iPods Make Your Music Sound Better
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2024
- this started out as me just doing a few DankPods bits, but then i decided to try to make an actual point, even if it's pretty much just "paying attention makes art better"
wouldn't it be funny not to credit hbbomberguy's Plagerism and You(Tube) appearing at 6:53 - Розваги
very dankpods
Dankpods - MURICA ver💯
@@yh_ooo there are people much more qualified to be called an “american dank”. plus i do not nearly have the camera presence to try and pull that off
@@swine_ nah, you're the american version, you qualify enough
We got OG Dankpods, we got korean Dankpods, and now, introducing: Pansexual Dankpods
i am genuinely realizing just now that the thumbnail and my pfp is pan flag colored. coulda sworn i checked for that kinda thing, whoops lol. anyways i’m ace actually :)
@@swine_ ik im gunna get hate for this, but what is "ace"?
@@dp4l1fe2 it’s short for asexual, which is the non-experience of sexual attraction. sibling to aromantic, which is the non-experience of romantic attraction. someone could be both, or either one independently
@@swine_ yooooo fellow ace person 🙌🙌🙌
@@dp4l1fe2 why would you get hate for asking a question??
Shuffle by album on iPods is the best feature E V E R and it has forever changed how I listened to music - it's insane that no streaming service offers this as a feature (but it doesn't matter to me, I'm subscription free baby)
i'm obviously pro-iPod here, but unless i'm misunderstanding what you mean, you definitely can do that, at least on apple music.
regardless, culling the number of subscriptions per month is always a win
@@swine_ Really?? I totally missed that feature when I tried it out a few years ago.
Edit: I'll be damned, it's hidden, but it's there! Thanks for letting me know!
Throw Rockbox on a iPod and it's automatically turned into the best budget media player ever.
i really need to give rockbox another shot. i tried it once, and it did not agree with me. i nearly had to take the 7th gen apart again which scared me lol. all the stuff it can do seems cool, but not entirely in my use-case
A month ago I finally got completely rid of my smartphone and started pretending it's 2006, even bought the same nokia I had when i was young. It's one of the best decisions I've made in my entire life. Everything feels more real and true and, and even though it has made my life more difficult, I feel way happier living in the real world, not being a slave for an algorithm.
Also love ur channel and vids, subscribed :D
woah that is some dedication! i don't think i could go that far - as much as i hate using my phone, i do get a lot of utility out of it. mandatory tfa and maps and everything, you are braver than i
thank you!
@@swine_ lol you don't need maps at all. I simply don't have internet on my smartphone so I never learned to rely on the maps instead I just know where everything is. It's surprisingly easy to remember roads and places if you have a sense of direction. I drove cross country without my phone
@@escapetherace1943 i worked a delivery job for a while so i do know the roads pretty well. my city has natural landmarks that are really easy to see and is consistently organized - except for when it isn’t and then it’s indecipherable. i’m also adjusting to the transit routes, cuz due to recent developments i can’t drive anymore, and i don’t quite have the train and bus routes memorized. doing the “macro” stuff i’d be okay, but the last mile is the tricky part. it’s an 80-20 situation, and for me it’s worth it, if only to have as a “backup” option
@@swine_ dang being a zoomer is wild
@@escapetherace1943 yeah it is lmao. i truly cannot comprehend the horrors of my own consciousness. it’s wild in here
i agree with you on the value of dedicated devices. i read more on kobo than my phone and i have way too many distractions on my phone to listen to an album all the way through but through my dac and amp setup i can get into mood for listening
it's so weird how that works. like, my phone can do so much more, it's got way better hardware, so it should be the better device, right? but somehow every other device makes itself useful in ways my phone never could
I have my boox for reading, steam deck for playing games, and I'm definitely going to get a MP3 player eventually. Dedicated devices are just so nice
I love my music and audio books on mp3 because I own it. What I’m worried about Apple or play station can easily take away any of my music because it’s on my iPhone. So I really want to buy refresh mode ipod
there are songs that i've downloaded to my phone, but then licensing changes or something, and i have to remove and re-download to listen again. it's certainly frustrating
and ipods are super easy to take care of! i was a bit nervous when i started, but toying around with them (and breaking a few) has made me so much more confident with my electronics repair skills. i got a bit excited when i started and bought too many, and i've done some cosmetic mods, but even then, the price of entry is pretty low
I am looking forward for this channel to become really big if this dude continues ..this small creative space of tech review+documentary style is quite eduvative zone
I totally agree.
