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My gateway to open source, and to making my MPIO HD300 even more incredible.

Thanks for one of the coolest firmwares ever!

#Rockbox

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it's very late but a huge thank you to you and the whole #rockbox crew who put in this effort. I love love loved it back in the day and very much appreciated the #foss model being a disruptor in the proprietary media player marketplace
#foss #rockbox

it was so awesome. gapless mp3 was great for listening to live shows, and i just had to throw them in alpha order in a folder, no worrying about how some custom firmware was going to interpret mp3 tags or sort things. copy files, go to the gym, and run and lift to awesome music on my sansa clip with #Rockbox!
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hah I recently found my Sansa Player in a drawer, running #Rockbox and thought of the amazing project and the community and about the remaining handful of hardware it actually didn't run on. 🥰
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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...)

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when we had get-togethers of #rockbox hackers, we did these (silly) towers of devices that could run Rockbox. Look at this beautiful example featuring 78 mp3 players.

More photos here: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TowerOfRockbox.html

TowerOfRockbox < Main < Wiki

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And I‘m still using it to this day, every day! #rockbox
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On this day, 22 years ago, the #Rockbox project started, co-founded by me. We wrote an open source firmware for mp3 players. On its 10 year anniversary 2011, I wrote this:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/12/07/ten-years-of-rockbox/

Ten years of Rockbox | daniel.haxx.se

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