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What is the "Flagship" player for Rockbox?

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Wrathernaut:
Firstly, great appreciation to all those who make Rockbox possible, I'd still be using my old Rio Karma if it weren't for this project... which brings up my question:

What player runs Rockbox perfectly?
By perfectly, I mean that everything is as responsive as a good "Stock" player (Karma is my measuring stick here).
#1 You can skip to the next song after hearing the first couple seconds of a song several times before any delay is noticed.
#2 Power-up is just as fast or faster than the factory firmware.
#3 Battery life is just as long or longer than with factory firmware.
#4 Easily playing/browsing music by artist, genre, album, etc... should feel like the purpose of the player, rather than browsing files on a computer.

Febs:
Iriver h100 series.

Llorean:
I'd say the iRiver H100/H300, iAudio X5 and M5, and Gigabeat F players all meet this requirement. As well, if you don't mind MP3-only playback (within the full playback system) all the Archos players also meet these requirements.

Mad Cow:
I'll have to agree with Llorean here, although I've only used the gigabeat out of all those players. The gigabeat port is very stable and mature now, it boots incredibly quickly and the CPU is the fastest out of all the rockbox targets. For non-reording targets I would say the gigabeat is the best, for recording I would say H3xx.

Llorean:
I'd say h100 trumps the h300 for recording. Digital options for one. And I think I was told the screen takes less work to update. As well, if I recall correctly, it shows better battery life when both have the same capacity battery.

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