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What is the most powerful supported player for ROCKBOX?
Walrus:
The Gigabeat also has a wimpy-ass hard drive.
I can't believe Apple, the maker of all things marginal and idiot-proof (at least with mp3 players), is the only company bothering to make a high capacity 80 gig mp3 player. As is, I was kind of forced into buying an ipod since no one else makes anything larger than 60 gigs...it's kind of sad, really. Someone could make a bunch of money making an mp3 player to the same kind of music nerds who spend hundreds of dollars on Sennheiser headphones and whatnot.
Chronon:
It seems that you can upgrade your hard drive. So that's likely not a big issue. The biggest one to me is the lack of ADC/line-in on the Gigabeat. Other than that I'm extremely pleased with it.
If I were to expand my DAP collection at this point I would probably go for an H1xx series like bluebrother recommended -- though it seems they are in short supply these days.
Llorean:
Seriously, when the Gigabeat was being sold, 80gb drives didn't exist yet. Try to apply a little logic.
The iPods and the Gigabeats actually use the exact same brand of drives, with and in many cases, identical drives. You can upgrade a 60gb Gigabeat (or a lesser one) to 80gb without a problem. Saying they use "wimpy-ass" drives suggests a pretty solid lack of research.
In the end:
If you want sheer processing power that will be almost entirely wasted, but the ability to view movies, get a Gigabeat F series and upgrade the drive to the capacity desired. Don't purchase a 20 or smaller unless you want to replace the case for larger (dual platter) drives as they have a thinner case.
If you want flexibility of audio functionality (radio, optical input and output, strong recording functions, a built in voice mic, and even an LCD remote), choose the H100 series and put the appropriate disk size in it. Again, same thing applies to the 20gb or smaller devices.
Yotto:
Actually, though I'm fairly happy with my ipod, what would one recommend if you don't care about recording, fm radio (I bought an mp3 player to get away from that garbage) and a remote? What if my desire is for a portable mp3/ogg/flac/etc player? What's the "best" one then? I suppose the important stuff there would be battery life, audio quality, size, interface (Not rockbox interface of course, button placement and the like), and drive size.
Christine Tham:
For what it's worth, I'm not really that keen on extra hardware features. My previous MP3 player (non Rockboxed) had FM, recording, USB OTG, and I never used any of those features.
Those who are interested in field recording may want to check out prosumer recorders (that are roughly the same size as MP3 players) such as M-Audio MicroTrack, Roland R-09, etc. They offer much better recording quality for those that care. Those that don't can use the audio recording feature built into most modern phones and PDAs.
On the other hand, a fast CPU is useful for the primary use case of Rockbox - that is, listening to audio. I listen to high resolution audio (96kHz 24-bit FLAC compressed) ripped from DVD-Audios on my Gigabeat, and even the fast Gigabeat CPU is heavily taxed doing 96/24 lossless decoding in real time (key response times are quite slow) ...
Of course, I am biased. I own both a Gigabeat F40 and X60 (both running Rockbox), plus a MicroTrack for field recording, plus a PDA phone ... And they all fit into my handbag at the same time :-)
PS - Elephant's Dream runs pretty smoothly in full screen mode on the Gigabeat using recent builds. Very impressive!
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