to old for this.... (need serious help)

[funkandroid]

a co-worker of mine recently aquired an ipod nano and i offered to upload some music to it for him... little did i know it had this "rockbox" software installed. anyway my question is how do upload songs from my mac onto it? do i need rockbox software for my comp as well? i just dont even know where to begin. thanks for your help guys

[Raineer]

Shouldn't need anything special at all.  I do *not* know macs, but it will show up just like a normal USB storage device. There is no magic place to store music on it either, I just literally dragged my "My Music" folder right to it (in the root directory, doesn't have to go into ".rockbox")

When he boots up after that, he can initialize the database through settings and it will scan for all music on the device.

[funkandroid]

its not plugged in via usb, its plugged into some port that the ipod usually plugs into, though when i open i tunes it doesnt even register...

[Chronon]

Uh, the port that the nano normally uses is a USB port.  And he didn't say anything about using iTunes.  Just browse to your music library and drag and drop files from your HD onto the iPod.  In other words, just pretend that it's a USB thumb drive.

[funkandroid]

guess ill have to get a ipod usb cable huh?

[funkandroid]

naw it plugs into... well i dont know what its called, the symbols like a Y. im certain its not usb

[mschneider]

The cable that he has plugged into his ipod is a usb cable. Just that it's adapted for an ipod on one end. I'm not sure if Nano's have a usb mode specification in the original firmware or not but if they do make sure it is set. When you plug it into your computer it should show up as a drive on your mac (ex. "Iggie's Ipod" or NONAME). Just browse into it and drag and drop music files from your (presumably itunes) library into a music folder. Rockbox should play them as long as they are not DRM protected.

[GodEater]

naw it plugs into... well i dont know what its called, the symbols like a Y. im certain its not usb

Yes - it is USB. Nano's do not connect using any other sort of cable. Older iPod's used to be able to use firewire - but the modern ones, including the Nano - do not.

[rachaelnex]

I can confirm this is the way to do it, as mentioned - plug the usb cable in (it is a usb cable for sure), the nano will pop up as a drive in the left pane of the finder, then just use the finder to drag and drop stuff onto the nano as if it were any other portable drive. This is how I do it with my rockbox'd nano and my macs. Don't bother with trying to use itunes for this, it isn't neccessary to even go there !

[funkandroid]

thanks for all the help guys, basically i need to buy a new cable, im using my girlfriends old ipod cable and im certrain it doesnt plug into a standard usb drive. i just got the nano by itself w/o cables or charger. anyway no removable drives show up. the symbol for the port looks like a Y, it must be the firmware port you guys are referring to.

[GodEater]

thanks for all the help guys, basically i need to buy a new cable, im using my girlfriends old ipod cable and im certrain it doesnt plug into a standard usb drive. i just got the nano by itself w/o cables or charger. anyway no removable drives show up. the symbol for the port looks like a Y, it must be the firmware port you guys are referring to.

Firewire you mean

Could well be why the Nano isn't showing up if that's the case.