Mastodawn

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

Judeau (EatTheRich)3d ago

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.

Livia Weigel Mar 27

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

rockbox_tools

Small tools to help manage portable media players. deduplicate tracks

Codeberg.org

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consume the worst Mar 23

Okay! I opted for the Daily instead of Stable Build and finally got it on my device after several attempts. I found potential workaround for what to do if my windows rejects the device again. My latest MusicBee sync also came through as playable! Will take some time to think about putting podcasts on here, if at all, and learning more about the Rockbox config options : D

#ipod #ipodClassic #mp3Player #Homebrew #rockbox #musicPlayer

consume the worst Mar 23

Yesterday, I installed an iFlash Solo SSD and new battery into my iPod Classic 6th Gen. The suggestion is to format to FAT32 in advance, but turns out that the iPod restore will do that automatically. I've been stuck in a cycle of my device either rejecting the format or saying my device needs to be repaired. I did at one point get Rockbox with @dook 's Themify theme going. I haven't gone as far as getting music that I synced from MusicBee to play yet, it just skips the tracks endlessly. I was surprised that MusicBee uses the iTunes API, so if I want to remove iTunes, I'll have to consider switching to foobar.

#ipod #mp3player #musicplayer #rockbox #iflash #ipodclassic

Eivind Mar 22

Ah, eg saknar å ha ein musikkspelar med #rockbox. Det var noko av det mest morosame eg har hatt å gjera med elektronikk. Eg hadde faktisk ein Iaudio X5, men han var harddiskbasert og gjorde til slutt slik harddiskar gjer av og til. Dersom nokon veit om ein rockbox-brukeleg dings som er å få her i gamle Noreg, så er eg interessert.

Shrig 🐌Mar 22

Back on my nerd shit
#Rockbox #RGNano

Mark Mar 3

#cli #podcatcher #rockbox
#lazyweb

I have Rockbox on an Ipod Classic, and would like to try a modern version of Bashpodder.
Suggestions?

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Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱Mar 1

@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.

Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware

Rev. Charles Browning Feb 27

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.