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Originally Posted by Catlady
I tried Rockbox once--I think on an old Clip+ I no longer have--and just hated it, though I can't remember why. Clearly I am in the minority!
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Rockbox is actually overly complex IMHO. If you're not a geeky engineer (like me!) then it probably is not ones cup of tea.
I actually use only a small bit of Rockboxs features. Namely, the configuration part. e.g., I can configure it to automatically set a bookmark whenever I turn off the player. e.g., I can configure it so that the forward and back buttons will never skip to the next or previous track (otherwise it is very easy to accidentally hit a button wrongly and loose you place in the audiobook). e.g., I can configure how much time forward and back a button push will change the audiobook position. e.g., I can configure it to automatically rewind my place in the audiobook XYZ amount of time when I first turn on the MP3 player after not having used it in a while (so I can rehear and reorient myself as to what recently happened in the audiobook). e.g., I can configure what the display says (default is normally to display how far forward you have played in a track, but I want it to display how far I've gone AND how much time I have left at the same time). e.g., I can configure it to display my battery remaining time in percent (a number) rather than as a battery icon with only a rough estimate of power remaining.
It's all this configurability that makes Rockbox so good. Actually using it - the user interface - is maybe too complex however. This is the tradeoff ... more configurability almost always means more complexity in software. This is why engineers love Rockbox, and normal people hate it!