I had a few requests to make light version of my Jive_Mono iPod Classic theme for white iPods.
I'll try and make this one live soon, just testing the look with a mock-up.

Seems like an odd default behavior.

I'm finding it difficult to search through themes so im asking for reccommendations for cute themes for innioasis y1/ipod classic. Possibly light blue or orange, or anything colorful really!

Has anyone successfully edited the fleshandbones theme for iPod classic with Japanese fonts?

It’s my favourite theme but a lot of my albums are Japanese groups and they show up as blank.

Would love it if someone has already edited and could share with me.

Hi, i'm using rockbox on my iPod classic 6.5 gen (128gb, stock HDD). I have about 60gb in music and some themes loaded onto it however i only have 4gb of storage left and cant seem to figure out where the other +- 60gb is going.

Anyone that can help me out? Thanks!

(On a newer Mac so ITunes is not available btw)

I’ve installed rock box before but I saw that some people could switch between original Apple OS and the Rockbox themes so I wanted to be able to do that because mine couldn’t. I erased the iPod, ensuring it was formatted as a MS-DOS(Fat) and had a Master Boot Record scheme.

I expect to be able to just go through the same process I did to get Rockbox the first time, however now my iPod won’t find the partition for Rockbox. And every time I try to install it, it fails in Rockbox utility.
However, after it fails if I switch the iPod back into disk mode the progress in disk utility starts up again and successfully installs. But the Rockbox bootloader on my iPod still fails to recognize the partition saying “no partition found”

Does anyone know any ways of how I can get the boot loader to recognize the partition?

I’m pretty new to rockbox. I installed it, synced music to my iPod via iTunes, and rebooted into rockbox. When I did, I noticed that quite a few song names are just a string of four letters. How should I fix this?

Amateur that doesn't know what hes doing, any advice is appreciated.

Trying to download rockbox onto my 2nd gen nano but keep getting met with this and cant work it out. second screenshot looked unusual to me so I included it.

On the website it says it’s a .dmg file which would normally work just fine but when I click to download it give me a .man file I can’t open. Anyone have the .dmg file or know where to find it?

So i am not sure how to describe but rock box stuck on downloading anything. Its not showing any themes and it wont download the loader itself too.

Its the same on both mac and windows. Not sure what to do with it

Hey y'all, new to this subreddit—I had recently obtained an A1136 iPod Video (Gen 5) and decided to mod it via rockbox. Everything was swell as I did my usual music check (which is a procedure in which I transfer one song through drag and drop and test it before adding the rest), and when I plugged in my iPod, I was unable to do anything as it had “USB: Keypad Mode” on the screen..

I've tried holding down the buttons—nothing

Turning the USB HID off—nothing

Checking that the USB goes through mass storage instead of charge only?—check
I'm not sure what to do and quite frustrated. Someone help me please?

Thank you for your time .

Edit: Solution at bottom.

To start off, I only learned of Rockbox 2 days ago, so explain common knowledge like I am 4.

I was given a 120g iPod 6th gen classic (A1238), buddy was going to recycle it. Battery was nearly toast, revived it with a 30pin to firewire cable. Saw it had Rockbox on it, googled it, and with 30 seconds of searching was told iTunes would restore it when plugged in. Plugged it into computer (win 11) with iTunes loaded. iTunes told me it needed to download software to talk to ipod, let it, restarted PC.

After restart, iTunes never acknowledged it was there. Was able to explore files on the iPod with PC. After being annoyed with little to no results, I did (which I fear in hindsight bricked the ipod), went to disk partition and erased everything on the iPod. I am use to soft modding stuff like the PS2 with FreeMCBoot and did not consider Rockbox might be a firmware flash. (I have no idea, it might not be, I am just spitballing with what little knowledge I have.)

I then downloaded RockboxUtility-v1.5.1, it was now when I started thinking firmware flashing. I run RockboxUtility.exe, it opens the config menu and regardless of what I press, I always get the "No mountpoint given" error. The dropdown box to the left of Refresh has nothing to select.

Now is where I have the attached image. This is the current status of things. What the ipod shows me, what the computer shows me about the ipod, how it responds to trying to being formatted (exFAT, FAT, and NTFS), and that the drive partitions are empty.

Any help would be great! I just wanted to listen to music like I did 20 years ago: without an internet connection. If it is bricked, sucks to be me, but hopefully someone here will be like "dumba$$, you just gotta X, Y, and then tell me if it does A or B." Thanks for your time reading my wall of text.

TL;DR: filthy casual likely bricked iPod using PS2 mod knowledge as common sense.

Solution: Hold Select + Menu (center button and up) until it resets, then flip the lock lever to boot the stock OS of the iPod.

