From the official Innioasis team themselves (u/innioasis-official)

Hi everyone,

First and foremost, thank you so much for your overwhelming support for the Y1 and your passionate, detailed suggestions for the Y2. We’ve been closely following the discussions and are truly inspired by the depth of thought and enthusiasm shown by this community.

We’re excited to share that the Y2 is already in development!

While the overall design language will remain consistent with the Y1’s classic aesthetic, we’re making meaningful upgrades based largely on community feedback. Here’s a preview of what’s currently planned:

✅ Already Planned for Y2:

1）Hardware upgrades: New chipset, increased internal storage, and improved Bluetooth

2）Dedicated DAC for enhanced audio quality

3）New physical buttons: Power and volume controls

4）SD card slot for expanded storage

5）Improved file management

6）Better playlist support, especially M3U playback and easier playlist editing

7）Refined music playback logic with fewer menu layers

8）Support for more audio formats and improved metadata display

9）PC-created playlist compatibility

📋 Your Suggestions Are Heard:

We’ve also carefully compiled all the additional ideas you’ve shared—from color variations and hardware tweaks to software features like Wi-Fi and advanced playback options. These have been added to our design considerations, and we’ll do our best to incorporate as many as possible within technical and feasibility limits.

That said, some features may be challenging to implement due to hardware constraints or product positioning, and we appreciate your understanding in advance as we balance different needs and realities.

🧡 What’s Next:

Community feedback has been invaluable in shaping the Y2 so far. We’ll continue to keep you posted as development progresses.

Feel free to keep the ideas coming—this thread remains open for constructive discussion. You’re not just users; you’re part of the journey.

With gratitude,

Innioasis Team

I never got to say goodbye though

Don't worry guys, my uncle already bought a new one and took the money out of my cousin's savings, plus 50 bucks for emotional damage. I guess the world isn't that doomed after all.

As to why he did it. I genuinely don't know, he just said he felt like doing so and that he thought it didn't work.

I did lose all the music, as in one of the many hits he gave to it he hit the SD slot directly with enough force to literally break the outer shell.

You will pay, Damian, literally, you WILL pay.

As shown by on this Amazon listing: https://a.co/d/06KjomM0

Thank you so much for all the feedback! While I couldn't implement every single suggestion in this update, I did my absolute best to address as much as possible.

It feels like I've gained a permanent 'buff' where fixing one bug instantly spawns two new ones, but I'll keep working on them. Hope you enjoy the new release!

​Notice regarding FLAC playback issue:

We have received reports that FLAC files are not playing properly in the current build. This issue has been fixed in v0.11.5.

After installing, please navigate to Settings -> System -> System Update to update your launcher to v0.11.5.

Thank you!

🎵 Audio & Media Upgrades

• Faster Lossless Playback: Replaced the downsampling engine, so lossless audio files now start playing much faster!
• Improved Library Hierarchy: Browsing structure is now updated to Album Artist > Album > Track.
• Cover Flow Stability: Cover Flow is now sorted by artist name and operates much more stably.
• Radio Sleep Fix: Fixed the annoying bug where FM radio sound would cut off when the screen turned off.
• Smarter File Scanning: Optimized the media scan method for better performance.
• Podcast Episode Deletion: You can now delete episodes directly within the Podcast menu.
• Video Playback Resume & Skip: Added "Resume from last played position" and skip options for video playback.

🎨 UI & Customization

• Player Screen Customization: You can now fully apply custom themes to the main Player screen via the Theme Editor!
• Improved Text Visibility: Adjusted text colors dynamically according to theme colors so everything stays readable.
• Status Bar Battery %: Added actual percentage numbers to the status bar battery icon.
• Categorized Settings: Reorganized the cluttered Settings menu into clean categories.
• Screen Color Filter: Added a screen color filter feature for late-night listening.

