Group: Hardware/Computers/PDAs/Music players

Music players

Homebrew

• build your own one from an Arduino MP3 shield (with vorbis support) and an Arduino

Rockbox players

• here's a comparison of all the Rockbox compatible players
• You can find the status of the ports here
• Someone needs to review the freedom status of the devices. Some device use nonfree bootloaders for instance. Somtimes the nonfree bootloader can be replaced with free software like u-boot or barebox.

How to build for GNU/Linux

Rockbox has already been reviewed by the free software directory some time ago.

You can configure the build to build it for GNU/Linux with the following commands:

$ guix shell -F -C alsa-lib bash coreutils gawk gcc-toolchain grep libxrandr libxrender make perl sdl sed zip
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../tools/configure

You then need to select '200' for '200) SDL'

You can then select the resolution and orientation (portrait/landscape) you want.

Then select Normal build with 'N' for '(N)ormal'

And then you can finally launch the build with:

$ make

The GUI works fine but audio still needs to be validated: we probably need to intialize the database somehow before being able to play some audio and that takes a very long time.

Archos's players

• Look at openaos
• No 100% free distribution of GNU/Linux or Android is ported to that hardware