Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for portable music players. It runs on a wide range of different models.

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about 1 year ago Avatar
Excellent firmware, excellent project

  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 ... [More] disgust.

Besides being useful directly, the Rockbox project is an excellent introduction to embedded system programming. If you would like to break into that field, but nobody will hire you without experience, here's your chance. [Less]

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about 1 year ago Avatar
A new look at your DAP

  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 ... [More] , and others), plugins, better battery life than the original firmware on many of the non PortalPlayer-based targets, and growing improvements every day.

With a growing list of supported targets, an excellent, very mature code base, and more features than you can ever imagine, Rockbox deserves its place on any savvy user's DAP! [Less]

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    Rockbox Devcon 2009 Summary

    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.
    The people on the photo
    The top line ... [More] from the left: amiconn, markun, bertrik, gevaerts, GodEater, AlexP, Zagor, domonoky, Bagder (me!)
    The lower line [...] [Less]

    Database stability improvements.

    Bugfix: Database stability improvements.

    Rockbox Devcon 2009 in Ghent

    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 ... [More] #rockbox-community with two webcam streams from ustream.tv. View both cams at once using rasher’s page. [Less]

    Touchscreen calibration screen added.

    New feature: Touchscreen calibration screen added.

    Timestretching added - allows speed and pitch t...

    New feature: Timestretching added - allows speed and pitch to be set independently.

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