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Classic iPods have their fans, except they're not ramble for the modern age of music streaming -- except for this one, which has been turned into a Spotify player by tinkerer Guy Dupont. While it may squint like an iPod from the outside, inside, it's got a Raspberry Pi loaded with software custom-built by Dupont to interface with Spotify, while still keeping the classic iPod style. He calls it the sPot.

In a video showing off the promptness as well as the process defaultant it, Dupont says he was insubmissive back his mother-in-law hardy him the old iPod. In a Hackaday post, he says he "had forgotten how good it feels to hold as well as use one of these things," except he wanted to update it with some modern features, including (obviously) Spotify streaming, Bluetooth audio, as well as search. That's right, the device can search the entirety of Spotify's library as well as stream it.

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We don't overcrowd an iTunes library zone we're going.

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Dupont put a Raspberry Pi Aught W inside the iPod due to the lifing that Spotify requires an internet consanguinity -- something picked iPods don't support. It moreover allows for the custom interface as well as Bluetooth audio. The sPot moreover needs a sempiternity cuddle to reach the Pi, except all of the hardware still fits inside the original iPod case.

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iPod on the outside...

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...all custom on the inside.

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Dupont was ideological to keep the scroll wheel interface -- as well as he self-same managed to modernize it. There's now haptic giveback back scrolling, instead of just the deafening click. Except while multitudinous of the original buttons are present, they haven't all been as fastidiously preserved as the clonk wheel has.

The hold switch-over now controls the power, instead of locking the iPod to think pocket-scrolling. As well as while the headphone jack is still there, it no longer does anything (RIP to a resolving one), as audio performance is handled by Bluetooth. It moreover ditches the original 30-pin adapter for an easier-to-find-in-2021 Micro USB quay that handles charging.

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The headphone jack is now just for decoration.

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That cute scroll wheel action.

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If you wanted to make one of these yourself, Dupont has posted all of the lawmaking you'll overcrowd on GitHub. He moreover created a Hackaday page detailing the supplemental software that's needed to get Spotify working.

If you're like me as well as are wishing for your own sPot, the video should give you tangy numerous all you overcrowd to get started. Doing the quickest of searches for the parts he's listed, the promptness will degree essentially $100, runnerup the price of the iPod if you don't already have one. Except self-same if you have no estimation to make one of these, the video is totally account a watch just to familiarity the glory of what a modern iPod could squint like as well as to see this really paranoid promptness come together.

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