I just got an Innioasis Y1, and I installed Rockbox. I then uploaded just over 12,000 mp3s onto it. However the screen says 4,071. Is Rockbox actually going to play the 12,000 files, or is it only seeing the 4,000 files?
I've been trying all day to install Rockbox on my iPod Classic 5th gen. After finally being able to restore the iPods using Windows, now it seems that some Rockbox servers are down. Does any of you have the same issue? I also can't seem to download Rockbox for Windows from the releases page. Same results when using 5G network...
Hey dear People,
Im developer of NaviBeat app for apple ecosystem (for Apple TV, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Now live on the App Store across all five platforms at $5.99*, one purchase covers every device, forever*. Frontend for NaviDrome) to host your own music. And im finishing the implementation of the sync from Navidrome server to Rockbox in "iTunes" style (drag and drop from your music library directly to player with metadata, Album Art, playlists...)
The feature will be soon availablein the NaviBeat App as a separate in app purchase (4.99$), but if you want you can test it for free currently in TestFlight (https://testflight.apple.com/join/N7Fa1NtG) its fuly working, and you dont have to pay anything.
More about the features: https://navibeat.app/rockbox
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I have extremely homophobic parents, and always feel like I gotta hide my mp3 player when booting. Love the gay peoples, just want to change the splash for the booting screen. Any help is much appreciated
Hello guys I'm new to rockbox, and got my hands on iOS nano 5th gen, i liked the OS so much that i was searching for a replacement of the stock OS of ipod 5th classic.
So is there any rockbox theme that could replace my stock OS of my 5 th gen classic?? And i searched the whole themes pages of rockbox but couldn't find one.
Hi, I recently purchased an H2 hifi walker and installed rockbox onto it, I used a CD drive to rip some CDs and place them on the player. I also have a pair of Hidiz MP145 IEMS that I use for music listening. All the music ripped is in FLAC, and ripped without problems. It sounds fine when listening directly to the files on my PC with my IEMS, completely clear etc, but when I move it over to my H2, it gains a distinct crackle and almost distortion-like effect that doesnt appear in the raw files on my pc while listening with the same pair of IEMS. Any ideas????
So I'm working my way through making a theme for myself and I've got the WPS screen mostly done. Issue is I keep getting this error and it's causing nothing to work, not even text placement. I'm using the UI simulator for the hiby r3 pro ii. I'm just not sure whats going on. It seems to be something wrong with my assets, but im not sure why since a lot of these i had pulled from other themes, and those work just fine. any help on this would be much appreciated. thanks
With all of these brilliant, modern, really clean themes that are coming out almost daily, why not install one that's clunky and (very possibly) nostalgic?
I've been working on this DSi theme for a little while now, and it's at a point where I feel comfortable releasing a version of it. There are a few little stutters due to its nature, but if you ignore them then it runs perfectly.
The WPS is based on the DSi Sound's music player, and when the hold switch is activated an alternate version of this UI is displayed. And yes, the main menu does scroll like the original carousel.
Check it out at the Rockbox Themes site, or find the name 'RockDSi' when picking themes in the installer.
Hi y’all I just got my H2 and I’m having trouble understanding how to get my playlists into the designated playlists folder. I just dragged my music from desktop because I use Winamp, everything is tagged appropriately but my playlists folders only show up in the Files, how do I fix? Is this a case of it’s necessary for me to get a new music library host?
hi! i installed rockbox on my ipod classic 5th generation today. the main reason i downloaded it was because my main laptop is a chromebook and it would be easier to download music, as you can’t get itunes on a chromebook.
ive faced a few issues just playing around with it. of course, no playlists transferred, though the music did. i knew this would happen, but im struggling to make a playlist at all. i longclick, press create new playlist, and it doesn’t let me use any button to get past the naming stage of the ipod. if i press menu it cancels, if i press the forward or back button it does just that (moves the cursor or goes to another letter) and the play/pause button does nothing at all. i do not have a theme installed yet as i wanted to set this up before i did so, so it can’t be an issue of theme. i did somehow make one playlist, added my songs, and when renaming it it cancelled and deleted it.
when i did have that playlist, though, all the songs were saved as random 4 letters. is this something i can fix? it wld be nice to scroll thru my playlist and pick a song.
there are some other issues im facing that im not remembering right now, but having someone who knows a lot about rockbox would be great to talk to if anyone’s dms are open!
Hi everyone,
I recently upgraded my iPod 5.5G (originally 80GB) using an iFlash Quad, installing two microSD cards (a 512GB Samsung and a 32GB SanDisk).
Before diving in: I am on macOS only. (Unfortunately, iTunes via Parallels doesn't recognize the iPod, so Windows-based tools aren't an option for me).
When I restore the iPod natively on my Mac, everything works perfectly, and Finder shows the full 544GB capacity. Following the official guide, I managed to install Rockbox by flashing the original MBR and then formatting the iPod's storage to FAT32 using Disk Utility on macOS.