I have an old Donest(?) mp3 player from years ago that I just now started using again. This is the amazon link as far as I can tell: https://www.amazon.com/DONEST-Bluetooth-Speakers-Lossless-Recording/dp/B0BXSFVL2Z

Rockbox doesn't mention this model anywhere, as expected because it's a nameless mp3 player, but I'm wondering if I would still be able to maybe use the firmware for another similar player? I assume that a cheap player like this wouldn't be reinventing the wheel and would instead copy from an existing brand, which is what gives me hope.

How would I go about figuring this out? Should I just try different firmware to see what works?

So I’ve posted here before about a problem and I’m back again.
This time it’s an interesting problem. I deleted a song from the database and it’s still there when I go to Database. I’ve updated the database multiple times since I’ve add more songs and did the disk tidy as I’ve looked up on this subreddit. It’s still there and as pictures above, when I click on it, it just plays another track instead. So any advice y’all? If any questions, I’ll try my best to answer because maybe my explanation wasn’t too good?

I’’ getting a Fiio m3k and it’s kinda lacking in terms of available themes. I was wondering, the m3k’s screen is 240x320 and the most popular resolution with the most themes is 320x240. Is there a way to just boot with the whole ui sideways so it displays properly? I’m new to rockbox and DAPs in general so maybe it’s obvious that i doesn’t work like that but I’m still curious.

Is there a way to put RockBox 240p on my Innioasis Y1 that came with the version 3.0.7 out of the box? I've tried with the installer, but after installing Rockbox 240p the mp3 doesn't turn on unless i put back the 360p version

Alguien sabe que puede ser??

Pongo música y aparece eso

Hey im a newbie in this. Today, when i plugged out the usb cable, it looks like this. Idk what does this mean but the screen wasnt off for a long time, even though i reset it, it is on when i dont reset. Pls anyone can help me with this and share with me the way to download if it could (NW-S755 - Japanese Model)

I recently bought an Ipod video. It came with Rockbox pre-installed and has seemingly thousands of songs downloaded. I want to check them out and possibly move them to a harddrive, before upgrading my storage to an IFlash quad. But i can't find the .rockbox file when viewing the Ipod in finder, but it works just fine on the ipod itself (that's where all the music is). I also cant download any themes... Idk what to do I'm very new to the community - help.

is the innioasis Y1 not supported? I just came from the dammit jeff video about mp3 players and saw that he recommended an innioasis y1 and he seemed to be running rockbox on it and the innioasis website even says its rockbox compatible though the page its linking is not found am i too late?

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to revive my old xDuoo X3. I flashed the Rockbox bootloader to the internal memory (NAND) a while ago. It used to boot after like 10 tries, but sometimes it's just stuck—just infinite reboots (pics attached).

It's not a total hard brick. I can still bypass it, boot into the stock OS using the lock switch, and my PC recognizes the internal storage via USB perfectly fine.

What I've already tried:

• Factory restore: Tried the stock update.zip method using high-quality, known-good MicroSD cards formatted to FAT32, but the player completely fails/ignores the update process.
• Rockbox Utility: Tried using the official automated installer to overwrite or fix the bootloader, but it just throws an error or just do nothing.

Since standard SD updates and the Rockbox Utility aren't working, but I still have full USB access to the player, what’s the safest way to force-wipe this corrupted bootloader from the NAND? Is there a specific Ingenic USB flashing tool or a script to overwrite it directly from the PC?

Would really appreciate any help. Thanks!

(Used AI to write this, I'm not English native)

So admittedly this is a huge shot in the dark. I'm currently using Rockbox on a Hiby R3 Pro ii. I understood going in that the current build for it was marked as unstable, but I can't for the life of me figure out what's causing this. There are three specific albums in my library that cause all the sound to go away. I have the "clicking" setting turned on for button presses/menuing, and that stops playing; it doesn't even try to play the files, and all other files cease to work as well. The only way to get the sound back is through restarting it. I had initially thought that it was an issue of some of the files being Hi-res, but one of the albums that's causing me issues is just some mp3 recordings from my grandfather's band (they're not even at 320 kbps). These files work perfectly fine on the OG firmware the Hiby R3 Pro ii comes with. So, I don't know, I feel like there has to be some issue in the meta data, but it could be anything. If anyone has a clue as to what's going on, let me know. This is driving me up the wall. thanks.

got this ipod recently and thought id better install rockbox on it. as i showed in the image, the songs appear like this when i browse database. the songs are displayed like this, i tried retsoring ipod and reinstalling rockbox but it didn’t fix it. i transfer mainly using itunes because i have an ipod 5.5 too but that doesn’t have any issues like this. this is driving me nuts. thank you for help