I recently acquired a 5th Generation iPod Classic (a.k.a. iPod Video), and when I announced said acquisition a good friend of mine mentioned something about trying something called Rockbox on it. I had no clue what this was, but it was easy enough to find out: it replaces the firmware, the default software/OS/whatever on your iPod with something else.
Rockbox is open source and free, with multiple versions for a good deal of MP3 players, from iPod 5.5 Generation back and a whole slew of others. It took me about fifteen minutes to install Rockbox on my iPod and almost immediately I started playing around with it. There’s games, apps, you can read txt files, on top of the conventional stuff. Pretty nifty for an older MP3 player!
Now, me being me, I decided the the default skins weren’t good enough, and went snooping around for other skins I could possibly use. I found a really nifty Winamp skin for iPod Color, but unfortunately it won’t work for my iPod Video. I was pretty heartbroken upon figuring this out.
But never fear! I thought. This is an open source community, I should be able to find something somewhere.
Turns out, no.
So I ended up having to make one myself, and hope that some beautiful, wonderful soul in the community will help me code it once I’m finished. Currently it’s only an “alpha” version, as I’ve already spotted several tweaks I want to make to it, and I’m looking for some sort of community feedback as well.
What are your thoughts? What should be changed and what is good?
Posted by Tallain 
