What is Rockbox?

can somebody please tell me?

rockbox
Message Edited by widowmaker on 12-29-2008 05:32 PM

Love that answer!

The short version: Rockbox is to mp3 players as Linux is to PC’s.

so whats the point of it?

what does it do?

It’s an alternative and open-source firmware (the “OS” of the player). It looks and works very differently than the stock Sansa firmware.

Read & Learn, Grasshopper:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox

thanks O wise jedi

@donp wrote:

Love that answer!

 

The short version: Rockbox is to mp3 players as Linux is to PC’s.

 

That about sums it up.:stuck_out_tongue:

@jkj1962 wrote:


@donp wrote:

Love that answer!

 

The short version: Rockbox is to mp3 players as Linux is to PC’s.

 


That about sums it up.:stuck_out_tongue:

It only works on selected (outdated) hardware, you have to put some time in it to get it running, for the advantages you get you have to pay a price by loosing other features or by higher battery drain, you get told it “runs” when there is barely a proof of concept, the community … needs getting used to… well, quite so.

(Thanks for the link in the first answer, didn’t know this yet.)