Buy SanDisk Sansa Clip Zip 8GB MP3 Player, Black With Full-Color Display. The player reads the card, organizes the files, and you're ready to listen to music. Sure - I connected the Clip Zip to my PC - Opened the Rockbox Utility - It said this is a new install, so you need a bin file, but it can't be included for legal.

I arrived late to the Rockbox party (June 2011). Reading a review of the Sansa Clip + on AnythingButIpod, I discovered with awe that a group of digital music player enthusiasts had developed a free, open-source firmware and ported it to many players, including the Sansa Clip, Clip Plus and Clip Zip. I immediately installed Rockbox to my Sansa Clips and spent the next day flipping through the user manual all 178 pages of it. Why such a long manual?

Because Rockbox is crammed with features. It is simply awesome.

Having owned a good number of digital music players since 2001, there have been many times when I have thought 'I wish my player would do this or that'. Well, Rockbox does all of those things I have wished for in a player at one time or another. And much much more. There are a probably more than a hundred features I will never use.

I just purchased a Sansa Clip Zip and I am about ready to give up on making the native software work with a microSD card. I thought I would try RockBox, since it comes up so often in the Sansa threads. I'm using a Mac laptop running OS X. I opened the RockBox Utility and found the correct device and mount point. I selected Stable Release (Version 3.13). I checked Bootloader, Rockbox and Fonts and clicked Install. I got the pop-up about requiring the original Sandisk firmware (bin file).

Image Converter Filehippo. I had previously downloaded this file and mounted it on the player. So I clicked Ok and navigated to it again (clpzV010121.bin).

I get an error message saying that 'Original firmware unknown. ' and the tested version list only goes to 1.01.20 - does this mean that the version I have won't work? How do I complete the install? Moxamoll, Please try this link to find your bin file, I use windows but I think that this might also work for you. I have a Sans Clip Zip and got to the stage where it was asking me for a.bin file.

I too was puzzled until [Saint] gave me the link. Download it to a recognised place on your computer and then unzip the file in the same location. Then, as part of the installation process, it requests the.bin file point it in the direction of the place where you saved it on your computer. I hope this helps.

Sure - I connected the Clip Zip to my PC - Opened the Rockbox Utility - It said this is a new install, so you need a bin file, but it can't be included for legal reasons, try some forums - I checked the Firmware version on my Clip Zip (V01.01.21) and searched for an appropriate.bin file. I found a file called clpzV010121.bin at the above link and I thought that must be it, so I told the Rockbox Utility to use that file.

- I had a look through the options and ticked on 'Themes'. It then went ahead with the install. I BELIEVE 'Bootloader' was ticked as well but I'm not 100%. I guess it was, as the Utility knew it was a first time install. - Eventually it said the process was complete, and I clicked OK (or whatever it says). The Clip Zip still had the word 'Connected' on the screen. In the Rockbox Utility I clicked 'Eject' and the Clip Zip screen went black.

- I took the USB cable out and then it wouldn't turn on. I've tried holding the centre button down for varying amounts of time, as well as other combinations like holding Centre and Left etc. The screen either went blank when I pressed Eject or when I took the cable out, I can't remember exactly which order it happened in.

- When I plug it back in, Windows makes the USB device sound but it doesn't appear in Explorer as a drive. It says 'USB Device Not Recognised' in a balloon in the bottom right of the screen. Device Manager shows it as an unrecognised USB device. The Sansa firmware tool doesn't detect it either.

Rapidshare Hallelujah Jeff Buckley. I have installed Rockbox on a different Clip Zip before about a year ago, using OSX on a MacBook Pro, and that time it went perfectly, so I felt quite confident. I assumed it would be fine, so I guess I should have been more careful. Gamess Us Input. I'm firing up a Linux VM to see if that will detect it.