iPod Mini rediscovered!

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IamGoingtoBundyland@reddit

I refreshed our iPods with new innards and gave them to our kids. It is pretty easy to swap out the battery and the HD for an SD card (more storage and weighs less). Feel free to message me and I can point you in the right direction for the mods.

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makingotherplans@reddit

I use my iPod and have a few old iPods I keep around for backups of music and photos…it’s light, easy to use during workouts. When everything is on your one expensive phone the multitasking can get to be too much, really splits my attention.

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Maleficent_Theory818@reddit

I have the square nano but it stopped being able to update with my iTunes playlist. RIP.

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CharleyDawg@reddit

My classic is my main player in our home. Run through a Bose🤣

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bruce-neon@reddit

I have a 3rd generation 20GB that won’t charge anymore :( and two 1st generation touch’s which i think still work but I haven’t checked. It really is easier to have everything on my phone but I miss those days.

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PopeInThePizza@reddit

I have a yardworks company and have pink iPod Nano that I really lean on during lawn mowing season. Lotsa hair metal on there.

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copperfrog42@reddit

I still use my iPod nano on a weekly basis. I don't like streaming music at all.

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No_File1836@reddit

I have my iPod touch still. The battery doesn’t last long anymore otherwise it works.

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ThatHellacopterGuy@reddit

Still have my iPod 2nd gen (scroll wheel, blue monochrome screen, HDD-based), 2nd Gen iPod Touch, and 7th Gen iPod Touch. Still use the 7G to this day, Bluetooth’d to my desk speaker at work.

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StigOfTheTrack@reddit

I still have two classics (I bought a spare when they were discontinued). I still use one in the house occasionally. I don't use them in the car anymore, with my current car there's no benefit over using my phone or the car's own SD slot. I did really like the adaptors I had for my previous two cars which let me connect them to the CD changer port though.

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SOmuchCUTENESS@reddit (OP)

Yeah our car is 2012...so it has a cd player & it has a cable in the glove box we can attach an MP3 player too. Our last car still had a cassette player.

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xczechr@reddit

I plug a thumbdrive full of MP3s into my car stereo if I don't feel like listening to the radio.

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SOmuchCUTENESS@reddit (OP)

I love our Gen X work arounds!

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edasto42@reddit

MP3 players have the worst sound quality. I do not want that back. Everything is compressed to the point that a lot instrumentation is lost.

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SOmuchCUTENESS@reddit (OP)

Really? I think mine is fine for traveling to work & back on the bus.

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edasto42@reddit

Back in the day when I had an iPod I noticed it. Lots of the high frequency stuff (cymbals, reverb trails) were gone. Quiet parts of songs become nearly inaudible. And off the bass tones are weakened. This also led to a lot of listening fatigue. Because you had to listen harder for the missing elements on top of the compressed areas attenuated to tone ranges that aren’t always comfortable to the human ear, listening became work. Take the Pepsi challenge and actively listen to the sane song on an mp3 next to almost any other version (streaming, cd, vinyl etc) and the differences are very apparent.

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SOmuchCUTENESS@reddit (OP)

Yeah, I have a lot of vinyl, so if I want to sit down & play music at home that's definitely my go-to that's my favorite way to listen to music. But I do own more CDs than vinyl, since I collected so many in the late 80s through 2000 that way. I recently got a blue tooth CD player to use with my bose speaker that give me more options. I have cassettes too--oh god--talk about rough--that sound quality is so bad. How did we ever put up with that?? I still have them cause they are nostalgic--but wow. TERRIBLE sound.

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OtakuTacos@reddit

I still have mine, but it’s broken. Not many places want to fix it.

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apoptyGin69@reddit

I have a nano in my car and my pink iPod mini still works on its own little belkin speaker stand.

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Tralfaz1138@reddit

I've got my Nano in my car. I've been going through all the songs on it alphabetically for a while. I'm up to the I's now. The one downside to it is, if I don't drive the car for more than about a week, the battery in it dies and the playlist is reset back to A.

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Baronhousen@reddit

Use my nano constantly.

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dperiod@reddit

Yeah, there’s multiple subs devoted to iPods and refurbing them with new batteries and SD cards to get more life and capacity from them. I have a bunch of iPods from when they first came out, starting with the 3rd generation. I love them. They are still solid devices. My go-to has always been my 5th and 7th generation iPods, but I recently got a green mini that I updated with an SD card and now I’ve got a ton of audiobooks and music loaded on it that has become one of my favorites.

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SOmuchCUTENESS@reddit (OP)

oh damn! That is AWESOME!!

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ihatepickingnames_@reddit

I used my iPod shuffle until my earbuds died and I couldn't find any wired earbuds that I liked. I found some bluetooth earbuds though and switched to using my iPhone SE (because it's small compared to other phones) for music during runs. I wish there was an iPod shuffle with bluetooth.

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SOmuchCUTENESS@reddit (OP)

I luckily had a drawer full of wired earbuds that I never got rid of either!

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Poultrygeist74@reddit

My Nano is still kicking, listening to it right now. The PC that has iTunes on it might not work anymore but what can you do.

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SOmuchCUTENESS@reddit (OP)

I shockingly also pulled out an old laptop I had and charged it (I keep all that stuff cause I don't know how to get rid of it & am worried I have personal info on there that someone might get access to if I get rid of the computer)--but it charged & opened and everything! I haven't tried going to Itunes on it yet to see what happens. I needed a computer that had a disc drive to look at some old photos I found on a CD

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KevtheKnife@reddit

I have a nano plugged into a small “boom box” and a Classic I take to the gym

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Somedaydreamer22@reddit

I have my iPod classic. I miss my mini. I’m not even sure what I did with it.

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DisappointedDragon@reddit

Mine still works as well.

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carolinaredbird@reddit

I use mine for visits to the dentist and my dentist told me it was an antique! It’s perfect for what. It does.

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TheManicStanek@reddit

I still have all my older iPods. Most of them are in a drawer. The one I still is my iPod classic, it has something like 10,000 songs on it and hasn’t been updated in close to ten years. But I have some great stuff on it that I can’t get anywhere else now.

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SOmuchCUTENESS@reddit (OP)

NIICE! This is the problem with streaming too--there are only CERTAIN things on streaming, and also most of those sites charge subscriptions. I LOVE physical media!

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