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Portable Music Player with Open Source Firmware and CAD Files (Now in production) (www.crowdsupply.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tangara also has basic Bluetooth SBC audio support, with more modern codecs possible via future firmware updates.

Well SBC is basically useless so I hope the development is not too far away in the future. I see it's Bluetooth v4.2 but as far as I know the best codec available compresses down to 1 Mbps but v4.2 supports up to 3Mbps and v5 up to 6 Mbps so still room for improvements but that's up to headphone manufacturers to support these future codec.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ideally there would be zero bluetooth support and this would be catered to the HIFI crowd, with only 3.5mm jack supported.

At least until we get a HIFI successor to bluetooth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would you want to not have Bluetooth Audio when it is extremely cheap to add and basically comes bundled with most WiFi chips nowadays? It just allows the user to use the device in more situations eg. Coming home from a commute and then continue with your music on your home Bluetooth kitchen speaker or change to your car speakers. I don't know, but I don't really see the appeal for the device yet, however I do appreciate the general philosophy of the design and open sourcing everything. I'd want a truely offline music podcast device that had both 3.5mm Audio and exelent Bluetooth and WiFi capabilities because using the phone can be annoying sometines.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

$250 ‽!

no, thanks

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Glad to see its on crowd supply

[–] MITM0 3 points 1 week ago

Can we get an Open-Hardware CD-ROM/Optical-disk reader for our PCs ?

[–] Hiro8811 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've waited so long for one but it's too underpowered for the price.

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[–] Sam_Bass 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How large a library can it handle? I've had two others similar but they parsed files so slowly as to be ultimately useless

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Could it run Rockbox ? My iPods and sansa run with rockbox, it's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Link saved. Definitely gonna see how this progresses so I might get one in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lots of people complaining about the software. Why did they even bother writing software? Does it run rockbox?

[–] themachine 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because they wanted to. It's a passion project meant for certainly not everyone and made by a very small team of people.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but if they have fewer people then why reinvent the wheel? The open hardware is new and great, but the open software already exists.

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