Current Situation
On November 9, 2005, Olympus announced that they were stopping production of the m:robes. Many users say that it was due to the lack of marketing — the only marketing in the United States was two Super Bowl ads. Many users also predicted this stop, due to the drop in price of the m:robes shortly before the action was taken, and the fact that the MR-100 was being sold at Radio Shack for $100 USD after rebates. There are only a few accessories for the m:robes.
The m:robe line of players are no longer available for purchase from the Olympus website and Olympus has frozen the development of the next generation of m:robe products to put more resources into its digital camera and audio recording research, development, marketing and sales.
M:robe music players can still be purchased on eBay and other used electronics outlets.
Firmware and software updates are available at http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_downloads.asp?id=91.
There is a flaw in version 1.06 of m:trip, a fix can be found at http://www.mrobe.org/content/view/21/4/.
There is an active community for the m:robes at http://www.mrobe.org/. For questions regarding these players, feel free to register on the forums and ask there.
A port of the Rockbox open source firmware is currently available for the m:robe 100, and a work-in-progress port for the m:robe500i is underway. A version of Linux has also been made for the m:robe.
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