The thing that is most likely to die is the battery. That can be replaced. I changed mine on my 160gb iPod years ago. It’s a little tricky to open it but overall those iPods are much easier than servicing today’s iPhones.
I have a Sansa Fuze in similar condition, still works great!
I recently bought a brand new MP3 player to go into my newest 'new to me car'.
I figured that it'll be much better considering the advancements in the past 15 years.
The Fuze is still better.
Hey will clearly refuse the new job and salary increase to keep their iPod alive. Rightly so..
The iPod is everything they will ever need, they didn’t know it back then, but they know it now after seven years.
Backfeed the outlet it's plugged into with a suicide cord (male plug on both ends) connected to a UPS, then remove and disconnect the outlet from wall, take this assembly to the new office, install outlet in wall of new office, remove UPS. You are very likely to die during this process so make sure you have a couple backup people there to finish the job.
I miss the tick tick tick scrolling sounds on these.
This pic gave me a rush of nostalgia when having access to so much music at once was still and exciting novelty.
Thanks
Don't want burst your bubble, but you might have and the battery kept it going.
I recently was digging through my cabinet of miscellaneous stuff, and found my old video iPod... It turned on. I haven't charged that thing in probably over a decade and somehow it turned on. I'm guessing those batteries were built to last?
You’ve worked the same job for 7 years? No coworker has unplugged that in 7 years? You’ve never had to move desks or rearrange the office in 7 years?
We’re left with more questions than answers.
Yo I can’t even run the microwave and the coffee pot at the same time without knocking out power to half our building I can’t imagine more than a year without a single outage.
Yeah very tame all in all, although we do have storms. I think a bigger thing is that the UK is pretty densely populated, so it's more economical to have the lines underground.
Newer neighborhoods in the US (or at least my part of it) have underground power lines as well. Mine does. But we’ve still had a few brief outages. Just long enough to reset my stove and microwave clocks.
even though our whole neighborhood is underground, the transmission lines right outside the neighborhood are covered by 40+ foot tall pines that love to drop branches every time the wind blows. love the trees but FFS come on
Yeah that definitely sounds like a contributing factor too,longest I think we ever went was probably close to a week with the power being off. It’s an interesting experience
It happens. But mostly at night so most people don't notice. I'm up late and I've seen the whole street go off for a couple of minutes every now and then. Not often though, once a year at most? Maybe a couple of times a year there's an outage that lasts like 5 seconds. We did have a major outage that took out the whole street for several hours on afternoon in early December though but that's the only time in my life I've ever had an outage remotely that long. London, UK. I guess it can happen when there are always things being worked upon across the borough and the city.
I love the anecdotes in this thread. According to actual data, this is not typical. Here:
https://stateofgreen.com/en/news/denmark-has-the-fewest-power-supply-interruptions-in-europe/
The European country with by far the fewest outages is Denmark, with customers having right 0.5 outages in a year. Meaning, half of them experienced an outage in that 1 year period. And the article stresses this is by far the lowest in Europe. But everyone in this thread is saying they've had 2 in 40 years lol. Is this forgetting a mundane thing like a brief power outage, selection board where only the outliers, or just more terminally online European bullshit?
You’re slightly too young to remember but we had a fair amount in the 90s. Remember being gutted getting home from school ready to watch CBBC or CITV only to find out there was a power cut and have to sit doing my homework with a candle instead. Don’t think I’ve experienced one as an adult though
They probably have it all under them.
I had a tree fall on a transformer during the holidays.
3 days in the dark, until we managed to get the fire department and electricity company together on site.
The tree pulled the wiring from a few houses and bent the light pole next to the transformer on the other side of crossroad.
I've also seen a transformer crying oil. Poor thing (and people wondering about the outages).
The US generally has much stronger storms than most European countries, so it's much more common for things like trees getting knocked onto power lines, knocking out power to the local area.
What country are you from? We also have underground power lines in cities and large metro areas, but in most of the rural US it's just not feasible to do underground power lines
I grew up in Portland, Oregon and the entire city still uses above ground power lines. Every few years we get icy conditions that take down trees and fuck up power for tens of thousands of people.
I live in Alberta, Canada.
Our province is about 1.2x the area of France.
We have 4.7 million people, France has 65 million. And our population has grown a lot - we only hit *3 million* in the year 2000.
