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| Author: | tekk [ Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | ipod adventures |
I recently bought a mid-late ipod classic off my roommate:
I need itunes. But it turns out that itunes as it runs on MacOS 9 (which goes up to iTunes 2) doesn't support the ipod, presumably because it's from 2005. So! I need to put OSX on the iBook G3 since I have nothing else for running itunes  We'll see how this develops.... |
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| Author: | tekk [ Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ipod adventures |
Well a few hours later and I got MacOS 10.3 installed. But itunes won't install on less than 10.3.9, so I'm upgrading that... at least 10.3.9 came out roughly when the ipod video came out, so I think it'll be recognized? |
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| Author: | Catch-22 [ Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ipod adventures |
I downloaded the latest version of iTunes on a work Windows-laptop, and it worked straight away on my old iPod. I think mine might be the same as yours. |
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| Author: | UndeTerminated [ Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ipod adventures |
Wait, does iPod runs MacOS? |
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| Author: | claudiom [ Tue Jan 28, 2025 12:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ipod adventures |
I have an iPod nano that I found and decided to put to use after a good amount of time in storage, but I want to pull out the content that's in there. Once I'm able to back up what's there, I plan to install Rockbox on it. Been ages since I've used RB, but from the looks of it, it has come a long way since I last used it which was in the late 2000s, early 2010s. https://www.rockbox.org/ |
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| Author: | tekk [ Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ipod adventures |
No, but I didn't want to find a Windows install. 10.3.9 recognized the ipod but because itunes doesn't come with the ipod system software, initializing the ipod failed. I had to have my roommate do the initial setup, then I was able to sync with Panther on the G3 iBook. Of course the battery is dead so there's that. Once I get a working 30 pin cable in and a working battery I need to figure out how I wanna handle conversion too. Obviously I need to get syncing working on Linux since the Mac only has a 3gb hard drive (and OSX eats up like 2GB of that.) Maybe some music apps still deal with all the ipod bullshit and will autoconvert for me. |
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| Author: | matto [ Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ipod adventures |
Somewhere in a dark corner, hidden deep down the underground cellars of my memory, lingers the thought that many years ago I have used a Linux driver, to put music on the iPod. But, I am not totally sure... |
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| Author: | tekk [ Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ipod adventures |
It actually turns out that rhythmbox still recognizes and syncs ipods! I went and loaded it up with some music yesterday. The only regression(? I didn't have an iPod back in the day,) is that Rhythmbox is unable to eject or automount the ipod, I have to mount it and unmount it through Thunar/udisks. |
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| Author: | zero cool [ Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ipod adventures |
Oh nice one! The old iPods are pretty sweet devices still! And some models even sound really good!  |
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| Author: | tekk [ Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ipod adventures |
Yeah! got a new battery swapped in today and it's running great. Don't have any audio quality problems. I did have to pick up the battery and reseat it though, unless you have it REALLY flush against the case then the hard drive won't fit. I guess thread over kinda. I have a working ipod?  |
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