Enough of desktop nostal/g/iaTime for gadget nostal/g/ia
>>106501725I was there.It was great.A genius move to use up a surplus of iBook HDDs that would otherwise have been woefully out dated.
>>106501771I don't think the Toshiba 1.8 inch HDD had ever been used before the first iPod, and it was a breakthrough at the time.
>>106501827I’m pretty sure you weren’t there, you don’t know wtf you are talking about, your entire reality is reading what other people write online.
>>106502215>I was there>you weren't there
>>106501725How much does it cost to buy 1000 songs on itunes, sir?
>>106502867$0
>>106502215>>106501771this nigga thinking of the creative zen, which did use a full size laptop HD lel. the ibook never used the small 1.8" drives.
>>106502867Given you could only sync a first gen iPod over firewire, and only from a mac, I doubt anyone who bought one would be that bothered paying out the ass per song.
>>106503183i'm an old fart and lived through it, and at least in my experience, most people who had ipods didn't actually have huge libraries they just ripped the cds they already owned onto them basically and maybe played around with napster/kazaa for a bit. maybe buy a song or two here and there.
>>106503183It's literally why iPods became popular.Because iTunes made it easy to buy and listen to the music, much easier than the millions of mp3 players that predate the iPod.
I bought the music for my marriage ceremony on iTunes because I wanted everything to play and I wanted good quality. But mostly it was CD rips and mp3 from the internet.
>>106503104Navigating through 40gb of music on that device does not seem like a straightforward experienceThough I had one of these with 1gb and managed to know exactly where everything I wanted was and how to get there fast
>>106502867>>106503183>>106503205iTunes didn't even launch with a store, it was just a media player and CD ripping tool until the iPod 3rd gen came out
>>106503307the ipod really did have one of the best UIs for this kind of thing, and even that was a slog when your library got bigger than a few hundred songs. no built in searching or anything liek that right, literally had to scroll through long lists. the nomad was an absolute chore because it only had a tiny jog wheel on the side. friend of mine had a 20gb version which was a big deal in high school lol.if you're curious https://youtu.be/YGchdMb02X4?t=360
>>106503205That makes sense. Apparently itunes didn't start selling music until 2003 anyway. I'd been using minidisc for years at that point and did the same thing. Missed the ipod entirely until I bought an ipod nano around 2006/2007. I recall keeping a windows partition around because libgpod was a buggy mess.
ipod shuffle was the biggest piece of shit ever
>>106503452I have a few knockoffs like pic related. Pretty much only good for snowboarding so I don't break anything worth money when I wipeout.
>>106504685The knockoffs only play sequentially and start at the beginning when you turn off, and the battery life is pitiful. The shuffle at least could, well, shuffle, and continue from the song you stopped. The cheap Sandisk players with clips were the better deal at the time though, they had everything from drag and drop support to a screen to microsd slot, to excellent battery, in a tiny form factor. Mine still works 13 years later.
I sneed less.
>>106501725Pity that modern MP3 players are in a funny spot, where they are either far too basic, or basically android phones with a semi-decent headphone jack (though you could argue this is what iPod touches were)Classic iPod OS is in a really nice sweet spot between simplicity and functionality, and it's a pity that nothing really replicated it, but I suppose they need an 'ecosystem' beyond dragging and dropping songs onto an SD card.
100 thousand songs in my pocket + ability to play games, call bitches, shitpost online, watch movies, and much more
>>106501725This was my first MP3 player. 512MB.
>>106505391I had this and I had a 128Mb SD card on my phone that would fit one full album at 128kbps
