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What is the best combination of Player and Ipod (5thG) & Rockbox
Touelmeris:
Hello,
I am new to rockbox find it impressive. Like many here would not mind getting rid of Itunes. In particular I am fed up with Itunes hiding the files in the Ipod, messing with my folders, and not being able to handle many formats.
I would like to use Rockbow in conjunction with a PC based player such as Winamp for instance. I want to be able to handle the library from the PC, use podcast etc and then transfer it easily to the PC using the player
For the moment I used Itunes + Rockbox but I'd like to be able to use various formats etc.
Would it be better with Winamp? I believe it can read everything with the proper codecs, handles postcast, manages a playlist properly etc. Or Media Monkey? It seems pretty good.
Many thanks for sharing you experience,
Best Regards,
Touelmeris
LambdaCalculus:
Use whatever makes you feel comfortable. There's no right or wrong way to sync your music.
Zardoz:
Winamp (classic) works well for me, the Library function is simple, clear and fast/responsive, although you would have to add codec support for things like musepack if needed. Like LambdaCalculus379 says there's a wealth of options out there. Are you using Windows? Songbird is cross platform anyway and has some nice features. There are so many non-itunesy managers!
peace
vsl2005:
This doesn't have much to do with Rockbox really - the software doesn't really care what you use to sync. That said, I've been using MediaMonkey for a couple years to sync by playlist. It's eminently tweakable and has a great user community. Be sure to do a search on their forums about Rockbox and MM. The trick is in making your ipod behave like a standard USB device rather than an ipod for purposes of device recognition and synching. Took a few tries, but I eventually got the hang of it. I really detest apple's proprietary filing system. I'd love to have a conversation with one of their developers about their thought process in scrambling all the file locations.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: vsl2005 on October 01, 2008, 10:26:42 AM ---I'd love to have a conversation with one of their developers about their thought process in scrambling all the file locations.
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It's memory efficient, and a nice first effort at stopping your sharing your music with your buddies by copying back off your ipod and onto theirs. Any other questions ? :)
I am not now, nor was I ever, an Apple developer.
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