#rockbox — Public Fediverse posts

@stux I still use an mp3-player running #Rockbox. #Audiophile proof and there's still affordable devices being sold that can run it!

Nachtrag zum #MP3player: @max_power hatte den Innioasis #Y1 genannte, auf dem sich auch #Rockbox installieren lassen solle. Und den habe ich gekauft und das hat auch geklappt. Für den Preis (~60€, war reduziert) bekommt man ein iPod-artiges Gerät, für das mehrere Github-Projekte mit Alternativsoftware unterstützen.

Persönlich finde ich dieses Clickwheel-Gewische ja unnötig, insbesondere, weil dafür auch gesonderte lauter/leiser-Tasten eingespart wurden. Auch vermisse ich einen echten an/aus-Schalter und einen Tastensperren-Schieber. Aber im Jahr 2026 scheint das immer noch das vernünftigste Gerät zu sein, wenn man nicht gleich 200€ ausgeben möchte.

@neirbowj And, ideally, one running #Rockbox! https://www.rockbox.org/

Anyone who's using Rockbox:

As you know, with the next macOS build, x64 compatibility layer will be removed.

Its update tool, #Rockbox Utility is not compiled for arm64, and latest build is ancient old, so I took the matter on my hands:

https://github.com/Ardakilic/rockbox/releases/tag/latest-builds

Fixed the recent CI build issues, so you can grab updated builds.

Any potential bug (so far, I encountered 0) is from the upstream. Feel free to report them. I simply make some monkey patches, and built on GH Actions CI.

#opensource

Just Compiled Rockbox Utility for arm64, and automated this:

This screenshot is a pure macOS Arm64 build, built on CI pipeline.

AFAIK; Since macOS 27 is deprecating rosetta support and macOS 28 is abandoning it, and nobody is compiling (yet), wanted to do this myself.

No local dependency, purely on GitHub actions.

I'll automate this (added Windows arm64 and x64 as well, but fixing Windows compilation bugs), and share with you guys soon™️ .

#rockbox #rockboxfm

Back up and running with an #ipod theme - managed to replace the battery on the #iRiver #H320 #mp3player running #RockBox firmware.

#mp3

Thanks to #rockdoom it runs Doom and with #zxbox an ZX spectrum emulator. One of my favourite games a lot of decade^W years back was Manic Miner. Which runs fine on the MP3 player, of course.
#vintagecomputing #rockbox #retrocomputing

Thanks to @moelassus for the inspiration.
After a bit of searching I found my #iriver H340 from 2004. It still works and also runs #rockbox
Did not manage to find out with which podcasts I started, but obviously I stopped using it in 2012.
Also there was an old scrobbler.log with my quite interesting listening history.
The HDD makes some funny noises, but is still readable. Back then I bought a HDD-CF card adapter but never managed to change it.
Somewhen™ I will check for SSD replacements.

being able to sort artists arbitrarily using metadata tags is like a big reason why i'm considering giving up all the other capabilities #rockbox has

it is 2026 and #rockbox still struggles with a problem apple fixed in 2004

i am glad i can uninstall #rockbox from my ipod

#rockbox 4.0 is "stable"

0 for 2 so far

has #rockbox really not figured out how to sort out "the" in artist names since 2007

bit of a shower thought but wouldn't it be kinda dope to make a drop-in replacement mainboard for the ipod classic? i have a 6g running rockbox which i love dearly, but my headphones are bluetooth.... i've been working up the energy to build a proper bluetooth mod, i've seen various attempts which are either external (sucks balls), and/or have other weird issues and limitations

to me the obvious way to do it was to wire up an esp32 to the i2s pins on the DAC, run the antenna to the inside of the usb connector or headphone jack (maybe??) to avoid having to modify the metal chassis and wire it up to the accessory port UART and talk to it from rockbox to add a bluetooth menu. it would totally be possible to add wifi too and have it sync to last.fm or something when you're at home

