Gregory's Serverhey check this out https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
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 This seems so cool! I wish this was around when I was looking for a dedicated music player, but I might buy it in the future just to support the open hardware movement. If I could have something like this that supports self-hosted services (Jellyfin, Navidrome, Audiobookshelf, etc.), I'd be in heaven. @foreverastudent @jacqueline as its based on an ESP32, wifi support could be added and support for streaming could be added! it's a neat piece of hardware and i hope it will out well!! Oh my god, the excitement is too real. Given some of my own personal plans, I might need this.   @Brett_E_Carlock @jacqueline @jalcine Seconded. If this supports Rockbox, I'd support it instantly. If not, I wouldn't be interested.   @jacqueline i’m not that close to you but can I say I am proud of you and your work? or is that weird?   @jacqueline That looks awesome. @jacqueline (signs up for this and also winces at their entire music library largely being in AAC) Mostly curious if it's a CPU power or licensing thing. @jacqueline Cool! :) I just jumped to "well, I know it's one of the more demanding codecs in Rockbox, and it's still patent encumbered unlike all these other codecs, and either of those could explain it."  @jacqueline yay, congratulations!!! you're doing some really inspirational work here. I'm so grateful someone is putting something like this in the world, and it makes me want to make more things myself.  @jacqueline this looks awesome. @stripey syncing over wifi would be great! atm the firmware requires you to remove the sd card to update music, but we're working on syncing over usb. @jacqueline This looks great! I currently use a Hiby R3 Pro, which has a pretty good form factor and physical buttons, but I hate the UI. I definitely miss the clickwheel for speed of interaction.  @jacqueline This is reminiscent of a Sandisk Sansa e280 I used to have, with Rockbox on it. I used it for like 10 years until it died. It even had a user-replaceable battery. Please bring Rockbox back.   @samhainnight look at how much a refurbished ipod with the works goes for in your area. about that much! @jacqueline … that looks pretty awesome! Look way more advanced than the old, “Walkman” casette-tape player. or whatever. 😘 If I wanted to modify it … is it possible to add solder-on an extra audio-port, and add a new feature to record audio from “Line-In”? 🤔 I feel like that could be useful too. @xanatax we don’t have a good onboard adc, so recording probably won’t work great. adding a second audio output is probably doable though! @jacqueline @xanatax it's powered by the esp32, ya? Access to i2s should be enough for some really cool mods, including i2s ADCs and even FM/AM/etc tuners. @stephlahs @xanatax yep! if you’re willing to bodge egregiously then there’s a *lot* you can do (there’s even a 5v rail if you really need it) @jacqueline my wife will NOT give up her old iPod cuz she just doesn't like using streaming stuff. This is going to be the perfect birthday gift so thanks. @jacqueline Well, one problem I see with using this device is the majority of stuff out there nowadays aside from BandCamp and Ninjatune is the streaming media issue. One cannot use this with Spotify or Apple Music because those businesses don't let you download artists' tracks as mp3 or FLAC.  @bookstardust @jacqueline Not everybody has a smartphone. I don't have one and my sandisk sansa is dying a slow death. So for me, this project comes at a perfect time. 😀 @bookstardust @jacqueline This is great in a world where you want to rely less on your smartphone because it’s too distracting, but you’re addicted to music. This is great in a world where you love the apple ecosystem but dislike some of its shortcomings: where you want to lug around your 1TB music collection but can’t afford an iPhone that has that much storage. Where the only software that allows you put music on your device is utter crap.  @jacqueline @neckspike not to be that gal but they're making a clunky rip-off of the 2006 iPod with two unnecessary extra side buttons and an iPod classic storage slot and even copy the look of the OS and it's hip now because it's all open source software and hardware? 1. you are being that gal Refurbished iPod classics go for $150 and up and there are no new battery options, this also open hardware using standard parts that can be replaced. Ask @gourd about using old iPod hardware right now @neckspike @jacqueline @gourd I still have old iPod hardware around - I have a rough idea how much fun it is to use them. And yes, I was too harsh in my wording. @heals @jacqueline I'm very excited about it because I've wanted something like this for the last ~5 years but there's really nothing on the market unless you want to fuck with 20 year old hardware. Audiophile DAPs are $500+ and basically a phone without a sim card, the cheap options break as soon as you look at them (have had several Clip+ that powered on less than 5 times before bricking forever and getting returned). @neckspike @jacqueline people would probably murder me if I said “I'm excited about it despite of my comment this morning” even if I am :facepalm: I get where you're coming from @jacqueline @heals @jacqueline @neckspike just to let you know, ui is still an in progress thing for us right now, plus we have support for custom theming. but there's only so many elements on that screen and they're all kinda... stuff you'd expect to see on a music player, there's really not much to "copy".  @heals @jacqueline this is a really mean thing to say to someone, a real person out there just like you, working on their own cool project and sharing it with the world. Why reply? Who asked you? @heals @jacqueline @neckspike fwiw jacqueline had to sternly negotiate me down from having fifteen hardware buttons; compromises eh 🤷♀️ @buzzyrobin @jacqueline @neckspike I'm actually curious of how that would have looked - are there any concepts from that time? 'cause the original iPod also had extra front facing buttons for a few elements you have on-screen right now. @heals @jacqueline @neckspike something like this (In all seriousness, no, I was joking. We discussed front ring buttons but opted for side ones; initially just volume, but then rebindable for accessibility.)  @jacqueline@chaos.social looks cool! don't think i'd use it since i have my phone with me anyways so it's more convenient to play from there, but cool regardless   @jacqueline roughly how long could you use listen to songs before running out of battery when using 3.5mm headhpones with bluetooth or wifi turned off? from the project description i wasn't sure if it was "24h of listening on 1 charge" or more on the order of 4 hours very cool project! |
@jacqueline so good!!!!!