For those of you who don’t care for the stock interface or firmware on your digital music player, there’s the Rockbox firmware, which works on many Archos, iRiver, iPod, iAudio, Gigabeat, and Sansa devices. The firmware features extended codec support (OGG, Flac, etc.) plus enhanced audio magic, MPEG video support, tagging, plug-ins, playlist creation, games, and more (see the full feature list here).
Plus, it’s open source so it gets developed on a fairly regular basis. Version 3.0 was recently released, adding new software decoding features, a new installer, more codecs, and various miscellaneous updates and improvements.
[via Lifehacker]
Has anyone used this before?
Yes, plenty of people use Rockbox.
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox
Thanks. I’m new to the interweb and had no idea you could click the link in the article and go to the exact same page.
Perhaps I should rephrase my question. Is there good reason to change up my firmware to RockBox over lets say the iTouch 2 firmware? Is there any real advantage when all I really do with it is listen to tunes?
Thanks
List of Open Source PLayers
http://gplpedia.com/Domains/Sound_Audio.html