Since the birth of the iPod in 2001, Apple has released generation after generation of new iPods packed with exciting feature updates. The problem is that your not-so-old iPod probably feels like it's ...

Remember Rockbox? Back when MP3 players couldn’t do a whole lot more than play MP3s, Rockbox was there to add Gameboy emulators, additional codecs and other homebrew features. And if you’re still ...

For those of you who don’t care for the stock interface or firmware on your digital music player, there’s the Rockbox firmware, which works on many Archos, iRiver, iPod, iAudio, Gigabeat, and Sansa ...

Robert Frosts's classic poem, The Road Not Taken, concludes with the line "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." If you're a ...

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CNET reports on an alternative firmware for some models of the Apple iPod (as well as 3rd party MP3 players). The open source firmware is called Rockbox and attempts to offer additional functionality ...