery without the right tools. I seen a post where someone has sucessfully removed the battery and managed to just tape a new CR2032 to it’s contacts. My attempt to rip the battery off it’s contacts failed and i ripped half of the metal contacts and it’s soldered on wires.
Anyone else want to attempt to replace the battery in these go ahead! I’d like to see you try. Two biggest obstacles are getting it open and finding a way to remove the spot welded in battery.

Just got done upgrading my iPod video with a new dual micro SD card adapter with two 256gb cards and a 2000mah battery.

Also installed rockbox.

I'm so glad I got to pick this up for 15$, originally a 30gb now turned into a 128gb with an iflash solo, new 2000mah battery, clean transparent front and button :3

Paid about 100$ for parts and it's respective shipping which is fairly cheap considering i'm paying in CAD lmao.

Fully decked it out with rockbox as well so that I can play all the flacs I want while still having some of my cd quality stuff.

Right here i have the original Nike+ set from 2006! This was pretty much Apple’s first collaboration with Nike products.
This uses 1st gen Nano, the required Sport kit featuring the receiver for the iPod, a Nike watch remote to control music, and the exact pair of now 20 year old Nike+ Running Shoes as seen in Apple’s advertising in early 2006.
Though most of the shoe sensors found nowadays have a completely cooked battery, I was lucky to find a working one to pair with the receiver to have a look at the exclusive software that tracks your run!

Up for auction early iPod prototype.

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/351653007484077-apple-p68-stealth-ipod-development-prototype-from-original-ipod-team-program-manager-jim-dumont/?cat=0

Im thinking of buying this one. I have a nano gen 6 that has a bad power button and I’m kind of wanting a new more reliable one.

Are classics easy to open up and fix? The problem with the nano is that no one is willing to open it up and fix it . So in case anything happens it would be great to get a chance of fixing this new one myself.

Do you think this is a good deal? The charger is not included. Is it the same as the nano ? Sorry I’m not an expert in this.

If you guessed fixing ID3 tags and album art, then you'd be right. I've neglected this for years. 900GB of music and all that. For anyone else doing this, give MusicBrainz Picard a try. It's pretty good at pulling missing tags and art. Not perfect, but still a timesave. And yes, just like the old days my iPod is named Titanic.

My main iPod is an iPod Classic 5.5 with a 512GB MicroSD, heavily modified iPhone 13 3000mAh battery I hacked to fit, clear case, internal bluetooth, haptics with a taptic engine. All the goodies.

I was bored during the heatwave so i made another nano 2 with USB type C, just felt like sharing cos i been using it a lot since then

The best thing about it is that with rockbox, you can transfer songs directly from the iphone with a standard charging cable, and the 8gb are actually enough when i download stuff i love from the internet

Anyways i hope y’all have a wonderful evening

Gen 5, probably going to upgrade storage, Amazing little nugget

To the diva who owned it before me,
Your baby is safe with me 🫡💗

I was sixteen when I got my hands on the iPod 5th gen back in '07 and nineteen years later I have reunited with it (and iTunes 10.7).

I'm fucking tired, Reddit. I'm tired of subscriptions. I'm tired of sinister UX design solely to sedate and addict us. I'm tired of conglomerates dictating what's in our libraries and at any given moment shoving their bile down our throats with rolling videos and ads and whatever else.

I lucked out and bought an iPod on Ebay that only had 3.5 days of use for £125 recently - Crazy eh?

Well as soon as I could I marched down to my local record stores and spent hours in their CD sections. What a fucking joy it was to just lose myself there.

Installed ITunes 10.7 on my Mac, and just marvelled at how simple it was. At how this thing is a tool first and foremost and not a "service". There is nothing trying to jump at me. No advertising. No flying bollocks of any kind. (Side note - I miss skeuomorphism design so much)

Just me. My child/Teenhood CDs and the joy of organising it all. Only then to transfer it to my simple iPod and enjoy. Complete loop. No distractions. No fuckery. It made me sad for what was lost and grateful we can still experience it in 2026

Hello!!

I few days ago, I made a post asking about where to find a case for my 3rd gen classic and nothing came of it, lol. I ended up making my own because I knew I could make it look cute and it just seemed fun. It was a pain in the ass, but I am still proud of it.

Hello!

Thanks to a plethora of threads in this sub, I have completed my first build!

WARNING- This is the first time I have ever worked on an electronic device like this, or done any software work like this. Needless to say, I am very much learning as I go. Also needless to say, this might be a big ole word salad…

Unfortunately, I am not able to close the device quite yet and call it complete. While my bluetooth playback, my headphone jack, all buttons, and my taptic engine are fully working; I am experiencing issues with storage.

I am running 2 Samsung T7 micro SD cards (512 and 256 respectively) totalling 768BG. I initially formatted them on a mac, then realizing I would experience extensive issues (basically it being impossible) to sync or manage files on the iPod, or to install Rockbox using my current MacBook Pro/Finder/Apple Music (running Sequoia). I used my roommate’s PC and re-formatted these drives again, without seeing an option for FAT32 (on the Mac either) that I always see recommended.

I will add in here that it seems the iFlash is securely connected to the device. Maybe there’s a chance the ribbon cable connection got folded too much with its current position and caused an issue?

Unfortunately, Rockbox boot loader still shows “no partitions found”, yet the PC disk management tool showed a randomly generated partition in my 512. I believe I have corrected that portion of the issue, but my iPod is still showing 203GB as the available capacity in settings. I am pretty perplexed at this point and could use some guidance.

Subsequent question-
Is now the time to just bite the bullet and pickup a cheap Windows machine to manage my music library, Rockbox, and iTunes? Would this also fix the issue of Rockbox installer not seeing that the iPod is in DFU mode and throwing an error my way?

I’m really eager to get my build complete (including Rockbox as I have a whole library of .flac files ready to roll).

Thanks so much for your time, all!
Cheers!