FreeLists / blindipod / [blindipod] June 28 iPod update report

[Woody Anna Dresner <adresner@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have some good news and some bad news regarding the June 28 iPod 
update.  If you have a Shuffle, go get it right away.  It fixes 
several bugs.  Some iTunes music files that wouldn't rewind or fast 
forward before now do, and Format 4 Audible books which wouldn't play 
in the Shuffle now do.  I haven't had a chance to find out whether 
the Audible bookmarking problems have been resolved, but this seems 
to be an improvement.

If you use an iPod with Rockbox, however, you may have problems.  If 
I have the Rockbox bootloader installed, no music in the iTunes 
database on my iPod will play when the Apple firmware is running.  If 
I uninstall the bootloader, however, this content will play.  If you 
don't have any protected content, like Audible books or iTunes music 
store tracks, you should be able to use this firmware without 
problems.  but if you do, you'll have to install the bootloader to 
play content in Rockbox and uninstall to play protected content.  I 
have reported this to the Rockbox list; I hope there will be a fix soon.

Cheers,
Anna

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