Rockbox Ports are now being developed for various digital audio players!
I presume that whatever issues there are, are still there, but that that set-up is far more forgiving of them (more tolerant of timing problems or something?) so one gets away with it.
Quote from: sduck on February 14, 2018, 06:16:21 PMI have rockbox running flawlessly on 3 ipod videos (ver 5.5), all with iflash solo cards and 128gb cards in them. I switch the ipods into apple mode when transferring files, otherwise they're always in rockbox mode. So as far as I can tell the rockbox/iflash combo isn't the problem. I've got a classic 6.6 here that I'm hoping to experiment with with the same hardware updates once all the parts get here. However it's the one I can't install the bootloader onto with the native hardware, so some work still needs to be done.I don't know if I understood you correctly, but have you tried THIS to get the bootloader installed?:https://files.freemyipod.org/~user890104/bootloader-ipodclassic.htmlmks5lboot works really well on 6.x iPod Classics.
I have rockbox running flawlessly on 3 ipod videos (ver 5.5), all with iflash solo cards and 128gb cards in them. I switch the ipods into apple mode when transferring files, otherwise they're always in rockbox mode. So as far as I can tell the rockbox/iflash combo isn't the problem. I've got a classic 6.6 here that I'm hoping to experiment with with the same hardware updates once all the parts get here. However it's the one I can't install the bootloader onto with the native hardware, so some work still needs to be done.
Can you currently boot into the apple firmware, even with your drive(s) formatted for whatever size larger than 128gb you have them at?
As far as I know there is a documented problem with the usb driver within rockbox for these devices. Which manifests itself with problems like those you describe - transfers hanging. Once files are transferred, they still don't always work right, hang or stutter while playing.
I'm unsure what you mean by single-booting rockbox. I presume you only want to use rockbox, never use the original apple firmware, is that correct? That would be how I use these things. I also have no use for the apple firmware. However, it's still there, isn't it? Unless you've found a way to install a new bootloader that only boots into rockbox. Can you currently boot into the apple firmware, even with your drive(s) formatted for whatever size larger than 128gb you have them at?
As far as I know there is a documented problem with the usb driver within rockbox for these devices. Which manifests itself with problems like those you describe - transfers hanging. Once files are transferred, they still don't always work right, hang or stutter while playing. The common prescribed workaround is to boot into the apple firmware, then do the file transfers the same way you would in rockbox mode, I.E. don't use itunes to do it. BTW this issue exists with my ipod videos, and I have to use the workaround. So I guess my question is: are you able to use the apple firmware at least enough to do file transfers? If not, why not?
What I'm wondering is if you can use disk utility (on a mac, don't know if there's a windows equivalent) and the partition tab to enlarge that 128gb partition to fill the available space
Quote from: sduck on February 21, 2018, 11:25:49 PMWhat I'm wondering is if you can use disk utility (on a mac, don't know if there's a windows equivalent) and the partition tab to enlarge that 128gb partition to fill the available spaceThe Apple firmware uses LBA28, so in the Apple firmware the available space will be exactly 2^28*512 = 128GB. You can try in Rockbox, but if you do that you won't be able to boot back into the Apple firmware without reformatting the disk into a format it can understand.
Can you explain why the iPod is limited to 65.536 songs?
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