Loading…
5
My uncle in Toledo said keeping a dead iPod Classic is 'hoarding,' but he's wrong and I'll die on this hill
He came by my place two weeks ago and saw the shoebox. Three iPod Classics, two minis, a Zune, and a Rio Karma, all sitting there with dead drives and swollen batteries. He poked at the 160GB Classic and said 'this is junk, why not toss it.' Here's the thing. That iPod has 4,000 songs on it and NOTHING on it needs a login, a subscription, or a wifi password. My Spotify account gets killed if I forget to update my card one month. My Zune still has playlists my dad made in 2008 on it. I paid $30 for a new battery and a $12 CF card adapter and the Classic boots fine now. So what exactly is junk here. Has anyone else had luck swapping the drive for flash on a 5th gen, and which adapter did you use, cause mine only reads half the time.
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
pat_perry4d ago
The thing your uncle doesn't get is that those files don't need anyone's permission to exist, and that's the whole point. Flash modding a 5th gen is hit or miss because some of those cheap red CF adapters don't handle the power draw right, so try a different brand or reseat the ribbon cable. Keep the shoebox, and maybe add a FireWire charger to the pile since those old drives need the extra juice to spin up.
8