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Player recommendations? How's the X5 port?

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painless-shadow:
does it have recording capabilities?
(i mean the port, 'cos i know the x5 has a built-in mic).

xlarge:
Yes sir it does.

I have tested mic so far (rockbox supports line in aswell) and it encodes to mp3 realtime or saves as wav...

gnarayan:
The X5 port is great - very minor stability issues. Doom is awesome, as is the ID3 cache which Cowon still has not gotten around to doing. The plugins are awesome and I like turning on clock at night when I sync the player. Battery life remains around 27hrs on the X5L for me.

Only two things have frustrated me thus far - the rockbox firmware seems a lot more sensitive to the ff/rw setting. With the iAudio and the rockbox firmware if you tap the stick to the right you are supposed to skip to the next track but with the rockbox it seems to fast forward instead most of the time rather than not. You end up having to tap the stick to the right a couple of times before it actually goes to the next tap. This has quickly gotten annoying and I wish there was some sensitivity setting for the stick on the X5 builds.

The other thing is that since you cannot switch between the two firmwares you lose the video and audio playback. You can do video only tracks but thats no fun. There are some older instructions on rvf files and I tried those as well on a variety of different videos and it sadly did not work on the player.  

evenreven:
About switching between Rockbox and Official firmware:
I do that all the time for playing .wma files and video. There's a dualboot patch made by Raenye (I think the handle is) that works wonders. Search for it, it's great.

xlarge:

--- Quote from: gnarayan on August 31, 2006, 11:52:44 AM ---The X5 port is great - very minor stability issues. Doom is awesome, as is the ID3 cache which Cowon still has not gotten around to doing. The plugins are awesome and I like turning on clock at night when I sync the player. Battery life remains around 27hrs on the X5L for me.

Only two things have frustrated me thus far - the rockbox firmware seems a lot more sensitive to the ff/rw setting. With the iAudio and the rockbox firmware if you tap the stick to the right you are supposed to skip to the next track but with the rockbox it seems to fast forward instead most of the time rather than not. You end up having to tap the stick to the right a couple of times before it actually goes to the next tap. This has quickly gotten annoying and I wish there was some sensitivity setting for the stick on the X5 builds.

The other thing is that since you cannot switch between the two firmwares you lose the video and audio playback. You can do video only tracks but thats no fun. There are some older instructions on rvf files and I tried those as well on a variety of different videos and it sadly did not work on the player.  

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I must say i don't have the same issues with ff/rw as you do... I switch songs easily and never had it ff/rw on me unintentionally.

(i have the doubleboot firmware on mine, so i can boot original firmware if i need usb otg since that is not supported in rockbox... Yet.)

Threadstealing; What do you use when syncing player and computer mp3-libraries?

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