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Rockbox Plans Open Source Firmware For iRiver Gear

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 7, 2004 @07:35PM from the they're-not-crying-an-iriver dept.

PlayerBlog.com writes "The crew at Rockbox, the venerable open source replacement firmware project for Archos audio players, has put together an effort to port their firmware to the popular iRiver H1xx-series of devices. In the wake of iRiver's much-maligned (and delayed) attempts to update their proprietary firmware, this is excellent news."

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DMCA by mirko · 2004-09-07 19:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

Funny nobody mentioned it and why they'll be sued because they're not doing it as a hobby but as a company...
Unless iRever people actually agree but this'd be a first one...

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1. Re:DMCA by mocm · 2004-09-07 20:10 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  As long as they don't use any iRiver code, why should there be a DMCA issue. That would be like saying I can't remove Windows from my PC/Notebook/iPaq and replace it with Linux because of the DMCA.
  
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Re:O is for Opinion by y0ta · 2004-09-07 21:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

It does play ogg vorbis. It doesn't play ogg flac. It doesn't play any lossless codec (except for uncompressed wav), for the matter. And, for classical music lovers, that's an actual problem.