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I’ve done this myself and the thing that ultimately blocked me from enjoying my iPod is the fact that I wasn’t able to take my music library, which is all streaming, and put it on my iPod.

It is still on my todo list to write a high quality open source scraper for Apple Music and/or Spotify

One pro tip to go further is that you can get a teeny tiny 30 pin Bluetooth adapter and listen using AirPods. It works great, and is a great use of the larger battery: https://store.kokkia.com/i10stinybluetoothipodtransmitterfor...

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My first thought after seeing this was how do I get Bluetooth onto one of these remade upgraded iPods?

Had to look at this device, and it is small but it would be even better if that could be moved into the iPod itself.

Is there possibly room to stash a Bluetooth transceiver inside the case once the large HDD has been replaced with an SD card board like it is shown in this walk-through?

I briefly looked into the same possibility, but I am trying to keep my physical modifications of the iPod to a minimum – mine is pretty tight in there with the big battery, although I could buy a deeper back plate.

Power and audio can easily be multiplexed, but I don't know about the playback control piece. The dock connector needs to be intact for USB

Best I have seen is a thing that converts Spotify playlists to YT ones and then just use youtube-dl. I have seen some automation around this. It is 80-90% accurate and requires a little cleanup in terms of playlist conversation, same versions of songs etc.

I would only use this in conjunction with something like iTunes Match (which is still around), because I want the original song data. That is what I meant by "high quality"

This (commercial) program[1] does the job for Spotify. I think what it does is just play the given playlist then it sets Spotify's audio output to a virtual audio device similar to BlackHole[2], then reads from it, encodes the audio, fetches the metadata (including album art) and sets it. There are open source[3] alternatives[4] but I haven't tested them.

[1] https://www.noteburner.com

[2] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

[3] https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify

[4] https://github.com/richardk80/spotify-ripper

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