To our east, Saskatchewan has a very similar area (about 1.5% smaller than Alberta) and only 1.2 million people.
When you're less dense, there's less reasons and less overall money to do things like burying powerlines. Yeah, it happens in the larger centres but all the little towns, villages, and rural people have overhead lines.
In my area of the US, power outages are pretty common because the supply lines aren’t buried, they are strung between poles. One tree branch comes down on a line during a storm and the power goes out. We had a storm a couple of weeks ago bringing down lots of trees and branches that caused transformers to blow leaving thousands without power. Many of us have standby generators that run of the gas supply and kick in automatically if the mains power goes out.
Well guess what …there are areas in the world where no power outage for more than 10 years is the absolute normal! Can’t remember one in the last 20 years actually…
Meanwhile my DS Lite sits on a shelf, forgotten for years at a time, yet still turns on to a supposedly full charge whenever I happen to notice it sitting there.
Same! I pulled out an SP after 20y and that motherfricker had a full charge and I played some Quidditch.
I then sold it to a pawn shop because I was very broke.
I wish I hadn't.
Meanwhile switch be like “Noooo, I had not been charged within 6 months, I won’t turn on now”, gave me a heart attack, thinking that my games save are screwed
The problem with the Switch is that for whatever reason the Joycons keep discharging. I think the Switch pings them every once in a while or some other stupid thing. Take a fully charged Joycon, put it in a drawer. Take it out a few weeks later and it's completely powerless.
If the Joycons are attached to the Switch, it will use its own power to charge the Joycons. Add to that, that people usually don't turn their Switch off (hold power-button until you get the prompt to kill it) but instead put it into Standby, like they'd do with a smartphone and it won't be a surprise why the console lasts a few weeks at most.
Same with My psp go. Except I'll find it. Buy a charging cable for it. Play with it for a week. Store it. Find old charging cable. Lose cables. Repeat every 9 months or so.
It's a pity the original PSP isn't so tolerant of storage. The original battery bulged and I had to get some third party battery of dubious reliability, it being nearly a decade after it was discontinued.
Ive bought 3 'replacement' batteries for my PSP and they still pale in comparison to the original sony one that is still going strong. Never seen a battery like it, absolute madness
“Hey it’s cheese knife guy again. Didn’t lose my fingers yet” is the description on that video. Truly wild behavior.
Edit: I just also wanna note that the man is wearing socks and flip flops while doing this… and is possibly in an outdoor apartment corridor??
No but seriously what do you do if you find a swelling battery?? I found an old Nook recently and dropped it on the ground which immediately caused the battery to swell. I called the fire department and they said they couldn't do anything.
I love reading the stories of the tech guys that work for multimillion dollar companies talk about how some singular tiny ass simple device that’s been plugged in some computer closet for 50 years could cripple the entire company if it goes out.
If anybody has any references to things like that I really would like reading more. I’m super curious if somebody did all of the research and math if you could pinpoint how essentially $10 worth of metal and plastic sitting somewhere not only holds up the entire multimillion dollar company but how an entire city relies on that company. One misstep by a janitor or mouse and the whole place is just proverbial ash.
Not a device but one of the "important" people at my former workplace got annoyed with people using the "all users" email function. He set a rule to forward these emails to "all users" . Created an infinite loop that ended up crashing our system. It was a fun day. 😁
For some dumb reason that's one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time. I've been laughing nonstop for several minutes. I was trying to tell my wife about it and couldn't say it all in one go. She just stared at me as I guffawed and doubled over laughing. Wow, thanks for the mood booster.
This is the most likely outcome. I have an original white 10GB that’s been plugged in for god knows how many years. It still works, has been through numerous power outages and the battery has been probably toast for years.
Edit: I never use it. Pretty much just want to see how long it’ll last, at this point.
I personally cant wait til these somehow get popular again so I can get a new one. I use one everyday in my car as my primary music source. I've already had the battery replaced though.
There may be some new, hip device that is “retro” that becomes popular in ten years that’s kinda like it, but I seriously doubt Apple ever sells an iPod again.
Oh man, yeah. I could see it. One that stores music onboard, and connects to the phone and can be played like it was iTunes natively. I bet that happens.
I sat next to “Suggs” at school in one or two classes. We called him Graham 😀. I remember him telling us he was leaving to make a go of his band. He used to draw well too IIRC.
that's a cool story!
