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Rockbox is a free replacement firmware, designed for a wide variety of Digital Audio Players (DAPs). Many features which Rockbox supports (such as FLAC and gapless playback) are not available in the original firmware for the devices with Rockbox runs on. In some cases using Rockbox can also increase the battery life of a player.

Please note that installing Rockbox on your DAP will most likely void it's warranty.

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Pros & Cons

Pros:
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Supports Multiple Codecs
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May improve battery life
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Supports Recording (certain players) to multiple formats
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Custom UI (skinning)
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Doom
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Cons:
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Does not support DRM crippled music
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May shorten battery life (iPod)
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Supported Players

  • Apple
    • iPod (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th (Grayscale & Colour), 5th and 5.5th (Video) generation)
    • iPod mini (1st and 2nd generation)
    • iPod nano (1st generation)
  • Archos
    • Jukebox (6000, Player/Studio and Recorder)
    • FM Recorder
    • Recorder v2
    • Ondio (FM and SP)
  • Cowon iAUDIO
    • X5, X5L and X5V
    • M5 and M5L
  • iriver
    • H10 series (H10 5, 6, and 20 GB)
    • H100 series (H100/H110/H115/H120/H140, aka iHP-100/110/115/120/140)
    • H300 series (H320/H340)
  • SanDisk
    • Sansa e200 series (1st generation)
    • Sansa e200r series (1st generation)
    • Sansa c200 series (1st generation)
  • Toshiba
    • Gigabeat F series (F10/F11/F20/F21/F30/F31/F40/F41/F60)
    • Gigabeat X series

Features

Features available in all players:

  • Gapless playback
  • Replay Gain
  • Equalizer
  • On the fly playlists
  • Audio Bookmarks
  • True random shuffle
  • Custom title bar
  • Custom UI themes
  • Last.fm support
  • Cue sheet support
  • Voice Menus (for blind users)

Features which depend on hardware support:

  • Stereo recording to WAV/AIFF/WavPack (lossless) and MP3
  • FM radio, including FM recording
  • Remote control
  • Digital SPDIF input/output (supporting devices)

Additional Plugins:

  • JPEG viewer (16 bit color/33 shade greyscale)
  • Rockboy Game Boy emulator (port of Gnuboy)
  • ZXBox ZX Spectrum emulator (port of Spectemu)
  • Doom (port of the PrBoom engine)
  • WAV to MP3 encoder
  • WAV to WavPack encoder
  • MPEG video player
  • Album Art
  • Various games including sudoku, solitaire, minesweeper, pong and many others.

Codec Support:

  • MP3
  • OGG/Vorbis
  • FLAC
  • WavPack
  • AC3(A/52)
  • AAC/MP4
  • ALAC (Apple Lossless)
  • WMA (partial)

Please note: DRM crippled music is not supported in any format.

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Key Features:

Manufacturer Rockbox
Price $0.00
Product Line NA
Release Date Oct. 22, 2007

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Created: 10/22/2007 - 17:15
Modified: 05/11/2008 - 7:20