Y2Reborn

The music player for the Innioasis Y2 running Y2Linux. Made for the click wheel: smooth at 60 frames per second, quick with large libraries, and it looks the way you want with sixteen skins. Written in Rust, it decodes with FFmpeg, draws with OpenGL ES on the Y2's GPU and keeps its library in SQLite.

Reborn comes with Y2Linux. It has no installer of its own: install Y2Linux from its latest release with the install guide, and Reborn updates together with the system over Wi-Fi (Settings → System → Software Update). Reborn and Y2Linux share version numbers and the baseline-N tags.

What it does

Finding your music

• Home with Now Playing, Music, Playlists, Radio, Search and Settings (choose which, and in which order).
• Artists, albums, songs, genres and folders from Internal Storage and the SD card; albums as Cover Flow or a grid; covers from the album folder (cover.jpg, folder.jpg, …) or from the file.
• Fast scrolling: turn the wheel quickly and long lists move several rows at a time; spin it and they jump letter by letter.
• Search with results while you type, across artists, albums, songs and playlists, with See All per section.
• Up Next: Play Next and Add to Queue for songs, albums, artists, genres and folders; move or remove songs; the songs you heard before stay in the list.
• Playlists (.m3u/.m3u8) made and changed on the player or copied from a computer, and Favorites with a heart. Changes are written back into the playlist file.

Listening

• Gapless playback, crossfade up to 12 s, shuffle by song or by album, repeat and a sleep timer.
• A five-band equalizer with presets, headphone profiles for 47 headphones and IEMs (AutoEq) plus your own AutoEq ParametricEQ.txt files, Normalize Volume (ReplayGain), balance, headphone level and DAC filter.
• Bluetooth headphones with SBC, AAC and LDAC, picked automatically; the music follows them when they connect.
• Internet radio from radio-browser.info: popular stations, countries, genres, search, favorites and your own .m3u/.pls lists, with station logos and the song that is playing.
• Audiobooks with chapters, your place in every book, a speed per book (0.75–2×) and a sleep timer (guide).
• Last.fm scrobbling: scan a QR code with your phone to sign in; plays wait on the player while offline (guide).

Making it yours

• Sixteen skins (Classic, Nano Glass, Walkman, Terminal, Winamp, Paper, Big Type, Cassette, Neon Night, Zune, Bunny Bow and five Mini colours), and more by copying a skin folder into Skins on the player (how to make one).
• Customize: Cover Flow on or off, how albums are sorted, lists that wrap around, the wheel on Now Playing (volume or seeking), a wheel click, haptic ticks and what the buttons do while the screen is off.
• A status bar with the clock, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a computer connection and the battery, and short messages when something happens.

Music, an album and live search

Internet radio, an audiobook and Up Next

Settings, where the sound goes, and an update over Wi-Fi

Now Playing in eight of the sixteen skins

The pictures come from Reborn's own drawing code with sample music (reborn-preview, 1.0 Beta 9.2.13).

What is known not to work yet is listed in Y2Linux's known issues and in Reborn's current state. Found a problem? Please open an issue and send an error report from the player (Settings → System → Error Reports).

How scrobbling stays safe

• Your password: with the QR sign-in it is typed only into Last.fm's own page on your phone; the fallback sends it once over HTTPS and never stores, logs or displays it.
• Your sign-in: the player keeps only Last.fm's session key, in one root-only file in /data/reborn/state (not reachable over USB, never in logs, diagnostics or update images). It can scrobble but cannot read or change your password or e-mail; revoke it any time on last.fm (Settings → Applications).
• The connection: HTTPS with certificate checks only; every request is signed as Last.fm requires; keys and data travel in the request body on curl's standard input, never on a command line.
• The app key is not in this repository. Y2Linux's release build installs it as a root-only file (/usr/share/reborn/lastfm-api.json); a build without it simply has no Last.fm. Forks: register your own key.

Code: crates/reborn-core/src/scrobble.rs (what counts), crates/reborn-platform/src/scrobble.rs (offline queue, log, clock), crates/reborn-platform/src/lastfm.rs (Last.fm API, signing), app/reborn/src/scrobbling.rs (the player's side) and crates/reborn-ui/src/qr.rs (QR codes).

Development

Use Rust 1.99.0; rust-toolchain.toml pins it together with the armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf target. All crates are vendored in vendor/, so builds work offline. Host builds link the system's development libraries through pkg-config: FFmpeg (libavformat, libavcodec, libavutil, libavfilter, libswresample, libswscale), ALSA, D-Bus, SQLite, libdrm, GBM, EGL and GLES v2. Code follows Y2Linux's coding standard.

cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo test --workspace --locked --offline
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked --offline -- -D warnings

UI previews render the production drawing code on the host with sample data:

cargo run --release --bin reborn-preview -- OUT [--skin skins/classic]
python3 tools/preview/render_previews.py OUT --output PNG_DIR

The ARM binary is built only through Y2Linux's Buildroot, which provides the cross toolchain, sysroot, FFmpeg, SQLite, ALSA, D-Bus and Mesa. Check out this repository next to Y2Linux (../Y2Reborn); tools/build/cross.sh is what the Buildroot recipe calls. Host tests don't prove anything about the real Y2: display, audio and power behaviour need the device.

Path	Contents
app/reborn	The player binary, rebornctl, reborn-bench and reborn-preview
crates/	reborn-core (state), reborn-ui, reborn-graphics, reborn-audio, reborn-media (FFmpeg membrane), reborn-library (SQLite), reborn-platform (Y2Linux API), reborn-control, reborn-observability
skins/	The sixteen shipped skins
assets/	Fonts, UI art and media test fixtures
tools/	Cross build, previews, asset generation, qualification helpers
vendor/	Vendored, checksummed crate sources
docs/	Documentation; start at docs/README.md

On the device the player keeps its state in /data/reborn (including the Last.fm session and waiting plays in state/) and plays music from /media/internal/music and /media/sd.

Licence

MIT (see LICENSE). The Open Sans glyph data is under the SIL Open Font Licence (assets/fonts/OpenSans-OFL.txt). No firmware, keys (including the Last.fm API key), Bluetooth bonds or private device data belong in this repository.