rockbox help!

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2007 16:00:27

Hello all, I'm clueless! I have no idea what to do with rockbox and my iPod nano. First of all, I'm not even certain if my nano is a 1st gen. I think it is but not sure. Now what? How to get rockbox onto my nano? What will it do for me? I went to the rockbox iPod nano daily builds and downloaded the latest, but don't know where to go from here. I don't want to mess anything up.

I appreciate any help. Via here, pm, or on msn.
Thank you!

Post 2 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2007 17:38:35

Good evening. First, you have got to follow the instructions precisly. I loaded rockbox on an iriver h10 and you will need to download files for the voice as well as probably other files. There should be a step by step manual or text file describing how to do this. It looks rather daunting when you start but the instructoins should be pretty good. Not having an ipod I can't even start directing you but the text file should have all of that. please let us know how it goes.

Post 3 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 04-Jan-2007 9:03:17

Oh my gall y'all! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to figure this out. It's very technical. Lol, I haven't given up, but wowzer! It talks about command line promps, root directories, dot talk files, and so on. Definitely not a wing it type opporation.

Oh, and I finally know the difference between IPod Nano gen 1 and 2. 2nd is the one completely wrapped in metal. 1st has a stainless steel case back and feels like a plastic front.

The bummer is, the 2nd has a more defined circle.

Well, we'll see. I'll keep reading and hopefully get comfortable with this project. Lol, maybe I should play with the sansa a bit more.

Thank you for any further input you guys share.