From: <for_spam_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 00:37:55 +0200 (MEST)

hello,
i think the site with the most advanced "open hardware" mp3-player "yampp"
at
http://www.myplace.nu/mp3/index2.htm will give some useful information or
inspiration.
does anybody know a better one?

regards
roland

ps:
mhhh - porting rockbox on a yamp? not an easy task I think......


> This has come up once or twice in the past, IIRC, but we determined that
> it
> would be cost-prohibitive to make it for such a select group of people.
> (And unless someone wants to start a business selling a new mp3 player,
> it's
> never going to be a big audience.)
>
> But I, too, am curious about this... What *would* we put as design
> features/requirements for a hardware player? We have an open-source
> software project, what would we do for an open-source hardware project?
>
> Perhaps just publishing specs would be enough to garner someone's interest
> in the outside world, then maybe we'd get a hardware player that's near
> our
> specs at some point. Who knows?
>
> So I'll ask the first question to our technical harware folks - what
> MAS/ADC
> chip(s) would you select for this imaginary player? It seems the MAS chip
> is our biggest stumbling block right now for some of the functions we want
> -
> what would you rather use?
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se]On
> Behalf Of Tim Elliott
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 10:31 PM
> To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: RE: Archos build quality......
>
>
>
> It would be great if the Rockbox developers could design a new player
> with a more powerful processor, more RAM and an easily upgradeable hard
> drive. I would hope it would still have a digital in/out and free
> copying to and from the unit without special software.
>
> It would be interesting to hear exactly what the Rockbox team would put
> in a new player/recorder if they could design it from the ground-up.
>
> Tim (long time reader, first time poster)
>

-- 
+++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more  http://www.gmx.net +++
Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!

Received on 2003-05-20