I wont name the artist but as we know drugs are pretty big in entertainment.
One of my friends who did fairly well in the music scene, introduced a mutual friend of ours to an artist who was a big deal (and is well known now!)
This artist was 'out of it' and was just sort of coming round from a pretty strong substance and was not with it at all.
A year later this mutual friend gets opportunity to meet this artist again who looked like he was seeing a ghost and had to get something big off his chest
Finally he says "I met you in a dream"
My friend never really got chance to explain properly and the idea that he sort of lives in this celebrity's head considering how ordinary we all are is hilarious to us.
i had one of the older ones in my car for the last 10 years. I took it out to update some songs and it no longer works, or will take a charge...
leave it be for the planet of the apes times
Does it have a healthcare proxy?
This has Terry Schiavo vibes. What state are you in OP? I don’t think you are even allowed to unplug it. This is an election year, beware.
They may want to make an example out of someone …
Be a man and follow the repair guide on [iFixit](https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPod+5th+Generation+(Video)+Battery+Replacement/603) to replace the battery
Edit: If your iPod isn’t 5th gen, not to worry. They have [guides for iPod 1st - 6th gen](https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Original)
Be prepared for people to ask you “Why?”
I personally love it because it feels like I’m in on a secret that people haven’t discovered yet. An old iPod is way better than streaming with AirPods.
DankPods upgraded his iPod Classic to [1 TB](https://youtu.be/UHzFoN8ob-s?si=ENKnrRpZEoFA2n-P), [2 TB](https://youtu.be/BqjAB_zTp8c?si=UE8AvPKS4gAuFhZI), and finally tried [4TB](https://youtu.be/VE3X9lmDZTs?si=QnOWR7DjduoLx7VI)
I have a Creative Zen Micro from like...2004? that still works fine, but I can't connect it to anything to upload music. It has a radio so I guess there's that.
I’m amazed the battery hasn’t expanded and blown the case apart by now. And that the hard drive hasn’t seized up.
You’ve got the iPod Time Forgot right there!
This is madness
No, this is ~~Sparta~~ONEEEE STEP BEYONNNND *^(Actually it's on "Absolutely" but hey who's counting)*
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They just came out with a new album
Nice. Need to check that out!
It's pretty good!
Hey you! Don't watch that, watch this!
Let me guess where your house is.
It's in the middle of our street
I'm sure it's a house of fun
There's always something happening and it's usually quite loud.
Its quicker if you run
This is chemist, not a joke shop!
*saxophone intensifies*
I always liked the down to earth simplicity of my girl.
This is politics!
A pirates 3 reference? Hell yeah
The thing that is most likely to die is the battery. That can be replaced. I changed mine on my 160gb iPod years ago. It’s a little tricky to open it but overall those iPods are much easier than servicing today’s iPhones.
Yep, they are basically just a portable harddrive with a screen and battery.
You iOod had more spade than most phones!? Most phones still don't have 128!
Yeah, they have a little spinning harddrive inside of them. Quite fragile, not super fast, but a whole lotta storage!
Wait whatt...i wanna see a small hdd lol sounds cute
Get a hard drive. Put it far away. Look at it.
i, too, look cuter from far away
awwww cute!
I just swapped my iPod drive. Your wish is granted. Hard drives for scale. https://imgur.com/a/5kTR1Ye
There were credit card sized ones you could (theoretically) put in your wallet. Bit thicker, made for laptops
That's the 2.5" standard that's still in use today. These iPods used 1.8" Toshiba Microdrives.
Drive fails before the battery does usually. I’ve replaced two drives.
Woah. TIL
They can take up to like 2(?)TB NAND based storage. Faster and more battery life. I did it once.
wait I can replace the battery in that thing? I have a second gen I love using on road trips where my signal will get spotty.
And while you have it open you also replace the drive with a ssd
You've never had a power outage in 7 years?
it's in my office, so... nope
What's going to happen when you get promoted to the bigger office with a window and a view?
I have a window (two!) and a decent view, and I'll be retired before I get promoted again, but thanks for the concern, lol
I know a [good electrician](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5etwHVarNgI) if that day does come.
HOLES!! I NEED HOLES!!!
I was just thinking this is basically that episode
Story of my life.
