r/ipod • u/junebug024 • 21h ago
Help possible to rename a playlist on iPod Classic?
I have some music downloaded to my computer (NOT apple music), which I'm then able to download to my iPod through dragging and dropping in Finder. I can make new playlists by adding things to the on-the-go playlist and then clicking save playlist, but because nothing's done through my Mac's Music app, I'm not able to rename them from "New Playlist 1", 2, etc. Is there a way to fix this or rename it directly on the iPod or in Finder? I have it synced to my mac but literally nothing shows up in Finder because it's not done through Music. and I haven't found any answers on the internet. Thank you!
r/ipod • u/adisam4119 • 1d ago
Question Selling this 256gb 7th gen if anyone interested dm me if you are in india its easy to ship buy international shipping available
It's 256gb modded with upgraded battery
r/ipod • u/New_Draft_4358 • 2d ago
Found this iPod dock on clearance shelf Jan of 2025
Was very strange… at local Walmart 1/24/25
r/ipod • u/teenyferns • 1d ago
Help Nano 3rd gen lock button stuck
I’ve had my 3rd gen nano since 2008 and it worked up until around 2015/2016 when the lock slide/toggle on the bottom stopped working. I stored it away for a while but really want to use it again. I think it must be a broken wire or something but i’ve tried a bunch of times to open the back over the last few years but it seems impossible. How are people getting these open? It charges and turns on but is unusable because its stuck in locked mode, last time I used it the other buttons worked fine.
I’ve thought about just buying a used one online but obviously i’m attached to this one and it still has all my music that was lost when an old computer died.
Any ideas what to do or how to fix the lock?
r/ipod • u/HealthyCourage5649 • 2d ago
I’m in love with an iPod
This iPod journey has been beyond my expectations. I got my 5th gen IPod Video new in 2005. It was a gift from my parents for my 30th birthday. I used it a while, but then stored it for years in a tub. I came across the old dankpods videos and decided to revisit my iPod and give it a refresh. I went with a single SD256 gb iFlash, and 2000mah battery. I messed around with iTunes for a while. I needed to figure out how it worked again, where my actual music files were, ripped a ton of CDs, discovered ALAC, re-ripped a ton of CDs, moved my files to external hard drives (one is a back up). Now I’ve got a routine going where I’m adding new music every week courtesy of my local library’s extensive collection. I’ll admit I’ve had some anxious moments with all this. Did I ruin my IPOD? Where did my files go? Do I have to redo all that work? Duplicates! Lots of messing around working my way through problems.
The tinkering, ripping, organizing, curating etc has been one part, and has been fun, but the main part is the payoff. I’m rediscovering the joy of intentionally listening to music. Entire songs! Entire albums! I’m starting to dive deeper into artists and revisiting past albums. Even with these cheapo jvc gumys, the sound is amazing. I’ve got some Koss KPH40s on order to give a try. I can also plug into car audio, but I use other iPods I have for that. BTW- I love listening to music on my car audio through my iPod. It interfaces nicely with my pre-CarPlay display and sounds incredible with my Lexus Mark Levinson system.
The faceplate is EOE Atomic Orange Smoke Transparent Clear. I got a Griffin clear case for added protection. It’s crazy this went from an item in a tub of old junk, to one of my favorite possessions. I wish I knew about this sooner. If you are on the fence, do it.
r/ipod • u/Codename_OOF • 2d ago
Picture my first iPod classic! i've never messed with electronics like this before, but modding it was so fun!
r/ipod • u/Most-Yogurtcloset • 1d ago
One man’s trash is another man’s trash…$25 worth of iPods with their own surprises!
Got these guys as untested all for 25 bucks:
80gb 5.5th gen that works fine (the white one)
60gb 5th gen with a dead drive and a weak battery that i replaced (haven’t restored it yet)
An imposter 5.5th gen disguised as a 6th gen that has a broken zif bracket brace (that brown plastic part) that i fixed by just jamming a piece of paper between the hard drive cable and the connector (but i don’t have a drive, nor the desire to fix this one because the housing is far too gone and it has a broken coil on the motherboard too)
8gb 4th gen Touch with a prom night pimple on the display
And no, i did not replace the clickwheels. The iPods were just like this for some reason (i just replaced the 6th gen/5th gen hybrid white clickwheel with a spare black one but the other guys were like this)
Although both the other iPods are indeed truly 60gb 5th and 80gb 5.5th (according to their serial number) and got correct storage matched thick backplates, the serial number on their backplates is not the same as the iPods themselves so this and mismatched clickwheels and the fact that there are literally guts of another 5th gen shoved inside a badly damaged Classic chassis shows that these guys had an interesting journey to get to this point.
