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Rockbox Plans Open Source Firmware For iRiver Gear

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Wishlist... by Gentlewhisper · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I hope to see the same for iPods too. Do you guys know that if you buy a new hard drive for the store to install into your faulty ipod with a dead drive, there is nothing you can do to get it working again?

    Some even hypothesize that Apple encoded something special into the firmware of the drives they buy as part of an anti-hacking measure.

    I'd say to them "Go fsck yourselves!" to think that there are so many features that they did not implement, like a *real* EQ, and gapless playback, and even OGG format support, and yet their engineers have a lot of time to do stuff like these?

    That stupid POS!

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  2. O is for Opinion by Bon+bons · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm skeptical about the success of this. One of the reasons the rockbox software was so popular and great for the original Archos Jukeboxs' was because their original firmware was terrible.

    I wouldn't say that the iRiver firmware is great, but it's not as bad as the original Jukebox. The iRiver, after all, already plays Vorbis.

    I would personally like to see software that sped up the loading time on the player.

  3. Re:This is good news but perhaps not why you think by ashridah · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some enterprising person found an entertaining workaround to the issue of broken shuffle.

    He found that if you add a bunch of really short silent mp3's, the player will re'random'ize the shuffle if you delete one of them within the player with the latest firmware. just add about 10 of them, and delete them as you find the shuffle being repetitive.

    Better than nothing for the time being. :)

    Shuffle's not really something i use personally tho. OTF playlists would be nice, but about all i'm interested in eventually seeing is the gapless playback. currently the player has gap delete working (ie, removing silence from inside music files) but not a prebuffering system to start playing the next song immediately. it was never scheduled for the first of the two upcoming firmware releases anyway, tho.

    ashridah