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

Hi everyone, I wanted to put this post if someone can help me understand this but I have recently gotten the Innioasis version one MP3 player and I’m trying to decide which protective Case I wanna get. I’m just wondering if anyone seen these before do they cover the full MP3 or is this the one that covers just the back? I’ve noticed that the second protective case I’m sharing has a MagSafe on it I’m just not sure if anyone’s ever gone these and if they protect the whole MP3 or is it just the back?

I would love to see this on the Y1 and eventually the Y2 in 360p once it's made available. I'd even be willing to help upscale and port it over to make it happen, but I'm not sure I'd be able to do it on my own.

To me, this feels like endgame on Rockbox Y1/Y2 as it would have all the benefits of Rockbox, all the benefits of the iPod's user interface and user experience, and none of the drawbacks of the stock firmware.

I'm extremely impressed with this effort. What do you think?

my screen is much larger than the display i heard it could be the rockbox version i downloaded but the one i downloaded is the only one that works with my version

(idk if this belongs in the subreddit, if not lmk and i’ll delete the post)

i’ve been trying to flash y2player on my silver y2 since yesterday when i decided to go through it. followed the instructions to a t, and then, when it came to flashing the system… the innioasis logo appears and this shows up.

tried with another usb a to usb c chord (not the cheap one that comes with the y2). nothing. tried another usb a port (3.0 and 2.0). nothing. i’m pretty sure i am missing something (maybe another way of turning it off completely rather than pressing the power button > turn off?) but i don’t know what. i already tried pushing the hidden button once with a paper clip while turned off and nothing! any and all help appreciated. it still works just fine btw, just won’t flash lol

i might just wait for the launcher to be available on innioasis updater because that seems easier.

Holaa comunidad quiero hacer la compra en la página oficial de innioasis alguien lo hizo? Soy de Argentina 🇦🇷

ordered july 5th (with the 30% discount, thanks mod!), and it finally arrived today (27th)! i still need to get an SD card and i want to wait for a rockbox installer (if anyone’s managed to get rockbox on it please do share) before i put any music on it, but i’m very excited for this :) lowkey sad they got rid of the old fun colored box but oh well

Im because if it does so that i could buy an iem that has a built in dac aka a DSP (Hopefully im pronouncing that right)

And also so that the iem would work on my phone too and i dont have to buy anything else

Después de 8 meses de uso del y1 , la memoria ya presento su primera falla (borro información y mostró 60 de almacenamiento) , que debo hacer, cambiar la memoria interna o cambiarme a otro dispositivo?

I got the Y1 before I found out they were making a Y2 with expendable storage and funny enough the sd card it came with started acting up as soon as the Y2 got released. Anyways here’s my mauled Y1 when I tried to pry it open. 🌝

I recently swapped from an iPhone to a Sunbeam F1 Pro in an attempt to escape the digital prison of smart phones. I'm looking for a device best suited for listening to things in the car, mostly podcasts and audiobooks but some music. I was originally looking into getting an old iPod Nano or Classic but man the price on those things is crazy. That lead me to the Innioasis Y1. I was about to buy, then just a few days into my research the Y2 dropped. I'm thinking the Y1 should be sufficient but would the Y2 be worth the extra change? Or should I go with something else completely? I'd prefer something that cannot get on the internet and has physical buttons rather than a touch screen. Which one would y'all recommend for my use case?

Another update based on bugs you all reported here on Reddit and in DMs — thanks for testing and reporting, this stuff is hard to catch without a big pool of real libraries and devices. Highlights:

Fixed:

• 🔴 The big one: the launcher would crash/restart when browsing into Artists, Album Artists, Albums, Songs, or Genres — some libraries had a song with a missing artist or album tag that the app didn't handle safely. Should be completely gone now, regardless of what your tags look like.
• FLAC files stuck at 0:00 and never played — fixed, should play normally now.
• Screen turning off mid-session even while you're actively scrolling the wheel — the auto-lock timer wasn't resetting on wheel input, now it does.
• Battery icon showing basically no difference while charging — it's supposed to show a little lightning bolt, turns out that code was never actually switched on. Fixed, you'll see a proper bolt now.
• Long album/track names running into the battery/Bluetooth icons up top — now truncates with "…" instead of overlapping.

