This might be of interest, if you don’t mind running your own linux server https://airsonic.github.io/
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Don’t you dare get rid of that if the hdd fails or the battery goes. Its possible to replace it with flash memory and a new battery.
The Sansa was my favourite of all the MP3 players I smashed or lost.
(ETA: I also had a Sansa Clip, which worked even after going through the washing machine)
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I know it is not Free, anyone had good luck with Waltr 2 ? It is 39.95 when not on sale. I have been unable to download latest Itunes and realize problems are only a matter of time. On mixed household of Win 10, Macs, IPOD Classic & Ipod touch Gen 5.
I got three and was prepared to get more but there’s no
clear way to back them up without going into iTunes…
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Seamus, there is a company which will sell you a kit to replace the battery for $19.99 -although the only one currently listed on their site is for the 6th generation model-
I’m clueless about Apple stuff but they do all sorts of battery replacements, so even if the listed part isn’t compatible it may be worth dropping them an email to enquire about specifics.
Same thing happened to one of mine. It was a small brick for a couple of years until I happened upon this solution:
Couldn’t hurt to try it at this point.
Thank you! I’ve bookmarked it and will try it.
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This is the one I picked up (for 50 cents at the thrift store!):
You can only put 2gb of stuff on it, but because it takes SD cards you can fill up multiple cards and switch them out as you wish. I doesn’t really work with iTunes, but you can pull songs out of iTunes and put them in folders, and then shuffle those onto the cards, then pick folders as if they were playlists. Cheap, small, uses one AAA battery so it’s always ready to go.
Rechargeable batteries don’t last forever on any device. You can replace the batteries on most ipods with a little bit of work, you don’t need to pay Apple $250 to get it done. Plus you can still use an ipod as a plug-and-play, running it off an outlet or your car cigarette lighter, a portable version of iTunes. A bigger issue is the disc drive going bad, but that can be replaced too. I’ve done it on two ipods so far.
I think his point is that they ruined it by making it do more than one thing-- turning it into the Touch and iPhone, so now you can’t just listen to music, you will get interrupted by phone calls and/or texts, and find yourself surfing the web. That’s his opinion, but it’s valid. I don’t think there is necessarily a better generation ipod classic (the 6th gen has a better shuffle control, but the 5th gen and earlier have better sound cards, and the first three gen are easiest to open and modify.)
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I don’t even want to know what you have to say about a Swiss Army knife.
But it’s true. Any time I pull out my ipod Touch and do not use it for music, I feel a sense of lingering anxiety. And shame.
Your comparison doesn’t work, I think.
The Swiss Army Knife started out as a multi-use item, intended to perform multiple tasks. Most of those tasks aren’t performed as well as a uni-task object and many of them suffer greatly because of the compromises inherent in the form factor (ever actually use the corkscrew?). The only one that works as well as it possibly could is the knife itself, IMO, and this is not degraded by the presence of the other functionalities. (Some might say the knife could work better if it locked or was capable of one-handed opening.)
The iPod started out as an audio player, then became other things over time that degraded the initial purpose of the device. Two places where that degradation can be seen are in battery life and controls. As soon as the music player is used for something else, the battery life starts to shorten for music playing, a distinct loss of functionality. The controls on an iPod Touch are inferior to the controls on a mechanical iPod, for the purpose of music playing. They work very well for sending texts and playing games, but are more prone to situational failure when the device is in bright sunlight or high humidity, problems not seen with a click wheel iPod.
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Heh. I have an ipod Touch, and despite all the music on it I seem to only use it for playing games.
I don’t think the ipod Touch “ruined” the ipod classic, but it wasn’t necessarily a step up, more like a step sideways: you could put apps on it, but it also had a much lower memory size.
[For the record, I seem to have become an inadvertent ipod and mp3-player collector, simply because I find them used for cheap all the time.]
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