Here's a rant:
I'm currently trying to pretend it's 2006. I dug out my old Nokia phone and my camera. I'm gonna try switching to this old phone.
One thing I noticed is that when I glance at the Nokia, I get the urge to call someone, whereas when I look at my smartphone, I feel nothing at all. What I'm trying to say is, the Nokia looks like a calling device to me and my smartphone just looks like a… weird slate that happens to be a black mirror?
I think this is because smartphones can do pretty much everything. It's just so many features. So many that it's overwhelming. Many of them are actually useful but I end up forgetting they even exist (I'm only comfortable using software that I have a decent understanding of, by which I mean, reading the documentation for a new program is a must if I want to make anything good with it). But I feel like grasping all the features of a smartphone is hard. There are just so many. So I end up with a device that can do pretty much anything in the palm of my hand, with the world at my fingerprints and yet, I do nothing with it. I don't get any cool ideas to try with my phone.
The old Nokia is different. You can find out about all it's capable of by clicking through every menu in every app you find. Wanna know what you can do with an sms? Just click the left button to see the options! It's amazing. On a smartphone you'd probably have to google "how to mark a photo in the gallery" to learn that you do so by holding your finger on it. If it were an old phone, you could just click the left button and scroll through all the options and eventually you'd find the "mark" option. The controls on old phones were simple: if the option is even there, it is listed in the "options" menu. Nowadays, you have to figure out if an option is accessed by tapping, holding, swiping or whatever gesture you can make with your fingers. When I switched to a smartphone, I often found myself looking for the option list, the way it was on my nokia.
My old nokia is a nice phone with a bunch of awesome features. I like that there aren't too many of them so I can actually keep track of them in my head and don't end up forgetting half of them even exist.
iPods aside those dungarees are cool asf.
"an e-reader that doesn't need wifi to transfer files"
If the Nook Simple Touch has no more stans then that means I have died
my m2 macbook air makes songs sound noticeably more bold and vibrant from the headphone jack, even crappy headphones sound Godly and "cleaner"
I ❤ Dankpods
What you said resonated with me, thanks for posting this.
i'm glad you enjoyed it! given your other comments here, it certainly looks like it resonated
“try a couple” and shows the pile I absolutely felt that
i showed a few headphones, but there’s a reason i didn’t show the headphone rack. restraint is… well i’m working on it
Digital signal processing. iPods use DSP to enhance audio.
Honestly the only problem I had while using my iPod was just upgrading to macOS Sonoma. It created two bizarre issues (when ipod is windows formatted album art will be displayed broken and when you add new music to your library it will most likely forget the ipod and require you to remove and resync everything) so I just installed Catalina to a separate drive and it seems good now.
Sad that apple's support for these old devices is getting worse.
that is a weird thing for it to do. sucks that it happened, that support is failing. like i said, i use windows for the ipods so i have very little experience with it on macOS, but i've heard it's pretty okay, at least till now
I bought an ipod classic 4th gen photo for £15 on ebay and my god. My music now sounds like heaven (if heaven sounds like Gorillaz that is)
i do not think heaven would be complete without gorillaz
Having different devices for different things is awesome. My phone can do everything but to me it feels more like it's good for nothing.
Devices that do only one thing are nice because: a music player looks like a music player and a phone with a physical keyboard, even better, an actual handset, looks like a phone.
To me, a smartphone doesn't suggest what it's designed for by its appearance. It's just a blank, black slate. I don't like this. Smartphones are shapeshifters: they switch between different functions, sort of turn into different devices. Whatever device they mimic now is only indicated by a change on the display.
But the display isnt even real. It's all pixels. You opened a mixing console on your ipad? Cool, you can take it with you anywhere now, great. Where are the buttons though? What do you mean it's all pixels? The buttons disappear and now you're scrolling through facebook on what was your mixing console a while ago?
This turned into a weird rant in which I sound like an old man who can't comprehend what a screen is, but I actually meant to say I like physical buttons more than hitboxes. They feel more real. When I grab my camera I know it's photoshooting time, whereas when I grab my phone to take a photo, well, my guess is that my brain gets confused like "Phone in hand. Yay! Game time! Wait no I think it's actually tumblr time. Oh wait we're actually taking pictures wtf I was so excited for game time. Whatever. Initiate photographer mode"
need more views!
