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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
casainho:
--- Quote from: saratoga on December 09, 2007, 04:31:22 PM ---The developers for a port are the people who own the hardware, meaning you!
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I understand. So I need to work on this idea and make It interesting for others developers buy the hardware and starting work on that.
Why not define an Open Hardware Player and announce that developers of RB would support It, with propose that some hardware company make and sell it online? Can this be realistic or not?
Bagder:
--- Quote from: casainho on December 10, 2007, 05:55:28 AM ---Why not define an Open Hardware Player and announce that developers of RB would support It, with propose that some hardware company make and sell it online? Can this be realistic or not?
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Feel free to do so. Rockbox is just a bunch of individuals with similar interests. We're all just separate persons that does what each one of us wants to do.
If this is realistic or not is up to the ones who think it is a good idea and the company they pitch the idea for. Perhaps the fact that there's no single such player today could be a hint that companies all over the world won't jump with joy when you approach them with this...
Personally, I would only be interested in this sub project if someone would build and sell me this player in a nice package, I won't buy anything that I need to put together myself since I am beyond worthless at such activities and I believe an mp3 player should be small and nice.
casainho:
--- Quote from: Bagder on December 10, 2007, 06:03:11 AM ---
If this is realistic or not is up to the ones who think it is a good idea and the company they pitch the idea for. Perhaps the fact that there's no single such player today could be a hint that companies all over the world won't jump with joy when you approach them with this...
Personally, I would only be interested in this sub project if someone would build and sell me this player in a nice package, I won't buy anything that I need to put together myself since I am beyond worthless at such activities and I believe an mp3 player should be small and nice.
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Bagder, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
As you, I think a mp3 player should be small and nice. Also I think that It should not have multimedia functions, for various reasons.
But, for someone build and sell to you and others a player in a nice package, as you desire, and which is open hardware, I assume, we need to develop that hardware, invest our time and some money. We can see that big enterprises not desire to build an open hardware player. I think that there is money to win at selling this hardware! If we develop, make the project, some other company would just need to invest money, assembly It and sell It to recover invested money and get some profit. Am I dreaming? :)
GodEater:
--- Quote from: casainho on December 10, 2007, 06:35:02 AM ---Am I dreaming? :)
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The only way to find out is to stop talking about it and do it!
casainho:
--- Quote from: GodEater on December 10, 2007, 06:37:09 AM ---
--- Quote from: casainho on December 10, 2007, 06:35:02 AM ---Am I dreaming? :)
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The only way to find out is to stop talking about it and do it!
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Do you know that I am doing that? and that implies looking for support here at RB. I need to feeling that I am not alone, because I can't do It alone, I can't port RB, nor design PCBS, nor I have experience for chose the microcontroler, nor DAC, nor USB chip, etc... But I can do some wiring, look at datasheets, buy a dev board and make some hacks in RB code.
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