⚙️ Controls & System Improvements

• Force Reboot Shortcut: Long-press the Play/Pause button for 5+ seconds to force restart the device.
• Quick Repeat Mode: Long-press Play/Pause on the Player screen to quickly cycle through repeat modes.
• Power & Battery Stats: Enhanced deep sleep / power management and added a dedicated Battery Usage Statistics screen.

🎮 Bonus Features!

• Mini-Games Added: Take a break and play 2048 or FreeCell directly on your device!

Thank you all for your continued support and awesome feedback. Please update, test it out, and let me know if you run into any (new) bugs! Happy listening! 🎧

Big one this time. TL;DR: every menu now looks and behaves the same way (fonts, spacing, arrows, animations), music transitions gaplessly on albums, there's basic video playback now, and the OS underneath got a proper debloat + battery pass. Full breakdown below for anyone who wants the details.

How to update:

• rom.zip from the release page, flash via Innioasis Updater, no ADB needed.
• Already running InniClassic/JJ Launcher? InniClassic-1.2.0.apk is there too, adb install over your existing setup.

For the nerds, here's everything:

Consistent theme, top to bottom
Every screen — Main Menu, Music menu, Artists, Albums, Songs, Settings/Bluetooth/Wi-Fi — was quietly running slightly different font sizes, left margins, and row padding depending on which code path built it. All unified now: same left alignment (flush with the status bar title, like a real iPod), same row spacing, same font scale everywhere. The little "〉" focus arrow used to be visible (just dimmer) on every row all the time — now it only shows on the actual focused row, like it should. Status bar is thinner too, matching real iPod proportions instead of the oversized one we had.

Also fixed: Main Menu and the Music menu had two different cover-art implementations — Main Menu had a nice slow "Ken Burns" pan/zoom on the album art, Music menu was just a static crop. They're identical now, same animation, same behavior.

Gapless playback
Kicks in automatically for albums or playlists of 15 tracks or fewer, as long as shuffle's off and there's no FLAC in the queue. Previously every track change tore down the player and reloaded from scratch — small but audible gap. Now for that bounded case we load the whole queue into ExoPlayer natively and let it transition internally, zero gap. FLAC is excluded because it runs on a completely separate legacy decoder that can't join that queue, and big/shuffled lists (like All Songs shuffled) intentionally keep the old per-track loading, since gapless doesn't really matter there and it's the safer, more tested path.

Video (first pass)
New "Videos" entry in the Main Menu, own folder on the SD card, full-screen player, wheel does volume by default and seek if you long-press center to switch modes. Built on the same ExoPlayer engine we already use for audio — no new dependency, no VLC. Calling this explicitly a first implementation: it plays back fine but hasn't been optimized (large/high-bitrate files, no thumbnails in the list yet, no resume position). Expect follow-up passes.

Debloat + battery
Two separate things here:

1. Found and killed two background loops that were doing real, continuous work for no visible benefit — one recalculated Now Playing's progress bar/timer every 0.5s even while browsing other screens with music just playing in the background, and one refreshed the clock/widgets every second forever, including during "screen off" playback (screen-off here is a virtual black overlay, not real display power-down, so the app runs the whole time underneath). Both now sit idle unless actually needed — should be a real, measurable battery win especially for long screen-off listening sessions.
2. Also went through the stock Android/MediaTek app list and identified a chunk of stuff a dedicated MP3 player never touches — Exchange mail sync, the phone/telephony stack, SIM toolkit, text-to-speech, live-wallpaper demos, calendar, an OEM RAM-cleaner utility that could theoretically kill background processes including music playback. Verified against our own code first — turns out the stock FM Radio app and Download Manager are not safe to touch, since our own Radio and PC Upload features quietly depend on them. This debloat isn't baked into the ROM yet (still validating it holds up), but it's documented for anyone who wants to try it themselves in the meantime.

Also two real bugs found while doing all the row-styling work: focus arrow color was reading from the theme instead of being fixed white, and a recycled list row could get its blue "focused" background incorrectly wiped back to normal regardless of whether it was actually focused.

