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Difference: ReleaseAnnouncement30 (r16 vs. r15)Rockbox 3.0 Release AnnouncementNOTE: To be distributed only after 3.0 is officially released! May 15, 2006 The Rockbox Project (http://www.rockbox.org) is proud to announce the release of version 3.0, the result of years of extensive development. Rockbox is a GPL open source operating system and application suite for digital audio players (DAPs), written from scratch to be fast, stable and packed with features. Rockbox is replacement firmware that has matured to become an extensible, flexible platform that provides a plug-in architecture for adding applications, utilities, games, PDA functionality and more. The core Rockbox feature set includes gapless audio playback, extensive codec support, a five band fully parametric equalizer, on-the-fly (OTF) playlists, Replay Gain support, a customizable user interface, lossless recording (if hardware supports it) and more. Rockbox also includes a voice-driven interface suitable for operation by visually impaired users. Rockbox runs on a wide variety of devices with very different hardware abilities: from early early, monochrome Archos players to modern high modern, high-resolution, resolution color iPods iriver and iRiver players with digital optical audio hardware and advanced recording capabilities. What's New?New platformsDue to extensive architectural rework, in addition to the Archos players supported in previous releases Rockbox now runs on the modern generation of devices that perform audio decoding in software. The new devices supported in this release are:
Support for A number of iPod models and the iAudio X5 players are in beta testing. development and working (but unsupported). Support for Toshiba Gigabeat and others are currently in early stages of development. Audio CodecsOn software decoding platforms, Rockbox now supports playback of more than 9 audio codecs, rivaling many PC-based audio player software packages. Supported codecs:
MPEG-4 AAC (LC) and Windows Media Audio playback support (both non-DRM) are currently in development. RecordingOn supporting hardware, Rockbox supports high quality lossless recording to 44.1 kHz, 16 16-bit bit WAV. Recordings can be compressed on-device with the MP3 or WavPack encoder plugins. Rockbox features on-the-fly gain adjustment, adjustment and visual peakmeters and with clipping notification. AGC and other recording tools are in development. GamesIn addition to cutting edge audio support, Rockbox also includes many game plugins.
Rockboy, Rockdoom and Pacbox require third third-party party game data files not included with Rockbox. InternationalizationSupport for Unicode (UTF-8) has been added, and internationalized fonts for several non-Latin character sets are included. Rockbox correctly reads and displays Unicode ID3 tags. The user interface supports 28 languages. DocumentationThere is now a comprehensive manual for every supported platform available in PDF, HTML and LaTeX format. Each manual includes documentation for the entire supported feature set and example screenshots. Other
For a comprehensive list of changes, see the "Changes since 2.5" CVS changelog at http://www.rockbox.org/since25.htmland for an overview of the major changes since November 2005, see the wiki page page: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/MajorChanges . Who Makes Rockbox?Rockbox is being developed by hundreds of highly skilled volunteer developers from around the world. More than 175 contributors are named in the credits but many more in the user community provide a steady stream of patches, ideas and bug reports. To participate, see the Rockbox Forums (http://forums.rockbox.org), the mailing lists (http://www.rockbox.org/mail/) or chat with us in IRC (#rockbox at irc.freenode.net). Rockbox includes code from many other free software/open source projects including MAD (http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/), Tremor (http://www.xiph.org/), ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/) ), and others. more. The developers would like to extend their thanks to these projects projects, for without their work work, Rockbox would be a much lesser product.
r18 - 25 Nov 2006 - 10:24:01 - JonasHaeggqvist
Revision r16 - 14 May 2006 - 23:07 - ZakkRobertsRevision r15 - 14 May 2006 - 19:54 - BernardKethlayne Copyright © by the contributing authors.
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