Rockbox

Anythingbutipod.com published a Sansa Fuze disassembly today and allow me to offer a visual comparison of the SanDisk-branded main chips in the Sansa Fuze (top) compared to the one in the Sansa e280 v2 (bottom): And since we know the e200v2 one is an AS3525, there is little doubt that the Fuze one is as well. [...]

I listened to lugradio’s season 5 epsisode 14 podcast today and I thought I’d share that at roughly 1:20 into the show there’s a brief mentioning and discussion around Rockbox. The subject came up thanks to a listener’s email explaining how he got his Sansa e200 player to play ogg by installing it. Unintentionally, it was [...]

As probably one of the last humans on earth, I got my paper version of Linux Journal’s April 2008 issue in my mailbox today. While I’ve felt that the magazine has slowly degraded over the last years, this issue certainly made me all warm and fuzzy inside since it contains not one but two articles [...]

New feature: The iAudio M3 is now a supported target.

New feature: New bitmap strips feature in the WPS - see the description of the =%xl= and =%xd= tags in CustomWPS for details.

New feature: Viewport tag added for WPS, syntax to be found on CustomWPS

New feature: The Olympus m:robe 100 is now a supported target.

It was just announced in an email sent to me: Congratulations! Your organization “Rockbox” has been accepted in to the Google Summer of Code(tm) 2008. So let’s get more possible mentors to sign up and let’s get talking with potential students and what they can work on this summer! Update: the full list of projects is now up at [...]

On the web, it seems more or less everything is eventually getting out and gets accessible for people to download and see. You can fight hard and make a real effort but as we keep seeing, lots of secrets get revealed in the end anyway. The other day a friendly fellow joined the Rockbox IRC channel [...]

This player’s been out for quite some time and most certainly won’t be found anywhere to be bought as new. Still, Jens Arnold’s been working hard on this port lately and just minutes ago he mentioned that he got sound working on it - and the build table subsequently has all three kinds of the [...]