Thank you ever so unbelievably much! <3

[Gruselbauer]

Dear developers of Rockbox & it's countless additions,

Thank you for all the work you have invested in this amazing example of free software. I can only guess the amount of your private lives you sacrificed, the deep thoughts enabling you do go this far, the endless process of debugging and re-writing code. I have recently through sheer luck gotten an Apple Ipod 160gig Classic, instantly flashed it with Rockbox remembering the headlines years back from Slashdot or wherever. I was amazed from the first tiny steps up until now where I've got the player tanked to its limits with audio & video, set up everything to my needs and would use the Force for evil in order to protect this piece of material property. Thank you all. I want you to know that somewhere in Vienna, Austria, a young man sits in public transport or rides his bike through parks, listens to music and enjoys it very much thanks to YOU. You deserve to have me register here and tell you this, and any other praise. Because Rockbox is awesome, and you are too.

Love,
G.

[Mr Whippy]

You ride a bike whilst wearing headphones?

[AlexP]

Thank you

[Gruselbauer]

You ride a bike whilst wearing headphones?

Fixie/tenspeed (city): Parks, unpopulated areas, one-way bike only ways. Short street parts, I take out one of the plugs. Generally do that whenever I think other people might appear.

Mountainbiking/Downhilling/BMX (cross and park): Heavily depends on if I know the terrain, how I feel, my last weeks of riding (you know, ten nearly-accidents don't exactly scream for turning up the danger-o-meter)... Then there's the cheap 25€ open can AKGs + USB-Stick 2GB Setup for when dirt is absolutely secure, one or two times falling off quite possible and heavier danger at least not off the list. MTB trailing for six hours along beautiful routes, I like to both give myself a rhythm to work with and another sense scream from euphoria. Did I mention I live in Austria, Vienna? Last week I went to the nearest somewhat neat trail, rode it during around 32°C / 90 degrees fahrenheit for six hours and took the train back - pussy, I know but that was 145km all in all and I am still in the middle of de-fatty-ing myself once again. 102kg today means nearly 29 since Nomvember but overweight. So yeah, do that in my constitution and you will take the train too. And the next day off, too. But the Rockbox Ipod lasted through the complete day with the only cheat being that I used playlists I had made the night before so I rarely even had the display on. But my Audio Technica In Ears, the really quite brilliant EQ-preset for Electronica, the sun, the landscape, the state of mind after an hour of powering up and then on the train home some real easy, real summer dusky downtempo beats with nice female vocals, a bottle of selfmade ice tea left at the starting point in a restaurant's cooler in my hand. Your software provides the sixth star in five star experiences.

Cannot wait for the next trail-bike travel to the sea or so. I bet all the boomboxes for iPod-ports also work with Rockbox, don't they?

@AlexP: Everyone who worked on this deserves every thanks possible from all the users. I have gotten asked three times now why my Ipod looks so funny. Always took the time to write the website down for them and give my email / FB to explain how to make theirs as cool.

@people-making-fonts-skins-themes-artwork-and-all-that: You are of course included. The freedom of choice in all matters makes Rockbox so great for me, which of course includes to be able to make it look like no other Ipod in town does. Part vanity, part features-I-want adding. So or so, you are great ofc.

Every list of projects that get people in touch with FOSS for the first time should include Rockbox. You made having an mp3 player besides a phone make sense again. WTF? For your next venture, I hope you do a fully free phone OS that runs on all the Android phones. Hrhrhr. 

[Mr Whippy]

Yeah I sent a email to ibasso asking if they could allow Rockbox to be ported to it. They said no.

I have generally been unimpressed with stock firmware.

Iriver H140 - not too bad as it plays vorbis out of the box. Browse by folder. But need sync software to build database.
Clip + - better as supports flac vorbis out of the box and UMS device. But syncing with software is much slower than copying as UMS.
Samsung YH-920 - stock firmware not bad, but cannot play vorbis. Software is terrible

Rockbox can build it's own database, this is MAJOR plus. So you're not limited to OS (sync software)

So generally now I won't buy a MP3 player unless it has Rockbox.

[AlexP]

I don't know what an ibasso is, but they don't have to allow it.  If a company were to help it would make a port vastly easier, but that hasn't been the case in the past and we've done alright through the hard work of talented and dedicated people.

[thecoastroute]

For want of being able to find anywhere more appropriate to add my appreciation (and a $10 donation) to the fine folk at Rockbox.

My 2003 vintage iRiver that's travelled the world with me has been given a breath of new life with a 32Gb CF mod.

A rebooted jukebox of fun with sound quality limited only by my amp's DAC! Who needs i-P*d?!

Thank you all Rockboxy people very much!

[xpmule]

Agreed i have to jump in on this Thank you topic too !

Its rare to see a project active with such quality results for so long.
Its not just coding either obviously a lot of reverse engineering has taken place..
Something i am familiar with (coding and reversing)

24hrs ago was my first try with Rockbox on my Sansa Fuze+
So far i figured out Tag&Rename does not add mp3 cover art correctly
I did a binary comparison with an image added by MP3Tag and dbPoweramp
and the difference was the internal format declared "image/jpg" or "image/jpeg"
the latter works and the other does not..
Then the next thing i did was make a conversion of the CabbieBB theme.
I was going to post a couple sim pics in the themes forum section (have a question)

Thanks very much for Rockbox (and windows support)
I like Linux but do not use it much anymore and seeing people
code for linux and then add support for windows too deserves large respect
Too many coders for nix just ignore windows users.

Thanks for Rockbox

[OldITGeezer]

Dittos! I picked up a SanDisk Clip Zip planning to add a 32GB memory card. Besides having a completely bogus (useless? brain dead?) UI, it wouldn't (and still doesn't) recognize the 32GB card.

I almost took it back until I discovered Rockbox! Major kudos!!