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The Rockbox project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Rockbox 3.1. This marks the first release following Rockbox' new quarterly release schedule.
Rockbox 3.0 was packaged just now and is being made available as I write this. The download mirrors just have to fetch all the zips (should be done within 30 minutes or so).
«Three years after its last major release, Rockbox 3.0 is now available. This popular app is a great open source solution for replacing the firmwear on many types of portable media players including Sansa, iRiver, Archos, and iPod.»
RockBox is an open source firmware available for several different digital audio players from Apple, Archos, Cowon, iRiver, Olympus, SanDisk, and Toshiba.
Did you know that it is possible to alter the look of your iPod's boring default graphical user interface? Thanks to Rockbox, an open source firmware for mp3 players, you don't have to be a hacker to customize the appearance of your iPod's GUI.
Some of you who have been following this blog for a while may remember my post from 2009 where I was lamenting my lack of decent Linux-friendly MP3 player options out there to replace my aging Archos device.
In order to carry samples of my audio and video work to tradeshows, I need to be able to play a wider variety of audio and video formats than is available on any of the pocket devices out there.
So I bought my dad a new MP3 player. His iPod was from 2005 so it was time for a new one. Almost all of Dad's music files are .flac or .wav. The iPod played them thanks to rockbox. This one does not. And my dad is more like the average user, so I wrote a little program to help him. Well, program, more like a ffmpeg wrapper with Zenity.
