I just installed iPodLinux on my iPod, hoping to play around with it for recording podcasts. I was going to just use Audacity on my laptop, but the fan wouldn’t turn off, so it was waaay too noisy to record in my office.
So, a quick run of an installer, and a quick search to figure out how to reboot into linux (reboot the iPod by holding down the “menu” and “play/pause” button until something happens, then hold down the “rewind” button until you see a penguin). It’s pretty darned freaky to see a linux boot on an iPod.
The reason I wanted to use iPodLinux, is because it doesn’t have the artificial 8KHz recording cap. You can set it all the way up to 96KHz if you want (but I found that flakey – 44KHz works best). Now, to scare up a microphone with a mini plug on it… (although you technically can record using your left earbud as a mic, it sounds like ass)
Oh, and it comes with better games, too… Asteroids, Tetris, Pong, Othello… Now, it really needs a version of Tempest. That would ROCK with the scroll wheel…
Thanks to links from Hackaday, Xlr8yourmac, Slashdot and a few others where I saw info about this…
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Tempest would be cool. I wasn’t much of a Tempest player, though. I was hooked on Star Castle instead – remember that one? If not, a quick Google search will refresh your memory. Star Castle would be awesome using the scroll wheel – though I don’t think the iPod is quite up to the task of vector graphics.
Oh, yeah… Star Castle was cool. It was in my local convenience store for a while, and I got pretty good at it. I bet the iPod could render it OK, but the controls would be a bit quirky (how to accelerate? shoot? smart bomb? turn?) It could get a bit crowded on the scroll wheel…
But still… it is pretty cool having Asteroids on the iPod…
Hey.
How do I install a podcasting recorder on a G5 to
capture streaming radio, then to Ipod?
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