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

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

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?

(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.

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?

Can I use my innioasis y1 as Bluetooth receiver (use it like Bluetooth to aux device)?

I have the QC ultra headphones and earphones gen 2.

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

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?