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Presenting iPod as a standard USB mass storage device for in-car use?
Chronon:
It isn't very much work to learn how to compile. This is the best solution since you will be able to make your own builds with this change (the custom ID) any time you want (like when a new change that you want is included in current builds).
torne:
--- Quote from: Stringrazor on October 26, 2010, 01:23:49 PM ---Please consider making the USB ID user-configurable in a future release.
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We have considered it, but nobody has proposed something generally acceptable yet. Just allowing the user to enter any value is pretty disastrous from a usability point of view, tbh; there are all kinds of problems that might result from users picking values that collide with other existing devices, and we don't want to recommend a particular alternative value either as this is in conflict with the letter and spirit of the USB-IF standards.
Stringrazor:
--- Quote from: Chronon on October 26, 2010, 08:35:36 PM ---It isn't very much work to learn how to compile. This is the best solution since you will be able to make your own builds with this change (the custom ID) any time you want (like when a new change that you want is included in current builds).
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I have been wanting to do that for a while but it's just one more think on the ol' TODO list...
UPDATE:
Setting up a compile environment is NOT easy for non-linux developers. I've wasted a morning and still can't get Ubuntu 9.04 to install SVN. All to just get my RB's iPod to work in a new car.
Is there a Ubuntu RB development appliance available anywhere?
Chronon:
Stringrazor, if you have trouble with that it would probably be better to start a new topic in the "compiling" forum. People will be happy to answer your questions and assist you there.
These instructions should work if you're using Ubuntu:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/LinuxSimpleGuideToCompiling
Stringrazor:
Thanks, as I posted over there, my frustrations were caused by a netnanny filter at work. Everything worked fine from home and I've compiled my 1st build. Now, to hack the USB ID...oh, I guess I'm not suppose to say that out loud.... ;)
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