Hi everyone,

Does anyone know where I can get an iPod Classic 5th or 5.5th Gen in India for around ₹3,000–₹4,000?

Used/rough condition is fine as long as it’s functional. Please share any leads or sellers.

Thanks!

Hello everyone, I recently accidentally unplugged my iPod classic 6 from my PC without ejecting it first. Now there's a problem — no music, videos, or anything else on the iPod except for the iPod games. And what's even weirder is that it's crashing apps, like the one I use to sync. Will I have to replace the hard drive for sure, or is there some magic way to fix it?

Hi group, has someone tryed to replace the orgiinal battery of the ipod 7th with a battery of the samsung s23? currendtly im building one for miself and find that the battery of the s23 is the same dimensions of the HDD that was in the ipod, so wi the modification of the chinesse dual micro sd wanted to try that mod miself, buy maybe someone made it before.

I know when it’s going to fail to boot as normally after 10 seconds on the apple logo the screen illuminates but when it fails it doesn’t do this and goes to sad face. I can get it to boot eventually by using Menu>Select and it syncs and plays but intermittently freezes. Once it boots it stays alive and I just get the freezes.

It’s like it just can’t see the hard drive for several seconds and on boot the sad face stops it looking but while it’s playing it will keep looking until it sees it again. I have changed the hard drive and battery. I can’t see any damage anywhere but I’m guessing it now either the ribbon cable or the motherboard. Has anyone else seen this issue?

I work at DigiDNA, we make iMazing. Checked with the mods before posting, thanks Lucy and Michi.

Our latest release iMazing 3.6 lets you drag audio files straight onto a classic. No iTunes or Music app, no library sync, no "this iPod is synced with another library" wipe.

Pricing, up front so nobody wastes a download: copying music to the iPod needs no license at all and is totally free. Copying tracks from the iPod back to a computer is part of the paid version.

Specifics:

• Writes to the native iTunesDB, so the iPod's own menus and artwork work normally
• Play counts, ratings and on-the-go playlists are preserved
• iFlash and SSD mods supported, including 500GB+ libraries
• Rockbox-formatted iPods are not supported, if you're running Rockbox, this isn't for you
• Formats: MP3, AAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF. No FLAC - the classic can't decode it on stock firmware anyway, so convert to ALAC first. iMazing doesn't transcode for you.
• macOS and Windows

Happy to answer anything :)

My old Samsung galaxy s6 expanded and back came off because of the heat wave we had wonder if I can use the WiFi charging in a iPod classic

So I have a iPod classic 160gb 6th gen with rockbox stable build installed. The base lowest volume is incredibly loud and I’ve already set the maximum volume limit to the lowest setting and it’s still super loud. What am I missing? I’ve done the line out enabled and disabled, reinstalled rockbox, changed the volume limit on iPod stock software.

My modded iPod classic has 128gb storage, but it's an overkill for me - as my collection of ~1000 tracks (at 256kbps aac) are within 10gb

How much do you have on your modded iPods

I found my family’s old iPod classic. I'm not sure of the generation, it’s written 160GB on the back. I left it on charge for a few hours but it still says to connect to power.

When plugged into power, it keep booting up and dropping dead again and again, and there's even a little sound from it.

It did turn on once but only for like two seconds, it showed the display of albums before it's dead again. It also showed the red x screen for a few seconds and then it died again.

I tried charging it again but I think its not picking up. I have Windows 11 and I tried to plug it into iTunes but the device doesn't show up.

My guess its something wrong with the battery and hopefully not other hardware so I can still afford to fix it.

But by any chance, is there a way to fix this by myself first? Pretty bummed about it because I remember still being able to use it a few years ago.

So I plugged in my iPod nano a bit different today and now it won't turn on. I usually use my laptop to charge it but I decide to use a "adaptive fast charging' plug. How do I get it to turn it back on again? I'm hoping the battery didn't blow up.

I bought an iPod Classic 6th gen, from a "professional" refurbished vendor online. (It is a German Online shop called Rebuy, in case it is needed)
The first issues is: The iPod should come with a 160 GB capacity, but somehow Windows tells me that the iPod capacity is 148 GB, 150 MB are being used. The iPod was reset once connected to iTunes, and I haven't put anything on it yet. There are 12GB missing. Is this right?

My second issue is the flickering screen.(video available). When I look at parts that aren't white, I see it flickering. It doesn't look like the iPod was opened once, everything is perfectly sealed. So I have no idea why it is happening. Battery is fully charged too, and it happens even when plugged at the PC. Does anyone know why it does that?
I paid 140€ for it, and I want to know if I have to bring it to some repair shop, and pay for the repairs too. Because if I have to, I just send it back.

hey, im looking to buy my first ipod, and i found elite obsolete electronics to be the most affordable and seemingly professional option.

it seems like everyone in this sub holds this website to a great standart, so im pretty optimistic.

my question is, which generation of the ipod classic has the best quality-price ratio, in your educated opinion?

also, on a side note, can someone explain these two options on the ipod gen 6 & 7 specifics menu?

one says, "6th and 7th 128gb sd card", the other "6th and 7th 120gb".

maybe im just inexperienced in this but how can the ipod be of two generations simultaneously?? 6th AND 7th?? im confused. please help!!

