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I stopped playing music on my Android phone and went back to my iPod (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I couldn't imagine. What a pain in the ass. I run my own server and stream my own music, so having to copy to an ipod would suck. It always sucked. Can you just copy files over with linux? syncthing? anything convenient?

Hard pass. Your own server is streaming all your music to all your devices.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    But you know, for others dealing with a server IS a pain in the ass. Copying audio files and making some updates from time to time is way simpler for other people.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I've got my own server but I wanted to give this a try for fun anyway. iTunes seems to have no problem using a library that lives on a local server and syncing it to an iPod. I'm guessing you need a windows computer or mac to run iTunes though, it's been over a decade since I last tried to get it to work on a Linux machine

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    And Itunes on windows is just a marvel of shitty design. I hate itunes so much.

    On a mac I dislike it as well, but itunes on windows is just awful.

    In any case, how is the syncing? does it seem slow or fast by todays standards? I cant recall what the connectors were on the ipods back in the day.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I'm not sure. I was testing out my old iPod so I only put 10 songs on just to see if it worked with the fresh battery and SD card storage I installed. Apparently I cooked the motherboard in such a way that the audio doesn't work. It's a somewhat common problem according to the internet.

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