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Looks like 3 iPods stacked on top of one another.
More like 1 iPod? https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/IPod_(1st_generation)
Non rockbox, non easily swappable battery (though it uses a rectangular cell with a JST connector), looks like an early ipod, no speaker(?), costs $249? Um no. There are still plenty of Sandisk and other players around that can run Rockbox. I still have a Cowon D2 that had a Rockbox port that apparently wasn't really complete. Its main drawback as I saw it was not supporting SDXC (i.e. largest supported SD card was 3…
> No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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I still use my Sanclip Plus because of rockbox. What a great project
How come it haven't died still? They're are notorious for their internal memory crapping out.
Non rockbox, non easily swappable battery (though it uses a rectangular cell with a JST connector), looks like an early ipod, no speaker(?), costs $249? Um no. There are still plenty of Sandisk and other players around that can run Rockbox. I still have a Cowon D2 that had a Rockbox port that apparently wasn't really complete. Its main drawback as I saw it was not supporting SDXC (i.e. largest supported SD card was 3…
Cool, rockbox? Oh, not rockbox... Well, rockbox was cool and we had it in the early 2000s. Don't know whats with the revisionistic headline. https://www.rockbox.org/
This looks promising. Pretty much all modern portable music players are janky Android devices with awful hardware and software. I've been looking for something to dethrone the Zune HD for me, which has a small form factor and intuitive interface
I still have mine but left it in a drawer years ago because it wouldn't sync any more. Is there a modern solution?
I get over 2+ weeks of playback time on my modded iPod classic with Rockbox and a half tb of storage. That’s the player I wish I had in the 200s.
I've also got a Sansa Clip+ that is super small and great with Rockbox.
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Some older portable media players are supported by Rockbox, which supports Opus. Unclear if there's any supported devices currently in production. As for SD cards, I know SanDisk devices on that list supported microSD cards. https://www.rockbox.org/
The downside is that most older players can decode MP3 and AAC in hardware but Opus has to be done in the CPU, which causes a big hit on battery life.
I can't remember how battery life compared for MP3/AAC (was RockBox able to use the hardware decoder?).
Why does it have no buttons? There are plenty of good rockbox able MP3 players on the market. What I need is buttons with feedback.
Later I had the worst designed mp3 player created by man which despite having physical buttons, still required you to look at the screen to use it because button presses were (a) context specific (required sequences) and (b) not idempotent (the first press was ignored and brought the device out of sleep mode).
This looks promising. Pretty much all modern portable music players are janky Android devices with awful hardware and software. I've been looking for something to dethrone the Zune HD for me, which has a small form factor and intuitive interface
I still have mine but left it in a drawer years ago because it wouldn't sync any more. Is there a modern solution?