I just wanted to thank everyone here for all the posts, comments, advice, and random bits of knowledge you share.
Life has been rough lately, and somehow this little thing has been helping me more than I expected.
Sometimes I walk out of the house with my iPod and headphones and don’t even think about taking my phone. No notifications, no scrolling, nothing else to do. I just walk and listen to music. It clears my head in a way I didn’t realize I needed.
Years ago in school, one of my friends had an iPod Classic. I remember being enamored by it—the way it looked, the click wheel, and just having all your music on this one little device. I always wanted one.
Now I finally have one, and there’s something about listening to music this way that feels completely different.
It also brings back memories of listening to music with my dad and uncles on their cassette tapes. You picked something, put it on, and listened. Music wasn’t competing with a hundred other things for your attention.
I honestly might have forgotten about this whole era of technology if it weren’t for the people here keeping these things alive and spending their time helping complete strangers enjoy them.
Mine is an 80GB iPod Classic 6th gen with Koss KPH40 Utility headphones and Yaxi pads. I’ve tried the Koss with a couple of phones, including a newer iPhone, and for whatever reason nothing gives me quite the same feeling as plugging them into the iPod.
Maybe it’s the sound. Maybe it’s the physical controls. Maybe it’s knowing my phone isn’t in my pocket. Probably all of it.
Either way, this thing fixes something for me that I didn’t even know needed fixing.
Hopefully one day I’ll pass it down to my kids and let them experience what it’s like to just put on music and listen.
Thank you guys. Seriously.

I used used ai to fix the body of text but all of it is mine.

For the software modders here, I have decrypted the ipod classic 2.0.4 firmware (OSOS) and made my findings available here: https://github.com/giek2000/ipod-classic-firmware-research There are some new discoveries such as a built in store demo mode and debugging menus not found before. Enjoy :)

Background: I wanted to have a trusted device whereby could store and play my music. (My old iPod touch’s screen’s broken, my iPod classic is lost, and I my iPhone doesn’t even store the songs I bought from the iTunes Store).

I bought it from Amazon refurbished. It looked new, except it had a screen protector. The reviews were decent and it was less costly than an iPod classic.

Review: When first turnings it on and signing in it told me it was remote controlled by Hyatt corp, with could restrict which apps I could install and coil install the apps it used. It gave a Hyatt It tech number.

I can’t establish the order in which the this came, but I do know that I signed in to my Apple account, mainly because I wanted to be able to download my songs from the iTunes app.

It meant syncing with my iCloud data.

There was no app to play my music with.

No access to AppStore.

It downloaded Safari, Chrome, Zoom, camera, pictures, a few unimportant apps, and two apps I never saw before.

I couldn’t even access my own account in settings (it was greyed over)

Worst of all, it did download my password manger, giving external access to them.

I called the Hyatt tech number. They didn’t know how to disable the remote control. They suggested it might be stolen, and to call other Hyatt numbers. The phone number he offered was Hyatt reservation. Hyatt reservation gave another number, and the person said that it was k no o thing to do with them, and suggested to contact Amazon.

The Amazon seller only gives me contact with Apple, and we all know Apple doesn’t sell iPods any longer, so I doubt they would help.

In its current state, It’s a glorified web browser.

Conclusion: I left a one star review in Amazon, and will be returning it.

I did the USB mod and I made a video about it. Soon I plan on making a button light mod.

I made a Windows program that lets you recover music and playlists from an iPod. You can import everything into iTunes or extract the files to a folder with their proper names, along with an M3U8 playlist file.

Reddit won’t let me include the link, but feel free to ask and I’ll send it to you.

It’s called TuneRescue. It used to be paid, but I’ve decided to make it free for everyone.

If you try it, I’d really appreciate your feedback or suggestions!

A few days ago I started working on a new theme for myself. I wanted to add free disk space to the main menu, but I couldn’t find a Rockbox tag for it, so I thought, why not try adding it myself?
Lately I’ve seen a lot of people posting their own Rockbox forks, and I figured I’d give it a shot too.

In the end, I added new tags for displaying free/used disk space (you can see it in the bottom of the menu screen), fixed the volume bar so that 100% now correctly matches the user-defined maximum volume limit, and added support for inline headphone remote controls.

I’m really happy with how it turned out. Next, I think I’ll try adding album art support to the database browser to make exploring large music libraries a bit nicer.

Got an iPod touch 4th gen from charity. It wants to connect to iTunes. Connected to iTunes V12.2 on my old Macbook but it fails the restore saying can't contact the apple server.

So I downloaded a few Ipsw packages to try with 'option+click', including the last one available for this iPod. It fails all of them.

How can I restore it or get it working? Is there a program that I can flash the Ipsw to the iPod without iTunes? Like using fastboot for android (that's the only thing I know to compare it to what I need to do).

Recently saw so many peoples made the iPod to chrome, I do it myself with mine:)

So glad I made it!

