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RockboxPlayerV1 - Free/Open hardware audio player for Rockbox
casainho:
--- Quote from: cool_walking_ on February 21, 2008, 08:48:46 PM ---I wouldn't have anything to do with the design, since I have no knowledge of that. I would be willing to learn (but I don't really know where to start... any links?) but I would probably slow you down.
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Start by reading all wiki pages about the project. I think we will shift back to the RockboxPlayerPrototype:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxPlayerPrototype
Bagder:
Allow me to also add some fluff to this pie-throwing.
I haven't added myself to this project because I don't want to build my own player. I don't believe in that concept. But if a company/someone would start making them in a nice package, I certainly would be lining up to get one. Of course I would then only be interested in such a player if it has a color screen of a suitable size and while Rockbox is about audio it plays video perfectly fine on most targets and I see absolutely no reason to build a new player in 2008 that can't play video - I think the album art fan crowd will also agree that color screens are nice. Especially not when it has an 180MHz ARM9 core.
I've contributed to Rockbox for more than six years and I've responded in this thread and on IRC quite a lot of times. But again, I'm not added on the wiki page for the rockboxplayer.
I do realize that there needs to be someone who gets the final say and of course everyone can build their own player but we need to remember that rejecting ideas and suggestions will be taken hard if not motivated properly and "you're not in the team" is not a good reason.
casainho:
--- Quote from: Bagder on February 22, 2008, 06:22:08 AM ---I see absolutely no reason to build a new player in 2008 that can't play video
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Just because we are in 2008 does not mean we can't build a player dedicated to audio!
The hardware will be tailored for It's objectives, Good quality hardware audio player and recorder - no video player or game console; --> which does not mean video or games happen in software, however, hardware will not be tailored for that! - maybe I did not wrote very well, video or games can happen, however, for example, buttons will be tailored for an audio player and not for a game console.
cool_walking_:
--- Quote from: casainho on February 22, 2008, 03:40:00 AM ---
--- Quote from: cool_walking_ on February 21, 2008, 08:48:46 PM ---I wouldn't have anything to do with the design, since I have no knowledge of that. I would be willing to learn (but I don't really know where to start... any links?) but I would probably slow you down.
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Start by reading all wiki pages about the project. I think we will shift back to the RockboxPlayerPrototype:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxPlayerPrototype
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Yeah I'd been reading those. I mean I don't know anything about this hardware stuff. I used a soldering iron once in my life for half an hour 12-13 years ago.
I started reading Electronics and Practical_Electronics on Wikibooks. With the former I'm pretty much forgetting what I read 5 minutes later.
casainho:
--- Quote from: cool_walking_ on February 23, 2008, 10:23:56 PM ---
--- Quote from: casainho on February 22, 2008, 03:40:00 AM ---
--- Quote from: cool_walking_ on February 21, 2008, 08:48:46 PM ---I wouldn't have anything to do with the design, since I have no knowledge of that. I would be willing to learn (but I don't really know where to start... any links?) but I would probably slow you down.
--- End quote ---
Start by reading all wiki pages about the project. I think we will shift back to the RockboxPlayerPrototype:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxPlayerPrototype
--- End quote ---
Yeah I'd been reading those. I mean I don't know anything about this hardware stuff. I used a soldering iron once in my life for half an hour 12-13 years ago.
I started reading Electronics and Practical_Electronics on Wikibooks. With the former I'm pretty much forgetting what I read 5 minutes later.
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But can you hack RB code? :-) - Nor you and much people want, know to solder. We will buy a development board and I will make a few necessary boards just for developers, fro this prototype. Next, the idea is to have some company to assembly and sell to us that hardware :-)
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