“At Apple’s online store, for instance, the silver Classic is now shipping in one to three days, as compared to 24 hours last week,” iPodNN reports. “Best Buy’s website notes that the same color has gone from one-day shipping last week to being backordered by one to to two weeks. At Target, shipping times are now listed as two to four weeks.”
iPodNN reports, “The black-tinted Classic appears to be unaffected by shortages. Apple allowing silver stock to fall low could nevertheless signal plans to kill off one or both models, or else finally release an update.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Some people say that iPod classic is an anachronism and, as a reader once emailed us, “there’s no need to attempt to carry around all of your media unless you don’t understand playlists.” Others swear by the device. Do you use an iPod classic? If so, why do you choose that iPod model?
Save the iPod classic!!
My iPod classic sits in my car, carrying all the music I ever need.
Battery died years ago but it still works off 12V.
I use a classic to store all my music in full, non compressed files (80 gig) to feed to my car deck for the best quality music.
The article states “no need to attempt to carry around all of your media unless you don’t understand playlists.” Count me as one who does not understand then. How would a playlist negate the need for all of my files to reside on my Ipod?
My music is normally in Apple Lossless format. That said, Just to have a small playlist takes up a lot of room. If Apple would allow to Down convert to 256bitrate instead of 128bitrate I think I could do fine with a 32 GB or 64 GB iPod touch / iPad.
Until Apple allows this, I will just have to bite the bullet and use the classic. 🙁
I just replaced my 4th gen iPod (the original box called it the “iPod photo”) when it gave up the ghost with a new silver Classic. here’s why: Since installing aTV Flash on my (silver-sided) Apple TV, and thus increasing my Apple TV’s capacity to 1 GB, I have been re-encoding more and more songs in Apple Lossless format, since the Apple TV is in the living room where the good speakers are. As a result, my music in iTunes now exceeds 70 GB. I have an iPod-dock speaker in nearly every room and prefer to cart the iPod with said music around the house rather than rely on AirPlay most of the time. Only one iPod model will handle 70 GB with an eye to increase that in the future.
I like the ability to leave the iPod in the car all the time. A iPod touch just doesn’t seem like the thing to leave in the car.
And, who wants keep adjusting the playlist loaded onto the device.
Apple is moving away from clickwheel-based UI and platter-based storage. I think the combination of this migration and the availability of streaming options will phase it out officially by the end of the year.
http://themacadvocate.com/2010/09/17/apple-shuffles-the-nano/
Yup, my ipod classic is in the car with all music loaded. I don’t need to do anything to change my mind about what I want to hear. It comes in once a year in the summer (not quite so often in the winter) and gets the new stuff. For the Beatles box set I made an exception and took it in early.
The ability to have all of my music in my car at all times is of great benefit to me (I can’t guess what my car guests (family / friends) are going to request). Playlists are non-issue here.
If anything, I’ve been waiting for the iPod touch to gain a 128 GB drive to properly replace the classic, which has been way too slow to come in my opinion.
In the glovebox, 80 gig of bliss.
Used as a hard Drive
I could see a new classic in a smaller form factor modeled after the Nano, but with even larger capacity.
It sits in the console of the BMW…where I am NOT going to put an iPhone or iPod touch…so SOME form of NON-communication device that serves as portable storage for music or data will survive for some time. the proprietary cable for the ipod in all these cars can of course be changed to work with another device but the software in the cars is also set to work with them. The inertia of the infrastructure Apple has built will keep them around in some form (solid state classic?) for at least the next 3 to 5 years.
I can not begin to say how nice i find it to have all of my music with me. My 32gb iPhone still does not hold my collection and the ability to listen to any of my music anywhere anytime is incredible and a must for me. A discontinuation of the classic will leave me without the best way to experience my music.
It’s pretty obvious whatever reader said that does not know how to drive. Apple should take note of this thread and how many of us need a high capacity iPod in our cars. There currently isn’t one big enough for all my music, but at least the Classic comes close, and a click wheel is easier to use without looking, making it the safer choice as well.
I love my 6th Gen 80GB Classic, it’s mainly used in my car and at the gym (though I should start using my Shuffle there). I can put most all of my music on there so I have anything I want to listen to with me. I can’t do that on my 32GB iPhone, as videos and apps take up space as well. My iPod Classic has been going strong for a while now (3 years I guess), and it shows no signs of stopping. But if Apple announced they were discontinuing the Classic, I’d probably go buy a new one so I know I’d have a working unit long into the future. Touch gestures are nice, but for things like the gym, a physical button and wheel are much better, as you don’t have to be looking at the device, or take your eyes off what you’re doing. Until the storage of the Touch exceeds 64GB, I wouldn’t consider getting one since I already have an iPhone.
I replaced my trusty 80GB 5th Gen iPod with a new 160GB in December as the hard drive was starting to fail and it would not play the Audible Enhanced Format files. I think the Classic will remain as long as the max capacity of the Touch is only 64GB
On another note…
I don’t want a streaming requirement for my music player (leave it as an option, personally… I don’t want to depend on internet / phone services for my multimedia playing.) Like Steve Jobs stated before, people want to own music, not stream it. And if I was Apple, I wouldn’t fix something that isn’t broken no matter what their cloud services bear on us. Since it is possible, I prefer having my multimedia reside on the product I’m using. Anything that derails from that will not be something I’ll purchase.
When it comes to Apple TV, not having your multimedia on it works fine, given it works fine with your computer multimedia and isn’t meant to be portable and travel where you go.
128 GB iPod touch, please!
I use my classic for music as well as moving file to and from work as a hard drive.
I still don’t have a car that I can hook up my v1 U2 iPod to. I may not anytime soon either. So it sits in my bedroom. It was never meant to go workout with as my 1 GB shuffle does that job perfectly rain or shine.
SAVE THE CLASSIC!
I have an iPod Classic (purchased last year) that I use to store my entire music collection. I use a new Nano when I work out, but I appreciate having the ability to carry all of my music with me on the Classic.
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Very true. So many of the places I go don’t have any cell reception, streaming music up in the mountains is just not an option. And you know what? I don’t WANT reception up there. I just want to be alone with my music and my bike.
I use an iPod Classic to store all my favorite food commercial jingles over the last century. You better believe it!
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My classic is the only iPod of the 5 that I own which can accommodate my entire 147 GB music library. Until an iPod Touch has a larger memory this will be my go to when I travel or am asked to bring my music to play at a party. I use playlists for sorting all of my library into country, dance, dinner music, oldies and so on. But having it all in one place is convenient.