Tag: software

Rockbox - Tuning your portable music-player.

Hi there,
it has been a while, hasn’t it? (Shame on me, I know…)

But let’s cut to the chase, I’m writing this post (and I’m planning to write a few more, but more on that another time) because I have a little spare time on my hands right now.

Now, what’s this post about? Since my portable music player (a Cowon iAudio X5, 60 GB storage, more than you could ever need (or at least I could ever need) for your music) lately had a hard time recognizing the ID3-Tags of newer mp3-files I decided to check out alternative software for mp3-players and I stumbled across rockbox, a open source software for various mp3-players.

Now what is so great about it? Well first of all, it recognizes my files! But it also gives me full (or at least much more - and that is a thing to say with the iAudio X5) control over my music-player. It supports not only mp3 but also (and this is nice because much other softwares don’t) ogg and flac, it provides various ways to view your data, has a built in calculator (hell, if you want to you can even install doom on it) and there are some gorgeous (and functional) themes out there to make your player’s interface a pleasure to the eye. And the best: It’s easy to install and remove if you’re not convinced. So try it out.