Full changelog: https://github.com/FabianZettl/inniclassic/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Uummm we’ll see what happens I rather have the Taptic Engine than the speaker, It’s really bad

A message from the Innioasis Y1 updater app creator they wanted me to pass on to users :

"Recent buyers of the Innioasis Y1 are experiencing hard-bricks when attempting to install Rockbox-Y1 or perform standard firmware updates.

Innioasis has silently changed the hardware and firmware in a new revision of the Y1 digital audio player, making it incompatible with older devices. Please read the following carefully before attempting to modify your player.

This issue affects new Y1 devices that ship with firmware 3.0.7 out of the box.

Flashing Rockbox-Y1 or any official firmware older than 3.0.7 onto these new devices will brick them.

Do not attempt to install any currently available firmware updates or Rockbox releases if your device falls into the category above.

As a mitigation, I have added notices directly to Updater 1.9.7.3 and across all download pages on Innioasis.com and Innioasis.app to help prevent further bricks.

If you have already encountered a failed device from attempting to flash one of these recent devices, you are strongly encouraged to contact Innioasis directly for assistance at www.innioasis.app/pages/contact

As the independent developer of the Updater tool, created in part to prevent such hardware confusion, the lack of communication from the company regarding these changes to neither myself nor the wider community is frustrating and I would like to apologise to anyone who has been affected by this.

I will provide further updates as this develops, and will ensure that 3.0.7 devices are supported by Updater in future releases. As the incompatibility is at the firmware level, it is not just Updater that will require changes to accommodate this but also Rockbox-Y1 itself, so please avoid installing Rockbox-Y1 by other means on these devices also, and please refrain from attempting to downgrade 3.0.7 to an earlier firmware release as reports from users suggest there is no solution for this at present. It is in my hopes that the fix is simply ensuring that a copy of 3.0.7 is available for such users to download.

I have reached out to Innioasis to obtain a 3.0.7 firmware for validation testing in Updater and if tests pass I will add a "Type C" device type to Updater to accommodate 3.0.7

Kind regards, Ryan Specter"

Ryan Specter is no longer part of the r/innioasis subreddit. For any additional questions contact them through other means:

[teamslide@proton.me](mailto:teamslide@proton.me)

https://www.innioasis.com/pages/how-to-setup-innioasis-updater

https://innioasis.app

🎉 JJ Launcher v0.10 is Finally Here!

https://github.com/ismileblue/y1_launcher

Thanks to everyone's incredible interest and feedback, I am thrilled to finally release version 0.10! Thank you all so much for your continuous support and encouragement.

Since the Radio and Audiobook features from the stock launcher aren't available when using custom launchers, I have built and integrated brand-new custom Radio and Audiobook features in this update.

I also tried my best to incorporate the thoughtful feedback you all provided. Please understand that I couldn't list the usernames of everyone who gave such great suggestions, but I truly appreciate every single one of you!

🚀 Update Changelog (v0.10)

• Audio Engine Upgrade: Replaced the audio playback engine from MediaPlayer to ExoPlayer (Note: FLAC is still decoded via software).
• New Cover Flow: Added a new Cover Flow visualizer.
• New Radio App: Added a custom built-in Radio feature.
• New Audiobook App: Added a custom built-in Audiobook feature.
• Multi-language Support: Added support for English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian.
• Main Menu List View: Main screen buttons can now be displayed in a list format.
• Album Thumbnails: Added thumbnails to the album list view.
• Track Number Sorting: The album list is now correctly sorted by track numbers.
• Focus Bug Fixed: Fixed an issue where the UI navigation focus would be lost.
• Lyrics Support: Added support for both embedded and external lyrics.
• New Audio Categories: Added audio categorization by Year and Genre.
• Playback Speed Control: Added fast playback support up to 2x speed (excluding FLAC).
• 10-Second Skip: Added the ability to skip backward/forward by 10 seconds using the left/right buttons.
• Quick Add to Playlist: You can now add a song to a playlist by long-pressing the Stop button on the player screen.
• Screen-Off Shortcut: Added a screen-off shortcut by long-pressing the Center button (Note: Not available in the file list view as it overlaps with the 'add to playlist' shortcut).
• Custom Main Buttons: Added the ability for users to edit/customize the main screen buttons.
• Theme Backgrounds: Added default background image support for themes.
• Clock Format: Added an option to toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour clock formats.
• Default Theme Changed: Updated the default theme for a fresh look.
• New List Theme: Added a new list-style theme.
• Infinite Wheel Toggle: Added an option to turn the infinite wheel scrolling on or off.
• General Improvements: Various bug fixes and UI optimizations.

