Getting Started; Welcome; Getting More Help - Rockbox Archos Jukebox Studio 5000 User Manual

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1. Getting started

1.1. Welcome

This is the manual for Rockbox. Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a
growing number of MP3 players. Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and
efficient than your device's stock firmware while remaining easy to use and customiz-
able. Rockbox is written by users, for users. Not only is it free to use, it's also released
under the GNU public license, which means that it will always remain free both to use
and to change.
Rockbox has been in development since 2001, and recieves new features, tweaks and
fixes each day to provide you with the best possible experience on your MP3 player. A
major goal of Rockbox is to be simple and easy to use, yet remain very customizable and
configurable. 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. Another
top priority of Rockbox is audio playback quality – Rockbox, for most models, includes
a wider range of sound settings than that device's original firmware. A lot of work has
been put into making Rockbox sound the best it can, and improvements are constantly
being made. All models have access to a large number of plugins, including many
games, applications, and graphical "demos". You can load different configurations
quickly for different purposes (e.g. a large font for in your car, different sound settings
for at home). Rockbox features a very wide range of languages, and all supported
models also have the ability to talk to you – menus can be voiced and filenames spelled
out or spoken.

1.2. Getting more help

This manual is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the Rockbox firmware.
There is, however, more help available. The Rockbox website at
contains very extensive documentation and guides written by members of the Rockbox
community and this should be your first port of call when looking for further help.
If you can't find the informations you're searching for on the Rockbox website there
are a number of support channels you should have a look at. You can try the Rockbox
forums located at http://forums.rockbox.org/. Another option are the mailing lists which
can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/mail/. From that page you can subscribe to the
lists and browse the archives. For searching the list archives simply use the search
field that is located on the left side of the web site. Also you can ask on IRC. The
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