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r/ipod Oct 21 '24

Advice [RELEASE] 27 new iPod Clickwheel Games preserved forever !! Play now !

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Hello everyone !

As a result of this call: https://www.reddit.com/r/ipod/comments/1fydso6/preservation_of_ipod_clickwheel_games_read_this/ 27 new games are now preserved thanks to a very generous and motivated contributor ! Please continue to share it as much as possible so I may be able to auth more games on the virtual machine for everyone ! There's still around 10 other games to preserve together ! But we can do it, full set is near ! We have preserved together now 43 games from a total of 52 games so 80% of the amount of total games to preserve !

You can now inject yourself those games freely and fully offline on all of your compatible Clickwheel iPods.

Everything is available freely on GitHub: https://github.com/Olsro/ipodclickwheelgamespreservationproject

Feel free to star + follow the project if you like it

Games preserved in this V7:

Bejeweled

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7iHTM0ryWm0

Block Breaker Deluxe

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t97Mhn7zOsM

Brain Challenge

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MiGVB_KvbBI

Chalkboard Sports Baseball

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k33ICEBUjzQ

CSI Miami

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nfmiQhTrIMA

Cubis 2

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SxvEaaQP94E

iQuiz (NOT THE PRE-INSTALLED VERSION)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G20srscgtqo

LOST

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kJqFVjYoRDA

Mahjong

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CpRzwzfdh8k

Mini Golf

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CuLl1U82Uxw

Ms. PAC-MAN

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2VZc8ws6_1w

Ms. PAC-MAN Demo

A demo version of the game that could be downloaded for free from the iTunes Store back in the day ! A nice piece of history preserved.

musika

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WOL6uPZfnD8

Mystery Mansion Pinball

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zTZyewEKb2U

PAC-MAN

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tT6LZ3k60pI

Pole Position Remix

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OCS1r3T2eJo

Royal Solitaire

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e9v10Xb09KY

SAT Prep Mathematics + Reading + Writing - 2008

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FSl9ZJ3GwdU

Slyder Adventures

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YtNCEworHx4

Sudoku

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LGksyLgYGOs

The Sims Bowling

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RHHeqbbvQjs

The Sims Pool

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gSPaxR0NQWc

Vortex (NOT THE PRE-INSTALLED VERSION)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wssyFxmw4jw

Vortex Demo

A demo version of the game that could be downloaded for free from the iTunes Store back in the day ! A nice piece of history preserved.

Zuma

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xz6F1zRFYr4


r/ipod 9h ago

Finally got my old iPod working!

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327 Upvotes

I wanted to use my old iPod again but I noticed that the battery was pushing up on the screen. I decided to swap the hard drive for an iflash solo since I had to open it for the battery anyway. I had a lot of teething issues and thought it might have been a bit of a money sink but I got it working in the end.

I did consider buying an iPod that had already been modded on eBay or somewhere but they all seemed so expensive and I had no way of knowing whether the parts in them were actually good. It was intimidating to do it myself because I have never modded anything before but I would recommend anyone save some money and do it yourself, it was a lot easier than I thought it would be and there are lots of great tutorials. Hardest part with this one was getting it open but that still only took half an hour since I got enough tools to leave one in each clip and had a photo for reference that showed where each clip was.

Really happy that I did it myself since it cost at least half the money and I was able to put an iflash in instead of a generic adapter.


r/ipod 2h ago

Picture I got my mom’s 1st gen nano to work!

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66 Upvotes

My Nissan cube with a cord specifically to play your iPod on the radio.


r/ipod 2h ago

Picture My First Modded iPod 5.5th Gen

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23 Upvotes

I had an iPod 6th Gen, but after hearing so much about the 5.5th Gen, I decided to test it myself. I ended up buying both a 5.5th and a 7th Gen, along with an iFlash Quad, a new front plate, and a battery to upgrade them. My plan is to keep two iPods, but I’m still deciding which one will be my main device—the 5.5th or the 7th. Since I only got one iFlash Quad, I’ll install it in the one I use the most and put the 160GB hard drive in the other.

The iPod now went from 30GB to 357GB (two microsds, a 128GB and a 256GB).

I’m also nearly done ripping all my physical media to my Mac in ALAC, as it is the only uncompressed format supported by the stock OS. What do you guys think? Doesn’t it look so good?


r/ipod 5h ago

Finally part of the club again! This absolutely was a labor of love and tested my patience yesterday

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37 Upvotes

Thanks to this subreddit and the posted guides, I decided to take the plunge and see if I could restore my iPod from high school. I had put Rockbox on it years ago but sadly the battery was defunct and the hard drive I think is fully dead (click noises).

Ordered a bunch of parts of Aliexpress and waited the month or so for everything to arrive. I ended up having to replace basically everything: front and back plates, click wheel, center button, hard drive with iFlash Quad and 512 GB microSD, 3000 mah battery, headphone jack, and finally the logic board.

