How RBing your H3XX changed your H3XXing xperience?

[telomerase]

How about letting the members of misticriver know the NEW experience you got once you RockBoxed your H3XX player? The experience can be both positive or negative.

As far as my experience is concerned I started using my H340 more and more just because of the additional features imparted to my iRiver by Rock Box. I had only few songs on my iRiver till I installed RB. But once I got the features like crossfading and gapless playback, I immediately converted all my CDs to mp3 just to be transferred to my iriver.

Listening to music (NOW) is really a great pleasure.

[RTYUI333]

when i first installed it and played rock games and rockboy I SCREAMED!! I dont use much but, really, rockbox rule!! but anything else, I just use normal iriver because they dont support korean....

I would joyfully scream again if they supports korean

[user]

Originally Posted by RTYUI333

when i first installed it and played rock games and rockboy I SCREAMED!! I dont use much but, really, rockbox rule!! but anything else, I just use normal iriver because they dont support korean....

I would joyfully scream again if they supports korean

as far as i know, unicode works on h300 too

[andrewmel]

I have re-listened to all my Pink Floyd albums, one after the other until I hear them all. Many improved by gapless with a click.

I used it in class the other day. The students were a bit bored with the usual maths, and we had been working on problem solving strategies a bit before, so I ran to my staff room and grabbed my H320, booted to Rockbox, and loaded a few sudoko games and put them on the board.

They know about my dap enjoyment, and had heard about my 320, and all wanted a look. They got one, but not one of them got the little fingers on it

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[savagenator]

lol, it must be great being a teacher, most teachers just stand there and are strict...are you strict or use reverse psycology like my math teacher, he has the most controled class ever

most teachers love teaching as thier jobs....at least in my school

EDIT: i used my DAP as a calculator in calculus yesterday cuase i forgot my calculator...

[ThatOneGuy]

Our Chem II teacher gives us Suduko squares all the time.

Unfortunately, that's about all we're good at, and exams are tomorrow...

On topic - it hasn't changed my life but I'm using it over the iRiver firmware right now. I just like how I can make it simple with my wps and just show what I want it to show, and the crossfade is sweet, and the next song information is muy bueno.

[blindsniper]

RB calculator is good enough for Calculus? crazy, I didn't know that. We just started calculus, so we're just on limits and mine can do those but, cool

[reddshack]

When I started making OTF playlists I couldn't put my player down!! This ran my battery into the ground.... haha!

[xd-data-ii]

Raockbox is not very good at all. Yeah you can make playlist on the fly. nothing else about it is interesting. And with the new firmware out fixing most of the issues i had with the player, i wont be going near rockbox again
Unless.... ill just see how it is in a number of months when its functionality and the UI improve vastly

[SnoopsterJ]

Originally Posted by ThatOneGuy

Our Chem II teacher gives us Suduko squares all the time.

Unfortunately, that's about all we're good at, and exams are tomorrow...

On topic - it hasn't changed my life but I'm using it over the iRiver firmware right now. I just like how I can make it simple with my wps and just show what I want it to show, and the crossfade is sweet, and the next song information is muy bueno.

Laugh out loud, I loved the "Unfortunately, that's about all we're good at, and exams are tomorrow..." bit

The way it changed my experience...kind of indescribable actually. The feel is so...different from the original firmware, and I really like it. The basic...ness?...of it is a nice change from the colourful...colourne ss. Forgive me. Yes, reiterating the wps stuffs, it really is a blast changing themes, and saying to my friends "see I've got an iPod too...BUT MINE'S BETTER!", stuff like that. Right now I'm using the zezayer theme, and find that the most suitable to my needs (I like the battery meter...my battery is slowly winding down I think, it says 8 hours when I finish charging it, and I actually think it's pretty accurate ) Pong is awesome with a buddy, it's hilarious at how they have to tap the button as quick as they can to get the paddle to the bottom of the screen, while you're looking at the screen upside down and chuckling all the while . All in all, I just can't wait (maybe I can...it's an expression *in a matter of factly tone*) what surprises await the H3xx series from the Rockbox team (wow...clichétacular ).

[knight4led]

I put Rockbox on my player and spent hours glancing back and forth between my computer monitor and my newly monochrome LCD display on my H320. Honestly I wanted to learn as much as possible about running and customizing Rockbox as possible. It got me back into customizing my H320 instead of just turning it on and listening to it. I'm currenly obsessed with trying to make different WPS screens, but everthing I come up with looks just like something somebody has already made. I am crossing my fingers that colored WPS come soon.

