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BAH! So I just installed the 240gb hard drive in my iPod 5.5G, old 80gb got busted. Well, RockBox doesn't support the sector size so I'm now modifying and recompiling it to support 4096 byte sectors instead of the original 1024. Damn Cygwin needs a lot of crap installed just to update a few lines of code.
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Aint it a B1tch!?!
I had to recompile Rockbox so my Mini would work right with a CF card. Thanks for sharing your work. I might just pop one of those drives into my Video. Would be great for long road trips. I hardly use it now since I have a 32GB Mini
In regards to, "why Rockbox?"
It's mostly a format issue. My music library is in FLAC. I briefly tried to convert it all to ALAC and use iTunes and the original iPod OS, but it was too much hassle. There are some things the iPod OS does better like battery management and waking from sleep, but that's about it. Once you get used to Rockbox's UI, I think it's easier then the iPod OS. Of course, all I want to do is browse to a folder and play the music. If you want to do other things with your music player, the Apple OS is probably better.
The final reason that made me switch back from ALAC to FLAC was iTunes. I am a Windows user, and iTunes on Windows sucks. bad. real bad. really really bad. Hopefully my feelings are clear
iTunes would completely peg out a CPU when downloading a podcast or something. A simple download? Are you kidding me? To me, that is unacceptable, so I ditched the ALACs and haven't looked back.
The only feature/functionality I miss relates to podcasts. If I listened to a podcast on the iPod, then synced it to the PC and wanted to finish listening on the PC, it would pickup where I left off. That IS pretty slick, but not worth all the other annoyances. Rockbox > iPod OS