I've had a 160 gig classic for years now, 2008-09 and I think it's on the cusp of failing me. It will turn itself off mid song like it's out of battery every so often, the screen wont work right sometimes etc etc.
The problem is I have about 80 gig of music and they don't make an iPod that large anymore (not to mention I would like to drop apple from my life). I live in a place where I can't just stream it from my phone so I need an actual dedicated player.
What should I be looking at? Bonus points for the ability to play lossless.
My potentially biggest hurdle is that I would really prefer something that can play apple formatted files seeing as though everything I have it AAC or apple lossless.
I guess I just assumed the battery was fine and ti was the HDD failing.
When it dies randomly, it could have any number of battery life left, it's done it on half charges or more and when I reset it, it won't do it again for another couple weeks. Could that just be a battery failure?
I have a 160GB classic buy a replacement battery from not china (I heard the metal case is hard to put back together) my friend runs a phone repair store and I asked him I had a different friend running rockbox on a older classic to get all formats and he was playing GBA games There's also mods for ssd swap instead of the stock hdd and adding sd card slots for swapping/expansion (you could probably do micro sd now but I haven't seen it done) lastly there's an IPOD LOD if your stereo deck is using aux instead of the 30pin adapter (it skips the ipod built in preamp/amp)
Michael Jones
>from not china
But all replacement batteries are made there, user.
Lucas Morgan
since your device is approaching 10 years old its very possible it's just the battery
but you won't know for sure until you start replacing parts
if this is a common issue other people are experiencing you could probably find out exactly what is wrong
the battery replacement is cheap and easy at least so it won't be much of a loss if it doesn't work out
Jeremiah Kelly
Smartphone with 256gb SD card.
Aiden Howard
Sony hi-fi walkman if you have the money.
Angel Kelly
Sort of related question:
Most lightweight device which can run Storytel over wifi?
I'd prefer a non-smartphone solution but I'm not sure if that's possible. I can't get audiobooks in Swedish in any good amount of non-private torrent sites.
