Thanks for the reply. Are there any plans to incorporate any sort of firewire support into Rockbox? My guess would be, not - since firewire iPod models are probably a very small minority in the iPod population by now. However, one can always hope. I read somewhere that iPodlinux had some firewire support. Any chance some of that could be incorporated? Sorry for the newbie questions. I've been trying to figure out a way to play my nearly 600GB flac collection, stored on a portable HDD, while on the move. I recently realized that my 2G iPod is still in pristine condition, and with Rockbox I have been able to happily listen to my flac files. I'm quite aware that flac is overkill for portable listening, but transcoding at this stage and then maintaining two growing libraries in sync will be a huge pain. In any case even after transcoding to a decent bitrate mp3, the size of the library will be larger than what most current DAPs/PMPs support. Any suggestions?