Rockbox Utility

• Latest Release: m1.0.6
• Released: 2008-07-06
• Platform: Windows (2000 / XP / Vista), Linux, OS X

This is the automated installer tool for Rockbox. If you have any problems, please read the changelog and issues list on the development page page before reporting any bugs!

Features

This section lists all features rbutil currently has.

• Base
  • Bootloader installation
  • Rockbox installation
• Extras
  • Fontpack installation
  • Theme installation
  • Game files installation (ie freedoom)
• Accessibility
  • Install voice file (from the webpage)
  • Create voicefile
  • Create .talk clips
• Uninstallation
  • Uninstall bootloader
  • Uninstall Rockbox ( partial, or full)
• Manual
  • Access to the Manual of your device
• Info
  • Shows all installed parts of Rockbox

Download

Type	Version	URL
Windows binary	m1.0.6	http://download.rockbox.org/rbutil/win32/rbutilqt-v1.0.6.zip
MacOS X	m1.0.6b	http://download.rockbox.org/rbutil/macosx/rbutilqt-v1.0.6b.dmg
Linux (32 bit) *	m1.0.6	http://download.rockbox.org/rbutil/linux/rbutilqt-v1.0.6.tar.bz2
Gentoo Linux	svn	rbutil-9999.ebuild

You can browse all available downloads starting at http://download.rockbox.org/rbutil/

Rockbox Utility runs on Windows (2000, XP), MacOS X and Linux. Older versions of Windows (98, 95) are not supported. It might work though. Windows Vista is currently only slightly tested due to the lack of a test setup and might have additional issues. Please join us on IRC if you can help out.

Screenshots

Main Window (Windows)

Setings Dialog (Windows)

Installation Dialog (Linux)

Theme Dialog (Windows)

Change Log

This section lists known (and fixed) issues. Issues that are fixed in svn are marked with a , unfixed items are marked with . Improvements are marked with a . Please note that until a new release has been made the issues are still present in the released binary! Please do not report bugs here -- this list is intended to hold known and verified issues. For reporting bugs please use the tracker as this also allows us to get back into contact with you.

• svn (upcoming release)
  • E200R isnt supported by rbutil. The Bootloader install differs from e200
  • Ipod Video 64MiB (60 GB / 80 GB models) will get detected as Video 32MiB (30 GB) (which is safe).

• m1.0.6 (bugfix release) - released 2008-07-06
  • Rbutil now asks if it should backup before updating to a new Build.
  • improved download caching
  • new System Info dialog (About / System Info). Shows user priviledge level on W32, so check this if you have issues installing the bootloader on your Ipod / Sansa.
  • the encoder is now automatically choosen depending on the selected player.
  • (w32) improved mountpoint detection for Sansa / Ipod.
  • (w32) using autodetection resulted in "no Sansa found" errors.

• m1.0.5 (bugfix release) - released 2008-04-21
  • (linux, os x) H10, Iaudio, Gigabeat and m:robe bootloader installation can fail on case-sensitive systems
  • (regression) System proxy setting isn't honored in some places.
  • Themes button created a segfault when offline mode was enabled.
  • mountpoint detection on Gigabeat was non-functional.
  • downloading didn't work if URI contained special characters (happened with a space in DockPod Aqua theme file)
  • enhanced mountpoint detection for Ipods. Should work always if OF specific folders are present.
  • m:robe 100 support.
  • iaudio m3 support.
  • detect unsupported player variants (e200v2 / c200v2 / Ipod Nano 2G / 3G) and inform the user that Rockbox will not run.
  • extracting the downloaded archives previously didn't show any progress (most notably on players with slow hard discs like m:robe)

• m1.0.4 (bugfix release) - released 2008-02-19
  • Complete Installation still seems buggy. Please use the install options from the second tab, until it's fixed.
  • The URL to the voice file was wrong for a few targets.
  • (w32 / vista) bootloader installation doesn't work due to UAC issues on windows vista, you need to use the manual bootloader installation for now.
  • Voice file creation is now possible with rbutil.
  • Support rbspeex as encoder for .Talk files. Its now builtin.
  • (w32) Sapi_voice script is now built in.
  • (w32) "system proxy" now also honors the ProxyEnable value (i.e. if you entered a proxy value in IE's settings dialog but disabled them rbutil also won't use them. Automatic proxy settings are still unsupported).

• m1.0.3 (bugfix release) - released 2007-11-13.
  • Talkfile creation puts the _dirname.talk file in the wrong place.
  • complete Installation failed with "unsupported install method".
  • (w32) Sansa bootloader installation didn't work

• m1.0.2 (bugfix release) - released 2007-10-18.
  • Enhanced device detection code, utilizing the USB IDs.
  • Two new translations (Chinese traditional and simplified.
  • Support for the sansa c200.
  • On Windows using the proxy settings set in IE5 is supported.
  • The new "Actions" menu should make it easier to operate using the keyboard or screenreaders.
  • uninstalling the bootloader doesn't honor the proxy setting
  • Iaudio M5 was listed as color target
  • add Sandisk C200 configuration and detection
  • installation tasks don't check for a valid configuration but fail instead.
  • small / complete installation tries to install the bootloader even for targets that don't require one; similar applies to doom.
  • downloading PDF manual crashes installer

• m1.0.1 (bugfix release) - released 2007-09-03.
  • Enhanced device detection code. (Note: The user configuration file changed slightly. If you used Rockbox Utility before your user configuration is expected to be missing upon the first launch.)
  • when you use the autodetection button, a device was found by the detection and there wasn't anything selected previously the program segfaults.
  • the ipodvideo64mb build was missing. ipodpatcher cant detect it, select it by hand.
  • rbutil doesnt detect and install the iaudio X5V build correctly
  • when detecting a device only the selected tree was collapsed.
  • the install log window doesn't update between download started and unzip finished.
  • entering the talk file window with invalid settings result in a crash. Strangely doesn't happen in all cases.
  • (linux only) when autodetecting an Ipod there was a possiblity to detect the wrong mountpoint if other partitions (IPL) are present and mounted
  • (w32 only) the menu bar shows up slightly delayed (looks like this was related to my Qt installation and not a bug itself)
  • (w32 only) if you close the program while it tries downloading build information (from the main screen) you'll get a crash upon exit

• m1.0 (Milestone 1) - released 2007-08-29.
  • All functionality that was present in the old version has been ported, plus some minor enhancements.

Development

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