Building a Custom iPod Video! 

in detail that SD or CF is a good choice on the other hand an SSD will use more energy than a HDD FYI

Note: Actually measuring or looking it up before making a statement based on assumptions, does require more power/work than otherwise:P Facts: A row/column based semiconductor storage technology may consume energy that is proportional to that grid. While the mechanical drive consumes energy to rotate the media and position the head. While the "actual storage" in the latter are somewhat "free" (the magnetized data points), there is no such free lunch with grid based semiconductor storage. They take energy to maintain, refresh, write and read ... more as larger they get. Also there are physical limits to miniaturize or better, max both technologies out. The semiconductor based storage, where the cells can't reliably store information based on structural (atom level) niveau, or simply heat wins ... where there is not enough space anymore to bring the heat caused by the action of the "storage-machine" out of the system (which will destroy it). Or on the quantum level for magnetic storage devices, where the units are physically getting to tiny to be reliable anymore. P.S.: Just do an experiment. Up to date devices, so top notch engineered Harddrive and SSD. 24/7 writing 100MBit/s to each and measuring the power loss as heat. You'll be surprised ... I'm not:) Price question: With which device will throttling occur first because of the excessive power loss? (With no external cooling as a setup parameter)

@@dieSpinnt am going off experience, I have a creative touch and the sd card used less power than the ssd, you may have different luck than me, but all I am using is off the shelf parts that also happen to be the cheapest unless you already had parts lying around then great, but the performance will be almost identical with the exception of battery life. Also the word salad does not help your cause it just added noise between A and B :P results don’t lie, also any data sheet will show wattage of the average ssd ( 3 - 6 watts) vs sd (which is 1 watts) if you want to dispute power draw you might have a losing battle, if you want to dispute read times the argument is not there beyond initial read times solid state memory wins as all music on most music players is stored in volatile memory, so your either trying to split hairs with your argument or explain a point that most people already agree with you anyway….???

@@buda3d2007 Yeah doesn't matter. "Experience" is a nice thing to have (famous last words). Semiconductor based storage has to reload capacitors or run a matrix or change some other type of non-volatile memory cells. That costs energy. The one-time magnetization of a surface, on the other hand, is practically free in comparison. In my contribution, I assume maximum values and the theoretically highest integration in the sub-nanometer range (perhaps we will still see that?). What I was talking about (and you obviously didn't understand) was the physical limitations of different technologies. Incidentally, they are not even up for debate. No matter how much you "believe" or have supposed experience, it's just the way it is, thanks to Mother Nature. Of course you are also right: for the home user one assumes a ratio of 2:3 in the power consumption of SSD to hard disk. But it's not that big either. In the data center or in applications such as e.g. at CERN, things are different again. By the way, you can always cheat with examples and most likely "experience" is a good thing ... but also can be used to lie to yourself (and others): - Samsung 850 EVO, 500G 2.5", average power 4.7W, idle 50mW - WD Blue, 500G 2.5", average R/W 1.4W, idle 55mW, sleep .13mW So please stop acting like you ate wisdom with spoons. In reality, many things are more complicated and diverse than you initially thought. Measuring (with actual equipment) means knowing!

@@dieSpinnt What point are you trying to make? you took a very long way around to telling me the specs of the medium without applying it specifically to the use case at hand, I'm happy for you that you know all this stuff but this knowledge has not been applied to the problem, pure and simple. The volatile memory has been in all music players since the Discman to stop skipping, my point was an MP3 player has been designed to read that from the sd,ssd,hdd and put that into it memory for playing, this was a big feature of all devices to mitigate the need to have the storage medium have power running to it at all times, again your word salad has nothing to do with the problems and solutions I have highlighted, stop copying gibeerish from the web and re-writing it here as you do not seem to be applying it to the problem, good luck with your life.....

I will upgrade mine soon, but it's really nice on road trips... many times you lose radio and cell service so all you have is a portable music device.

I've only just had to get mine it's first, after 18+ years!

@@iVolkswagen Colin literally mentioned dankpods himself so I can't imagine he's too bothered.

SOMEONES BEEN IN ‘ERE!

dankpods content is lazy, he doesnt even test the equipment he orders and wastes viewers time. I mean look at his video on the 3D ipod accessory. LAZY

Does he? Also... If you think dank is lazy... Then obviously you dont pay much attention... The fact that hes unaware of the state of the hardware should be a clue... Its a matyer of discovery. Your obviously mislead if you think even HE is sure of the condition with units... The whole point of his channel is the gamble of finding a bust or even good unit. And the reasons that follow. So if you think he's lazy... Well I think that goes to reflect on yourself...

@@idkanymore3382 see my comment

Isn’t it patented?

@@FloydBunsen The design as you see it might be, but my guess is you cant patent the tech to a point where it cant be copied, at its heart its just a touch sensitive none moving circle, we have touch screens and touch pads for laptops so thats the tech down, the buttons for playback control are just buttons under the click wheel, cant patent that. basically apple could only have patented the design over all, but a touch sensitive circle... Nah they cant patent that, or at least make it stick very well.

Try Steam Controller's touch panels

The closest is Steam Controller and Steam Deck's touchpads with scroll wheel input mode.

Check out the Sony Pocket Vaio. The scrolling on that is incredible. Sony calls it a g-sense pad.

Dankpods has a whole video about taking apart and fixing every kind of ipod

How is this comment from 3 days ago? This was uploaded 4 hours ago.

INCREDIBLY easy to fix and purchase. Best place to pick up batteries is actually eBay. Just make sure you're buying for your correct model/size. 🙂

@@jamesdriver0317 Time traveler.