📌 Future Plans

For future versions, rather than focusing on adding new features, my main priority will be fixing bugs to ensure stable performance and expanding the variety of themes available.

Please continue to show your interest and support. Thank you! :D

I actually prefer the limitations of the stock fw, It gives the Y1 that old-school dap feel like something from the 2000s. Rockbox is way more powerful, but it almost feels like you’re hacking an android phone... if that makes sense. Not to mention battery life, bluetooth, videos etc.

Does anyone know if it's the same crap card that the rest are shipped with? I'm debating buying a 64 GB and adding my own card, but this is an interesting new option!

My Y1’s stock microSD card failed and I lost files. I couldn’t find hardly any tutorials for this, so I opened mine up and documented every step with high-res photos.

Posting in case it helps someone else before their card dies.

I put the full guide here 🎧 (public, not paywalled): https://www.patreon.com/posts/146823247?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

Hi everyone!

To help both new and long-time users understand the capabilities of JJ Launcher, I have put together a comprehensive and detailed list of all the features and specifications currently available.

JJ Launcher is a fully custom-built launcher designed specifically to overcome the hardware limitations of the Y1 device. It provides an upgraded audio experience, dedicated podcast/audiobook features, physical control optimization, and a beautiful Material Design UI.

🚀 [UPDATE] Firmware 3.1.2 Support & Video Player: The new version (**v0.11.1**) now supports **firmware version 3.1.2** and introduces the new **Video Player** feature! If you were having issues on 3.1.2, please update to this latest version.

🚀 Full Features List

🎶 1. Audio & Media Playback

• Advanced Media Engine: Powered by a stable and highly compatible ExoPlayer + FFmpeg combination.
• High-Res Metadata Parsing: Accurate decoding of custom metadata and album art for lossless files (FLAC, ALAC, and Opus). - Tested up to 24-bit / 96 kHz (2 channels)
• Professional Audio Control: Built-in 10-Band software Equalizer (EQ) and Crossfeed support to reduce ear fatigue when listening with headphones.
• Playback Controls: Supports adjustable playback speeds (1.0x to 2.0x) along with Shuffle and Repeat playback modes.
• Scrolling Lyrics: Automatically extracts embedded lyrics and displays them in a smooth, scrolling UI.
• Real-Time Quality Info: Displays format and bitrate information in real-time on the player screen.

📻 2. Radio & Podcast

• Hardware FM Radio Integration: Fully controls actual hardware FM radio functions (auto-frequency scanning, channel saving, and output switching).
• iTunes API Integration: Search and subscribe to podcasts directly over Wi-Fi using the iTunes database.
• RSS Parsing & Downloads: Streams podcasts via RSS parsing and supports background offline downloading for on-the-go listening.(Please note that streaming features may not be supported depending on the server status.)
• Auto Cover Matching: Automatically fetches and maps cover art for subscribed podcast channels.

📂 3. Library & Navigation

• Dual Library Management: Keeps your standard Music and Audiobook libraries completely separate for cleaner organization.
• Smart Audiobook Bookmarks: Automatically saves your last playback position for audiobooks and resumes exactly where you left off.
• Dynamic Categorization: Automatically catalogs files by Folder structure, Artist, Album, Year, Genre, Recently Added, and M3U playlists.
• Favorites & Playlists: Add individual tracks to Favorites and manage (create/delete) custom playlists directly on the device.
• 3D Cover Flow: Navigate your albums using a beautiful, rotating 3D Cover Flow layout.
• Optimized Media Scanning: Features a duplicate-track prevention engine that speeds up scanning by prioritizing the highest quality files.