Honestly the two biggest differences to how I use my H320 now are I seem to be recharging more, and I find that I am no longer able to work the iRiver firmware without looking. Seriously Rockbox seems to kill the battery faster than iRiver eventhough it doesn't spin the HD as much. I suppose the problem is two-fold, the OS isn't quite mature enough to optimize batt usage and I seem to play with Rockbox more than iRiver. Also, as I am getting used to using Rockbox, and am getting rusty with the iRiver firmware. I mess up doing things in the good ole iRiver firmware now.

[andrewmel]

Originally Posted by xd-data-ii

Raockbox is not very good at all. Yeah you can make playlist on the fly. nothing else about it is interesting. And with the new firmware out fixing most of the issues i had with the player, i wont be going near rockbox again
Unless.... ill just see how it is in a number of months when its functionality and the UI improve vastly

Well I like the gapless, and the ability to cue the next album when only in the middle of the current one.

I am looking forward to a better interface, and I dont find the buttons that easy to use yet, mostly because 16 months of using the old settings have stuck on me for a bit, but also because I learn as much by reading and seeing diagrams as by doing and I cant do that yet!!
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[Lewis]

I find that when I scroll and let go of the button, the list carries on scrolling for a few seconds.

Does this happen with anyone else?

[Ego]

i've booted into the original firmware maybe twice since Rockbox played music. back in the day i owned an iMP, andi would make mix MP3 cds with 5-10 albums on, and shuffle between those. i'm happy to get that capability back again, in conjunction with shuffle across the whole collection. and, i'm enjoying gapless more than i thought i would.

[musichound]

Originally Posted by andrewmel

I have re-listened to all my Pink Floyd albums, one after the other until I hear them all. Many improved by gapless with a click.

I used it in class the other day. The students were a bit bored with the usual maths, and we had been working on problem solving strategies a bit before, so I ran to my staff room and grabbed my H320, booted to Rockbox, and loaded a few sudoko games and put them on the board.

They know about my dap enjoyment, and had heard about my 320, and all wanted a look. They got one, but not one of them got the little fingers on it

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Andrew, did you have to encode again or did your Pink Floyd albums play gapless with no additional work?

Staying on topic, after using Rockbox I will never use anything else to play my music.

[Febs]

Originally Posted by xd-data-ii

Raockbox is not very good at all. Yeah you can make playlist on the fly. nothing else about it is interesting.

That's a pretty interesting statement, considering that you once posted this:

You're dead right. When the H3xx gets the rockbox software it is going to be very very hard to beat.
As it stands it is a really really flawed player, playlists are unusable really.
But add the rockbox and it will kick all asses.
Thats why i am still holding onto it.

[mitchellknell]

so, uh, rockbox will now work w/o all the bugs? last week i was reading posts saying that it is not reccomended to install rockbox unless you are a programmer...is rockbox now stable enough to run? is it as stable as iriver firmware? is there any chance of bricking my player while running rockbox? i have been patiently waiting to install rockbox, is now the time to do it?

[paulheu]

Actually for the last week I have been using RockBox for playback and only went back to iRiver FW for recording. While there's still stuff to iron out and it's far from finished (no critique mind you.. I think this is going way faster the we expected now that it's actually running)

Still I stand by my original rule: If you have _ANY_ doubts just wait until you get the feeling it's stable enough for you. It's far from being a 'serious' release and there is much unfinished stuff, but as far as the parts that have been done it works for most it seems..

[andrewmel]

Some report crashes, I havent had one yet.

Is there a chance of bricking? Yes.

How big a chance? How long is a piece of string?

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[wuschnik]

For all the live music lovers out there, this feature is a must and worth installing rockbox for. Yes the interface is lacking but it will improve.

[ghostface_killah24]

Rockbox is amazing and I am really thankful for the work the developers put into the H320. I'm playing FLAC and WavPack on my H320 right now. I always waited for this time when the H320 got it's port released. Gapless is either hit or miss, some of my files are pristine with gapless and some aren't. Plugins are cool, Bejeweled, Solitaire, Snake 2, and the Gameboy emulator(kind of slow) make things fun. Sudoku is a very hard game but very cool. WPSs are fun to make and seeing others for ideas can help with that process. All in all, I think Rockbox is trés trés brilliant .

Andrew, I was playing The Wall today and noticed that it was gapless, and it's in mp3. I think that there would be difficulty with having gapless on lossless files rather than mp3 or mpc. What format are your files?

Originally Posted by xd-data-ii

Raockbox is not very good at all. Yeah you can make playlist on the fly. nothing else about it is interesting. And with the new firmware out fixing most of the issues i had with the player, i wont be going near rockbox again
Unless.... ill just see how it is in a number of months when its functionality and the UI improve vastly

Hmm...I think that you don't know how to work with Rockbox. Maybe you flashed too early because you can do more than just making playlists. You can play lossless music which is brilliant. How about the plugins, or WPS. The interface needs to be configured by you, because my interface is pretty good.