[Febs]

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Originally Posted by seeberg I should take this moment to inform those waiting for any kind of open source program supporting WMA to not hold your breath; WMA is a close licensed black box of a format, and will probably never be made available for the general public to develop on. (That's why it will never have a role in my music or computer ) , Abe

There is apparently an open-source WMA decoder available, but it uses floating point math, and (at least on iriver targets) Rockbox needs fixed point math. One of the core Rockbox developers once described the problem this way: "Someone with a clue needs to step up and work on it. The problem is that people with a clue don't use WMA."

I agree with seeberg though. If all of your files are WMA, Rockbox is probably not for you. Although something tells me that won't be a big problem for people with iPods.

 

[dj_digital]

talked to the man (slimx) working on the 3g port and he says he has finished porting the lcd driver but gets a ata driver error when it boots up.

I assume when he fixes this, we will have rockbox on the 3g ipods!

 

[apnk]

I want a iPod now! I am going to let my karma die first.....where's the hammer...

 

[solvexyz]

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Originally Posted by apnk I want a iPod now! I am going to let my karma die first.....where's the hammer...

LOL.

 

[fguihen]

duno if this has already been answered, i havnt seen it if it has, but will rockbox work on a 2Gen 6gb mini?

 

[zip22]

no, not yet.

 

[Kiwiclx]

Quote:

Originally Posted by apnk I want a iPod now! I am going to let my karma die first.....where's the hammer...

Wait... that's bad karma!

 

[azesty]

For all those iPod users salivating, remember, this is written by volunteers who have other jobs, and do this in their spare time.

It will take some time before there is an official release.

However, those interpid folk over at misticriver.net have been going strong. They have had colour support for the H3xx players on Rockbox for about 30 days now, and there are 40 skins, including one that mimics an iPod Colour screen.

See this thread......

http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=35852

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[LFF]

Man - I was so happy with my iPods but now I just can't wait to put FLAC on it, or Ogg Vorbis, or MPC or ..............man I so can't wait for this.

 

[azesty]

What about freeing yourself from iTunes?

Being able to, with no third party software, drop your tunes on any computer, and take them from any computer?

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[LFF]

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Originally Posted by azesty What about freeing yourself from iTunes? Being able to, with no third party software, drop your tunes on any computer, and take them from any computer? a

Easy. Use sharepod.

EDIT: Still patiently waiting for Rockbox.......

 

[Mano]

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Originally Posted by LFF EDIT: Still patiently waiting for Rockbox.......

Patiently?

from what i have tried its still too buggy for use on a nano, but the premise is interesting.

 

[gshan]

I know it's not at a "final" version status yet, but in general what are the chances of RockBox installation turning a player into an expensive brick?

 

[Medikit]

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Originally Posted by gshan I know it's not at a "final" version status yet, but in general what are the chances of RockBox installation turning a player into an expensive brick?

Everything I've read indicates that it's very safe to put the rockbox on the ipod.

 

[milamber]

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Originally Posted by azesty What about freeing yourself from iTunes? Being able to, with no third party software, drop your tunes on any computer, and take them from any computer? a

Yes AFAIK rockbox allows this. Because RB just utilises file tree navigation system.