Ipod thread

**Toyota h8r** · 02-24-2008, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by garver

rockbox is the best thing you can add to an ipod

uhhh whats that?

**86 IROC-Z** · 02-24-2008, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Toyota h8r

uhhh whats that?

Possibly a box that rocks?

**ss~zoso~ss** · 02-24-2008, 06:27 PM

ive got a iPod nano 2 gig its been great, it glitches out every once and a while and i have to hook it to my computer to get it to turn on, but i use this thing every day around campus and at the gym and the iPod its self and the battery are holding up GREAT, no complaints at all, i only wish i could put movies on it

**garver** · 02-24-2008, 07:04 PM

rockbox is open source firmware, google it.

**SS goblin** · 02-25-2008, 08:19 AM

I've had my 60gig for acouple of years now. I don't how every got along with out it. Last year it crapped out on me while I was out at the track for clean up. I thought the battery just ran down. Plugged it in for awhile and nothing. I took it home and opened it up and the tape from the battery came unplugged. I plugged it in and it worked. I had to download the software into it and reload all of my music, all 6,442 of them. I have about 50 more CD's and 20 more gigs of music I have to put on Itunes. I'm just lazy and I already have 50.6 days of music on it already.

**TransAmy** · 02-25-2008, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by ss~zoso~ss

ive got a iPod nano 2 gig its been great, it glitches out every once and a while and i have to hook it to my computer to get it to turn on, but i use this thing every day around campus and at the gym and the iPod its self and the battery are holding up GREAT, no complaints at all, i only wish i could put movies on it

mine does that too, all you have to do is reset it by holding the middle button down until the apple icon pops up. you dont have to hook it up to your pc.

**RENE95Z** · 02-25-2008, 08:12 PM

Just a suggestion for why your cd's are taking so long to load. Go into edit>preferences>advanced tab>importing tab>see if the box for "use error correction when reading audio cd's". If it is checked, it damn near doubles or triples the amount of time to upload your cd. Uncheck it. It is meticulously reading your cd and trying to read through any scratches you may have on your cd.

I have read that rockbox has caused issues with the iPod. Although this may be more with the HD ipods vs. the flash ipods which is what you have in the nano.

**Toyota h8r** · 02-25-2008, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by RENE95Z

Just a suggestion for why your cd's are taking so long to load. Go into edit>preferences>advanced tab>importing tab>see if the box for "use error correction when reading audio cd's". If it is checked, it damn near doubles or triples the amount of time to upload your cd. Uncheck it. It is meticulously reading your cd and trying to read through any scratches you may have on your cd.

I have read that rockbox has caused issues with the iPod. Although this may be more with the HD ipods vs. the flash ipods which is what you have in the nano.

I checked and that box wasnt checked......its setup with the AAC encoder at like 256kbps(iirc)

**RENE95Z** · 02-25-2008, 08:32 PM

You might want to change that 256 to 128. The 256 will give you great quality, but will eat up the amount of space the file is going to take. You will still get great quality out of the 128. This may be what is causing it to run so slow.

**garver** · 02-25-2008, 08:39 PM

i run rockbox on my 30gig video with no problems.

**Toyota h8r** · 02-25-2008, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by RENE95Z

You might want to change that 256 to 128. The 256 will give you great quality, but will eat up the amount of space the file is going to take. You will still get great quality out of the 128. This may be what is causing it to run so slow.

ok.....maybe i should try the mp3 encoder? idk bout this stuff lol