do living humans use standalone iPods anymore

[Raptorpat]

my early 20s coworker said it was dead technology

what are the odds i am the only person in this entire airport with an actual ipod (nano) plugged into corded earbuds

[The_annoying_one]

I can’t speak for other humans, but I think the last time I used my iPod (which I admittedly no longer own) was at least five years ago, maybe longer.

[André Toulon]

never owned one...

I had a zune tho ....Jeeze, I was still in MS so that was around Katrina because that was all i had and my DS for a while...so 2005ish

yeah, that math checks out. 

How was that ages ago AND last week

[Raptorpat]

I got a second generation ipod nano maybe 2005ish? My friend had one and it seemed neat.

Then I never took it out of the box until I got a summer gig in 2011 doing data entry for 13 hours a day and they literally told us to bring in music to stay sane.

So I took it out of the box and plugged it in and immediately got a recall notice that the battery was more or less a bomb, and that they'd replace it. They sent me a sleeve to mail it in a they sent me whatever the current gen ipod nano was. It was half the size and held twice as much storage so it seemed like a win.

After that job I've probably used it less than a dozen times when I remember it exists right before I travel.

All in all probably an understatement to say I've always been behind the curve on this stuff.

[Raptorpat]

8 minutes ago, André Toulon said:

never owned one...

I had a zune tho

I think I know exactly one other person who owned one

[Insipid]

Odds are you're the only one. A lawyer with an adroid phone and an obsolete ipod . . . hipster.

[UwPp]

My iPad classic had a pen go through the screen while it was in my purse. 😔

So yes old man. 

[scoobdog]

I have one on the night stand that runs on my Sony alarm clock radio/cd, but the battery is toast so it doesn't function as an iPod anymore - just a music storage device for the clock.

[katt_goddess]

I have a portable cassette player.

Suck it, losers.

[crackymckrackin]

I only us a portable record player when I travel. 

[André Toulon]

22 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

I think I know exactly one other person who owned one

no, that was me too

[1pooh4u]

I haven’t used my nano in about a hundred years. I used to have an iPod touch (jail broken), when I used to have Android phones. Then I switched to the iPhone and I don’t listen to music on it anymore 🫠

 

yeah. IdkwtfIedha. 

[scoobdog]

2 hours ago, katt_goddess said:

I have a portable cassette player.

Suck it, losers.

I got a portable cassette recorder with stereo microphones.

[rpgamer]

I still use mine, but I'm trying to get away from it.

My big problem is finding anything that can replicate a feature of itunes that I use extensively. In iTunes, I have the option/capability of telling it custom start and stop times for every track. An absolute blessing for trimming out excess silence, live audience clapping, intros, etc etc. And when I move that music to the ipod, it remembers those settings.

I've since found MusicBee, capable of the same settings, and just generally seems a nicer music library tool... but putting that music on my phone (android) won't actually remember those settings (although I think I might be able to force it by having it essentially create a new file with the truncated times.. maybe).

Still using an ipod touch that's kinda coming apart at the seams (poor repair job). And I went out and bought a backup that's still new in box when I heard they were discontinued.

But, if I can ever find a way to get my mobile music library to work how I want, I'll finally be free of it.

Edited 11 hours ago by rpgamer

[molarbear]

4 hours ago, crackymckrackin said:

I only us a portable record player when I travel. 

I carry a double speaker boombox on one shoulder everywhere I go

Thing is massive and takes about 20 D-cell batteries to power, but God damn does it go well with my wrap around sun glasses 

[discolé monade]

*stumbles into convo*

so...out in the shed is a working boise, from 2000

a casset player of 3

and...

Spoiler

I KNOW I WON THIS ROUND....

an 8 track player. SUCK IT!

[crackymckrackin]

9 hours ago, molarbear said:

I carry a double speaker boombox on one shoulder everywhere I go

Thing is massive and takes about 20 D-cell batteries to power, but God damn does it go well with my wrap around sun glasses 

We should hi five at some point.