Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 15, 2006 06:40 AM
Hate to say it, but then Rockbox isn't for you. Rockbox is about features: Gapless, Crossfade, Replaygain, Crossfeed, bunches of formats, equalizer, searchable database, on the fly playlisting, etc. Rockbox plays audio well. If you're the kind of person who puts an alternative firmware on your MP3 player, the hope is that you value functionality over form.
Rockbox doesn't claim to be better for everyone. It claims to be better AT playing music. Most of the guys working on it continually strive to improve the music features because that's what drove them to create an alternative firwmare in the first place. If they hadn't wanted better playback, they would've stuck with the Apple software (which by the way doesn't play some of my LAME encoded MP3s properly, a real frustration) or the original firmware on whatever device they had. Since it's open source, anybody who likes the features but feels the interface is lacking is free to make an attempt to contribute, but since none of the designers want that, and none of the people who seem to care too much about interface seem to want the extra features badly, both sides can simply say "You go on doing what you're doing" and go your separate ways.
Since Rockbox isn't trying to make a profit, they don't have to pander to users who think it should look better, because they can comfortably say "If you don't like it, don't use it. If you do like it but feel it's lacking, we welcome all the help we can get."
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Re:If you're going to hack, at least improve
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 15, 2006 06:40 AMRockbox doesn't claim to be better for everyone. It claims to be better AT playing music. Most of the guys working on it continually strive to improve the music features because that's what drove them to create an alternative firwmare in the first place. If they hadn't wanted better playback, they would've stuck with the Apple software (which by the way doesn't play some of my LAME encoded MP3s properly, a real frustration) or the original firmware on whatever device they had. Since it's open source, anybody who likes the features but feels the interface is lacking is free to make an attempt to contribute, but since none of the designers want that, and none of the people who seem to care too much about interface seem to want the extra features badly, both sides can simply say "You go on doing what you're doing" and go your separate ways.
Since Rockbox isn't trying to make a profit, they don't have to pander to users who think it should look better, because they can comfortably say "If you don't like it, don't use it. If you do like it but feel it's lacking, we welcome all the help we can get."
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