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What platform takes more advantage of Rockbox functionalities?
Edil:
Hi, long time don't post in here. My iriver h140 has died ???:-\:(:'(:o So I'm looking to buy another mp3 player.
Apart from the toslink port that is something unique of the iriver h1xx (i'm gonna miss it), on what platform can you get most of rockbox functions?
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saratoga:
Devices with a color screen can use album art, devices with line out can use line out, etc. Aside from different hardware features its the same OS.
Julian67:
--- Quote from: Edil on April 04, 2014, 01:36:01 PM ---...My iriver h140 has died ???:-\:(:'(:o So I'm looking to buy another mp3 player.
Apart from the toslink port that is something unique of the iriver h1xx (i'm gonna miss it), on what platform can you get most of rockbox functions?
8)
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As well as the optical output the H140 has an extremely good quality line out. You probably won't find either in any of the budget players and it's a fairly unusual combination until you spend quite big.
The H100 and H300 series of players have a relatively powerful output - they won't match the current expensive "boutique" players from companies like iBasso but are noticably more powerful than the smaller Sansa players. This can matter if you use headphones or IEMs with impedance higher than 32 ohm. For typical low impedance IEMs (usually 12 to 16 ohms)
the smaller Sansa players might be better (because they don't produce the obvious hiss that the iRivers make with highly sensitive 'phones).
Another aspect of the H140 is that you can open the case and swap out the battery and the disk. It's not bonded and sealed like modern players and you can easily open it and replace parts. Are you really sure yours died? Maybe all you need is a new battery or disk or perhaps both. Batteries are found easily on ebay and are cheap enough that it's worth testing. Disks cost a little more but if you have a Compact Flash card you can get a cheap adapter and test/diagnose your player using the CF card as its disk. If your player isn't dead (only resting) it is well worth keeping it and upgrading to a bigger capacity battery and replacing the ancient, slow disk with a SSD. It doesn't cost that much to add a battery that gives you over 24 hours of playback and a 128GB SSD which makes the player boot in about 3 seconds and perform really nicely (no more lags or pauses while you navigate, no more waiting on directory changes, no more occasional noise while the disk churns or the cache fills or empties or whatever it is).
Edil:
The battery was already replaced and the HD was working fine, sadly the main board got fried :'(
In regards to headphones I mostly used the player as my home (toslink to A/V receiver) and car (mini stereo cable), portable "CD changer". I did used it with a pair of Shure E3c but not that much (by the way the E3c also broke some time ago) :'( I'm really going to miss the toslink connection so I'm gonna have to get used to using the mini stereo cable.
You said Sansa? Out of the three models that are rockbox compatible the fuze+ is the best one right?
Thanks for your suggestions I think that I will go that way.
Julian67:
I like the Fuze+ more than the other Sansa models but most people hate it for its touchpad control interface and prefer the Clip+ or Zip.
If you use highly sensitive IEMs you might hear odd noises from the Clip series (squeaks, pops and so on). See http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaAMS
--- Quote ---Some clip+ hardware variants have noise in both rockbox and the original firmware
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The Fuze+ doesn't do this but has a barely noticeable hiss with highly sensitive low impedance IEMs.
I think if you use your player in the car then probably the Zip is best for your use as the screen is bigger than the Clip so you can configure it to be legible. Avoid the Fuze+ or you will probably die in a Paul Walker type fireball while trying to skip a track.
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