Quick Question From a Paranoid Newbie

[The Riot Act]

Hey, everyone. I'll be using this on my iPod video, and I'm just wondering if there's any chance that using Rockbox can corrupt or otherwise damage the actual files on PC's hard drive?

Sorry for the stupidity of this question, butI have roughly 600 albums/bootlegs etc. and it would be a shame to have anything happen to them. LOL.

Thanks.

[mnhnhyouh]

I dont think it can, but have a more important question for you.

Given HDs do die of their own accord, why dont you have these files backed up?

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[The Riot Act]

I do, actually. But I only do it once every few months.

[Llorean]

It seems to me the simplest solution would be to rip any originals to the host PC, and then copy them to the device, which would mean that just the operation of putting the files on the device would result in at least one backup copy.

But Rockbox does not actually write to your music files at all (at least the official build does not, I can't speak for the unofficial builds as I don't know if any of them have patches that may allow for this) so there's no more risk than simply accessing and reading from the drive.

[karlk]

Llorean has a point-- If you have all your music in iTunes and on your ipod, then you have 2 copies right there. Worst case scenario, you can restore your ipod to factory defaults and resync it with iTunes.

[The Riot Act]

Thanks, everyone.

I understand what you're saying about having two back-ups, but the only back-ups I'm really concerned about are the actual original files on my drives, not what goes on the iPod. I just use the iPod as a way to listen to my collection wherever I am - I don't necessarily trust it as a database/hard drive itself.

One more quick question before I go:

When I use iTunes to sync my files with RB, will it also sync and play my playlists created in iTunes or do I have to use M3U files? If the latter is the case, then how do I go about placing those files on RockBox?

Thanks again.

EDIT: I should probably add that I intend to use jbuild, rather than the official build as I'd like to use his latest theme.

[bluebrother]

When I use iTunes to sync my files with RB, will it also sync and play my playlists created in iTunes or do I have to use M3U files? If the latter is the case, then how do I go about placing those files on RockBox?

Rockbox doesn't use the itunes db. AFAIK the itunes playlist are containted in that file. Rockbox doesn't use the itunes playlists but there is a plugin around in the tracker that extracts an itunes playlists and plays it.

EDIT: I should probably add that I intend to use jbuild, rather than the official build as I'd like to use his latest theme.

When using an unofficial build all questions should get directed into that builds thread in the "unofficial builds" forum. Really.

[Llorean]

Just to follow up in the "asking about unofficial builds" thing:

You may think 'it's Rockbox still, so the fundamentals should be the same' but this really isn't true. Sometimes the experimental builds change things as fundamental as what buttons do what things, or where you need to store certain files to be able to use them.

We also don't support those builds at all (that's why we call them unsupported) because the patches can also have a wide variety of unforseen results, so once you're using them if you have problems with them they're in many cases not even ones that we can fix since they are caused by code outside of our control.

But as you see, even when you aren't having problems, it's simply better to ask where people actually know what has changed in the custom build.

[The Riot Act]

Thanks for the help, everyone. I'll direct these questions to the jbuild thread. Thanks again.