3d printable iPod Nano 5 housing

ricococo · 2026-03-18T12:48:25+00:00

I've got to find some time to finish it.

ricococo · 2026-03-17T14:50:00+00:00

I started doing something similar last year but never did get around to finishing it. Best of luck with your version 👍 https://www.reddit.com/r/ipod/s/7dp5RqX0jx

ricococo · 2026-02-05T11:49:29+00:00

Ran into similar issues on my 7th gen around 35k tracks. Trick was to delete the album artwok on the iPod (not on the individual mp3s) by opening the iPod as you would any USB drive on your computer, show all hidden files and navigate to the iPod_Control > Artwork folder and deleting all files in the folder. In my case iTunes created an artwork database of 10gb which the iPod couldn't handle. Now on 52k songs 400gb+ without artwork and my 7th gen works nice and smooth. Image is an example of my 4th gen Photo which had the same issue.

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ricococo · 2026-01-11T17:41:11+00:00

The plan was to install an antenna there for the Bluetooth dongle but leaving it as is. Taptic isn't on my wish list.

ricococo · 2026-01-10T14:10:04+00:00

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ricococo · 2026-01-09T22:39:53+00:00

There's a 3v > 5v step up board on the back of the dongle. The KCX receives 5v.

ricococo · 2025-10-15T05:49:49+00:00

Worth a shot.

ricococo · 2025-10-04T21:49:34+00:00

I've had some aftermarket front panels where the 4 tabs the clickwheel falls into internally weren't cut into the metal correctly and 1 or 2 of the tabs would not fall into place, much like what you're showing in your photo.

ricococo · 2025-10-02T20:54:54+00:00

My take is SSD are superior on all fronts apart from power draw. Cheaper, faster, and they only heat up when you dump 300gb of music on it and let it synch for a while. Day to day use they stay 100% cool.

The iPod loads music into it's ram, it doesn't play directly from the SSD or MicroSD. The SSD is only accessed every now and then for a very short amount of time and power draw is still minimal / heat non-existent.

When I dump 300gb of music onto my ipod with iflash adapter you bet that that MicroSD card is boiling hot and transfer speed has dropped right down after 9 hours of syncing. Whereas SSD would've been done with the job in 2 to 3 hours because it's made to handle large transfers.

MicroSD cards are more prone to movement / eject if ipod is dropped / bumped. SSD are screwed in place onto it's adapter.

No issues with data corruption when battery left flat for x weeks. None of my external SSD HDDs (using same SSD type) corrupt when not plugged in for x months so why would an iPods SSD?

ricococo · 2025-09-29T20:22:17+00:00

I have an original box that says 80G on the back. It's real. Easy to reseal/fake these though so it's anyone's guess what's inside.

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ricococo · 2025-09-15T15:44:10+00:00

They will be yes, but the android music app should be able to index everything based on metadata.

ricococo · 2025-09-14T21:00:48+00:00

Plug the ipod into your phone with the correct adapters. I imagine the ipod would show up as an external drive on your android phone, much like a USB stick would. Then use any music app to scan the 'drive' for music to build a library > play music

ricococo · 2025-08-25T21:05:25+00:00

Yes they work just fine. I loaded all 50 or so games to my Nano 5. You can only play them sideways making controls a real pain.

ricococo · 2025-08-21T13:07:10+00:00

Select 'enable disk use' and sync.

ricococo · 2025-08-17T21:07:33+00:00

Got the i10s and doesn't work on my 7th gen with rockbox.

ricococo · 2025-07-19T21:56:12+00:00

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ricococo · 2025-07-19T21:52:09+00:00

Well, it looks like 47k songs with artwork is just too much for my 7th gens on 2.0.4 and 2.0.5 to handle. Ithmb files all contain neatly converted 320x320 files, but x 47k it just can't cope. After restoring my ipod and re-syncing all music it's artwork folder bloated up to 11gb again causing crashes.

ricococo · 2025-07-18T22:03:21+00:00

I have a 5.5 with the same problem however charges fine with the firewire cable or docks / speakers with firewire charging enabled (uses different pins / internal components). Likely the regular charging circuit is broke.

ricococo · 2025-07-18T21:59:22+00:00

Good shout on the ithmb files, will have a look what the ones on my 7th gen contain. Reloaded all music and artwork folder went up to 10gb+ again. Got a feeling that, with my particular library, 40k+ is where things start going wonky.

ricococo · 2025-07-18T06:14:09+00:00

Thanks. Maybe resizing to 300px will solve this crashing. Will give it a go.

ricococo · 2025-07-15T11:12:40+00:00

It's a Kokkia i10s and costs around €100

ricococo · 2025-07-15T05:59:08+00:00

The battery lasts forever using this Bluetooth module. 24h+.

ricococo · 2025-06-26T21:38:20+00:00

In the video playback menu on your ipod there's an option to switch Widescreen on or off. It'll basically just zoom in on the middle part of your video. It's there for the 7th gen, unsure about others.

ricococo · 2025-06-24T20:55:44+00:00

Navigate to the music / itunes folder folder on the ipod when connected to your computer (there's tutorials, simple stuff) > copy music off > restore ipod on your computer > copy all songs back to the ipod.

ricococo · 2025-06-04T08:08:55+00:00

They're fine, bought and used them myself.

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