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If cell phones have it, why can't we?

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melancholydm:
if you really wanted radio on your mp3 player why did you even go and buy an ipod? they've never advertised to be able to play radio without the accesory. If you really wanted the radio on your ipod... buy the accesory, boot into the OF and listen to it, nothing prevents you from booting back into RB to listen to your mp3s

BlackOpSource:

--- Quote from: saratoga on December 07, 2007, 10:36:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: BlackOpSource on December 07, 2007, 09:21:20 PM ---Anyway, I didn't realize the line-in was digital.

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Its not.  Its just a line in.  The processor is however, so the "some kind of software " you wanted will need digital input, which means even if you can feed the analog though, it wouldn't do you any good.
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Ah. Now I get it.



--- Quote from: saratoga on December 07, 2007, 10:36:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: BlackOpSource on December 07, 2007, 09:21:20 PM ----To get an install for an Alpine head unit of a device that allows the stereo to control the iPod (There's the interface!) through a cable (Cable!) cost multiple hundreds of dollars, including about $200 just for parts (Stupid proprietary crap.).

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Yes but thats because you're buying a high end head unit, and head units are expensive.
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No, no, you misunderstand me; I bought this car used back in December, and it came with an Alpine head unit (installed back in 2002) that supported the iPod interface (I think. I also checked this same thing out on my last car, which had a Pioneer head unit in it.). The cable and setup cost multiple hundreds of dollars, without factoring in the cost of the head unit. I just thought the whole thing was stupid and tethered you to Apple, so I decided to forgo it.



--- Quote from: melancholydm on December 08, 2007, 06:20:34 AM ---if you really wanted radio on your mp3 player why did you even go and buy an ipod? they've never advertised to be able to play radio without the accesory. If you really wanted the radio on your ipod... buy the accesory, boot into the OF and listen to it, nothing prevents you from booting back into RB to listen to your mp3s

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Woah. Who peed in your Cornflakes?

One- I didn't really want the radio on my iPod. I just had an idea that seemed like a good addition to Rockbox, and I wanted to check it out technically before formally suggesting it as an addition.

Two- You'll notice that I said I didn't like being tethered to my iPod. Really, what I mean there is that if my iPod should break (God forbid!), like my old Nano, I don't want there to be other factors (accessories, copy-protected music, et cetera) preventing me from buying whatever the hell I please. This applies to other players as well. So no iPod radio for the original firmware.

Three- They've never advertised being able to play Doom out of the box, either. And yet, with a little poking around, here I am. As I said earlier (see point one), I was wondering about the technical feasibility of a.... Well, is "hack" the right word? You see my point?

~BlackOpSource

saratoga:

--- Quote from: BlackOpSource on December 08, 2007, 02:48:13 PM ---

No, no, you misunderstand me; I bought this car used back in December, and it came with an Alpine head unit (installed back in 2002) that supported the iPod interface (I think. I also checked this same thing out on my last car, which had a Pioneer head unit in it.). The cable and setup cost multiple hundreds of dollars, without factoring in the cost of the head unit. I just thought the whole thing was stupid and tethered you to Apple, so I decided to forgo it.

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If your headunit actually supports the Ipod, you shouldn't need anything.  It'll just dock to the ipod like a PC.  

It sounds like you're describing one of those adapters that takes an older head unit that doesn't support the Ipod (as yours surely does not given that it was from 2002) and provides the interface logic to glue the Ipod to whatever proprietary interface your head unit includes.   In this case its expensive since you're basically buying a second head unit minus the amp and putting it in series with your existing head unit.

BlackOpSource:
This topic in a nutshell:

"ya i was thinkin we cld put fm radio on rb??!!?11?"
"no we cant"
"o rly? y no fm?"
"cuz tech stuff and shut up"
"o rly? well head unit!"
"ya rly!"
"k!111"

This is the part where I say "k!111". That explains quite a lot. Thank you.

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