Bob A (SD)
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I PMed you with another suggestion.
Might you consider sharing what worked for the benefit of others?
I PMed you with another suggestion.
Might you consider sharing what worked for the benefit of others?
Hi,
Just bought the xDuoo X3 recnetly, as having 2 card slots for 256Gb of music seems pretty amazing to me
Was kind of let down by the stock firmware though. Sound wise, it was incredible, the quality of sound reproduction was better than any mp3 player I'd had previously, and it's also plenty loud enough, without distorting things...but cutting off the first and last 2 seconds of almost every song??? seems like a huge flaw to me!
Enter rockbox
Great to have this alternate firmware which fixes that huge flaw, providing perfect gapless playback between every song. The sound desn't seem quite as crisp or clear somehow as the original firmware, but I'm sure I'll fix this once I play around with the sound settings (but for now I'm just using EQ to precut -6.0dB, leaving everything else alone).
So just wanted to say a huge thanks to Vortex for porting rockbox, and also a big thanks to everyone who has commented on this thread so far. There are some great tips and trick in here to get thgins all running smoothly!
On that note...
If anyone has the error, "Panic - stkov dircache"...I found that going to the settigns and just disabling the disk cache completely cured this error for me.
Previously, I would get this error every time I started the player and began to scroll through the "files" section (unless I waited at least 10 seconds before using the player), but I can now turn it on and straight away navigate through any menu I choose.
I too have noticed the music auto-pausing when using line-out though, so it would be nice to share whatever it was that fixed it
I'm not sure if this has been discussed already. I just received my X3 from Massdrop the other day. Are you able to install rockbox on it via a Macbook? Thanks.
Are you able to install rockbox on it via a Macbook? Thanks.
I saw that the Xduoo X3 can have Rockbox installed, so instead of having it on the othe X3 thread I decided to start it here.
Here are the instructions to install Rockbox:http://xvtx.ru/rockbox/manual.htm
Edit: When renaming update-to-rockbox-xx.zip, first make sure that you are able to view hidden files for your OS(Mac: http://ianlunn.co.uk/articles/quickly-showhide-hidden-files-mac-os-x-mavericks/ and PC: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files#show-hidden-files=windows-7 ) then rename it to update, it would then be update.zip
Here are the Rockbox files that are needed:
http://xvtx.ru/rockbox/download.htm
Themes - how to change or add them:
To change themes select Settings > Theme Settings > Browse Theme Files. Find one you want to try and press Play/Pause.
To add additional themes, go to http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?target=sansaclip , select what you want and download it. Unzip it and add the themename.cfg to the themes subfolder within .rockbox on your mSD card. It should now appear among the additional themes you can select.
Gapless Playback - Just turn off crossfade and the playback will be gapless.
Rockbox'd X3 not recognized by PC - Make sure to have the button lock switch set to the locked\on position, before powering on your X3 and connecting it to your computer.
Second card slot not reading sd card - The second card must be formatted to FAT32 and have the .rockbox folder in the root directory. Windows users can use these programs to format their SD card to FAT32, go here: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
I'll be rockboxing my x3 over the weekend (using windows7 laptop). I figure I'll start with red71rum's opening post! Thanks