Rockbox Manual www.rockbox.org
Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for portable music players. It runs on a wide range of different models.
Updated 14 May 2008 23:54 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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I counted the Rockbox downloads from build.rockbox.org during April 2008, and while the results weren’t very different from the past results, I thought I’d still show them. This month, 99874 downloads were counted and we had 30 different packages downloaded. Back in January, we still only had 26 versions. The top-5 are identical to the [...]
Dave Chapman just told us that he’s managed to upgrade his SanDisk Sansa Clip to run a customized firmware, which proves that we know the file format good enough. His proof of concept simply did a 5 second delay, but now we should be a pretty big step forwards on the way towards getting Rockbox [...]
I’ve not mentioned anything about developments on new Rockbox targets lately, so I thought I’d do a little run-down of the targets that seem to have momentum right now:
Toshiba Gigabeat S - quite similar to the Zune hw-wise but not entirely. This already runs Rockbox pretty good and even has music playback. Still not offered [...]
I have one of them mp3 capable mobile phones and I have a 4GB NAND flash inserted in it that is packed with music I like. Yet I never end up using it as a music player.
I see people everywhere use their phones for music and I repeatedly read and hear the soon coming death [...]
Less is more it is said, and I can certainly subscribe to the reverse: more means less. The two primary open source projects I spend time in have been growing the last years, in source code contributions, but also in amount of users and in amount of contributors. I see the similar effects on myself [...]
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