Yes it does! My wife has an older iPod 3g and it works like a charm, I was even able to get freedoom to play on it with decent framerate (looks ugly with the B/W screen though). I've converted all of her music into .ogg format and when she needs to add music on the device she can now just copy them over directly (like a regular USB drive) and still play them. I'd never really messed with an iPod before but it shocked me to find out that although you can copy files/music directly onto the device the iPod music player will not recognize any songs that are not added on with iTunes (or something that spoofs it like rhythmbox). Anyone that appreciates the hardware capabilities of modern mp3 players but is frustrated by the software limitations most companies add should check it out. I'm not certain if it's true with all mp3 players but for my wifes iPod there was even a non-firmware installer so there was no risk of 'bricking' the device if something went wrong.
chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 08:00, Donkyhotay <donkyho...@verizon.net> wrote: >> When my wife inherited an iPod I just installed rockbox onto the iPod >> itself so that it could play .ogg files and also play music copied >> directly onto it's hard drive without needing 'special' software to do so. > > Holy crap, rockbox works on ipods? it is intensely cool software that > i've been using on my archos jukebox for years now--i had no idea > they'd branched out to ipods. highly recommended experience if it > behaves the same--very open source friendly (heck, the OS itself is > Open source!) > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Do not be afraid to joust a giant just because some people insist on beliving in windmills _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
