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DIY 80GB iPod Touch
An anonymous reader writes "Having recently acquired an iPod Touch, DeviceGuru blogger Rick Lehrbaum soon found himself with an 80GB iPod paperweight knocking around and collecting dust. Then it hit him: why not use a Pogoplug as an iPod server, effectively filling his nifty new iPod Touch with 80GB of music whenever he has WiFi access? The how-to article at DeviceGuru.com explains how a Pogoplug and iPod Touch combined with free web services at pogoplug.com combine to form the 'PogoPod System.' It also introduces the Pogoplug's new UPnP support, and briefly reviews a couple of UPnP media-rendering iPhone and iPod Touch apps."
Can some one please shitcan this plugoplug article?
Because we can.
.-.
This article discusses... connecting an iPod to a thing that supports connecting iPods to it?
In other words... it's *not* about making an 80gb iPod touch?
In other news: Man listens to FM radio channel using FM Radio!
The very day that Apple announces that only their newest phones will support multitasking why here we have on /. an article pimping how having an otherwise useless iDevice is a good thing. I guess we know what folks are supposed to do with their old iPhones now.
Shame.
This place died long ago. I miss it.
I won't mourn it though.
I mean, isn't the whole point of having an iPod or whatever so you can listen to music wherever you are? I mean, at that point you could just use pandora or any media server (Mediatomb, playon, tversity, etc, etc), or any of the myriad online streaming radio stations.
Sure, this is cool. But not it's not like the guy hacked a 80GB SSD drive into an old iPod.
Just what i wanted when i visited /.
Guy plugs a USB harddrive into a retail convertor box for internet use, uses it over internet using provided application. Video at 11.
"DIY installing an app on an iPod Touch"
The guy's just plugging an external hard drive in to a minimalist Linux system (the early review versions are clearly SheevaPlug units with a sticker attached and some custom software) and accessing it from an iPod Touch. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
The post title implies something actually interesting like a way to hack more than the X GB of storage space Apple currently offers on to the iPod Touch platform, not "here's how to access a UPnP share from a WiFi connected handheld.
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
Where's the hack? Reads more like a commercial to me.
Worthless. Please tell me there was some sort of an error and that's why this is here.
Why do people still do this? Is it to save electricity? My eyes started burning and I couldn't finish the article, but in this case that was a good thing.
Hi, my name is Feverdream and I like to hack small devices to make them easier to use by the blind - like myself - since they are often cheaper than full fledged computer systems that have parts we non-sighted don't usually need or use. I recently forced the pogoplug guys to release some GPL code they tried to hide from the community; You can now see part of the the xce module source on the website, but we need your help getting the rest!
They still lock the system down, and the Adobe Apollo based server on the device that they use for their service does things under the hood that would make RMS blush. They did not even want to release the xce module source despite the fact that it is GPL, and I had to fight with them to release the part they did.. problem is its not the source that they released on the device, and they wont give that out. You can tell by comparing the timestamps in the tarball they released that the files were edited.
Not to mention, thy lock you out of updating the kernel... and that makes it very hard to add accessibility for the blind or otherwise disabled since this is not activated by default.
We need your help. Boycott them,. get the message out they they violate not only the terms of the GPL by refusing to release unmodified or edited source of the code they have already released to the public, but the spirit of it. Get the rest of the data on the http://www.plugapps.com/ forums!
Well, the "article" is a bit of disappointment, however I've been in the same situation and here is how I approach the problem (way more music then will fit on my 8GB touch or smartphone): I have a linux server (Dell Studio Hybrid running Gentoo) that I always leave on which has a copy of my music repository. On it I run Music Player Daemon (MPD) with Icecast as one of the outputs. I connect to MPD via a simple web client (there are several: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients) from my touch, build my playlist, then point Safari to my Icecast server's IP/port which opens the media player and I can listen to MPD anywhere I have WiFi. I'm not sure what the minimum bandwidth required is, but even my smartphones (previously Samsung Saga on WM 6.1, now Droid Eris running 2.1) work with this system. For the record I used TCPMP on WM 6.1 (Windows Media Player mobile worked too, but that app is horrible) and now use I use A Online Radio for the Droid (oddly enough, the built in media player on Android doesn't do streams and it's touch to find an Android streaming client that let's you specify any address/port you want).
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
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Ok, because this is /. and everyone will chime in, I figured better to try and make the best out of a bad submission...
In Soviet Russia, the PogoPlug, PLUGS YOU!
--- Relax, that mass muderer is just trying to reduce our carbon footprint, one fetus at a time...
Since when is 129 dollars "inexpensive"?
The screen shots look more like an ipod video, not an ipod touch.