someone did a very similar thing to the ipod nano 3g but just hacked a bluetooth menu into the rockbox bootloader which is extremely neat fwiw

but like, the esp is not that far off the ipods main CPU right? i mean the tangara does a lot of awesome stuff with it

so the appeal mostly comes down to the joy of rockbox in particular (for me it just has a certain whimsy that only exists in FOSS projects that have been around for 20+ years (see also: U-Boot))

so then it's like what if i just got a batch of the same DAC that's already used in the ipod (and hey it can support multiple DACs why not) and designed a drop-in replacement... people already make replacement parts for everything else so you can build an ipod from scratch, only the mainboards are a limited resource i thiiiink (could be wrong tho lol)

aaaanyway, with the success of the tangara (extremely dope project!), idk if the nostalgia pull of the ipod is enough to fund a project like this

but gosh it would be cool to have a drop-in replacement that could run rockbox or even the tangara OS and give you the same feel as an OG iPod with custom firmware

or uh, if you were feeling suitably (in)sane about it write an emulator to let you run the original ipod firmware, that would be honestly fucking dope

#ipod #rockbox #tangara

🎸🤖 Oh joy, yet another "modern" music player because clearly, the world was one firmware update away from achieving sonic nirvana. Apparently, rehashing #Rockbox with a sprinkle of GitHub buzzword soup was just what the doctor ordered. But hey, at least the navigation menu is impeccable! 🙄🎶
https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig #modernmusicplayer #musicinnovation #firmwareupdates #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig

#HackerNews #musicplayer #rockbox #firmware #open-source #technews #github

picked up a used iPod Mini (2G) and put #rockbox on it in a quest for the simples audiobook mediaplayer for my grandma. I've already disabled all menu items except the tracklist, but I'll have to do a little (two-line) patch to remove the settings menu also. I'd like to also put a much larger font on it, but I'm not sure yet whether that's easy or possible

Getting ready to try and hack my #PSP. New battery and memory card have arrived!

I knew that I had a mini USB cable stashed somewhere, but I had to rummage through a few boxes before I could find it.

Along the way I also found my old Sansa #mp3 player and charging cable. Unfortunately it looks like this one is too old and is unable to run #rockbox

The rubberized back is also pretty nasty but a little isopropyl alcohol should take care of it.

definitly the wrong time to take care of track deduplication on my ipod, but whatever. if you use #rockbox you may like this

https://codeberg.org/liviaw/rockbox_tools

@MyWoolyMastadon You'll definitely want something that's capable of running #Rockbox. See https://www.rockbox.org/.

There's simply no better software for portable media players, if you ask me. And fully open source. I personally have a #Surfans F20, which works great.

Well, it took four days of off and on work, navigating multiple (LLM-generated) guides and forums but I finally managed to get #RockBox loaded on my #Y1 (using the unsupported Linux build of the #Innioasis updater app) and I couldn’t be happier! Makes a fun music device all the better! PLUS I learned a TON about my #Linux system. I feel like I’ve been through the trenches.

Well, the iPod is officially a bust, so I must search for other avenues.

My choices of #MP3player / #DAP are then:

- Ultra low-cost machine, with quite possibly VERY crappy sound for under €40;

- Proper DAP that's over €100 with some being able to run #Rockbox as an alternative firmware. Currently eyeing the #HIFIWalkerH2.

- Weirdly enough, some retro consoles like the #R36S and its variants, which can also run Rockbox as an app.

So, Fedi, what say you on this topic? What do you suggest?

@musevg Die Software ist nicht so das Problem, da kann man im Zweifelsfalle #Rockbox portieren. Aber neben dem ESP32 bräuchte es halt noch den DAB-Stein, das ganze Stromgeraffel, I2S-DAC usw pp, und das dann noch in einem tragbaren Formfaktor, das würde ich nur dann selbst entwickeln wollen, wenn ich unbedingt muss.