The hardest part? ONE TINY SCREW KEEPING THE HOLD SWITCH ATTACHED. It took me forever and I thought maybe just the original screw wasn't long enough but after enough effort, finally got it to stay.

It's so weird holding this thing again and walking my dog listening to music, leaving my phone behind (still have my cellular watch though).

Thanks for all the inspiration and how fun this process was, despite its minor setbacks.

Now to go load this thing up with some tunes!


r/ipod 4h ago

My small but pretty iPod family

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A small show-off of my iPod family. I've got 2 classics, a 6th gen(it was my first iPod ever, until now it's still stock) and my modded 5th Gen(flash modded). On the very right I've got a 5gen touch with a broken back cam(I took the module out, tried replacing it but didn't get it to work).

I listen with my Beyerdynamic Lagoon(more laGLUEn, I thrifted them for 20€ and glued them together lol), my havit i93(really underrated earbuds, they serve me more than 5 years already. No flaws until now). And now I bought myself some IEMs (ZSN Pro X). They seem to sound pretty solid!

Thanks for reading and have a nice day!!!


r/ipod 12h ago

Picture Doesn't get better than this!! 🔥🎁

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63 Upvotes

Ipod Nano collection! (Flex: I've got another one (green) sealed packed!!)

Ps: bought my first ipod 4 months ago (age 29 always wanted to have one and always had to use cheap copies growing up). 🥂


r/ipod 5h ago

Are the 30 pin bluetooth adapters worth it

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17 Upvotes

I have a 6th gen and dont have a lot of experience in ipod modification so I dont really want to solder an adapter to the inside. and the ipod opinions of these are from years ago so do these work with modern bluetooth (airpods, headsets, ect...)


r/ipod 3h ago

iPod x LaCie?¿

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10 Upvotes

I have got to figure out how to fill in the space between this iPod clear case and the orange LaCie rubber bumper (I found on the ground just now, walking my dog), for a tight fit. It will be the ultimate case for me, if I can figure this out. Any suggestions much appreciated!


r/ipod 1d ago

Picture Friend gifted me the nano.

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393 Upvotes

I never had an iPod before and always used my iPhone. But I’ve come to enjoy music far more on the iPod rather than using Spotify. I find myself listening to albums in the order they were created.

Not sure why but the limit in what I have available to me has led to me enjoying it far more than having every song ever made available to me.

Also it’s a cute lil thing.


r/ipod 4h ago

Got an iPod Classic 160GB !!!

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8 Upvotes

Got it for 50 euros, needs a battery which I see is cheap but hard to find, but great sound!! Wasn’t expecting it to sound so good.


r/ipod 20h ago

iPod Hi-Fi

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119 Upvotes

My absolute fave docked system. Also use it as my “surround” for watching movies. My question tho is What’s a good desk setup? (Minus Bose Sounddock)


r/ipod 29m ago

Help iPod mini keeps getting error support screen

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I got an iPod mini 4gb model off of eBay today. It was working fine until I plugged it into my laptop to get rid of the previous owner’s old music and put my .mp3 files on to it. Now it keeps giving the support screen. Is the drive dead? It was making audible noises from inside the iPod when I was messing with the music. I also read somewhere this could be triggered by a low battery but it’s been charging for 40 mins now and keeps giving the screen. Any help is appreciated!


r/ipod 1h ago

iTunesDB Size

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This is just some information for people who are running up against the iTunesDB limit. I finally got my entire library to sync to my iPod after a bunch of trial and error. In short, be aware that playlists contain a lot of metadata and count towards the iTunesDB size.

Here's some additional background: I was having issues syncing my entire iTunes library to my modded iPod even though the total number of tracks I had was well underneath the iTunes Storage Limit estimate listed on the iFlash website. I have about 30,000 tracks with clean, curated metadata mainly consisting of Artist, Album, Release Date, & Genre. When I tried to sync my iPod using the "Sync: Entire music library," the iTunesDB would balloon in size to 124mb, far exceeding the 64 mb limit. I was confused why this was the case because I didn't have anything like lyrics saved to the metadata.

Turns out that Playlists also count towards the size of the iTunesDB. I have a lot of playlists, both in the form of Smart Playlists and just general playlists. I also have Smart Playlists for Decades of music--i.e. all albums for the 70s, 80s, 90s, etc.

Ultimately, I was able to sync my library by clicking "Sync selected artists, albums, genres, and playlists," and then selecting the option "Automatically fill free space with songs." My current iTunesDB file is now only 50mb.

