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Music players are fun again!
tl;dr: Tangara is awesome and if you want to listen to your music locally with an actual headphone
jack and no distractions, notifications, ads or worrying about wifi definitely pick one up.
The Tangara music player project almost seems too good to be true: Open hardware and open software in
a sleek, well-made form factor by people who get it and, most importantly, care? Bring that up at
Apple, Sony, Fiio or even one of those fly-by-night, android-based Amazon dealers and you would
most likely get drug tested. I was so excited for this idea and the 'scroll wheel' implementation
of the Tangara: A minimalist interface with a small, sharp screen that's just there for info - no
ads, no notifications or distractions and a headphone jack. USB-C and storage via an SD card and
I was absolutely sold on the crowd-funding for it. Having received it, taken it apart, loaded music
on it and listened to it during every free minute these past few weeks has been an absolute joy!
A device where I can store "owned" music is just what I was looking for. I've thoroughly enjoyed
listening to full albums over the course of different sittings without having to get back into an
app, find my artist, album and place in a song - I can just pop on my headphones and pick right back
up. Theres also a lot of fun to be had scrolling through music with the scroll wheel (though this
very well could just be nostalgia...) and casually sifting through albums without public playlists &
podcasts being foisted upon you.
To-do's:
Connect bluetooth to the car for drives into work (and the work speaker when I get there)
3-D Print another SD Card caddy to have additional cards full o'music at the ready
Figure out playlists and Lua scripting to make life easier.
Further Reading:
Tangara project page:
https://cooltech.zone/tangara/
Tangara hardware & software repository:
https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/-/projects/12798
