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Strange bookmark behavior
tahoejoe:
--- Quote from: Llorean on February 20, 2008, 02:07:03 PM ---And yet here your are complaining while other people are working on fixing the problem. You pay them NOTHING yet feel justified in complaining when their contibutions aren't  fast enough, while you yourself contribute nothing at all. Do I detect a false sense of entitlement here?
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Many of us do appreciate the hard work of the developers and I agree that the comments of krisdb are uncalled for.
YesOBHS:
--- Quote from: dogskull on February 20, 2008, 01:14:27 PM ---Just started using Rockbox on my iaudio X5.... Â Is there a recommended build that I can go back to?
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I'm using Rockbox on iAudio M5.. It’s something similar to your player. And the last bild that worked properly was r15311-071025. So try to find bild that was released earlier 2007.10.25
Lear:
I just thought I should mention that I did fix one problem krisdb found (and I could reproduce), that when you tried to resume a (folder) bookmark for a file that no longer existed, nothing would happen. This was particularly bad if load last bookmark was set to yes, in which case no file in that folder could be played directly. The fix is to play the selected file in that case (i.e., act as if there was no bookmark when the bookmarked file can't be found).
I don't know what the remaining problems could be caused by, as bookmarking works well on my e200, playing MP3 and Vorbis files.
krisdb:
--- Quote from: Lear on February 21, 2008, 09:43:54 AM ---I just thought I should mention that I did fix one problem krisdb found
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That's BS. He fixed a problem, not the problem I was having. For some reason, he kept insisting that I was trying to resume a file that no longer existed, no matter how I tried to explain it. I just gave up. Explaining it to my wall was more productive.
I wasn't going to respond to my homeboy Llorean, but the more I thought about it, the more aggravated I got. I'm so sick of open-source developers using the "its free" card as an excuse for a crappy products. You know what? If you can't build a stable product, don't build it at all (or don't release it). All you do is drive people away from open-source, and make them feel guilty if they speak up. At this point, I wish I had never heard of Rockbox, because I bought my Sansa specifically to use it. On top of that, for some reason, I was supposed to know that the Sansa version was less than a year old and not stable. How the f*ck am I supposed to know that? I go to this page: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox, look at all the features and assume they must be working. Where does it say on that page these features may or may not work?
And its not like I'm complaining about some fringe feature, like why I can't get Doom to run on my c200 (good use of time on that one, btw). Its something as basic as bookmarking, which isn't as "cool" as plugins and image viewers. WTF, who wants an image viewer on the c200?
This is why I avoid open-source software altogether. Its just a pattern of this, unstable products that don't work as stated, then you speak up and they throw back the "its free"/"you don't contribute" card. Not that it matters, I don't even use Rockbox anymore and steer people I know who were thinking about using it. I tell him its buggy and if you ask for support you'll get condescending responses (Llorean) or no help at all.
LambdaCalculus:
I was about to start writing a huge rant about this, but decided to condense it down to this:
No one is twisting your arm to use Rockbox. If you don't like it, fine. Get rid of it and don't come back. THAT is the beauty of free and open source software: If you don't like it, then you don't have to use it. Pick an alternative. And we'll gladly give you a refund for the money you paid. ;)
We'll discuss this further when you get frustrated with the abusive power of DRM, vendor lock-in, buggy proprietary software, and basically no choices in life.
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