I got the itch to have a separate music player from my phone. Became very interested in the Innioasis Y1. It looks like a late model iPod nano (before they went touchscreen; it has the wheel). Bought it and then put the RockBox firmware on it (no simple task if you use Linux, let me tell you). I love it. It’s made me more intentional with my music. Plus I’m acquiring CDs and burning them to my laptop to transfer over to the Y1.
Hmm okay cool, I have been pretty on the fence about just buying a Nano with the upgraded storage and roxbox preinstalled, but this looks solid too. Everything work on it with RB?
From what I can tell. I did get much better battery results from doing RockBox after a factory reset. (Initially switched it over after having loaded my music onto the device; battery was no good and there were some weird quirks with the file system so I decided to fully reset the device, installed RB, then loaded my music. Noticeable difference!)
Is that another overpowered smartphone SoC running a wasteful android with a thin UI and dumbed-down music player? If so, let me just repurpose an old smartphone and save the planet from some e-waste. If not, kudos.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 month ago
I got the itch to have a separate music player from my phone. Became very interested in the Innioasis Y1. It looks like a late model iPod nano (before they went touchscreen; it has the wheel). Bought it and then put the RockBox firmware on it (no simple task if you use Linux, let me tell you). I love it. It’s made me more intentional with my music. Plus I’m acquiring CDs and burning them to my laptop to transfer over to the Y1.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Hmm okay cool, I have been pretty on the fence about just buying a Nano with the upgraded storage and roxbox preinstalled, but this looks solid too. Everything work on it with RB?
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 month ago
From what I can tell. I did get much better battery results from doing RockBox after a factory reset. (Initially switched it over after having loaded my music onto the device; battery was no good and there were some weird quirks with the file system so I decided to fully reset the device, installed RB, then loaded my music. Noticeable difference!)
u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 month ago
Is that another overpowered smartphone SoC running a wasteful android with a thin UI and dumbed-down music player? If so, let me just repurpose an old smartphone and save the planet from some e-waste. If not, kudos.