Video: Free your iPod to play OGG and FLAC
August 28th, 2007 by Tom MerrittIn this video Tom Merritt Rockbox turns your iPod into a FLAC- and OGG-playing, open-source monster.
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Wonderful job right here. I seriously enjoyed what you had to say. Keep going because you absolutely bring a new voice to this topic. Not many people would say what youve said and still make it interesting. 
Jorge
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:52pm
Does it work with IPod Nano 3rd Gen? (Rockbox site seems to say it has no product for Nano G2 and G3)
marcela garcia
May 15th, 2008 at 1:10am
cool
Anthony
May 29th, 2008 at 11:07pm
Won't work on new iPod Classics. The firmware for iPod classic, iPod touch, has an encryption that they are trying to get past right now.
Anders
August 13th, 2008 at 6:33am
From what i've read, there will be no Rockbox or IPL for the new iPods, simply because they're encrypted. It would take years to bruteforce them, and unless apple releases any info on how it's done (lol) they will most likely never be cracked :/
bongedob
December 29th, 2008 at 4:42am
Seems that none of the ipod nanos are supported as far as I could see from rockbox website ...
Gurph
January 8th, 2009 at 9:41am
very nice post, got the whole thing running in 20mins or so and its got some very nice themes on the site. cheers
Mikr
February 27th, 2009 at 1:33pm
It works, and it's easy to install on a 5.5G ipod. People should be aware though that some things, like album art, are not as user friendly as when using itunes based ipods. The sound quality it better with Rockbox though, and far more "tweakable." Personally, I think the fact it plays FLAC is worth the loss of other features!
mp3 cd players
March 14th, 2009 at 8:19pm
it can't works.. i tried twice.. huff where it could be the problem?
mp3 video players
May 26th, 2009 at 6:01pm
does it real work? why did some people say it work and another say it didn't work,, oke i'll try by myself
hans kroll
May 26th, 2009 at 11:14pm
it does work! I followed the steps in the video, was nothing to it, really.. I'm downloading some new themes right now, because the default ones suck... But the whole reason I wanted this was to be able to play flac on my iPod... I haven't actually tried this yet, so if anybody knows how, please tell me... thanks!
cremeschnitte
June 15th, 2009 at 6:20am
Well, I am still amazed! The German internet doesn't provide me with so 'usefull' information's. thank you :-)
jack miof
June 21st, 2009 at 3:04am
They have an installer now that makes it easy. Anything can be compromised. Apple makes it tough on purpose because music studios want a low quality codec like mp3 sold so they can sell higher quality CDs in the store. Flac enabled MP3 players casue a whole new problem for them as the codec is 99% of CDs
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August 20th, 2009 at 2:18pm
Hello folks, thanks for this tutorial.
GregS
August 24th, 2009 at 8:20pm
Currently I have an old iRiver MP3 player and all of my files are in OGG format. Does this technique work for newer iPods? GregS
iPod Prices
September 12th, 2009 at 1:53am
Great tutorial, I'd heard about Rockbox before but never realised just how easy it was to get it up and running on an iPod.
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September 26th, 2009 at 1:58am
I am loving this tutorial.
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September 26th, 2009 at 1:59am
I tried this and it worked.
Jason Miller
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:09pm
What a wonderful tutorial. This is one of my favorite sites. Hopefully you will continue with your great website! golfkurse
deed
December 5th, 2009 at 9:48am
FLAC is 100% of the CDs. I've had rockbox on my iPod photo for ages now but I don't really like it. Don't know why, I suppose I should force myself to get use to it. Or maybe the older version I have is a lot worse than the most recent one. Hmm.
visfee
December 17th, 2009 at 6:03pm
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Shower doors
January 7th, 2010 at 1:31pm
Took me ages to find this post, this time I'll bookmark it.
Stevo
March 7th, 2010 at 11:32pm
Awesome. Thank you.
Arthur Kaye
April 1st, 2010 at 7:34am
iPod has to be formatted with FAT 32 to work. I'm not going there.
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April 9th, 2010 at 4:46am
Thanks! Was searching for this since bought iPod.
stoixima
April 27th, 2010 at 12:39am
I can't get this to work...
James
May 10th, 2010 at 2:28am
I'm also going to blog about that. Your time isn't going to waste with your posts. ______________ James | Digital photo cameras
emily
September 28th, 2010 at 4:27pm
i often use some audio converter to convert ogg to iPod/iphone compatible formats like MP3. i often download its free version at http://www.bigasoft.com/audio-converter.html
frosty
October 20th, 2010 at 7:05pm
hate to do it, i love high quality..but i have no choice
Waterproof Socks
November 12th, 2010 at 9:22am
Pretty cool. Although, 320kbps is still pretty decent. And you're going to want to have the higher capacity iPods if you're loading it with a bunch of FLAC files.
sittichai
December 4th, 2010 at 2:54am
great it's the awesome ipod reviews
roofing indianapolis
February 4th, 2011 at 8:28am
No way! I gotta give this a try. I got a new ipod anyway because mine unexpectedly quit, then after I bought the new one it started working again, haha. This will be a fun weekend project. Thanks!
David Haydan
March 6th, 2011 at 2:37am
IPOD is a fantastic designed device. But bit costly and too restrictive in formats that plays. I would go for Zune for peace of mind
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March 27th, 2011 at 7:24am
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Ronald Dan
September 15th, 2011 at 2:49am
Thats really a nice informative post
Lucinder
October 28th, 2011 at 10:30am
Thanks
Magic Mesh
November 12th, 2011 at 4:16am
got a new ipod anyway because mine unexpectedly quit, then after I bought. Magic Mesh