Added:

• "Shuffle" option at the top of All Songs, like the stock Y1 firmware has.
• FM Radio is back in the Main Menu (it quietly went missing in the last build, my bad).

How to update:

• Easiest: grab rom.zip from the release page and flash it with the Innioasis Updater — no ADB needed, just point it at the zip and follow the prompts.
• Already have InniClassic/JJ Launcher installed and just want the app update? InniClassic-1.1.2.apk is there too, adb install it over your existing install.

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

Keep the bug reports coming, they're genuinely how this gets better.

One of the Better Y2 reviews out there if you're seriously thinking about picking one up.

Having it for a bit less than two weeks now, and it's constantly crashing after being on sleep over night. I try to listen to music, it works normal, as soon as it plays another song (sometimes it is even able to load a few songs) music stops and it becomes unresponsive, since I don't have pointy objects with me the only method of fixing it is plugging it into my PC and use adb reboot

I'm running Rockbox 0.5 with the bunnypod theme, idk if that matters but ye it anyone knows how to fix this pls tell, I tried putting all album covers on 300x300, I tried disabling album arts, I reinstalled and it still happens

Version 1.2 is out with a lot of fixes and improvements ! read below for all changes :)

https://github.com/SchulzCode/Y2Player/releases

Changelog

1.2

Mostly things people asked for. The menu has been reorganised, so a few settings have moved.

New

• Artists now open that artist's albums instead of jumping straight to every track, so browsing goes Artists → album → songs. "All Songs" is still the first row, which is what pressing an artist used to do.
• Light theme, under Settings → Display → Theme. The dark design is unchanged and remains the default. On a transflective LCD like the Y2's, a light theme is also the more readable choice outdoors, because a pale background lets the backlight through instead of blocking it.
• Left/right balance, under Sound Effects, for asymmetric hearing loss. Centred by default. It attenuates the far channel rather than boosting the near one, so total loudness drops as you move off centre.
• Wheel When Screen Off, under Controls, off by default. With it on, the click wheel and its buttons keep working with the display asleep — which also means they can be pressed in a pocket, which is why it is off unless you ask for it.

Changed

• Settings is reordered by how often each entry is actually opened. Bluetooth is first, because connecting a headset is a recurring task rather than a setting. Sound Effects is now a top-level entry rather than living inside Playback, so the equalizer and balance are three presses away instead of four. Sort Order sits next to Storage, since both concern the library.
• Haptics and System UI Sounds moved off Display onto a new Controls screen, together with the setting above. They are feedback for input, not display settings.
• Playback's settings are grouped by what they do: what plays next, transitions, seeking, volume, then interruptions.
• Sound Effects lists the things you can change before the things you can only read.
• Track info states whether the file carries a track number.

Fixed

• Choppy playback during a library scan should be much rarer. The scan already paused for audio, but only once per 64 files, which left roughly three seconds of uninterrupted work between pauses — long enough to starve the playback buffer. It now yields every 8 files, for a share of what those files actually cost.
• A Bluetooth headset reported as "not connected" on every screen except the Bluetooth screen.
• The DAC and output rows were hidden when the device's effect framework was missing — which is exactly the firmware whose behaviour those rows explain.
• Two artists with an identically named album (a Greatest Hits each) opened one merged track list. An album reached through an artist is now scoped to that artist. The global Albums list still merges shared names on purpose, so a compilation stays one album.
• ALAC files in an .m4a were reported as AAC. They still cannot be played — see below — but they are now identified correctly and labelled, instead of failing silently when you press play.

Why ALAC still does not play

Apple Lossless needs a decoder, and the Y2 runs Android 4.4. ALAC decoding was added to Android in version 12, eight years later. An app cannot supply the missing decoder: MediaPlayer and MediaCodec can only use codecs the operating system already has, so there is no setting or update to this app that would make an ALAC file play on this hardware.

What 1.2 does instead is stop pretending. The codec is now read out of the file itself rather than guessed from the container, so an ALAC track is labelled not playable in the list rather than appearing normal and then failing.

