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Tudor Davies
Tudor is a techie turned manager who fights like mad to keep his tech skills honed and relevant. Everything from web hosting, networking, *nix and the like. Constantly developing and co-ordinating with others to make the web a better (and easier to use) place.
Friday, 2nd Sep 2011
Posted @ 06:59
I have moved away from having CD decks for my DJing (there is a CD drive in the laptop if someone has something that needs to be played), so humping around the decks and the controller is no longer necessary. What I do need however is a backup music source to switch over to should the laptop play up at any point.
I have an aging 6Gb iPod Mini (2nd Generation) which has exhibited battery issues (a normal thing with these models). I used to use it on a daily basis but this has dropped off in the past 3 years or so. So it needed a new battery.
After watching various videos on Youtube, I decided that this was an easy enough thing to do and ordered a high capacity battery from China for £2.10 which included all the tools required.
Yesterday morning, it took me all of about 3 minutes start to finish (the 2 longest parts were getting the top plastic panel off and sliding it back in with the longer battery leads getting jammed). Turned it on and everything works beautifully.
I now plan on getting another unit (secondhand obv.) replacing the battery and also swapping out the 4/6Gb Microdrive for a 16Gb Compact Flash drive. That will give me 2 units that technically I could actually DJ with at a push...
Anyway, when I had it plugged in and charging, I thought I would make a couple of more changes to it.
I already run Rockbox on it but its a hassle getting the system to boot between the 2 firmwares. I need to swap between the 2 because I have a Griffin iTrip that gives me crap sound under Rockbox but works perfectly under the Apple firmware. The answer to this issue? Install the ipodlinux bootloader menu. I followed the instuctions from here and a few seconds later I had a boot menu :)
I have an ipodloader.conf file in the root of FAT drive that looks like this:
# iPodLoader 2.6 config file
backlight = 1
timeout = 0
default = 1
# here come the menu choices:
iPod OS @ ramimg
Rockbox @ [win]/.rockbox/rockbox.ipod
Disk Mode @ diskmode
Reboot @ reboot
Power Off @ standby
The other piece of software I use is Sharepod which is a great little piece of software for managing the music files on the iPod (and iPhone now). I have it stored in a directory on the iPod itself, so that I can plug in anywhere and manage/play my music :)
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