You beauty! How did you install 30 days battery? Where did you get it from ?
Probably just normal battery. Thing was massive and heavy
Unless you have the screen on constantly, the device doesn’t use much power other than sending a signal to headphones
there’s also a ton of extra space once you remove the hdd, it could be mostly battery
Can you put music on it without iTunes?
Yes. I still use my classic regularly. 20 000+ songs on it without ever being connected to itunes. Rhythmbox for linux works great when I want to switch things up. Winamp did the job back when I was still using windows. Maybe you were forced to use itunes briefly back when the ipod was first released, but it didn’t take long for other programmers to figure out how to make their software compatible.
The issue I have had with ipods in general is even with third party management, you had to make a Playlist for everything. I wanted to dump my library of A-Z folders and use the device like a file structure.
I’m in the minority, but I stopped making Playlists/mix cds/mixtapes when I graduated high school.
Try Rockbox (firmware)
It may be better these days, but when it was needed most, it wasn’t as mature.
Nice!
Typical Apple, they probably won’t even tell you that you need a 2007 MacBook with a 12 second battery life to make this work. That’s how they get you.
It looks like funar2000 supported it at least at some point.
There is rockbox that is an alternative firmware that adds every feature missing by default
Cool.
Love personal playlists. I use an old phone with SD card to use Bluetooth into my home theater system.
Does it play FLAC?
or Opus
Just Doom and Crysis.
Rockbox does support FLAC, with iPodLinux I’m not so sure (their ancient http site FAQ promises development via MPD, but that’s not a given to have actually happened).
With rockbox installed, yes. With stock, ALAC.
Jesus, I almost cried when I saw this
Is that a headphone jack!?
I like headphone jacks.
i bought a “new” phone just because i was sick of using the shitty ass headphone jack adapters
so now i have 1 phone for music and the other for games 😂
I’m here with a usb c to 1/8" jack like a moron! The EU pushed replaceable batteries, maybe we need a headphone jack bill haha.
Paradoxically, all cheap devices come with one, and even with an FM radio, so cheap devices actually have more stuff than high end smartphone. Also please give me an FM radio FFS, it is one of the most usueful services during emergencies and other situation, also I like listening radio thanks
Probably because most FM stations have apps.
Back in the dumb phone era I had some Ericson TDMA bar phone that had (very basic) web browsing and a combination FM radio/Headset adapter. I specifically remember reading live 9/11 updates on it during class.
I LOVE the idea. I’m slowly mutating into a wired earbud audiophile (not sure what they call themselves), and the sound is just so much cleaner; plus there’s nothing to charge.
4 hours of music on these ones!
Mine just plug in.
my headphones have 24 hour battery life, so honestly im fine with my next phone not having a headphone jack, i do wish most still had one though
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You can tell whether I’m posting from my phone or my desktop by whether I use a
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.(This one was from my desktop despite the interrobang, but that’s because I could easily copy-paste yours.)
Not that easily. I could read theirs, but yours was a box
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Yes
That’s dope!
Shoulda used clear purple for that real nostalga hit.
But awesome work
damn!
if you don’t mind me asking:
how did you create the transparent casing? It looks really great and I’m not sure if it was 3D printed or some other wayDoes it still count as “imadeit” if I made it using a hodge podge of other people’s parts? Haha, I ordered the custom shell from eBay ☺️ but it feels very high quality (not 3D printed)
As a 3d printer enthusiast, I object to you implying that 3d printed parts aren’t high quality, while acknowledging that you’re very correct.
agreed, sometimes it makes sense to accept that trying to do everything isn’t worth it
Dude thats so cool! Thanks for sharing!
I’m curious about the 30 day battery
They sell 3000mah replacement batteries vs the original 850mah. I think some solid state drives can save power, but others can use more.
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3840x5120_dfeedf4cc17d14b8c4f6d1201385f8f4.jpgThat’s as long as some fiancés.
I used a modern 3000mA lithium ion battery which provides about 60 hours of music playback. That’s about 2 hours per day which is much more than I use!
How much is that in watt-hours?
60 hours is two and a half days.
Well yes, but most people aren’t listening to music 24/7
That’s not how battery life on these sort of devices is usually reported.
imadethis new way of reporting battery life!
It’s a three hundred day battery if you listen for five minutes a day.
There is some precedent for trying to estimate typical usage… Maybe in the lightbulb world.
Probably the wrong way to calculate it in the audio world, but the imadethis comment made up for it.
battery life is always measured in terms of continuous playback, not user defined usage
Brilliant deduction
Could just be the regular battery not having to supply power to an energy sucking spinning disk.
I think the SSD uses more power than the original hard drives do. I bought an adapter for the iPod classic to put an SD card in it and there was a few articles about power draw being higher for ssds. I might be misremembering the comparison though, it’s been a couple years.
That may be due to other factors. I will be up front that I don’t have a lot of specifics, but I do know this: in retro computing, SD is hard to implement as a replacement for old-school disks because it means a lot of overhead. For that reason, Compact Flash is still the preferred format for a lot of products aimed at that space.
Perhaps that is at play here, because increased overhead should also equal a reduction in battery life (modulo the spinning disk).
Wow, that’s really surprising, you’d think a spinning platter would draw more power than solid state transistors
If I recall correctly, it was a special made spindle that could handle many spin ups and downs, and they used a massive 10 minute buffer so it loads up the buffer and spins down.
It’s kind of surprising but not super surprising if you’ve ever seen the stock drive in them. The hard drives in the classic are tiny, 1.8inch 4200rpm units. Power draw on the drive case is half an amp at 3.3v. SSDs are like 5 watts plus whatever circuitry you need to convert the interfaces.
Bought an as-is lot of those via eBay.
Tested and verified broken before being sold “as-is”, I’m sure.
Probably the same original form factor but a new lithium ion
Well that’s awesome and I think I’ve found a new favorite sub.
Is this a kit or custom? Did you 3d print that case?
There’s a bunch of places selling replacement iPod shells, I think there’s probably just one factory that makes them but the iPod mod scene is actually pretty extensive all things considered.
You can buy one exactly like this here: https://player-mods.com/
I’m not aware of any 3d print methods or materials that can have that level of transparency, that has to be injection molded.
In industrial 3D printing you can get this amount of transparency with clearcoat. You can send your model to them and they print and ship it to you for quite cheap. On pcbway it’s UTR-8100 Idk if other sites have something similar.
How did you get an SSD on it? 30 day battery is really impressive
Would the Rockbox firmware be an improvement?
I prefer the aesthetics of the classic iPod OS ☺️
I tried it before. It’s kind of superior to stock OS, but I can’t stand the way the menus work.