For any folks still out there using the #Rockbox firmware, I recently discovered the Hifi Walker H2 which is both officially supported, and more importantly, still being manufactured and sold. Flashing takes a bit of patience if you're #blind, but it can be done.

amazon.com/HIFI-WALKER-H2-Reso…

On this day thirteen years ago, #rockbox was still a thing I worked on a lot and we did a new Rockbox tower record of 117cm (in London)

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/06/05…

This is still the standing Rockbox tower record I believe.

Yes, I always work on important stuff.

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...)

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: rockbox.org/wiki/TowerOfRockbo…

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:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/12/07…