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[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 07:49 +1000, Graham Martin wrote:
> Quoted. Brendon Toogood.
> ****************
> like you i have a ipod,  and was wanting good software as well doing a
> bit of reasurch, i came up rockbox,  it replaces the firmware on the
> ipod to its own as default, and talk about easy to use to copy ur music
> across well it 's child's play u just connect it up like u would usually
> and copy your music across to it just like you would to another
> harddrive and that is it, simple done  works on any computer no software
> needed(only the os and a usb port) you can play .mp3 .acc .wav .ogg and
> many others as well and rockbox has a linux kernal and is basically
> linux code.

That's all well and good, but I can't force ipod users to upgrade their
firmware if they want to listen to my music.

Free or not, Linux HAS to support MP3 to be a contender.

I suspect the problem will not be solved until the MP3 patents expire in
~5 years.

Lee