5th gen ipod video 30gb having difficulties

[omgjeremy0]

Okay. I have a 30gb ipod video and recently found Rockbox. And i wanted to try it out, right? Okay, I did every direction that the manual directed me to do. When i boot my ipod to rockbox, I setup a database and i found out how to boot back into the the original firmware. I saw that the space on my drive is full, hehe ( cause i got 4k of songs), and i didnt find any music in the music menu as i did before. However, when i boot the ipod to rockbox, i can find the music with no problem.

Anyone got a suggestion to this problem?

[saratoga]

Something is screwed up in the Apple firmware.  Try google, theres tools that can rebuild it's database.  

[Raineer]

If you use Linux you can use 'gtkpod' to build the Apple DB and never have to touch their firmware again. If you are on Windows then I don't see any reason why iTunes couldn't correct this, from what I've seen Rockbox doesn't damage anything that iTunes needs to access.

Once I installed Rockbox, I had 0 use for Apple firmware for audio...it doesn't even know I have a single song on my player. I only use it for video (I have iPod 5G) so the playback is a little better that way but 10x more picky to encode.