I keep getting daily emails from iPod owners left high and dry because they can't get hold of a version of of iTunes that works on Windows Me (Apple have left a lot of users high and dry by not supporting this aged but nonetheless still used operating system).  This post if you you guys.

There are a few alternatives to using iTunes (such as using WinAmp and installing the iTunes database importer and the M4P input plugin, detailed here) but here's an even simpler solution - change the firmware altogether for the open source firmware from Rockbox .  What Rockbox seems to lack in style it more than makes up for in functionality and additional features.  I don't have an iPod to test this out on but if I did I think that the first mod I'd make would be to blitz the standard firmware and install this.

The only drawback I can see is that this firmware doesn't support DRM formats such as AAA (iTunes music store) or AMA DRM files.

Interested?  Check out the review of Rockbox on CNET .

This entry was posted by the PC Doctor on Monday, May 1st, 2006 at 23:18 and is filed under Kit!, PC Doctor's Useful Links. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.