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iPod: Will any accessories work using Rockbox?
Febs:
--- Quote from: travishayes89 on August 18, 2006, 10:24:33 PM ---you know, line in pins exist on the dock connector, therefore, i theorize if someone could figure out them, recording will be possible.
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If I'm not mistaken, linuxstb has done some preliminary work on this exact thing.
junkers:
I'm using Rockbox on an iPod Video, connected to an Apple HiFi. As others have said, playback, volume control via remote, switching between iPod output and the other input channel HiFi has, and charging have no problems.
But play, forward, back etc. don't work, again as others have said.
My question: Is that it can never work (for whatever hardware reasons) or is it because Rockbox doesn't have the functionality yet? If the latter, what is the likelihood that anything will be written anytime soon?
Llorean:
Rockbox doesn't have the functionality yet.
As for likelihood, there's a lot of other, much more important, things for the core programmers to be working on, like optimization and implementing hardware that's actually inside the device properly. The accessory protocol is probably fairly low on the list, but that doesn't mean that one of them won't get bored and work on that (or get an accessory of some sort, and decide they want to make it work). There's also no guarantee that someone from outside, like you, won't come along and decide they want it badly enough that they're willing to make the effort to learn what is necessary to do it.
So, there's no real way to predict the likelihood of it happening soon, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
junkers:
Thanks for the response, Llorean. I guess I'll just hope I get lucky, that some programmer will just do it for whatever reason!
Anyway, I'll be hanging on to Rockbox on my iPod - just can't handle the way iTunes requires you to manage your music collection!
braintumor:
Hey guys,
I'm a rockbox newbie and have rockbox running on my ipod photo 60g since a week and i'm pretty impressed by this great alternative. So, big thumbs up on that one.
Everything was perfect (i don't bother some crashes), till I discovered that my ipod (wire-)remote wasn't working with rockbox and for me that is pretty essential. I like to have my ipod in the pocket and not take it out everytime i wan't to pause, change volume or do stuff like that. Â ;)
This is really sad and I have to go back to the original apple firmware or is their something in the pipeline for the near future, worth waiting for? :)
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