I’m going to attempt to get my O.G. iPod to work again. First order of business is charging it, and it’s not too hard to find FireWire 400 cables and charging bricks. Second is harder. FireWire 400 dongle-chain to Thunderbolt 3.
@cleverdevil I have actually been toying with the idea to do the same. I have a 30 GB iPod classic 5th gen. Semi-related: have been buying Blu-Ray, CDs, Records, etc, instead of streaming. Something to be said for owning.
@aa I also try and purchase physical or non-DRM products. All of my Nintendo Switch purchases are physical cartridges (which are now easy to backup/dump), for example. I depend on Blu-Ray rips that I store on my Synology NAS. The exception to the rule is Music, where I have a large historical library of ripped CDs, but almost all new music I just stream because its convenient.
@cleverdevil one thing I started running into on streaming is that things would disappear, or change versions, invisibly.
I went back to lossless-ripping of my CDs or buying FLAC/ALAC files from Bandcamp/Qobuz.
@toddgrotenhuis for something I really really care about, I still maintain an on-disk library with CD rips. But, I’m old and already have rips of a ton of what I listen to. I don’t follow music as much as I do movies/games/tv, where I am much more committed to having full-quality rips / remuxes.