My #tangara arrived! It's a completely open-source portable media player designed and built right here in #Australia (you don't see that as a country of origin often!).
I've been keenly awaiting this thing's arrival - it's a key step in my plan to unplug from commercial streaming systems and to get back control of my own music collection again.
@timixretroplays I prepurchased mine last week! I can't wait to get my bandcamp collection on there, my CD ripped collection from the early 2000's, and the amazing music that musicians send in to the radio, on there.
very excite!!
@tinx @maize I very specifically wanted something that wasn't my phone - disconnected from emails, chat, notifications etc. I want to be able to switch to another album in my workday without being pestered by outside influences. Plus I don't want to have to deal with apps to do it - I just want to plug a thing into another thing, drag and drop music to it, walk off with it and hit physical buttons to make things happen.
Also: this thing has an honest-to-goodness headphone socket. Phone doesn't.
@negative12dollarbill @timixretroplays ah, a South American species?
now I'm wondering how they came up with that as the name of a train in NSW...
Ok, looked it up, apparently it is also an Gadigal Aboriginal language word meaning "to go"
@timixretroplays @negative12dollarbill
in the "History" section of the Wikipedia entry, so nothing too solid...
@jbond @timixretroplays https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
"For storage, #Tangara relies on a full-size SD card, which means you can easily add up to 2 TiB (!) of capacity to your device. And, assuming you don’t need quite that much room, you can find inexpensive SD cards just about anywhere in the world."
Ahhh and afaik maintainer of this project is on mastodon: @jacqueline
@grayrattus @timixretroplays @jacqueline
The big question after that, is if the software can cope with 5000 artists, 10k albums and >75k tracks along with 25k playlists (.m3u8).
IMHO that's a problem with almost all music players, phone and PC. They tend to grind to a halt with simple indexing, searching.
I need this!!
Tim 🎮
Jake in the desert
Cheryl Lindo Jones
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Tinx
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henry
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Negative12DollarBill
Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸
grayrattus
Human after all
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