Two approaches to Open gadgets

Two approaches to Open gadgets

Rockbox is great. I have an iRiver H120 which the manufacturer has stopped producing and deemed "obsolete" (despite being only a year old) so factory firmware updates are nonexistant. Rockbox has breathed new life into this great player.

Although still beta software, the current Rockbox iriver port is stable and feature-full enough for me to use exclusively for the past couple of months (download a daily build if you want to try it). It supports everything the original firmware does including MP3 and Ogg Vorbis as well as new formats such as FLAC and WavPack, with the potential for more to come.