Link saved. Definitely gonna see how this progresses so I might get one in the future.
How large a library can it handle? I’ve had two others similar but they parsed files so slowly as to be ultimately useless
you’d have to be pretty dumb to fuck up text parsing that badly. Maybe if you don’t implement segmented processing, and have a 50k line text file or something.
Guess maybe 30GB of files in an avg of 10MB bites is a chore
I love it. Thanks for sharing, I hadn’t heard about this.
Does it come with open source earbuds?
$250 ‽!
no, thanks
If you look at the comparison models, it seems pretty competitive for an audiophile.
iPod was 400 or 500 when it came out.
In the early 2000s. Depending on the generation that’s around 800-900 dollars in today’s dollars.
That’s crazy when you put it like that. $900 to be locked into apple’s iTunes hellscape.
But we got much better technology in that time, you can get a 512gb sd card for $30-40 nowadays compared to when the iPhone came out that a 1gb thumb drive would have $10-20
Back then iTunes was good. It was my preferred player for years. It was around the iPhone and afterwards it went to shit.
It also has built in sharing. I remember downloading gigs of music from people on different floors in tlmy dorm in college.
I’d rather see a project that brings back legacy Zunes - completely jailbreaks or ROMhacks the Zune software. The hardware was badass and you could easily retrofit SSDs into them. The software needs some sprucing up though.
Glad to see its on crowd supply
$271,285 raised of $10,000 goal. That’s some pretty good odds of success
Lots of people complaining about the software. Why did they even bother writing software? Does it run rockbox?
Because they wanted to. It’s a passion project meant for certainly not everyone and made by a very small team of people.
Sure, but if they have fewer people then why reinvent the wheel? The open hardware is new and great, but the open software already exists.
Its good to have options and while it may not be great now they have to start somewhere
For the more adventurous, Tangara’s ESP32 firmware is written in C++ using the ESP-IDF framework. … Tangara’s battery is a standard LiPo pouch cell with a 3-pin JST connector. … Active battery life depends on use case (typically >20 hours)
Sorry, thanks but not thanks. Make it use a swappable 18650 and run Rockbox. Also it costs $250 which might have been ok in the early 2000s but is outlandish today. Finally it’s Crowdsupply, which is not a scam but is a pain to deal with. And the battery drain is a lot too. Sandisk players were getting 10+ hours on an AAA cell in 2005 or so. This is just not an interesting product and the makers should have spent a few evenings on the Rockbox forums before starting the project.
Thanks for this! I didn’t know about Rockbox before.
Does anyone here remember Rockbox? I still have my old Sansa player running it.
I used to use Sansa clip+ with Rockbox back when the audio quality on my phone was terrible.
I have my iPod 5th gen running on RockBox. IMO it’s even better than the stock firmware because it can play flacs.
I even had Doom running on it. The controls were difficult though
Oh, yeah, I played it too, got used to the controls enough to start having fun, though didn’t finish any level.
And ogg and m4a and opus and so many more. I have an ipod 6th gen runnung rockbox. Its great. If the harddrive dies I’ll replace it with sd-cards and still keep uaing it.
It’s a shame rockbox doesn’t support video playback though.
How is stability for you? My 7th gen with about 750gb is pretty unstable, mostly I have a lot of difficulty transferring since the iPod crashes 15gb in all the time.
Mine’s been great, though I have only about 2 GB of music on there.
Rockbox is cool, I just wish it was able to replace the base system without touching the UI. Something about it just feels off on an iPod. Even supposedly iPod-accurate themes just feel uncanny.
Mine is also a Sansa! 😁👍
This would be cool to load up with 10s of thousands of songs and to just leave tethered to your home HiFi system
ouuuu that looks rly cool! Right in the vein of Pine64.
I like that despite only supporting SBC for now, they are looking ti expand the Bluetooth codec support with updates. I think LDAC might be a no-brainer here, since it’s royalty free and the encpder is open iirc
we’re reinventing walkmans now. ok.
Its not really a reinvention. Personal Music Players are still a thing with a large ecosystem behind them. This one in particular is unique as it is entirely open source from the software all the day down to the hardware.
Open source. So, yeah, this is finally happening
Some of us care enough to bring back the 3.5mm headphone jack. HiFi enthusiasts like me despise bluetooth, and USB-C audio headphones or adapters are low quality trash too.
I just received mine a few days ago!
I am excited to have it and start using it but I would also caution people interested in it. It is currently a little rough around the edges software wise but I’m optimistic it will continue to improve with time.
I am personally glad I opted to support this project and while I don’t think I’ll be able to contribute to code I do hope to at least provide beneficial feedback and end user diagnostics.
I’m optimistic it will continue to improve with time.
In my experience there are few crowdsourced products that continue to be significantly developed after the initial sales have finished unless they are astoundingly well-reviewed to continue selling.
Pebble was one of the few exceptions for one that I funded. Even then, once the Apple Watch came out they got gobbled up by (garmin) and all development on the originals died.
I don’t necessarily expect it to be supported indefinitely but they only just got the hardware into backers hands and are now taking in a lot of feedback so I don’t think it unreasonable to expect some reasonable improvements in the shorter term.
Time will tell though. Personally I’d be quite happy with it after some bug fixes and a few small features. And if worse comes to worse it will become a personal coding project for myself.
I also got mine recently! Definitely agree with the rough around the edges part. This is definitely an artisanal, hand-rolled, music player. It… doesn’t seem very durable. Mine rattles when I move it…
I bought it to support open source and because I’m hoping it’ll last a long time. (As long as I don’t move it too much.)
Haha I think it’s plenty durable so long as you aren’t dropping it all the time.
The rattle is probably just the side buttons which do have a little wiggle due to the tolerances of the case.
The touch wheel on my was a little loose too which was a know issue. I just put a little piece of double sides tape on the top between it and the case and now it’s all good.
