• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    2 minutes ago

    Eh.

    I’d rather have a touch screen. I don’t want retro looks over functionality.

    The dedicated digital music player scene is rough right now. A year ago I looked into getting one cuz my iPod finally died and I don’t want to use my phone for music. I wanted touch screen and Android so I could download apps from the app store. It was surprisingly hard to find one. Ended up with a Chinese brand that works, but there’s no support and the screen is real glass and broke already. I like being able to download whatever apps I want and there’s a ton of storage space, but I’d really like some better options.

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    3 hours ago

    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.

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      3 hours ago

      I have my iPod 5th gen running on RockBox. IMO it’s even better than the stock firmware because it can play flacs.

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        48 minutes ago

        Same, someone also added a new battery at some point so I have an awesome weeklong working device. And after rockbox, its even better.

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    3 hours ago

    I bought one. Unfortunately, it still doesn’t work well with large music libraries. The database building step takes several hours, with no progress indicator, and once it’s done, the scroll wheel does not accelerate, meaning that scrolling through a long list of artists/albums will take a long time. Hopefully these will be remedied in a future firmware.

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      12 minutes ago

      Holy shit…that seems like day 0 issues. By that I mean issues to address before mass production. Certainly before any customer recieves their product.

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    Easier and cheaper to flash mod a Gen5/Gen7 iPod and put Rockbox on it. Looks better too.

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      27 minutes ago

      Yes, but we desperately need a thriving ecosystem of open source devices. With the way electronics are going - for example, being forced to agree to a new license agreement before being able to use a device I already purchased, and the agreement forces arbitration for disputes? We need more people working on enshittification-proof devices.

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      3 hours ago

      Also interesting that they don’t add Flac in the supported files for the iPods but mention RockBox.

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    Tangara also has basic Bluetooth SBC audio support, with more modern codecs possible via future firmware updates.

    Well SBC is basically useless so I hope the development is not too far away in the future. I see it’s Bluetooth v4.2 but as far as I know the best codec available compresses down to 1 Mbps but v4.2 supports up to 3Mbps and v5 up to 6 Mbps so still room for improvements but that’s up to headphone manufacturers to support these future codec.

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    3 hours ago

    This would be cool to load up with 10s of thousands of songs and to just leave tethered to your home HiFi system

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    ouuuu that looks rly cool! Right in the vein of Pine64.

    I like that despite only supporting SBC for now, they are looking to expand the Bluetooth codec support with updates. I think LDAC might be a no-brainer here, since it’s royalty free and the encoder is open iirc

  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    While I do do electronics, I’m not amazing at it, but, I always wonder how the UIs are so clunky and slow on a processor that outpaces a Pentium 1 ,which would run Windows 95…

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      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.