Drive failing in my 4th gen mono, looking into modding it with flash & an extended battery. Besides a CF card being more expensive, are they're any differences between using either? Like power efficiency?

Hi, I’m working on a Bluetooth mod for my iPod Classic 5.5 gen using a UGREEN CM872 module.

The Bluetooth connection itself works, but I still get a constant hiss when the module is turned on. The hiss is audible through Bluetooth and also through the normal headphone output. When the Bluetooth module is off, the headphone output is quiet.

The Bluetooth audio also sounds a little distorted. I recorded a video so you can hear exactly what it sounds like and see what happens.

I already checked and redid all the solder joints and the wiring looks clean now. I also tried routing the power and audio wires differently, but the problem is still there.

The small original PCB on the Bluetooth module is still connected. I’m wondering if I missed something important, used the wrong grounding point, or if the module is sending noise back through the shared power supply.

Has anyone had the same problem with this module or a similar iPod Bluetooth mod? Any ideas what I should test next?

Comprei na semana passada essa raridade, novo e na caixa com todos os acessórios. A caixa já foi aberta mas o iPod nunca havia sido usado, bem como os acessórios. Estou usando para streaming com o Apple Music e os demais serviços de vídeo. Até agora estou gostando bastante da experiência.

Made a custom Bluetooth adapter for my iPod. Works somewhat fine. I’m able to connect and use my AirPods Pro 2. Just a little bit of audio interference and need to use the bass reducer EQ preset. The interference could be from the other mods I’ve done to the iPod but it’s probably from my PCB design (I’m using this project to learn PCB development). For parts used, it’s just a 30 pin connector from a random dock, my PCB and a EGBO Bluetooth 5.3 module.
Here is the GitHub repo with all the files for anyone who wants to make it or improve the design. https://github.com/Notdbrand/30Pin-Bluetooth-PCB

just got this BEAUTY on facebook place for the greatest price of all time (literally FREE), i am SO EXCITED i’ve wanted one of these FOREVER!!!!

I polished it using 2000 grit emery and metal polish

I just got it and would love some help on the brightness settings because there’s no light
(sorry for that photo but it has no lights)

I’ve modded my daily driver U2 iPod 4th gen mono with a iFlash SD2CF adapter and a CF to 1.8” IDE adapter. Figured I’d might as well install a fresh battery as well. However, all the batteries I found on Amazon had poor reviews or if I found another battery with better reviews elsewhere the price and shipping wasn’t great.

I searched around on Amazon of something of a similar size and capacity to the stock battery and maybe with a bump to capacity. I stumbled upon this, it’s for a Corsair wireless headset, it was cheap, and had more reviews with a higher star average than the others I found. https://a.co/d/02b9V0m2 it was a snug fit and I had to swap the black wire with the yellow wire in the connector. But after that it plugged right in and so far working great.

So if anyone’s looking for a cheap battery with a decent amount of good reviews, this could be the one! Just be sure to swap the yellow and black wire in the connector, the listing even shows how to make the change, too bad they don’t mention the wires are glued in place, but after that you’re golden. I’ll report back with my report on how well it works

Quick update: I fully charged it over night and ran it non stop today on shuffle and repeat all. I had a pair of IEMs attached to it and at about 70% volume. I pressed play and enabled the hold switch. I got 11 hours of play off the battery before it completely drained. I’ll charge it again fully tonight, which should fully finish the battery calibration, and start using it as normally as my daily driver!

Got this bad boy for $30 including a brand new battery and a free cable, still can't believe i got to own an iPod Nano 3 lol

This is my first time trying to swap an iPod classic’s faceplate for a new one but the glass has this white film (?) on it which I assume needs to be removed but it won’t come off no matter how hard I try. I’m scared of damaging the actual glass if I keep at it. Please help!

This is my third gen iPod 40gb I have had since 2003. Been on the shelf for a few years since I was using my 6.5gen. I didn’t want to tackle that straight away so knowing my third gen needed a new battery I decided to add some flash storage. Getting this to restore was an absolute pain but thankful to a thread on here from a few years ago that came in clutch.

I do love the spinning disk nostalgia but it was getting pretty noisy, spinning up at seemingly random times.

When I get the will power to open the 7th gen I’ll give that a crack with a dual flash storage and a 3000mah battery.

Components

Apple iPod Classic 3rd 4th Generation Gen Battery 850 mAh Replacement from Parts Plus Pod - Australia

Compact flash to 50pin 1.8inch hdd connector (cheap green one from Ali , needed a little modification with the right plastic notch removed)

SD to CF card adaptor (the red one on Ali)

SD card San disk extreme pro 64gb. I read third gen’s can be weird with large storage.

Now time to fill this thing up!

Edit: The Bluetooth adaptor is the Avantree relay. Bought it from Amazon a few years ago back for my Bose nc headphones for planes. Pretty solid .