Will Rockbox still require iTunes to transfer music?
No. Out of the box, the iPod acts as a standard UMS device – meaning that without any special drivers you can plug your iPod into your PC’s USB port and it appears as a hard drive. When iTunes transfers a music file to an iPod, it also adds an entry in the itunesdb database stored on the iPod. Apple’s firmware in the iPod only looks for music in this database – which is why you can not normally copy music to an iPod without iTunes (or an equivalent third-party application).
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