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Waiting for Rockbox 3.0 - againWaiting for Rockbox 3.0 - againPosted Sep 11, 2008 6:34 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)Parent article: Waiting for Rockbox 3.0 - again
One problem, depending on how you view it, with Rockbox is that it usually means supporting a hardware manufacturer that does not support Ogg Vorbis, FLAC etc. Cowon (iAudio) is the notable exception, supporting both of them. iRiver and some others support Ogg, but buying Apple certainly does not support either free software or formats.
Trekstor Vibez is a player supporting both Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, but not Rockbox. I had it and it was quite fine a player, last.fm support hacked for it and all, but free software in addition to free audio formats support would have been welcome since I would have liked to tweak a few UI features.
I'm now using Neo FreeRunner (+ extra battery pack just in case, since there's only CPU decoding) as my audio player with 8GB MicroSD card. It's working fine enough and I don't think I'm going to need another device for music playing.
If I would consider separate DAP again at some point, I probably wouldn't accept one that doesn't run free software - but "Neo FreeRunner of the DAP world" does not yet exist.
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Waiting for Rockbox 3.0 - again Posted Sep 22, 2008 18:58 UTC (Mon) by casainho (guest, #54086) [Link]
"If I would consider separate DAP again at some point, I probably wouldn't accept one that doesn't run free software - but "Neo FreeRunner of the DAP world" does not yet exist."
BUT we are working on it, his name is Rockbox Player, a Free/Open hardware audio player and recorder, for use with RockBox :-)
You can get more info here:
Please, If there is someone that want to help in build such hardware, just contact us or me at: casainho"@"gmail"."com. Thank you.
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