[skajohyros]

  It should work if you're careful. Good luck!

Update. 
Thought I 'd try a torx 6 in the stripped hole. badaboom. Worked! Now, where the hell am I going to find another screw?

 

[Brian Coffey]

  Update. 
Thought I 'd try a torx 6 in the stripped hole. badaboom. Worked! Now, where the hell am I going to find another screw?

Lowes or perhaps an auto parts store.

 

[skajohyros]

What kind of shop is Lowes? In Australia it's a clothing store. Now I'm living in Greece and there are no Lowes here. Will try an auto shop.

 

[Brian Coffey]

  What kind of shop is Lowes? In Australia it's a clothing store. Now I'm living in Greece and there are no Lowes here. Will try an auto shop.

Lowes is a hardware store in North America. Wasn't sure of your location.

 

[Slater]

Update. 
Thought I 'd try a torx 6 in the stripped hole. badaboom. Worked! Now, where the hell am I going to find another screw?

Best place to get microscopic screws like that is eBay.

You'll have to find out the correct thread size (regardless if you want torx or Phillips for the head type).

Hardware & auto parts stores just don't regularly stock specialty items like that.

I bought a kit on ebay a while ago that had 800 tiny fasteners in a plastic storage case, with different lengths and diameters ranging from M1 to M4 (including nuts). All impossible sizes to find at any local store. It was only $12, and it's saved my bacon too many times to count (on everything from laptops to kids toys). Best $12 I ever spent.

 

[HiFiChris]

I just received an X3 today.

Before I search the entire thread or risk that my cards are accidentally formatted, I'd like to ask whether the (stock, not rockboxed) player takes exFAT cards for both slots or requires them to be formatted in FAT32.
 

 

[lotech]

as far as I recall stock firmware can read ExFat SD cards.
however to be sure try a card with just a few songs/folders/LPs thats
Exfat. no need to run test for entire card (only to find you need to reformat it and load it again)

 

[rikk009]

  I just received an X3 today.

Before I search the entire thread or risk that my cards are accidentally formatted, I'd like to ask whether the (stock, not rockboxed) player takes exFAT cards for both slots or requires them to be formatted in FAT32.
 

Stock read exFAT but RB will require FAT32 so why not format it in FAT32 for later?

 

[HiFiChris]

 
Stock read exFAT but RB will require FAT32 so why not format it in FAT32 for later?

 
The two cards I have currently in it for testing (64 GB and 4 GB) are already FAT32-formatted, but I asked because I wanted to be sure before putting one of my other exFAT-formatted cards into the player (because who knows; some players might do strange things and automatically format a card into the "correct" format or mess with the database that was created by another DAP).

I think that I will definitely try RockBox with the X3 at some point since it added some necessary features to my Sansa Clip Plus and Sansa Clip Zip (not sure whether I like it on my iPod Classig 7G though), however not anytime soon as long as the stock firmware doesn't lack anything that is a must-have for me that only RockBox could solve. But except for the missing library that I don't need anyway since I only use folder navigation with every player that supports it, I don't really see anything I can't live with (at least at the moment since I haven't tried things such as the volume control, gapless playback etc. because I have only picked the player up less than three hours ago).

 

[charleski]

as long as the stock firmware doesn't lack anything that is a must-have for me that only RockBox could solve.

Well Rockbox does play files back at the correct pitch

.

 

[HiFiChris]

 

as long as the stock firmware doesn't lack anything that is a must-have for me that only RockBox could solve.

Well Rockbox does play files back at the correct pitch

.

 
The stock FW (1.1) doesn't?

 

[Poleepkwa]

Nope. It's slower than it should be. Also does not do gapless playback.

 

[HiFiChris]

Uargh, I just plugged an in-ear into the player for the first time just to notice that the playback speed is indeed off and too slow. Dang it, since I could well live with the stock FW. But this is of course a severe no-go.

 

[CJG888]

Does upsampling Redbook files solve the pitch problem? If so, what is the minimum sampling rate necessary?

 

[HiFiChris]

I have now finally rockboxed the X3.


In the description, it says:

 

 Second card slot not reading sd card - The second card must be formatted to FAT32 and have the .rockbox folder in the root directory.

 

Does it have to be the exact same folder as the one from SD card #1 or just an empty folder named ".rockbox"?