cloudplasma various photographs and (oh too few) mini linux tips

sansa fuze — replace firmware with rockbox

just replaced the firm­ware (think oper­at­ing sys­tem) on my sansa fuze v1 (8gb model) with the open source rock­box. when using the sansa’s ori­ginal soft­ware i was get­ting jumpy play­back and i wasn’t ter­ribly fond of the inter­face.
rock­box has a vast array of fea­tures and can be cus­tom­ised and fine tuned to suit the user’s needs and tastes.
the firm­ware, cur­rently, only works with the first gen­er­a­tion of the sansa fuze (v1) not the second gen­er­a­tion (v2) so check your play­ers ver­sion before attempt­ing any­thing. it also sup­ports vari­ous other mp3 play­ers so see if yours is sup­por­ted…
there’s an auto­matic installer avail­able but i chose the manual method.
really enjoy using it so far. lots of fea­tures to tinker with and last.fm scrob­bling support!

a couple of screen shots of avail­able themes…