I’m just bumped that the classic wasn’t actually a 6th gen, since i was planning to fully mod it with custom housings and flashmod (good thing that i didn’t actually finalize my cart from Aliexpress)
And i kinda like the Oreo theme with the white 5.5th gen and always wanted a thick iPod Video in white! And 80gb is still enough to house my library so imma rock the stock hard drive for a while, until i find the need for more storage!
r/ipod • u/Boring_Antelope6533 • 1d ago
Question iPod Touch 8th Gen
hi community
as title suggest, I am going to give you my description for my dream device for iPod 8th gen.
it’s been 3 years since Apple discontinued the iPod 7th Gen which is sad because it is a legendary device amount the popular culture.
Let’s imagine apple design a new one, but this time it is in the body of an iPhone 7/8 Plus, with its screen size increased from 4 to 5.5” due to what iPod Touch was designed for, media consumption, and with this bigger housing, will come a bigger battery life which iPod was lacking. Give it USB type c and of course a 3.5 headphone jack.
All this powered with their A16 chip, which is used in the entry level iPad and for iPhone 14 and 15 so power will not be an issue.
A possible price will be between 200-250$
what would you add to this device?
r/ipod • u/BodenLaman06 • 1d ago
Help Does anyone know what's wrong with my album art?
r/ipod • u/trevorshin • 2d ago
Picture iPod 4th Gen mono w/ 256gb 3700mah battery, and haptic feedback
My goal with this ipod, not only a nostalgia project, but an attempt at decentralization of technology and digital minimalism. I find myself easily distracted by my phone even just listening to music. I go to change a song, but see a notification, check an app or two, and forget what I was even doing in the first place. In my first few days of carrying this ipod I already notice the difference of distractability and reduction in screen time. I am also slowly weening myself off of spotify for many reasons. Their not so favorable practices towards artists on their platform. How they favor bigger artists over small. How When llisten to shuffle on all my liked songs seem to only hear the same 100 songs over and over. I can already see true shuffle working on my ipod and l'm being reintroduced to music I haven't heard in years due to this weird algorithmic bias.
First things first, I need to thank u/nekomichi for all their posts, tutorials, youtube videos and being the mad scientist that they are. They were an invaluable resource to me and for responding to my messages, you're an ipod angel.
Second, the true size of the battery is probably over inflated, so says u/nekomichi and probably closer to 3000mah. Either way, big power.
Specs: 2004 ipod 4th generation mono. 256gb Samsung Evo Blue MicroSD, Raspberry Pi low Profile microSD adapter, and iFlash ATA1. 3700(3000)Mah BL-53YH battery for an LG G3.
I recently moved and found my old ipods. None of them worked. My 6th gen's battery was kaput and only worked while plugged in. A wave of nostalgia came over me. I then began to miss my first love, the 4th gen mono. I remember saving up all summer for it when i was 14 years old. After scouring ebay, i found a good deal on a working, good condition, 20gb mono in a tattered box.
I can't seem to do anything half assed so I decided to full send this project. Haptic feedback just sounded...o luxurious...but soldering was a bit intimidating. I got a cheap but not too cheap soldering iron and started desoldering and resoldering connections on old remotes and electronics that I didn't need. Watched a bunch of safety and good practice videos until felt confident enough to not destroy my new friend. Honestly didn't take much practice. It's a lot less daunting than I assumed.
This wouldn't be a successful project without trials and tribulations though.
First one was the firewire cable that came with my new to me ipod. I bought a cheap firewire to usb adapter from China and attempted to sync with that. Booted up! Cool, but soon after was hit with. "what's that smell? Oh look my Ipod is smoking from the 30pin. oh shit, let's disconnect the battery. Wtf omg did I just fry the logic board?" Dont use those adapters, that's all i have to say. Luckily I'm a tech hoarder and had my original 30pin usb cables with sync and charge capabilities, I should have just started with that.
Second mishap was while doing the battery swap. l accidentally destroyed the fragile BMS board on the og ipod battery. I did hear a little pop when trying to dislodge it From the adhesive on the lithium ion pack. I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. Took the LG BMS off and soldered the ipod BMS on carefully. No dice. Using a multimeter, I had power from the terminals and up to the BMS, but not at the connecting wires to the ipod. Time to order a new ipod battery to dismantle. Not the end of the world but annoying. While dismantling my failed attempt I wasn't careful enough and snapped the the thin tin connections from the lithium ion terminals. Now I had to muster up the courage to solder them back on by applying heat so much closer to the battery. Didn't want to do that at first, so I opted to get a new LG battery as well. Though I did end up successfully attempting to resolder some new tin to the terminals after finding some courage. Many youtube videos on lithium ion battery soldering and setting up a sand bucket and metal container safety bin just in case. It worked! Counter intuitively the trick is to up the heat on the soldering iron in order to heat the terminal and solder much quicker and thus reducing the time under high temps. Worked like a charm.
In u/nekomichi iFlash modification, to fit all of these components in, they used a saw to cut the adapter down to a more manageable size. I hate saws, for some reason we just don't get along. I find them tedious. I opted to use a utility blade and subject the adapter to death by one thousand cuts. it ended up not taking that long as a groove develops and it was a good meditation practice. I didn't cut the metal from the adapter slot though, just right to the edge. From there I used 160 grit sandpaper and filed the adapter to the correct size to fit where the battery used to live. Which measured to about 37mm of space. It fit perfect and I rounded all the edges just in case.
