iPodRocks v1.2.0 (major release)
iPodRocks v1.2.0 — star ratings, live tagnavi playlists and more
Hey! Posted here a few months back when I first released iPodRocks, my sync manager for Rockbox devices. I got a lot of great feedback!! Thank you. Been using it daily on my iPod Classic and kept adding things. v1.2.0 is the biggest update so far.
The two things I'm most happy about:
Star ratings. You can finally rate songs inside the app. They map to Rockbox's 0–10 scale natively, and the cool part is they feed into everything else: smart playlists, genius playlists, even the AI "savant" ones. It sounds small but it changes how you interact with your library a lot.
Tagnavi playlists. This took me a while to get right. Instead of exporting smart playlists as frozen .m3u files (which you can by default), iPodRocks can now write them directly as tagnavi entries in .rockbox/tagnavi_custom.config. Per-device opt-in so nothing breaks if you don't want it.
Other things that landed in this release:
- Device cards now show a live red/green dot so you know at a glance if your player is mounted
- iPod Classic, Nano and Mini get their own icons on device cards (small thing, looks nice)
- Smart playlist builder got a proper overhaul — pick genres, artists and albums together with a live track count preview
- Music Assistant now remembers things across sessions and can create playlists from plain English
Let me know what you think and if you like the project, a start on my github repo is a way of say thank you!
Project: https://github.com/JoaoSobral/ipodrocks-js
Releases: https://github.com/JoaoSobral/ipodrocks-js/releases
Documentation: https://ipodrocks.dev/
Always curious what other Rockbox users are missing from their workflow — happy to chat.
