You can easily get a battery from Ali express or ebay. If your on tour then best of use ali express but if your in thr US you can get them from EOE. Goog le it them or ebay you can get them all over the world. They should cost you $15. And follow a youtube guide to easily open and change one.. you can easily do the harddrive after that. Once you have change a battery or done the harddrive you will easily be able to do other things like change the front, back, screen. It only takes a few months and yourll confident on most things.

You can just purchase an iFixit battery. iFixit makes good parts.

Just use a Windows VM (or a physical Windows computer if you have one) to convert it to a WinPod, then use the rockbox installer on it. Rockbox allows you to put music on it using drag-and-drop. Then, return to using it with your MacBook.

The iPod Classic has a battery life of approximately 4-8 hours. If it’s running through a speaker without it’s own power source the iPod battery will discharge quickly. Always have a power source for the iPod when listening. If you use in ear headphones you’ll have have to charge it every other day. By the way Candy…thank you for your service. Stay safe.

I have my 2nd iPod 160gb Classic that I bought in 2004 (the first one fell in the trash, (bought a week or so earlier) I’m guessing) on a mission in Iraq. It still plays as long as it is sitting on my Bose speaker bought at the same time, but dies almost immediately when I take it off. Where could I find a new battery for it and the memory upgrades? Would it still work with iTunes? Will have to check for the other places, Rockbox? Will have to look this stuff up. I don’t want to get rid of it, it is nearly 20 years old and does still play.. Would like to be able to download my Audible books to it as well. Sometimes you just don’t have wifi or internet to listen to and would make so much easier to listen to. Have any suggestions?

Do you have a picture of what it looks like? Just to make sure I use the right one.

You can always convert FLAC to ALAC and play on original firmware. I don’t remember what software I used, but it is a possibility.