Rockbox

Enhancement, improvement or optimization: Improved power management on PortalPlayer targets (iPods, Sansas, H10, etc...), resulting in increased battery life.

(I dug up the old “devcon 2006″ logo and I like it so much I thought I could use it again!) I’d like to suggest that we set a date and place for the Rockbox International Devcon 2008 soon so that we all can start planning for it properly. Personally, I would claim that having it near [...]

Ok, I have a range of various hardware players that run Rockbox that can play all the music I have in my stored collection. But when I’m in front of my Linux box I prefer using the computer to play the music, not only because then I can select from all my music (that don’t [...]

It’s time again for a check and analysis of the download trends of the build.rockbox.org web site, with comparisons with how things were at my previous count from October 2007. During this month, 112034 downloads were counted, which is almost a 10% increase since october’s 102127 - and as you’ll see below almost the entire increase [...]

Readers of my blog or my site or almost whatever on the internet where my name would appear should know that two of my primary open source involvements are in the curl and the Rockbox projects. Therefore I felt great pleasure yesterday when both of these worlds collided! While investigating the internals of the SanDisk Sansa Connect [...]

As in every open source project, people who don’t program but who use and like Rockbox a lot tend to think and sometimes utter the words “I can’t code so I can’t help” when talking about what they can do for the project. But there are of course still endless amount of things we need [...]

In the Rockbox project we haven’t had an official release in several years. We have >400K lines of code, some 60 committers. Some 300 patch contributors. At least 10,000 users, but probably up to 10-20 times that number. We produce binary downloads after every single commit. We provide daily builds with a 30 day backlog. We [...]

So we know a bit more about the Sansa View’s internals now! It is based on a PP-derivate, possibly called PP61×0 something. It has a “disk” (NAND flash) layout quite similar to the Sansa E200 in that it has a “hidden” second partition in which the bootloader, firmware image and more are stored - in just about [...]

Enhancement, improvement or optimization: All new greyscale library with improved performance.

Catalin Patulea started off the new year by announcing that he now has sound working on the Rockbox M:Robe 500 port! This being one of them dreaded Texas Instruments TMS320DM320 based targets, it should open up a range of new possible upcoming targets as well as that’s a fairly popular choice among media players. At least [...]