![]() ![]() First off, thanks to reader “Goats” for poking me. I needed a kick up the arse to get back to this blog thing. In August of last year I mentioned in passing that I fitted a solid state drive to an old 2006 iPod Video (aka 5th generation). So I guess the first question is, why would anyone in their right mind want to be using an iPod which is nine years old!? Its bigger than an iPhone, has no touch screen, and small kids would probably point at it and laugh, if they weren’t too busy staring at the device in their hands to actually notice the real world go by. This adapter allows you to convert your iPod Video (5th/5.5 gen) and iPod Classic (6th/6.5/7th Gen) from using a hard drive to using compact flash cards. I did it because I care that when listening to music, I can enjoy the deep bass and high highs of the music, which are thrown out with the bathwater by your average mp3. I spent a while back in 2008 ripping every single CD I owned to FLAC loss-less audio format, and then promptly started to curse every car stereo maker in the world for the lack of FLAC support for 6 freaking years, until some finally started appearing on the market. Home hifi wasn’t an issue as our HTPC could play FLAC out via its digital interface through the receiver, and much good quality music listening was done, but portable audio wasn’t happening. When we finally bought a car with a native usb iPod interface, I decided that instead of more cursing about FLAC, it was time to investigate ALAC, the Apple loss-less format – so I batch-converted all my FLACs into ALAC format too, and tried them out on an old iPod I bought. Great, except your average 30GB iPod’s capacity is just not adequate, and neither are all the current iPhones, iPads etc. ![]() I dug through some forums and discovered that people were installing bigger hard drives (yes, actual spinny mechanical drives, crazy, I know!) into old iPods for extra capacity. I snorted, and figured there would be a better way, and came across people putting Compact Flash cards into early iPod Mini’s. Have you seen the price of Compact Flash cards lately? Oh Em Gee. Product: One iFlash CF Card plus one SD-CF Converter.For those seeking solid state storage capabilities for their iPod, the iFlash-CF allows you to install and use CF Compact Flash Cards.With much lower power consumption than the original Hard drive, longer runtimes and quicker user interface. So I wisely decided to go with SSD… $100 and a used 250GB mSATA drive later, I was ready to roll. Remember, the goal here is to make an iPod I could just chuck in the glove box and leave there attached permanently via umbilical to the car’s stereo, so cheap was the way to go. So why the 5th Gen iPod?Īdvantages of these old iPods is twofold.įirst, their electronics. They’re actually the last generation of iPod to use the acclaimed Wolfson DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter – the chip which turns 1’s and 0’s into beautiful harmony). ![]() If you’re an audio nerd, you might even appreciate the numbers on the device, SNR 94dB and THD 0.0034% (courtesy of this site here). Are there any CF-SD adaptors that DO support the power management? That’s a much cheaper route than trying to find a 256GB CF card.The various iPhones can’t hold a candle to it. Thanks for that-nice to finally have an answer. Quote from: speachy on February 28, 2021, 10:01:37 AM -I strongly suspect the decreased battery life is a side-effect of the data corruption fixes, which basically prevent powering down the iPod's storage subsystem.Īh, makes sense. The corruption was a result of killing power too early, so to be safe we never power it down when the storage device doesn't claim to support power management) (the iFlash adapters don't properly support the standard ATA power management commands, so Rockbox has no way of knowing when it's actually safe to kill power. I strongly suspect the decreased battery life is a side-effect of the data corruption fixes, which basically prevent powering down the iPod's storage subsystem. I'd go with a 128GB CF card but those cost more than I've spend on the entire iPod setup so far.Īnyone using a CF-SD card adapter with Rockbox and getting decent battery life? If so, what model adapter are you using? Other posts on the interwebs indicate the iFlash CF-SD adapter may be to blame. This was determined by playing the same MP3 album on repeat in both OS's. I'm using the iFlash CF-SD adapter and my battery life in Rockbox is absolutely atrocious. Third Party > Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable PlayersĪnyone out there running an iPod Mini 2G with Rockbox and a CF-SD adapter? IPod Mini: Battery Life with Rockbox and CF-SD Adapters? ![]()
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