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Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for portable music players. It runs on a wide range of different models.
Updated 02 Jul 2009 10:20 UTC
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by Nathan Myers
For those music player gadgets that can run Rockbox, it's the best way to run them. (For most of us, that is a Sandisk e2x0 or an iPod.) The feature set is too long to list; suffice to say that you will continue finding pleasant surprises as long as you continue exploring.
My only complaint is that the theme it installs with is an embarrassment. Anybody who fails to discover one of the alternative themes soon enough may give up in
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by Robert Menes
I discovered Rockbox back in October of 2006, but I had no supported DAP to try it on. When I received a 30GB iPod video for Xmas, I went straight to the Rockbox site, downloaded it, and installed.
And I was floored.
Rockbox does everything Apple should have done right from the start: true drag-and-drop support (via Apple's Disk Mode or OF), playback of many different audio codecs (including favorites Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack
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The Rockbox team that gathered in Ghent for this weekend of talk, hacking and socializing (drinking beer) is caught on this group picture. Click the image for a slightly larger version. Photo by Petur.
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Bugfix: Database stability improvements.
In company facilities in the city of Ghent, Belgium, a fine crowd of Rockbox hackers have gathered to hack, chat, drink beer and design new stuff. Rockbox Devcon 2009 is in progress.
This year we’re entertaining the inhabitants of #rockbox and
New feature: Touchscreen calibration screen added.
New feature: Timestretching added - allows speed and pitch to be set independently.
Fennec Player, Jajuk, VLC media player, XBMC for Xbox, XBMC Media Center
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| Codebase | 700,774 |
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