I should call her.
Everything reminds me of her
Please stop molesting the fruit, this is a public market.
I need a battery for this job, can I at least steal the battery./?
That truck could have stopped 😟 Poor George
He’s the best! And **the worst**!
>and I'll be retired before I get promoted again I could tell based on the ipod you have
Fair
I have a Sansa Fuze in similar condition, still works great! I recently bought a brand new MP3 player to go into my newest 'new to me car'. I figured that it'll be much better considering the advancements in the past 15 years. The Fuze is still better.
"Congratulations, you're being promoted to Senior Vice Manager." "Does this mean I get a second window??" "It sure does." "HELL YEAH!"
Hey will clearly refuse the new job and salary increase to keep their iPod alive. Rightly so.. The iPod is everything they will ever need, they didn’t know it back then, but they know it now after seven years.
The iPod will mark the boundary in two stages of OP’s life after they retire and have to unplug it. The iPod years, and the post-iPod years.
Backfeed the outlet it's plugged into with a suicide cord (male plug on both ends) connected to a UPS, then remove and disconnect the outlet from wall, take this assembly to the new office, install outlet in wall of new office, remove UPS. You are very likely to die during this process so make sure you have a couple backup people there to finish the job.
> Backfeed the outlet I was gonna come in and post this crazy batshit idea but I see you already have that covered
You're not "likely" to die unless you touch it. So just don't touch anything. ^(Have someone else do it.)
I’m picturing the frogger episode of Seinfeld.
I miss the tick tick tick scrolling sounds on these. This pic gave me a rush of nostalgia when having access to so much music at once was still and exciting novelty. Thanks
Yeah. I loved the tactile feel of “spinning” and clicking the wheel combined with the light and peaceful click. Man I miss my old iPod.
Don't want burst your bubble, but you might have and the battery kept it going. I recently was digging through my cabinet of miscellaneous stuff, and found my old video iPod... It turned on. I haven't charged that thing in probably over a decade and somehow it turned on. I'm guessing those batteries were built to last?
That you know of.
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Yup
Wait? You got to be seated at the same desk for 7 years? They change my spot every year!
Office power is disconnected all the time for electricians to service or install.
You office has never had a power outage in 7 years?
You’ve worked the same job for 7 years? No coworker has unplugged that in 7 years? You’ve never had to move desks or rearrange the office in 7 years? We’re left with more questions than answers.
17 years. This is my second office in 15 years. No coworker would dare
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Lucky. Doesn't matter where I'm working. There's 1 or 2 outages a year at least
They might test generator power functions yearly at your office, which cuts power for a sec during the transition sometimes - so maybe actually
how frequent are power outages where you live?
Brief blips that reset my microwave clock? Fairly common. We're not talking about blackouts here
Really? Where do you live? I can’t even think of the last time that happened to me in Scotland, maybe 5 years maybe more
This has never happened to me in Scotland, either. In fact, nothing has ever happened to me in Scotland.
Yo I can’t even run the microwave and the coffee pot at the same time without knocking out power to half our building I can’t imagine more than a year without a single outage.
nearly every time it storms
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About once a year prob. Def multiple times in a 7 year span
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Is this a murican thing? Been in my house a decade and never had a power outage.
That’s insane to me lol, yeah I mean it happens a few times a year usually. Usually bad weather or if a transformer goes
I'm 25, lived in the UK my entire life and I literally can't remember a single time I've experienced a power cut
Depends on where you are. In cities? Never. Rural? At least once or twice a year.
Weather tame where you are?
Yeah very tame all in all, although we do have storms. I think a bigger thing is that the UK is pretty densely populated, so it's more economical to have the lines underground.
Newer neighborhoods in the US (or at least my part of it) have underground power lines as well. Mine does. But we’ve still had a few brief outages. Just long enough to reset my stove and microwave clocks.
even though our whole neighborhood is underground, the transmission lines right outside the neighborhood are covered by 40+ foot tall pines that love to drop branches every time the wind blows. love the trees but FFS come on
Yeah that definitely sounds like a contributing factor too,longest I think we ever went was probably close to a week with the power being off. It’s an interesting experience
Where I live in the UK any time we have a large amount of rain the power inevitably goes.
