Presenting iPod as a standard USB mass storage device for in-car use?

[torne]

No, you are perfectly entitled to say that. We have no problem with users making any modification they want; only your own device will be affected and it's your own business.

We are concerned about standards with respect to the code the project distributes, not what people do with it

[Stringrazor]

I was kidding of course...


Once I got past my site blocking problem, creating a build environment and changing the USB ID was easy thanks to the info in this thread. I'll test it in the car later but my PC thinks I simply have have a Toshiba HD attached when I connect the iPod via USB while booted to my own compiled RB version.

Thanks for your help. I'm dangerous now and may even start messing with the code someday...

[Chronon]

You are also now in a position to be able to test and provide feedback about patches in the patch tracker.   

[Stringrazor]

And that may be the most good that comes out of this little exersize.

The head unit (Bose from Nissan but I've read it's actually made by Panasonic) now recognizes the RB-booted iPod as a generic USB device but balks fatally after it finds more than one or two "unplayable" files.  From the little information of any depth I've found about the USB function of the unit, it looks like it uses the order the files & folders were written to the OS as the playback order. How disappointing! I have a cheap USB stick/MP3 player that works like that and found a utility that will reorder files for a specific playback order and I'll give that a try but I think the head unit is just too dumb to work with the files I have on the unit that RB knows how to handle.

Maybe I can at least config one folder it can get to and handle. Oh well, I won't be driving that car that much anyway. I'll also have to put songs in the OF structure with iToons and see how the unit handles iPod-specific control.

Anyway, sorry for the mostly OT post. At least I was able to successfully modify, compile, and deploy the code to get the device to not look like an iPod.

[Buckstop]

http://cleansoap.org/files/Rockbox-r25432_NonAppleVendor-ProductID.zip

How are these files used?  Simply copy them to the iPod, or are they part of a custom installation?

Thanks!

[Chronon]

It's a firmware archive, so it can be installed manually like others (i.e. extract it to the root of your player).

[soap]

Really, the point of that build was to test if the head unit was being a dick and balking at the Apple USB ID.

That test has been concluded, and yes, dickishness was involved.

I'm want to pull that build off my server when I get home, as I don't want to encourage people to use a seven month old build when the Rockbox community has done such a fine job in creating the tools to build rockbox oneself.