Rockbox supports modern codecs including Opus, so you can fit nearly 4 days of decent quality music on a 4GB iPod.
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Weirdly I picked 2 up yesterday. 1st gen I think battery isn’t to bad, I’d almost forgotten the swish around the wheel.
Also go a gen5 but the battery was shagged! Plugged it in and it went pop.
If anyone like getting their hands dirty with tinkering, then you can get inspiration from Zac's YouTube video about modernising an iPod.
I have a U2 branded iPod... Whatever generation those were that I found lying in the gutter years ago, cleaned up and still works (screen's scratched to shit but it's still readable). I just use it to store pictures.
I still have an ipod 60gb, the first one with color screen. You know, the one one where they forced U2 down your throat. It still works, so does it's original charging cable. And my ears still bleed when I hear U2.
Some time ago I was thinking getting one, but the price and audio quality, was 2 corners.
Cries in Sansa Fuse that I dropped several times until it shattered, still worked, and then the pastic got all gooie
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