Does Irivium Explorer work with RockBox?

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i will soon install RockBox on my h120, would Irivium Explorer be compatible with rockbox? or does my question make no sense at all? lol
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/irivium/index.php

[Febs]

Rockbox just uses drag and drop, so any features that deal with moving files to the player will work. Playlist functions will work, but you may find you don't need them because Rockbox can generate its own playlists. Likewise, if irivium has features to create the iriver database, you don't need that at all because Rockbox can create its own database, without using a computer.

[ritfc]

Originally Posted by Febs

Rockbox just uses drag and drop, so any features that deal with moving files to the player will work. Playlist functions will work, but you may find you don't need them because Rockbox can generate its own playlists. Likewise, if irivium has features to create the iriver database, you don't need that at all because Rockbox can create its own database, without using a computer.

i see, well thats awesome. im super exicted about installing rockbox soon =D

[DD]

Soon? Why not now !?

[ritfc]

Originally Posted by drippydonut

Soon? Why not now !?

haha, because i want to wait until after i install my new 2200mAh 3.7v Li-Polymer battery, which will be arriving next week or so, that way ill have a new battery just in time for the release of rockbox 3.0 so i can fully enjoy it =p

[Memixanother]

I use Rockbox and irivium on my H-140. Though I agree with Febs on what you can do with Rockbox regarding playlists, drag & drop and a database, I still find using irivium too easy to give up. I was using it before I started using Rockbox a few years ago now. Unless somethings changed, creating an on-the-go playlist with Rockbox is just too difficult and time consuming to do every time I want to make a playlist. If you've been using irivium for any length of time, you won't want to give up the flexibility you get, ease of use and viewability (easy to read) using irivium. I think the only problem I'm having regarding making playlists with irivium is that it doesn't (as far as I can find) create ".m3u" filelist names, so manipulating them outside of irivium is not possible.

I still drag & drop, but I rip with Realplayer because it appends the track number for order, creates a folder, names it, or automatically finds the correct folder to put albums and songs for an existing artist everytime. Based on a previous poll, very few people use it. I know there might be something "open" and others consider better, but it's what I like at the moment.

Prior to Rockbox, I used the iRiver database function. But then, initial versions of Rockbox didn't have that capability, so I've used "filetree" since converting. Just the other day I got another firmware version of Rockbox from March because buggy things started happening with the February version I was using (I don't like changing every week, day, or month just because a new build shows up). Anyway, I saw that I could setup the old 'database' way of viewing things as in the iRiver firmware (with a couple of other functions). I looked at it, played with it a moment and then, went right back to filetree.

irivium can be used independent of Rockbox. When the H-140 is hooked up to my computer, it is irivium's. When we're (me and the jukebox) out in the street, Rockbox rules.

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i see, well thats cool. i usually dont use playlists that much, so the filetree is what i use on a regular basis. but as my music collection grows larger ill prob have to start using irivium