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Originally Posted by DeadMan
But it does seem that all the effort is going into 'games' type addons rather than what the thing was made for which is playing music. I myself am itching to get even basic MP3 playback using Rockbox. Mainly for the gapless mode and OTF playlists etc.
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But currently reading about 'Hey we go Pokemon gameboy running on it' kinda just makes me feel a bit frustrated (Good for you gamers and gimmick people obviously)  |
The thing is this: the audio playback is not the easiest thing to do, since it involves some heavy hacking on audio codecs (something Rockbox never did before, since the Archos players have a hardware MP3 codec) and also quite substantial changes in the internal workings of Rockbox (for the same reasons).
Also, the games-and-gimmicks stuff is not developed by the same people as the "core" stuff. And they are entitled to do whatever they want, IMHO.
This is a fairly common argument in open source projects. See the Rockbox FAQ, question 77:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/vie...veloping_X_whe
Regarding my real-life problem that Tang mentioned, it isn't exactly a new one. My wife is unable to walk since the birth of our second child, 2.5 years ago. Since then, she's in constant pain and is on heavy drugs to cope. That leaves me less time for development than the other guys, I suppose, since I have to take care of her as well as the kids. Now you know.