Rockbox – Free music player firmware, Hacker News

Rockbox is a free replacement firmware for digital music players. It runs on a wide range of players:

Stable ports

Rockbox runs well on these players, has installation instructions, and is supported bythe installer:

• Apple: iPod 1g through 5.5g, iPod Mini, iPod Nano 1g, iPod Nano 2g
• Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
• Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 and M3L
• Creative:Zen Mozaic,Zen X-Fi,Zen X-Fi 3andZen X-Fi Style
• iriver: iHP (series, H) **************************************************************************************** (series, H) ************************************************************************************** (series and H) series
• MPIO: HD 300
• Olympus: M: Robe 100
• Packard Bell: Vibe 500
• Philips:GoGear SA,GoGear HDD 16 x0and (HDD) x0
• Samsung: YH – 820, YH – 920 and YH – 925
• Sony:NWZ-E 360,NWZ-E 370andNWZ-E 380series
• SanDisk: Sansa C 200, e 200 and e 200 R series, Fuze andFuze , Clip, Clip and Clip Zip
• Toshiba: Gigabeat X and F series

(Unstable ports) *******

Rockbox runs on these players, but is incomplete, less usable or has problems that limit it to advanced users:

• Agptek:Rocker (Benjie T6)
• Apple: iPod Classic (6G)
• Creative:ZenandZen X-Fi 2
• Cowon:D2
• HiFi ET:MA9,MA8
• HiFiMAN:HM – 601,HM – 602,HM – 603,HM –
• iBasso: (DX) , (DX)
• MPIO:HD 200
• Olympus (*************: (M: Robe)
• Samsung:YP-R0
• Sony:NWZ- E 350,NWZ-E 450, (NWZ-E) ,NWZ-E 470, (NWZ-E) , (NWZ-A) ,NWZ-A 10and (NW-A) series
• Toshiba:Gigabeat S
• Xduoo: X3 (not X3 II)

(Unusable ports) *******

Work has begun on porting Rockbox to these players, but much remains before they are usable:

• OndaVX 747, VX 767 and VX 777
• GoogleAndroid
• Rockchiprk 27 xx

Click here for astatus summary of unstable and unusable ports.

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If your player is not listed above, then Rockbox does not run on it.