iPod refurbishment?

There is a phone repair shop in Austin Tx that does Mail-In iPod repairs.
It’s a real brick and mortar shop.
“CPR” cell phone repair shop
scroll to the bottom of their site for the mail in info.
Same Day iPod Repair in Austin, TX
I have not used them, but I do live in Austin.

I made note of them, because I bought one of the very last 160G iPods new from Apple’s site.

 

They seem to be a franchise. There’s one here. I took in an iPad with a smashed screen and they told me honestly that they couldn’t get the exact parts needed, probably an OEM Apple screen panel. Anyway I’ve heard good things about them and they’ve been around for several years now.

 

It'd probably be cheaper to buy a used one off ebay.

 

The worst part about switching to a new iPod is losing all the CD's I loaded in myself. I've borrowed from friends all over, and plus my own too. Apple refuses to acknowledge anything you didn't buy from them.

 

My friend uses them as low-rent samplers. He records short sound effects and movie clips and has them playing on loops. Then he runs them into his mixing board and randomly pulls up the volume in the middle of songs.

 

If one pulverized them, wouldn't the resulting dust be an iCloud? Problem (di)solved

 

Just last night, I unearthed an old CD of a band I was in, back in about 2004.

One of the guys ran two tiny little personal mini-disc recorders, through a DJ mixer, and a bunch of effects pedals - it was a huge collection of his own field recordings, and odd snippets of obscure records.

He just improvised the whole thing, along with the band - it was really cool.


The old Tascam 4-track portastudios have become really collectable, with quite a few people using them live, striping each track with pitched sounds, and bringing faders up, and down, with the key changes.