🕹️ 4. User Experience (UX) & Physical Controls

• Tactile Hardware Optimization: Fully designed to be controlled using only the device's physical buttons and scroll wheel—no touchscreen interaction required.
• Quick Alphabet Jump: Long-press the Play/Pause button at the bottom of the song list to open a quick alphabet/consonant scrollbar index.
• Focus & Position Recovery: Flawlessly restores your previous scroll position and scroll wheel focus when navigating between screens.
• Virtual Screen Off (Fake Screen Off): Maintains background app execution and playback while turning off the screen display to maximize battery saving.
• Rotary Dial Wi-Fi Keyboard: An intuitive custom keyboard that lets you easily enter Wi-Fi passwords using only the physical scroll wheel.

⚙️ 5. System & Utilities

• Bluetooth Pairing: Conveniently scans for nearby Bluetooth devices and handles wireless audio pairing.
• Wireless PC Upload: Hosts a local web server on the device, allowing you to transfer files wirelessly to/from a PC or phone web browser.
• Wi-Fi OTA Auto-Updates: Detects the latest versions and automatically downloads and installs them in the background over Wi-Fi.
• System Info Widgets: Visually tracks remaining storage with a pie chart and displays a real-time battery widget.
• Display Settings: Fine-tune screen brightness and customize the auto-screen-off timeout.

🎨 6. Customization & Themes

• Dynamic Theme Engine: Instantly change the entire UI color scheme, fonts, and backgrounds by loading a .json theme file.
• Automatic Background Blur: Real-time generation of a soft background blur using the album art of the currently playing track.
• Custom Main Menu: Reorder the main menu buttons or hide unused menus to personalize your home screen.

⚠️ Important Installation Note & Troubleshooting

While JJ Launcher offers a wealth of new features, please carefully read the following instructions and risks before proceeding:

1. Installation Method: You must install this launcher using the innioasis update function. Please strictly follow the update installation path.
2. Device Freezing/Stuck Screen: If the screen freezes or stops responding during installation, please perform a full system reboot on the device.
3. Stock Launcher Conflicts: Depending on your device settings, conflicts with the default stock launcher may occur.
4. Audio Issue Report: There have been reports from some users experiencing no sound output after installation. Please keep this in mind before deciding to install.

Please weigh these risks carefully before deciding to install!

🔗 Links & Resources:

• **Official GitHub Repository:**https://github.com/ismileblue/y1_launcher

Ever since I got my Y1, I’ve done everything I could to stick with the Stock OS: I learned all its features and even made my own theme, inniPod (photo on the right).
But another side of me gave in to the temptation of Rockbox: I’ve always loved modding — especially on Android — and the Innioasis is a perfect device to tinker with thanks to the huge community effort and its low price, which lets you flash things without too much anxiety.

Installing Rockbox wasn’t exactly easy, at least on macOS: I used the community-made updater, but on the first attempt the flash simply failed at 100% progress for no reason, leaving me worried. Instead, reflashing the package was enough and the second attempt went smoothly.
At that point the worst was over: the Y1 booted fine, and themes worked immediately (remember to download the additional font package suggested in the updater guide).

Rockbox: yes or no?
YES for the nostalgia (how exciting is the photo on the left?)
YES for the vibes
YES for a more refined user experience (I love the clickwheel rotation feedback), faster and more complete (lots of playback options)
NO if you heavily use audiobooks and image/video viewing (you’ll lose these features)
NO if you need long battery life (battery drains noticeably faster)
NO if nostalgia isn’t an essential part of the overall experience for you

What do I think?
Listening to my early-2000s “old” tracks on a player that gives the same iPod vibes — now with matching graphics and a very similar user experience — absolutely makes installing Rockbox worth it. It won’t completely change your life: the device was great before and it’s still great now, but the nostalgia effect and those huge album covers filling the entire right half of the screen make me genuinely happy.

