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It took so long to find the energy to figure it all out, but I finally got the iPod Classic running RockBox reliably with my flac music library. And it's using the adwaita theme to match my laptop lol. I am so happy to be able to use it for listening to my music especially since I kinda broke my HiFiWalker H2 a few months ago.
#RockBox #GNOME #Adwaita #iPodClassic #iPod #LocalMusicLibrary #LocalMusic #Music #FLAC
Rockbox 4.0 wurde released! 
Das Changelog ist gewaltig, kann im Ganzen hier nachgelesen werden:
https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes400
Ich liebe es, dass mein uralter MP3-Player weiterhin supported wird und ständig neue features erhält damit.
www.rockbox.orgReleaseNotes400 < Main < WikiReleaseNotes400
WOAH 
»The Rockbox project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Rockbox 4.0. This marks our first release since November 2019, and since then we've been busy adding features and fixing bugs to give you the best Rockbox experience yet.«
www.rockbox.orgReleaseNotes400 < Main < WikiReleaseNotes400
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I fixed it for now by shifting the balance +12% to the right in Rockbox. Others on Reddit have reported the same issue, some with the right side being louder instead. These flex cables on 18-year-old devices (even the replacements are NOS) are kind of a lottery.
If I lose my mind over it, I might try a reflow, but since I can’t fix this in the original firmware, I’m twice as happy I installed Rockbox.
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5946 Sometimes i believed in the legend of "convergence": one device to rule them all and forever bind them.
Since i use a #pinephone and reposessed a personal computing environment that is frugal and tailored to my needs, i am completely re-considering.
Got myself a "modern" device to run #Rockbox on (https://www.rockbox.org/). and OH MY! 1/ how much it progressed since the last 15y i didnt use it! 2/ how amazing to have dedicated, reliable top-notch audio sw+hw!
Sometimes i leave "phone" at home.
www.rockbox.orgRockbox - Free Music Player Firmware
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why is #MP3 still such a common music format/codec?
It seems audiophiles 'just' use FLAC (from 2001), while AAC is used in streaming, etc.
I just thought there might've been some development in the past 20 years now that I want to encode some stuff for my #iPod with or without #Rockbox.
(Yes, I'm like that when it comes to formats, I want a #JpegXL sticker)
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I get the decision not to start #Tangara on #Rockbox, but no-one is stopping third party development. And I hope that s.o. will be tempted, as my personal playback use doesn't work well with OSs targeting playing and indexing music files. I prefer file systems and playlists.
Personally I still use my Rockbox Players a lot - as recorders, because the Iriver H120 has digital optical input/output and does bit perfect recordings and the iPod Nano as a sports player.
If you followed along with the #iPodUpgrade thread at the weekend, you know I was going to install #Rockbox on it.
Well. I did eventually.
Frustratingly, the Linux installer wouldn't get past the "downloading updates" message so I couldn't use it :-(
Had to resort to my Windows laptop where everything went smoothly.
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@leonidas do you mean a guide for installing #Rockbox on an #mp3player? If you are using a Debian-based distro, I think this PPA that I incidentally made can help:
https://launchpad.net/~benjaoming/+archive/ubuntu/rockbox
The utility itself provides a UI to guide you through the installation, together with the Rockbox wiki which might contain some notes on your particular device.
LaunchpadRockbox : Benjamin BachRockbox is made by great people, you can see the website here and find instructions and community: https://www.rockbox.org/
The official distribution used to work for Ubuntu, but since 20.04 there are some dependencies missing and the distributed version is compiled in ways that needed a bit of extra tinkering.
This PPA addresses recent issues and can be installed by adding the PPA and then running `apt install rbutil`
Please LMK if you have any issues.
On this day thirteen years ago, #rockbox was still a thing I worked on a lot and we did a new Rockbox tower record of 117cm (in London)
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/06/05/rockbox-bridge-and-tower/
This is still the standing Rockbox tower record I believe.
Yes, I always work on important stuff.
TIL that there is an Adwaita theme for RockBox! It's quite nice!
#iPod #RockBox #Gnome #Adwaita #RetroTech
Finally restored my #iPod 5th gen, inspired by @killyourfm
Went all black with the case. New screen and battery and a 64GB CF card for storage. Dumped my #Bandcamp collection as FLACs on there to run through #Rockbox
Featured artist @JoeRess
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I bite. (With only 14 hours left the #FOMO was too big to not get one.)
Looks like I have a reason to learn some Lua in September, then...
I'm still a heavy #rockbox user, but the my old ipods players are dying, don't support bluetooth and the 8GB max storage on those Nanos isn't that great, either...
Happy to be part of this journey.
How the first gen ipod was reverse engineered to run #Rockbox:
1. Someone figured out that when loading a particular HTML page (for viewing on the device), the device would reboot. It crashed. A buffer overflow in the HTML viewer!
2. The device remembered what it did before the crash, so it would reload the HTML page again after boot. Unless you connected to it over USB and removed the HTML file it would stick in this cycle.
(continues...)