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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: which player should i get?Re: which player should i get?
From: Grant Hardy <granthardy_at_telus.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:42 -0800 All, Are there any hard disk players being sold which compare to the iriver H1xx/H3xx series? I dearly miss my iriver H340 and never quite found a player that fully replaced it. Or perhaps new/refurbished H340s are still being sold, somewhere? Cheers, Grant On 11/29/08, Sharon <sharon25_at_cox.net> wrote: > > I have two 40 GB Toshiba Gigabeats with Rockbox on them and LOVE > them! They are the best players I have ever had, and Rockbox makes > them even better! I bought them both on eBay. Sharon > >>John Morris wrote: >> >>Since I don't know much about these things, can someone recommend a >>good player including name and specific model/part number and where >>I could buy it cheaply? >> >>Well, I think this is quite difficult. Most (if not all) players >>that are supported by rockbox are no longer produced (if I am not >>wrong) and so might be difficult to find. Maybe there are some >>places where you can find the devices that are appropriate to >>rockbox. (ebay, etc.) >> >>It would be interesting to know how rockbox does work on the iAudio >>devices D2 or i7 (I think these are the names of the targets where >>some rockbox developers are working on). I had the hope that rockbox >>will become usable on these during 2009. So if you are not blind and >>not really need rockbox it might be an idea to get such an iAudio >>device that are really good players already without rockbox (but are >>only not able to play tracks gaplessly). When rockbox will be >>available for these, you can install it then. >> >>Otherwise I know that good rockbox players are the iAudio X5 and the >>Sansa e200 (important: version 1 as you already wrote!). The only >>problem of the Sansa player is that on some of them, depending on >>the ear phones you are using (are they loud without turning up the >>player's volume), you can hear a static, electronic background >>noise, especially when rockbox does fill its music buffers. It is >>not a real problem when listening outside (in a train, etc.), but it >>is annoying when listening at home with very calm and quiet music. >> >>Greetings, >>Arno >>------------------------------------------------------------------- >>List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox >>FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ >>Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ > Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2008-12-01 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |