Introduction; Welcome; Getting More Help - Toshiba Gigabeat F Series User Manual

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Chapter 1. Introduction

1. Introduction

This is the manual for Rockbox. Rockbox is an open source ﬁrmware replacement for a

growing number of digital audio players. Rockbox aims to be considerably more func-

tional and eﬃcient than your device's stock ﬁrmware while remaining easy to use and

customisable. Rockbox is written by users, for users. Not only is it free to use, it is also

released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which means that it will always

remain free both to use and to change.

Rockbox has been in development since 2001, and receives new features, tweaks and

ﬁxes each day to provide you with the best possible experience on your digital audio

player. A major goal of Rockbox is to be simple and easy to use, yet remain very cus-

tomisable 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 the 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.

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 cannot ﬁnd the information you are 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/. The mailing lists are another option, and

can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/mail/. From that page you can subscribe to the

lists and browse the archives. To search the list archives simply use the search ﬁeld that

is located on the left side of the website. Furthermore, you can ask on IRC. The main

The Rockbox manual

http://www.rockbox.org/

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