State of / Accelerating Development on the Ipod Classic Slim 160GB

[jimmynova]

Love the software.  First time caller.

Have "upgraded" my last two ipods with Rockbox, primarily for FLAC support - and very happy with the results.

When my last ipod blew out, repair/replace decision appeared to lean toward replace and I picked up a new ipod classic slim 160GB.  At the time, it didn't even occur to me to check the state of Rockbox support for this model.  I just assumed...  (and please, don't.  stopped being witty decades ago.)

So - any thoughts from the devs when Rockbox for this model will be stable, usable, and non-bricking, with dual boot, and charge, and all the usual goodies?

Also - is there some way the community can support accelerating the development?  A bonus pool or user-sponsored pizza and Red Bull codeathon / testathon?  Anything?

I brought over most of my CD collection to FLAC and am ideologically opposed to downsampling to mp3 or crosscoding to ALAC, particularly when Rockbox for classic could go "gold" any day now.  That and not a huge fan of iTunes.

So - when's it expected and can I / we encourage/motivate/bribe the devs to roll it out sooner?

[AlexP]

When someone does the work, and it can be accelerated by doing the work.  As far as I'm aware nobody is specifically working on it right now.

[jimmynova]

What can we, in the community do - lacking coding skills to put our own hands to the task - to encourage the devs to set aside the demands of their homes, families, and paying vocations to attend to my pressing F.W.P. that there isn't a stable release of Rockbox for my shiny new and capacious ipod?   :'(

[wodz]

Thats wrong perspective. Do what I did - I learned how to dissasemble, learned new instruction set, learned C and ported rb to the device of interest. My knowledge of embedded world was next to nothing when I started.

[jimmynova]

Stop!    Yer killin' me here!

Knowledge of the embedded world?  Wodz, my last contact with code was in BASIC, hunched over a DECwriter connected to an HP21xx via an AcoustiCoupler at 110 baud!  And that, according to my transcripts, apparently left something to be desired.

I'm happy I got the microwave to stop blinking "12:00."

So that, as Rick Harrison says, "is not going to happen."

[saratoga]

So that, as Rick Harrison says, "is not going to happen."

Well then, aside from actually helping, there is not much you can do to help. 

[JohnP]

Find the bug that prevents booting OF, and fix it - it's somewhere in I2C
http://www.freemyipod.org/wiki/Todo_list

That would be a start I guess ?

I2C & 'Bug' -
 Doesn't sound like a good beginner-project

Edit : Is there some documentation somewhere on the HDD-layout on the iPod Classics ?
 

[[Saint]]

...and non-bricking...

This is already so, installation of Rockbox/emCORE will not brick your device.
Aside from deliberately making an effort to use the tools provided in a way that is unintended, the running joke around here is that the recommended way to brick an iPod, Rockbox'ed or not, is:

"With a hammer, and with great gusto"

Edit : Is there some documentation somewhere on the HDD-layout on the iPod Classics ?

I'm not sure what you expect to find there...

Could you please clarify?



[Saint]