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reading your guy's posts now it seems like a miracle that the one mp3 player in the beginning of this thread had 4mb of ram!
Quote from: saucell on April 23, 2023, 03:57:15 PMreading your guy's posts now it seems like a miracle that the one mp3 player in the beginning of this thread had 4mb of ram!No kidding! That's why I'm thinking of getting that device, even if the DAC is poor.
would the RKNanoD SoC be viable? - https://www.rock-chips.com/a/en/products/RK_Nano_Series/2016/0908/790.html
this looks extremely interesting: https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/04/25/sonatino-raspberry-pi-zero-sized-esp32-s3-audio-board/would this be rockboxable?
rockbox running on 64mb of ram holy fudge.......
Quote from: saucell on April 29, 2023, 01:01:53 AMrockbox running on 64mb of ram holy fudge.......Honestly, when we're running off of solid-state storage, you'd probably be hard pressed to see a difference with anything over 16MB of RAM. If you leave out some of the games, anything over 8MB is probably superfluous. The main reason the old-school ipods etc had so much RAM was because the spinning-rust hard drives were quite power hungry, and the more RAM you had, the longer you could leave the hard drive powered down. Granted, flash storage uses power too, but compared to spinning rust, peak power is far lower and powerup is nearly instantaneous, so you can get away with buffering a lot less than before.That said, these days, it's probably _cheaper_ to buy a 64MB RAM chip than one that's "only" 8MB.
Quote from: speachy on April 29, 2023, 10:56:44 AMQuote from: saucell on April 29, 2023, 01:01:53 AMrockbox running on 64mb of ram holy fudge.......Honestly, when we're running off of solid-state storage, you'd probably be hard pressed to see a difference with anything over 16MB of RAM. If you leave out some of the games, anything over 8MB is probably superfluous. The main reason the old-school ipods etc had so much RAM was because the spinning-rust hard drives were quite power hungry, and the more RAM you had, the longer you could leave the hard drive powered down. Granted, flash storage uses power too, but compared to spinning rust, peak power is far lower and powerup is nearly instantaneous, so you can get away with buffering a lot less than before.That said, these days, it's probably _cheaper_ to buy a 64MB RAM chip than one that's "only" 8MB.forgive me for not reading all threads on this message board but why doesn't one of you geniuses make a player from that board and we all kickstart it? not enough people would put money down because a dedicated rockbox player is a niche thing?
Quote from: saucell on April 29, 2023, 12:41:49 PMQuote from: speachy on April 29, 2023, 10:56:44 AMQuote from: saucell on April 29, 2023, 01:01:53 AMrockbox running on 64mb of ram holy fudge.......Honestly, when we're running off of solid-state storage, you'd probably be hard pressed to see a difference with anything over 16MB of RAM. If you leave out some of the games, anything over 8MB is probably superfluous. The main reason the old-school ipods etc had so much RAM was because the spinning-rust hard drives were quite power hungry, and the more RAM you had, the longer you could leave the hard drive powered down. Granted, flash storage uses power too, but compared to spinning rust, peak power is far lower and powerup is nearly instantaneous, so you can get away with buffering a lot less than before.That said, these days, it's probably _cheaper_ to buy a 64MB RAM chip than one that's "only" 8MB.forgive me for not reading all threads on this message board but why doesn't one of you geniuses make a player from that board and we all kickstart it? not enough people would put money down because a dedicated rockbox player is a niche thing?See here: https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,6751.0.html
either way i would put some cash down on a kickstarter if it did!
thanks for the link. if after 15 years of talking about it we aren't any closer to making a dedicated rockbox player i guess i wont hold my breath that its going to happen soon. either way i would put some cash down on a kickstarter if it did!
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