I love coming back to the iPod. It’s great having almost all of my music on one device that only does one thing: playing music.
My listening habits are much better when I listen to downloaded music than when streaming. On streaming services I tend to listen to lots of lists and I end listening to the same songs for long periods of time. On my computer and the iPod I usually listen to full albums, in order. It’s a different experience. I listen to the songs as the artist intended when publishing the album.
It’s an iPod gen 7 with the the HD replaced by a 128gb microSD. The firmware is the holy rockbox.
Oh man, I haven’t thought about my old iPods in forever. I need to go dig them out and give that a shot. Times certainly were simpler back then.
So nostalgic for my first i-touch needlessly jailbroken with a few dozen pirated albums on repeat!
I can’t remember whether this was the default behavior, but on the original iPod Classic you could browse your albums sorted by artist, and within artist by year. It’s a small thing, but it made the iPod feel like it was designed by someone who really cares about music, for someone who really cares about music, and I haven’t seen that approach replicated anywhere else in the 15 years since that model came out.
Just as a point of comparison YouTube Music by default doesn’t show your own library, and even that by default is just a hodge-podge of anything music-adjacent you’ve watched on YouTube. :(
I miss my 4th gen click wheel. ;( I loved that thing. I hope the person that swiped it out of my car got the same enjoyment from it that I did.
I lost my iPod classic some years ago 😢 I used to use the same rockbox theme as you, I miss it so much.
