When I was a kid my family owned a device whose sole purpose was to rewind vhs tapes.

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    20 days ago

    My phone still has an SD card slot. So I can put my 64 GB SD card inside and have more music offline than my 4 GB iPod could ever have.

    The iPod is a nice little piece of almost antique tech. But I’d still be using my phone over it.

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      20 days ago

      No one can argue that 64gb of storage holds more music than 4gb of storage but 4gb still holds hundreds of songs.

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        19 days ago

        Depends on the compression. Yes, you could fit 500 songs on a 4 GB iPod, as the adverts constantly loved to remind everyone about. But it was the early 2000s, so the quality wasn’t good, and then we’re still talking about a pretty high compression even back then.

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          19 days ago

          You can quite easily convert ipods to flash storage. I have a 256GB ipod mini with bluetooth and a taptic engine instead of the clicker.

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            19 days ago

            Interesting. Most interesting. I take it it would need some soldering? I don’t have the tools, but could you send me a video of some instructions on how to do that? Could be a fun future project.

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              19 days ago

              Depends on ehat kind of ipod you have. The mini is probably the easiest to mod with flash. The taptic and bluetooth are a bit harder to do.