Rockbox? Good? That's so subjective. For what I need and want it's fine and works well. I don't want much graphical flash, foobar2k on the PCs, no viz or album art or anything like that on media players or the empegs.

Battery life is half of what the native firmware is, and who knows when better code will be checked in. USB transfers are 1.0 slow, so I boot into the Apple firmware for adding and removing songs, which is USB 2.0.

Advanced configuration and UI skins are tedious in the way programmers and Unix geeks tend to implement.

I only use it occasionally, travelling, dentist office, gym, that kind of thing, and it's great for me that I can use the same format on 3 computers, 2 empegs, the Treo, and the Nano.

--Nathan