Dear iPod
Dear iPod,
Why you got to be hatin’? Ours has been such a torrid affair, and while I understand that you make a living being all closed format and crap, I need more, seriously, I just want to rock my Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) encoded songs… maybe a little Ogg Vorbis on the side. Where’s the love, iPod? Where is the love?!
I hate to do this do you, but I have have to install a third party boot loader on you. I just can’t live like this anymore. You see, Rockbox lets me play all sorts of codecs, even that accursed WMA, which I stupidly encoded so much of my music in when I was younger. Plus, I can even play Doom! Now that’s what I’m talking about. It actually gives me control over how I listen to my music, and with countless plug-ins I can do anything from install a Game Boy emulator to play some Pong.
It’s over iPod. Your firmware is dead to me, Rockbox is the one for me now.
For instructions on how you to can free yourself from the chains of Apple’s retarded format, check out http://www.rockbox.org.
Rockbox currently works on the following music players:
- Apple: iPod 3rd gen, 4th gen (grayscale and color), 5th/5.5th gen (video), iPod Mini and 1st gen iPod Nano
(not the 2nd gen Nano) - Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
- Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5 and M5L
- iriver: H100, H300 and H10 series
- SanDisk: Sansa e200 and e200R series
- Toshiba: Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series)
Aaron Nelsen is the webmaster and senior technology editor. He's a career geek, coffee enthusiast, Apple fanboy, and accomplished barista pimp. They've written 407 articles for Hijinks Inc.
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