New iRiver Community: DIY Battery Replacement and Open-Source Firmware

We just noticed a new community forum for iRiver's MP3 players, iRiver@Lounge. There aren't a whole lot of posts there yet, but two items really caught our interest.

First was a discusison of DIY battery replacement. The iRiver iHP series already gets around 16 hours of life from its battery, which puts at the top of the class for harddrive players. But apparently it is possible to install an even higher capacity battery. One test got nearly 26 hours of life from one charge.

Second was the beginnings of an attempt to make open-source firmware for the iHP series. It's an ambitious undertaking, to say the least, but best of luck to them.

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