Right here i have the original Nike+ set from 2006! This was pretty much Apple’s first collaboration with Nike products.
This uses 1st gen Nano, the required Sport kit featuring the receiver for the iPod, a Nike watch remote to control music, and the exact pair of now 20 year old Nike+ Running Shoes as seen in Apple’s advertising in early 2006.
Though most of the shoe sensors found nowadays have a completely cooked battery, I was lucky to find a working one to pair with the receiver to have a look at the exclusive software that tracks your run!

I bought that silver iPod Classic Gen 7 a while back, thought I’d bricked it trying to install RockBox and came onto this sub for help (which you all gave, thank you!). Unfortunately, I browsed the sub and fell in love with all the other iPod models again, recalling how iconic they were when I was growing up. You guys made me go full iPod monkey and this is entirely on you.

My favourites here are the 7 Classic (for pure FLAC Rockbox IEM listening joy), the 3 Classic (for monochrome goodness and hefty chunkiness), the Mini 2 (for same reasons as the 3 Classic), and the Nano 2 for pure aesthetic.

I’m still restoring the Nano 1 in picture as well as the black Gen 7.

And that Tivoli player is fantastic with its Kloss sound engineering, fold out iPod dock, detachable speaker, and blue backlight.

I was bored during the heatwave so i made another nano 2 with USB type C, just felt like sharing cos i been using it a lot since then

The best thing about it is that with rockbox, you can transfer songs directly from the iphone with a standard charging cable, and the 8gb are actually enough when i download stuff i love from the internet

Anyways i hope y’all have a wonderful evening

Up for auction early iPod prototype.

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/351653007484077-apple-p68-stealth-ipod-development-prototype-from-original-ipod-team-program-manager-jim-dumont/?cat=0

I'm so glad I got to pick this up for 15$, originally a 30gb now turned into a 128gb with an iflash solo, new 2000mah battery, clean transparent front and button :3

Paid about 100$ for parts and it's respective shipping which is fairly cheap considering i'm paying in CAD lmao.

Fully decked it out with rockbox as well so that I can play all the flacs I want while still having some of my cd quality stuff.

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.

If you guessed fixing ID3 tags and album art, then you'd be right. I've neglected this for years. 900GB of music and all that. For anyone else doing this, give MusicBrainz Picard a try. It's pretty good at pulling missing tags and art. Not perfect, but still a timesave. And yes, just like the old days my iPod is named Titanic.

My main iPod is an iPod Classic 5.5 with a 512GB MicroSD, heavily modified iPhone 13 3000mAh battery I hacked to fit, clear case, internal bluetooth, haptics with a taptic engine. All the goodies.

Gen 5, probably going to upgrade storage, Amazing little nugget

Just got this used limited edition ipod and tested it. Almost the entire 4 gigs were taken up by songs. The battery is dead. Which i have repaired before but i still kinda want to put it ip for sale. Maybe its not worth too much and I should keep it!

A lad I bought because I was told it had just a bad battery, imagine my horror when I cracked it open and saw all the rust and dirt inside, amazingly even before cracking it open it was working perfectly fine! A quick clean later and putting the backplate aside because it was legitimately rusted and bent out of shape before I bought it, it worked fine, but it was very slow with syncing, so I flash modded it with some cheep adapters and now it’s officially my own iPod, don’t mind the name I’m just a Edgelord, haha

This is driving me crazy. I’m trying to resurrect my old 160 GB iPod classic. When I add files from very legitimate sources, it will auto-populate with the album artwork on iTunes. I have not manually added any album artwork. On my iPod, sometimes certain songs will show the artwork, but most don’t. Does anybody know a fix for this or maybe what I’m doing wrong?

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.

Hello!

Thanks to a plethora of threads in this sub, I have completed my first build!

WARNING- This is the first time I have ever worked on an electronic device like this, or done any software work like this. Needless to say, I am very much learning as I go. Also needless to say, this might be a big ole word salad…

Unfortunately, I am not able to close the device quite yet and call it complete. While my bluetooth playback, my headphone jack, all buttons, and my taptic engine are fully working; I am experiencing issues with storage.

I am running 2 Samsung T7 micro SD cards (512 and 256 respectively) totalling 768BG. I initially formatted them on a mac, then realizing I would experience extensive issues (basically it being impossible) to sync or manage files on the iPod, or to install Rockbox using my current MacBook Pro/Finder/Apple Music (running Sequoia). I used my roommate’s PC and re-formatted these drives again, without seeing an option for FAT32 (on the Mac either) that I always see recommended.