Nice thumbnail
i'm not sure i agree, but i'll trust a dk pfp
bro you have the whitest white skin i have ever seen.. 😆great content btw. I recently bought an ipod 7th gen classic 120gb and planing to do some modification with it..
between the poor lighting setup and the not going outside, i didn't stand a chance lol
the 7th gen is an interesting one to mod. the back case is tough to get open, so be careful with that, it'll fight you. but once you're in there, it has the most potential for crazy stuff - i think it has to be a 7th for the bluetooth mods some people do. the only thing i've noticed is that the 7th is more forgiving with different formats and bitrates and whatever, and it allows for volume adjustment from the headphones if they have the buttons. it's a good device, just make sure not to close the back cover before you're ready lol
RSS feeds are goated
fr tho. they're so good
I never get dedicated hardware just so it doesn't have distractions. If I don't want to browse Reddit on my phone, then I simply don't. If I wanted to, an iPod won't stop me.
I already get involved with my music without an iPod because I don't use streaming service on my phone either, because no streaming service as more than half of my music collection, not anything available in NA anyway.
I can't take this seriously, I think people just want excuses to play with vintage tech, I mean sure that could be fun, play with them if you want, but don't take the excuses as the actual reason you want to paly with them. Just the fact that you've got yourself like 10 iPods is proof it's not about the utility, it's just a hobby in of itself.
spot on mate.
again it objectively has better sound quality than your smartphone. if you don't care about that, that's fine, the video just isn't aimed at you. but that is a legit reason to use dedicated music hardware. why are you treating this video like it was talking to you personally and not a general overview of some reasons someone might want to use music hardware?
@@ltbq No it doesn't, it obviously depends on the phone, and there are way better DAC/amp devices that can connect to phones but not iPods. So if you wanna be some audiophile you won't be using an iPod either.
i can tell myself that i won't get on reddit or whatever when i'm trying to listen to music, but i always do. even if i don't, i'm constantly thinking about if i should switch to a podcast or a youtube video, or a different playlist. not everyone's brain will work the same, but i find the physical separation incredibly useful. i generally have to do a lot of stuff like this in general, i have to coax my brain into doing the thing i want it to do
if you are enjoying your music the way you are listening now, that's great! my argument is that paying attention is ultimately the thing that matters to the quality of your music enjoyment, i just find this is a useful way to do it
Ipods make you sound stupid, for buying Ipods when MP3 players did the same thing with less hassle.
i myself do kinda enjoy the hassle, tho i understand not everyone will. if what i wanted was no hassle, i'd still be listening on my phone
but absolutely, it doesn't need to have an apple logo, it could be anything, as long as you enjoy using it! i don't draw attention to it, and it hides in the shot, but there is a fiio i like to play with sometimes as well. personally, i'm already familiar with apple, so a bunch of my music was already in aac or alac, and the software therefore wasn't that hard for me. plus there's a cool modding community around them, so it's really easy to find parts and whatnot
so that's why i defaulted to using ipods, and using that word to mean all dedicated music players, but yeah, literally anything else will do the same thing as long as you like using it
Dude but Ipods have real Dacs.
At least 5th and 7th gen. Most mp3 are for that: mp3 files lmao.
Ipods supported flac and stuff.
All the other (sony/zume) audiophile devices were on similar price range (IIrc)
@@ungloriusbastards4955 I've got an mp3 player that did all the formats and had a dac that was a year old when the original ipod came out, dacs aren't special or expensive(unless you buy a exploit the stupid audiophile edition along side your gold plated tripple shielded 1 meter hdmi cables and audiophile file servers.
hell I had an mp3 player back then that played all the current(at the time) formats that had an tiny 1.8" hard drive and was still smaller and lasted longer AND cost half as much as an IPOD and didn't wipe your entire list if you had to plug it into another machine to load a song or two.
doubled as a small portable usb hard drive in a pinch aswell.
I also had an ipod shuffle, now that thing at least had a use, it was built like a tank and light enough that if it dropped while running it didn't matter if it fell into a puddle or hit the ground hard.
this comment feels like a time warp from 2007, a tech forum argument nearly two decades old, and thats super wild
@Snocone333 i am so happy to have inspired some 2007 in my comments :)