@@jamesdriver0317 Patreon supporters get early access to the videos, as well as Colin's podcasts! I highly recommend supporting Colin on Patreon if you enjoy his work. 😀

To this day you can get free engraving on many products. From iPads to Apple pencils to even AirPods. Not for macs though

Better to get the battery out sooner than later. The battery in my 5th gen puffed up & actually popped the housing apart. I replaced the battery but the housing didn't snap back together completely due to the deformation from the puffed battery.

@@nexarian2523 You got lucky! The battery is right behind the screen so in some instances it cracks the screen.

as someone who appreciates those who may be more mature than their age suggestions (on a hunch i'd say this applies to you), and as someone who was in high school for just a few months in the new millennium -- I think I speak for anyone my age and older in saying one doesn't get to "age themselves" (quite yet) in their late 20s/early 30s. how do I know? because quite a few explained this to me when I said something similar upon turning 30 (or close to it). in a nutshell, don't be in such a rush. you have the rest of your life to feel as old as you are wise.

For me the iTunes integration is the reason to use an iPod. It would be nice to be able to have more than ~30,000 songs, or ~200GB in my case, but I rely on ratings and smart playlists and I wouldn't want to switch to manually managing storage. Of course your mileage may vary and someday iTunes will probably be impossible to use but for now I want to benefit from the many years I've put into my library.

I agree, I have been using Rockbox for years and it has been really nice. The fact that it is able to process so many other file types is great for us that like lossless music. My only complaint is that playlists are kind of a pain to set up, so I find that I am mostly listening to complete albums instead.

didnt see reason why i have to own 2 daps back then, even more so now, although they do sound very nice

You can install Rockbox sound OS to make it perform much better than apple's proprietary limited factory os.

watch dankpods

@@alerey4363 Does Rockbox support music videos and playlists that mix music video and audio files?

@@h.b.5577 probably

@@alerey4363oh no thanks The one time I tried it it almost bricked my iPod classic 6th gen Last time I try custom firmware on them

Yeah unfortunately that's the only good way. I usually use a putty knife, it helps keep it from bending a lot.

you should check out how dankpods opens them, the only iPods that are really hard to open are 6 and above because of all the metal

@@radiicall I did, he's the reason I finally bought some ipods. Couldn't get it open with his or any method I found online though.

Oh god; all you have to do is find the clips and push them forward, the poor case :(

I literally used a butter knife. I didn't destroy it, it worked out.

I was worried you were doing diy open heart surgery for a second

@@randallcraft4071 Oh my would that be adventures 😅

RockBox really makes it a nice little DAP

How does one tell whether theirs has 32 mb versus 64 mb RAM?

@@johnross8939yeah!

@@johnross8939 the 60gb and 80gb 5th Gen models came with 64mb. 30gb came with 32mb

@@LambdaMiscellaneous the 60gb and 80gb 5th Gen models came with 64mb. 30gb came with 32mb

65,535 songs is pretty much the limit on the 64mb models as well. Anything over that and the same thing happens. But you can store that many songs and the rest videos or documents and it’ll be fine.

yeah, that's what it does

I remember back in 2004/5 when I loaded my 30GB one up. Stock back then with it loaded it was super sluggish. I never knew why but I should have guessed on the menu database slowing it down. But hey, I had a 5th gen Video iPod so I was the best, lol.

same

Used to get 30hrs minimum from my 6.5 120gig, how long do you get from the mods?

I loved those too, but they are unfortunately extremely difficult to mod, and there’s not much of a scene for it. It has to do with how everything is packed so tightly inside. Many iPod Nano batteries have swelled, and when they do, it causes the screen to form a big blotch in the middle from the pressure.

Is it? 2005 wasn't that early. It's a good product but lets not act like we didn't have any other modern technology. Even the N-Gage came out in 2003.

He inspires me as well. He went from a passionate collector to a thriving business owner, who is still a passionate collector. I've seen him show off boxes full of firewire chargers, not because he was selling them or adding them to his inventory, but because he was adding them to his collection. The excitement in his eyes is contagious. I went from collecting watches to collecting and rebuilding iPods because of dank pods and elite obsolete. It's a much cheaper hobby that can have good profit margins. As long as you are consistent and honest, You will be successful. There are too many sellers listing standard fifth gens as ipod video enhanced. Out of ten ipod orders, only two were indeed the enhanced version with the wolfson DAC. Be careful with eBay.

Elite Obsolete Electronics (mentioned in the video) has a YT tutorial detailing battery sizes fitting with the various iflash options & thin/thick backs and illustrates exactly your scenario. To that end, EOE expressly only sell a thin 3000 in their webstore so you can buy with confidence from them if you have a quad and thin back. But yeah, Ebay can be a dice roll.

can you share the link to that blog post?

I bought a special watch strap and turned my square nano into an “Apple-Watch”, the nixie style display option is really cool

@@anoopsahal1202 I don't really use my nano anymore, I just check on it every couple months to keep it at around 40% charge. I still use the ipod touch as music player, on the road but also at home. My main audio system can act as dac for ipods and iphones, and surprisingly, support for that goes all the way back to the first ipods which could connect to usb, and all the way up to the latest generation iphone.

I remember that being a thing, with the only exception to the rule being the thermostats for the engines cooling baffles being damn near impossible

Other iPods aren't so repairable; the 6/7th gens are aluminum, not plastic, so they don't flex when you pop them open, they just bend. Otoh, In my experience they're pretty solid, and it takes a bit to kill them, so maybe there's a benefit to it.

Compared to other mp3 players of this era, iPods were the most difficult to open