y’know, just in case you were interested …
Saturday, September 27th, 2008FactoryDirect.ca has rockboxable Sandisk Sansa E250’s for under $50 - including 4GB of microSD cards.
Posts Tagged ‘rockbox’
iTunes ate my iPod!
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Kind of what my iPod now does, until the battery runs out
I have, well had, a 2GB second-gen iPod Nano. Now I have a very slim brick.
When I upgraded to iTunes 8, it offered an update for my iPod. I let it do its thing, then resync’ed it. I noticed that the iPod rebooted after the sync — no big deal — but then kept rebooting (back and forth …) forever.
I tried resetting it; nope, it would just start doing its thing again.
I tried putting it into disk mode, then restoring it; nope, back and forth, back and forth …
In desperation, I tried restoring it on a PC, which needed to reformat the iPod. Partial success; it sync’ed music from the PC, but since my working music library is on my iBook, I had to restore and resync, and guess what? back and forth, back and forth …
I’d heard that the problem could be caused by empty podcast folders, so I cleared out and rebuilt my library, put the iPod into disk mode and restored it on a PC, resync’ed on the iBook and … back and forth, back and forth …
As a last try I’m going to fsck it under Linux. I might be stuck using yamipod, which is probably a bonus, as all I use iTunes for is as an iPod conduit. I really miss having a Rockbox-capable player, as it just worked the way I expected.
UPDATE: yeah, that last one did it. Shame about yamipod’s UI.
a sample of what I was raving about
Sunday, May 14th, 2006The Singing Saw Shadow Show could be my new favourite band. Here’s one of their pieces: The Singing Saw Shadow Show, recorded live at the Tranzac, 10 May 2006 (mp3).
(I used my iRiver H120, flashed with the RockBox firmware, and Minigear Labs binaural mics.)
first bad rockbox build
Sunday, January 29th, 2006Today’s daily build of rockbox caused my iRiver to crash. It’s the first time it’s been anything other than perfect.
TTC Subway: Pape to Chester, 4pm
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005TTC Subway: Pape to Chester, 4pm (MP3).
A man was reading the Autos section of the Toronto Star in a testy manner.
Recorded on iRiver H120 + cheapo iRiver mic, and Rockbox firmware.
Rockbox rocks my iriver
Friday, December 2nd, 2005Red letter day today: the Rockbox team have added peak level meters and on-the-fly gain control to recording on the iRiver H120. They fixed the infamous glitch months ago.
I now have a really good little digital audio recorder thanks to the Rockbox developer community.
you can’t hear the join
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005Further to Doug’s comment, I installed Rockbox on my iRiver. While it may not be very pretty, it adds so many handy features to the thing. Most immediately noticeable of these is (almost) gapless MP3 playback. With LAME-encoded MP3s, there’s no apparent gap between tracks at all. I love it!
