Video: Free your iPod to play OGG and FLAC

August 28th, 2007 by Tom Merritt Tagged with: flac, ipod, ogg, open source, rockbox

In this video Tom Merritt Rockbox turns your iPod into a FLAC- and OGG-playing, open-source monster.

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22 Responses to “Video: Free your iPod to play OGG and FLAC”

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

pit bike sale
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.

External HDD blog
September 26th, 2009 at 1:58am

I am loving this tutorial.

external hard drive blog
September 26th, 2009 at 1:59am

I tried this and it worked.

Jason Miller
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:09pm

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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

free mac dvd converter: http://www.macdvdconverter.com/

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.