If you attempt to access any nonexistent page on Apple Music, you'll get a functional 1st generation iPod emulator as an Easter egg.

Just got this guy up and running. I’ve got $20 headphones right now, but wondering what’s some good quality IEMs out there? TIA

Credit to this X user for posting

https://music.apple.com/us/jfdsalkfavsd

Just to confirm this is not self promotion, I do not know the X poster in any way. It just showed up on my feed

I know it’s quite random. Sorry
Has anyone ever tried to do this before?

I loved coming back to iPod, but I will never win the argument against my friends why I’m choosing this over Spotify.

After being very frustrated with the bloat of modern music apps, I built my own "iPod" app for iPhone... and after obsessing over all the tiny details, I am looking for people who would like to try it out. I’d love feedback from other iPods enthusiasts. And yes - it is using Musickit to run my current Apple Music library :)

In my research, I tried out and used every iPod style app and emulator I could find on the App Store, and while many of them are very pretty and well done, they always felt like I was just looking at a picture of an iPod as a decoration. I couldn't convince myself that it was real. I really wanted to make something that felt like the real thing. Plus, I knew that with Apple's Guided Access feature, I can lock my iPhone to a single app completely, dumbing the phone down into just the app until I triple click the side button to resume my iPhone.

Out of pure drive of just wanting to own an iPod again, but not wanting to lose the convenience of my Apple Music library, I developed IvyPod.

Here's why IvyPod feels like an iPod:

1. The OLED body color means less screen. And - I detached lighting using software tricks so that the iPod body has different 'dimming' functions than the 'fake iPod screen'. This creates the sensation that you're holding a physical iPod with a clickwheel that is covered with a smooth sheet of glass. In the dark, the wheel is noticably dimmer compared to the screen, making it more immersive. Other iPod apps have a bright wheel which is a constant reminder that you're looking at a 6 inch touch screen.
2. The button haptics are smart. I spent a long time on these so that buttons feel like buttons and scrolling feels like scrolling.
3. Modern conveniences were deliberated on a lot because simplicity is the whole point. The app features dark mode, artwork blur on the now playing screen, flashlight, camera, and Shazam integrated as a genie lamp.
4. You can actually dedicate your phone to a music player with Guided Access, which is a feature in the system settings that prevents swiping to go home, notifications, screen timeout and more. It's sort of like an advanced Do Not Disturb mode. The app itself features a dim and low-power sleep setting. I also placed a 'lock switch' in the top right so that you can put it in your pocket or not worry about accidental taps. The click wheel will always be present on your screen until your phone dies, keeping the illusion of it being an iPod.

If you are interested in the TestFlight please DM me or access the link below to join the public TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/NVUCMBJ2

Use your illusion ❤️

Few scratches getting in but all worth it.

If anyone has experience, do I need to do anything to calibrate the battery? Have charged it up and running it at full pelt to drain at the moment so i can cycle it, but is this necessary?

Sorry if that’s a daft Q, all new to me

edit - well I left it playing, and woke up in the morning nine hours later to find it was still running. christ.

Whoever Joe is, I commend you, you have really good music taste. I had to delete your songs to make room for mine but I will make a playlist of yours on yt because why not :-)

So happy to be apart of the club again! It came with everything except the box and tiny manual.

Ipod 4th generation, 32gb

Found this today in dad's office garrage

Basically the title.

I picked up a refurbished 7th Gen Nano from Amazon Japan when I was there a few months ago for $230 AUD ($165 USD). Absolutely love the thing, it’s been so good to have an offline option when I want to ditch my phone or listen to the radio when I’m reading a book. Great to have Bluetooth as an option but it really kills the battery…

My main thing though is that I have a lot of lossless files, so 16GB of storage doesn’t go ridiculously far these days. Apart from the storage, is there any benefit to picking up a Classic instead or am I better off culling my library / playlists?

Some new features added to PodBox along with performance improvements:

• A new visual EQ editor supporting simple and advanced mode to create your own profiles.
• Auto-headroom feature that lowers volume to remove distortion.
• EQ performance significantly improved reducing CPU load (particularly for the iPod Video)

• A new embedded speech synthesiser (based on NV Speech Player) for improved functionality for the visually impaired by providing text-to-speech across the entire firmware.

  More details here and the release can be downloaded here.

I have loads of songs downloaded already!

I love the Nono 6th gen, it was the one that got me through the toughest time of my life, it was cute, had the clip, it was pink and made me so happy..

But I bought a Nono 7th gen, it has the bluetooth which is nice, but no clip, not as much nostalgia, but it has the modern day convenience of the USBC and wireless earphones (which i havw a lot of)..

I got tired of fighting the Music app to sync my iPod so I built a music player that looks and works like iTunes 10. It's called Unsub.

It syncs the classic, video, mini, shuffle and nano 1st to 4th gen. The nano 5th gen won't sync yet, but you can still play from it and copy music off it.

The copying part is the bit I wanted most. If you've got an old iPod with music on it that isn't anywhere else anymore, it copies all of it back onto your computer with play counts, ratings and playlists, and doesn't change anything on the iPod. Songs bought from the iTunes Store before 2009 are still copy protected, so those stay where they are.

It also does playlists, smart playlists, podcasts, radio and imports your Spotify playlists, but the iPod stuff is why I made it.

Sync is new, so if your model does something weird let me know which one it is. One thing on Windows: an iPod that was formatted on a Mac can't be synced there.

It's free and open source and runs on Mac and Windows.

https://github.com/halfwoods/Unsub

this is currently my only ipod btw 😭😭 idc tho its still an ipod

and in a few days it will mark one full year after rescuing this ipod from the thrift store which aligns perfectly

long live ipod 🫡 and thank you for the memories

today should be a national holiday fr

bought this and noticed the burnt component (upper left), idk what to do, ordered battery and headphone jack and noticed jus now , the volume was so low and thought might be an issue in the hold/jack, should I replace the logic board or leave this stuff atp, I can't put more money , at least for now.

im in the discord server, but would be rlly interested to see here what ideas or information there is.

most of what i can find is this old youtube video, of a complete custom theme on a Nano 1g w IpodOS, would love to track down the firmware of it, see if i can figure out how to change the image atleast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lLadjWXGK4
or any other ipod nano 1g themes out there that have a custom background
and any other ideas?

I am trying to replace battery of an old ipod nano 5th gen but I couldnt open its top. Hard glue is still very intact and I dont want to cause scratches or problems on the cover. I applied a bit heat but I was pretty scared about breaking something. Is it safe to apply blow dryer air about a few seconds to melt it or what can I do?

I recently picked up a 3rd Gen and have progressively been getting it working as Jobs intended. So far I have replaced the damaged screen, and the failing HDD with an iFlash Solo.

I've replaced the battery, however it still goes flat over a couple of days without use. My other 3rd Gen will happily sit idle for weeks without needing charging.

Could this point to a failing logic board? I'm not sure whether the iFlash draws on the battery when not in use, so I'm not discounting that either. Another reason I suspect the logic board is it sometimes won't connect with my Mac - it'll be detected, but Finder will hang with the spinning circle whilst it thinks about it.

The battery indicator is all over the place also, often showing near empty after a full recharge. I've gone through a few full discharge/recharge cycles to see if it settles down with no luck.

Outside of replacing the logic board, is there anything else I can try which may help preserve it - a good hit of contact cleaner perhaps - or something I can check to find the cause of the battery drain.

Sorry this is all over the place with differing questions and thoughts, but any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

Edit: Somehow this post got reposted here, so I deleted the repost to tidy things up.