[r100]

Some interesting activity:
http://www.freemyipod.org/wiki/Special:Code/freemyipod
 
I spoke with the devs, it's likely that the Classic will be fully integrated in the Rockbox Utility in the future, making the Emcore bootloader obsolete. This could also mean dual boot support and finally proper charge support.

 

[Crusheer]

  I've read about someone wanting to play Doom on the Classic a few pages back here. I found the cause of it getting stuck on loading and found a workaround for it. Seems like there is some timing functionality which Doom wants to use, but isn't implemented in the Classic-Version of Rockbox. However, you can use the timer which is used by the Rockbox-Emulators to get Doom running. That is what I did and Doom seems to be running just fine!
 
Since I've done this a year ago and don't have the source for my fixes anymore I can't upload then, but I still have that firmware on my iPod, so here is the fixed binary of the Doom-Plugin:
 
http://www.file-upload.net/download-8772851/doom.rock.html
(It's the smallest downloadbutton you can find in the middle of that site, the bigger ones are ads, don't be fooled!)
 
The file goes to ".rockbox\rocks\games" on your iPod.
 
Have fun, and please tell me if it works for you!

I have only now discovered your fixed binary and did what you wrote. Unfortunately, the game won't even start now, stating "Incompatible version".
Other games are working.
I still hope that someday I'll play Doom on my iPod. lol

 

[GIJames]

A few pages back I saw some discussion over whether or not a Rockboxed Classic works with Windows 8.1; after installing rockbox successfully (on 8.1, no issues) I found that I was unable to access it as a drive in explorer. I am, however, able to access it by booting into the Rockbox fallback image from EmCORE. For some reason windows sees this as an "Apple iPod Classic USB Device" instead of just an "Apple Mobile USB Device". Booting to the fallback image every time I want to access it isn't ideal, but it seems to work.

 

[koliniol]

I had the same issue on Windows 7.
I discovered that there was due to ASUS Ai charger.
I Uninstalled it , rebooted windows and rockbox drive was recognized.
In your case the problem maybe due to another software.
In order to find it check the drivers used for Apple Mobile USB Device in the device manager .

 

[aroldan]

The latest changes on Emcore will solve that with the new disk mode and USB driver improvements. There's already some prospect patches on Rockbox that can help with that.

 

[cdiaz]

"I spoke with the devs, it's likely that the Classic will be fully integrated in the Rockbox Utility in the future, making the Emcore bootloader obsolete. This could also mean dual boot support and finally proper charge support."

This would be glorious as I've been holding out!

 

[howdy]

"I spoke with the devs, it's likely that the Classic will be fully integrated in the Rockbox Utility in the future, making the Emcore bootloader obsolete. This could also mean dual boot support and finally proper charge support."

This would be glorious as I've been holding out!

Hell yeah, it can't happen soon enough.

 

[headwhacker]

  Some interesting activity:
http://www.freemyipod.org/wiki/Special:Code/freemyipod
 
I spoke with the devs, it's likely that the Classic will be fully integrated in the Rockbox Utility in the future, making the Emcore bootloader obsolete. This could also mean dual boot support and finally proper charge support.

 
This is great news indeed. It was a labor making Rockbox work on my iPod classic. But it doesn't work well on MacOSX. Can't make USB storage work which is a big problem with a non-removable storage of the iPod. Pretty soon I will have a trifecta  of Rockboxed devices (iPod Classic, DX50 and DX90)

 

[cdiaz]

Just successfully rockboxed my Classic 160 GB. I couldn't wait any longer. So far, so good.

 

[cdiaz]

I gotta say, I'm really disliking the horrible shuffling. Why is it so hard to shuffle all tracks or all tracks by a certain artist. I can't figure out an easy way of doing this. I'm ready to go back to the original iPod based on this. Am I missing something?

 

[cdiaz]

Going back to the Apple software. Until I can successfully do a dual boot, no rockbox for me.

 

[gimbertt]

I gotta say, I'm really disliking the horrible shuffling. Why is it so hard to shuffle all tracks or all tracks by a certain artist. I can't figure out an easy way of doing this. I'm ready to go back to the original iPod based on this. Am I missing something?

You can shuffle in the playback settings or if you go into the database you can select the tracks already shuffled.

 

[hogan126]

thanks for the instructions.  any advice for classic ipod's who still have trouble updating the driver after those steps?

 

[CatsupKetchup]

Had rockbox on my ipod classic for a couple of days... ITS GREAT. So many more options and its so much quicker. 

 
I LOVE this theme (http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=1962&target=ipodvideo), but wondered if you can edit it? I'd like it to display the time and album art. There is a huge white space where the album art would go, and its just nice to have the time at the top.
 
 
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Going back to the Apple software. Until I can successfully do a dual boot, no rockbox for me.

Just hold menu when a song is playing to toggle shuffle / repeat.

 

[shazmosushi]

Heads up, the iTunes to 9.2.1 recommended to uninstall emcore on the first post and FreeMyiPod is unable to connect to Apple servers to download the original firmware to recover. The latest version works fine though.
 
 
(I had to recover my iPod after instability after I accidentally removed it before it fully ejected. I fully intend to reinstall rockbox)