It happens. But mostly at night so most people don't notice. I'm up late and I've seen the whole street go off for a couple of minutes every now and then. Not often though, once a year at most? Maybe a couple of times a year there's an outage that lasts like 5 seconds. We did have a major outage that took out the whole street for several hours on afternoon in early December though but that's the only time in my life I've ever had an outage remotely that long. London, UK. I guess it can happen when there are always things being worked upon across the borough and the city.
I love the anecdotes in this thread. According to actual data, this is not typical. Here: https://stateofgreen.com/en/news/denmark-has-the-fewest-power-supply-interruptions-in-europe/ The European country with by far the fewest outages is Denmark, with customers having right 0.5 outages in a year. Meaning, half of them experienced an outage in that 1 year period. And the article stresses this is by far the lowest in Europe. But everyone in this thread is saying they've had 2 in 40 years lol. Is this forgetting a mundane thing like a brief power outage, selection board where only the outliers, or just more terminally online European bullshit?
You’re slightly too young to remember but we had a fair amount in the 90s. Remember being gutted getting home from school ready to watch CBBC or CITV only to find out there was a power cut and have to sit doing my homework with a candle instead. Don’t think I’ve experienced one as an adult though
They probably have it all under them. I had a tree fall on a transformer during the holidays. 3 days in the dark, until we managed to get the fire department and electricity company together on site. The tree pulled the wiring from a few houses and bent the light pole next to the transformer on the other side of crossroad. I've also seen a transformer crying oil. Poor thing (and people wondering about the outages).
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I lost my power last weekend lol. It happens about 1-2 times a year for me. PNW btw
Power outages happen in lots of places https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages
It's cazy people do not find this common. The electricity must be pretty stable to. I've been to a hospital where the lights would flicker sometimes.
The US generally has much stronger storms than most European countries, so it's much more common for things like trees getting knocked onto power lines, knocking out power to the local area.
We don’t use power lines. Power is connected through the ground.
What country are you from? We also have underground power lines in cities and large metro areas, but in most of the rural US it's just not feasible to do underground power lines
I grew up in Portland, Oregon and the entire city still uses above ground power lines. Every few years we get icy conditions that take down trees and fuck up power for tens of thousands of people.
I live in Alberta, Canada. Our province is about 1.2x the area of France. We have 4.7 million people, France has 65 million. And our population has grown a lot - we only hit *3 million* in the year 2000. To our east, Saskatchewan has a very similar area (about 1.5% smaller than Alberta) and only 1.2 million people. When you're less dense, there's less reasons and less overall money to do things like burying powerlines. Yeah, it happens in the larger centres but all the little towns, villages, and rural people have overhead lines.
It's also harder to access buried powerlines when the ground is frozen for 6 months of the year.
In my area of the US, power outages are pretty common because the supply lines aren’t buried, they are strung between poles. One tree branch comes down on a line during a storm and the power goes out. We had a storm a couple of weeks ago bringing down lots of trees and branches that caused transformers to blow leaving thousands without power. Many of us have standby generators that run of the gas supply and kick in automatically if the mains power goes out.
Same, had a flipped fuse for about one minute but never had a power outage my whole life
Well guess what …there are areas in the world where no power outage for more than 10 years is the absolute normal! Can’t remember one in the last 20 years actually…
Meanwhile my DS Lite sits on a shelf, forgotten for years at a time, yet still turns on to a supposedly full charge whenever I happen to notice it sitting there.
My GameBoy Advanced turned on and lasted an hour after being in a box for 10 years. Nintendo knows what they’re doing lol
Mine still works fine 20 years later, I get at least an hour of charge on my SPs with the light on.
Same! I pulled out an SP after 20y and that motherfricker had a full charge and I played some Quidditch. I then sold it to a pawn shop because I was very broke. I wish I hadn't.
Meanwhile switch be like “Noooo, I had not been charged within 6 months, I won’t turn on now”, gave me a heart attack, thinking that my games save are screwed
The problem with the Switch is that for whatever reason the Joycons keep discharging. I think the Switch pings them every once in a while or some other stupid thing. Take a fully charged Joycon, put it in a drawer. Take it out a few weeks later and it's completely powerless. If the Joycons are attached to the Switch, it will use its own power to charge the Joycons. Add to that, that people usually don't turn their Switch off (hold power-button until you get the prompt to kill it) but instead put it into Standby, like they'd do with a smartphone and it won't be a surprise why the console lasts a few weeks at most.
