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munkifisht:
Superb, I think that that has settled most of my Fears. I would love to get an iAudio, but they have just become so rare now (there is only one supplier that offers the 60Gb and will deliver to me that I can find, and it will cost around €100 more then the 80Gb iPod video). I think that if rockbox does work and deul booting is available, then there is no reason not to get it. Many thanks guys for the info.

munkifisht:
in fact, I have one more question that came to me just now. Say I upload music with iTunes, is there anyway to get that music off the player with rockbox. Just so I'm making it clear, I upload Lovley Song by blur in iTunes, but come 2 months later I have lost my origional on the PC. Can I connect the iPod and take that Song off the player with drag and drop?

Also, would it be fair to say  that due to the iPods popularity, progress is accelerating much faster then previous builds?

stripwax:
1.  You can certainly drag the file off the ipod and drop it onto your pc.  But iTunes stores files on your ipod disk in arbitrary named files.  It won't be easy to find the right file!  (You could always drag-n-drop them all and play them until you find Lovley Song..).  Also if it's DRM it may not work  (I don't know, sorry)

2.  No.  Because the iPod has no developer documentation  (there is no publicly available information describing how to develop software applications for the iPod hardware)  so a lot of guessing and hard work has meant this port is progressing slower than other ports.

soap:
If I were you I'd buy a used Gigabeat F or X series.  Used it is much cheaper (50%) than a new iPod, and it works better with Rockbox.  I own both, and while I love the scrollwheel on my iPod, the Gigabeat is more refined.  (No Recording, though.)

The Gigabeat port started way after the iPod port, and is much further along.  (Just reinforcing stripwax's point #2)

On question #1, you don't need Rockbox to move songs off your iPod.  They are all in iPod_Control (a hidden folder) for the taking.  Their names have been changed during transfer, but all metadata is intact.  Mounting the iPod as a UMS device will allow you to extract them, and any decent tagger will rename them for you.  Or you can use a product such as Sharepod to do it all for you in one step.  This is drifting off-topic, so I'll stop.

Mad Cow:

--- Quote from: soap on July 05, 2007, 09:12:34 AM ---If I were you I'd buy a used Gigabeat F or X series.  Used it is much cheaper (50%) than a new iPod, and it works better with Rockbox.  I own both, and while I love the scrollwheel on my iPod, the Gigabeat is more refined.  (No Recording, though.)

--- End quote ---

Agreed, I bought a brand new F40 for $200 on ebay, and it's incredibly with rockbox. If you need more space there are F and X60's, but those are much harder to find. And rockbox is constantly getting updates for them because of all the available information.

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