I hate when I start listening to underground hip hop and it just turns into a playlist of Kendrick Lamar and Nas, And it's not that I don't like Kendrick Lamar and Nas. But if I'm listening to open mic eagle , uncommon NASA, and homeboy sandman I wish it would maybe suggest me like pharaoh monch or something, but it never does. It just plays me section 80 again 😂😂😂😂

KZfaqr Gabi Belle did a video on Spotify shuffle and basically confirmed it does play some artists in your playlist a lot more than others. Don't know the reason behind it, but it was an interesting video regardless.

My gf is tired if me telling her Weezer came up again in a Spotify recommendation, but I'm only getting them feed to me cause they came up on once I didn't skipped? I guess??? Ooohhh weeeee ooohhh I look just like Buddy Holly 😭😭😭

@@Nerfyboy800 The reason is everything online is engineered to an insane degree. Long gone are the days of organically finding stuff, even shuffle on Spotify is not real shuffle.

Don't think it's necessarily agendas, rather their stupid algorithm that keeps playing you the same 2-3 songs you've been playing for a few days instead of the other 40+ you just added. I've experienced it too and it's fucking annoying

believe it or not cars actually used to have these so possibly wasn't staged

Real emotional journey this episode

Most cars STILL support ipods, actually basically all cars with USB ports do lol. My parents' electric toyota runs an ipod touch we stuffed in the glove box

so much respect

full circle moment - also starts playing the song the wedding guy requested

subtle, yeah

Yeah, what is this piece? It's also at 13:29. It's kind of awesome. Talking about curating playlists...

Louis Theroux type beat

@@jamesfrancese6091 No, that's not it. Found it on Soundcloud, that's a different tune.

@@jamesfrancese6091 You may be reffering to the tune prior to 1:26. But I'm looking for the clip that plays from this timestamp and also 13:29. Very "chiptune-y" yet interesting.

@@logandeboer1009 might look into the Light Phone 3 if you haven’t. It’s on presale now for 50% off

i find using youtube through a browser app instead to be better

Old iPod shuffles can be found all day on ebay for like $50. I have three

I have a firefox extension on my laptop called "Unhook" where you can hide pretty much anything you want on youtube, from shorts to the home feed to the recommendations and comments. I use that and try not to use YT on phone anymore

you can use your phone without Apple Music/spotify/etc. you just directly load music onto it and can use the normal shuffle function.

You can install any audio player, even winamp, and move mp3 files to your phone. 😅

@@borstenpinsel one of the points in the iPod is that is indeed a player, and just that, being excellent at it. why carry your phone if you don't need to? fiddling with it while doing sports, etc. it's just become rly ridiculous..

@@borstenpinsel Or, with iTunes you can seamlessly sync all your music to your iPod. I'm far from an Apple fanboy, but the iPod classic is the BEST way of curating your own music.

​@@borstenpinsel Yeah you could... But the iPod (or Zune I guess...) has several advanced features that haven't made their way to phones yet... There's "Don't fucking interrupt me with phonecalls, software updates, advertising, buffering, or network blackouts". It's neat, especially for someone who loves to listen to an album uninterrupted. Then we have the tactile, physical controls - "Now with REAL Buttons!" - which can be safely and accurately used while driving or when my music-box is in a pocket. There's no risk of accidentally calling 911 or my ex, and only a small risk of skipping tracks instead of adjusting the volume. Please forgive my sass, I say this all with love. Oh yeah, my iPod Nano was* waaay smaller and thinner than any phone I've ever owned. Man I wish I'd never transitioned to using my phone for audio ... * deceased, crushed in a work incident in 2018. Still, it served me so very well for a decade. R.I.P. little electric pocket dee-jay, you are missed.

Apple music only plays what you add

We’re getting replaced by the machine lol. Glad you’re taking your creativity and love of music back. Keep it human

I've noticed, too, that if Spotify (or KZfaq Music now) suggests something to me, if I don't LOVE it within 30 seconds, I'm angry. Like, I've developed this hugely high bar that all new music has to hit. It's depressing. I basically don't seek out any new music any more.

@TonyBullard It's unfortunate that the disc jockey has lost nearly all influence in both the available library and the choice of what to play on air. In a world where choices are endless, the consumer could really use a system of thoughtful curation. It takes nearly as much effort to find good new music as it does a curator for good new music.

You never heard of DankPods

@@KidTonyGaming an iPod you holster in your armpit?

Been using an iPod again exclusively for a few months now haha. YOU aren't willing. We've been doing it

Been using an iPod touch 5 for the last decade (never been connected to internet) for listening, and Spotify freemium for sorting out music and organising my playlists(that would go on the iPod later ). I don't mind the extra work.

