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iRiver to iPod: Upgrade, downgrade, or the same?

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mkozlows:
I've got an iRiver H320 that I hated until Rockbox made it great.  I don't care for the capacity, though, and have been considering replacing it with an 80GB iPod; but I want to make sure that I don't make my life worse by trying to make it better.

So I understand that the iPod port is less mature, but -- apart from the battery life, which I'm aware of -- how would this play out in practice?  Would it skip (I only play FLAC)?  Would menu navigation be slower?  Would it crash?  Weird bugs?  Something else?

Or would it be basically the same experience, just with more storage, a bigger screen, and a sleeker physical appearance?

mnhnhyouh:
I moved from a H320 to a 60Gb 5G iPod for capacity reasons. I now like the wheel, and dont miss any of the extras (FM, Recording, USBOTG).  

Using the wheel is different, and the 80Gb 5.5 port is less mature than the 5G port, and seems to be having some problems with freezing. There is a thread on it around here.

But Rockbox looks about the same, though the iPod screen is bigger.

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pondlife:
I have only a little experience with Rockbox on the iPods 5G (from a couple of months ago), but based on that I much prefer it on my H340.  On the iPod, the UI seemed a lot less responsive.  Also the PortalPlayer targets still have fairly poor battery life - ask around, but I suspect yoiu're talking about 6 hours rather than the 16 hours that the H340 gives me.

Now if only I could find a new suitable 80GB drive for a reasonable price (as opposed to £400 on eBay for a "refurbished" one)..

pondlife

bascule:
I'm surprised EvilG hasn't jumped in here... so I'll do it for him ;)

My personal opinion is that the Gigabeat is the best *sleek* option for RB at the moment.

I've used RB on an H120, Nano and Gigabeat and it's the GB I'm staying with for the fantastic screen, powerful processor and all-round good performance.

The H120 is excellent, but it's niche is the recording/tapers market which I don't move in and I personally think it's quite ugly.
The Nano is good for it's size, but I never really got on with the scrollwheel. That's a personal thing, however.
For me, the Gigabeat is the natural sucessor to the irivers in terms of button layout and functionality etc.

frause:
Downgrade.
I bought an ipod 5.5G 30GB as an replacement and upgrade to my somewhat broken and disk capacity challenged ihp100.
I used the ipod for a couple of months, then I repaired my iriver and put in a 60 GB disk and a new battery in it.
I sold the ipod to a coworker for about what i gave for the used 60 GB disk and the new battery. (I believe he sold it for almost the double when he got bored with it, though.)
I never became friend with the wheel. This might just have been the state rockbox was in at the time, I never really compared in the OF.
The ipod also couldn't handle my low impedance earphones. They say you shouldn't go lower than 32 Ohm.
I don't have experience with the H300 series, but I imagine it's not *that* different from the H100 series.
I later bought an iaudio M5 as a replacement for if (when) the ihp100 broke down completey  but that hasn't happened yet, even though I use it almost every day.

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