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.

#OSHW

@timixretroplays but, but, a tangara is also a train in Australia... I'm intrigued by the naming :)
Also, how does it sound & how is the experience?
@timixretroplays ooh, plays FLAC & ogg too, looks cool
@PhilWill @timixretroplays "Tangara" is a species of bird whose name means "dancer". I don't know if that helps or not.

@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"

@PhilWill @negative12dollarbill what's your source for it being Gadigal? I've tried to dig into the history of the train Tangara to find which language they took the name from but haven't found anything solid

@timixretroplays @negative12dollarbill
in the "History" section of the Wikipedia entry, so nothing too solid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Trains_T_set

Sydney Trains T set - Wikipedia