Sansa Clip+ AAC support (with standard menu)

[giratalkialga]

Hi; I'm new here so forgive e for not knowing the technical terms and all that. All I know about RockBox is that it's a platform allowing people to create their own custom menus/features for music players.

Yesterday I got a Sansa Clip+ because of the microSD slot which I'm finding really handy at the moment, but one thing that annoys me a lot is the lack of AAC, which I used to encode my music with on a Sony Walkman (E464, which was great up until one of the buttons came off) and I don't want to waste my time re-ripping my CDs. I have looked into RockBoxing my player as it seems an insteresting way to bypass some restrictions, such as lack of AAC support. I know that AAC playback is supported by RockBox, but I want to know if there is a way to have AAC support on the Clip+ but with the original menu+playback screen, as I find it to be more ergonomic and user-friendly than many of the custom menus which are a little too cluttered for my purposes.

I was wondering if there was a way to have AAC support but with the original menu/playback screen. Is this possible?

[saratoga]

I was wondering if there was a way to have AAC support but with the original menu/playback screen. Is this possible?

No.

[giratalkialga]

I was wondering if there was a way to have AAC support but with the original menu/playback screen. Is this possible?

No.

Can you give me the reasons why?

[saratoga]

I was wondering if there was a way to have AAC support but with the original menu/playback screen. Is this possible?

No.

Can you give me the reasons why?

You'd have to either write a firmware that mimicked the Sandisk UI, or else convince Sandisk to release a firmware that had the features you wanted.  If you're even asking this question here on these forums, its not possible for you to do either of those things.

[giratalkialga]

Thank you very much for the help. Which RockBox theme is most similar to the original SanDisk UI?

[__builtin]

Use a bigger font.
It's a 1-bit monochrome display. Don't look at it.

[nick_p]

Which RockBox theme is most similar to the original SanDisk UI?

http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=1035&target=sansaclipplus