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link343:
Thanks For Rockbox Guys.   ;)

My 30 gig iPod Video was getting boring fast and once I found rockbox with all its cool features and Games. Bejeweled (Jewels),  Bust-A-Move (Bubble), Pacman and Doom. Very great. Once there's support for the new nano's, I might look in to getting the 8 gig.

Thanks.

Mark

malexmedia:

--- Quote from: Llorean on February 06, 2007, 06:15:13 PM ---He was asking regarding Features.

Rockbox on the H120 is much faster, has much more than 15 hours battery life (20ish), and is incredibly stable.

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Touche. :)

If the question was about features implemented in rockbox, that makes most of my comments irrelevant. However, I was comparing the overall user-experience of karma vs. rockbox on ipod, which might be more relevant than bullet-point feature comparison.


--- Quote from: Llorean on February 06, 2007, 06:15:13 PM ---What *features* does Rockbox lack relative to the Karma, as what you've listed is mostly the fact that your hardware isn't well supported by Rockbox yet (though the menu being confusing is a matter of debate still, it's hard to improve it really).

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Well, I'm not yet familiar enough with rockbox to be sure.

Rio's database was its strongest point, imho. For example, it could do fuzzy artist/album name matching. (As an example: "Echoing Green" and "The Echoing Green" would be considered by the database to be the same artist and would be filed under "E" instead of "E" and "T" respectively.)

It was also very good at creating playlists on the fly based on its knowledge of the music and tastes of the owner. (Things like "play approximately 1.5 hours of songs I used to listen to but haven't heard for 6+ months".)

Finally, the rio was really good at allowing the user to manually and arbitrarily construct playlists on the fly. You could add songs from the database, arbitrarily remove songs from the playlist, reorder the songs with the scrollwheel, etc.)

Of course, I realize that rockbox's database is under active development, and that some of those features are either being worked on already, or I just haven't discovered how to work them yet. ;)

ttyl!
--Alex

Llorean:
Rockbox on the iPod is very very seriously the worst Rockbox experience out there right now (not counting targets where music playback doesn't work yet). And the 5G iPod and 3G iPod are pretty much the worst among those. So just so you know, you're looking at the lower end of what Rockbox is like in terms of stability and responsiveness. :)

But iPods do have quite a bit of room for improvement, assuming we can learn what we need to know about the hardware.

saratoga:
The Ipod port is a long way from being finished.  A lot of the basic hardware issues are still being worked out.  Come back in a year or so.

malexmedia:

--- Quote from: saratoga on February 06, 2007, 08:45:47 PM ---Come back in a year or so.

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Why? I'm having so much fun with it now... :P

Btw, my previous comments about karma's manual/arbitrary playlist manipulation seem to be irrelevant. I've just figured out how to use the equivalent rockbox features, and they seem equally featureful to me.

ttyl
--Alex

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