davidof Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 hello. i have hdd usb i want to my hdd or pendrive working as ipod, its posible???? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted December 28, 2009 Report Share Posted December 28, 2009 What??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
davidof Posted December 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 i dont have ipod bot i want to use menu ipod in my avic 900bt its posible to instal soft to pendrive or hdd to emule ipod if conect to avic via usb? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 If your asking if you can use the software ipod interface with a device other then iPod the answer is no. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smithdwsn Posted May 5, 2010 Report Share Posted May 5, 2010 You should check an iPod Classic emulator for the iPod Touch. It runs fast and looking great. Touch screen is does have a LITTLE lag. In two colors, one is silver and other is black. It may be work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 It will not work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
m5james Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 I wish this wasn't such an open and closed subject. I bet for a while people we're saying that we'd never get 3.0 runing on the F90BT, but as of a few days ago, I had the simpliest FX3.1 installation on my F90BT that I've ever done. Since the iPod has it's own software, I still don't see why it can't be made to run on an HDD other than an HDD being a disk vs physical memory. The problem with searching for an iPod on ebay is that MILLIONS of them show up, so even if I wanted to make my first iPod purchase for being able to simply use it as a place to store mostly videos and some music, I wouldn't even know where to start and/or which one to get. I have NO clue what the differences are between a Nano, Touch, the largest sized iPod they make, which one will connect directly to the F90BT, etc. Is anyone willing to take a few minutes and school me/us along with posting a couple of ebay ads for what would be a good one to find (broken screen, etc) that will work as a storage device and nothing else? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/c ... -ipod.html Any iPod from the fifth gen will work, all Touches and all Nanos. Just decide which capacity you want. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
m5james Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 That narrows it down a little, thanks. I didn't know an iPod 160gb had an actual internal HDD and still has the room for a screen, buttons, etc while still being a small device. So that changes my whole perception that I stated above in fact that the internals of an iPod is a physical drive not just memory like in an SD card. So once again, what's keeping people from taking a drive like this http://cgi.ebay.com/Laptop-Apple-iPod-C ... 335e2ffae8 and transferring it over to a 2.5 HDD, throwing it into an external case and making it work? Before someone reading this tells me to go ahead and do it, I wouldn't even know where to start, so save the flaming. Point is, after seeing some of the mod writeups done for my deck, it's been proven someone out there is obviously smarter than me, so why can't this be done? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 No one said you couldn't use a HDD drive with the unit. You just cant use it with the iPod interface and nothing is going to change that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
m5james Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 I realize I can use an HDD and I know it's only goint to hook up through USB, I'm asking my question based on the thread title...putting iPod software or an emulator onto the drive so that every time we plug in the HDD, the AVIC sees it as an iPod and runs it as such so we can avoid all the lagging, etc issues that people have mentioned from using an HDD. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 And I have already answered the question several times in this thread now. This horse has been beat to death now for years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
m5james Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 You didn't answer the question with a why not, you just defaulted to "no" because it hasn't been done. Since the iPod is a harddrive running software that feeds to a screen, I still don't see why any HDD can't be made into an Ipod harddrive by taking it's software and just transferring it to something else. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
m5james Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Doesn't the iPod convert movies and and music into it's own specific format? This might sound too easy, but what about loading an external HDD with movies and music in the iPod specific format, folder arrangement, etc...maybe the deck would just default and think it's an iPod. All my computer, external HDD's, cables, etc are in Boise and I'm in Seattle, but I was playing with my little brothers iPod while helping him load music, and when it was plugged into his PC, it opened up just like a thumbdrive with folders for pics, music, etc. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it convert all of it's music to mp4a...what about movies? I was reading this thread http://avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... et+on+avic, but it still sounds like there are hitches on how quickly it recognizes and plays the files. Maybe it's something as simple as a complete format change of file types and folder structure as to how they're placed onto the hard drive instead of compressing/converting based on resolution. Am I still way off here then? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Quagmire Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 You didn't answer the question with a why not, you just defaulted to "no" because it hasn't been done. Since the iPod is a harddrive running software that feeds to a screen, I still don't see why any HDD can't be made into an Ipod harddrive by taking it's software and just transferring it to something else. An iPod/iPhone is more than just storage space (i.e. a HDD). It has RAM, a CPU and an operating system, and the "iPod software" is pretty much the OS + native applications that run on that hardware. A HDD/thumb drive/SD card is just storage space, it doesn't "run" anything the way you're thinking of. What you and the OP are asking for is an application running on the Nav unit or, more likely, a change to the nav unit software that would read the contents of the thumb drive and display everything as though it were coming from an iPod. You'd have to get Pioneer to do that. It isn't something as simple as file format or directory structure. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.