Adding More Space to the Nomad Jukebox? 11
A member of the Anonymous Coward clan asks: "A Nomad Jukebox would be great with a 20 gig HD! I'm impatiently waiting for someone to confirm that it can be hacked by replacing the standard 6gb HD with a larger one." Has anyone tried this yet? With the popularity of digital music increasing, I don't think 6gb will be enough for some users (including me!).
You CAN do this on the Personal Juke Box 100 (Score:1)
I took out the old 4 gigger and dropped in a Toshiba 20. Once connected to its Windows application via USB, the thing formatted instantly and was ready for lots and lots of songs. Do keep in mind that the PJB-100 is not compatible with all IDE drives - just some IBM and Toshibas - without extensive modification.
I'd advise anyone looking for a truly useable portable music libary with lots and lots of capacity to check it out.
Well, I've never looked at one closely, but -- (Score:1)
* They're using a standard interface, prolly IDE. Likely as it would keep things cheaper.
* There's nothing terribly propietary on the drive itself. Formatting, some type of id blocks, etc.
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Hacking the Nomad Jukebox (Score:1)
Be forewarned that the Jukebox is already pretty slow, and adding two or three times as many songs to its index will only make matters worse. It's been reported that it takes about 2 minutes just to get a 12GB unit to finish booting.
I'm currently trying to hack the IR. Am dying to use my Palm as a playlist/remote control device... If anyone has any info on the IR controls, please drop me a line.
Eric
Re:The guy has a point (was Re:[OT] Kharma Whores) (Score:1)
and as far as who has more than 6gb, im on 12, and expect to hit 20 before the end of the month
Re:20 gigs.. yawn (Score:1)
I've got one. (Score:2)
6GB is a lot of space, even if you encode at 160kbps, as I do. There's about 1.5GB taken up by pre-encoded music, including readings of Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein, plus a lot of classical and a nice mix of other music. Since then I've put a good number of my CDs on it and I still have 2GB free.
Now for the real question: anyone hacking a USB interface to let me upload music?
[OT] Kharma Whores (Score:1)
Through an innovative system whereby the first peons that return useful information are rewarded with meaningless "kharma" (I mean, geeze, we even put a cap on how much they can have!), we have created a society of "kharma whores" ready to do your bidding!
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That said, my quick search on google didn't turn up much
Slightly [OT] (Score:1)
I have a probably ~6GB of mp3s (after my last purge), and 80% of those I wouldn't need with me in the car...
No Information that I could find (Score:1)
o Google. Nothing. Zilch. Just lots of reviews.
o mp3board.com. No discussion of hacking.
o deja.com. Useless these days, nothin' doin'.
So I'm curious, make that *very* curious. Does anyone have one of these? Opened it up? Examine the hard drive? I have a laptop, and it can take multiple hard drives...perhaps if I could mount the hard drive from the PJB, get a bigger one, copy the old files to the big one...?
Has *anyone* hacked around with this beast? Can you imagine the potential of a 25GB (my laptop drive) or bigger MP3 player?
Post any info please!
Too Expensive.. The Neo 35 is a better buy! (Score:1)
The guy has a point (was Re:[OT] Kharma Whores) (Score:1)
I'm not sure this has been done before - there really is no information out there that I could find, but its a great idea. It probably just isn't useful to non-geeks because who has more than 6GB of mp3s?
This is pretty niche, but it would be incredible if it worked...