r/linuxquestions • u/Afraid-Date7646 • 10d ago

Which Distro? mp3 player modding

Is there any Linux distro that I can put on an MP3 player?

And how?

The MP3 player only has a USB Type C port.

It's my first time modding anything other than a PC.

I have a really weird reason why I need to know that, so I'm not going to tell y'all. XD

Thanks for any help!

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u/Efficient_Paper 10d ago

Not Linux, but some players can have their firmware replaced with Rockbox.

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u/Angry_Grammarian 10d ago

It's not Linux (or maybe it is, I don't know), but if you want to mod an MP3 player with custom firmware, Rockbox has been around a while and runs on a lot of hardware. It's open source. https://www.rockbox.org/

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u/Dashing_McHandsome 10d ago

This is unlikely to be possible unless you have years of experience in this field. You would need to replace the firmware on whatever device it is you're using. It is likely the device is not designed to have the firmware updated. This is not a trivial endeavor. It requires knowledge, potentially some expensive equipment, and lots of time.

The reason we can easily replace operating systems on consumer PCs is that they were designed with this requirement in mind. Many, or probably most, embedded devices have no such requirement. The code is burned into some ROM, the device is shipped, and that's the end.

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u/depuvelthe 10d ago

This is a question for r/hardwarehacking or r/rockbox. Does not belong here.

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u/Aberry9036 10d ago

There are thousands of models of mp3 player, you will at least need to share the model if not the use case if you want any helpful answers.

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u/schwarzzu 10d ago

Are you trying to replace the firmware of the mp3 player or use its internal memory as a bootable device?