![]() I managed to track one down at a spare parts site, which cost about £20. I hummed and hawwed for a while, before deciding to buy a whole new front plate, as I knew I wouldn’t be happy having upgraded all the other bits and then having a scratched up screen. I always took really good care of my old one, so was a bit miffed that this one was rough. When the iPod arrived, everything worked as expected, but it was a lot more beaten up than I had expected. Along with the special tools to open the iPod without breaking it, the total cost so far is at: £90. I picked up a battery with much larger capacity than the original (£9), and an 80GB hard drive (£28) – supposedly the maximum size that would work with this model. In the end, I went for a 20GB model for about £40 which seemed in decent enough nick. Looking around eBay, there were a few that were listed as ‘just needing a new hard drive’ for under twenty quid, but I decided to play it safe and get one that was fully working in the first place, to avoid other unseen problems cropping up. Why? Because that was arguably the best design – with a nice, smooth scrollwheel, and separate touch sensitive buttons. I wanted the 3rd Generation iPod specifically. Below is my overly long account of my journey to repair the damn thing which nobody needs or wants, but since we are all currently locked inside thanks to the Coronavirus, it seems like as good a time as any. ![]() However, things didn’t go especially smoothly. After a bit of Googling it seemed like it would be easy enough to pick up an old iPod and stick a new hard-drive and battery in – so that’s what I decided to do. I longed for the golden days of iPods… back when they were cutting edge and had nice glowy buttons and scroll wheels and that nostalgic clicky sound. Sure, there was my mobile – but I was still using an iPhone at the time, which could store about 10 songs before its pitiful internal, non-expandable memory got filled up. A few years ago, I realised that I no longer had a good portable music player.
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