If all you want is music, the iPod Classic might still be better than the iPhone's Music app.
Audiophiles still love iPods, and so do I
The iPod changed the way we listened to music. It wasn’t the first MP3 player, but it was the best, and it finally let us trade in removable physical media for a digital catalog of all our music. “1,000 songs in your pocket,” was the slogan. That may not sound like much now, but it was a game changer in 2001, when the alternative was cassettes and CDs.
But what about today’s iPod? Is it a curiosity best left in a display case? Or does it hold its own against today’s bloated, confusing music apps? The key, as they say, is in the question.
I recently purchased an old 120GB iPod Classic, in a box, from the local classifieds. After cleaning it out and syncing it to my M1 Mac mini (pro tip: wait. It can take a few minutes for it to show up after I plug it in, but it eventually does), I loaded up my entire music library and went for a walk.
