Rockbox

“skaos” mentioned in the Rockbox forum that the markings on the e200 v2 SanDisk chip is very similar to the ones on the newer m200 models (as compared to the older m200 models which use different ones - at least marked completely different). It seems to imply that the m200 series have v2 models too. But [...]

Enhancement, improvement or optimization: Removed the non-working hardware equalizer for iPod Video. Provide working bass/treble gain and cutoff settings instead.

New feature: Initial USB Stack for PortalPlayer 502X based devices (iPod 4G, Photo/Color, 5G, 5.5G, Nano, 2G Mini, iRiver H10, Sansa e200, Sansa c200). Does not support file transfer yet, just charging.

SanDisk apparently has released updated versions of their Sansa c200 and e200 series, called c200 v2 and e200 v2. Since Rockbox works pretty fine on the original c200 and e200 series and not at all on the new v2 players, users start to take notice! The v2 series are claimed to be audible.com compliant (it spells [...]

What doesn’t a man do when there’s a free t-shirt involved? I was Google Summer of Code admin for project Rockbox, and it did result in some cool new code. As newbies this year we of course did a bunch of mistakes that we hope to get a chance to correct if we’re allowed to participate [...]

New feature: Proper scroll wheel acceleration for click wheel iPod targets (4G, Photo/Color, 5G, 5.5G, Nano and 2G Mini)

New feature: New Speex-based voice file format on SWCODEC targets. All non-Archos voice users need to update their voice files and talk clips.

Texas Instruments finally decided to release free-to-use versions for Linux of their C/C compiler for the c54x DSP series (for open source projects at least). This DSP is found in TI’s TMS320 family (dreaded chips, known mostly in our communities ... [More] for their total lack of public docs). In Rockbox terms, this exciting news opens up the possibility [...] [Less]

For fun, I created two “groups” on LinkedIn for two of the open source projects I’m perhaps the most active in. I’m not quite sure what benefit and good use we’ll get from them, but anyway they’re created and if you feel in any way related to Rockbox or curl, here are the links you [...]

I just wanted to push for Jonas Häggqvist’s latest cool service - the Rockbox wiki MajorChanges as an RSS feed. It’ll allow more people to more closely track when “major” changes are done in Rockbox land. It was posted by himself on the rockbox mailing list… If you rather have all commits in a feed, there [...]