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[Lukas Sabota]

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 09:00 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> On Sunday 21 May 2006 07:49, 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.
> > ...
> >   Brendon Toogood
> >   registered Linux user number 417189
> > *****************
> > I hope Brendon doesn't mind me quoting him.
> > Has anyone tried rockbox, it looks interesting.
> > Regards Graham.
> how is it stability wise?
> 
I've been using rockbox on my ipod the past couple months.  The plugins
are pretty cool (many games, DOOM, calculator), and it plays almost any
audio format.  But there is no stable release currently that supports
the iPod.  You need to use a daily build, which, sometimes is stable and
sometimes is not.  It also uses more battery than the apple firmware.
I've also had it freeze on me a couple times.  And, it is not as pretty
as apple firmware.

A pretty cool project, but still needs to mature a bit :)

God bless,
Lukas