My son asked for a MP3 player... so I busted out my 20 year old Sandisk Sansa 200 and updated its firmware with #rockbox
I was surprised that not only did it still work, but that rockbox has seen continued development... it released version 4.0 on April 1 of this year.
Unfortunately, to get the #appimage to work, I had to hunt down an old version of ssl (libssl1.1), but once I installed that, the graphical utility was able to detect and update the firmware.
RockBox, Stan na Rok 2025
I seem to have missed the announcement, but #Rockbox released version 4.0 a couple of weeks ago.
All this time I'd been running development builds on my Surfans F20, but now it's finally running something tagged as stable.
https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes400
Great to see the project is still alive. Digital audio players with FOSS firmware are something I can't see myself ever going without.
New Blog Post: Mounting an iPod with Rockbox on macOS:
@liaizon Already in my Sansa Clip+, and my Archos Recorder 20 (v1) is stuck in 3.13.
alright, 5th gen #ipod classic disassembled and angry bloated battery removed.
i don't really have the money right now but i hope to buy a new battery and maybe a flash module and fresh face plate for it in the future.
this was such a great #rockbox device. i still have my #sandisk #cilpzip, though. the screen is kind of bad but it still plays.
looks like the o.g. iPod that i slapped #rockbox on ages ago is starting to bulge. it's probably time to disassemble it and toss the battery into the metal can full of sand and maladjusted batteries.
i really need to figure out what to do with all these spicy pillows.
My cousin gave me her iPod in 2010 when I was in junior year of college. It had stopped working and its hard drive made spooky sounds. I bought a new drive for it, but it still wouldn’t work and a new logic board was too expensive.
15 years later, after finishing my degree and with 12 years of experience in electronics design, I took another stab. Turns out one of the series resistors on one of the USB traces was loose.
Crazy that I would never have even attempted this kind of repair in 2010 and now it felt almost too easy.
Got #RockBox installed and we’re good to go! (After I replace its totally shot battery that is)
For any folks still out there using the #Rockbox firmware, I recently discovered the Hifi Walker H2 which is both officially supported, and more importantly, still being manufactured and sold. Flashing takes a bit of patience if you're #blind, but it can be done.
https://www.amazon.com/HIFI-WALKER-H2-Resolution-Bluetooth/dp/B072C4YPCG/ref=asc_df_B072C4YPCG
🌖 GitHub - amachronic/echoplayer: Echo - 開源硬體音樂播放器
➤ 開源音樂播放器的新選擇
✤ https://github.com/amachronic/echoplayer
這個 GitHub 倉庫展示了名為 “Echo” 的開源硬體音樂播放器專案。其目標是打造一款高品質、基於自由軟體設計的音樂播放器，主要支援 Rockbox 韌體。目前版本為 Echo R1，採用 STM32H743 CPU、32MiB SDRAM，並提供可擴展的記憶卡插槽和 USB-C 連接埠。專案正在進行 PCB 設計修正與外殼設計，並採用 CERN-OHL-S v2 授權。
+ 這真令人興奮！一個完全開源的音樂播放器，可以自由定製和擴展，這對於喜歡 DIY 的人來說太棒了。
+ 看起來很有潛力，希望他們能盡快解決現有的問題並推出正式版本。我很期待能用上這個播放器。
#開源硬體 #音樂播放器 #Rockbox
Habe #Rockbox auf einem alten #iPod installiert. Einige Hürden/Learnings:
- Wird der iPod auf MacOS zurückgesetzt erhält er das Mac-Filesystem. Rockbox funktioniert aber ausschließlich mit FAT32.
- Windows formatiert größere Datenträger auch nicht mit FAT32, sondern mit ExFAT. Man braucht extra Partitions-Software, die das kann.
- Die Windows-Version von iTunes nicht via Microsoft-Store installieren, sondern eine alte Version per .exe - Die aus den Store erkennt iPods nicht (1/2)
#retrotech
It took so long to find the energy to figure it all out, but I finally got the iPod Classic running RockBox reliably with my flac music library. And it's using the adwaita theme to match my laptop lol. I am so happy to be able to use it for listening to my music especially since I kinda broke my HiFiWalker H2 a few months ago.
#RockBox #GNOME #Adwaita #iPodClassic #iPod #LocalMusicLibrary #LocalMusic #Music #FLAC
Rockbox est sorti en version 4 il y a peu.
Mise à jour de mon xDuoo X3 II (supporté, stable) depuis une précédente version git effectuée sans aucun souci :)
Flashbacks from #TheGoodOldDays: #Rockbox reaches version 4.0:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1016207/
Too bad I had to bury my Sansa Clip a decade ago after it topped responding to inputs, as Rockbox still supports it.
Rockbox 4.0 wurde released! 😍
Das Changelog ist gewaltig, kann im Ganzen hier nachgelesen werden:
https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes400
Ich liebe es, dass mein uralter MP3-Player weiterhin supported wird und ständig neue features erhält damit.
Anyone install the new #Rockbox yet?
https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes400
Rockbox 4.0 released: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes400
(first release in 6 years).
