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1 Introduction
1.1 Welcome
This is the manual for Rockbox. Rockbox is an open source rmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players. Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and ecient than your device’s stock rmware while remaining easy to use and customisable. Rockbox is written by users, for users. Not only is it free to use, it is also released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which means that it will always remain free both to use and to change.
Rockbox has been in development since 2001, and receives new features, tweaks and xes each day to provide you with the best possible experience on your digital audio player. A major goal of Rockbox is to be simple and easy to use, yet remain very customisable and con gurable. We believe that you should never need to go through a series of menus for an action you perform frequently. We also believe that you should be able to con gure almost anything about Rockbox you could want, pertaining to functionality. Another top priority of Rockbox is audio playback quality { Rockbox, for most models, includes a wider range of sound settings than the device’s original rmware. A lot of work has been put into making Rockbox sound the best it can, and improvements are constantly being made. All models have access to a large number of plugins, including many games, applications, and graphical \demos". You can load di erent con gurations quickly for di erent purposes (e.g. a large font for in your car, di erent sound settings for at home). Rockbox features a very wide range of languages, and all supported models also have the ability to talk to you { menus can be voiced and lenames spelled out or spoken.
1.2 Getting more help
This manual is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the Rockbox rmware. There is, however, more help available. The Rockbox website at http://www.rockbox.org/ contains very extensive documentation and guides written by members of the Rockbox community and this should be your rst port of call when looking for further help.
If you cannot nd the information you are searching for on the Rockbox website there are a number of support channels you should have a look at. You can try the Rockbox forums located at http://forums.rockbox.org/. Another option are the mailing lists which can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/mail/. From that page you can subscribe to the lists and browse the archives. For searching the list archives simply use the search eld that is located on the left side of the website. Also you can ask on IRC. The main
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