I purchased and ipod an you should too
as of a few months ago, i decided that i was done with spotify. for reference, i never paid for it, but id have to start paying for it soon and i was sick of all the ads, popups, and random music spotify would mix into your playlists.
after looking around at modded ipod classics (5th gen) i decided that wasnt the route i was going to take before i decided if i even liked the ipod. they are around 150-200 USD depending on how fancy you get and i just wasnt ready to sink my money into it yet
i researched for a few weeks as i hate hate hate spending money and decided on the innioasis y1 128gb. i hadnt heard any hype about it on tiktok because i dont hae tiktok however ive been made aware that its popping off over there. funny enough, i found it from a random screenshot my boyfriend sent me when he was showing me cheaper alternatives
i browsed the innioasis subreddit and found some mixed reviews.. mostly positive. lots of people talking about the junky sd cards that fail right out of the box. this had me worried for mine, but i wasnt too scared to open up the casing if it needed replacing.
upon arrival, my sd card failed. but i fixed it. i think most people have issues with the sd card because they dont eject the disk properly from their computer after putting songs on it. atleast thats what happened with me... and the common consensus on the reddit. kids these days they dont know how to use old tech!!1!!
i factory reset a few times and finally did everything the right way and it started working, ive had no issues since.. well besides one. my only complaint would be when im on a playlist shuffle and i hit the back button, it doesnt actually go back to the track that i just played, it takes me to a whole different one. but tbh thats a non issue
regardless, ive LOVED using it. no ads. no payment. no friction. i couldn't recommend it enough. i have such a personal relationship with my music now... considering adding each song takes time and effort. the battery lasts forever and i can take it wherever i want. i dont have to worry about wifi connection or downloading or anything.
as far as storage goes, if youre not a big music junky, you dont need anything other than 64gb. for reference, i have about 500 songs and ive only used 3gb. however, im using mp3 files which are worse for audio quality, but better for storage. if youre using flac files, they might take up more storage. also it DOES NOT take a long time to get all of your music together, i think it took me around 2 hours to get all my music initially. but the first time is the hardest part. after that its no more than 5 minutes to add a new song.
some resources
link to innioasis y1
link to download your songs
link to the subreddit
3.19.26 - lifestyle changes & love
warning: this might come off as a little venty, adult topics probably discussed
hi. ive had this site for a while and ive wanted to start writing on here/keeping up with the site because i dont have any real life friends. the only person i have is my boyfriend
im used to being alone. for the past 2 years i have been isolated to a point i couldnt describe to anyone but myself. just trust me when is say i am far more isolated than you think i am.
four months ago my boyfriend and i decided to close the distance after 6 long years of knowing eachother. hes older, more established in his life so he came to me. i live in a very small town, he moved to the "city" over so hes about 40 minutes from me. since then we have been together every moment we have had the chance.
we had plans, lots of them. plans to move in together, apartments we looked at. all of those fell through. job hunting is difficult where i live. ive never worked a "normal" job in this town so I didnt know it would be this way before he got here.
ive gotten used to him being around, hes everything ive ever wanted and i definitely consider him my forever person. the long distance wasnt so difficult. we had never seen eachother before he moved down here, save for a five days the month before. ever since hes come down here ive fallen even more in love with him, in ways i didnt even know i was capable of.
my first long term relationship was in high school. it lasted for two years on and off. i thought i knew love then. i was in for a very rude awakening. ive never felt so strongly about someone. i find myself to be a pretty emotionless person, but he wakes up that side of me that feels things.
all this to say, he took a travel job. you know, one of those jobs that require you to be gone for weeks at a time and get an undefined amount of time back at home. its a job that my father would describe as "hard on the wife."
i worry about how i will handle myself. to get this clear, i dont resent him for taking the job, hes doing it for us... for me. to help me get out of this hole im in. i just know i will miss him very much. i dont think ive ever had to deal with this kind of feeling before. well i have, but not this intensely.
all the things i used to do when we were long distance to keep myself occupied all day, i gave up to start my life with him. i cant go back to those things anymore.. and frankly i dont want to. the most i would want them for is something to do on my terms. but thats not how those "hobbies" worked. im going to have to adapt to him not being here, and that scares me.
i know its wrong to be so dependent on him. to place my entire existence onto him, but i truly do not have anyone else. i cant go anywhere, i cant work, i cant do what i want when i want. i am confined to a very small place in the world that i cant leave. not voluntarily atleast.
i will miss his music and his niche references to youtube videos older than me. i will miss his voice and his smile when i say something dumb. hell i will miss his stern voice when we are having a serious conversation. i will miss his cat and his cologne and everything that makes him, him. it is so sad to me because i feel like we finally got what we wanted and now its being taken away piece by piece. and its my fault. i moved him to this town with no work, i am in this hole, he feels pressure to provide for me in ways that i cant provide for myself. its all very stressful for me.
i am pushing back on those feelings though. i know i am not a burden to him. he doesnt see me that way. even if i feel so, that is not the reality therefore it isnt true. what is true lives in reality.