Floola crashes after 20gb transfer3/18/2023 Then I noticed that the ipods had album shuffle. (I’ve written more about Album Shuffle here.) The order of tracks, representing movements or songs in a larger themed composition, matters. This is an important feature if you want to listen to any album that isn’t an 80s pop album with only one or two good songs on it, like for example, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons or Pink Floyd’s Wish You were Here. I wanted “Album Shuffle”: the means for shuffling your songs by random album rather than random song. Yes, the Archos was a solid brick of an mp3 player, had a simple yellow LCD display, USB 1.1, and a very short battery life which required me to carry around its AC adapter wherever I went, but that’s not the reason I gave it up. My trusty old Archos Jukebox 20 Studio just wasn’t cutting it anymore, even with its ROM flashed with open source Rockbox firmware. Last year around this time I was thinking about mp3 players. I’m keeping it up just in case folk might still find it useful. The article below on how to use an HFS+ formatted iPod on Windows is showing it’s age. If you’d like to install Rockbox+Emcore on your iPod Classic (a/k/a iPod 6g+), this wizard from the good folk at Emcore helped me out immensely. (Note that to download the themes I display above, you’ll have to lie and tell the utility that your iPod is a 5th gen model.) I use the Rockbox Utility to manage the player, install the themes I want, backup my settings, and update the operating system occasionally. If you want you download my hack of “Widescreen” for the iPod Classic, here. I was able to read the theme documentation and adapt Humberto’s theme to one which showed exactly what I wanted. The original “Widescreen” theme by Humberto Santana didn’t display all the information I wanted, but this was the joy of using open-source software. The themes I’m using are “Terminal” for the Base Skin and “Widescreen” for the Now Playing Screen. Most importantly, I finally have control of the track data and cover art displayed on the iPod (see below). You should be fine so long as your Playback Settings are then set to shuffle. I learned it helps to have all your folders as children of a single root directory that you can generate a single playlist from. You can save your folder list so you don’t have to that each time.Įven random track shuffle isn’t exactly straightforward, and I can’t say that I’ve mastered the process well enough to provide my own documentation for folk yet either. First generate your folder list, wait a while until the script finishes, and then play shuffled. It requires using a handy script “random folder advance config” that is located in the plugins/applications directory. Setting up Album Shuffle wasn’t as straightforward as I would have liked but it works. Syncing my iPod is now a much more straightforward process. On the other hand, it’s a remarkably robust operating system for one classified by its developers as unstable. For now, Rockbox classifies its 6g build as “unstable.” Rockbox does crash my iPod, way more often than with the original iPod operating system did. Not all my videos will play as they had before. Yes, there are bugs, and no, none of the 3rd party hardware that I had to extend the iPod features (radio, wireless control, etc.) work anymore. I’m happy to run open source software on hardware that was difficult to reverse-engineer. (Rockbox will run on the iPod Classic if you first install the opensource Emcore firmware). UPDATE (May 2013): For the record, I’ve formatted my iPod back to FAT32 so I could install the open source Rockbox operating system for music players.
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