Rockbox Ports are now being developed for various digital audio players!
My question is this: What prevents me from plugging in my iPod's USB-to-iPod cable, letting it dangle free as a small, inefficient antenna, and having some kind of software (probably within Rockbox) to demodulate whatever signal comes in via the "line in" pin (normally used for microphones) to give me a nice, shiny FM signal?
But really- and here's the clincher- I have a dying, poorly-cared-for, sticky-keyed Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus (graphing calculator), that, should I put the correct assembly program into its memory, could pick up AM radio (no FM, but still!) over one channel of its port via the included link cable, and play it in mono over the other channel.
That only happens because your TI has shoddy analog design
Quote from: saratoga on December 07, 2007, 08:51:21 PMThat only happens because your TI has shoddy analog designHey, now, let's not get too rough on the old calc.... I like that calculator. Also, it's digital. Check out ti-calc.org. There's more info there than.... Well, it's very informative.
Anyway, I didn't realize the line-in was digital.
-To get an install for an Alpine head unit of a device that allows the stereo to control the iPod (There's the interface!) through a cable (Cable!) cost multiple hundreds of dollars, including about $200 just for parts (Stupid proprietary crap.).
Quote from: BlackOpSource on December 07, 2007, 09:21:20 PMAnyway, I didn't realize the line-in was digital. Its not. Its just a line in. The processor is however, so the "some kind of software " you wanted will need digital input, which means even if you can feed the analog though, it wouldn't do you any good.
Quote from: BlackOpSource on December 07, 2007, 09:21:20 PM-To get an install for an Alpine head unit of a device that allows the stereo to control the iPod (There's the interface!) through a cable (Cable!) cost multiple hundreds of dollars, including about $200 just for parts (Stupid proprietary crap.).Yes but thats because you're buying a high end head unit, and head units are expensive.
if you really wanted radio on your mp3 player why did you even go and buy an ipod? they've never advertised to be able to play radio without the accesory. If you really wanted the radio on your ipod... buy the accesory, boot into the OF and listen to it, nothing prevents you from booting back into RB to listen to your mp3s
No, no, you misunderstand me; I bought this car used back in December, and it came with an Alpine head unit (installed back in 2002) that supported the iPod interface (I think. I also checked this same thing out on my last car, which had a Pioneer head unit in it.). The cable and setup cost multiple hundreds of dollars, without factoring in the cost of the head unit. I just thought the whole thing was stupid and tethered you to Apple, so I decided to forgo it.
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