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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I have my iPod 5th gen running on RockBox. IMO it's even better than the stock firmware because it can play flacs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And ogg and m4a and opus and so many more. I have an ipod 6th gen runnung rockbox. Its great. If the harddrive dies I'll replace it with sd-cards and still keep uaing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I have the iFlash solo, works great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I even had Doom running on it. The controls were difficult though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Oh, yeah, I played it too, got used to the controls enough to start having fun, though didn't finish any level.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rockbox is cool, I just wish it was able to replace the base system without touching the UI. Something about it just feels off on an iPod. Even supposedly iPod-accurate themes just feel uncanny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I've been using the adwaita dark one, matches my GNOME Fedora desktop on my PC.

[–] Takumidesh 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a shame rockbox doesn't support video playback though.

How is stability for you? My 7th gen with about 750gb is pretty unstable, mostly I have a lot of difficulty transferring since the iPod crashes 15gb in all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Mine's been great, though I have only about 2 GB of music on there.

[–] mesamunefire 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Same, someone also added a new battery at some point so I have an awesome weeklong working device. And after rockbox, its even better.