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The never-ending, never completely working project
Vortex:
I don't know about the iPod port but as a Sansa user I am very happy with Rockbox.
Only a few months ago, Rockbox was completely unusable on the Sansa but the development has made amazing progress in very little time. And all that progress was achieved through voluntary work!
Rockbox on the Sansa has reached a status where it has by far surpassed the stock firmware. There currently aren't any features that I dearly miss. In fact, Rockbox is more feature-complete than many audio players for PCs which often don't offer features like cue-sheet support.
Rockbox on the Sansa is also very stable. Since the screen melting bug has been fixed I never had Rockbox crash during normal music playback.
--- Quote ---And peope temd to do what they think is fun when they play with their hobby, and wht they think is fun is rarely what the "users" think they should do...
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Actually I'm very happy with the course of development, since msot of the time the devs focus on the important things, which is primarily making music playback as comfortable and bug-free as possible.
--- Quote ---Thank you to all the developers.
Thank you from Canada.
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And thank you from Germany. ;D
soap:
--- Quote from: TheHarbinger on August 18, 2007, 04:51:42 PM ---I'm just a user who would (gladly) pay a sum ($20 perhaps?) for a finished product.
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EDIT: Don't mean to sound pissy, but...
But, we're not users in the traditional sense.
We're lucky guests who get to play with somebody else's toy.
Never forget that. Rockbox is not an attempt to satisfy your needs or wants. Rockbox is the pet-project of a small number of people who are willing to share their toy with you.
LambdaCalculus:
I don't know what problems TheHarbringer is having, or what monkey is crawling around in his butt. I personally think that the Rockbox project is an amazing piece of work.
I started using Rockbox back in December of last year. I had received an iPod nano 2nd Gen for Xmas, and I quickly took it to the Apple Store in New York to exchange it for a 30GB iPod video, with the simple intention of Rockboxing it, as I had found out about the project about 3 months prior.
Since then, I've watched Rockbox grow and evolve. I've used it virtually every single time for music, and I've almost never booted into the Apple firmware for any reason why. I remember seeing the introduction of the new menu system. I remember the addition of the NSF and SPC codecs. I remember seeing MPEGplayer play audio for the first time. I remember the debut of the Sansa port, the Gigabeat F/X port, and the iAUDIO M5 port.
I think what sums it up best is a quote I remember from one game developer: "Software is a Process, not a Thing." Software grows and evolves as people work on it. This is especially true of open source software. Open source software, as Llorean, BigBambi, nls, Febs, and saratoga have put it in one way or another, is an itch that developers scratch. It is also something that developers share with their fellow users.
If you want to read more about how these projects work, look for these books, and read them:
1) The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (ISBN 0-201-83595-9)
2) The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond (ISBN 0-596-00108-8)
3) Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, Linus Torvalds (ISBN 0-06-662072-4)
On a personal stance, I think Rockbox is one of the greatest open source projects out there, and I think these guys are doing some amazing work.
yueonyrl:
When I first owned my Sansa E280 I didn't know the existence of Rockbox, but ever since I encountered it I have discarded the original software. Back then the Rockbox for Sansa only had crippled functionality in regards to the original built-in hardware capability, but within a couple of weeks the Rockbox had become fully fledged. And I can think of no function that is lacking.
Simply for the sake of Rockbox, I subsequently bought another Snasa E250 and two Toshiba Gigabeat F60. And I must say for these two types of player Rockbox is basically almost complete in functionality and far superior to each original software. If I could give the scores for the software and functionality of these two types of player (excluding built-in hardware limitations, for example, no FM and no recording for Gigabeat) I would provide:
Sansa: Original 82; Rockbox 98
Gigabeat: Original 50; Rockbox 98
The "2 points less than 100" reflects the fact that there is no perfect program -- but, that is amazingly awesome!
I would like to express my thanks to all the developers and pay my attribute to the spirit of open source software. And this is from Taiwan.
Chronon:
In fact, the success of Rockbox on the Gigabeat has illustrated to me how important open hardware is to the open software movement. I will seek to purchase devices that use open hardware as much as possible.
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