Chapter 2. Installation
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Themes.
The appearance of Rockbox can be customised by themes. Depending on your
taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox.
2.2.1. Automated Installation
To automatically install Rockbox, download the official installer and housekeeping tool
Rockbox Utility
. It allows you to:
•
Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox (“Minimal Instal-
lation”).
•
Automatically install all suggested components (“Complete Installation”).
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Selectively install optional components.
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Install additional fonts and themes.
•
Install voice files and generate talk clips.
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Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility.
Prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X are available at the
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.
Rockbox Utility will ask you for a compatible copy of the original firmware. This is
because for legal reasons we cannot distribute the bootloader directly. Instead, we have
to patch the MPIO firmware with the Rockbox bootloader.
Download a supported version of the MPIO firmware for your MPIO HD300 from the
MPIO website, links can be found on
Warning:
The only tested version of the original firmware is 1.30.06 and as such is the
!
only supported version
If the file that you downloaded is a
.zip
file, use an unzip utility like mentioned in the
prerequisites section to extract the
.SYS
from the
.zip
file to your desktop. Likewise, if
the file that you downloaded is an
.exe
file, double-click on the
.exe
file to extract the
.SYS
file to your desktop. When running Linux you should be able to extract
.exe
files
using
unzip
.
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
The Rockbox manual
(version 3.14)
MPIO HD300