Rockboxin’

Okay, I did what most would consider really dumb today. I bought myself an iPod, even though I don’t have any music in MP3 format on my computer. Instead, I installed Rockbox on my iPod so that I can play my Ogg Vorbis music files. There aren’t players on the market for Ogg Vorbis that have decent hard drive space, if you ask me. So now, essentially, what I’ve done is setup an Ogg Vorbis player using Apple hardware.

I’m actually pretty impressed with Rockbox. The theming is pretty neat, and there’s a ton of plugins that come loaded by default. The one that I didn’t get loaded on there was the Gameboy emulator. That could be neat. The installation of the firmware was really easy, too. I unzipped two files onto the device and ran a program where I typed y to install the bootloader. That was it!

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