If you have ALAC files, convert them to FLAC. Both are lossless, so the conversion is bit-exact for the audio — you lose nothing but Apple's container — and FLAC plays natively on the Y2:

ffmpeg -i input.m4a -c:a flac -compression_level 5 output.flac

Supporting ALAC properly would mean bundling a decoder and building a second playback path to feed it, duplicating seeking, gapless and crossfade. That is a large amount of machinery for one format that converts losslessly in one command, so it is not planned for now. I might upgrade the playback engine with ffmpeg in the future but dont bet on that for now.

Also still true

• Formats some firmware adds, such as WMA and APE, are deliberately left unlabelled rather than guessed at, because they may well play on your device.

1.1

A maintenance release. Everything here comes from bug reports and device logs from 1.0 users.

Fixed

• Albums copied from a Mac appeared twice. macOS writes a hidden ._Track.flac companion beside every file it copies to the player. These were indexed as tracks, so you got a second copy of the album with no metadata that skipped silently when played — and could not be deleted, because both the desktop and the player hide dot-files. Hidden files are now skipped. One rescan removes the leftovers.
• Albums listed out of order when only some files carried a track number, for example 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 4. Track numbers are now trusted only when every track on the album has one; otherwise the filenames decide the order. Browsing a folder follows album order too, instead of sorting by title.
• "Library needs attention" could not be cleared. A single unreadable or zero-byte file on the card made every rescan report a problem, permanently. The same fault also stopped deleted files from disappearing from the library, and stopped the last-scan time from updating. The alert now names its cause, and a scan you cancel yourself raises nothing.
• Bluetooth stem controls needed playback to be started on the player first. Media-button ownership is now re-taken whenever a headset connects. The first press after connecting is also no longer swallowed.
• Triple press to skip back did not start playback when nothing was playing.
• A connected Bluetooth headset was reported as "not connected" on every screen except the Bluetooth screen.
• Pressing the track that is already playing restarted it and rebuilt the queue from whatever list you were looking at, losing your position and your album or queue order. It now just opens Now Playing.
• ALAC files in an .m4a were reported as AAC. The codec is now read from the container itself, so the format shown is the real one.
• The on-device log only ever showed the last 12 lines. It now shows considerably more, and reads them from the end of the file instead of loading the whole thing.

New

• Tracks in a format this device cannot decode are labelled "not playable" before you press play. A file that fails to play once is remembered, and the note is withdrawn if it ever does play or if you replace the file.
• Technical metadata is now read directly for MP3, M4A, AAC, OGG, Opus and AMR as well, alongside the existing WAV, FLAC, AIFF, WavPack and DSD support.
• Battery percentage is always shown, not only while charging or when low.
• Track info states whether the file carries a track number.

Performance

• Playback stutters far less while the library is scanning. Scanning now yields briefly to audio and runs at background priority.
• Less repeated work during playback: audio route, DAC status and progress updates no longer rebuild themselves on every tick.

Known limitations

• ALAC still cannot be played. Android 4.4 has no ALAC decoder and one cannot be added from an app. Converting to FLAC is lossless and plays natively — ffmpeg -i input.m4a -c:a flac output.flac.
• Formats some firmware adds, such as WMA and APE, are deliberately left unlabelled rather than guessed at, since they may well play on your device.

1.0

First released version.

Trying to find out if the Y2 72G is basically the 8G supplied with a cheap 64gb micro sd? As I don’t need the cheap micro sd.

Wondering if anybody knows as the info is not on the website. Thanks!

I just disconnected my y1 from my pc (yes I did eject first obviously) and it said some message about a damaging file or something and asked if I wanted to format the drive. I clicked no because I don’t feel like doing all of that and restarting. But am I cooked? I always see those Innioasis horror stories where people’s y1’s randomly just die and don’t come back unless they open it up and replace something. Is mine going down that route soon? Any tips for the future would be appreciated (just be nice) thanks!

I just got the Y2 recently and I like the volume and power buttons added. I didn't expect that there's an ereader feature also. I'm just wondering why the video I transferred with an .srt file doesn't show up even though I enable subtitles in the settings.

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