A Revival of Sorts: Getting my iPod Classic 6G Working Again

I’ve been very happy with my Y1 MP3 player over the past 9 or so months. I take it with me everywhere! It’s a companion on my commute, it’s a focus tool in my open office, it’s a way to have a single-purpose device that doesn’t have the distractions of my glass Everything Rectangle and, as the phone ages, a way to mitigate its now-horrible battery life by using a different device with a different battery. As God confounded the language and scattered the people building the tower of Babel, I have confounded the functionality and scattered the responsibiities of the apps on my iPhone. My wife brought up a point that is compeletely fair: why am I using this $60 piece of crap when she, through great sacrifice, bought me a top-of-the-line iPod Classic 160GB for the same purpose? Sure, that was in 2012, but it was expensive. It’s still worth $350+ today, right? So what the hell, I dug it out of my Closet of Cables and Mystery. Plugged it in. Battery charged. It booted. My music was still in…