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Okay. I read a bit of the article. By a bit I mean I made it to the part where the iPod HDD and battery have been modded. This dude is leaving out half his side of the story.
You need to get MP3s for the iPod. Did the dude even try to put those same MP3s on their phone? Who knows. They spent a lot whinging about streaming apps and their enshittification, really funny. Local music apps are set up and forget affairs, I use Retro Music from F-Droid - zero enshittification, no subscription fees, and that version is free. The author can use it too.
I'm certainly no iPod modder, but I'm pretty sure you needed to install iTunes to get it to play literally anything. Android lets me play whatever from the SD card root, phone memory root, Download folder, or even if it's lost in my screenshot gallery for an absurd example.
Heck, you can't watch videos unless they're encoded/converted in a way that the Pod can play them. Any modern phone can play anything with the system video app or VLC or something.
Not a concern to me at all, but the pod doesn't have Bluetooth, so you're practically required to use something with the 3.5mm jack. A decent phone should have both.
If you don't want to receive a LinkedIn notification, turn off LinkedIn notifications. Android's notification system has matured tremendously, no app will send anything unless YOU have allowed it in the first place. Or turn on Do Not Disturb, which the author says they did, but I don't believe them. Bedtime Mode is an even stronger option, as it can hide your notifications. For the nuclear option, just turn off WiFi/mobile data - of course streaming apps will be unable to do anything in this case, but...... Local music players will keep trucking on.
TL;DR Just download and use a LOCAL music player you're comfy with and play the MP3s you already put on your iPod.
The iPod isn't something you're gonna hold constantly in your hands, like a classic handheld console where you can argue that you prefer playing GBA, PSP or Vita games on their original hardware, screen, buttons and all. You will most likely pocket it and only interact with it using your wired earphones. Your phone is still the best option here.
What you're saying is so important to say out loud, because I don't know if it's easy or even in some cases, possible, for average Joe to find that information.
I do think that the whole rebellion from enshitification, is valuable in whatever format, so the whole crowd going for old tech, because they don't know how to use new avenues, other than the ones they're familiar with, still achieves the same task.
I don't have a lot of time to deep dive, I don't have a lot of expertise, those muscles have become flabby from no use for so many years, I used to download my music, then had Spotify for so long, then qobuz because Spotify turned evil, but I genuinely tried to download music again and I couldn't figure it out. I just feel like, I wish there were more tutorials on how to do the things you talk about. (If anyone knows any, I'd be so grateful for the help). I feel like theres not a lot out there? I see this so often, Lemmy has some amazing talents and minds, who know all this stuff, but talk about it like it's common knowledge. It's not. You guys are magicians. I just wish I knew how to do all your tricks.
Tbf, there is a slightly janky iPod mod to give it Bluetooth.
But now I'm thinking about using my PSP as a music player again.
I went ahead and read the rest. It's like the author is pretending Android only has Spotify and clones, and nothing to do the iPod's thing. If you don't have a system music player, go find one on Google Play or F-Droid. I had PowerAmp and ditched it because of its online activation DRM scheme, and for a while I had Musicolet before it had a subscription tier attached to it, and jumped apps until I settled on Retro Music, for now. A better app might dethrone it. Come to think of it, that's a pro over the iPod, it's stuck with Apple's idea of the music player back then, but Android lets you choose upcoming and past players.
The intentionality of putting gigabytes of tracks and curating them after the fact is definitely way easier with Android, too.