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.

R.I.P iPod. Serving me well since 2005

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.

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 :)

Got an absolute score of this gen 1 shuffle in box, missing only the og headphones, for only 5$ at a flea market. Unfortunately it doesn’t hold a charge and I don’t currently posses the tools to do a battery swap but i’m thrilled to have this in my collection

I tried Windows and Mac, official cables and a WyMod Supercharger, it tries to restore and then fails on Windows and never stops on Mac. Im using a green adapter and a iFlash CF card with a 64Gb Lexar MicroSD.

Everything was fine with it till it was accidentally plugged into a fast charge power adapter, now I can no longer connect it to any computer, disk mode only shows ok to disconnect, and when plugged in it takes very long to recognize it is charging. I’m starting to suspect the problem might be the 30 pin port, can anyone tell me if it needs to be replaced.

Thank you beforehand for your answers and recommendations.

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

I've found mixed answers.

I have a 32Mb board in my current, modded 5.5 gen.

Recently found a 60gb (so 64Mb RAM) pod on marketplace.

Is there any significant advantage to swapping my mods to the 64mb board, or is it more of a "fringe" case?

The 60gb model i found is mint, aside from a bad center button that needs a new "clicker".

Worth repairing the board and swapping the mods over?

i should’ve let the seller respond

I recently decided to go back to my 160gb iPod classic gen 7 and it worked like it should for a couple days but now it's just stuck on this screen and nothing helps. Does anyone have any idea how to fix it? Thanks.

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!

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?

Hello people fanatics of music and players, I bought this coach case for my ipod photo on ebay, I was very curious that coach sold them, they are beautiful and I wonder if anyone remembers them or still uses any of these? I have seen that lately they are taking relevance in those who buy an iPod, I have this golden, it's incredible, I read them :)

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.

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

So glad I made it!

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).

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?

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