Download Firmware Rockbox 3.10

An update of Rockbox has been released with version number 3.10. Rockbox is an open source alternative to the firmware of many portable music players, including several models from Apple, Archos, Cowon and iRiver. The firmware adds additional functionality such as support for additional formats and the ability to delete or rename files from the player. An extensive overview of the extra options can be found on this page are being found; frequently asked questions here answered. The changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

core

• Add a setting to “hide” the internal drive on devices with software USB and a card slot, to improve compatibility with eg some car audio systems that can only access the first drive.
• Backdrops and theme images (fonts followed on 2011-09-24) are now dynamically allocated, making up substantial RAM savings.
• All lists can now be drawn using the skin engine to give themers much more control of the whole look (and feel) of the UI.
• Revamp on disk playlist management, make the catalog more useable.
• Fully-functional audio mixer enabling independent, stereo audio channels.

Codecs

• Add support for the new game music formats AY, GBS, HES, KSS, SGC, VGM and VGZ (FS#12176).
• Add support for embedded album art with ASF tags (FS#12218).
• Add support for embedded album art with APEv2 tags (FS#12196).
• Performance optimizations for Ogg/Vorbis decoding.