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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: which player should i get?Re: which player should i get?
From: Sharon <sharon25_at_cox.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:45:14 -0700 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 Received on 2008-11-29 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |