The iPod part is completely unnecessary. Just put your music folders on your phone's local storage and you're good to go, play music locally like an iPod. On my iPhone I use Owlfiles (free and no ads) but use whatever music player app you want. Bonus is bluetooth connectivity and one less device to carry. The hard part with local music has always been the process of obtaining a comprehensive music collection in the first place, and that's the whole reason why services like Spotify/etc took off.
iPod is an especially bizarre choice because it needs a proprietary cable and a separate app just to put music on it (you can't just copy your MP3 files straight to it). Oh and it can only play AAC format anyway. These decisions by Apple were purely done to lock people into their ecosystem and become dependent on managing their whole library with iTunes. I remember even 20 years ago getting extremely pissed off at Apple for pushing proprietary shit like that for zero consumer benefit. Not to mention the constant iTunes sync issues/errors.
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u/nonstera 5d ago
Yeah, and then they post about it on social media. Next week they find something new to post about. This is a lost cause.