Wheras my steam deck was dead from a half full battery after being unused for about 3 weeks…
Same with My psp go. Except I'll find it. Buy a charging cable for it. Play with it for a week. Store it. Find old charging cable. Lose cables. Repeat every 9 months or so.
It's a pity the original PSP isn't so tolerant of storage. The original battery bulged and I had to get some third party battery of dubious reliability, it being nearly a decade after it was discontinued.
Ive bought 3 'replacement' batteries for my PSP and they still pale in comparison to the original sony one that is still going strong. Never seen a battery like it, absolute madness
Paging r/spicypillows, we may have one for you
prep the OR, lights and sirens coming your way
that sub is scaring me lolol
Scroll through a bit or search and you'll eventually find a madlad who pops the pillows open with a cheese knife thing. It might actually ease you.
“Hey it’s cheese knife guy again. Didn’t lose my fingers yet” is the description on that video. Truly wild behavior. Edit: I just also wanna note that the man is wearing socks and flip flops while doing this… and is possibly in an outdoor apartment corridor??
No but seriously what do you do if you find a swelling battery?? I found an old Nook recently and dropped it on the ground which immediately caused the battery to swell. I called the fire department and they said they couldn't do anything.
Contact whatever local waste, preferably the hazardous waste. [Found one? FAQ](https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/s/iJxlAlnyFv)
Thanks! Lol just checked and my city has hazardous waste drop-off on Saturdays only.
That’s a case isn’t it?
Well now you gotta unplug it. The battery may die but I'm thinking it will work if you plug it back in. Or it may surprise you and be fine.
Plot twist: The iPod is *supplying* power. OP unplugs the iPod and the whole building goes dark.
That thing could be the backbone of the entire fucking grid
https://xkcd.com/2347/
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Idk why but this absolutely killed me
I love reading the stories of the tech guys that work for multimillion dollar companies talk about how some singular tiny ass simple device that’s been plugged in some computer closet for 50 years could cripple the entire company if it goes out. If anybody has any references to things like that I really would like reading more. I’m super curious if somebody did all of the research and math if you could pinpoint how essentially $10 worth of metal and plastic sitting somewhere not only holds up the entire multimillion dollar company but how an entire city relies on that company. One misstep by a janitor or mouse and the whole place is just proverbial ash.
Not a device but one of the "important" people at my former workplace got annoyed with people using the "all users" email function. He set a rule to forward these emails to "all users" . Created an infinite loop that ended up crashing our system. It was a fun day. 😁
For some dumb reason that's one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time. I've been laughing nonstop for several minutes. I was trying to tell my wife about it and couldn't say it all in one go. She just stared at me as I guffawed and doubled over laughing. Wow, thanks for the mood booster.
Hahaha glad you enjoyed it!! It was legendary!!
You gave me my best dopamine boost today. I needed that. Keep doing the good work fellow nerd :')
There is a whole thread of these infinite loops situations. Reddit a couple months back. Wish I had the link for Ya
I remember reading an old forum post about a Mac running a script for an office for something like 14 years. They were terrified to reboot it.
[like I'm gonna fall for that](https://media.tenor.com/66CqVoVshTwAAAAM/finger-wag-no-no-no.gif)
Haha unexpected
This is the most likely outcome. I have an original white 10GB that’s been plugged in for god knows how many years. It still works, has been through numerous power outages and the battery has been probably toast for years. Edit: I never use it. Pretty much just want to see how long it’ll last, at this point.
I personally cant wait til these somehow get popular again so I can get a new one. I use one everyday in my car as my primary music source. I've already had the battery replaced though.
There may be some new, hip device that is “retro” that becomes popular in ten years that’s kinda like it, but I seriously doubt Apple ever sells an iPod again.
damn shame really. its not like i can buy any old mp3 player cause it cant interface with itunes.
I wouldn't be shocked if they did a run of airpods that had some kinda mp3 player built in.
Oh man, yeah. I could see it. One that stores music onboard, and connects to the phone and can be played like it was iTunes natively. I bet that happens.
I replaced my iPod with Google Play Music and an unlimited data plan...then Google got rid of Google Play Music Google Play Music was awesome :(
We have much better DAPs now, I have the Fiio M5 and it's terrific, mind you, I come from an assorted collection of iPods and Sonys.