@@globalmarauder8682 agreed man. Wish I never stopped using my iPod. I now have my iTunes with 2,000+ of all my favorite songs and I’ll find music on KZfaq once or twice a month for new music to illegally download 😂😂

god bless you for the suggestion. This sounds more like a computer rather than an Ipod😭

At this point, you could have just bought a modern DAP and played your locally stored loseless files. Is it because of the nostalgia?

@@krzysztofobodzinski2529is not the same, DACs nowadays are not very different from smartphones (they’re android based, touch screen, streaming apps and all that) and whole thing is to disconnect from that and actually enjoy the music

@Kikiclarak I think you're overthinking it. The problem is with you, not the device. Just load your music, don't turn on the Wi-Fi, and there you go. The touchscreen or the Android aren't evil or somehow making you enjoy the music less. Also, DAPs have physical controls on the sides.

How the hell do u buy that

Nice 👌 I'm similar, but instead, I put it on my server (along with my movies) because I'm a weirdo, and I set up a plex server to stream in and out of the house. I love it, and the physical collection of movies, TV shows, and music is awesome. The only difficulty now is when I can't find a physical copy because one doesn't exist

they aren't the same though, they are better.. assuming you ripped them as lossless .

Exactly gratitude! I didn’t knew how much power this has

i mean, i just play my files on my phone these days, it's not like it isn't plenty smart enough now, and LOTS storage.....😅

Sounds like Roon might need to enter your life, check it out.

I buy CDs so I can rip them to my phone. My local music library is all .wav files and so quality is never an issue 👌

I bought a CD of "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac the other day because I couldn't get it to play in my car from my Bluetooth transmitter via Spotify. It was the first album I've listened to in years where I played it twice in a row upon first listen

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It really does feel different. I think part of it is that there are less distractions…like you can’t just switch to something else in an instant. I mean you can switch tracks, but it’s often just nice to let it play and take it all in as a whole. It’s just you and the album, you know?

​@@jakefromstatefarm1405 does the same. Never changed it. if I want to hear something else I just use KZfaq. Type the song and save for later use but I rip cds to my phone and keep them there.

We used to have a tape that had an aux wire on it, press play and it send the signal down the wire from Phone/tablet etc and to the tapes head where that was converted to music...

I would have thought that the van would have had one too, hidden somewhere. Maybe where you'd be able to connect by USB? I thought it strange that it didn't have it.

☝This is the way friends! I've got a 7th gen that's been modded with 1TB of space & an awesome battery & even with the bluetooth "leaching" the battery life, it still holds a charge for easily at least a week of long daily use. I barely charge my ipod at all. I have to charge the bluetooth transmitter daily though!

Where are you guys getting these modded iPods from?? Any help would be appreciated

@@JustinSeara I got mine from a company called Elite Obsolete Electronics. Hope this helps

@@JustinSeara I got mine from Elite Obsolete Electronics. Hope this helps.

totally agree! KZfaq doesn't show some of my favorite channels even though I watch them all the time

@@MATALOMUSIC it's like people forget there's a subscriptions tab you can click....

Keep it up man. I do the same. I like to take a chance on music without someone else choosing it for me. It's more fun. Best album I've bought in the last 12 months is Criminal Nights by Lazer Club, an Italian synthwave band. It's funky, it's catchy, it's heartfelt.... great album! My next project, one day, is to create a mix tape (yes, a tape!) 90 minutes of my favourite synthwave tunes, maybe run them through some filtering software to make them a little more lo-fi, cobble together a solution to record them onto a tape and rock my old Sony Walkman WM-EX610!

🙏🙏🙏

I don't think this is a vlog it's more like something different that is not nostalgic, more like what happened. People don't need smartphones for an mp3

Just took out my old brick and preparing to SD card it. How did you go about bluetooth'ing it? I want to explore all the mixes I've saved over the years.

Do you have a list of materials and / or any 3D Prints you used? Sounds like an interesting project I’ll likely never get around to.

i have a last generation ipod that i just use for offline music with bluetooth earphones, it's so peaceful

@@CloudCoderChap you need the big back version depends on your model. For the 5th gen I think there is a 60/80 gb version so you have more space in side. Then you also need to take out the hdd and replace it with an ssd Adapter because they are smaller. And you have to get an Bluetooth transmitter and solder it to the headphone jack. That’s about it. But it’s not easy to do.

@@CloudCoderChap there different options. I saw an back face replacement. Wich is probably the easiest way to go. But a lot of people put in a larger battery, replace the HD with a bunch of sd cards and add Bluetooth. Some people install other firmware too so you're not longer depended on iTunes. The iPod will dual boot. All can be found here on youtube.

