I still got Planet of the apes on mine. They wanted people to know it can run mp4’s on that little screen.
Does it play FLAC?
Rockbox does support FLAC, with iPodLinux I’m not so sure (their ancient http site FAQ promises development via MPD, but that’s not a given to have actually happened).
or Opus
Just Doom and Crysis.
With rockbox installed, yes. With stock, ALAC.
Is that a headphone jack!?
I like headphone jacks.
I’m here with a usb c to 1/8" jack like a moron! The EU pushed replaceable batteries, maybe we need a headphone jack bill haha.
I LOVE the idea. I’m slowly mutating into a wired earbud audiophile (not sure what they call themselves), and the sound is just so much cleaner; plus there’s nothing to charge.
4 hours of music on these ones!
Mine just plug in.
my headphones have 24 hour battery life, so honestly im fine with my next phone not having a headphone jack, i do wish most still had one though
Paradoxically, all cheap devices come with one, and even with an FM radio, so cheap devices actually have more stuff than high end smartphone. Also please give me an FM radio FFS, it is one of the most usueful services during emergencies and other situation, also I like listening radio thanks
Probably because most FM stations have apps.
Back in the dumb phone era I had some Ericson TDMA bar phone that had (very basic) web browsing and a combination FM radio/Headset adapter. I specifically remember reading live 9/11 updates on it during class.
i bought a “new” phone just because i was sick of using the shitty ass headphone jack adapters
so now i have 1 phone for music and the other for games 😂
This needs an interrobang‽
You can tell whether I’m posting from my phone or my desktop by whether I use a
‽or a?!.(This one was from my desktop despite the interrobang, but that’s because I could easily copy-paste yours.)
Not that easily. I could read theirs, but yours was a box
Huh, weird. Does it work without the code formatting‽
Yes
Well that’s awesome and I think I’ve found a new favorite sub.
I would pay a decent amount of money for this.
https://player-mods.com/ well you’re in luck cause you can buy them
Well, I’ll be damned. Thank you!
Dam they cost more Modded than New 10 years later.
I’m curious about the 30 day battery
That’s as long as some fiancés.
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3840x5120_dfeedf4cc17d14b8c4f6d1201385f8f4.jpgI used a modern 3000mA lithium ion battery which provides about 60 hours of music playback. That’s about 2 hours per day which is much more than I use!
How much is that in watt-hours?
60 hours is two and a half days.
Brilliant deduction
Well yes, but most people aren’t listening to music 24/7
That’s not how battery life on these sort of devices is usually reported.
imadethis new way of reporting battery life!
It’s a three hundred day battery if you listen for five minutes a day.
There is some precedent for trying to estimate typical usage… Maybe in the lightbulb world.
Probably the wrong way to calculate it in the audio world, but the imadethis comment made up for it.
battery life is always measured in terms of continuous playback, not user defined usage
Could just be the regular battery not having to supply power to an energy sucking spinning disk.
Probably the same original form factor but a new lithium ion
I think the SSD uses more power than the original hard drives do. I bought an adapter for the iPod classic to put an SD card in it and there was a few articles about power draw being higher for ssds. I might be misremembering the comparison though, it’s been a couple years.
That may be due to other factors. I will be up front that I don’t have a lot of specifics, but I do know this: in retro computing, SD is hard to implement as a replacement for old-school disks because it means a lot of overhead. For that reason, Compact Flash is still the preferred format for a lot of products aimed at that space.
Perhaps that is at play here, because increased overhead should also equal a reduction in battery life (modulo the spinning disk).
Wow, that’s really surprising, you’d think a spinning platter would draw more power than solid state transistors
If I recall correctly, it was a special made spindle that could handle many spin ups and downs, and they used a massive 10 minute buffer so it loads up the buffer and spins down.
It’s kind of surprising but not super surprising if you’ve ever seen the stock drive in them. The hard drives in the classic are tiny, 1.8inch 4200rpm units. Power draw on the drive case is half an amp at 3.3v. SSDs are like 5 watts plus whatever circuitry you need to convert the interfaces.
Bought an as-is lot of those via eBay.
Tested and verified broken before being sold “as-is”, I’m sure.
They sell 3000mah replacement batteries vs the original 850mah. I think some solid state drives can save power, but others can use more.
I would like to buy an ipod and mod it but it would cost too much.
What’s that little black thing that kinda looks like a tiny antenna in the top right corner, right next to the battery indicator/percentage?
I know the angle is a bit weird, but that is a wired headphone/earbud cable. The cable just has a 90 degree bend at the end.
💀
Let me tell you son. Back in the day, headphones used to have a wire
I thought it was an bt transmitter before I saw the cable in the bottom of the shot. A lot smaller then the fm transmitter I have.
I thought it was copper. 🤔
Are you preparing for a zombie apocalypse?
Anyway, this is the coolest shit I have ever seen today, and maybe the best one here on Lemmy!
If I was I’d be playing the theme song from 28 Days Later in the picture ☺️. Thank you!
Decrufting before I click to listen
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jMuXTa5hECm37P7C0mbIB
Edit: Ah yes, F♯ A♯ ∞, a classic!
“post rock”? And it’s bagpipes? Hmm interesting
Edit: okay it got better after a couple minutes, nice
Always cool to see ‘retro’ tech brought back, especially with major overhauls. Kinda wish Apple still did dedicated ‘dumb’ MP3 players, if I’m being honest.
I’ve seen a few open hardware projects for “dumb” MP3 players over the years. I found this article on the Tangara project and am tempted to build one.
Edit: Scrolled down and saw someone already posted this.
Bet you could manage with a microcontroller and some parts. Use a bare chip, solder it all fancy (might take a few tries, use something cheap, order in bulk, attach the big expensive drive last), print the case, etc. Bet there’s even a guide out there somewhere.
Yeah it’s nice to have the built in OS support though
Yeah that’d be nice, but, lost technology; no longer exists.
Build it yourself or get nothing.
Now do my boy, Zune ❤️
Man, the Zune was the best MP3 player experience in its day… They even had the OG music subscription service. For $15 bucks a month and then they let you keep $15 of music forever. So it was a no brainier if you’d buy an album a month anyway.
Yo…I still have two HDs that work… they’re amazing
Okay I’m jealous.
So cool! Thanks for sharing
Cool.
Love personal playlists. I use an old phone with SD card to use Bluetooth into my home theater system.
Would the Rockbox firmware be an improvement?
I prefer the aesthetics of the classic iPod OS ☺️
I tried it before. It’s kind of superior to stock OS, but I can’t stand the way the menus work.
