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Improve Your iPod with Rockbox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-will-if-you-won't dept.

polar_bear` writes "The allure of the iPod is undeniable -- they're well-designed, sleek little music players that pack a lot of features into tiny packages. However, iPods fail to deliver when it comes to support for free codecs like Ogg Vorbis, and -- let's face it -- iTunes leaves a lot to be desired. If you'd like to enjoy the hardware goodness of the iPod with GPLed firmware, give Rockbox a try. Tim Lord explains how over on NewsForge.com." NewsForge is also a part of the OSTG network, and Tim Lord is "timothy", one of our own editors.

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  1. Learn to Link by oirtemed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    These editors are idiots. The article isn't even linked correctly, its linked to the allure.. which is NOT intuitive. I had to mouse over all the links to find which one was the real article.

  2. Regarding Shuffled Playlists... by Quintios · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I realize this is off-topic, but I seem to remember a discussion a while back about how iTunes and the iPod shuffle playlists, and how that relates to the rating of each song. Does iTunes/iPod base the shuffle on the rating at all? If it does, I haven't seen it yet.

    What I do is I make 4 playlists. Each one has two rules: 1. My Rating is (2,3,4,5) Stars. 2. Last Played is not in the last (20,16,12,8) weeks.

    Then my 'General Listening' playlist selects songs from any of those four smart playlists. Therefore, I can hear the same 5-star song more often than a 2-star song. Simple!

    Just thought I'd pass that along. I like iTunes just fine; at first I was very addicted to Windows Media Player but after having used iTunes for a few months now I like it just fine and don't see a real need to switch.

    Really now, why switch? What is the pressing need?

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  3. Re:So... by Kadin2048 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fortunately I was able to mod you down a little as your post is complete flamebait.

    That's okay, I just modded him up, so there! Oh ... wait.

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