[Fwd: Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain]

[chris.com]

Hello Henrik,

> > Do you want me to load a 130 firmware and send you the iTunesSD?
>
> That would be great. Could you find out when that firmware was released?
Well here it is.
I loaded the 130 firmware and loaded with iTunes the 9 songs I sent earlier.
> In general I'd like to get the oldest firmware on it that you possibly can.
> Did any software come with the shuffle? Maybe a it contains a reset utility
> that contains old firmware?
It is the oldest I could find. There are the 130, 131 and 133 versions
around.
The 2nd gen ipod shuffle doesn't come with the reset utility, I had one
with the 1st gen shuffle.
The files inside the iPod_130.1.0.3.ipsw date from 06-14-07 02:06

The 131-version seems to be identical
And the 133-version dates from  02-26-08 04:10
> I've found some comment in a forum in late 2006: 
> http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=181616
> > When I updated my 1G shuffle, the computer said the firmware was for some
> > bug fixes and volume control, though I've noticed no difference in the
> > shuffle's operation.
>
> If that firmware FIXED the shuffle's behavior to what we see today, and 
> it didn't change from one vaild behavior (the one from 1g shuffle) to
> another (todays), then we might simply solve the issue by adding new model 
> strings to gnupod and change the behavior of mktunes accordingly.
>
> Does apple publish something like a changelog for their firmware updates?
Nope,
All it show is
• Enhanced support for 2 GB models
• Bug fixes

Btw I used the www.blinkenlights.ch firmware instruction
I wrote the firmware to a not existing device node: /dev/sdb1
Writing to it made the device visible and I has able to read the (same)
firmware from it.
But otherwise the device node is invisible and can't be mounted.
I checked with fdisk what kind of disk it is but it's very confused
about it:
        This doesn't look like a partition table
        Probably you selected the wrong device.



        Chris

iTunesSD
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