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Does it come with open source earbuds?
No earbuds, player only.
I've waited so long for one but it's too underpowered for the price.
How can this be underpowered?
8 mb of ram and 240mHZ. I know the costs are bigger for new companies but an rpi zero is 15-20€ and it has 1gGHZ and 512mb of ram. There's no problem if they have very good optimized code but it shouldn't cost 250$
Could it run Rockbox ? My iPods and sansa run with rockbox, it's awesome.
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 wouldn't know, i'm sure we'll know soon enough though.
Can we get an Open-Hardware CD-ROM/Optical-disk reader for our PCs ?
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.
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
Glad to see its on crowd supply
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.
Link saved. Definitely gonna see how this progresses so I might get one in the future.
