Archive for October, 2010
Sunday, October 31st, 2010 5 views
Everyone’s favorite open source replacement firmware for MP3 players got a fresh stable release. Lots of updated features, bug fixes, and several newly supported players – many SanDisk Sansa models among those – are some of the highlights of this release. Full release notes and download links can be found on the Rockbox Wiki . Read on for the change log. Stable ports Rockbox runs well on these players, has a complete manual and is supported by RockboxUtility : Apple : Ipod 1g through 5.5g, Ipod Mini and Ipod Nano 1g and 2g Archos : Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio Cowon : iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 and M3L iRiver : H100, H300 and H10 series Olympus : M:Robe 100 Packard Bell : Vibe 500 SanDisk : Sansa c200 (not v2), e200 and e200R series, Fuze, Clip and Clip+ Toshiba : Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series) Core New skin format requiring all skins to be updated, see SkinBreakingChange for details. Sansa Clip v1 and v2, Clip+, Fuze v2 and Ipod Nano 2g are now stable release targets. Sansa Fuze v1 and E200 v2 now have usb support enabled. Ipod Video 32MB and 64MB builds are now merged into one unified build. Ipod 4g through 5.5g, Ipod Mini and Ipod Nano 1g now have usb support enabled and can charge via usb. The “Charge during USB connection” option now has a “force” setting. Backlight brightness setting for Ipod 4g/Color/Photo. Wheel acceleration and repeats for Ipod 1g-3g and Ipod Mini 1g. New “Update on stop” setting for bookmarks. Line out support for Fuzev1 and e200v2 Updated ARM compiler and switched to EABI resulting in large memory savings on some targets Greatly improved pitch accuracy on Sansa e200v2, Fuze, Clip and Clip+ Increase maximum volume on the Fuze v2, Clip v2 and Clip+ to maximum allowed by the hardware Plugins New lrcplayer plugin. New shopping list plugin — shopper. New Resistor code calculator plugin. Sudoku plugin now saves the scratchpad state. Game sounds in Pacbox. Improvements and optimizations for PDbox. test_codec now properly benchmarks on all targets, not just those with > 16MB of RAM. Codecs Support for WMA Pro codec. Optimizations for FLAC, MP3, Vorbis, AAC-LC, AAC-HE, TTA, Cook, Atrac3 and WMA.
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Rockbox 3.7 is Released
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010 2 views
Everyone’s favorite open source replacement firmware for MP3 players got a fresh stable release. Lots of updated features, bug fixes, and several newly supported players – many SanDisk Sansa models among those – are some of the highlights of this release. Full release notes and download links can be found on the Rockbox Wiki . Read on for the change log. Stable ports Rockbox runs well on these players, has a complete manual and is supported by RockboxUtility : Apple : Ipod 1g through 5.5g, Ipod Mini and Ipod Nano 1g and 2g Archos : Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio Cowon : iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 and M3L iRiver : H100, H300 and H10 series Olympus : M:Robe 100 Packard Bell : Vibe 500 SanDisk : Sansa c200 (not v2), e200 and e200R series, Fuze, Clip and Clip+ Toshiba : Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series) Core New skin format requiring all skins to be updated, see SkinBreakingChange for details. Sansa Clip v1 and v2, Clip+, Fuze v2 and Ipod Nano 2g are now stable release targets. Sansa Fuze v1 and E200 v2 now have usb support enabled. Ipod Video 32MB and 64MB builds are now merged into one unified build. Ipod 4g through 5.5g, Ipod Mini and Ipod Nano 1g now have usb support enabled and can charge via usb. The “Charge during USB connection” option now has a “force” setting. Backlight brightness setting for Ipod 4g/Color/Photo. Wheel acceleration and repeats for Ipod 1g-3g and Ipod Mini 1g. New “Update on stop” setting for bookmarks. Line out support for Fuzev1 and e200v2 Updated ARM compiler and switched to EABI resulting in large memory savings on some targets Greatly improved pitch accuracy on Sansa e200v2, Fuze, Clip and Clip+ Increase maximum volume on the Fuze v2, Clip v2 and Clip+ to maximum allowed by the hardware Plugins New lrcplayer plugin. New shopping list plugin — shopper. New Resistor code calculator plugin. Sudoku plugin now saves the scratchpad state. Game sounds in Pacbox. Improvements and optimizations for PDbox. test_codec now properly benchmarks on all targets, not just those with > 16MB of RAM. Codecs Support for WMA Pro codec. Optimizations for FLAC, MP3, Vorbis, AAC-LC, AAC-HE, TTA, Cook, Atrac3 and WMA.