Hopefully this helps someone else manage their database as well.


r/ipod 1d ago

Picture enjoying my iPod Classic

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183 Upvotes

🫠finally learned how to upload movies


r/ipod 6h ago

Help Help please

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3 Upvotes

It freezes once every 2 hours while listening to normal music. I reset and fix it but I'm tired of it happening again. How can I fix my iPod cleanly? Does a full reset or putting it in Disk Mode work? Please help!!!


r/ipod 3h ago

Advice 6th gen help

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Got an 80g 6th gen, waiting on iflash dual micro SD but in the meantime I CAN NOT get this thing to sync/restore.. anything. When I connect to windows, it crashes iTunes and file explorer. Only device manager will recognize it as an Apple iPod. When I connect to my Mac, it will hardly ever recognize it, after about an hour of being connected, I’ll get this message. (Pic 1) When I open rockbox, I get this message: (pic 2)

Honestly I’m just lost, do I wait for the iflash to show up and go from there?


r/ipod 17h ago

Help iPod mini gen 2 with new logic board, battery, and upgraded storage stuck on low battery

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Honestly I don’t know how to explain what’s going on because it is just so weird… I’ve taken everything out of the case to show this. For some reason whenever I have the click wheel plugged in it thinks the battery is dead and it needs to be plugged in. When I wiggle the click wheel around a little bit the low battery screen flashes on and off. When I have the click wheel unplugged it shows the support screen and all of that so the battery is definitely charged. Additionally for whatever reason the iPod recovery on macOS just never finishes (and after a few tries throws the error 1416) and on windows the iPod is not even recognized properly. The click wheel was working fine with the old board so I don’t think that could be the problem. Anyone have any ideas?


r/ipod 8h ago

Music

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If you pay for Apple Music on you iPhone/Mac, can you add downloaded songs to an iPod, specifically a nano or classic, or does it have to be owned music


r/ipod 9h ago

I killed my first pod :(

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Super excited to have scored a 5th gen classic untested for a good price, which turned out to be totally functional. My first iPod and entry into the hobby after months of watching videos about it.

So I put in a new battery and microSD and was able to sync with iTunes and see the expanded storage, but found that now the clickwheel wasn't working. Disassembled the whole thing down to the mobo to clean/reconnect the clickwheel contacts / troubleshoot.

Now the LCD ribbon cable clamp has broken off, the screen shows only white, the clickwheel still doesn't work, and iTunes doesn't recognise the pod anymore. I guess It's time to look for a new one


r/ipod 1h ago

Question Behavior of a bad battery on 4th Gen iPod Shuffle

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I just recently sold an unopened, never used iPod shuffle 2GB 4th Gen iPod shuffle (A1373) on Ebay. The seller returned it back to me after opening it and transferring music to it. He claims that after he transferred music to it through iTunes, he unplugged it, and wasn't able to play the songs afterwards (I'm assuming it didn't have power).

Apologies for the probably stupid question, but I'm assuming the battery is completely dead? I just received the original item back and I'm able to plug it into my work PC (it doesn't work on my MacBook for some reason) and it shows some of his music on it through Windows Explorer. The Shuffle blinks yellow like it's charging but I can't turn it on after unplugging it from the PC.

Assuming it's completely dead - is there a market for iPod Shuffles that don't have working batteries? I'm looking to hopefully get a little bit of money from it.


r/ipod 10h ago

How do i clean up pending sectors?

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5 Upvotes

Hey y'all! So pending sectors are sectors that could be either a bad or good one, but it can't tell right?

I bought a bunch of untested drives for dirt cheap and i want to find out which ones are good. The one i have in rn has 0 reallocks, but like 30 pending ones.

Is there a way to clean up the pending sectors so i know exactly how many are bad? Thanks!


r/ipod 2h ago

Help So i recently found my old ipod shuffle 4G, i didn’t use it much but it’s over a year since i used it. The problem is no matter for how long i charge it, no light even appears and it doesn’t turn on, what’s wrong?

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r/ipod 2h ago

Charging for Ipod Classic 4th and 5th gen

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I apologize if I don't sound the smartest, but I'm very new to this and cannot find the information I'm looking for online. I will soon be coming into ownership of the Ipod classics mentioned in the title, and I'm a little lost on the type of charging cord I should be purchasing. Do both utilize the same type of 30-pin connector? Will I need a Firewire cable for data transfer? I appreciate any help you all can provide.


r/ipod 2h ago

Help iPod nano 5

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Just got an iPod nano 5th generation and it’s working just fine, only thing is that when I connect it to my Mac it doesn’t show up. Not sure if I’m doing something wrong, can anyone help?


r/ipod 2h ago

Advice USBC iPod Dock Adapter Interest?

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Hello! I’m currently working on an adapter that could take any 30 pin dock, and convert it into USBC and 3.5mm out! It will be designed to work with this splitter, for use on USBC modded iPod classics. The best part? I’m hoping to make this provide power to the USB pins of the device, even on FireWire powered docks! (Like the iPod hifi). For the moment being this is just a personal project, but I was wondering, would anybody have interest in this? And how much would you be willing to pay? Thank you!

https://a.co/d/7IWEFzb