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jonjnichols:

--- Quote from: justinl on February 26, 2008, 10:58:29 AM ---The "on hold" industry is charging several hundred dollars for an MP3 player with the following essential characteristics:

1) Solid state storage
2) It plays MP3s immediately on power on (i.e. recovers from power failure).
3) It loops forever.

Looking at the supported MP3 players list, my eye quickly fell onto the "SanDisk Sansa c200". I see a refurb on ebay for $30 (maybe this is rare...), and an AC adapter is available for about 8 bucks (which I'd get) although one could be made pretty easily by soldering the right AC adapter to the battery terminals.

Interested in discussion about this idea, things I'm forgetting, general feasibility, and helpful first steps :-).


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justinl,
How did this work out for you?  I'm interested in doing the same thing.
Seems that finding the right version of those devices will be the trick.
I'd really like to hear more on this from you.

jon

justinl:

--- Quote from: jonjnichols on April 09, 2008, 06:21:33 PM ---How did this work out for you?  I'm interested in doing the same thing.

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Works great so far - we've already put it in the server room (velcro on the wall). We bought a used iPod nano 1st gen for about 50 bucks, and then another 8 for an AC adapter. It took almost no time to install Rockbox. I would point out that the two features discussed so far are turned on within the user interface of Rockbox, and not in a config file (which I expected). This did make it easy.

This discussion should no doubt move to another forum, but I'm replying here for the sake of being a complete thread for users finding it from google.

I would also point out that commercial products that I've seen do not have battery backup, which the iPod nano gives. I question how great our particular battery is, but I believe it would last longer than 99% of power outages (which only last for a few seconds).

It's still untested how it behaves from cold boot after losing power for long enough to drain the battery.

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