[Mr.Sneis]

So, as a very late comer to this party I recently decided I would sell my Zune and get back into a Classic 6.5/7G.  Am I reading this right in that Rockbox for classic has a bunch of quirks IE no dual booting, must use a 3rd party boot loader, etc?  Anyone can give me a short and sweet of what I'm looking forward to?
 
I wish dual boot was a greater possibility; I'd like to be able to use the ipod in my daily driver which does ipod via USB.

 

[cooperpwc]

But you can't. You summarized the situation correctly. Except that I don't think it's quirky so much as an incredibly clever work-around for the late Steve Job's attempt to thwart Rockbox.

 

[r100]

EmCORE is actually not a third party boot loader in the way that it was developed by people from Rockbox. And I actually prefer it over the dual boot system of the Video because it's very fast and lightweight.
What's a daily driver?

 

[Mr.Sneis]

A crapbox car that I'd rather put mileage on over my nicer car!

 

[mpescador]

6th Generation (Classic 1st), 80 Gb in Linux?
 
Anyone tried this? With success?
 

 

[cooperpwc]

To be clear, I was only saying that you cannot dual boot to the OF. The line out from Rockbox works. True USB (iAP) music play does not.

 

[ridethespiral]

Quote:

6th Generation (Classic 1st), 80 Gb in Linux?
 
Anyone tried this? With success?
 

 
not a 6th gen but I rockboxed my 7th gen the other day using ubuntu 12.04 and it worked fine. There's no reason a 6th gen would have problems so long as you follow the direction precisely. 

 

[mpescador]

Yes, indeed. You are right. Put it on Classic 1st Gen (6th gen.) and it looks fine to me! An 80Gb FLAC player - wehay!
 
BUT: no Rockbox Utility!

 

[ridethespiral]

I found this in relation to the rockboxutility. It says it should work on most major distrobutions..
 
http://download.rockbox.org/rbutil/linux/RockboxUtility-v1.2.14-64bit.tar.bz2
 
 
from this page http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxUtility/
 
 
Installing shouldn't be too hard if you know a bit about the workings of linux. I'm sure it'd take me a while to figure out though hah

 

[mpescador]

Quote:

I found this in relation to the rockboxutility. It says it should work on most major distrobutions..
 
http://download.rockbox.org/rbutil/linux/RockboxUtility-v1.2.14-64bit.tar.bz2
 
 
from this page http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxUtility/
 
 
Installing shouldn't be too hard if you know a bit about the workings of linux. I'm sure it'd take me a while to figure out though hah

 
There isn't really an installation, you just unpack the file to a folder of your choice (such as your /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin/ or /home or /opt directory) and then run it. It is a binary executable, ready to go, BUT it does *not* support iPod Classic (i.e. >=6th gen.). When clicking "Autodetect" it correctly finds the device, but returns the message that the device is not supported!

 

[ridethespiral]

Ah didn't know that

 

[gottogo99]

I'm considering purchasing a new 7th gen iPod classic.  Rockbox would be a must because I would want to play FLAC or ogg and not use iTunes.
 
Without reading 78 pages of this thread, will the current version of emCORE and Rockbox allow me to use an external dock to play through (line out) and control the iPod using FLAC or ogg?  Or can an external dock only be used for an iPod classic when using the official firmware?  I already have two devices with iPod docks/connectors, and no iPod.
 
Thanks.

 

[handoverfist77]

Hello, currently running emcore 0.2.3 r859 and the latest aroldan build. I see there are some newer emcore builds. What would upgrading that provide me? Thanks

 

[AKG240mkII]

Quote:

EmCORE is actually not a third party boot loader in the way that it was developed by people from Rockbox.

Actually, it is :
 
Quote:

There is no Rockbox bootloader available yet, you need to use emCORE from freemyipod.org instead.
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IpodClassicPort

emCore was originally 'Linux4nano' ..

 

Quote:

Hello, currently running emcore 0.2.3 r859 and the latest aroldan build. I see there are some newer emcore builds. What would upgrading that provide me? Thanks

A LOT of bugfixes (and most likely NEW bugs .)
Have a look HERE : http://websvn.freemyipod.org/listing.php?repname=freemyipod
to see what has changed since the release you use ..

 

[anoxy]

Excuse my computer ignorance, but isn't OS X built on a linux type system? So shouldn't it be fairly easy to create an installation process for emcore on OS X? I just don't understand how an iDevice can't be rockboxed on its native OS.