Specifications

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• Automatically install all suggested components (“Complete Installation”).

• Selectively install optional components.

• Install additional fonts and themes.

• Install voice ﬁles and generate talk clips.

• Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility.

Prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X are available at the ZRockboxUtility

wiki page.

When ﬁrst starting Rockbox Utility run “Autodetect”, found in the conﬁguration

dialog (File → Conﬁgure). Autodetection can detect most player types. If autodetection

fails or is unable to detect the mountpoint, make sure to enter the correct values. The

mountpoint indicates the location of the player in your ﬁlesystem. On Windows, this is

the drive letter the player gets assigned, on other systems this is a path in the ﬁlesystem.

Choosing a Rockbox version

There are three diﬀerent versions of Rockbox available from the Rockbox website: Re-

lease version, current build and archived daily build. You need to decide which one you

want to install and get the appropriate version for your player. If you select either “Min-

imal Installation” or “Complete Installation” from the “Quick Start” tab, then Rockbox

Utility will automatically install the release version of Rockbox. Using the “Installation”

tab will allow you to select which version you wish to install.

Release. The release version is the latest stable release, free of known critical bugs.

For a manual install, the current stable release of Rockbox is available at http:

//www.rockbox.org/download/.

Development Build. The development build is built at each change to the Rockbox

source code repository and represents the current state of Rockbox development.

This means that the build could contain bugs but most of the time is safe to use.

For a manual install, you can download the current build from http://build.rockbox.

org/.

Archived Build. In addition to the release version and the current build, there is also

an archive of daily builds available for download. These are built once a day from

the latest source code in the repository. For a manual install, you can download

archived builds from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml.

Note: Because current and archived builds are development versions that change fre-

quently, they may behave diﬀerently than described in this manual, or they may in-

troduce new (and potentially annoying) bugs. Unless you wish to try the latest and

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