There is nothing to go out of date. Basic music playback hasn't advanced all that much in the past few years. It's like a battery going out of date.
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iPod When Will The 160 GB iPod Classic Be Obsolete?
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I just hope they update it within the next 6 months and don't kill the line off.
My library is 600gb and growing (all FLAC and completely lossless, sits on a RAID NAS). I would love to be able to load a complete ALAC library on it, but I don't think they could get that big at a reasonable price point.
At the least, I would like to compress my library to 392kbs on an iPod classic to use in my truck or when I travel.
I can serve my entire library from my own cloud on the NAS, but then it eats up my bandwidth on my iPhone.
My library is 600gb and growing (all FLAC and completely lossless, sits on a RAID NAS). I would love to be able to load a complete ALAC library on it, but I don't think they could get that big at a reasonable price point.
At the least, I would like to compress my library to 392kbs on an iPod classic to use in my truck or when I travel.
I can serve my entire library from my own cloud on the NAS, but then it eats up my bandwidth on my iPhone.
I recently bought an iPod Classic as I just want to use the device for for what it was created. Listening to my music on the go and enjoying very good battery life at the same time.
I love to shuffle through my whole library and discover old or rarely played songs. For me it just does the job perfectly fine. They should keep it. It's too good to be dismissed.
I love to shuffle through my whole library and discover old or rarely played songs. For me it just does the job perfectly fine. They should keep it. It's too good to be dismissed.
Bit of a stupid statement to be honest... You could say that about a movie collection, you have it there so you can watch them whenever you want. I rarely listen to a whole album, I slap it on shuffle and then it goes through my whole collection.
I have like 90GB of music, all of which I do not listen to... But on a portable device that i'd take to parties and that other people listen to, it's very nice to have your whole collection in the even that you or someone else want to listen to it
It will be obsolete when you can operate a touch screen without having to look at the screen, when you can keep your eyes on the road and click through a playlist, and when you can pause and play without removing it from a pocket.
next generation iPod touch will probably have 128 GB memory. That will probably make the Classic "obsolete". It's kinda strange that Apple keeps selling (exactly) the same product for nearly 3 years.
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Siri/Voice-Over? Does the job pretty good, definitely for larger libraries
next generation iPod touch will probably have 128 GB memory. That will probably make the Classic "obsolete". It's kinda strange that Apple keeps selling (exactly) the same product for nearly 3 years.
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Siri/Voice-Over? Does the job pretty good, definitely for larger libraries
I was thinking more of what I've heard called a haptic touch screen, in which a dynamic, changeable texture can be added to the touch screens. With that technology you could literally feel regions on the screen. Much better when operating the thing in class. ;-)
Look at the bottom left!
At least that's just a 'best before' date, rather than a 'use by' date
next generation iPod touch will probably have 128 GB memory. That will probably make the Classic "obsolete". It's kinda strange that Apple keeps selling (exactly) the same product for nearly 3 years.
Apple has definitely gone on to bigger and better things, but it's sad that they forgot about their iPod Classic.
I hope never. Actually I take that back. I hope it goes obsolete only because it's replaced by a larger iPod. I'm a music fan and a DJ, I have over 35k songs and growing. I would love a 300 gigabite ipod which is very doable. A 500 would be even better since it can be used as a mass storage device as well.
Are they all MP3s or is it lossless? I have ~68GB's of lossless music, and I just have iTunes generate a 256kb AAC for my iPod... and it all takes like ~15GB when compressed.
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Why don't you simply install a bigger 1.8inch drive in your iPod, or hire someone to do it? I know it's possible...
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Why don't you simply install a bigger 1.8inch drive in your iPod, or hire someone to do it? I know it's possible...
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Look at the bottom left!
At least that's just a 'best before' date, rather than a 'use by' date
Nah, battery technology, not batteries
Like others have said: to me it will be obsolete once there is an iPod that stores a lot more than the current 160GB. That's about the size of my CD collection when going with mostly 128 compression. I'd like to be able to have all this in an uncompressed format one day and with a better headphone amp.
Even though the "modern" approach to all this tries to force us think in terms of "songs" I'm still an albums guy. And while we're at it: I wish there was a way to sort the albums of an artist in chronological order and not alphabetically. Ideally, I want everything on the iPod the way I have things on my CD shelfs at home.
Even though the "modern" approach to all this tries to force us think in terms of "songs" I'm still an albums guy. And while we're at it: I wish there was a way to sort the albums of an artist in chronological order and not alphabetically. Ideally, I want everything on the iPod the way I have things on my CD shelfs at home.
I couldn't agree with you more. Sometimes i's nice to just listen to how a band progresses. It doesn't seem like it would be all that hard for Apple to add multiple sorts. Maybe change the view options so that you can not only check them but drag and drop the sort options. I also DJ and the ability to sort something by genre, artist, Key then BPM...from directly within iTunes would be fanastic!
Yes I totally agree and that's why I love my iPod classic 160gb of storage. I have like 80 gb of music and like 20 movies and lots of room for my podcasts. I have limited internet at my house due to the nature of living in an area where I can't get unlimited data and I have a caped data plan on my iPhone and would rip through that way to fast it's not even funny. I love having all my music in my hand and not worrying about going over my data (unfortunately by the time I got a smart phone "iPhone" att didn't offer an unlimited plan). Any way I think the classic will be around for a while. We might not see an update for a while other then maybe a bigger hard drive but not totally gone. I think their are many people in similar situations and their is still a small market for the classic.
I've had my 160GB Classic for three years, and could not imagine using anything else for my primary music device.
I only got the 16GB iPhone 4S because I knew that no matter how much memory it had, there wouldn't be enough space for my entire library.
I'd like to see a redesigned Classic in the near future, or a 128/256GB iPod Touch. That said, I don't want to pay $600 for all of that flash storage...
I only got the 16GB iPhone 4S because I knew that no matter how much memory it had, there wouldn't be enough space for my entire library.
I'd like to see a redesigned Classic in the near future, or a 128/256GB iPod Touch. That said, I don't want to pay $600 for all of that flash storage...
Who needs that kind of storage, anyway? Over time, the old albums won't be listened to anymore and just gets piled up. Even I am enough with 32 GB. And it's all ALAC.
I do. In addition to music, I have over many, many audiobooks. And hundreds of music videos. I am constantly needing to remove stuff on my iPad to download other stuff. That all takes time. With a 160gb device, I sync it all and never need to worry about what to remove to fit something else.