X5 and rockbox
 

Is the X5L compatible with rockbox. my headphone jack is going out on my Sansa E250... :( so i am back in the market for a new MP3 player. i am wanting something that has rockbox amoung other things... so yeah...

The X5 supports Rockbox. It's not like Rockbox has many advantages over the stock firmware, tough. Stock sounds better due to the BBE enhancements, that's all that matters to me - better sound. YMMV. The advantages (for me) of Rockbox are gapless playback, last.fm scrobbling, and WAV recording. Stock firmware has better audio quality (BBE or bust!), better file/folder management, easier navigation (Rockbox is just full of useless junk, i.e. playlists and whatnot).

Since you can dual-boot the stock firmware and Rockbox, there's nothing to lose.

And since you're coming from a Sansa e200, prepare yourself for seriously god sound quality.

I had rockbox installed on my X5L for a while. It was ok, but nothing special (did not like the navigation / interface). I primarily switched for gapless playback.