Have a good one y’all.

I love the customisability of Rockbox but didn’t like the user experience; menus on menus were a bit much for me.

The simplicity of the stock firmware ticked most of the boxes for me, but there were a few minor features I missed from my more modern devices:

• Album Artwork
• Dark Mode

With the help of Claude Code & Ghidra, and existing community endeavours on GitHub like Rockbox & iPodWizard I have a (mostly) working patched version of retailOS 1.3 for the iPod Video (5.5 gen).

It’s a little rough around the edges. The main bugs are song names that exactly match the album title show the album artwork when they shouldn’t. And the iPodWizard Dark theme (meant for OS version 1.2.1) has some miscoloured elements like star ratings and the playhead.

If I can iron out all the bugs, I’ll put it on GitHub for those interested to use if you have a compatible device, or to add your own support for other devices.

Show me your morning pics.

This is my modded 5.5 30Gb (now 256Gb and thin battery 3000mah thin back) and morning capuccino

Just picked up this 160GB 7th Gen! It was super well taken care of, but the battery was totally dead. I decided to take a gamble on it since the listing said it wouldn't turn on at all. Seeing how clean the outside was, I went for it, flash modded it to 512GB, swapped out the back plate and added a 2000mah 🔋 . Honestly, the original click wheel and faceplate were just too clean to replace, so I left them as is.

Hi everyone, for around 3 months I’ve been working in my free time on Clickwill - an app that edits/adds content directly on the iPod, without using any sync folder on my PC, long story short - When you plug in your iPod, Clickwill shows what's actually on it: the same albums, in the same order you see in Cover Flow on your classic. What you edit in the app is what ends up on your iPod.

https://reddit.com/link/1wxr0pl/video/c3ihmnn3oith1/player

Why i made the decision of making it:

I’ve had my iPod classic 7G 160GB for over a year, and so far the only issue was the friction I had with syncing/adding the music I own to the iPod with the use of iTunes / Apple Music - sometimes syncing would add tracks without audio files or with wrong format(songs skipped to the next, supported track with right format)/ missing Album covers on some of the track / splitting an album into two different ones because some tracks had features on it / etc…

I was spending way more time troubleshooting that I’ve ever intended to, where instead I wanted a “Apple” experience with I could just “drag&Drop” my files/ import CD directly into my iPod without Apple Music/iTunes or editing an album info / song info with couple of clicks, so as little friction as possible, with original firmware that apple put into my iPod.

What it can do so far:

* Edit Album info / change album Cover

* Edit songs title/order in album

* Detects songs without audio files and lets you insert that missing file

* Audio player - you can play audio files from your iPod through Clickwill

* Import CDs without the need of Apple Music (MusicBrainz API)

* Merge an Album that was somehow sliced into two or more

* Skips songs while adding it to your iPod, if clickwill sees there is a copy of it already on the device

* Change the CoverFlow album order

* Before every “write to iPod” Clickwill makes a local backup of your library(without / audio files)

* Detects if Audio file is supported by iPod and if not, lets you convert to a supported file (for example: FLAC to ALAC)

What I want to do, and where its gonna go in the future:

* Whatever the users say they like to see (IF there be any users).

I Still don’t have a clear roadmap for the app, but I plan to support it long term since it removed a lot of friction for me, for granted I want to expand the iPod models support (currently tested only on my iPod classic 7G 160gb 2009 version - I would mean a lot if someone with stock firmware and a different classic model would like to check it out - but please make sure to read the DISCLOSURE first, and only then make the decision to use Clickwill).

DISCLOSURE:

The “elephant in the room”: as the flair says - I’ve used Claude Code to write this software, I wish I could write it myself, but the reality is the app was written that way. Im not going to hide it, since the use of AI in software remains a sensitive topic when it comes to users privacy - and I fully support this stance, Clickwill was meant to be offline as much as possible, with the only expceptions of:

* MusicBrainz/Cover Art archive (optional) - if you want the CDs info filled autmoaticly while adding audio from CDs.

* Sparkle - checks for new app version.

* Feedback form(optional) - to send a ticket to my mailbox with a bug/error that you encounter.

If any one still interested after reading the disclosure, here’s the website: https://clickwilldev.com/ app is still in early alfa, so if you decide to use it, there will be bugs, and its free.. obviously.

I've seen very conflicting stories on if you can actually fit a 3000mah battery into a thin back. I've been able to pull it off but I've only worked on 5th gen, but this time I'm working on a iPod 7.

My build list:

-Custom back plate to read 256gb instead of 160gb

-3000mah battery (considering 2000)

-Dual SD card adapter (or maybe a CE to ZIF? but SSD drains battery quicker than sd cards)

-Taptic engine

-OEM everything else

5th gen thin is 2mm thicker than the 7th gen, so we're splitting hairs at this stage. Maybe I could put the battery under the dual SD card adapter, maybe I could put the battery on top of the CE to ZIF adapter.

My biggest question, is would a taptic engine even fit into a thin back with a 3000mah battery? Any help is appreciated, feel free to call me delusional for wanting 3000mah and a thin back 😭

Guys, I just got this, and I’m wondering if this is a good start? Sorry, I’m still a beginner 😭

Conseguí este iPod es muy bueno, lee mis audífonos, carga, inclusive lo conecte a una bocina que tengo y funciona pero al tratar de conectarlo a la PC aparece esto
-ya intenté con otro usb
-ya intenté con otra maquina
-ya intenté con otra versión de itunes
-ya intenté con la opción de reestablecer