Rockboxitunes
Frank Gevaerts and Jonas Häggqvist in the Rockbox project spent some time the other night when they should’ve been sleeping and made the Rockbox USB stack possible to fake being an iPod and thereby tricking iTunes to work with a non-iPod player quite transparently. As the picture shows, the target used here is a SanDisk Sansa e2×0 player…
This is still work in progress and not yet in SVN. Keep up with the bleeding edge activity in the #rockbox IRC channel on freenode!
March 14th, 2009 at 22:10
And as for the code: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/10023
March 14th, 2009 at 23:12
It’s weird. People are taking this seriously.
March 15th, 2009 at 18:37
If it is not seriously it should be
March 15th, 2009 at 22:06
Riffer: the screenshot is real enough, and so is the code. What surprised me is that people seem to seriously want this.
March 16th, 2009 at 17:44
Get the ease of Apple with the prices of an old sansa!
March 17th, 2009 at 20:05
That is the point!
I ask myself is what apple thinks about this…
… but as we all know they do not give anything about the prior art of rb in usability.