Bugetnirvana
Active Member
I have a couple old Gen 4 Ipods. I learned that parts are available on Flea-bay for some excellent upgrades, and the instructions to install them are on the other video site. So I spend an average of $10,00 to $15.00 for an Ipod with issues, bad hard drive, bad battery or?? Then get a compact flash adapter for about $2.00, an extended life battery for about $10.00. Put it all together and Voila, you have a wallet sized digital music source that lasts for hours and hours and sounds surprisingly excellent. My current CD library is roughly 1900 songs and I have two of these upgraded Ipods with 34 GB CF cards and they arent even half full yet. The CF card upgrade is terrific. It removes the fragile shock risk, is lighter, reads faster and takes less battery life. All of my CD's are boxed up and placed in storage for safe keeping as opposed to getting scratched up and cluttering up my living room. My CD player is now in my storage room as well. And my entire music collection goes with me everywhere I go. It is a neat alternative that I highly recommend.