Yeah. I don’t carry my phone in my pocket. When the last of my horded iPods goes and I can no longer get them on eBay, I’ll switch to some other small, lighweight player.
Am I the last person on earth to use ITunes and an iPod Classic?
Apparently so, as far as Apple is concerned. Who could possibly want a portable version of their entire large music collection that they actually own instead of rent on a subscription basis? You’re a Neanderthal!
Sadly, I am as well.
Might want to get ahead of that–from other comments in this thread it looks like Apple is tired of supporting y’alls iPod habit and will probably make it impossible for them to access music any longer.
My son got a Nano for his MIL and asked me to load it up with music, which I, naif that I am, assumed would be a standard drag and drop procedure. And indeed, I could USB tether the Nano to my computer and I put a shit ton of music on there. Which the Nano could not see in any way. I tried a few things that didn’t work, and ended up calling Apple support. Found out the ONLY way for that stupidy little wafer to acknowledge the 800 songs in its memory was for me to INSTALL iTUNES ON MY LAPTOP and allow it to rummage through every goddamned file on my computer, reporting back to the mothership the entire way. I declined, handed the Nano back to my son and told him to go hit up his brother in law, who would be able to yoink the files onto his Mac via drag and drop then go through whatever rigamarole Apple insists on to allow a basic dedicated bit of tech to just play standard music files. Jesus wept, what a clustermonkey.
I primarily use it for audiobooks and generally speaking it’s trouble-free.
Our daughter lost her iPod classic and bought a new model. I was cleaning and found her old one. She told me that she had her new one, so I could use the old one. I promptly loaded it with music I preferred. I use it when working out at the gym, except I haven’t used it in quite a while now.
Modnote: Your 4 posts in this thread add up to threadshitting. Feel free to start another thread about the wonders not Apple but time to leave this thread.
To all, please stay focused on Apple products.
It’s actually pretty amazing that not only has 8+ year old portable consumer tech held up so well, but also so many people (judging form this thread) are still getting use out of it.
I got plenty of use out of a Shuffle, until the battery died. I do not feel like it is worth trying to open up and fix.
Yes. Even though I have music on my phone, I find my old iPod very very handy while traveling.
I’m kind of paranoid about depleting the charge on my phone while traveling, always worried, perhaps irrationally so, that every chance I get to charge it may be the last, because, well, ya just never know. I like the fact I can play music from a comparatively tiny aluminum wafer either in my pocket of clipped to me.
I still use an iPod Nano for my podcast fix. Tiny, weig g s practically nothing and when I go for a run I don’t have my phone flopping around on a belt or armband.
Thanks to a simple cable and an older vehicle I can listen in my truck on long drives, too.