However, because of the original 80GB MBR profile, Rockbox currently only recognizes 77GB of space. I can see that over 400GB of the storage is left unallocated, but I can't seem to expand or merge it into the active Rockbox partition on macOS.
Is there a way to force Rockbox to utilize the full storage capacity without having to configure the iPod on a Windows machine?
Any help or terminal-based workarounds for macOS would be greatly appreciated!
the 7th Gen shows art viewing albums. Note I am not looking for cover flow I just wanna see art when scrolling through an artists albums
Hey everyone,
Sorry if this has been asked before but is there a way to sort artists (and album artists) and albums but remove the leading "The" if there is one?
So The Avalanches for example are listed with the As rather than the Ts?
LookAtMe - a clean Rockbox WPS theme for iPod Classic (Gen 5–7)
Minimalist Now Playing screen with full-screen album art, scrolling track info, and a thin progress bar - nothing else in the way.
Features:
Album art that stays. The cover remains visible both on the WPS screen and when you navigate into the menu. No blank screens, no interruptions, no drama.
Pause transparency. Pause the track and the UI quietly steps aside, leaving just the album art. Resume and it all comes back. Simple as that.
Auto-hiding info bar. Track title and artist disappear after 5 seconds, letting the album art breathe. Tap the wheel to bring them back whenever you need them.
Lock screen. Always shows the current track name. Because staring at a blank screen and wondering what's playing is not a personality trait.
Now Playing in menu. The "Now Playing" menu entry shows current track info inline.
Custom progress bar color. Settings → Theme Settings → Colors → Foreground Color. Match your mood, your case, or whatever you're feeling today. Note: background color is baked as static black across multiple layers - changing it will reveal a small colored strip artifact. Just leave it alone, trust me.
CJK support. Japanese, Korean, Chinese - all scripts render correctly.
No cover art? No problem. A clean asterisk placeholder keeps things looking intentional rather than broken. And on the USB screen, the asterisk spins - because even data transfer deserves a little personality.
P.S: A lot of work went into making this feel as simple as it looks - getting a theme this minimal to actually work reliably on real hardware takes more effort than I'd think. Hope you enjoy it.
One known bug: the colored strip artifact when changing the background color - that's on my list. The long-term goal is to make the theme fully compatible with Dynamic Colors in RockPod, so that's something to look forward to.
A custom quickscreen is also on the table, though honestly the current one is clean, minimal, and does exactly what it should - so maybe it stays as is.
I've also been thinking about setting up a Ko-fi page someday — to share future projects and ideas, and if you happen to really enjoy what I make, well, you'd have a way to support me there. But that's a plan for later.
For now, a comment costs nothing - and that's more than enough. Just Free.99
P.S.S: I made this whole presentation just for fun - don't take it too seriously 😄
Feedback is welcome - drop a comment or DM me at u/fnstll_
My album cover doesnt show up when i use mp3tag and i wanted to know if theres something im doing wrong or if theres another way to get it.
Hi there! I recently purchased an Innioasis Y1 with the intention of replacing my phone for music, having previously used a classic iPod.
I installed rockbox and was able to add themes (i added bunny pod https://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=3985&target=hifietma9, wii theme https://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=3929 , and fresh os https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=53574.0 ).
The fonts and colors on the player change, but none of the other theme elements apply for some reason. i merged each .rockbox file into the hidden .rockbox file on my innioasis, but am unsure if i may be missing an element?
this is what the music player looks like , and the main screen just looks like the default rockbox option with a different font and color.
any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated if anyone knows what may be going on
When you’re in the WPS and hold the play/pause button for more than one second, it shouldn’t emit a double click noise and bring me back to the main menu screen, right? Eventually if I keep holding it, it will prompt a shutdown. It does the same for the menu button, in which the double click sound is emitted and the shuffle / repeat screen is shown.
I’m pretty sure that it was allowing me to shutdown from within the WPS screen previously, and no double-click situation occurred. It feels like a shortcut is being toggled, maybe a secondary click is being registered.
For troubleshooting I did boot into the iPod OS, and the double click doesn’t occur, but I think that OS registers clicks differently, so it didn’t tell me much.
I reset all settings for rockbox, same thing. Then reseated the clickwheel itself, same thing.
Fortunately I’ve got a whole new enclosure setup on its way, including the clickwheel and center button, so I’m praying that’ll resolve the issue.
Massive thanks for any assists, cheers.
The album art wouldn’t load for about half my stuff, so after a little googling I decided to just add the cover photo from each album to its folder. It still didn’t work though, and when I try to open the file from the image file browser it gives me an error saying “not enough plugin memory” is there anyway to add album art to the broken songs, or is this a hardware limit for my H2?
I followed all the steps from the rockbox website and rockbox does not bot up. What am I doing wrong? I installed the correct version and everything
