It took so long to find the energy to figure it all out, but I finally got the iPod Classic running RockBox reliably with my flac music library. And it's using the adwaita theme to match my laptop lol. I am so happy to be able to use it for listening to my music especially since I kinda broke my HiFiWalker H2 a few months ago.
#RockBox #GNOME #Adwaita #iPodClassic #iPod #LocalMusicLibrary #LocalMusic #Music #FLAC
@arichtman @discontinued people still #mod the shit out of #iPod|s to this day...
Personally, I want some device like that again...
Maybe make it the #ThinkPod with a #UltraNav-Style #Trackpoint instead and out of #Thinkpadnium or #Nokiante plastic, coz #ThinkPad and #Nokia are the most durable materials once known!
Source: https://hexbear.net/post/182319 , not @NanoRaptor
Anyone knows how to manage an #iPod from #Linux? If so please help @epistosphere :
Old Apple stuff I got over this weekend.
The Mac mini server is from a friend who had it sitting in the server room at his workplace. I'll give it a power up soon to see if it works. Maybe recreate the Mac server setup that Mike had created years ago at the old workplace :)
The IIGS keyboard and 1st gen iPod were from an eBay seller. The serial number on the box matches the iPod, so that's nice. The seller didn't know if the iPod worked, so I tried it out on my 12" PowerBook G4. It works fine, except for the dead battery. It is full of Russian and Ukrainian language lessons and a Mars Volta album.
My other old iPod, successfully upgraded with a new battery and flash memory!
@andreasgoebel Or what’s the least-expensive Apple device I could get solely for using my iShuffle and iTunes. . . . 
So I’m freshly on Linux (Mint) and would like to manage the music on my iShuffle, to which I have an emotional attachment despite a desire to get away from Apple in general. I’d like to access my iTunes library but am willing to let it go and make a fresh start if need be—although I’m guessing iTunes is required for use of the iShuffle . . . ? I see there are ways to put iTunes on Linux, but at a glance it looks complicated. What’s my best approach?
The foam covered it in the photos, of course, but normally, the SD card reader sits like this: (there used to be a hard disk there 
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Follow-up: The battery appears to not hold a charge. Not surprised.
Now I’m on the hunt to purchase a replacement battery for it.
I found my old 4th gen iPod and ordered a 30 pin to USB-C cable to charge from my Mac mini.
(The iPod works!) :)
Just to be safe, I put it in the thicker chassis for now. The connector was a bit tricky, so I had to place some foam underneath. I also got an extra flex cable (the molds are slightly different) and a connector socket—let's see how that works out. Maybe this new flex will also fix the left-right balance issue specific to the flex itself.
Aftermarket iPod batteries cost around 1000₺ if you could even import them (you can’t due to import restrictions). Custom 3000mAh batteries go for over 2000₺ (including taxes), while the battery I’m using costs just 55₺ today on marketplace sites. 
Since these batteries weren’t selling due to lack of demand, distributors and resellers are offloading them cheaply. And because the connector is a flex + socket type, not many people repurpose them, making them even cheaper.
Thanks to the SD card mod, the device will now consume less power, but I figured I might as well upgrade the battery beyond the standard capacity while I’m at it.
Normal iPod batteries are around 650-850mAh. Standard LiPo batteries have the same voltage, just connected via a flex cable to the motherboard.
There’s a balance issue with the headphone jacks on the replacement ipod flex cables (probably due to capacitors on the flex). The left side is about 12% louder (yes, I tested it with stereo test music and IEMs in short bursts). Some reviews mention the same problem.
So now I'm torn between using my old Zune HD or the iPod Nano 2nd Gen I picked up last year as my EDC retro player. The Zune is the superior device in every way except actually getting music onto it now that I've completely migrated away from Windows. Is it worth maintaining a Windows 7 VM and manually converting anything I want to transfer from ALAC to MP3? ...Maybe it is?
Superball 