The largest Touch is 64 gig?
This is what the little "-" button is for, people. Lets subtract this crap until it goes negative.
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Lame, 5 years ago I had an 80GB Windows Mobile PDA, 2 years ago I DIY upgraded it to a 1.5TB Windows Mobile PDA and I have 160GB of FLAC audio wherever I go... ...if I have WiFi, seeing as the 1.5TB is on my server. This is dumb, you can access a server with a client device, that doesn't mean the client has all the features of the server, it means that it can access them via a connection (and if you try to use your WiFi anywhere outside of your LAN, most likely it will be too slow to utilize the 80GB, you probably couldn't even stream music with it, let alone video or copy files.
3... 2... 1... Cue Apple lawsuit
Post a story when someone uses an iPod to prevent evil hackers from breaking into a bank, then I'll be impressed.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
I imagine this isn't as useful when your workplace's new 802.11n WiFi throttles access to the Internet to a paltry 20 KB/s (ssh SOCKS proxy-tunnel to LAN brings it up only to 90 KB/s after first day). What I need is a stealth waterproof solar-powered WiFi repeater to bring the fast food restaurant's WiFi from across the street into the building.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
As far as I can tell you still can't listen to more than one song at a time--you've still got to navigate, click on a song, navigate more, click on another, etc. So you can't, say, easily listen to a whole album. (Correct me if I'm wrong but the two UPnP apps look very limited.) If that's all you're going to do, you may as well save your money and use this (share through Apache) or this (install a custom (but open-source) service.)
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
This can be done with a standard web server. Simply set up a web server that makes all your music available on your network, then point your iPod Touch to it. Compatible music files will play in "Quicktime".
Someone even put up instructions about it. http://www.pixelcity.com/iphone-streaming-music/
Post a story when someone uses an iPod to break into a bank, then I'll be impressed!
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
Has Wifi. More space than a Nomad. Still lame...
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?
Now that I've been given the option to disable the one surprisingly unobtrusive advert on your page (which I kept on anyways), all I have to put up with for advertising is the increasing amount of plug-stories! Thanks!
"Having recently acquired an iPod Touch, DeviceGuru blogger Rick Lehrbaum soon found himself with an 80GB iPod paperweight knocking around and collecting dust. Then it hit him: Why not earn some cash by getting a lame article published on /.!"
You can use a standard external hard drive and a home router with network store support then VPN into your home network. You can use Pandora You can use Grooveshark You can use 1 million other free music streaming services available. For fair disclosure, I don't own an iPod, iPad, or any other iShit and I don't purport to know exactly how they work but I would think any of those options previously mentioned would be better than this ad masquerading as a story.
There's already an app that does the same thing with your (Windows/Mac/Linux) PC called Simplify Media that this seems to. Essentially, it scans your music directory (or iTunes/Rhythmbox library if you want) on each computer the client runs, and lets you share them (directly through iTunes/Rhythmbox's own shared library front-end) on any other computer the client runs on. It also lets you add up to 30 "friends" to share with as well. Photos can also be shared (using iPhoto's events/faces/locations features if you run on a Mac).
Best thing of all is the price. Pogoplug requires a proprietary $129 hardware device, but the iPhone app, if I read correctly, is free. Simplify requires a computer (which you probably already have), and a free client. The iPhone app costs about $6 ($3 when it first came out). Total cost: $129 for Pogoplug, $3 for SM if yo
Sadly, I just read that as of two weeks ago they stopped selling the app and allowing new users to sign up. The service still works as of now, and they promise something new in the pipeline. I guess we'll see what comes of this.
Didn't even read the article. Simplify Media has been doing this for years. Many of us (here) with iPod Touches/iPhones know how to stream music locally. This is an obvious advertisement.
STOP REPLYING - the best way to let slashdot know that this hardly is "news".
The Pogoplug website has a page of the latest tweets featuring their name. The latest flood of tweets are people linking to the story. They don't seem to be linking to DeviceGuru, though. They're linking here. If you REALLY want to tell people how bad it is, and have it display on their website, Twitter is your friend... (just sayin')
Shiny. Let's be bad guys...
Its a $130 device that you plug a usb drive into to have internet access to it. Not really hacking...now if the guy bought a cheap wireless router, ran openwrt on it and hooked this to usb drive, then it would be cool. It would be even cooler if he were to get a wireless router that he had to hack to get usb ports on in the first place instead of using one that was designed with usb device connection capability, but either one would be much cooler than this crap.
Somebody mod parent up, please! Extra cool points for making that router provide RAID functionality, solving the Dynamic DNS use case, and (why not?) adding a print server while at it.
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.