Upgrading My Vintage iPod (flag)

www.retrothing.com — My third generation iPod will soon celebrate its 5th birthday, which ought to qualify for an old age pension in the electronics world. I keep casting a lustful eye at Apple's newest offerings, but the truth is that my scratched and abused old player still does everything it should. Its ...

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Bring your old iPod back from the dead for US$75.
Core77 — ... Fairly straightforward explanation of how to get a 5-year-old iPod back into viable operating condition: the Retro Thing blog describes swapping out the battery and operating system, and upgrading the 15GB hard drive to 32GB of flash memory -- all for about US$75. ...

Upgrading your First-Gen iPod into the latest one
Fashionfunky.com — ... A replacement battery worth just 6$ helps to bring back the iPod to life as well. Replacing the firmware for Rockbox (an open source replacement that provides a new UI, OGG and FLAC support, gapless playback, a 5 band parametric EQ, high-resolution volume control and advanced on-the-go playlist creation) and your iPod is ready to go. Total cost comes to around 75$ and the feeling that you just saved a little bit of the planet is of course invaluable. Hit the source for more info. Source