I use MusicBee to manage my Rockboxed Ipods.  I can use it in much the same way as you can use Itunes to manage an Ipod with the OS.  MusicBee will allow me to create playlists on the Ipod, add and delete albums and tag songs.  It will autotag newly ripped albums but I still tend to do this in...

Quote: Thanks for the reply.  I've tried resetting the database with Emcore and it made no difference.  I appear to have solved the problem though.  I thought I'd have one more try using the older build (120429) that I'm using on my Ipod 6G. I couldn't find an archive copy, so went to the...

Help Please!  Further to my post below, I've now got about 75gb of music on my 7G Ipod.  Getting the database to work has become really very hit and miss, and extremely time consuming!  As detailed below, I've been getting rid of any special characters, embedded art and comments, using Mp3tag. ...

Quote: Try using MusicBee (free download).  That will read the music on a Rockboxed Ipod and is a bit similar to Itunes.  I have a similar problem since I have lots of Music ripped using Itunes and the folders in the Itunes library are complete chaos.  This particularly applies to...

Quote: Yes - should be no problem there - I've just Rockboxed mine - but read the instructions.  A rockboxed ipod classic will not work through certain accessories, so if you want to play your ipod through some kind of sophisticated dock system it's probably not going to work.

Just putting this out as a point of interest...   I recently rockboxed my second Ipod Classic - this one a 7G which I bought at the beginning of last year.  Installing Rockbox was a breeze.  However I am as usual having issues with the database.  I decided to keep this Ipod for classical...

Quote: Not as far as I know - you have to update the database, and reboot.  The reason I like the database is that it allows me to use both artist and album artist tags.  This means (for example) that individual tracks from Eric Clapton's collection "Crossroads" can have artist tags such as...

I've noticed some interesting issues with recent builds (120505 and 120511).  I suspect this might be down to what I'm doing, but it didn't happen with older builds.  I've been gradually putting albums on my my Rockboxed Ipod 6g 160gb (the "thick" one).  I have a Music folder on the ipod which...

@deadandancing...   I had some teething troubles when rockboxing my 4 year old classic also, so had to reset and reinstall rockbox a number of times.  A question: - when you reset do you get the Boot Menu?  If you do, move the scroll wheel to the right and you'll get the tools option...

Quote: I use Winamp to copy over compilation albums from my (originally itunes) library, since otherwise they're difficult to find.  Otherwise I just treat the Rockboxed ipod as a hard drive and drag and drop files and folders onto it.  My database issues seem to have sorted themselves...

Hi - this forum is really helpful, and enabled me (pretty much a newbie) to Rockbox my four year old 160gb Classic 6g.   I like to use the database function in Rockbox, since I have quite a lot of compilation albums and the database gives me a lot of flexibility in how I organise these. ...