Rockbox on Ipod 30GB

Are you bored up with your same theme of Apple in your Ipod. You wanna have change in your taste? Try this new one

Introducing the Rockbox version of Ipod

Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players. It has been in development since 2001 and receives new features, tweaks and fixes every day to provide you with the best possible music listening experience. Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and efficient than your device’s stock firmware while remaining easy to use and customizable. 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 configure almost anything about Rockbox you could want, pertaining to functionality. It is written by users, for users.

Download Rockbox

Take you ipod in disk mode.

Install Rockbox. And Enjoy.

If you need to go back to your original settings of IPOD just click “Restore” in your itunes.

There are plenty of themes available in RockBox . Some of the best looks like the pictures shown below.

To install themes get themes from the RockBox Theme site. Get the .zip files , unzip them to Root:\.rockbox and Use folder names when you extract the files.

You can also play games in your RockBox Ipod.

Some other features are

• Bookmarking – allows you to resume playback where you stopped listening not just for one audio file but for lots eg: audio books, music, podcasts etc
• MPEG video support – to play video files which take up much less space than Quicktime MOV etc
• 5-band fully-parametric equalizer with lots of pre-sets
• Support for over 15 Sound Codecs, including OGG, FLAC, MP3, AC3, WMA, WAV etc
• JPEG image and text-file viewing