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Rockbox 3.7 is Released
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010 5 views
Everyone’s favorite open source replacement firmware for MP3 players got a fresh stable release. Lots of updated features, bug fixes, and several newly supported players – many SanDisk Sansa models among those – are some of the highlights of this release. Full release notes and download links can be found on the Rockbox Wiki . Read on for the change log. Stable ports Rockbox runs well on these players, has a complete manual and is supported by RockboxUtility : Apple : Ipod 1g through 5.5g, Ipod Mini and Ipod Nano 1g and 2g Archos : Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio Cowon : iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 and M3L iRiver : H100, H300 and H10 series Olympus : M:Robe 100 Packard Bell : Vibe 500 SanDisk : Sansa c200 (not v2), e200 and e200R series, Fuze, Clip and Clip+ Toshiba : Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series) Core New skin format requiring all skins to be updated, see SkinBreakingChange for details. Sansa Clip v1 and v2, Clip+, Fuze v2 and Ipod Nano 2g are now stable release targets. Sansa Fuze v1 and E200 v2 now have usb support enabled. Ipod Video 32MB and 64MB builds are now merged into one unified build. Ipod 4g through 5.5g, Ipod Mini and Ipod Nano 1g now have usb support enabled and can charge via usb. The “Charge during USB connection” option now has a “force” setting. Backlight brightness setting for Ipod 4g/Color/Photo. Wheel acceleration and repeats for Ipod 1g-3g and Ipod Mini 1g. New “Update on stop” setting for bookmarks. Line out support for Fuzev1 and e200v2 Updated ARM compiler and switched to EABI resulting in large memory savings on some targets Greatly improved pitch accuracy on Sansa e200v2, Fuze, Clip and Clip+ Increase maximum volume on the Fuze v2, Clip v2 and Clip+ to maximum allowed by the hardware Plugins New lrcplayer plugin. New shopping list plugin — shopper. New Resistor code calculator plugin. Sudoku plugin now saves the scratchpad state. Game sounds in Pacbox. Improvements and optimizations for PDbox. test_codec now properly benchmarks on all targets, not just those with > 16MB of RAM. Codecs Support for WMA Pro codec. Optimizations for FLAC, MP3, Vorbis, AAC-LC, AAC-HE, TTA, Cook, Atrac3 and WMA.
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Rockbox 3.7 is Released
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010 5 views
Everyone’s favorite open source replacement firmware for MP3 players got a fresh stable release. Lots of updated features, bug fixes, and several newly supported players – many SanDisk Sansa models among those – are some of the highlights of this release. Full release notes and download links can be found on the Rockbox Wiki . Read on for the change log. Stable ports Rockbox runs well on these players, has a complete manual and is supported by RockboxUtility : Apple : Ipod 1g through 5.5g, Ipod Mini and Ipod Nano 1g and 2g Archos : Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio Cowon : iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 and M3L iRiver : H100, H300 and H10 series Olympus : M:Robe 100 Packard Bell : Vibe 500 SanDisk : Sansa c200 (not v2), e200 and e200R series, Fuze, Clip and Clip+ Toshiba : Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series) Core New skin format requiring all skins to be updated, see SkinBreakingChange for details. Sansa Clip v1 and v2, Clip+, Fuze v2 and Ipod Nano 2g are now stable release targets. Sansa Fuze v1 and E200 v2 now have usb support enabled. Ipod Video 32MB and 64MB builds are now merged into one unified build. Ipod 4g through 5.5g, Ipod Mini and Ipod Nano 1g now have usb support enabled and can charge via usb. The “Charge during USB connection” option now has a “force” setting. Backlight brightness setting for Ipod 4g/Color/Photo. Wheel acceleration and repeats for Ipod 1g-3g and Ipod Mini 1g. New “Update on stop” setting for bookmarks. Line out support for Fuzev1 and e200v2 Updated ARM compiler and switched to EABI resulting in large memory savings on some targets Greatly improved pitch accuracy on Sansa e200v2, Fuze, Clip and Clip+ Increase maximum volume on the Fuze v2, Clip v2 and Clip+ to maximum allowed by the hardware Plugins New lrcplayer plugin. New shopping list plugin — shopper. New Resistor code calculator plugin. Sudoku plugin now saves the scratchpad state. Game sounds in Pacbox. Improvements and optimizations for PDbox. test_codec now properly benchmarks on all targets, not just those with > 16MB of RAM. Codecs Support for WMA Pro codec. Optimizations for FLAC, MP3, Vorbis, AAC-LC, AAC-HE, TTA, Cook, Atrac3 and WMA.
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Rockbox 3.7 is Released
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Monday, October 25th, 2010 8 views
2 years ago I wrote an article explaining some basic differences between various video (and screen) resolutions that were common back then. In just two years, we have seen a massive increase in what is considered “normal” resolution for a mobile device, as well as a decrease in screen size. We’ve gone from 800
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Monday, October 25th, 2010 4 views
2 years ago I wrote an article explaining some basic differences between various video (and screen) resolutions that were common back then. In just two years, we have seen a massive increase in what is considered “normal” resolution for a mobile device, as well as a decrease in screen size. We’ve gone from 800
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Monday, October 25th, 2010 9 views
2 years ago I wrote an article explaining some basic differences between various video (and screen) resolutions that were common back then. In just two years, we have seen a massive increase in what is considered “normal” resolution for a mobile device, as well as a decrease in screen size. We’ve gone from 800
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Monday, October 25th, 2010 5 views
2 years ago I wrote an article explaining some basic differences between various video (and screen) resolutions that were common back then. In just two years, we have seen a massive increase in what is considered “normal” resolution for a mobile device, as well as a decrease in screen size. We’ve gone from 800
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Monday, October 25th, 2010 3 views
2 years ago I wrote an article explaining some basic differences between various video (and screen) resolutions that were common back then. In just two years, we have seen a massive increase in what is considered “normal” resolution for a mobile device, as well as a decrease in screen size. We’ve gone from 800
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Monday, October 25th, 2010 8 views
2 years ago I wrote an article explaining some basic differences between various video (and screen) resolutions that were common back then. In just two years, we have seen a massive increase in what is considered “normal” resolution for a mobile device, as well as a decrease in screen size. We’ve gone from 800
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