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The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod
(gizmodo.com)
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this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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I got the itch to have a separate music player from my phone. Became very interested in the Innioasis Y1. It looks like a late model iPod nano (before they went touchscreen; it has the wheel). Bought it and then put the RockBox firmware on it (no simple task if you use Linux, let me tell you). I love it. It's made me more intentional with my music. Plus I'm acquiring CDs and burning them to my laptop to transfer over to the Y1.
Is that another overpowered smartphone SoC running a wasteful android with a thin UI and dumbed-down music player? If so, let me just repurpose an old smartphone and save the planet from some e-waste. If not, kudos.
Hmm okay cool, I have been pretty on the fence about just buying a Gen1 Nano with the upgraded storage and roxbox preinstalled, but this looks solid too. Everything work on it with RB?
From what I can tell. I did get much better battery results from doing RockBox after a factory reset. (Initially switched it over after having loaded my music onto the device; battery was no good and there were some weird quirks with the file system so I decided to fully reset the device, installed RB, then loaded my music. Noticeable difference!)