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Improve your iPod with Rockbox (NewsForge)

Posted Apr 15, 2006 23:24 UTC (Sat) by jwb (guest, #15467)
Parent article: Improve your iPod with Rockbox (NewsForge)

Do any readers know how RockBox impacts battery life on iPods with flash storage? I have the very first revision of iPod, the 5GB with scroll wheel, and iPod Linux kills the battery life of that model. I have yet to try alternate firmware for the iPod nano.

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Posted Apr 16, 2006 0:02 UTC (Sun) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]

According to http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodRuntime, the iPod nano lasts between 7.5 and 8.5 hours when playing high bitrate Ogg Vorbis files. I think I've read that the iPod ports don't have much in the way of battery optimization yet, but I don't own an iPod so I can't say firsthand.

The iPod ports are considered to be beta quality, so don't expect a totally polished product just yet.

Vorbis Q8?

Posted Apr 16, 2006 8:09 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

This chart seems to corroborate an earlier posted statement that 256kbits/s Vorbis is supported under RockBox on iPods, because (if I understand correctly!) that's roughly the rate that corresponds to Q8. I wonder why iPodLinux's status page still claims only 128Kbits/s...

Vorbis Q8?

Posted Apr 16, 2006 14:52 UTC (Sun) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]

iPodLinux has nothing to do with Rockbox. While the developers sometimes share hardware specs and low-level iPod chipset information, the two are completely separate codebases. Don't assume that because something works with one project it should work with the other.