rockbox folder) reset iPod by holding Menu + Center, and immediately before the Apple logo appears, turn the hold switch on, and the iPod reboots back to normal default 'white' interface, sync the iPod under Musicbee as regular flash drive connection to /Music folder, and then install Rockbox bootloader back reset iPod again normally without the hold switch to boot back to Rockbox, all while leaving the internal drive /Music untouched. What I do is open the latest itunes.exe using 7zip and only extract and install the iTunes64.msi and AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi for lean bare bones support for iPod USB connections to restore the iPod.īecause Musicbee has a unstable connection under a Rockbox USB music sync, where the connection drops every few minutes while syncing what I do is uninstall Rockbox bootloader (not delete.

I do not use the iPod plugin because it force involves the use of iTunes. Not an Apple user but iPod is the only device I like to use but I dread installing iTunes just so that I can use Rockbox.

Musicbee is hands down the best music library, if not foobar2000. I've had catastrophic disasters with music libraries handled under iTunes, dropped it years ago.

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