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Why is Rockbox better?

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jungle27:
For me the big advantage is the ogg vorbis codec. If you don't like how mp3 sounds and prefere more audiophile quality it is a must. I have encoded all my CD with vorbis aotuv -q8 and for me it is completely transparent (no compression artifact at all) even with excellent headset.b When listening with high end headset, mp3 sounds bad at 128kbs and just ok at high bit rate.

MarcGuay:

--- Quote from: GodEater on December 05, 2007, 11:09:57 AM ---Based on our download stats against number of forum members - we have good reason to believe that most people run Rockbox without any issues at all.
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I was just thinking about this the other day and how it would be nice to have some positive information to combat all of the negative.  Any chance that the number of times the bootloaders have been downloaded be made a public statistic?

Bagder:

--- Quote ---Any chance that the number of times the bootloaders have been downloaded be made a public statistic?
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Not really, we don't have any stats for download.rockbox.org since that's three different servers hosted by friendly organizations "elsewhere".

I do however regularly publish download stats in my blog[1] based on what the logs from build.rockbox.org says. The latest count I did is here: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2007/11/06/rockbox-downloads-oct-2007/

[1] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/

MarcGuay:
Thanks Bagder.  Although it's unfortunate that the numbers can't be more detailed (when the MoB changes were happening I downloaded the current build once or twice a day, something that throws these stats as a good representation of the number of people who use Rockbox into question), they still say a lot about the amount of activity vs. the number of problems, which is nice.

Salut,
Marc

Llorean:
You also have to remember that a decent number of people only update monthly or less. There are plenty of people who install it, accept that it does what they want and isn't too buggy (say, H100 users) and go away, checking back never or not for several months.

So while there's surely a curve of some sort, it's probably bell-ish, and it'd be interesting to know where the distributions lie.

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