A tons of respect from a proud user from Ukraine. On a CF modded Cowon X5 (R.I.P.) and Cowon D2+ (still running on new batteries with a screen replaced). Thank you!
Wow! I am humbled. It makes me so happy to see that Rockbox made such an impact in your life. I am one of the co-founders of the project, and I can also say that I don't have an engineering degree at all. :-)
Thank you, Rockbox was amazing. Similarly to mitxela, I scored one of the old monochrome iPods way back in a pawn shop, with an 80 gig hard drive. The hardware was absolutely amazing, that scroll wheel thing, so good. However on the software side it was barely useable with all that iTunes crap. Until I discovered Rockbox which made the player very very nice.
@@TheShadowArtCom I held onto an old ipod waiting for rockbox to actually be patched to support it for a long time and just FINALLY got it up because I had an older ipod that broke that I put it on and yeah I'm here because I don't use a macbook I use Windows or Gentoo Linux, I use BOTH operating systems as I run a network with multiple computers I own out of my family of origin's home and yeah It just sat collecting dust since 2012 and I finally decided to try to flash again and loe and behold it works. Now i'm thinking about tearing out its guts and putting an iflash in it with a microsd 1tb from sandiskand a 3800 mah battery to really give it a boost of battery life. 8 and 1/3rd days off a single charge. I'm even thinking about modding a few and throwing them up on Ebay with rockbox premodded into them or onto Etsy the same wa Itunes is insufferable. it just collected dust because i outright refused to use it for any length of time.
A tons of respect from a proud user from Ukraine. On a CF modded Cowon X5 (R.I.P.) and Cowon D2+ (still running on new batteries with a screen replaced). Thank you!
This channel is so underrated but feels so exclusive because of it, like we have our own private source of both genius and nostalgic content. Keep up the amazing work
That was some really great animation! I remember having ROCKbox on a USB Stick MP3 player back in the day because I wanted to listen to ( what I only recently found out was a bootleg pre-retail version of ) Alive2007 by Daft Punk, and the MP3 player couldn't do gapless, or MP3s larger than 128kbps, but ROCKbox could play any file I wanted, in any way I wanted. And could even change the brightness of the backlit through PWM, something the original firmware lacked. Sadly the MP3 player died when my Nokia phone stored in the same pocket won in a battle upon me tumbling to the ground nearly avoiding a car that was not where it ought to be. I never did have another journey with it, but perhaps I should.
Jesus, haven't heard the name ROCKbox in a very long time. I remember putting it on my iPod nano 2nd gen forever ago. My ipod was the image on the old wiki for the longest time. I might still have it running around somewhere in storage.
Found it, and it wouldn't turn on even with power connected. Ripped out the internals, de-soldered the battery (it was starting to bulge =O), and connected it to power. And, I get the old emCORE bootloader trying to load ROCKbox!! Unfortunately though it seems the backlight in the screen went out. imgur.com/a/TQClop2
I use my Sansa Clip Zip with Rockbox on an almost daily basis, mostly for podcasts. Powering down then resuming later takes seconds, and doesn't require looking at the screen, making it ideal for starting a podcast in the car, continuing later on headphones, then plugging into a speaker to listen to a bit more. The device fits easily in a pocket, with no concerns of a big touchscreen to scratch or break. The only thing missing, for me, is Bluetooth (for easier connection to the car audio system or wireless headphones). If someone produced an MP3 player with a similar form factor (and price), Bluetooth built in, and able to run Rockbox, I wouldn't be able to get my wallet out quickly enough.
If most mech people knew how much their keyboard firmware actualy did... Nevermind that a modern mouse is 32bit arm controller used just to look at an led light and output x and y.
I really like this sort of subversive poem, where it's written as a night before christmas-esque set, but just doesn't rhyme at the end. I can almost hear the words that would make it rhyme in the way it's structured. I very much hope that's something intentional, and not something I'm misreading in lol.
there are many custom firmwares out there. Mods for canon/Nikon cams, alternate firwares for 3D Printers,TVs, Smartphones (even if that could already be considered as smartphones). Even Open Source custom BIOSes exist, like core Boot. OpenWRT for routers is another great example.
