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Waiting for Rockbox 3.0

Waiting for Rockbox 3.0

Posted May 18, 2006 19:20 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
Parent article: Waiting for Rockbox 3.0

Despite being a long time regular reader, our editor's like of Rockbox slipped by me.

A friend told me about it just recently and it looks really cool. He has an iAudio (an X5, I think). Rockbox mostly works but recording is only available as an unnofficial patch, and the device (specifically the battery, IIRC) gets hot while running Rockbox (but not when running the preinstalled hardware).

Recording is my primary interest, and I've found it hard to find supported hardware. It seems that only the iRiver H1x0 and H3x0 support recording, and they are off the market. I could make a first venture into online second-hand buying...

The Wikipedia entry on Rockbox may be of interest and would benefit from some contributions.


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