The iPod in 2025: Is It Making a Comeback?

[@Drew_Carmen]

Ipod is just like Spotify in your pocket, but better, because it’s your music. I mean you bought this music, not rented it.

[@BlueyTheProtogen]

Piraters lol

[@cs5250]

Even back in the iTunes days a lot of people pirated music. Songs were $.99 each then $1.29 towards the end. iTunes gift cards as gifts were as popular as gifting a Target gift card today.

[@stripedsweater520]

@@cs5250Lolol I use to ask for iTunes gift cards as kid for Christmas good times

[@guaiqueritech]

If you are in the US, Goodwill sells CDs at $0.99, you can get those and rip them to your desktop; if you own the physical copy it’s entirely legal to digitize the music for your personal use.

[@ParasAdhikary]

Good point. I’ll try this out

[@guaiqueritech]

@ I always took the precaution to keep double copies of all my ripped CDs and that has saved me quite some times 🤣

[@SomeRandomPersonOnTheNet]

3:31 thrift store sometimes have good deals on older CDs to help fill your library. Got 10 CDs for 5$ once

[@TiredWasTakenAllready]

i would buy an ipod but all this stuff is to expensive for me,so what i did was find an old nokia in my home (a nokia asha 210 from 2013) with a 32 sd card to use it as an mp3 player,i like that i can just download mp3's from like youtube and have it there without any modding

[@Rick_Makes]

Building a music library doesn't have to be too expensive. Thrift stores, yard sales and ebay are a good source of cheap cds. There are a few ways to put lossless audio on an ipod too to make the most of the cd quality sound.

[@jillyidle6462]

I bought the Kokkia i10s for my classic 5th gen. that plugs right in the bottom (where the charger goes) for Bluetooth. It works great. I also had someone upgrade my iPod to flash and a bigger battery, and I couldn’t be happier with it. I have thousands of songs, both from my own CDs and from iTunes that I bought, plus podcasts, books, videos, and a few games. Now I can go anywhere and listen to what I actually own, and not have to pay any subscription fees, or be all wires everywhere. 👍🏻. Thanks for this video.

[@FLESH_DESTROYER]

I also just started getting into this and sourced my parts from ali express and saved a ton of money. I even added usb c and wireless charging. Oh, and my bluetooth is built in.

[@ParasAdhikary]

Nice!

[@cs5250]

I’m sure they have a small audience that romances the iPod as it’s not connected to the internet and quite distraction free.

[@xcorpzthealien4472]

Hey, just a heads up you can convert videos into compatible in iPod formats in iTunes itself, or if not that route, VLC does the same

[@ParasAdhikary]

iTunes wouldn’t install for me on recent macOS update :(. But thanks for letting me know I’ll try vlc

[@memey5422]

Bro it shouldnt be that hard to load media I you just upload a MP4 then change it to view on iPod or iPad and then boom

[@luke-kl8vq]

For video there’s this software called Handbrake which is available on Mac, Windows and Linux where you can convert to IPod format. You have to change the settings yourself for it to work but there are videos on how to do it.

[@luke-kl8vq]

A channel called @SpottedTango made a video on it

[@ParasAdhikary]

Nice! I’ll check it out

[@EliteObsolete]

subscribed

[@ParasAdhikary]

Ayee I appreciate you!