Rockbox as an Application

[nloewen]

as long as were turning it into an application, couldn't you make a version to run on a pc in place of windows media player?

The simulator already runs as an application on a PC.

Yea but you could add alot more functunality because of the added screen space and controls. Instead of useing the sumulator, make a seperate version with menus and stuff designed for a pc.

[lumino]

Anyone thought of making rockbox as an application for PalmOS, WinMo or Symbian for smartphones?

I think this could potentially increase the userbase considerably

[saratoga]

Anyone thought of making rockbox as an application for PalmOS, WinMo or Symbian for smartphones?

Yes, in fact that is what is discussed on page 1 of this thread.

[terrence1019]

can't wait to see Rockbox on my Nokia 6120 Classic and my Nokia N95 

But that looks far into the future 

[miner49er]

I would really like to be able to use rockbox on my Motorola Razr. It has iTunes on it right now - which I've never used due to running linux....and being anti-itunes!

[terrence1019]

How has the progress on the Rockbox application been?

[saratoga]

How has the progress on the Rockbox application been?

No one is working on it.

[jmon]

I wanted to put this idea out there to see if anyone thinks it's a good/bad idea, or has been done else where?

I run Rockbox on my 5.5th gen iPod and it's great    Coupled with Media Monkey it has enabled me to get away from Apple software which really rocks   

I'm currently putting together a low power, small form factor Linux box for playing music from a NAS box.  (much like a Squeezebox)  I have a Pertelian X2040 display and Streamzap IR remote which will be used in this project.

It occurred to me that what I really want is Rockbox running as an app on the Linux box, making system calls for audio output, file access, etc & using the Streamzap API's & X2040 for user IO.  I like the unobtrusiveness of a CD player for music & dislike having to turn on a bright LCD TV to change album when I'm chilling out in the evening.

Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere, my searching turned up only this thread.

Cheers!

[zeekoe]

@jmon: LOL, that's that's just about exactly what I did. :-) However, I soldered it myself. Display is probably the same standard with probably a different USB driver, and I didn't use an IR remote.

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=22428.0

Do you have soldering skills? If not, interested in mine? I want to make a smaller version, and then this one is spare.