How's it running like shit? Is overall navigation and other UI stuff more sluggish in addition to the increased booting time and powering down behavior? Sounds odd. If anyone has any solutions/good tutorials for iTunesDB shrinkage let me know! I have a 1TB "7th" gen that works great for the most part with iTunes, but I wanted to see what all the fuss was about with the 5th gen. Just wish the interface worked the same but I understand why not.Īll in all it is a beautiful iPod. So for now I will sync in iTunes and listen in Rockbox. I still love to use iTunes to manage my library due to the way it works and can incrementally sync (it knows what's newly added and I don't have to try to remember) and don't see myself resorting back to the old school file explorer/finder management that I did back before iPods and we all used WMP or WinAmp. I did use iPod Album Art Extracter for RockBox and some of them started working but there is still a lot missing. Having issues with album art since I still use iTunes to sync my library. Fortunately /u/MrBarkan made a theme which is loads better than the gawdy Rockbox themes of past. Resorted to using Rockbox, which I personally do not like. Takes forever to boot, to wake up, and will power down after being left unused rather than staying asleep. Tried to trim/shrink the iTunesDB file with Floola but couldn't get that to take affect. Only to find out it still works like shit, even though it boots now which is good at least. Had to source a 64MB logic board to replace the original 32MB due to the amount of songs in my library. White Front/Center with black scroll wheelīlack Chrome rear case (thick) with 256GB size inscription IPods with color displays use anti-aliased graphics and text, with sliding animations.Finished this project today, and boy was it a doozy. Play / Pause: this doubles as an off switch when held.Menu: to traverse backward through the menus, toggle the backlight on older iPods, and jump to the main menu on newer iPods.All iPods have five buttons and the later generations (4th and above) have the buttons integrated into the click wheel - a design which gives an uncluttered, minimalist interface, though the circuitry contains multiple momentary button switches. The iPod's operating system is stored on its dedicated storage medium. An additional NOR flash ROM chip (either 1 MB or 512 KB) contains a bootloader program that tells the device to load its OS from the storage medium. ![]() Each iPod also has 32 MB of RAM, although the 60 GB and 80 GB fifth generation, and the sixth-generation models have 64 MB. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, an iPod could spin its hard disk up once and copy approximately 30 MB of upcoming songs into RAM, thus saving power by not requiring the drive to spin up for each song.Ī portion of the RAM is used to hold the iPod OS loaded from firmware, but the majority of it serves to cache songs from the storage medium. Custom firmware has also been developed such as Rockbox (up to 1G - 6G requires emCORE) and iPodLinux (up to 5G, 6G has an encrypted firmware.) which offer open-source alternatives to the standard firmware and operating system. In March 2002, Apple added limited PDA-like functionality: text files can be displayed, while contacts and schedules can be viewed and synchronized with the host computer. Some built-in games are available, including Brick (a clone of Breakout), Parachute, Solitaire, and iPod Quiz. #Run floola from ipod classic updateĪ firmware update released in September 2006 brought some extra features to fifth-generation iPods including adjustable screen brightness, gapless playback, and downloadable games. However, as of September 30, 2011, these games are no longer available on the iTunes Store. History 1st generation Īpple introduced the first-generation iPod (M8541) on October 23, 2001, with the slogan "1,000 songs in your pocket".
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