does anyone else still use an iPod? i kind of collect them, tbh, because for many moons i travelled a lot through areas with no connectivity and hated having my phone drained of battery (i will not buy an iPhone, ever).
my 30GB iPod collection (i have four lol) works just fine. don't really understand why anyone would need anything else.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
Yes, I have a 128 and it sounds better than my iPhone but convenience won that battle long ago
― calstars, Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
because of my hatred of iPhones it's never been a problem, i just keep one iPod in the car and a few in the house and swap them around lol.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
I use my 80 gb iPod only in the car, I wish I had a spare
― Brad C., Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
i do! but i don't have a phone. i use an 8 gb nano every single day, and i have an old second or third gen 80 gb model, still with a hard drive in it and everything, that i use as a home stereo, attached to a dock. i wish they didn't stop making nanos, it's a perfect device but someday it's going to up and die on me.
― j., Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
tbh, i do a call on social media for them every so often, and friends often just give them to me because they're viewed as garbage. that's how i've accumulated so many.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
jesus wept
― j., Saturday, 15 June 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
I use a 160gb ipod for music and will cry when it dies
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 16 June 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
i am considering finally joining the streaming age, except it turns out what i'm considering streaming is media from my NAS at home. we'll see if i wind up going that route.
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Sunday, 16 June 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
Plex is probably your best solution for that, although it’s not perfect.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 16 June 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
10 yr old 160gb user here, very alarmed by the thought of it dying.
― fetter, Monday, 17 June 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
Left my 10 y/o 160gb behind in a hotel room recently, heartbroken to lose it and also that i'll never know exactly how long it would have lasted under good care.
― One Eye Open, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
Siegbran otm about Plex, it's fairly easy to configure and works well for in-house streaming even with my antique iMac as a server (I don't use it to stream outside my LAN).
My 2009 VW has a slot under the center console armrest specifically designed for a classic iPod ... I might have to sell the car when my iPod dies.
― Brad C., Monday, 17 June 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
My 2013 Honda killed my 160gb iPod. I should've used the audio input, but instead used the USB (in the glove box, for some annoying reason). At random moments, the iPod would freeze when I started the car, and I'd have to power cycle it. It only happened a few times, but that combined with whatever syncing shenanigans were going on (the dash screen displayed artist/title/cover art) apparently damaged the hard drive. When I tried to restore it from my computer, only a random handful of items would sync to it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 17 June 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
I've got a 160 GB which I use all the time. Would really like to get a spare but they're still kind of expensive.
wouldn't mind taking the plunge for the 256GB iPhone one day but it's that damn headphone jack that's stopping me. I know you can get adapters and what not but I just think its dumb, the Bluetooth in the phone I've got goes on and off all the time
― frogbs, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
battery on my 160gb dies after 20 minutes :(
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 17 June 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
there’s a whole cottage industry around repairing/upgrading old iPods, so a dead drive or battery isnt necessarily the end:
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/22/17039896/ipod-diy-upgrade-battery-memory-hack
― Siegbran, Monday, 17 June 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, June 16, 2019 10:03 AM (five days ago)
jinx :( :(
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
noooooooooo
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
iTunes froze while I was ejecting the podmanually ejected from the task baras soon as I unplugged, the Apple logo came up, and the pod is just rebooting every 4 seconds, never getting past the apple
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
you tried manually rebooting it? while having it plugged in to power source?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
yep, plugged in and not plugged in
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
Fuck noIt must be saved
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
Worst case scenario: now is the time when you pay someone to put a 500 GB SSD and new battery in it
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
update: it has now rebooted completely
...and wiped all of the music on it
not sure if this is worse than it just dying and me shelling out for a non-ipod player
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
jesus :-(((
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
(I will still try recovering the files in disk mode, but I need to clear 200gb on my 475gb laptop first, and get a new EHD to back up to, whee)
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
This was happening to me too. I replaced it with a Sony NW-A45 digital Walkman and have been extremely pleased.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
will still try recovering the files in disk mode
oh god even if this works I've lost all my playcounts and playlists that manage them
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Sony NW-A45 digital Walkman
maximum of 48gb?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 21 June 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
