http://www.osnews.com/story/15698/Review_Rockbox_-_The_Open_Source_Jukebox_Firmware Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:57:17 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?157953 http://osnews.com/thread?157953 Ugly or what? Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Makro) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157955 http://osnews.com/thread?157955 I skimmed through the article, and noticed that they have added iPod support since the last time I looked at it. Does mean that I'd be able to use the iPod as a UMS device? If this is the case, and since Rockbox has bookmarks (for audiobooks), that would make the iPod much more attractive to me Edited 2006-09-01 16:19 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WorknMan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157962 http://osnews.com/thread?157962 the default theme is, but the rest of the screenshots with the "desert theme" are nice and not visualy clutered, leaving a lot of room to display information. Everything is not about graphisms, anyway. And the point of rockbox is not to have the best good looking firmware, but to add a lot of features that the original firmware doesn't have. I used on my old archos, and what they have achieved is quiet amazing. Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cyrilleberger) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157973 http://osnews.com/thread?157973 I had rockbox on my ipod nano. It was pretty slick, looking very good with some third party skins. The controls were a bit annoying tho. It would skip on certain high bitrate MP3. The battery lasted about half the time it did with the original firmware.

Still, once I installed it, I never went back. You can also have Doom on rockbox, just like on ipodlinux. 1337! Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yanik) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?157985 http://osnews.com/thread?157985 It comes to my mind that this would not be possible if the iPod had a DRM firmware in its hardware. Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mitarai) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?158008 http://osnews.com/thread?158008 yes, that is the number 1 reason i use it on my Nano.

The main complain i have so far, is that they change the way the clickwheel works. Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kwanbis) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?158076 http://osnews.com/thread?158076 Is batterylife on all models shorter? Because this definitely interests me...if I don't lose half the playingtime. Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?158078 http://osnews.com/thread?158078 You can have Doom, sort of, but its not that easy to play cause of the low resolution. The controls can get annoying (at least on my iRiver) and if you play for long periods your eyes start to hurt (cause of the small screen).

I would really call it playable. Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wintermute) Comments