These days, everyone has a phone in their pocket that can stream music. But two decades ago, you needed a dedicated player to listen to your favorite songs on the go. Enter the iPod.
The Apple iPod: Pocket Music Before That Phone
- Thread starter Amir Shoam
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Thanks for the nostalgia. I grew up during the ipod boom. I had to took bus for almost an hour daily to go to school so music was a good way to kill time. at the time there was no video streaming in mobile phone yet. people use their phones for call, texts or mini games only. hell I remember my phone could record video but only at 144p.
I remember back in 2005 regular ipods costs upwards of $300 and even the smaller nano are upwards of $200. so frankly I couldn't afford them at the time. just to put things into perspective in 2005 the sony PS2 is sold for $180 and the PSP is sold for $250.
my first ipod was a 2nd gen scratched up ipod nano which a friend gave me. I can still remember the famous ipod click sound as you scroll through the menu. when I found out I could install rockbox on it I was pretty happy because it means I don't have to use itunes and I have more customization.
I remember back in 2005 regular ipods costs upwards of $300 and even the smaller nano are upwards of $200. so frankly I couldn't afford them at the time. just to put things into perspective in 2005 the sony PS2 is sold for $180 and the PSP is sold for $250.
my first ipod was a 2nd gen scratched up ipod nano which a friend gave me. I can still remember the famous ipod click sound as you scroll through the menu. when I found out I could install rockbox on it I was pretty happy because it means I don't have to use itunes and I have more customization.
Thanks for the article, it's also fun to hear some other names there as well, like Kazaa, which I completely forgot about. No mention about the Zune though ;-)
I still have an original 1st gen ipod, as well as the charger and firewire cable, and amazingly it still works ! Of course the storage size is ridiculous nowadays, but still - it was very well built.
The nice thing about the original clickwheel was that it was tactile and you could easily operate it without seeing it, while in your pocket.
Different times, when Apple needed to do its very best to stay alive and come up with actually good products.
I still have an original 1st gen ipod, as well as the charger and firewire cable, and amazingly it still works ! Of course the storage size is ridiculous nowadays, but still - it was very well built.
The nice thing about the original clickwheel was that it was tactile and you could easily operate it without seeing it, while in your pocket.
Different times, when Apple needed to do its very best to stay alive and come up with actually good products.
trgz
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Still rocking a pair of custom 240GB (5th gen) and 400GB (7th gen) iPods (as well as a 900GB FiiO X5iii) with docks for the car, hi-fi, bedside radio and portable 'boombox' - all music categorzied to my preferences and securely backed-up.
To me, it's an infinitely better way for me to listen to music than to rely on a dodgy 4G connection (that I'd need to pay more for to cope with the bandwidth); suffer lower quality on the whole; and faff around with limited/unconsolidated sources (I'd not be able to get all my music from one service) from companies that rarely pay the artists a fair share (and that will no doubt feed you ads at some point). And I own it, not rent it too, so it can never be taken away from me.
To me, it's an infinitely better way for me to listen to music than to rely on a dodgy 4G connection (that I'd need to pay more for to cope with the bandwidth); suffer lower quality on the whole; and faff around with limited/unconsolidated sources (I'd not be able to get all my music from one service) from companies that rarely pay the artists a fair share (and that will no doubt feed you ads at some point). And I own it, not rent it too, so it can never be taken away from me.
And then... Apple removed the headphone jack from its best-selling music player.
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Agree. How did you upgrade to 400Gb?
trgz
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https://www.iflash.xyz/ - I went for the iFlash-Quad. I suggest that you read a bit about them first, especially SD card compatibility (they do a M.2 adaptor too).
Whilst I have a 400GB (actually reported as 366GB - sort of expected) I found that the iPod's OS doesn't like much more than 30,000 tracks and so it's only using a reported 214GB. I did go higher than 30,000 initially, but it crashed every time; as it takes sooo long to update, I've played it safe (there are others out there that seem to have hit an upper track number threshold). As the 7th gen is just for the car I've let iTunes convert all to 256AAC on the fly. I did once try not converting them, but it filled up pretty quick due to the CD-quality and Hi-Res stuff; that said, iTunes says the 30,000 songs should take 533GB.
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