Looking for Large Capacity Rockbox Device

[sa3atsky]

Hi, I'm living in Canada and looking for the largest Rockbox-compatible player. Largest in terms of storage for my .ape,.flac's... The Ipod 5.5 Gen 60\80GB has been discontinued and all that I could find is the Ipod Classic which from the looks of it will never be ported.. So if anybody knows where I can find old Ipod Videos (preferably 80GB) or any other alternative player with a good HD I'd appreciate it

Cheers.
Go United!

[Llorean]

.ape won't play on the iPod very well at all (or most Rockbox devices) due to the excessively high CPU demand for decompressing.

You might want to look into the iAudio 60gb players we support, or the Toshiba Gigabeat F60 as well, both tend to offer better music playback performance than the iPod.

[cool_walking_]

*All* current Rockbox targets are discontinued.  You can still pick them up second-hand on eBay and the like.

These might interest you:
http://rockbox.org/wiki/HardDriveReplacement
http://rockbox.org/wiki/BuyersGuide

[sa3atsky]

Hi, to be honest I did find the Cowon X5 60gb and the Toshiba Gigabeat F60 the best choices however its really hard (almost impossible) to find these players really! I'm gonna keep searchin' used till I find em.. Thanks for the quick replies

[jaxtherogue]

Is there anything on the horizon in the 150gb+ range?

[karashata]

Is there anything on the horizon in the 150gb+ range?

No.  I think the iPod Classic 160 GB is the only DAP currently being produced over 150 GB, and as of yet there doesn't look to be any chance of a Rockbox port for it.  (You can read about the porting effort for the iPod Classics, as well as the 3rd Gen Nano and the Touch here.)

You can, however, upgrade an existing HD-based target with a larger capacity drive, though I *think* there is some sort of restriction to the capacity Rockbox can use and some sort of trick is required to be able to use the full capacity of the drive...  (Can one of the devs or someone with more of a clue verify and/or expand on that please..?)

[Chronon]

See here: BigDisk.

However, note that this page refers specifically to the Archos players and some associated peculiarities with the USB chip only being able to handle LBA28.  This shouldn't be a problem for other families of player, so you should be able to do a single partition.  I guess this page could use some clean up to generalize it to other players.

[karashata]

Thanks, Chronon.

I knew there was a trick involved somewhere, but I wasn't aware that it was for an older hardware issue with the Archos players rather than a Rockbox problem.