[Software] Why You Should Ditch Your MP3 Player’s Firmware In Favour Of Rockbox

My MP3 player is five years. It has a color screen, can not connect to the internet and everything is really good for music playback. The days, he dies, you’ll see a grown man crying, falling on his knees and give a Darth Vader-like “Nooo!” Before cleaning eBay for the same model.

I have an iRiver H-140, and a few years ago I said goodbye to downright horrible proprietary firmware of the device. With a bit of violin, I installed a third party unofficial “void the warranty firmware Rockbox called. It was like a brand new MP3 player that is all I loved my aging jukebox, and I urge you to do the same.

: Rockbox

If you’re the kind of guy (or girl, let’s not early) often feel from the manufacturers that make solid material with fibrous Software cheated, then Rockbox can be for you. This open-source gem is a complete firmware of the digital audio player to rewrite, adding some amazing features and improvements on the street.
The list of supported device has grown incredibly in recent years, and now you can load Rockbox on a variety of stakeholders, including Archos, iRiver, Apple, SanDisk and Toshiba. If you are interested, you can check compatible drives in the News page on the official website.

How different Rockbox works on different devices, there is no definitive list of the improvements for all devices are (some better than others, can be ensured in the first place). The battery life is to improve something that Rockbox developers have worked, as reflected in the output are found in iRiver, where battery life is approximately 02.00 bis 21.00 clock risen to the top.

: nowplaying

One area in which the firmware is spread to all players audio decoding. gapless playback makes its appearance, you can now download the album from Pink Floyd Syd as expected, is heard. Other audio formats include Ogg Vorbis, FLAC (one for the purists), AC3, MP4, Apple Lossless, WMA (on your iPod) as well as the good old MP3 and WAV.
Digital Audio Recording Media to see the benefits of the improved control of the recording, including the introduction of the volume control turned on the automatic control of volume and pitch. Add to this the powerful File Explorer, so that can delete and rename files from the device itself and the DAP be maintained relatively easily organized also.
If you conserve battery life, there is a complete set of games in the version that offers little charm clones of classics such as the snake talk in small groups and Tetris, including listening, easy and adjustment Hi, as with hundreds of themes and fonts to download and choose. You can even create your own topics, including the amendment of the play screen to so that only the information they really want.

For a look at the most productive features and how to improve the original firmware, see the feature comparison table official.
Installing Rockbox is also easier than ever before. Back in the day, you need a specific version of your hardware and unpack manually on the device can be downloaded. Those of you who still want to do this can, of course, but for all others is the Rockbox Utility.
Available for Windows, Mac and Linux utility allows you to install and manage your new Rockbox’d DAP. Just download, unzip and run the application. The first time you are asked if you configure Rockbox by selecting the manufacturer and model, there is even a practice of self-recognition, if you still can not really.

: Rockbox Utility

If you selected to install the boot loader (bypass the current firmware) and software Rockbox itself. Select Full installation to install Rockbox and all the extras (fonts, games and themes). Click OK, continue on the warning.

You may need the original firmware to install the boot loader. These are easy to download from its manufacturer, and if you’re like me you have a backup copy somewhere, somehow (I consider myself in my camera, but Web-crawling).
Locate the file and install Rockbox.

Congratulations, you have a nice new toy to play. It should be the battery life the opportunity to make their files dark with you and the ability to customize your player to the subject improved notice containing the game and the party font manager Rockbox Utility.

Have you tried Rockbox on your device? Have you ever return? All preferred themes and games that you play? Let us know in the comments!