Nostalgia! I forgot all about this. I had an iPod that I flashed with podzilla back in the day. It worked really well. I remember that you could enter the shell. Ended up selling it on eBay.
I worked on this project a bit back in the day as a teen. Bricked my first iPod trying to get a DIY uClinux kernel to boot on it within hours of getting it for Christmas. Took bricking 8 more warranty replacements before I finally got Linux to boot.
Weeks later thanks to a lot of community help, finally found the memory address for audio out and got music playback that was not beholden to any DRM.
This work was all referenced by the RockBox team that made a tiny embedded kernel and OS far more suited to the tasks.
Now all devices that can run rockbox are EOL and other community members are working on an open hardware player to run Rockbox.
Couple decades in, but we are finally close to having the first fully featured fully open hardware music player, which all started back with reverse engineering iPods to run Linux kernels.
As someone that does not carry a cell phone, I am absolutely excited about this as it would be a daily driver for me.
For reference links to authoritative/canonical sources, Wikipedia usually doesn't disappoint, and they had the same link you found. If I don't find a good link there, I probably would check Distrowatch (which doesn't have it) or AlternativeTo (which does have it).
If only apple could work on a modern ipod replacement. I used to have an ipod shuffle (this tiny thing with a clip), and I was using it every day for sports.
How do people listen to music when doing sports? Iphones suck in this regard (you cannot run with it in your pocket or hands; and this band on your arm is just uncomfortable).
Buy a shuffle from ebay! I've been re-purchasing ipods from ebay/etsy and they're awesome. People on etsy will even mod them for you with modern batteries and giant sd cards.
> "How do people listen to music when doing sports?"
My current "cellphone" is an 8.7" tablet. It's always in a water-proof case with straps. When I go running, I throw it on my back and have the straps just tight enough that the tablet doesn't bounce around.
I should revisit modding my iPods. Between my roommate and I we have 3-4 Classics of a couple different gens. A couple need new batteries, but at least one has a failed hard drive.
I'm still rocking an iPod(albeit without Rockbox/podzilla) for Podcasts and music. Of all the devices addictive smartphones have replaced, I can't shake this one.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 35.3 ms ] threadWayland is more flexible, as it's just a protocol, so it could work.
Weeks later thanks to a lot of community help, finally found the memory address for audio out and got music playback that was not beholden to any DRM.
This work was all referenced by the RockBox team that made a tiny embedded kernel and OS far more suited to the tasks.
Now all devices that can run rockbox are EOL and other community members are working on an open hardware player to run Rockbox.
https://github.com/amachronic/echoplayer
Couple decades in, but we are finally close to having the first fully featured fully open hardware music player, which all started back with reverse engineering iPods to run Linux kernels.
As someone that does not carry a cell phone, I am absolutely excited about this as it would be a daily driver for me.
I think it's here?
https://sourceforge.net/p/ipodlinux/code/HEAD/tree/
How do people listen to music when doing sports? Iphones suck in this regard (you cannot run with it in your pocket or hands; and this band on your arm is just uncomfortable).
My current "cellphone" is an 8.7" tablet. It's always in a water-proof case with straps. When I go running, I throw it on my back and have the straps just tight enough that the tablet doesn't bounce around.
https://shanedowling.com/consuming-content-like-its-the-90s....