Rockbox 3.0 is now here, and in great fashion. For those of you who do not know about Rockbox, it is an open source software application that replaces the firmware on your portable media players, including Sansa, iRiver, Archos, and the almighty iPod.

Roxbox 3.0 has the ability to perform sound decoding through the actual software on the media players, expanding the support of different file formats tremendously. The new Rockbox also includes a revamped installation tool and support for SWCODEC targets.

Unfortunately, excitement over this release is negligible. MP3 owners do not realize that they could give their devices a facelift rather than tossing them out and buying new ones. Hopefully the hype will increase, as the software does seem pretty neat – and best of all, its free!

I understand that you probably do not want to wipe the firmware off your iPhone for this open source version, but if your repping an ancient mp3 player or iPod give it a shot. 

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