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Cars + Rockboxed iPods, the definitive post

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Falco98:
I just had an oppurtunity to try out my 'new' ipod 5.5g 80gig in my girlfriend's '06 Scion, which has a built-in ipod connector.  I wasn't expecting it to do much at all, but now I can confirm it is at least 90% functional with rockbox (it's the latest release within the last week or so).

I even get track info on the car's built-in radio display, as well as pretty much nominal function from the car's controls (track skip backward works, but forward doesn't seem to work, but the "fast forward" button skips forward anyway).  Even the "shuffle" and "repeat" buttons on the car's controls toggle these functions in Rockbox.

One funny thing I noticed is that it won't let me pause the ipod when the car is on.  It will go through the "fade on pause" motions (even though the fade doesn't work with the line-out, so it's just like a pause that lags for 2 seconds every time), and then pauses for maybe a quarter of a second, and switches immediately back to play again.  Also, on one specific track, the car's display refused to pull track metadata, even though the WPS screen on the ipod itself displayed it all fine.

If anyone wants me to test anything else in this car, just let me know.

dibby:

--- Quote from: tomers on January 07, 2010, 08:37:55 AM ---
--- Quote from: dibby on January 07, 2010, 08:06:38 AM ---BMW 320d with DICE ipod adapter - Can't figure out how to get Rockbox working at all. No sound, no controls no matter what combination of car adapter and accessory power so I've had to switch back to the standard ipod (Fisher Price) interface which is driving me crazy because I now can't delete or move tracks on the move, no flac support, crappy basic Apple interface is back again. On the bright side, FFW, RW & shuffle buttons work through the stereo

--- End quote ---

Send me the car and I'll debug it.

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lol. I'll post the car over for a bit!

Waiting for 3.5 to be released, the standard ipod firmware is driving me bugshit and other people seem to be getting on well with it. I'll even sacrifice the random play, FF & RW functions through the steering wheel to just be able to use Rockbox again in the car

soap:
How about you all test out the latest improvements in accessory support?
They won't make it into 3.5 without testers.


http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=23666.0

bakseetdrivr:
how do i go about doing that? :P I'm not at all new to rockbox but only got as far as wps customization, the build environment and all that other stuff was a little above what i was interested in getting into (despite reading and re-reading the wiki). Ive got an Alpine xd100 head unit that i would love to see rockbox work on and would be glad to test it.

soap:
Just install the appropriate test build by unzipping the .zip file to the root of your player.

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