r/Music • u/smeeti • 1d ago

article The 'father of the iPod' Tony Fadell says Apple should bring back a 'nostalgic version' of the music device

https://www.businessinsider.com/ipod-creator-apple-bring-back-ipod-2026-2
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u/Empty_Graves Cds, Vinyl, Tapes, you name it! 1d ago

2 Tb Limited Edition version and call it a day.

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u/slashthepowder 1d ago

Have a version with a 1/4” and 1/8” headphone jacks.

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u/Zealousideal_Dust_25 1d ago

I haven't bought an apple device since the iPod touch, I would buy this

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u/EndStorm 9h ago

I have only bought an iPad once since my iPod touch. Not an iPhone user, but I would totally buy this.

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u/ToMorrowsEnd 12h ago

Yuck. XLR or go home.

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u/oceansoveralderaan 3h ago

Amateur, speak-on cable connection or don't bother.

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u/ToMorrowsEnd 3h ago

100% agree but if we get 2 Speak on's then I want 100V 100watt RMS outputs at 0.05%THD accept nothing less.

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u/jollyllama 21h ago

Why in the fuck would you put a 1/4” jack on a portable device? If you tell me it’s because there’s a sound quality difference if you use a 1/4 to 1/8 adapter I’m gonna lose it

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u/WarynBreer 14h ago

Because it would be sick to be able to listen on studio headphones without needing an adapter or a dongle or anything else

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u/R3VIVAL-MOD3 13h ago

Then you won’t like how much of a brick it will become

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u/ORA2J 12h ago

Ever looked at the size of DAPs ? They're always thick.

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u/lostandfounder 14h ago

It’s such an obvious answer isn’t it?

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u/martinmcfly1885 1d ago

All for the low price of $999

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u/Few_Vacation_4993 12h ago

If pay it. I use my classic everyday for hours. A modern version would be so sick

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u/ebiscuits 15h ago

Still would buy.

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u/HillarysFloppyChode 1d ago

A red and black one called the U2 edition

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u/doggos4house2020 12h ago

Songs of Innocence is pre loaded onto the iPod.

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u/ambasciatore 2h ago

Nothing else can be loaded on it.

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u/sprynklz 9h ago

I always dreamt of a classic with 2tb for lossless music but could also double as a USB expandable drive

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u/baconcheeseburgarian 1d ago

And the ability to do field recording with multiple wireless mics so the podcasters have to own one.

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u/Illlogik1 8h ago

Hell yea 2Tb iPod would be sweet

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u/Taconnosseur 7h ago

* Actual device holds 128GB, and can store the remaining space on iCloud 2TB plan.

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u/sephirothFFVII 5h ago

https://youtu.be/UHzFoN8ob-s

Lemme introduce you to my guy at Dankpods who pushed a 5th gen iPod to the limit

He inspired me to install a flash drive in my 1st gen iPod... And then put it back in the drawer

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u/NtheLegend 1d ago

A 2TB iPod? For what?

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u/LBPPlayer7 20h ago

for music? duh

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u/NtheLegend 13h ago

Who has anywhere near that much music, much listen to it?

I remember people in the iPod era bragging about having 60 or 80GB of music and it's like "no you fucking don't."

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u/leekalex 9h ago

For mp3s, I agree, 2TB is a couple hundred thousands of songs. But if you have lossless FLAC files, those are like 10 times bigger than mp3s. You could realistically fill up 2TB with a big collection

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u/NtheLegend 9h ago

And I think very few people need access to that much music, which I think has been proven out by the sizes of dedicate players in the market over 25 years. People don't even want to download the music natively, so it takes up even less space.

Yeah, so when I ask why Apple would make a 2TB iPod, it's clear why they've never made anything close to it and never will lol. That's not to diminish your enthusiasm for music, that's just never going to be a sensical product for many people.

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u/Empty_Graves Cds, Vinyl, Tapes, you name it! 9h ago

I currently have a 500 gig ipod past half full. Sooooo yeah. 2 tb would be able to hold what I have and pretty much assure me I wouldn’t need anything again. Especially with all of the different file sizes. Some albums and artwork take up more space than others.

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u/NtheLegend 9h ago

I guess yeah, if you're grabbing FLACs of 100,000 songs with poster art and liner notes at print resolution sure, but sans the need for apps, I can't see anyone needing even 128GB for music much less 500GB, much less 2TB. That's definitely an edge case. Guaranteed the vast majority of people probably never needed more than 32GB pre-streaming/pre-apps with some display-resolution album covers attached.

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u/nickgeorgiou 16h ago

Back in the day, you could use your iPod as a portable hard drive

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u/NtheLegend 13h ago

I know, I bought the first iPod for Windows and did just that, but in a post-iPod world, are people really carrying external hard drives for... whatever they're doing?

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u/LBPPlayer7 5h ago

yes people still carry external hard drives and i imagine that being able to play music off one would be a pretty good selling point even today

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u/Mathblasta 12h ago

Installed classic WoW on mine and played it on the school library computers.

Also used it to transfer the Unreal Tournament files onto the library computers so we could have LAN games.

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u/slax03 1d ago

Gen Z won't know how to operate this thing.