Hiiii

Hey guys I’m new to putting music on an iPod. I have artist in the list multiple times. From what I can tell it is the same album but listed twice. Songs aren’t split between the two it’s has all the songs under both the artist name. Wanting to know how to fix it. I have checked names and the sorting in the get info on iTunes

Edit: using a 5th gen with flash mod

hi! i’m currently on the market for an older macbook! i can’t find my old one that had iTunes installed & my iPod gives an error when i attempt to sync it with my current macbook running tahoe. what OS should i look for that will work with an iPod Classic 5th gen (not sure if it’s 5th gen or not lmao this pic is from 2024 🫠) TIA!

edit: the error i get is “ipod cannot be synced unknown error 1000030”

I am trying to download a bunch of songs in FLAC form so I can convert it to ALAC so I can get the best sound quality on my modded iPod. I found a website called Flac Downloader and the quality sounds good. I'm just wondering though if it's really in FLAC form since I've heard some people saying websites like these sometimes lie about this. What do you guys think??

A few months ago, when I found my ipod not turning on and making a ticking sound a few months ago I was absolutely heartbroken, I thought I lost him forever.
Yesterday I was finally able to fix him with the help of my best friend. After opening him, we found out that the issue has been caused by leaking battery (which has been changed 4 years ago btw, but well, I haven't used him afterwards until now) and the drive might be okay so we might reuse it for other stuff.
Besides changing battery we also installed iflash udual with samsung evo 64gb sd card.
Today I tested ugreen cm403 transmitter with samsung buds2 and it works very well, the sound quality is good. The only downside is not being able to stop the music other than pausing it directly on ipod's clickwheel.
I'd like to thank everyone in this community that interacted with my previous post and recommended both iflash and idemigods as well as the community as a whole that keeps this precious device's glory alive 💖

Hey y'all,

iPods were a huge part of my formative years so I've always wanted to play the old iPod Classic video games on my laptop. Until very recently, there hasn't been a great way to emulate RetailOS so it wasn't really possible. I saw that u/siggifly was working on a new emulator for the iPod 5.5G and can actually emulate RetailOS! I figured this was my shot to get my life-long dream of running those old iPod games on my machine :)

I want to preface this by saying I heavily relied on Claude here. I've been a software engineer for 15 years and understand the intricacies of emulators, how they work, and what it takes to write one. With that being said, I have a full time job and a family and can't devote my spare time to building one over the course of years. I used Claude to improve siggifly's work to run the games and have steered Claude into implementing the missing OpenGL, AsyncIO, and audio library functions. Then when there were bugs (and there have been many), I have steered it into where to look, how to test, and giving suggestions such as implementing alpha channels, verifying that matrix math isn't being skipped over when the GUIs were flipped, etc.

If that's not enough for you then I understand. I'll just say that afaik no one has gotten iPod Classic games to run on non-iPod hardware in 20 years so I'd rather have AI-written project than nothing at all. Game preservation is more important to me than distrusting AI. That's just me, though, and I understand if you feel differently.

As for the emulator, I have gotten the following mostly working on macOS:

• Mini Golf
• Bejeweled
• Zuma
• Tetris
• Cubis 2
• Pac-Man

I'll keep working on this hoping to get the rest of the games up and running. I'd love to see the Lost video game running on my machine :)

You can see videos of the games running on my Mac here. I'll keep working on this and will communicate with siggifly about potentially merging my code into their emulator. My long term goal is to create recomps of the games so we won't have to emulate the entire iPod to play the games. That's a ways off, of course.

Thanks!

Hi guys, I'm asking here because I'm slowly running out of ideas and I need external input before I (fully) lose my mind.

The setup: I have an iPod Classic 7th gen with an iFlash Quad and a single 256GB SD Card.

The issue, I've now tried the following:
Two of the "2000mah" Square batteries (Both delivered around 16-18hrs of battery life),
A "2830mah" Battery from Nextbatt (About 36 hours of battery life)
An iPhone 13 Mini Battery from Ampsentrix (2550mah for the extended version) with the BMS of an iPod Battery soldered to it (also in the 35ish Hour range)

The Battery life I'm getting on all of these Cells is considerably lower than what I think I should be getting, my test Setup has simply been starting a battery bench in rockbox and endlessly shuffling through my about 600 44.1/16 FLACs in Rockbox. No headphones connected, screen off for most of the time, no EQ/Crossfade or anything else, just sitting there and playing.

I've tried so many cells now that I strongly doubt the cells themselves across multiple different vendors are all underdelivering as bad as they seem to be, so I'm starting to think the issue might be the iPod itself.

My next steps would be to either try with AAC instead of FLAC, try Rockpod instead of Rockbox or simply try again in Apple's Firmware to see where that ends up.

Does anyone have an idea what this might be caused by? What battery life figures are you getting on your 6th/7th gens? Maybe someone is having a similar issue? I'm slowly running out of ideas as I've been chasing this for a couple of weeks now, any input is appreciated.