I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it’s a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?
iPod classic. The fact that a 2009 device with a mini hard drive still works after dropping the thing like 100 times shows the absolutely ridiculously over engineered build quality on those things.
Same here, but my battery started to go out and puff up so I replaced it for a bigger one, put 1tb of ssd storage, a USB-C charger, and bluetooth. Now I don’t have to preload music from my +200gb library and I have room for a couple of movies :D
How do you replace the internal storage with ssd storage? Is it easy? I was going to look into some more modern niche music players. I just really don’t want to use my phone. I love having the separate device.
Super easy, I went on to Elite Obsolete Electronics and got the Tarkan SSD storage adapter, then I got a mini SSD on Amazon. You can connect this directly to the existing ribbon cable that came with the iPod.
Cool thanks! I ended up buying a hiby r1. It was pretty cheap and allows up to 2tb of flash memory. It’s a little janky but seems to work well overall. It also appears to support higher bit depths/sample rates than the ipod does. I already had all my files properly tagged so everything showed up correctly sorted. I was even able to get my playlists from foobar transferred over without issue.
