Rockbox 3.6 and beyond

This article got me to install Rockbox on my old iPod 3G, which had been sitting in a drawer collecting dust; made an old toy feel like a new toy again! Alas, my setup wasn't as painless as the author's -- for some reason, the automatic setup wasn't able to find my device -- but the manual install was pretty straightforward, once I figured out how to get the iPod showing up as a raw disk drive (hint: USB is better than Firewire, unless your system is already configured properly... :-) I had a hang when it first rebooted after the install that totally disabled all controls; had to let the battery run down to get it restarted. (Of course, battery is nearly dead, so this went well enough.) Building the database on the iTunes-installed mp3 library worked, though it took hours. Had a couple other minor glitches, but it played a couple albums of tunes just fine. Tried out the Sudoku game -- amusing, but I think I would get frustrated very quickly with the controls. Nice to have so many options to play with now.

Now to get some ogg tunes on the device and see how it works...