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P.Opus:
I have been on the fringes quietly monitoring Rockbox development on the E200R series, and you guys have been amazing.

With SDHC support and success in putting Rockbox on the "R" series, I am almost ready to give this a spin.

I have read the instructions and they sound simple enough for someone with some Linux experience, so I may give it a shot.

(Believe me, I will read all the warnings and etc. before proceeding)

However, one question I need answered.  I noted that you needed to modify the original boot loader to prevent the "signature check" that was blocking earlier attempts at putting Rockbox on the R series Sansa.

Does putting Rockbox on an "R" series Sansa change it to a vanilla E200?

The reason is, I'm a longtime Rhapsody Subscriber and am currently addicted to Rhapsody Channels.  

I know Rockbox allows dual booting, but will it disable my Rhapsody functionality in the player?  I know Rockbox itself won't support the special "Rhapsody" features such as "channels" and native .rax file (Rhapsody DRM) tracks.  But can I dual boot into original "Rhapsody" firmware that will restore the special Rhapsody functionality, or does the modified bootloader require me to use "vanilla" E200 firmware from this point.

I hope this is clear enough.  Ideally I want to be able to use Rockbox without loosing the specific Rhapsody feature set.

Thanks in advanced.

Opus ???

AlexP:
It was very clear  :)

I don't know, rockbox on the E200R is very new, and I would be hugely surprised if any of the devs are subscribers to a DRM music service!

You could try popping onto IRC and asking one of the devs.  I suspect the answer will be along the lines of shouldn't do, but no-one has tested it.

Bagder:
No, putting Rockbox on an R model still makes it boot the original Rhapsody firmware when

P.Opus:
Thanks, Badger.  Has anyone tried using Rhapsody with a Rockbox modified R after modification?  Any issues discovered?

Thanks for the quick reply.

chrisjs169:

--- Quote from: P.Opus on September 06, 2007, 11:03:32 AM ---Thanks, Badger.  Has anyone tried using Rhapsody with a Rockbox modified R after modification?  Any issues discovered?

Thanks for the quick reply.

--- End quote ---

I didn't have an e200R, so I just put the R bootloader/firmware on my e200 and tried Rhapsody - it complains about a corrupt device certificate.  I think this was more of a problem with trying to fake it into thinking the e200R rather than a problem with the bootloader.  

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