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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Open sourcing your iPod (or other mp3 device) ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Amarok]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-241908-2349115]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I've been using Amarok with my iPod mini for about 3 years now. Drag n drop, playlists, easy sync, plenty of great scripts available, themes, mySQL database, cover collection....it has everything I could possibly want, I've not had a reason to look anywhere else. **my favourite script add-in has been the alarm clock feature. Plays my morning playlist at a set time, bringing the volume up slowly until I'm bouncing out of bed. Then again the script for fading out the music is really nice too**]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeanie@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:38:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Been there, done that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I tried it already, nice. But I have a first gen Nano, and Rockbox doesn't work so well on that. It crashed constantly and only played music once or twice.If you really want to give it a try, it wont hurt though. I'm back to the boring iPod interface and removed the bootloader and rockbox folder without any leftover problems.The main reason I tried it was because I cant get iTunes 7 to install on my machine.  But then I found that Apple will let you download iTunes 6 from their archive. That installed, and now I'm able to not only get the playlists up and running among other things, but also have the nifty photo support which Rockbox didn't even attempt to support.I'd keep an eye on that site though, those guy are never going to stop improving their software. We just have to stay current with our mp3 players is all!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shadetree Engineer]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:28:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[themes]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i created a rockbox theme last night. it hasn't been accepted yet but when it does i'll post a link.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jlwallen@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:10:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rockbox is great!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-241908-2344600]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Been using rockbox for about 2 years now on my toshiba gigabeat f40 and its worked on the ipod even longer than that. It is by far the best audio playing O.S around and I won't be buying another mp3 player unless rockbox runs on it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rsnic]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:15:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[that's exactly why]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-241908-2344358]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[i switched the firmware. if Apple is going to pull such a stunt as to leave out the Linux community then why should I continue using their firmware (or buy more of their hardware for that matter)?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jlwallen@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:21:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Open Source iPods]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's very interesting to see an open-source firmware for the iPod.  I probably won't be swapping out the standard Apple firmware for it, though, cause I'm happy with the way it works now, and I have a car stereo with iPod connectivity and don't want to risk it not working anymore.I have a question about this firmware, though.  Will it allow syncing of an iPod/mp3 player?  I don't know about everyone else, but I have a large collection of music that isn't all tagged or tagged correctly, and I've been slowly going through and fixing/adding tags.  Whenever I plug my iPod in, I get all the changes updated during the sync process.  If I was dragging and dropping, I'd have to re-drag those files to my iPod, if I could even remember which ones had changed since the last time I'd plugged it in.What I'd really like to see is the standard iPod firmware work with Linux.  I've heard that it used to, but Apple changed it so it won't anymore.  I keep my music on my Linux server and share it on the network with  Firefly Media Server and I'd much rather just plug the iPod in there than have one copy of iTunes also connected to the library on the Linux box just for iPod syncing.  A release of iTunes for Linux would even be fine.  I just want easier iPod syncing, and I want it to be simple.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[brian.mills@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:54:01 -0700</pubDate>
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