smartphones<\/a>, often driven by mental health and well-being concerns,\u201d says Ben Wood, chief analyst at market research company CCS Insight.<\/p>\n\u201cHaving a dedicated music device, such as an iPod, is a good way to reduce your dependence on a smartphone and avoid being drawn into other activities, like doomscrolling through social media feeds, when you only really want to listen to music.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you are interested in joining the iPod revival, here are some pointers.<\/p>\n
How to get an iPod<\/p>\n
You cannot buy a new iPod any more, but it is not too hard to get your hands on a used one. There are still a lot of them around because Apple sold 450 million over two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember the iPod? It is making a quiet comeback. Four years after Apple killed off its digital music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[936,16043,174171,174158,174167,20799,79652,61,6931,134066,174164,174160,174161,174156,174162,60,16042,174165,174163,8609,174170,174157,174166,174168,80,174169,174159],"class_list":{"0":"post-393218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apple-music","10":"tag-back-market","11":"tag-buy-an-ipod","12":"tag-ccs-insight","13":"tag-ebay","14":"tag-facebook-marketplace","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ios","17":"tag-ipod","18":"tag-ipod-firmware","19":"tag-ipod-mini","20":"tag-ipod-nano","21":"tag-ipod-revival","22":"tag-ipod-touch","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-itunes","25":"tag-last-fm","26":"tag-lightning-cable","27":"tag-mac","28":"tag-mercari","29":"tag-refurbished-ipod","30":"tag-rockbox","31":"tag-second-hand-ipod","32":"tag-technology","33":"tag-used-ipod","34":"tag-where-can-i-buy-an-ipod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}