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Asect:
New to Rockbox and the Forum.  Although this item has been addressed in past threads, albeit some years ago, is Rockbox ever going to work with the Ford Sync System?  A 2017 Ford Explorer with Ford Sync will not recognize Rockbox on an iPod Classic(6G).  I'm aware the iPod Classic 160GB is not necessarily a Rockbox supported device, but I must say the install is easy utilizing the provided instructions and everything seems to function very well.  The message when connected to the Ford Sync is "USB Device Not Recognized".  After searching the forum and not finding a whole lot addressing the topic, just thought I would ask.  Thanks for any input.

saratoga:
The Apple specific stuff is all cryptographically verified to keep out counterfeit devices, so its unlikely that anything third party will ever work on that.

Its possible you could get USB mass storage working with the head unit (so that the device treated your Ipod as a USB thumb drive) if you changed the USB PID so that it didn't recognize it as an iPod, and assuming the head unit is capable of working with normal USB devices.

Asect:
How would one go about changing the USB PID?  I rebuilt the iPod with a 500GB Flash Drive and everything works perfectly running Rockbox from computer, stereo system, syncing with MediaMonkey, etc.  Of course iTunes will not recognize the 500GB, but running Rockbox all other mediums do recognize the 500GB.  The only item that will not work is Ford Sync recognition.  If this could be tackled, the 500GB iPod would be perfect.  Thanks for the response.

saratoga:
See this thread: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=43493.0

Asect:
Well, I looked at this thread and downloaded a bunch of Virtual Machines and Oracle stuff and whatever.....I'm not a programmer and this stuff is based for software engineering...not for the layman.  I cannot even figure out how any of this stuff opens and operates.  When you click on it, it does nothing.  Thanks anyway.

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