No. It takes a micro sd card and those come in up to 400GB now
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 June 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link
Up to 48GB is just the built in memory
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 June 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
The NWZ-A17 one is my go to player now - it is NOT as good an interface as an iPod classic but great sound, great battery life and the mammoth size of modern micro sd cards makes up for it
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 June 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
Basically my classical library goes on the Walkman and everything else goes on the 160gb Classic
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 June 2019 01:44 (four years ago) link
Which is rockboxed - I have not used iTunes to load music onto my iPod for years
ah, ta - specs said 16gb built in, and that it took SD card, which I was taking to mean a standard card
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 21 June 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
if there was an mp3 player that could sync playlists and play counts to iTunes I'd be all in on it
― frogbs, Friday, 21 June 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
Huh, there’s software that will do that for Android phones, surprised there isn’t for the Sony.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Friday, 21 June 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
My recent phone purchase should cover me when my 160gb classic dies on me. I went with the 512gb galaxy s10, which will be my main mp3 player at some point. But that also means I'll probably have to find a new database soon.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 30 June 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
not iTunes, but this is the sort of scenario that bugs me the fuck out and the main reason why i don't trust a lot of these platforms for purchasing or even streaming media.
https://gizmodo.com/ebooks-purchased-from-microsoft-will-be-deleted-this-mo-1836005672?_ga=2.42903392.418273563.1561997751-2390524635.1521508273
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 1 July 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
don't trust a lot of these platforms
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― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 1 July 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
I had a bunch of tracks that were renamed to Grouping-like values – I assumed file corruption but there is a hidden metadata field since I think 2017, 'Work Name', which is meant to deal with classical music better. You can only get to it to edit it by clicking a little arrow next to 'song' under 'Details' when you get info on one track.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7846590https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7852053
― Brakhage, Saturday, 21 September 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
This is a fix - in iTunes 12.5 Apple introduced support for “Work” (TIT1) tag which is used for classical music tagging, but it had already used this TIT1 field for its “Grouping” tag.
So from v12.5 onwards, iTunes writes the Grouping tag into a new GRP1 field, however that means that for mp3 files tagged in previous iTunes versions what was previously Grouping now appears as Work.
Fixing it is a simple one time operation, go to the Songs view, select the columns Work and Grouping, populate the Grouping tag, and (mass) clear the Work tag.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
anyone have any luck correcting a problem where an ipod which has been manually synced in the past mounts with the 'sync music' preference unchecked, so that it can't be newly synced unless you first rewrite it with a new selection of music (even if that selection is identical to what's already on it)?
i use two ipods which mostly receive different contents from one computer/library, and it seems that this has something to do with one or both of the ipods occasionally becoming un-syncable. but i recently switched to catalina/music app and it seems that the problem has only become constant rather than occasional.
the problem seems like it should be quite common but i've never had any luck funding advice about it on the web.
― j., Monday, 14 October 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
i guess it thinks the music on the ipods is coming from another library, but i don't know why it thinks that
― j., Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
Weird thing today: suddenly a lot of my music files were being read as directories, not files, so they couldn't be 'found', or manipulated. I'm not sure if it's a Music issue or a Finder issue, it may be the latter, since looking at the NAS through Finder had the same problem - half-empty directories, or directories that were just files, etc. A reboot sorted it but it was a disturbing hour wrestling with it
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
Okay, so two different files on my computer with similar names - iTunes thinks they're the same?
I do a lot of work with audio producers who send me different iterations and cuts via email. Often if I ask for an edit to be made and reopen it in iTunes, it plays the old version. This is super confusing and COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS. The only way I can fix it is by clearing everythign from my iTunes. Seriously, who invented this shit?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
You could change the file extension for audio files to open with say, QuickTime or something
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
I’m in iTunes a lot tweaking my library and it’s really a pain in Catalina to open a finder window and sync my phone from there instead of within the program
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
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― calstars, Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:11 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Tried to do this so it opens in VLC but Outlook still defaults to iTunes and I've no idea how to change it.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link