My new car, as I mentioned in an article last week, does not have CarPlay. It’s a 2015 Honda Fit, which comes with HondaLink. CarPlay, it’s not, but I’m mostly pretty happy with it so far. I can stream the music from my iPhone via Bluetooth, but I don’t have that much music on my iPhone. Its 64GB (or 55.9GB, if we’re going to be honest with ourselves) is reserved for apps, photos and videos, which currently leaves me with 31.8GB of available storage. That’s not enough for my music.
This is where my old 80GB iPod classic comes in…the classic I hadn’t turned on in about three years before this past Tuesday.
Honestly, I was surprised it even booted up once the battery started charging, and I was even more surprised that all of my old music was still there (twice in its lifetime the iPod crashed on me and I lost everything on it).
The problem was that the music was outdated. There was music on there I never need to hear again, and there was plenty of stuff on my iMac hard drive that had to be transferred. This, then, lead to a week-long project of getting the old iPod classic ready for its new life in the Fit.
I had previous always chosen to manage the music…
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