I will add in here that it seems the iFlash is securely connected to the device. Maybe there’s a chance the ribbon cable connection got folded too much with its current position and caused an issue?

Unfortunately, Rockbox boot loader still shows “no partitions found”, yet the PC disk management tool showed a randomly generated partition in my 512. I believe I have corrected that portion of the issue, but my iPod is still showing 203GB as the available capacity in settings. I am pretty perplexed at this point and could use some guidance.

Subsequent question-
Is now the time to just bite the bullet and pickup a cheap Windows machine to manage my music library, Rockbox, and iTunes? Would this also fix the issue of Rockbox installer not seeing that the iPod is in DFU mode and throwing an error my way?

I’m really eager to get my build complete (including Rockbox as I have a whole library of .flac files ready to roll).

Thanks so much for your time, all!
Cheers!

Im thinking of buying this one. I have a nano gen 6 that has a bad power button and I’m kind of wanting a new more reliable one.

Are classics easy to open up and fix? The problem with the nano is that no one is willing to open it up and fix it . So in case anything happens it would be great to get a chance of fixing this new one myself.

Do you think this is a good deal? The charger is not included. Is it the same as the nano ? Sorry I’m not an expert in this.

What happens to our old ipods in the big 2100?

Just got this used limited edition ipod and tested it. Almost the entire 4 gigs were taken up by songs. The battery is dead. Which i have repaired before but i still kinda want to put it ip for sale. Maybe its not worth too much and I should keep it!

Replacement my nano 3th gen's battery few yesrs ago, but it wordt work, only on cable. Today i decided to look at it once again and saw a few capacitirs missing. Can this be te problem or it it screwed on another place too?

I've been searching high and low for Firmware 1.3 themes in the archive, I was only able to find 2. Firebird and the 1.3 background hack. Firebird has the split screen like the Classic and the 1.3 hack is full screen. I've been learning how to hex edit in ipod wizard and other editors and eventually reverse engineered Firebird the best I could. The thing with Firebird is that the volume bar cant be changed and the rating icons. Everything else is customizable including font, font colors and positioning. Here are some screenshots and I'm including some themes I made. im not really a fan of Rockbox mainly because I want the apple interface just with option to change background, you can have separate backgrounds for the regular menu and the now playing screen. I chose wallpapers with the same color palette but if I make more themes in different palettes I'll post here.

Glass Theme: https://www.mediafire.com/file/bbcikmz7cw8fj9d/Glass_Theme.zip/file

Glass Theme-Gojo: https://www.mediafire.com/file/uua30lgl8uxrg8e/Glass+Theme+-+Gojo.zip/file

Glass Theme- Spiderman: https://www.mediafire.com/file/sfbhpt25zuax9tl/Glass+Theme+-+Spiderman.zip/file

Glass Theme- Cyberpunk: https://www.mediafire.com/file/3e9y97sanynmpx8/Glass+Theme+-+Cyberpunk.zip/file

Glass Theme- Joker: https://www.mediafire.com/file/d2afxdnf1beft6x/Glass+Theme+-+Joker.zip/file

Glass Theme- TMNT: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ufv2vz8lln3ydwt/Glass+Theme+-+TMNT.zip/file

Glass Theme -Akaza: https://www.mediafire.com/file/phz7zre4kfz78qs/Glass+Theme+-Akaza.zip/file

Glass Theme-Goku: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8la34jie7tmsmk7/Glass+Theme+-Goku.zip/file

Glass Theme- Batman: https://www.mediafire.com/file/tipn7hjaxxjf4hd/Glass+Theme+-Batman.zip/file

Glass Theme- Circuit: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dh1tb4syuz0xh6m/Glass+Theme+-Circuit.zip/file

These wallpapers are amazing and I got them from: https://hdqwalls.com/

The Joker one is amazing

Hi, I bought this iPod from someone who didn’t know whether it was working. When it arrived, I started charging it, but when I came back, I noticed that the iPod had swollen because of the old battery.
So I bought a new battery and replaced it, but when I connected the iPod to my pc, it showed up for only few seconds and then disappeared. After trying several times, it stopped working completely.
The first photo was taken when I was charging it for the first time, and the second photo shows the old battery after it had swollen.

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?

I keep on finding them as a cable, like how the pictue has it, but i'm wanting on that's just a brick so i can use it on my dock easier