Rockbox
Today I finaly liberated my Ipod nano with Rockbox. Don't know why I chose april the 1st to do this...
After flirting a couple of times with Ipod Linux and Rockbox I chose Rockbox. It seems a bit more functional and stable at the moment. Normaly I try to run Linux on everything I own, but Ipod Linux wasn't just ready enough for me. Maybe I didn't try hard enough.
The installation of rockbox on a nano is just plain simple. Download the code for your Ipod, download the fontpack and the ipodpatcher. Connect the Ipod to your computer, copy the contents of the zipfile to the the ipod and run the ipodpatcher. Reboot... done... easy.
One of the features I really like is that you can upload your log files to last.fm. This way I can finaly expand my musical taste with the use of last.fm.
The navigation through menu's is a bit different than what you're used to if you're used to an Ipod. I somehow keep pressing the wrong buttons. Instead of using the menu and select buttons to go through menus you use the ff and rew buttons. This is a bit awkward at first but after using it for a while it's more intuitive.
The standard Rockbox theme is ugly so I chose to go with a different theme. I set up the ipod Vision Real OSX theme which looks nice :-)
I also like that I don't need some tool to store music on my Ipod anymore. I just copy the music to my ipod and it works. No more Itunes (which is not available for Linux), gtkpod or whatever tool you can use for it. You can scroll through the files on your Ipod or use the Rockbox database for playing music.
Anywayz, I think I will have lots of fun with this and I recomend using it to everyone.
Screenshots (taken with phone):