Same here! I was just looking at iPods last night to purchase. I had an iPod shuffle and later got an iPod nano. The iPod nano still works great. I bought a cable for it and gave it to my aunt. I might be an indian giver and ask for it back. Because I don't think she's using it now.

Thank you 🙏 3 more of these coming this month!

@@diggingthegreats I would love to see you use a walkman for a week go OLD SKOOL

​@@diggingthegreatsYES

AGREED

Yepyep, this is a genuinely good film @diggingthegreats - proper documentary with heart, story, drama and your usual high production values. Thankyou. Oh, and it's good to get another reminder that I need to actually follow through on my long-needed migration back to my own collection.

I'm in a similar boat but not quite as deep. Got hundreds of records and cassettes and like you all the stuff I downloaded in the early aughts are loaded on my phone. Though I do get albums from Bandcamp and steam DJ sets on SoundCloud. And I still use Instagram for art and I find SOME value in it. But the societal shift from physical, you do the legwork, media to sit back and let the algorithm tell you what you should be listening to is becoming way more obtuse in the space of art. But I'm also seeing many more people rejecting it to some degree. Maybe not and never to the extent you or I do but they see what's going on. And to me what's going on is the devaluing of art. It's why I want to read Filterworld because I think it talks about this. With Instagram and Spotify what we see and hear, without working for it, is given to us without asking for it and it's mostly what gets the most likes, which is a mindless click of a button. The more mindless clicks the more we all see it. And the game is how to get those clicks and it's mostly through Pavlov reactions. Like boobs. Which are great, but put a boob in it and you're going to get more likes. And society isn't connoisseurs like we are, they just consume what's given to them and this all is a recipe for the dumbing down of society. More so. Either way I too got a walkman and listen to everything on old stereos and speakers because I worked for it as did the artist making it and I feel it's a good trade-off and I appreciate it more that way. Thanks for response

Plex?

@@Andrew_On_KeysNo, AirSonic for music and a mix of Emby and Jellyfin for movies and TV Shows. Jellyfin is still rough which so I can’t switch completely. Neither of them are good for music, same goes for Plex.

i just put them on my phone, storage is pretty damn cheap these days, at least for my music collection size.....)

Bandcamp ftw

150.000 tracks 🤯

@@denzhil9099 146.212 to be precise.

@@denzhil9099 Yeah damn i thought my old iTunes was heffy with 90k.

How much did you spend on that? That’s a lot

Impressive stuff

walkmans remind me of film cameras while ipods remind me of digital cameras.

I want to know from what library did he fill up his iPod? Was it stuff from a certain timeframe? Or did he just throw on all the music he purchased digitally?

Yep, KZfaq is my only connection to "streaming" as well. I have at least 2,000 records and CDs to listen to and rarely download songs to my phone.

🏆🏆🏆

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I agree with this sentiment but I have one small gripe. And this may be just chance but maybe not. You know what’s weird? So my Spotify I did what you say I made my own playlist. It’s like 2000ish maybe 500 more or less songs and when I play shuffle at the end of everyday WITHOUT FAIL it plays mostly the same handful of songs. Isn’t that weird? It’s annoying as hell lol

You hit on my immediate thought. Almost everything we ever hear is curated by somebody…live music, music broadcasted or streamed, physical media you obtain…”somebody” made a choice to put it out there for consumption. So this has more to do with your habits and practices…how you seek and collect your music. I think the real problem that the streaming platforms present is over saturation. Most people, even hardcore collectors, faced limitations on how much they could consume. With a virtually limitless menu to choose from, it has become easy to stay in that single mode of exposure to music. The other apps on our devices make it even easier to stay engaged with that experience…which of course, reduces the amount of time you may otherwise spend seeking music from other sources external to the digital realm.

For the last few years I've actually found Spotify premium's algo for recommendations really good for me - I've come across lots of great stuff I'd never have heard before. But to speak to folks' point about curation, I do find human curators can sometimes send me to amazing musical journeys I might never encounter otherwise. And what a joy to be the person who recommends an album to a friend, customer, stranger, and see the light in their eyes when it hits the spot for them - love those moments of discovery whether I'm giving or receiving.

So how does a deaf person drive? Been to court and won multiple times by stating this fact in front of a judge. Always gets thrown out.

In what state is this hogwash you're spewing is true?

​@@Bob_Smith19deaf people are different. Its a difference between not being able to hear and actively making the decision to take away one of your own senses for personal entertainement. I would doubt that any judge would throw that out as easily as you described.

You’re just wrong about this

I was bring stupid