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Best iPod w/ RockBox?
crescentfresh:
Battery life on the photo is substantially weaker at this point, and will continue be until audio codecs are optimized. I generally get between 5 and 6 hours of battery life out of my 60 gig photo with rockbox, whereas I've seen numerous reports in these forums that people get closer to 10 hours out of an ipod video with rockbox on it. You might want to take that into consideration if you intend to exclusively use rockbox.
soap:
--- Quote from: crescentfresh on November 29, 2006, 02:02:08 PM ---Battery life on the photo is substantially weaker at this point, and will continue be until audio codecs are optimized. I generally get between 5 and 6 hours of battery life out of my 60 gig photo with rockbox, whereas I've seen numerous reports in these forums that people get closer to 10 hours out of an ipod video with rockbox on it. You might want to take that into consideration if you intend to exclusively use rockbox.
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The 5th generation 60 gig model has the best battery life of them all, due to its larger battery. Not to mention the 60 gig model has 64MB of RAM, which isn't being used by Rockbox yet, but there is a working (?) patch in the tracker to use it. The 30MB ipod video only has 32MB of RAM for buffering.
nls:
You might also want to consider that the 4G has an annoying crash bug that no one has really fixed yet. And you won't be able to use any "cool" speaker options with rockbox if they communicate with the ipod via the accessory connector.
Chronon:
I don't own any of the speaker systems for the iPod, but it seems to me that they should only use the line out, in which case it should work fine.
crescentfresh:
--- Quote from: nls on November 30, 2006, 01:23:26 PM ---You might also want to consider that the 4G has an annoying crash bug that no one has really fixed yet. And you won't be able to use any "cool" speaker options with rockbox if they communicate with the ipod via the accessory connector.
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Although there's no official fix for the crash bug, mikeage compiles a build almost every day for this issues, which has to do with frequency scaling:
http://mikeage.net/content/rockbox/index.php
I haven't had a single crash since starting to use those builds. I still would not recommend seeking out a 4G though just to save a few bucks when you can get better battery life out of the 5Gs.
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