Rediscover the pleasure of browsing your music library like on an iPod Classic using a dedicated application.
[Mise à jour] Apple has removed the Rewound app from the App Store
Those nostalgic for the iPod will be delighted. A developer has just published on the App Store an application to find, on an iPhone, the interface of an iPod Classic. Rewound, that’s its name, is a fairly simple music player, but which has the particularity of offering a navigation system similar to what one could find on the iPod of yesteryear: clickable wheel, original menus of the iPod, everything is there to take you back in time.
Rewound syncs with Apple Music’s music library and may offer Spotify compatibility in a future update. The application even offers itself the luxury of integrating haptic feedback, as on the original. To be able to be published on the App Store, Rewound does not immediately embed the interface of the iPod Classic, but offers a somewhat rudimentary method: download skins online and then apply them. Here’s everything you need to know to turn your iPhone into an iPod Classic.
1. Download the app
Start by downloading the app to your iPhone. Offered for free, it replaces the native iOS music player. It does, however, offer an in-app purchase if you want to be able to play playlists.
- Download Rewound for iPhone (Free)
2. Download a skin
When you start Rewound for the first time, the interface looks a bit rough. The reason is simple: to be able to be downloaded from the App Store, the application does not natively integrate the skins allowing it to display the navigation wheel of the iPod Classic.
Accept the permissions and press Download Skins (or Add Skin then Download Skins) then select your source: Twitter or Weibo.
The skins are indeed published on these two social networks by users, with a hashtag rewoundskins. Once the skin image is displayed, press and hold it and tap Add to Photos to save the image to iPhone Camera Roll.
Close the Twitter window by pressing OK.
3. Install the skin
Then tap Add skin from Photos and select the image you just saved.
Activate navigation with the scroll wheel by pressing Turn on scroll-based navigation in the pop-up that appears.
If all went well, you should now be able to use the jog wheel to navigate the player interface and explore your music library.