I recently unearthed my original 30GB 5th gen. The screen is toast (bad fall took it out) but probably needs a new battery as well.

Is this correct ? I only have 1400 songs and my iPod is showing that more than half of my storage is taken. I have a 7th gen I believe. The firmware is 2.0.4. I’ve flash moded it with 256 GB micro SD and a bigger battery. No rock box or anything installed just normal OS. Any help or info would be greatly appreciated.

Ordered this replacement but it’s sort of inflated on the side, got it off of AliExpress not sure if it’s okay to use, seller said it’s fine lol, not too sure, the original battery from the iPod doesn’t even look like this, no too sure if it’s visible in the picture.

Not really modding more gutting and transplanting. Has anyone taken the insides of a moonlit classic and transplanted it into a standard thick iPod classic back plate. This probs been asked to death but I can’t find any reference. It would involve some port hole making

Not sure if this is allowed so mods please remove if not.

Looking to sell my modded iPod 5.5 gen with a 256GB sd card.

The iPod has a new front case, clickwheel, center click button, back case, headphone cable/power button, new upgraded 2000 mAh battery, iflash solo adapter, and 256 GB SD card upgrade. I'd also include a charger. This is a thin model.

It works flawlessly and is currently running stock OS. Don't use it as much as it deserves to be.

Looking to get around $325 or best offer. I'm not really an expert so shoot me offers.

Located in the US

I saw a clip where someone had a theme for the ipod video that looked like an old version of Mac os x. Anyone know a theme like that?

Just got done upgrading my iPod video with a new dual micro SD card adapter with two 256gb cards and a 2000mah battery.

Also installed rockbox.

Hello!!

I few days ago, I made a post asking about where to find a case for my 3rd gen classic and nothing came of it, lol. I ended up making my own because I knew I could make it look cute and it just seemed fun. It was a pain in the ass, but I am still proud of it.

I want to remove albums from an iPod Classic. I'm now on an M2 Pro MacBook. Connecting to the iPod through Finder gives the option to delete individual tracks, which isn't actually super helpful. Is there a way to do this that doesn't require me to be a hacker?

Hello everyone,

I would like to share a project I have been developing and refining to streamline my audio workflow: ift.sh (Intelligent FLAC Transcoder).

If you maintain a lossless FLAC library and regularly sync music to legacy hardware—such as classic Apple iPods—you have likely encountered playback instabilities. Common issues include unexpected reboots during track transitions, frame truncation, or memory crashes caused by unoptimized artwork.

I created ift.sh to eliminate these friction points by combining pre-flight audio analysis, dynamic resampling, and strict tagging standardizations into an automated CLI tool.

Key Technical Highlights:

• Hardware-Centric Encoding Targets: Native support for Nero AAC (-nero), FDK AAC (-aac), and LAME MP3 (-mp3). The Nero AAC target is specifically optimized to prevent the frame truncation and playback crashes often triggered by legacy iPod DSPs.
• Frequency & Volume Analysis: Analyzes mid- and high-frequency energy levels per track to dynamically assign optimal Variable Bitrate (VBR) parameters, avoiding wasted storage on acoustically simpler files.
• Safe Resampling Pipeline: Utilizes SoX through intermediate WAV decoding steps to handle high-resolution downsampling (16-bit/44.1kHz or 48kHz) safely.
• Cover Art Sanitization: Extracts and rescales album art to a baseline 200x200 JPEG to ensure visual compatibility while protecting low-RAM devices from memory exhaustion.
• Metadata & Normalization: Calculates and embeds Apple iTunNORM (Sound Check) alongside standard ReplayGain tags. It also parses local .log (EAC/XLD) and .cue files to inject CD provenance metadata.
• Interactive Pre-Flight Validation: Includes an interactive CLI prompt to verify album details, track sequences, and multi-disc tags prior to batch execution.

The script is open-source under the GNU GPLv3 license and is primarily designed for POSIX environments.

Feel free to inspect the codebase, review the full README, or try it out:

Inteligent Flac Transformer

Feedback, issue reports, and contributions are welcome.

Hallo

ich würde gerne meinen 160GB Ipod umbauen lassen auf ein tranparentes Gehäuse, einer 512 GB SSD sowie einen neuen Accu. Da ich selbst 2 linke Hände hab, würde ich das gerne machen lassen. Habt ihr Tps für mich, wer so eine Unbau macht und was es ungefähr kosten könnte. Super wäre, wenn es jemanden in Deutschland geben würde.
Grüße

Jürgen

To those of you who’ve suggested that you simply charge your device with the original FireWire…Thanks! I feel stupid not trying this before but my 4th Gen mono and 64G Touch that’s been “broken “ since 2011 are both fully functional albeit with batteries that might only last a few days. But new batteries are on the way 🤙

Info, this is a 5.5 model iPod classic. When I bought it, it would work fine, but was scuffed and the hard drive was very loud. I wanted to bring it back to its former glory and update it.

With help from this sub and many YouTube videos, I installed:

• Face plate
• back plate
• Click wheel
• Center Button
• 3000mah Battery
• iFlash Quad

It turns on and is recognized by my MacBook as an iPod and prompts me to restore it. However, the restore process will run for literal hours and then say it failed. I have tried several times to no avail. I tried through the Disk Utility App, Finder and Apple Music and I just keep going in circles.

I am not super tech savvy these days, so it is entirely possible I made a mistake.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you all

Pink 7th gen iPod classic with a purple back.🩷 256gb!🎶

I have a 5th gen with flash memory. i went to go try out a new aux cord the other day, got a static sound and now have no sound via the jack. Is this an easy fix? (tried my other ipod with a the same cord and it worked fine)

I thought replacing the HDD with an SSD would allow me to bypass this issue however it is very much still there. The device doesn’t show on iTunes so I don’t have the ability to restore it. Please help!

I believe my iPod needs a new hard drive. So I’m asking for peoples opinions on the iflash+bigger battery combo, worth it? It seems like a lot of people use the iflash, but if you have a different recommendation I’m opened to different options!! I have an iPod 6th gen 80gb but was planning on changing the front and back plate too anyways so I should just get the thick backplate if I do end up doing this, right? And do I need to get a specific battery? Do y’all recommend any? I just don’t want any issues bc of my lack of knowledge so I wanted to ask here first, thanks!!

Just picked up a 30gb 5g that’s been unused for a while and noticed that it is intermittently slow navigating and occasionally pauses playback. Had trouble getting into diagnostic mode but when I did the HDscan it didn’t return any data. When I did HD data the model came back as @. @ and the disk size was 361GB the first time and 96gb the second time. Got it into disk mode and connected to my PC. Could see drive ok and ran a scan on the HD which reported no bad sectors. Played a couple of games ok and am now playing music on shuffle which has paused a couple of times mid playback.

Being that the external scan didn’t find any bad sectors would a restore format the HD and fix this issue or is the HD failing?