I have an old iPod G3 player that I haven’t used for several years. The main reason is that it is full of Apple vendor lock-in "features". The most annoying issues are:
- Hard to manage without iTunes
- iTunes is crap
- Cannot play ogg and flac
- I just want to attach it and it should popup like a USB disk, drop the files into it, detach and play the songs.
I got a hint from a friend that I should try RockBox, so I download it and used the very simple installer on linux and it works perfectly well. All the drawbacks mentioned above are solved and as a bonus the gui is much better.
Now I can:
- Play ogg
- Play flac
- Customize the GUI
- Change myriads of settings
- Throw away mysterious sync software like iTunes and others.
- Attach it as a USB disk, drop my media files into it, detach and play them
If you are lucky and owns a Rockbox supported media player, update it. You will not regret it.
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