Nirvana's Nevermind will not be thwarted by guest Wi-Fi networks, Alexa misunderstandings, Spotify Free playlists, ads, Bluetooth dropouts, app updates, an incoming phone call, a Google notification or an important email. You have to plug the thing in physically, choose your sonic poison, and then wait until all those albums slot themselves into your library, lighting up the 2.5-inch QVGA LCD display with their little postage-stamp artwork offerings.īut the true beauty is that once loaded, those files are not going anywhere glorious albums in a long and colorful alphabetical row ready to be devoured.

Are we drifting towards nostalgia? No, (although if you're after that, you can relive the iPod glory days with this Spotify and Apple Music web player) the thing with the iPod is that you have to want the music. There's no Bluetooth involved here of course, so forget wireless earbuds, and no streaming over Wi-Fi either, but therein lies the iPod's brilliance. I returned the next day to find it fixed for the equivalent of $60, and Kurt Cobain could join me as I strolled in to work once more. ' Es ist kaputt und ich kann die Musik niemals ersetzen!' I wailed, even though I had prepared the phrase earlier ('It's broken and I can never replace this music').

Once, close to tears, I begged a man in a phone shop on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany to sort out the broken headphone jack.

That iPod you see above is still going strong: dented, scratched, overused, but still singing.

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