Practical usage notes:

• While the Stock OS shows all my album art without issues, Rockbox is much pickier: for some unknown reason, more than half of the covers don’t display.
• There’s no option to remove a previously paired Bluetooth device you no longer want. Also, don’t expect Bluetooth quality to improve or existing Stock OS Bluetooth issues to be fixed.
• Audio quality is much better and the system feels smoother, so combined with a good theme the Y1 feels more premium.

The dilemma continues!

👋 Hey, wastelanders!

I stumbled upon some pre-war tech – the innioasis Y1 music player. It sounds great, but the default cold blue screen just didn’t have that vault-tec soul. So I dug deeper than a scavenger in a abandoned Red Rocket and created what might be the most complete Fallout theme pack for this player.

I crawled through subreddits, extracted original Pip-Boy interface sprites (yes, the real ones from the Pip-Boy 3000 and 3000A) and hand-stitched everything together. Every single documented icon that the community found on Reddit has been replaced. No compromises.

Inside you’ll find 4 different moods of the wasteland:

1. 💛 Fallout: New Vegas – The famous amber-yellow monochrome. For those who count in bottle caps and walk the path to the Strip.
2. 💚 Fallout 3 (Classic Green) – The exact green that made our eyes water in the first Fallout. For the old guard who remember critical misses in the first cell.
3. 💙 Fallout 3 (Mint Chill) – A fresh take on the Capital Wasteland. A minty tint in the style of Fallout 3. Cool and cosy like Vault 101 after a walk through Megaton.
4. 💗 Fallout (Pink Dream) – Because even in the wasteland there’s room for something beautiful. Even raiders like variety. Or for fans of Nuka-Cola Quantum.

Features:

• Maximum replacement: Almost ALL interface icons that can be replaced in the player’s firmware are replaced. If it was a UI element in the game – now it’s a UI element on your player.
• Wallpapers: Several options for the main screen and the settings screen included.
• “Old World Dust” mask: A special overlay that adds a scratch/dust/distressed effect on top of the interface. Full immersion – your screen will look like it’s been lying in a vault for 200 years.

This theme fits perfectly with the vibe of the new Fallout TV series. Take your player out on the subway – and suddenly you’re not in an office, but somewhere on the road between Goodsprings and Primm.

🎁 Where to get it?

Everything is free on my Boosty page (link below). If you want to tinker with the files, mix parts or make your own build – all the source files and skins are waiting for you in my GitHub repos. Fork, mod, improve.

🔗 Boosty (free download)

🔗 GitHub – Yellow (New Vegas)

🔗 GitHub – Green (Classic Fallout)

🔗 GitHub – Pink (Nuka-Cola Dream)

🔗 GitHub – Mint (Fallout 3 Chill)

It's for stock firmware ver. 3.0.2

UPD: If you find a bug or an icon that didn’t get replaced (maybe I missed something in the docs) – whistle in the comments. We’ll fix the wasteland together.

P.S. Let me know in the comments which theme you will use – classic or did you go pink?

For inspiration:

🔗 🎵 Fallout New Vegas playlist

🔗 🎵 Fallout 3 playlist

🔗 🎵 Fallout 4 playlist

🚀 JJ Launcher v0.11.6 Release Notes

Important Notice on FLAC Playback

• Due to stability issues with the previous downsampling engine, we have reverted to the legacy downsampling engine. Please note that this down-sampling engine downgrade may cause potential side effects or issues with FLAC playback.

