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October 5, 2008

Rockbox 3.0 Released

Tagged with: , , , , , — John @ 10:45 am

Via Engadget via OStatic via BoingBoing comes news that Rockbox 3.0 has been released.

I first started using Rockbox Rockbox years ago because I had an Archos Jukebox Recorder, which was an early, 2.5″ hard-drive based MP3 player/recorder, which was only hampered by its anemic software.

When I later migrated to an iPod Nano, I loved the hardware but was not happy with the Apple software. Having used the Archos, I was used to just being able to drag audio files on and off the device, mounting it via USB as an external drive, with a normal file system. This meant I could synch the files I was listening to between my home PC running Linux, my work PC running Windows (their choice, not mine), or (later) my Mac OS X laptop, all without having to worry about DRM.
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