…or at least on life support….
It’s done well, over 7 years old now – proper old steam powered HDD 80gb classic that seems to lock up of it’s own accord and drain the battery within an hour of a full charge.
Need some advice on a replacement with a similar spec unit (I know Apple don’t make these blighters any more sadly) that would be compatible with Satan’s own iTunes (just too disorganised to sit and convert files from AAC’s to another format) or even the remote possibility of repairing the old chap?
Any advice hugely welcome.
this site has been recommended by a few bods here.
http://www.ipodrepairs.co.uk/
I’ve got a Classic on which my sanity depends, so I’ve bookmarked this…. hopefully solid state MP3 players will have improved a bit by the time mine goes to that great playlist in the sky.
Yes they were great.
Fixed my iPod which had not synced for years, and for which I even bought a replacement. Not only got it working again, but also upgraded. As it was an older model it had a larger back plate, and so I could upgrade to a lovely 240GB hard drive… so much music space! I am now up to 157GB – well worth the investment!
Upgrade to 240gb you say?
Hmm. And how much of your fine English pounds did that cost you?
Apparently it cost me £116… which was 27 June 2014, and got it back by the 1st July… and have played it every day since.
Just looked on the website and it said that it’s not available at the moment… maybe worth phoning up and asking if they can still do it or not.
I remember that I have read that article many years ago and because sp0tify doesn’t satisfy me, I would like to go back to that technology that allows me to listen to as much music as I want, without the ads and the things that grab my attention while I’m driving. I still use at home a CD -player that allows the use of a randomizer over 50 CDs and occasionally the tourne-disque when I want to hear the imperfections that are not really imperfections but signs of life.
After so many years, did any of you gave up on ipods?
My equally venerable 80gb classic started acting up a few months back. I ‘restored’ it in iTunes and that appears to have sorted it out. It wipes all of your music and it takes ages to copy it all back, but at least it’s working again.
Thanks Moose – I’ll give them a try.
As for itunes, forget it.
I use a program called copytrans which is much, much better. They have a whole suite of stuff that allows you to manage your iPod without itunes. You can even back up your iPod with it.
Fiio X1 (£99) + 128GB micro SD card (£65). Sounds better than an iPod and no moving parts to break. Not made by Apple, though.
Does it work with iTunes and play AAC format? I used ipodrepairs.co.uk for a new battery and larger hard disc, and had to use their customer services as a new fault occurred, their service was first class and very prompt and I’d happily recommend them.
Not sure, I don’t run iTunes. And yes, it plays AAC.
Looks a decent option – thanks. Do you know if that will work with CopyTrans?
Apparently, yes it does. I don’t own a Mac to verify though.
A recent convert to a Fiio X1 here as well. Smashing piece of kit. The only limitation I’ve found so far is that you can’t import a playlist – you have to create on the Fiio itself, which is more fiddly.
What make of disc are you using? I’m about to upgrade to 128gb.
It’s worth buying Class 10 or UHS-1 both of which support 10MB/s transfers. I think all 128GB cards are UHS-1, but check before you buy.
I can’t find any biggies which support UHS-3 (30MB/s transfers).
It’ll take quite a while to write 128GB of data.
I have one too. Another limitation is the max no. of songs, around 5k I think. This is planned to be addressed in a future firmware update though.
Correction, 8000
Just taken the plunge and bought one of these babies. Will report back after a play.
My 4th Gen 18G iPod Touch came back to life again after some sound advice on here. I’d trust their recommendations.
I now firmly believe iPods do not in fact ever die. They just need tender loving restoration. Consult the web (” my iPod is broke*) and let some spotty 14 year old in California walk you through Resurrection.
Any spotty 14 year old Californians inna room?
Here Sir….
ASL? oh, I know that
I was about to say haven’t we all a spotty 14 year old californian inside us, sensibly realising that could be misconstrued…….
Start here then wait for spotty 14 year old to join in
http://m.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Broken-iPod