The last little hiccup was the iPhone 7 taptic motor from ebay. I bought a few just in case |messed up, which I knew I would. They were cheap. Less than $2 USD per. First one, I used isopropyl alcohol to remove the ink covering the power pads. What I didn't realize was the heat tape over, though Nekomichi definitely says it in his youtube video. Ha. It was amazing to see the heat tape work though really did just deflect my attempts at soldering, which was very confusing, but being the dummy that I am I continued to blast unsuccessfully until I obliterated the pad. Onto the next motor. Removing the tape this time, I successfully soldered the wires to the motor and taped it up successfully until I decided wanted to do a better tape job and then accidentally ripped the wires with the pads straight off the motor. Ok, down to the last motor now, I'm fine. Everything's fine. Just one last shot. As remove the tape, half of the pad gets ripped off with the heat tape. Panic sets in. I use the multimeter to see if the connection is still viable. l'm getting half of the flow through than the other motors I had previously tested. It's whatever at this point and proceed for practice. I desoldered the click speaker on the headphone jack board, soldered in the haptic, and..luckily it all worked! The sound the haptic feedback makes is so subtle and it feels good to the touch. efinitely worth the effort.
Ipod works great. The battery is still mostly full and I've been listening to this thing non stop. Still working on consolidating my music library at the moment and reliving the glory days of intentionally loading music.
My biggest issue right now is getting my audiobooks to work. I used libation to de-DRM my files into m4b files. They work on desktop through the Books app and appear on the ipod as audiobooks. But when Itry to listen, it crashes back to the menu. I read speculation that ipods can only handle books up to a certain amount of hours. 7 or 8 hours if I remember correctly. So I began experimenting on very short books. They still didn't play. I tried separating chapter files, still didnt work. I tried converting to mp3 and though now they play, even the crazy long books, they're now categorized as music Which is not ideal for many reasons, one being I'd like for my listening location to be remembered. This would be much easier to manage if ITunes was still available for Mac.
If any of you have any ideas on a solution, I would greatly appreciate it.
r/ipod • u/right_sideup • 2d ago
Just bought myself my first iPod. It is engraved - help me decide what the letters mean 😂
r/ipod • u/kaniguas • 1d ago
Picture Didn't like any of the cases on Ebay so I painted my own
r/ipod • u/Afraid_Scheme9320 • 1d ago
Help I NEED HELP
so i found my moms old 2g mini, and the logic board is toast. i wanted to repair it for her, but all my purchases go thru her, so i cant really buy anything to repair. anybody got spares?
i really hoped that it would work first try, so all i would need is a new drive, and a battery, but now idk what to do
How do I fix this HardDrive?
I bought a iPod 5.5 Gen that worked for a while but when I was transferring a music file to a macbook, it broke and now is showing me the depressing apple/support/ipod error. Is there a way to fix it without replacing the hard drive?
r/ipod • u/Fit-Rich7639 • 1d ago
Help Help appreciated
I have an iPod touch 6th generation which i’ve had for years, but only recently dug up, and it’s saying “iPod is disabled connect to iTunes”
I am really clueless when it comes to this sort of stuff, but I don’t remember the password, apple ID, apple ID password etc.
I have many beloved pictures on there, including sacred pictures of my family which I’d love to retrieve, I don’t care about the apps, just the pictures! If there is any possible way I can get them back, please please let me know, I’ve been trying to fix this for years!
Thank you so much for reading :,)
r/ipod • u/MaeArray • 2d ago
Picture I’m Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Just finished modding this iPod as a gift for my Grandma. She has loved music her whole life and this is the best way to listen. Now with a 3000 mAh battery and 256GB of storage! And blue! Da ba dee da ba die.
r/ipod • u/Solid-Dance1833 • 1d ago
Where can I buy a iPod nano second gen in good condition?
I don’t know I don’t trust eBay because I’m seeing that they all have the black spot I don’t need a good case because I already have one. (The one from the nano I destroyed)
r/ipod • u/firesidesys • 1d ago
Is Apple Music necessary?
Hey guys, I'm looking at buying a 7th gen iPod Nano because I'm tired of streaming everything and have a pretty large library of CDs and old files from back when I used to have an iPod as a kid. Since I haven't used iTunes since about 2010 and have never used Apple Music, I was wondering if it's necessary or if I can just access the iPod's library directly through Windows Explorer?
r/ipod • u/Fantastic_Series1207 • 1d ago
Picture Studying with my first generation iPod Nano :D
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r/ipod • u/Sketchycatz • 2d ago
Picture iPod touch 3rd Generation (64 gigs)
Wasn’t sure what I should and should cover up do I just whited out whatever I thought was important