tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post1529323504214788935..comments2023-10-20T20:18:51.797+09:00Comments on Blues Tea-Cha: Radio Streams +Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-19936223334507108752010-10-05T20:41:37.366+09:002010-10-05T20:41:37.366+09:00I haven't tried Rockbox --yet. My understandin...I haven't tried Rockbox --yet. My understanding is that it is not platform-specific but is available as an installer for all platforms to put onto the players, replacing the onboard file-playing software. (I may be misunderstanding it.) <br /><br />It may be time to try Rockbox as I suffered a triple iPod failure on Monday. My first generation (2005) (which was missing but now found) Shuffle plays, but is not mounted anymore. I have temporarily abandoned it. The second-generation Shuffle that I have been using instead blinked orange and wouldn't play for my long Monday commutes. (Unlike the computers I hand down to kids, the players are now handed up to me since my requirements are so low.) Then the iPod Nano (First generation, also approximately 2005) that I use for audio in my classroom also failed, going into a long diagnostic series of dialogues, forcing me to revert to a CNN Student News-based lesson with oral questions that I made up on the fly. Only my one non-AAPL player, the Linux-friendly Transcend MP860, seemed to be OK, but it displays a very low charge, although rarely running out of juice. (To their credit, my iPods' batteries have performed better than I would have ever expected.) Thinking that the iPods had received the KILL signal from the root admin in Cupertino and at least one, possibly two or three had bitten the dust, I swung by the PC Depot on my way home to pick up another Linux-friendly Transcend player, the smaller, more shufflesque MP320 this time. I haven't broken it in yet, and the old Nano and the green clippy shuffle both came back into functionality. The Nano is formatted HFS+ and is read-only, but I may keep it that way as it has 3 textbooks' audio and my collection of music for my song worksheets on it. As I recall, Rockbox is not usable on the first generation Shuffle, but if it makes the iPod a normal USB-storage type player, I would like to try it on the green clippy Shuffle. I think it's working now. Maybe. I had it full of songs, but at times no songs were appearing in Banshee or Rhythmbox. As long as/if the player cooperates with Banshee and just works, I think I will keep it in its current pre-Rockbox state.<br /><br />I think Linux needs to work on the installer, the bootloader, better video support, audio support, and making everyday things like mp3-player management work better than iTunes. None of these are things Mark Shuttleworth seems to want to focus on. Fundamentally, music management with free software is better in that it's free and not DRMing the user with nagging or "syncing" restrictions, but IMO and in my experience the reliability needs to improve to be competitive with those other two proprietary OSes.Blues Tea-Chahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-50596131046353710282010-10-05T15:20:30.729+09:002010-10-05T15:20:30.729+09:00Tried Rockbox? or is that pc only?Tried Rockbox? or is that pc only?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com