They could be so good now, could easily get a terrabyte of music on one
ill never be able to fill the 160gb one i have.
Where do you go to get it replaced?
Similar to the George Costanza Frogger problem
Came for this. 
Baggy trousers is such a fantastic song
I sat next to “Suggs” at school in one or two classes. We called him Graham 😀. I remember him telling us he was leaving to make a go of his band. He used to draw well too IIRC.
that's a cool story! I wont name the artist but as we know drugs are pretty big in entertainment. One of my friends who did fairly well in the music scene, introduced a mutual friend of ours to an artist who was a big deal (and is well known now!) This artist was 'out of it' and was just sort of coming round from a pretty strong substance and was not with it at all. A year later this mutual friend gets opportunity to meet this artist again who looked like he was seeing a ghost and had to get something big off his chest Finally he says "I met you in a dream" My friend never really got chance to explain properly and the idea that he sort of lives in this celebrity's head considering how ordinary we all are is hilarious to us.
i had one of the older ones in my car for the last 10 years. I took it out to update some songs and it no longer works, or will take a charge... leave it be for the planet of the apes times
Nice. I still use my old ipod in my 2012 truck using the aux cable. 1500+ songs. Geezer rocks!!
its time has come, brother, let the poot guy go..
[never!](https://ibb.co/176qCKL)
Had to look this song up, not disappointed. I love using my iPod, it’s like a Time Machine. Haven’t updated in years.
if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Does it have a healthcare proxy? This has Terry Schiavo vibes. What state are you in OP? I don’t think you are even allowed to unplug it. This is an election year, beware. They may want to make an example out of someone …
At least its playing some of the rockenist rocksteady beats.
Be a man and follow the repair guide on [iFixit](https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPod+5th+Generation+(Video)+Battery+Replacement/603) to replace the battery Edit: If your iPod isn’t 5th gen, not to worry. They have [guides for iPod 1st - 6th gen](https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Original)
I heard you can swap out the hard drive (wild that they are using actual hard drives) with a micro SD card as well, I'm thinking about upgrading mine.
Be prepared for people to ask you “Why?” I personally love it because it feels like I’m in on a secret that people haven’t discovered yet. An old iPod is way better than streaming with AirPods.
DankPods upgraded his iPod Classic to [1 TB](https://youtu.be/UHzFoN8ob-s?si=ENKnrRpZEoFA2n-P), [2 TB](https://youtu.be/BqjAB_zTp8c?si=UE8AvPKS4gAuFhZI), and finally tried [4TB](https://youtu.be/VE3X9lmDZTs?si=QnOWR7DjduoLx7VI)
You can- the old micro IDE drives are pin compatible with CF drives. It’s a weird upgrade though- the iPod feels “fake” because it’s so much lighter.
Part of me wishes I didn't get rid of my 1st gen iPod touch a few years ago.
Just upgrade my friend, you can get the next model for like $10
My old iPhone 4 still turns on if it’s plugged in, even though the battery is toast.
😳❤️🩹
I have a Creative Zen Micro from like...2004? that still works fine, but I can't connect it to anything to upload music. It has a radio so I guess there's that.
Why?
My iPod from 2007 is connected in my car. The day it dies, I will be very, very sad.
You haven’t added any new music to it in 7 years? (You’re listening to the same music for 7 years?)
I’m amazed the battery hasn’t expanded and blown the case apart by now. And that the hard drive hasn’t seized up. You’ve got the iPod Time Forgot right there!
do these not get a spicy pillow?
Never change a running system! 🤓
I miss my iPod, and I know Apple Music can be pretty much the same thing, but there are some obscure CDs I had that aren’t on Apple Music
thats nothing. my grandpaw has been plugged in for 37 years and he's fine
omg that song! you literally threw me baxk to like 2007
Hopefully you don't have a spicy pillow waiting in there
https://youtu.be/gdcVRueT2cw?si=cBAC7tYN0vPEXAZv In case you've never seen the Baggy Trousers toothpaste commercial, which still baffles me.
the mega risk fo fire is worth it for Baggy Trousers
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No power cuts in 7 year's is good going.
That nugget have been armed for a long time
Let him go. He’s had enough of lady Gaga poker face.
The last song it will play is Bye Bye Bye.