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New Ports / Re: Fiio M3k
« Last post by Julian67 on Today at 12:05:16 AM »I there any possibility that Rockbox core could ever support 24/32-bit audio?
Possibility? Of course. But it's not terribly likely at the moment; only a handful of the players have hardware that supports it, and need to implement in a way that doesn't bloat things for 16-bit-only players, and there's not exactly a lot of folks contributing code. Or contributing much of anything, really.
I'm just asking because I have no idea: Would a change from 16-bit to 24 or 32-bit be a huge upheaval? Would it be impossible to do without dropping support for 16-bit players? Technical query, not a feature request!
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New Ports / Re: Fiio M3k
« Last post by speachy on June 05, 2023, 09:14:39 PM »I there any possibility that Rockbox core could ever support 24/32-bit audio?
Possibility? Of course. But it's not terribly likely at the moment; only a handful of the players have hardware that supports it, and need to implement in a way that doesn't bloat things for 16-bit-only players, and there's not exactly a lot of folks contributing code. Or contributing much of anything, really.
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New Ports / Re: Fiio M3k
« Last post by Julian67 on June 05, 2023, 08:29:37 PM »Rockbox resamples everything to 44100Hz. On some players you can toggle this to 48000Hz. So a comparison between Rockbox and original firmware might not be so useful if the audio file is 192000 Hz.
Actually, Rockbox will only resample if the hardware cannot handle the "native" sample rate for a given file. I know this because I'm the one who implemented it.
So on hardware that can go up to 192KHz, we can play back 192KHz files, albeit at 16-bit only since we don't have support for 24/32-bit audio in the core.
(That said, the choice of playback freq and any resampling is up to the invididual codecs, so it's certainly possible some or many of them have their own rules/heuristics)
I there any possibility that Rockbox core could ever support 24/32-bit audio?
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Unsupported Builds / Re: SANSA ClipZip Clip+ Fuze+ FuzeV2 Multiboot Bootloader and Firmware
« Last post by 7o9 on June 05, 2023, 03:00:55 PM »Did you miss installing the bootloader?
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Why are they all so horrible?
« Last post by speachy on June 04, 2023, 05:50:34 PM »But I share your puzzlement on the first point, it's weird that nobody in the cheap-shovelware player market has made even a bit of effort to produce something with at least a not-awful UI design.
That's actually very easy to explain -- the cheap shovelware players are so limited in their capabilities (ie almost no RAM) that it is pretty much impossible to implement a not-awful UI.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Are there any players I can buy for using Rockbox?
« Last post by philden on June 04, 2023, 05:37:03 PM »Many iPod models support Rockbox. You can find them on-line already refurbished with new batteries and flash memory, or you can buy an original to upgrade yourself.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Why are they all so horrible?
« Last post by Frankenpod on June 04, 2023, 04:04:20 PM »I've tried several low-end mp3 players. They're all just so bad. The physical controls, the menu options / state changes... Do they not test this stuff before putting out a product? It seems like such an opportunity for someone to just do it right and own the space.
Is there a market for open source mp3 player hardware? Maybe a high-level software development kit for them so the software can be customized for the intended use case (for me 99% long-form podcast listening)?
Or have phone apps displaced any interest for these devices?
On the second point there I think there are several existing threads debating just that topic, so no point starting another one. But I share your puzzlement on the first point, it's weird that nobody in the cheap-shovelware player market has made even a bit of effort to produce something with at least a not-awful UI design. As you say, if someone made something that just reached the level of 'not terrible' it could wipe the floor with the existing ones. I guess mobile phones mean the dedicated-player market is now so small it isn't even worth that modicum of effort.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Why are they all so horrible?
« Last post by depperl on June 04, 2023, 12:26:51 PM »I would certainly be interested in an open source mp3 player. But I am only a single person. 
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Are there any players I can buy for using Rockbox?
« Last post by depperl on June 04, 2023, 12:24:59 PM »Depending on the podcasts, maybe an iPod na-no (new battery) or maybe just any iPod you can find for a cheaper price?
Do those support Rockbox? :-o
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Other - Installation/Removal / Change timeout in hosted port (Surfans F20)
« Last post by Polarigel on June 04, 2023, 11:38:46 AM »The hosted Rockbox installation on my Surfans F20 works fine. How can I change the timeout (which is 10 s now) for choosing between Rockbox and the original firmware?