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Episode: 305
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Title: HPR0305: Hard core Ogg player on the cheap
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0305/hpr0305.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 15:56:32
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Let us start over.
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Hello, this is Koobmo, longtime listener, first time contributor.
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There's been a lot of talk lately about the use of Og Bourbus and how the few players
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support this container.
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It got me thinking about a time I was weak.
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Drank the Kool-Aid and bought a shiny, sexy new iPod video.
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Sweet.
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Not only can I take my favorite tunes and casts along with me, I can even watch shows and
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movies.
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Well, I never have watched an entire video on the pod, and I was so anal with the dang thing,
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it spent its life cocooned in an autobox hiding her figure.
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Well, it's at that age now.
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Time to send the pod on to its next life before the battery goes flat, and I have to play
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tongue depressor roulette with it.
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What do I get to replace it?
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Something expensive?
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And I'll have to treat like another child?
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Something that will be so locked down or locked up that you feel like you're doing something
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wrong, just poking around?
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Heck no, I need something I can play with.
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And cheap that does what I need and won't complain about having its innards poked at.
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Something like the Sansa E250.
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TigerDirect has these suckers and abundance at the time of this recording in the refurb
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bin for $29.99 for the 2GB model.
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Throw in their 8GB microSD card, and you've got plenty of space for your HPR goodness,
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and a few choice discographies.
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But whoa, you say.
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The E250 and family do not support AUG.
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I thought that's where the story was going, and you'd be right.
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Head on over to rockbox.org, select Rockbox 3.1, and look at the list of players that
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Rockbox will turn into an AUG plane tool of grace and power.
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Scroll down near the bottom and there you will see our friend the Sansa E250 family of
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players.
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Now Rockbox is a firmware replacement for the listed players, and in most cases adds a
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great number of extra codecs and functionalities to said players.
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You can even add a voice function so you can find songs or folders without looking at
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the screen or add games and video playback.
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Not that that would be used much in my case.
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Now the first thing that you'll notice if you check out the site or read the manual
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provided for each player, you are going to read the manual aren't you?
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That there is a handy dandy easy installer to take care of all the nitty gritty.
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Well with myself and good friend Phantom Hawk, all three of the units we purchased needed
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the manual install.
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This consisted of a bootloader and the Rockbox zip.
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I will include the links for both in the show notes.
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The bootloader in windows is just an executable so we'll require you have an administrator
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count.
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In Linux you will have to follow the bootloader link as it is easier to do that than it
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is to verbalize the show commands.
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Rockbox itself is the same in both platforms, platform, excuse me.
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Pull down the zip and unpack into the main folder of the player, reboot and enjoy.
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Just a little bit of oddities before I go.
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If you find you can charge your new unit but cannot communicate with it through the USB,
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go into settings, USB mode and select MSC instead of MTP on the player, and retry.
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Also the unit will not let you see a high capacity card through the USB.
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So you'll have to use a card reader to load your tunes.
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I leave the two gigabytes on the unit open for swapping podcasts in and out.
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Well that's it so far, a week's worth a new player and I'm happy as a clam.
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I'd like to thank the organizers and presenters of HPR and wish you all a great week.
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This episode was recorded on a Sansa E250 loaded with Rockbox.
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Thank you for listening to Hacker Public Radio, HPR is sponsored by Carol.net, so head
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on over to C-A-R-O dot-E-C for all of the team.
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