Rockbox on iPod now on Cnet video

[Mikerman]

Apparently as posted there yesterday, a nice Cnet video on the use and installation of Rockbox on iPod, "Free your iPod."

http://reviews.cnet.com/Free_your_iPod/4660-10165_7-6766768.html?tag=vid

[LambdaCalculus]

I can't view this at work, but I most certainly will when I get out later.

[Febs]

Not too bad!  I'm not generally a fan of installation videos, but I do like the fact that he directs viewers to the manual at least four times.

[GodEater]

He did get the instructions for getting back in Apple OS wrong though - he rebooted from within Rockbox instead of shutting it down first. Not bad though

[Mikerman]

Yep, I was surprised at the continual (and emphatic) reference to reading the manual.  I guess the reviewer has been to the site and been asked to read the *%$** manual.

 

[bluebrother]

asked to read the *%$** manual.

Well, it's the fine manual, isn't it?

[countach]

Fantastic!

Oops!, he forgot to say the fact that one of the main reasons of Rockbox is to read directly the files in the hard disk "as are", with no itunes messing.

[GodEater]

He said that indirectly with this "now you can just drag 'n' drop your music files".

[countach]

He does, but using itunes -as far as I know- you also just drag and drop the files (onto itunes),

It can sound "the same" for some people.

[Mikerman]

The impression I got from the video was, You now can unlock your player and not be tied to what a manufacturer (e.g. Apple) says; I think Apple and other users will get that message loud and clear ...

What I found so nice was, the video shows how easy the Rockboxing process is, which may help to quell users "fears."

[LambdaCalculus]

The impression I got from the video was, You now can unlock your player and not be tied to what a manufacturer (e.g. Apple) says; I think Apple and other users will get that message loud and clear ...

One of the big messages that we need to send, however, is that Rockbox is NOT a "skin", nor is it illegal. Some guy sitting next to me on the subway yesterday saw me using my iPod, and he thought that I skinned the Apple firmware. I told him no, this is all new software, and showed him the Rockbox credits screen. I told him that this is a free software project for many DAPs, and then he tells me something that nearly made me freak out:

"Oh, so it's one of those illegal hacker things, isn't it? Well sorry, but I don't want to go to jail for using this."

I can't believe just how IGNORANT some people can seriously be! I've gotten a lot of people into Rockbox for their own DAPs, and some guy thinks I'm part of some illegal "1337 h4x0rz" operation.

But I think this video should answer a lot of questions about Rockbox, and Free Software and hackers in general.

[GodEater]

I hoped you enlightened this poor soul ?

[LambdaCalculus]

I tried. Oh, how I so tried. He was your typical Micro$oft drooling drone. Wouldn't listen to a word I said.

I guess there's just no pleasing some people in this world. If they wish to remain ignorant, then I can't help them.