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values. The mountpoint indicates the location of the player in your filesystem. On Win-
dows, this is the drive letter the player gets assigned, on other systems this is a path in
the filesystem.
Note:
Rockbox Utility currently lacks some guiding messages. Please have a look at the
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manual installation instructions if you are stuck during installation.
2.3.2 Manual Installation
Choosing a Rockbox version
There are three different types of firmware binaries available from the Rockbox website:
Release version, current build and daily build. You need to decide which one you want
to install and get the appropriate version for your player.
Release.
The release version is the latest stable release, free of known critical bugs. The
current stable release of Rockbox, version 3.0, is available at
http://www.rockbox.
org/download/
.
Current Build.
The current build is built at each source code change to the Rockbox
SVN 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. 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 SVN repository. You can download archived builds
from
http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml
.
Warning:
Because current builds and daily builds are development versions which
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change frequently, they may behave differently than described in this manual, or they
may introduce new (and maybe annoying) bugs. If you do not want to get undefined
behaviour from your player, you should stick to the current stable release if there is
one for your player. If you want to help with project development, you can try devel-
opment builds and help by reporting bugs. Just be aware that these are development
builds that are highly functional but not perfect!
Installing the firmware
1. Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section.
2. Connect your player to the computer via USB as described in the manual that
came with your player.
3. Take the
.zip
file that you downloaded and use the “Extract all” command of
your unzip program to extract the files onto your player.
Note:
The entire contents of the
.zip
file should be extracted directly to the root
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