Ogg and the ipod

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by charrington (Zone BBS is my Life) on Monday, 27-Apr-2009 19:29:17

So, I'm in an interesting twist.
I have about 200 GB of music sitting in the syber abis of an external hard drive. All of it's ogg... Is there any way in hell that I can get itunes to work with it? I really don't want to go through all of the trouble of converting that much music to mp3, and I'm wanting to get one of the newer ipods....

Thanks,
Chris Harrington

Post 2 by Harp (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Monday, 27-Apr-2009 21:20:26

Have you considered getting one of the IPods that are compatible with Rockbox? there would be a few benefits to that for you. Firstly you'd then have a much more accessible IPod because of Rockbox's built in speach facility. Secondly Rockbox removes the need to mess around with ITunes at all because it just turns the IPod into a drive that shows up in my computer and all you have to do is copy and paste files directly onto the unit. Thirdly, and best of all for you, it will immediately work with Ogg files so no need to worry about converting your files.

For more information on Rockbox, and what players it will work with, head over to:
www.rockbox.org/

Hope that helps.

Dan.

Post 3 by blindndangerous (the blind and dangerous one) on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2009 21:23:25

With the 4th gen ipods though, he can have speech on it, elliminating rockbox. Plus, if his ipod goes down, and he has rockbox on it, apple won't help him because its open source. Or that's what I've been told.

Post 4 by Harp (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2009 11:30:40

Speach was only one of the benefits though. Not having to deal with ITunes and the fact that it plays Ogg's being the other 2.

It is of course all a question of preference but he has a problem for which Rockbox would be a good solution.

Dan.