{"id":583420,"date":"2026-04-03T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583420\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:07:08","slug":"ipod-archaeology-inspires-joy-nostalgia-through-old-technology-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583420\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;iPod archaeology&#8217; inspires joy, nostalgia through old technology and music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">You&#8217;ve probably long forgotten all the songs stored on your iPod. The digital music players were all the rage 20 years ago, but Apple discontinued them in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/junkdrawerjukebox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Hughes<\/a> collects and refurbishes old iPods as a hobby, then shares the playlists she finds on them as time capsules of joy. She tells Here &amp; Now\u2019s Peter O\u2019Dowd about how she\u2019s connecting with strangers through her project <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/12798074\/playlists\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Junk Drawer Jukebox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on April 3, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve probably long forgotten all the songs stored on your iPod. The digital music players were all the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-583420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}