Floydzilla with MPD
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MPD is a music player that works on the iPod. To use it, you need to have podzilla or Floydzilla with MPD. This is the December release of Floydzilla compiled for MPD. So you may be asking, what's so special about MPD? Is it any better then the Normal player? The answer to that is yes. MPD allows you to play games and use apps WHILE listening to music just like the Apple Firmware.
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Installation
Downloading
You may download this file: 
Installing
Note: Floydzilla must already be installed for some features of this to work
1. Make a start file on your iPod's root called that contains this:
mv /hp/mpd /sbin/ mv /hp/mpd.conf /etc/ mkdir /home/.mpd/ mkdir /home/.mpd/.playlists/ mv /hp/floydzilla /sbin/podzilla rm /hp/start
2. Place the files mpd, floydzilla, and mpd.conf in your iPod's root.
3. Reboot the iPod into linux.
4.
- Go to the File Browser -> etc and hold down the center button on the file rc until you can edit it in PodWrite. If you do not have Text Input enabled, enable it and put it on "Scroll-Through".
- Press menu and press move cursor. Move it all the way to the last letter of the second to last line (this may take a while).
- When you get there, press the center button and press play.
- Type ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 and press play.
- Type mpd --update-db then press play.
- Type mpd then press play.
- If you want to play iBoy, move the cursor to the last letter of the last line and press play. Then type the name of your iBoy executable. Press play again. Type podzilla.
- Press Menu and press save. Then press play and reset your iPod.
- Reboot the iPod into Linux and it will take a LONG time to boot. It is importing your music library into mpd. If you see something like "mhod to small", you have podcasts on your iPod. You must delete these for MPD to work.
- If you set up the iBoy thing, you press Power -> Quit Floydzilla to go into iBoy. Pressing Exit iBoy in iBoy will bring you back to Floydzilla, but it won't work a second time. To make it work a second time, keep making new lines that alternate beetween iboy and podzilla. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at ariw2003net@netscape.net.
Bugs & Problems
iBoy
When using iBoy with MPD, you can not launch it from the file browser. You must add it to the rc file as described in the installation section. Even then, sometimes iBoy won't load roms. When it does, you can play music and iBoy at the same time. The gameboy emulation will be kind of slow. Every once in a while, the music will start playing wierdly (It will play, but stop every few seconds). When this happens, you go back to the iBoy menu for a few seconds. Then you may go back. This gets annoying, but you'll get used to it. The longer you stay at the iBoy menu, the longer the music will play right, although a few seconds at the menu will give you much more then a few seconds of gameplay.
Too much work
If you are using a program that takes up a lot of processing power, MPD will start skipping.
External Binaries
If a song is playing in MPD, external binaries will fail to load.
News
Current Release Coming Soon... 4/25/06
Very soon I will be compiling the latest release of Floydzilla with MPD for those who want all of the great features in the current Floydzilla build that the old one didn't have such as Videos.
ZeroZilla 4/19/06
Floydzilla with MPD is going to be included with ZeroZilla! ZeroZilla is an awesome thing for your iPod that lets you choose what OS or application to use on your iPod. It's like TripleThreat/BleuLauncher, but better! You can find it here (http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9614)
