Yes it can. I have had a little bit idiosyncratic performance on the Wadia dock but straight out of the headphone jack no problems at all. It has a little bit brighter crisper sound than the ipod classic 120gb which can be both a good and a bad thing. Also occasionally you will get some strange feedback because of the cell phone signal coming in and out (you can always turn that off) but other than that it does function perfectly fine as an ipod and if you can live with only 32GB I don't think you really need another ipod.