CHDK was probably the first thing that ever made me really excited about the idea of free software and the open source movement, being able to repurpose any camera to run arbitrary code on is such an insane idea.
My Sansa Clip Zip is used every day. The buttons are bare, the clip is long gone and the battery lasts about 2 hours.. Rockbox lives on in this house, just about.
I love how you always include a blog post about your stuff. I was going to ask how you managed to animate this so well, but you already answered all my quesitons!
I am amazed at some of the stuff you have built so it is nice to see what sparked that. I hadn't done any electronic stuff for about 25 years and then I saw that you can program a light switch (sonoff). A could of years later I am knee deep in microcontrollers, building a reflow oven and trying to make my light switches into a midi synthesiser. Funny old world. Anyhoo, I am off to the charity shop to see if I can find a SanDisk MP3 player.
Also still rocking my Sansa Clip since my Archos jukebox got launched across the gym into a wall, after dropping it on a treadmill. So many happy years of Rockbox 😊
I was sorta late to MP3 players, only because of financial limitations, and my first was a cheap ipod shuffle clone in 2011. In 2012 I bought a Sansa Clip Zip with money I scrounged up selling garbage finds on eBay and I found Rockbox. I listened to so much music and played so many games on a device that only set me back $20, and I used it till 2014 when I finally could get enough money for a cheap Android device. Best MP3 player ever.
The Sansa Clip might be the best cost-optimised good little MP3 player out there, but there’s been a resurgence of new designs. Under the name PMP or “portable media player”, these new devices have some modern features to their name. Like Bluetooth, high-end DACs, or even supporting external DACs, or being able to be used as external DACs to a computer. Rockbox is the preferred firmware for many of these too. Of course, the niche market of them means they’re not too cheap at all. The screens are also a bit more modern, so you might have a better time playing doom on them.
Love it. I still have Rockbox on a Sansa Clip... somewhere. I had the entire of Buckaroo Banzai encoded to play in it's odd 3 colour display. I'm still impressed it could do that.
that, and today electrical engineers learn to code. At least here in Germany, many, if not most electrical engineering jobs are about software development, (or VHDL coding, which is very similar to software development).
@@TheRailroad99 in my undergrad, for the first 2 years and the first half of the third, electrical and computer engineers shared almost their entire course load, so I totally see that, but there's also a fundamental difference between hardware description like VHDL and writing embedded software to run on a system
@@LynnK2000 yes there is! I just wrote that for people who dont know what hardware description languages are, because many software developers don't know about them. And for somebody who does not know, I think "similar" is good enough. Of course there is a lot more to consider when writing VDHL/Verilog, but the core are also logical statements.
still using this combo almost daily.. you can have many microSD cards and swap them, which you can't on a phone. It has a versatile prarmetric EQ to pull headphones / IEMs flat (and you can save and load your presets!), also adjustable crosstalk. The cyan OLED display to me looks really cool and it's possible to replace the lipo battery (I did). Menu system is structued very logically, you can set shortcuts to often-accessed settings and the UI is very responsive / instantaneous. And there is no need for a "database" and scanning, just organize your music well in folders on the microSD and use it. Only the DAC inside the SOC sounds a bit mushy and the amp doesn't have that much juice for making high-impedance headphones shine. Also, my 3.5mm jack seems to get flakey now. I wish rockbox would be ported to modern DAPs, they may have nice UI but most don't offer as many truly useful features.
I had Rockbox on my 1st gen Nano, and it's still going strong on my Sandisk Sansa. It's one of the projects that inspired me to go into computer science :)
Wow I had totally forgotten about Rockbox. I checked my old e-mails and it seems like I did use it on my iPod Nano for a while back in 2006. Good times!
Sometimes we forget that it doesn't need a gigahertz to run great software. I am an electrical engineer, and I absolutely hate the attitude some software engineers (especially web developers) have towards software. Most modern software is absolutely bloated and 80% useless overhead. It is astonishing what a simple MCU can achieve, if you know how to code efficiently. I would highly recommend to any "high level" developer to start writing a few assembler (or maybe embedded C) programms, just so you can see that great software can be built for literally everything.
