Virgin Radio
4 Jan 2023, 17:32
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Whether or not you grew up within the Nineteen Nineties and now miss iPods, otherwise you want you had been sufficiently old to have had one, this app will tick the field.
Apple discontinued the much-loved music participant final 12 months, after greater than 20 years.
Who can bear in mind spending hours loading songs onto it and categorising them?
An app can rework your telephone right into a retro-style iPod.
Known as – conveniently – Retro Pod, it has gone viral after being featured on TikTok and Gen Z are loving it.
It’s at present quantity 11 on the App Retailer’s chart of Music apps.
It gathers music out of your Apple Music library and performs it by way of the iPod interface, and has the press wheel perform that works just like the participant.
Haptic suggestions when scrolling makes it really feel like the true factor.
Whereas sadly it does solely work with Apple Music, there may be an possibility for Spotify customers.
Merely go to ipod.js for a Spotify browser model.
The iPod got here out in 2001 and was the primary MP3 participant able to storing 1,000 songs.
It additionally got here with a 10-hour battery life.
Later variations included the Pod mini and iPod nano.
Nonetheless, the introduction of the iPhone led to the demise of the iPod as everybody began utilizing their telephone for music.
The newest model was the iPod Contact, and it hasn’t been up to date since 2019.
Apple stated it might proceed to promote the Contact “whereas provides final”.
Do you miss your mp3 participant?