From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:36:37 -0500

-FLACs should play fine at any bitrate, as they're much less cpu intensive
than Vorbis and MP3.
-There's no need to read the iTunes database really, as we have our own
format, with an automatic updater and everything.
-By "USB support is flaky" he means the iPod boots into Apple's Disk Mode.
It works fine, it just isn't in Rockbox at the time.

On 7/12/06, Jacob Rau <jacob.rau_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Cons:
> -No video--yet
> -No Audible books--probably will never happen
> -No DRM'd files from iTunes--probably will never happen
> -Will not read the iTunes database
> -More complicated interface than Apple's UI
> -USB support is flaky--will be fixed as soon as the USB stuff is
> reverse-engineered
>
> Pros:
> -Can play MP3, OGG Vorbis and FLAC well if they are at a low enough
> bitrate
> -Has voice menus (I have never used them myself, but we have blind users
> now)
> -It's open-source! If it's broken, you have the means to fix it! Also, we
> can write our own plugins for different things.
>
> I'm sure I've missed a bunch and this will start a huge debate + flood of
> emails, but these are the pros and cons from my point of view.
>
> Jake
>
>
> On 7/12/06, will <lomaswilliam_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > hi
> >
> > what can and cant, the IPod version of rockbox do now
> > regards, will
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jonas H" <rasher_at_rasher.dk>
> > To: "Rockbox" < rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: Battery level on Ipods.
> >
> >
> > > Woody Anna Dresner wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'm not sure what CVS means. As for daily builds, I look at the CVS
> > >> history on the main Rockbox.org page to see whether it looks like
> > >> anything likely to improve iPod performance has been done lately. If
> > >> so, I install the latest daily build. If not, I don't. Of course,
> > I'm
> > >> no expert, so it may be that I don't always guess correctly about
> > >> whether improvements have been made, but I do my best. Good luck.
> > >
> > > CVS builds are builds that include the very latest changes to the
> > > Rockbox source. A daily build is simply a CVS build, built on a fixed
> > > point of the day each day.
> > >
> > > The only reason to use a CVS build is if you know that something has
> > > been added or fixed after the last daily build was created. Or if you
> > > simply want all the latest, and can't wait until the next daily build
> > is
> > > done.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jonas H
> > > rasher(at)rasher(dot)dk
> >
>
>
Received on 2006-07-12