I've been very happy with my older iAudio G3, but it's headphone jack has died and the screws are stripped and I'm tempted to just upgrade to something newer.
I've been following rockbox a little for a while now, and I'm very interested in it. I'm tempted to buy a brand new e200 series player and install it. I'm normally the sort of person who doesn't mind experimenting (run linux, have multi-system mythtv setup at home with good WAF, have upgraded/reimaged Tivos in the past, etc.).
However, I have one or two concerns. One is that I really don't like the native e200 features - it doesn't support ogg which is a complete show-stopper, so it would really only be usable for me with Rockbox. It seems odd to buy something like this with the goal of reimaging it on arrival.
My other concern is that e200 rockbox support seems a bit immature at the moment (no usb support, mention of corrupted files on forums, etc.), and I won't really have anything else to fall back on if it doesn't work out. Granted, it looks like things are progressing rapidly and I'm not at much risk of getting stuck with a paperweight.
Do the more seasoned folks around here think that it would be wise to invest in an e200 purely for Rockbox support? I'd go with the X5 or something else that is mature with rockbox except that I really want something around $100 and I don't need more than a few GB of space. Should I just go for it?
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Topic: How Mature is Rockbox on the E200? (Read 1549 times)