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Tom Bedford

I found my old iPod Classic in a shoe-box, spent the week burning CDs to iTunes and now I can't go back to Spotify

The iPod Classic on a window sill.

My annual Spotify Wrapped tends to tell me two things. The sheer number of listened hours each year tells me I spend a lot of time listening to tunes. But the eclectic mix, and Your Mix playlist featuring songs I barely remember listening to, also tells me that I take my music for granted.

Recently I returned to my childhood home, which is slowly being cleaned out for an eventual move, and in tidying my old bedroom I unearthed a dusty but still-working (sort-of; we’ll get to that) iPod Classic. I’m not totally sure on which version, but some detective work shows it's most likely to be the 2007 model – and it has 80GB storage.

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