Rockbox Installation Query

[Balthazar]

I have recently installed Rockbox on my iRiver ihp-140, mainly so that I can use the improved recording facility.

However, although the recordings that I am now making with my external microphone will play back OK through my headphones, any music that was already on the iRiver prior to installing Rockbox will not play.

(The music already on the iRiver was recorded from CD to my PC and then transferred onto the iRiver at various times over the last four months).

All the album titles are shown, as are the correct details for each individual track but when I try to play them I get nothing except a message stating,

"No file!
(root)
(root)

0:00/0:00
?kBit (no id3)"

When I play back through my PC using the USB link everything plays without any problem and my Grados are in perfect condition, so clearly I have missed something or done something wrong.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[RotAtoR]

What format are your files? They wouldn't happen to be WMAs, would they?

 

[Balthazar]

Yes they are.

Have I created a problem for myself?

 

[ozstrike]

Rockbox doesn't support WMA, probably because they would have to pay microsoft for the ability to use it.

 

[Febs]

The reason that Rockbox does not support WMA is because no-one has taken the time necessary to implement it. One of the Rockbox core developers, Linus Nielson Feltzing, summed it up best in this now-famous quote: "The problem with WMA is that the existing open source WMA implementation is using floating point arithmetics, something that the CPU in the iriver can't deal with. We need to convert all calculations to fixed point, a rather tedious and complicated task. Someone with a clue needs to step forward and do this. The problem is that people with a clue don't use WMA."

 

[Balthazar]

Well, after all that I went to GoldWave and used their download to convert some of my files to OGG which Rockbox does support.

Seemed to take ages to convert them but they do sound good.

Wish I'd had Rockbox last week when I was recording e.s.t. at the Barbican.