1/12/2024 0 Comments Iflash ata1But I guess that's just not how capitalism works. pure marketing for fake audiophiles ('384 khz on the go!11111111')Ī device that can run itty bitty rockbox and has huge storage (32-64GB flash in bulk costs literally nothing to corporate) should not cost more than 10-20 bucks today. garbage software that doesn't even play opus prices often many times more than you can buy entire usable linux laptops for The only audio players around that you can buy mostly everywhere are utterly insane: battery life sucks even offline without 24/7 spying bigger than they need to be (bigger than an ipod nano = pointless) surprisingly, cheaper than any of the technically utter garbage audio players that can still be bought Most pragmatic seems to be buying a trash android spyphone, no SIM, no nothing, installing foobar2000 on it offline using the APK directly. Too bad I had my original rb device stolen 10+ years ago. It's good to see rockbox is still alive, but it might as well be dead given the lack of devices. Then consider that most of these shovelware players have 224K (or less) of _total_ RAM, and we have _zero_ documentation how how to use them. Incidentally, the least capable port we have today, ie the Sansa Clip with 2KB of RAM, no SD card, and a 128圆4 monochrome screen, needs 344KB of RAM to even _boot_, This doesn't include memory for (any!) buffers - eg file/directory caches, SD dma buffers, theme resources, etc - or things like codec or plugin scratch space. So what exactly is the point of doing all of that work? The point being, by the time we do all of that work to completely rewrite the codebase to make something _fit_ into the limited RAM of these shovelware devices, what's left is no longer recognizable as "rockbox" any more, lacking all of the cool features that folks expect to get. Oh, and the translation engine and voiced UIs. And make it so you can play music OR do anything else (eg browse files). And free up even more RAM if we go back to HWCODEC onlly. The "absolute trash hardware" from 15 years ago had about 8x the RAM as more modern shovelware players.Īnd sure, we can save a non-trivial amount of runtime RAM if we ditch the themable UI.
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