Weekend project: complete.
I’ve been wanting to totally overhaul my old iPod for years. Dead hard drive, dead battery, dead headphone jack, knackered case. Now it’s even better than it was when I bought it in 2006.
Personal music players peaked here… it’s just such a good device.
@retrolasered @JuanjoSan Yeah, there's a 1951 Leica Ic and a 1958 Zorki 5 on my desk at the moment, and there's a 1950 Sumida Proud on the shelf waiting to be cleaned up. It's almost finished, I just couldn't get to the rear lens element to clean it.
I'd much rather save and use old stuff instead of buying more disposable tat that'll be dead in five years.
@coldkennels @retrolasered
It seems all o.k. for me, when there's no any better an more sustainable option. I keep and take care of many old things myself.
There are cases when adquiring new stuff is a right thing, though, despite of this not being your situation.
Greets.
@coldkennels You’re not alone 😀
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@1P1sces I already have all my music in Apple Music for syncing to my phone; takes a bit of management (especially when importing anything with non-English characters in the title) but it's not the end of the world.
I do like the sound of that bluetooth mod, though. Maybe something to consider if I ever need to open this up again.
@1P1sces Yeah, I imagine if I was starting from scratch, getting everything cleanly organised in Apple Music would be an utter headache. Luckily, my MP3 library goes all the way back to 2002 or so, and I've been very good at managing the ID3 tags for all that time.
I've had to replace a lot of old 128 kbps rips I made back when storage was expensive, though. Oof.
@1P1sces I'll say this: I'm impressed by how well the current MacOS supports the old iPod. It immediately recognised it, restored the firmware, and syncing was simple. It even synced photos with no fuss, and it took all my contacts from iCloud with a drag-and-drop vcard export.
The only thing I can't see native support for are podcasts now that Podcasts have been broken out into their own app. Bit of a shame, but hardly the end of the world.
@1P1sces oh, god, I didn't even think to check the file format on this SSD! I forgot FAT was even a thing.
My first Mac OS was 9. It seemed ancient compared to the Windows 98 system at home... but XP drove me nuts, and so I made the jump to OSX before I ever had to use Windows Vista. Every Windows system I've ever had to use since then - in any capacity - has just made me even more entrenched into the Mac world. I'd go over to Linux before I ever went back to Windows.
@coldkennels If you initialised the SSD on a Mac it probably isn’t FAT.
I’m running a Linux system on a 2008 Unibody Macbook — because it can 😅
@jellycrystals Sure, this is the guide I used: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPod+Classic+Hard+Drive+Replacement/564
A warning: it is an utter bastard to get these open. Expect to savage both parts of the case trying to separate them; I knew that going in, so I just bought two new case parts from AliExpress alongside the internal components. It was worth the expense - there was no way I could have got it open cleanly. The old ones were heavily scratched up anyway, so it didn't feel like a waste.
@jellycrystals Yeah, they were fundamentally the same for a long time. My dad fixed my 4th gen one after the headphone jack died back in 2005 and he had a hell of a time getting into it.
Another thing to bear in mind if you decide to do anything other than the HDD while you're in there is that almost everything involves adhesive. My battery was very swollen, and breaking it free from the glue holding it to the back panel was so concerning I did it in the back yard in case it went up in flames!
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