Second Generation Shuffle Hacking...?
Ok, I have a very strange question/perdicament.
Is it possible to hack into a shuffle and enable it to play the following sound file formats: .xm, .mod, .it, .s3m?
Here's a little background story to clarify:
I work with music sequencing programs such as Renoise, Milkytracker, Fasttracker, etc. There are grid-based sample sequencers popular in the underground electronic scene and a huge part of the chiptune Demoscene over in Europe (and in some US parts). I have about 2000 chiptune songs in those file formats (.xm, .mod, .it, .s3m) and they take up hardly any space whatsoever. Mere kilobytes at the most. So I started thinking it would be awesome if I could fit them all on a shuffle, but I would need some sort of hack or something to read them. Converting them to mp3 is out of the question because they become normal-size files.
I put Linux on one of my old iPods and used a tracker-file player on that which worked nicely. Is this possible on a shuffle? Or am I in the far reaches of outer geekdom right now?
PowerMac G4 800MHZ Mac OS X (10.3.9) Second Gen. Shuffle, Silver
Is it possible to hack into a shuffle and enable it to play the following sound file formats: .xm, .mod, .it, .s3m?
Here's a little background story to clarify:
I work with music sequencing programs such as Renoise, Milkytracker, Fasttracker, etc. There are grid-based sample sequencers popular in the underground electronic scene and a huge part of the chiptune Demoscene over in Europe (and in some US parts). I have about 2000 chiptune songs in those file formats (.xm, .mod, .it, .s3m) and they take up hardly any space whatsoever. Mere kilobytes at the most. So I started thinking it would be awesome if I could fit them all on a shuffle, but I would need some sort of hack or something to read them. Converting them to mp3 is out of the question because they become normal-size files.
I put Linux on one of my old iPods and used a tracker-file player on that which worked nicely. Is this possible on a shuffle? Or am I in the far reaches of outer geekdom right now?
PowerMac G4 800MHZ Mac OS X (10.3.9) Second Gen. Shuffle, Silver
