Excellent morning news.
ROMs to turn portable-mp3-players libre.
Great project, congrats to devs on the 4.0 milestone!
[Currently listening with Rockbox on 512GB iPod]
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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Just found this post that outlines the initial efforts/hacks, to port Rockbox to the iPod.
Wow, they just keep going!
What are the optimisations made to doom?
Oh, they’re still active? This brings out the nostalgia…
And their website still looks the same as back in 2010 or so.
Today is still 4/1, so I'm going to wait until at least tomorrow before I form an opinion on this.
As will I, but those look like legit release notes and not a joke. Nothing jumps out as too good to be true or just bizarre.
The only thing I'm really questioning is the removal of the Archos devices. I'm sure if this is legit then there are reasons for it, but those devices essentially started the entire Rockbox project.
"Greatly improved support for ATA SSDs (including the popular iFlash ATA-SD adapters) "
Oh hell ya!
A great project to reuse older devices. Too bad I can't find and supported devices still in production