work on best low cost mp3 player for rockbox

[nwrob]

Hi, do you know what the model number will be and when it will be available?

[uhiYuhi]

Hunterleo,

My Sansa Clip just died yesterday and I'm in the market for a new mp3 player.

Should I hold out for the new AGPtEK with Rockbox OS? Will it be days, weeks, or months?

Thanks

I guess it still takes months. The new player with our own OS is under production. You may try it soon.

Waiting for rockboxed player. i will buy it definetely

[hunterleo]

Thanks for waiting. Still got few bugs to fix!

[greatjack]

I have used many rockbox players in the past and was reading though this great thread.

It needs some clarification.

@hunterleo

1. How many players are going to be coming out?

2.What will their features be?

3.What will their Model Numbers be?

4. Whats the current estimated time for their arrival on the market?

Also heres the link for the agptek clip https://www.amazon.com/AGPtEK-Bluetooth-Player-Lossless-Supports/product-reviews/B01MG31IBZ/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=recent#RGSL2RX6Y4OAM

This looks amazing and if we can get this running rockbox with bluetooth, It would be an instant best seller!

[spaceship9876]

Thanks for waiting. Still got few bugs to fix!

You should use a Micro UFS card slot instead of Micro SDXC in the future, there is almost no idle power consumption and much less when reading/writing too. We would have much better battery life if playing audio files from a memory card. Also a usb type-c connector would be nice.

[Verythin]

Hello,

long time user, first time poster here. This thread has me excited.

Writing all the following here on this forum seems pointless because all you know this. But I will anyway.

I had a Sansa Clip+ for years, it never let me down. It got stolen earlier this year. Bought a used one that I found for a really good price, considering the money they go for these days. That one died a few weeks ago. Been using my phone since but couldn't be more frustrated - the size, the weight, the battery life, the fact that you can't operate it blindly in your pocket.

Am searching around for a decent player but, as you know, there aren't any. Five years ago usable affordable players could be bought everywhere. Nowadays there are either just toys, cheap in every sense of the word - or overly expensive"audiophile" players that certainly aren't better than the Clip+ was.

I found this thread and I can't tell you how happy I'd be if this product really came to life. If you made an affordable player that can do Rockbox you'd have a monopoly on good players, an instant best seller. The market is definitely there, everyone reading this forum would buy one. The number of interested first-time posters in this thread is proof of this.

Development is probably (mostly) done, but for the future, here are the things I'd like to see in a player.

Size:
- size of the Clip+ (although Rockbox is hard to read on that tiny screen…)
- so maybe a bit bigger, but certainly not bigger than the AGPTek A02
- if it is very small it has to have a clip

Hardware:
- MicroSD slot (for Sandisk cards, too, as AGPTek only seems to support Kingston brand cards)
- tough non-scratching screen
- no touch screen! It has to have buttons/keys for blind use in the pocket
- Bluetooth is not required, but wouldn't hurt
- no FM radio (I have no use for it)
- no fancy hi-res color display (fine if it has one, but only if it doesn't alter performance) (and no blinking flashing screen gadgets!)
- durable hardware (I had to solder the phone jack on the Clip+)
- replaceable battery
- no planned obsolence of any kind
- no included headphones - no one uses these cheap phones, so save the resources and save yourself and the customers the expense
- USB 3.0
I'd love a durable, reliable, easy-to-use no-nonsense player with just the bare audio functions and no fancy stuff, which brings us to …

Software:
- playing all file formats, obviously
- no microphone in / recording function - never had the use and accidentally activated this on other players before, creating long useless files, annoying. Everyone has a phone for this.
- no album cover display (I see people want this, I personally have no need)
- no video (same, I would not watch any sort of video on an audio player)
- folder navigation
- folder playback in proper order of songs (why do modern players not do this? I returned an AGPTek because of it, but I read that even the FIIO M3 has problems doing this)
- proper alphabetical listing of folders
- no limit of number of folders
- album repeat
- resume playback where you last stopped
- m3u playlists
- display of umlauts and additional characters: ä, ö, ü, Ä, Ö, Ü, ß
- works with Linux

Rockbox use would be awesome, but if someone could at least make a player these days that comes with a decent, well-designed, user friendly software (like the Clip+), that'd be great.
Like probably most people on here I'd be willing to pay a bit more if I knew I'd get a durable, well made product with great, easy-to-use software - and not a poorly made player that would predictably die in less than two years.

[hunterleo]

Thank you guys for the precious opinions!

The new players fixed most of your issues and will be available within 1 month! AGPTEK ROCKER is its name!

[Verythin]

Awesome news before the Holidays!

[JimZipCode]

The new players fixed most of your issues and will be available within 1 month! AGPTEK ROCKER is its name!

Can't wait!

[amega]

very exited please update us!!!

[yopyop]

Some ideas:

-all models rockbox
-use sandisk microsd
-add extra button on front or side
-customizable menus, buttons e.g. can change >>I and I<<  to >> <<
-resist making models obselete with software upgrades / downgrades??
-"resume", and "bookmark resume"
-sane buttons up down left right = up down left right, middle = play/pause

[elwing]

I'm back after a long time, looking for a new rockbox player... only to find out most of the compatible player are obsolete and not in production anymore... your Rocker couldn't happen at a better time for me...
Thanks for that, I'll definitely well be buying one...

also, image and documents starts to appear on the web:
http://images.agptek.us/image/MC15B/
http://images.agptek.us/image/MC15S/
http://images.agptek.us/image/RockerUserManual.pdf

[bennor]

also, image and documents starts to appear on the web:
http://images.agptek.us/image/MC15B/
http://images.agptek.us/image/MC15S/
http://images.agptek.us/image/RockerUserManual.pdf

Interesting. Black and Silver colors. Looks a bit boxy and appears to be larger than a Sansa Clip. And no apparent internal memory with support up to 256GB microSD card. And the earphone jack is on the bottom of the unit 40 hour playback with volume at medium and 2 hour charge time. 1.8" LCD screen. Size: 85.6×40.2×10.08mm. Music formats:
AAC/AIF(AIFF)/APPLE Lossless
APE/FLAC/OGG/MP3
/WAVE/WMA/WMA
Lossless M4A/DSF/DSDIFF





More details in the PDF.

[spaceship9876]

no opus codec support? opus is supported by rockbox and is patent-free. Will you be releasing the source code for your rockbox port? What chip are you using in it?

[johnb]

I doubt this IS running Rockbox today.