Rockbox 3.0 firmware breathes the life back into your MP3 player

Well it took three years, but Rockbox 3.0 has finally made it on the scene, with a major overhaul in the sound decoding department and support for several new players. This open source firmware replacement is chock full of tasty new features, including codec support for over 15 formats like FLAC and Ogg, 5-band parametric EQ, MPEG video, multilingual interface, Doom and a pile of other games, not to mention freedom from iTunes. Oh yeah, and it can talk to you via a spoken interface -- which comes in handy for not driving off bridges and what not. iPod, iriver, Sansa, iAudio, Gigabeat and Archos models are all supported, though Archos didn't get many of the major 3.0 improvements like expanded codecs.

[Via Ostatic; thanks Eric L]

[drsbkumar Posted Sep 26th 2008 7:36PM]

The RB 3.0 on the ipod 5G is slow, crashes often, and cant play mp4 or avi, just mpeg1,2 even these was jerky. and I still coudnt figure out how to enable album art.... this one not for me

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 27th 2008 7:46PM]

Hi everybody this firmware is awesome! I've just finish to install it in my iPod and I must say that my iPod gained fresh life. I recommend it 100%. If you have if you have any doubt or question with the installation process, in this site may help you.
http://applediario.com/2008/09/27/rockbox-30-un-firmware-que-lleva-tu-ipod-a-su-maxima-expresion/

[LocalToast Posted Sep 28th 2008 11:02AM]

I dunno about you guys, but I really want an iPod Mini theme.