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No music showing in Apple Firmware when booted on ipod classic.
georgebous:
So I've been using the ipod with OF for about a year and have only just installed Rockbox, which I'm very happy with. Before installing Rockbox the Apple OF worked absolutely fine. Somehow Rockbox bootloader stops the OF seeing any music.
However when connected via USB in normal Rockbox, iTunes can see all the music on the iPod.
When I connect by USB with OF enabled, iTunes says the iPod needs restoring and shows nothing.
It definitely worked fine for a long period of time before installing Rockbox.
I'll try restore the ipod, load all my music in iTunes, test the ipod works, then install Rockbox. I'll see if OF works without building the database at this stage.
Frankenpod:
I admit I'm stumped, assuming it's not writing the database corrupting the disk.
I assume you installed rockbox in the standard way, with the files from freemyipod (not here)?
Have you asked on the head-fi thread? Plenty of people on there have done the SSD mod (I gave up on that ages ago, before the dual-boot loader was available, and went for sd cards instead).
Edit - oh, I suppose there's also the 'putting the SSD in an external enclosure and rewriting the MBR' to try. As I remember it the SSD pod would sometimes get into a state that coudn't be recovered from without removing the drive from the ipod and doing that.
georgebous:
OK,
So just restored the ipod. Loaded all my music back on with itunes. Installed rockbox and immediately opened OF and all my music was showing and it worked perfectly, as did iTunes. I decided to load some more music onto the ipod that I didn't already have on there using itunes with OF loaded on the ipod.
I have now ejected it, loaded rockbox, and built the database in Rockbox. Just switched back to OF and all my music is still showing and working. I don't know if loading more music on with itunes after installing Rockbox made a difference but it seems to be working fine now.
Thanks for your help. Will keep you posted if the problem arises again.
chris_s:
--- Quote from: Frankenpod on February 24, 2019, 08:44:44 AM ---edit - or is it the building of the database by rockbox that leads to the tracks disapearing in OF? It's possible, I suppose, when rockbox writes to the disk it corrupts it, due to the known issues rockbox has with modded drives.
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I could easily see that happening. From my experience with an iPod 4G, I've had contents of the iPod_Control subdirectory corrupt more than once during normal usage before I turned off DMA (Rockbox's implementation appears to have issues on this model even when using the original hard drive).
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