4:28 A monochrome witch and Rockbox? _I've seen this before ;)_ Also, damn, £3 for a Clip+ is an absolute steal. I bought mine new back when they retailed for around £30 (very roughly).
Have you made a donation to rockbox? I recently put it on my old iPod video after upgrading it to use an sd card and new battery. It’s nice to get back to this old hardware that I once loved. Thank you rockbox for saving me from iTunes
Coworker gave me a pre-Rokboxed Sansa Clip. It just had the best sound quality. The headphone jack twice (!) required re-soldering. The clip broke off so I just put it in my pocket while listening to it.
Wow! Not only are you a fan of rockbox but you were rocking an N900 too? Amazing! If you still have it, Maemo Leste is an up to date Linux Distribution for it with the same UI. :)
If any of you have a color iPod (5th-6th gen) I'd recommend downloading the FreshOS theme. It really upgrades the look and feel of your iPod on top of the new features from Rockbox.
I remember doing this on a Sandisk Sansa e250 when I was younger so that I could use Micro SDCH cards since the stock firmware only accepted cards up to 4gb. Fast forward (hah) until today and I still use a iPod Classic with Rockbox for music and podcasts mostly.
I completely and fully agree with this sentiment. I use Rockbox as my daily driver firmware on my iPod 5th gen, and it vastly outperforms even the stock iPod firmware in almost every way.
Hey that title had me worried the Rockbox had died somehow.
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I remember Playing Pokemon and (Free)Doom on a Sansa Fuze (hardware revision v2 8GB, i still remember...) and later discovering LUA on it. If I think about it, think this thing also probably got me in the direction of studying Computer Science with an interest in embedded... I think it is still in a drawer somewhere...
I run it on my 4gb first gen nano, for windows drag and drop, better games, and a dark theme. I use the old thing to listen to 128kbit/second creepy pasta mp3s, the old thing still get 5+ hour battery life
Hi @mitxela, I "caused" Rockbox, being the original firmware developer for the Archos Jukebox 6000. apparently the firmware I wrote was so bad around playlist handling and our CEO unwilling to open source the code so that the boys and girls wrote their own. at times it was one of the rather large open source SW projects in terms of users, developers, testers, translators, doc writers. I'm kinda proud to have caused that :) AMA
It seems to me like this video is also an ode to Blender Grease Pencil? It seems the best spiritual match for the creator, and the graphics sure are enthusiastically in a 3d engine. It's one thing to say 'oh good animation' but if you're up to speed with what that is, the breath and scope of visual tricks begin to jump out. Mitxela, this is you making the animation, yes?
In fact, I've had 2, the first one booted up and shut down way quicker didn't last for long, (possibly a month?). I was listening to music on it and it randomly shut down and didn't boot up again. Then I got another identical one that for some reason took longer to boot up and that's the one I still have today! I don't use it, but I still have it in a drawer.
Oh man thank you! Seriously I had no idea about the ability to play .mod and .xm players, I was planning to attempt making a plugin despite having nearly no programming experience
When I found out my phone had some sort of MIDI interface, I was shocked. My phone is from 2020 (LG Stylo 6). It supports a MIDI interface. It even plays MIDI files. Even if it is through software, that's crazy. Ooh since I'm already here, I have a Nokia (or maybe it's Verizon? can't remember) phone that has tunes that absolutely bop. Gotta find that charger so I can transcribe them.
I owned 2 Sansa Clips and never knew that Rockbox would make such a difference. Sadly both died by falling out of some pocket and smashing on the ground. I wonder if my AGPtek knockoff (continuation) is supported by Rockbox ...
It's interesting to me that they thought gapless playback would be so hard. As someone who hasn't messed with audio files at all, it seems like it would be maybe not easy, but not very difficult, at least. Unless processing speed was the problem, I don't see how it could be that hard.
I used to have a Sandisk Sansa Clip. I've recently bought a AIGO EROS Q to replace my Fiio X1 since I want to get back on Rockbox, but the port is apparently a bit unstable for now in regards to audio.
