{"id":4368,"date":"2014-12-07T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2014-12-07T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:30:20","slug":"linked-fans-scramble-for-ipod-classic-the-music-player-apple-killed-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/linked-fans-scramble-for-ipod-classic-the-music-player-apple-killed-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “Fans scramble for iPod Classic, the music player Apple killed off”"},"content":{"rendered":"

via The Guardian:<\/a><\/p>\n

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With a storage capacity double the size of any current iPods still being made, versions of the 160GB Classic \u2013 which can hold around 40,000 songs \u2013 are being sold as new via Amazon for up to \u00a3670. More than 3,000 of the models \u2013 the seventh, final version came out in 2010 \u2013 have been sold on eBay since the Classic was retired in October, most for between \u00a3350 and \u00a3500.Even refurbished older models now cost far more than the \u00a3229 for which the later generations retailed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I own 2 iPod Classics, one is a 160GB still in the plastic that lives in my car glove box and it holds almost all of my music. The other is still in the box, the largest capacity iPod classic ever produced and it holds 120GB of data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019d never sell them and they are fantastic. when I travel, having all of my music on me in a device with 24 hour playback battery life and not including any data fees on my International plan is a bigger deal than you can imagine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The grass is always greener for some people and this secondary market shows that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via The Guardian: With a storage capacity double the size of any current iPods still being made, versions…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-31T00:20:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"255f590c-7753-498b-b278-ff9ac89121d5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-31T00:20:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJV9ZDHdTSYuyeP-ayJEh1Q","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-18s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":436,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/07\/20\/ipod-classic-and-the-death-of-hdd\/","url_meta":{"origin":4368,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 iPod Classic and The Death of HDD","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive which, in my opinion, all storage drives are hard but only one uses disks and this is what we'll be talking about today. 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