Index of Rockbox Builds & Recommended Supporting Programs

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Index of Rockbox Builds
&
Recommended Supporting Programs

Rockbox Builds

• Offical Rockbox Current Build
• Black Thunder
• Reverse Bootloader- Replacement bootloader to boot OF first.

Supporting Programs

• Music
• Video

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Music Related Programs

Rippers & Encoders

• LAME (MP3): The best VBR encoder for MP3, Versions compiled for Windows and MAC OX can be found here, Linux users, please consult your distribution documentations for installation.
  
• AoTuV (Ogg Vorbis): This is the best Ogg Vorbis encoder at present. Downloads: Windows (command line), Windows (GUI), MAC OS X, and Linux.
  
• EAC- A secure ripper for Windows. It can be downloaded from here.
  
• Grip- A secure ripper for Linux. Included in all major distributions.
  

Taggers

• MediaMonkey: A great Windows based tagger and music management program.
  
• EasyTag: A great cross platform (Linux, MAC OS X, and Windows) mass tagger and playlist creator.

Album Art

• RockAA- A cross platform Album Art downloader written in JAVA.
  
• Albumart-qt- A QT based album art downloader for Linux written in Python. Included in all major distributions.
  
• Album Art Converter- A Windows program written in C# to convert album art. Might work under Linux with MONO.
  
• Rockbox Cover Art Creator- A script to create album art for those using Amarok.

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Video Related Programs

Transcoders

• WinFF- A cross platform (Windows, Linux) GUI frontend for ffmpeg. Please replace the default preset with this.
  
• ffmpeg- Cross platform command line transcoder. Included with all major Linux distribution.
  
• mencoder- Cross platform command line transcoder. Part of mplayer which is included in all major Linux distributions. A Windows binary can be downloaded here.
  
• sansampeg- A batch transcoder for Linux and other Unix like system utilizing mencoder.
  
• Tranccode- Powerful command lline transcoder for Linux and other Unix like systems. Not for the faint of heart.