[reddragon]

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In a nut shell, rockbox replaces the stock ipod firmware to play music in almost any format (mp3, flac, etc) and toss out the annoying iTune. It renders the ipod basically a portable hard drive so you can drag and drop to load your music files and/or non-music files. There are more with the rockbox (e.g. EQ's).
 
It's my understanding there is no officially stable version of RB for the ipod classic's.

 
 
 
ok thanks. i dont use the eq settings on my ipod anyway, if i want to use it, ill use it on my amp but i usually dont even touch that, just setting it on flat. and about the formats, that will be nice because i always have to convert my flac files to apple lossless. and how about higher bitrates and higher sampling rates? i have like 5 songs that are in 24 bit 96 kHz and my ipod wont support that, will rockbox make my ipod capable of holding these 5 songs?

 

[lostid]

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ok thanks. i dont use the eq settings on my ipod anyway, if i want to use it, ill use it on my amp but i usually dont even touch that, just setting it on flat. and about the formats, that will be nice because i always have to convert my flac files to apple lossless. and how about higher bitrates and higher sampling rates? i have like 5 songs that are in 24 bit 96 kHz and my ipod wont support that, will rockbox make my ipod capable of holding these 5 songs?

 
Yes the rockbox plays 24bit/96 kHz. Rockbox rocks!

 

[Achmedisdead]

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Yes the rockbox plays 24bit/96 kHz. Rockbox rocks!

It plays it but I am pretty sure it downsamples it to play it.

 

[skamp]

Indeed, rockbox resamples everything to 16 bit / 44.1 kHz, with an admittedly bad resampler, though there's ongoing work to replace it with a better one (Hermite resampler from the Helix community).

 

[lostid]

Hmm I didn't know the rockbox is cheating. Well at least it still plays the 24/96 and better than freezing the dap like the J3 does.

 

[TwoSongs]

Indeed, rockbox resamples everything to 16 bit / 44.1 kHz, with an admittedly bad resampler, though there's ongoing work to replace it with a better one (Hermite resampler from the Helix community).

No SSRC, or at least SRC libsamplerate? That's a shame.

 

[skamp]

They have to think of battery life. Also, I don't know if any of those have been ported to ARM. And SSRC is pretty slow even on a Core i7.

 

[TwoSongs]

Apologies in advance for the thread necromancy, but do you know whatever became of that resampler replacement?