I like it, but thats a debate for another thread. Yes i have used Rockbox, i have 4 ipods, its on one. Of course, if you care about such things, then thats not really a viable option, which is when people switch to Rockbox. So you can increase the # of songs that will 'fit', by deleting unnecessary tag info. This means a file with nothing in the ID3 tag will consume less database space than one that has artist, album, album artist, composer, track, year, genre, artwork, lyrics, etc in it. There are variables to this every entry in a file's ID3 tag takes up space in Apple's database. Every other logic board has 64 MBs of ram, and they cap out around 30-40k songs. These versions seem to cap out around 15-20k songs. You can check the model # in the ipod software, under Settings/About. Specifically, any ipod that came from Apple w/ a 30 GB drive, only got 32 MBs of RAM. Apple must have known this would be a problem, as the smaller capacity ipods have 32MBs of RAM while the larger ones have 64MBs. However not all boards are created equal. The limit is defined by the amount of RAM on the logic board.
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I saw several posts already with good info i wanted to comment on several, but ive decided to compile all this info here in one place instead.Īs youve noticed, the stock ipod software (not really itunes but we'll call it that) does have a limit to the database size. I'll probably take out 256gb and see if that does help because I am not quite sure if was to much storage to read properly or to many songs. What is your experience? Where are the limitations? I obviously wanted to much and he was overwhelmed with 20'000+ songs. Now I put a few songs on him and it worked. SO I reseted, and he got stuck on the reset for several hours until I gave up and went into DFU and restored. When I tried to play a song he got stuck and wasn't responding. It worked and I unplugged him in the evening. No biggie happened before with OG ones so I just have to wait a bit longer. During the night something went wrong and about 9'000 songs didn't sync. I synced all my 23'232 songs and went to bed with high hopes for the morning to enjoy my library on the go. Plugged the bad boy in and was amazed that it worked and iTunes took it like it was nothing. This all worked quite fine and the installation (after ruining a headphone jack ribbon) went well. i Flash Quad with: 2x256gb and 1x128gb (iTunes gives me a 589.62gb capacity).Back plate from a 30gb 5th gen in ok-ish condition.Clickwheel from a good condition 6h (the middle button from my og).The Front Panel is from my one true iPod I had for 11 years (it certainly shows, grey and worn down but I love him this way).So I did and I call him "Frankensteins Monster the iPod" because: I had for about 11 years finally broke down so I had the idea of getting a 5th gen and put a iFlash quad in it for maximum storage. I used to have several different iPods and other music players over the years but I seem to get drawn back to the classic every time. To skip to my actual point without the story only read the BOLD part on the bottom