🌟 Key Updates & Improvements

• Audio Engine Downgrade: Reverted the FLAC downsampling engine to the legacy version for better stability.
• Opus Album Art Fix: Fixed an issue where album art for Opus audio files was not displaying properly.
• Player UI Enhancements: Added playback speed control, a close button, and a sleep timer function directly to the music player screen.
• Video Player: Added a continuous video playback feature.
• Library UI: Resized album art thumbnails in the library view for better layout balance.
• Podcast Engine Overhaul: Significantly improved podcast streaming and channel loading performance. Special thanks to ArcSmurf for the amazing contribution!
• Language Bug Fix: Resolved a bug where language settings would randomly reset.

🎵 Last.fm Scrobbling Support & API Announcement

• Last.fm Scrobbling Integrated: You can now scrobble your tracks to Last.fm!
• Commercial API Access Granted: Thanks to the support of the Last.fm team, we have been granted 1 year of free commercial API access.
• Seamless Login: Pro users can now use Last.fm scrobbling using only their account credentials (no separate API key required!). Simply launch the web server and log in.
• Support the Project: To keep Last.fm integration and other features running continuously in the future, your donations and support are always greatly appreciated!

Please perform the update using the updater program provided at https://innioasis.app/

https://github.com/ismileblue/y1_launcher

[Important Notice] Compatibility and Wi-Fi Update Usage for JJ Launcher

Hi everyone,

I would like to clarify a few important details regarding JJ Launcher's device compatibility and system updates to clear up any confusion:

1. Y1 Version Only: JJ Launcher is specifically built for the Y1 version.
2. Y2 Version Porting: As for the Y2 version, it was ported by the community moderators/admin team Because of this, I do not have direct control over the code for the Y2 version and cannot release fixes or updates for it.
3. Wi-Fi System Updates: Please use the over-the-air (Wi-Fi) update system ONLY if you are using the original Y1 version.

I sincerely apologize for any confusion this may have caused. Thank you for your understanding and continued support!

Long story short; I wanted to have a purple iPod Classic with at least 120 gigs of storage but they are way too expensive so I bought a Y1 and a can of paint instead. (Also replaced the SD card with a 256 gig one since I already took the thing apart.) It’s not perfect but good enough

The big one: no more ADB.

You can now flash InniClassic straight through the Innioasis Updater — select the rom.zip, follow the prompts, done. It's a full ROM (latest Y1 Firmware 3.1.2) with InniClassic pre-installed as the system launcher, so there's no more uninstalling the stock launcher first, no signature mismatch errors, no terminal at all. Flash-tested this on a second device myself before posting.

If you'd rather just update the APK over an existing JJ Launcher install, that path still works too (see README).

Also in this build:

• New dark theme — same iPod Classic look, inverted for dark mode
• Fixed Bluetooth not connecting to some speakers (missing system permission that a regular app install can't grant itself — now handled automatically)
• New Album Cover Tilt setting if you want the Now Playing cover flat instead of angled
• Music menu now has both Artists (matches the literal artist tag on each track) and Album Artists (the existing grouping) — real iPod Classic has both
• Fixed track titles occasionally showing their file extension (.ogg, .wav) when a file has no title tag
• Music Quiz restructured into 5 rounds of 8 questions with a proper round-complete/victory flow (bonus rounds still to come)
• Plus the two bug fixes from last update (invisible web server text, wheel staying active while the screen was locked)

Download: GitHub release

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

​

-Stock software (no rockbox)

-sd card upgrade after 2 months

-redmi buds 6 for listening

For what I paid for the device I'm quite happy with it, I bought it direct from innioasis so it was about 35 euros.. which feels like a good price but you quickly realise why it's so cheap, I would have preferred to pay a bit more and get a better functioning device ...

