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Good bye Rockbox
I'm officially not taking part in anything related to Rockbox anymore. I've unsubscribed and I'm out. In the fall of 2001, my friend Linus and my brother Björn had both bought the portable Archos Player, a harddrive based mp3 player and slightly unde…daniel.haxx.se
The port is still being tinkered with, but it's a much cheaper option than a refurbed iPod classic.
Obviously as a blind person you get no real text-to-speech output in files, but you do get a decent battery, USB-C, bluetooth and perhaps eventually wifi, a supposedly solid DAC and all the other benefits of Rockbox for a $50 USD device.
Yes, it's a cheap Chinese plastic thing, but ... well. I have fallen into ponds with technology aboard.
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…
