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Warphine:
Been using Rockbox for a couple of months now and it's working great. Problem is, I prefer to sync with iTunes so that way my playlists still work but lately the original iPod Classic OS is crashing at boot causing me to not be able to use iTunes. I'm wondering if maybe my iPod library is just so big now that the original OS just can't handle it anymore?

I have a 1TB iPod Classic (7th Gen) modded with the iFlash Dual SD adapter (2x 512 GB) and I'm over 50K songs now.

Is there some way to sync with iTunes while in the Rockbox OS?

I see that when I'm in the Rockbox OS, while connected to my PC, my iPod shows up as drive J (while a second drive for I appears as a generic USB Drive). Normally, when connected to PC while in the original OS, my iPod is normally just drive I. Despite this, iTunes doesn't recognize my iPod as drive J. Is there some way to get it to treat it like it was booted into the original OS so I can sync to it?

A11A:
You could try a different utility to manage songs like Amarok, it's possible you've reached the limit of what stock/itunes is capable of.
Besides that, you get some benefits from using a different tool like being able to re-encode tracks into vorbis or opus.

While I don't know how good Rockbox's opus implementation is other than knowing it works, opus should theoretically use the least processing power to decode of any of the supported lossy formats, which should translate to the best battery life. If any core devs know about how well libopus is implemented it would be good to know if this holds up.

Regarding iTunes: Does disk mode work? I can't remember if they removed disk mode from later iPod classics or not.

Warphine:

--- Quote from: A11A on December 28, 2019, 12:14:44 AM ---Regarding iTunes: Does disk mode work? I can't remember if they removed disk mode from later iPod classics or not.

--- End quote ---

This was pretty damn genius! Forgot all about disc mode. Thank you!

Unfortunately, I have it in disc mode right now, and the PC shows it's connected/accessible but I haven't been able to get iTunes to recognize it yet.

Warphine:
Anybody know any secrets for getting iTunes to recognize an iPod in disc mode? I've tried just about everything I was able to search online for relating to this (uninstalling the ipod device using device manager, etc).

If this would work, it would solve all my problems with this setup. Otherwise, I'm going to need to nix iTunes and roll with files directly copied to rockbox, but will not have playlist support anymore (which is primarily how I use this thing). TIA!

Frankenpod:
You can copy music files directly to the ipod, and export playlists from iTunes, just as long as you retain the same folder structure for the files on the ipod that you have on the computer.  Might need to find some suitable script for iTunes for exporting the playlists, I can't remember if plain vanilla iTunes exports playlists in the right way, but I just export playlists from media monkey (using some MM script for playlist exporting, with various parameters set appropriately to make it work) and copy them to the ipod.
And it's not a good idea to write to the ipod when it's in rockbox mode, see umpteen threads about the issues with rockbox writing to flash mods, stick with OF diskmode.

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