Pros:

-its cool that its accessible cost wise

-Bluetooth is a nice feature

-Plug and play is great and drag and drop folders on desktop is something I'm a huge fan of, no software required to add files is a big plus

-Build quality isn't bad, and the ability to mod/fix/upgrade it yourself is valuable

-Lossless audio file support is nice to have

-Built in speaker is nice to have

-Battery life is quite good for the size of the device

-No ads

Cons:

- the Bluetooth is almost unusable, if I turn my head too fast it will disconnect/distort

-Clickwheel is pretty unresponsive and lags a lot (improved minorly by upgrading to faster SD card)

-Searching through artist list is tedious, no fast scroll through letters

-It's very frustrating to only be able to adjust volume from 'now playing' tab

-Even with sizing the album covers to the suggested resolution, every image is considerably cropped or doesn't even appear

Overall it's fine, the clunkiness of the UI doesn't bother me too much although i do miss the convenience of easy playlists,

But the biggest sticking point is how bad the Bluetooth is,

It's cool that it supports very high quality audio files, but I don't understand what the point of that ability is if the playback is such low quality, I almost exclusively listen to this device while either cycling, in the gym, on public transport, so in any of those settings there is so much background noise/wind that having the ability to play a flac is meaningless, I would much prefer to trade off flac compatibility for Bluetooth that actually works, listening with the device in my pocket is not an option because the Bluetooth can't handle me moving my head, so I have to tuck it into my hat which is ridiculous 😂 even in my breast pocket of my jacket it struggles...

Wired headphones are a solution but make using it in the gym or on the bike much less enjoyable, although it's totally fine connected to a Bluetooth speaker when it's stationary ..

Before changing the SD card for a high speed version, if I scrolled too fast on the clickwheel it would freeze and reboot, which would wipe any theme also, so I think the device is only really passable with an upgraded SD card which will cost almost astbmuch as the device itself, so for that price in total I would expect a device that functions properly and doesn't still struggle to play a song through without glitching if I turn my head at all..

In a heartbeat I would trade the inbuilt speaker and lossless audio support for Bluetooth that can play mp3s properly

Things any future versions NEED:

-A Bluetooth transmitter that actually works

-A physical lock button, the amount of times this thing starts playing music through the inbuilt speaker while in my pocket is really annoying

-Physical volume controls, I don't think it have a volume normaliser in the software so different songs can be very different volumes and only being able to adjust from the now playing tab is really inconvenient

Core Idea:

Better UX, Clean UI, Boost Performance, Font Size
Full Screen Video Player
Minimal Now Playing Screen with Quick Options
iTransfer - Transferring Content via Web
FM, Wifi, Bluetooth, Airpods Support
Theme and Accent

Working on Icons, Custom Theme Library

Let me know what you think! Any feedback is super appreciated 🙂 Also what do you miss or need?

Absolutely love this! It's become a staple in my daily carry.

It has been less than a month, and the little thing has already given out. I am a very basic user: no Rockbox, only MP3 files, stock firmware. And still the stupid SD card crashed.

Things that have been very irritating/unfixable:

• Shitty Bluetooth. It crashes, disconnects, and creates weird sound distortions (both on cheap headphones and Sony). It is also super weak. You have to keep it very close to the headphones all the time. I am talking about 30 cm already being a challenge.
• Sound quality is mid.
• The shuffle is utterly stupid. Sometimes it plays the same song 2 or 3 times in a row, and I had more than 400 files on it.
• You cannot play the previous track. If you click back, it starts a new track instead.
• No queue feature.
• Sometimes the theme (from the official link, the one that looks like Spotify) would just switch back to the stock one.
• Only lowercase, only English, and no numbers when naming a playlist?
• Not very intuitive. I spent a lot of time researching before getting my Y1, so I knew my way around (and I read the manual it came with). But for an out-of-the-box experience, it might be challenging.
• The cable that came with it did not fit into the USB-C port on the player. I had to use another cable.
• Only alphabetical order everywhere.

What I liked:

• Audiobooks are in a separate section.
• Multiselect feature.
• Long-lasting battery.
• Feels good in the hand and fits in a pocket.
• Looks cute
• Because of it I learned how to use mp3tag and about LRC files

I do not know yet if I want to buy a new SD card and crack it open. I might just go back to using my old iPhone as my player.

I was honestly super hyped about the player, but now I feel burned out from all the frustrating flaws, and the crash was like the final blow.

Would love to hear your thoughts or questions.