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Rockbox gsoc2009
So finally it went public that this year Rockbox will be mentoring five students to reach their
individual goals and get their projects turned into realities.
The projects are new codecs, one is a new port, one is USB HID work and finally
Increased battery life on some targets by preve...
Enhancement, improvement or optimization: Increased battery life on some targets by preventing WPS from updating while backlight is off.
HD is the thing
Thomson apparently brought the new mp3hd format for music the other day. “HD” is apparently the thing we need to have included when a new term is announced. Why does the world need another lossless music format?
It seems they’ve introduced a crafty dual-format thing where they stuff MPEG-4 SLS lossless encoded data in a new [...]
Rockbox 3.2
The never-ending flow of creativity in the Rockbox project was today turned into a release that we label 3.2. The goodies this time include the things below. The three-months release cycle does prevent the list from growing terribly
Rockbox in gsoc 2009
For the third year in a row, the Rockbox project participates in Google’s Summer of Code and has just now officially been accepted as a mentor organization.
This is a great chance for every student or others who have been looking for a good chance to join in an open source project, and in particular if [...]
Rockboxitunes
Frank Gevaerts and Jonas Häggqvist in the Rockbox project spent some time the other night when they should’ve been sleeping and made the Rockbox USB stack possible to fake being an iPod and thereby tricking iTunes to work with a non-iPod player quite transparently. As the picture shows, the target used here is a SanDisk [...]
The m:robe 500 has sound through the Rockbox PC...
New feature: The m:robe 500 has sound through the Rockbox PCM interface.
Faster text/graphics rendering on colour target...
Enhancement, improvement or optimization: Faster text/graphics rendering on colour targets and in the greyscale library, speeding up list scrolling noticeably on ipod Video.
PictureFlow supports all targets except Archos ...
New feature: PictureFlow supports all targets except Archos Player, and can function during playback on all non-Archos targets.
New alternative sorting algorithm, which is num...
New feature: New alternative sorting algorithm, which is number-aware