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Rockbox 3.6 released

[Posted June 4, 2010 by corbet]

From:		Alex Parker <parker.alex.e-AT-gmail.com>
To:		Rockbox development <rockbox-dev-AT-cool.haxx.se>, rockbox-AT-cool.haxx.se
Subject:		Rockbox 3.6 released!
Date:		Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:53:39 +0200
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

Hello all,

On behalf of the Rockbox developers, I'm very pleased to announce that
Rockbox 3.6 has just been released!

Go here to download the installer (individual zips are also available):

         http://www.rockbox.org/download/

Read up on the most noticeable changes in 3.6:

         http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes36

And above all, enjoy!

Alex

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Posted Jun 4, 2010 15:08 UTC (Fri) by BaldHeadedGeek (guest, #1078) [Link]

Ever since our Editor here at LWN wrote about RockBox (a few years ago I would guess), I have been wanting to try it. Never owning quite the right device I was not able to do so. However the other day a Woot sale popped up for a Sansa Fuse v2 for $27. Someone claimed in a post at Woot that they had RockBox working on it so I pulled the trigger and bought one.

It arrived yesterday and last night I was able to load RockBox on it. I had to do a "manual" install as the Fuse v2 is not quite a stable build. Still a simple install - I think a download of 3 or 4 files and 2 or 3 command line calls and it was installed.

I haven't had the opportunity to play with it too much but I have to say so far *very* impressive. I need to look at Banshee or rhythmbox now that I have this device. Looks like I have one less reason to fire up virtualbox. :^)

Rockbox 3.6 released

Posted Jun 4, 2010 17:32 UTC (Fri) by Lukehasnoname (subscriber, #65152) [Link]

Hm, I have two Fuse v2's, I could spare one in an experiment.

Let the record show that you can use the Fuse as a storage device in Linux and drag/drop from your player's library, whether it be RB, Banshee, Exaile, or Guayadeque.

Also, the Fuse supports FLAC and OGG out of the box. 15+ hour battery life... it's a great player.

Rockbox 3.6 released

Posted Jun 9, 2010 8:34 UTC (Wed) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

I've just bought a Fuze v2 to replace my aging iriver H140, which had a six year lifespan in part due to how awesome rockbox is. I'm looking forward to loading RB onto the fuze.