#gotta try memory allocation fix

[awfulbrainrot]

added a lil tram and shopping area to mayhaven :)

[carltonlassie]

In case ppl were curious about the open hardware, open software gay ipod. As you can see, next to other mp3 players.... It's massive. But the good thing is that it should be easy to repair, customize and replace parts all you want. Also, unlike the other players (which are old tech by now), it has Bluetooth which is great. But the setup took the longest time, because I was having issues with the microsd card I was using. It would crash in the middle of a song and get stuck in a boot loop until I took out the SD card. I had to set up a dev environment to get the debugger running to find out that I was having the same memory allocation issue as the others. So I followed the suggested fix of removing all the album art on all the files, and it seemed to work for a second before it crashed again. In my desperation, I reformatted the card to FAT32 so I can put it back into my sansa, but somehow??? it fixed the malloc issues?? (before it was exFAT) So I'm just keeping my eyes on it and trying to actually listen to songs, but now i'm noticing some user experience quirks.

ex) on rockboxed sansa if I select a file from the file browser, it plays the rest of the songs in the folder and even moves onto the next folder if I reach the end, but Tangara only loads up that single song into memory. You can go through the 'albums' menu and select to load the entire album but still, it only plays that the album and doesn't play any more than that. sometimes I just like going through my own file structure rather than the indexed database, so I wish there was a better experience there.

The scroll wheel is a bit finicky imo, even after I've adjusted the sensitivity it takes me SO many tries to get the dial to move up just one entry. Sometimes the small controlled movement I'm making to go up just one line registers as a long press, which makes the UI jump up a whole page. I think there are some feature requests that are asking for a "hybrid" approach of it acting like a button and a scroll wheel so we'll see where that goes!

Under the cut for the other mp3 players I have

Sansa fuze has a bad screen, I think I messed up the ribbon cable when I opened it up to clean. Just gotta go back in there and fix it again 😭. Also the mechanical wheel (which is a rubber coated plastic) is STICKY because the rubber disintegrated, so I really do have to open it up to disassemble everything to clean it out. But otherwise it sounds great, takes an SD card, compact and customizable enough.

The Ipod mini has a bad battery that I replaced but the rockbox + sleep state messed up the new battery and it won't hold a charge anymore so, I put in the original battery and reverted it back to the original software which SUCKS bc itunes (I think u can foobar2000 it actually, but haven't tried yet). I don't think rockbox and ipod mix very well in terms of sleep state which is so unfortunate because I love the feel of the hardware but hate the software.

The sansa clip+ is the first one I had and still is thee best, it just has the smallest battery of all of them :( rockbox works great and it has never let me down!

[samevans-wmu]

Sam: We gotta put that to the test! Next pizza I want to order your go-to toppings. Don't try to change it up to something you think I'll like. I want the Frannie special. I stayed with her because I thought if we were together long enough she'd eventually mellow out. Guess it's kinda like that I-can-fix-them trope or whatever you see in movies and shows. It's stupid to think about now but hey. I was 14. Sam: basically you might get a crash when you try to open a menu if the menu hasn't been loaded properly in memory yet. so you can get a null pointer and you get a memory address that isn't allocated yet. it's annoying. A lot of time it's asynchronous problems. you might have a callback that hasn't fired yet when you're trying to load the memory with the menu in it. Sam: all that makes my brain hurt sometimes but I'm getting it. slowly. Sam: Mhmmm. Get you down on your knees and see if can convince me you're capable of being a good girl. Sam: Good because I can't see myself stopping. At all. I'll just go on and on about whatever's on my mind in that given moment Sam: I've got a few! I told you about my body roll and showed it to you but you haven't seen me on an actual dance floor to properly demonstrate it. It's something I've perfected some years back Sam: I'm more than comfortable with telling. I've told a few people. Rach kinda picked up something was going on when I didn't confirm if I had something happening with you or Mercedes

Frannie: My taste has always been impeccable, thank you. 😘 It's just Quinn who picks some...definitely interesting people. I'm really, really sorry that someone treated you like that, Sammy. Can I ask why you stayed with someone who treated you like that? You deserved and do deserve so, so much better than someone who couldn't recognise how amazing you are. Frannie: Tell me about the code. You may have to speak in very simple terms because I'm in no means an expert at ALL about coding, but I'm interested to hear! Frannie: I miss being near you, too. It seems so quiet just being in an empty room. Frannie: If I'm so naughty, does that mean I'm going to have to be punished so I can be a good girl again? 😇 Frannie: How about a mix of BOTH the plans? Clothed and unclothed? Frannie: You can always ramble or talk as much as you like with me. I love it. Frannie: What's your go-to dance move?! 😎 Frannie: By the way, are you telling anyone about us? I wasn't one hundred percent sure on what you thought and I didn't want to say anything if you weren't comfortable with it.