More than 2 years ago, I wrote about Rockbox: the open source firmware for mp3 players, written from scratch.

I wanted to try it out with my iPod Nano but before I did it, it stopped working (exactly like my older iPod shuffle, around 1 year after having purchased, they “gracefully” expired) so, for this and for other reasons: no more apple products craps.
One Operating System after (of course GNU/Linux, what else?) I bought the Sansa Fuse player and I could not be any happier.
The other day I recalled about Rockbox and I wondered: “why not?” so I downloaded the installer and it worked like a charm!
Now I have a firmware with lots and lots of features and improvements over the old one, like:

• Support for over 20 Sound Codecs, including Ogg Vorbis and FLAC
• Gapless playback
• 5-band fully-parametric equalizer, and crossfeed
• High-resolution volume control, 64-100 levels
• Ability to create your own themes or use user-uploaded ones
• Advanced crossfading
• ReplayGain support (volume normalization)
• Cuesheet support
• Album Art Support
• JPEG image and text-file viewing
• Doom!*
• MPEG video support
• Real Time Clock (RTC)
• Customizable Tag Database
• Unicode support
• Advanced On-The-Go playlist creation
• Multilingual Interface – 30 supported languages and counting
• Optional spoken interface
• Many plugins – games, apps, and demos
• Open Source, so Rockbox is constantly improved

* Yes, you read well, Doom!