When I was a kid my family owned a device whose sole purpose was to rewind vhs tapes.

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    2 months ago

    An iPod. It’s still the same iPod I got for my birthday 20 years ago. It probably still works… If I’d be able to find a cable for it.

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      2 months ago

      I have used a dedicated MP3 player during the workout just few years back - I found carrying my entire almost 200g phone during the workout extremely inconvenient. In the end, I ended that for the benefit of bluetooth headphones which were not supported by the dedicated player.

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        2 months ago

        My phone still has an SD card slot. So I can put my 64 GB SD card inside and have more music offline than my 4 GB iPod could ever have.

        The iPod is a nice little piece of almost antique tech. But I’d still be using my phone over it.

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          2 months ago

          No one can argue that 64gb of storage holds more music than 4gb of storage but 4gb still holds hundreds of songs.

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            2 months ago

            Depends on the compression. Yes, you could fit 500 songs on a 4 GB iPod, as the adverts constantly loved to remind everyone about. But it was the early 2000s, so the quality wasn’t good, and then we’re still talking about a pretty high compression even back then.