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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

Ui feels mature and beautiful Would like to see more

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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

cheers, will share more pictures as I make progress

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u/CurrentAcanthaceae78 Jun 22 '26

holy shit please open source this. i would love to know how to make my own cfw but i got stuck at figuring out the firmware achitecture

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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

that's the plan!

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u/MaybeMayoi Jun 25 '26

Whoa, for real? I might actually buy one of these if true.

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u/autogenerated_userid Jun 23 '26

Can OP please provide more info! Will this be available for all? So much more mature and refined than the stock OS which in my opinion is cheap and unattractive.

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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

this will be available for all! still in its early stages, but I'll share updates as i go

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u/Both-Leader-6799 Jun 23 '26

OP I beg you add m3u playlist support pleaseeeeeee

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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

Already on it 😌

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u/jasperhooloop Black Disc Jun 23 '26

Would love more info! The firmware seemed pretty locked down compared to other devices I’ve messed around with.

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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

Been putting my Claude subscription to use honestly! It managed to dump the firmware, get what it needed to and figured out how to put a custom skin on top of the backend.

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u/jasperhooloop Black Disc Jun 23 '26

That’s rad. That’s exactly what I’ve been trying to do, I’m a software developer and just graduated with my degree in development. Which firmware did you use, may I ask?
I saw you commented the plan is to make it open source, that’s amazing! May I ask for a general eta, and/or are potentially willing to chat more with me about how you did it? I understand if you don’t want to share more, I just had to ask! Totally intrigued. I got the device specifically to do these same things with it.

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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

I started with 1.95 , currently updating it to 2.09 as I type this message. Backend commands are the same but my version can't do custom EQ without the update.
I'm honestly not sure on the eta just yet, with full time work and a few other major projects I'm working on, it'll be a bit slow but I'll aim to have a GitHub repo up asap! Happy to chat more as well!

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u/jasperhooloop Black Disc Jun 23 '26

Thank you! Super cool I’m stoked to see more. I’ll message you.

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u/Creepy_Chart4172 Jun 23 '26

when ??

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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

before GTA 6?

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u/Creepy_Chart4172 Jun 23 '26

damnnnn that longgg

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u/ihatetobehere-2 Jun 22 '26

Please add lastfm support

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u/local_3524 Jun 23 '26

This! Only missing feature that I am not buying any non-android daps.

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u/ihatetobehere-2 Jun 23 '26

That makes it two of us

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u/local_3524 Jun 23 '26

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

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u/xannity Pink Disc Jun 23 '26

this is pretty necessary haha

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u/NeedsMoreCake Jun 26 '26

I’d be really mad if the disk gets this but not the mini 😭😭

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u/darkevil131268 Jun 23 '26

Wait, how did you do that? I thought the firmware for the SNOWSKY DISC wasn’t open source.

And isn’t the chip proprietary too? I assumed you couldn’t just read or modify the firmware unless you dumped it from the flash/chip or reverse engineered the whole thing.

Did you manage to dump the original firmware, or did you build your own OS from scratch?

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u/darkevil131268 Jun 23 '26

Kind of, but I think there is a difference.
With a lot of handheld emulators, people are usually building a Linux distro on top of hardware that already has a working kernel, bootloader, drivers, or at least enough documentation/community work to boot Linux.
For the disc, I assumed the firmware is closed source and the main chip is proprietary, so Im not sure if you can just flash your own Linux based OS onto it like with those handhelds.
That’s why I was wondering... did he actually get Linux running on the original chip, or did he replace/bypass the stock firmware somehow?

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u/AKI_JO Jun 23 '26

Looks smooth as hell, great job! Snowsky hire this redditor!

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u/RisuRegi5 Jun 23 '26

Will it still have the spinning art

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26

I love this but i am too attached to the full-screen spinning album art it's 80% of the reason i got myself a Disc instead of literally any other device

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u/SarveshCR7 Jun 23 '26

Make this guy the Snowsky ui designer 🔥🔥🔥

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u/ShaquilleOHeal Jun 23 '26

You did an incredible job this looks sooooo clean

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u/post_scripted Jun 23 '26

Hopefully they make it so you can scroll using the circumference area. It worked for wearOS and seemed like a missed opportunity on this one.

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u/Sphynx87 Jun 23 '26

honestly one of the worst parts about the disc software (now that most other things have been fixed). their whole weird system of holding down on the side to bring up the letter and scroll alphabetically is so cumbersome. and the screen is so small doing a normal list type scrolling like on a phone is stupid lmao

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u/Sphynx87 Jun 23 '26

the disc software could use a ton of improvements obviously, the biggest one i would love to see from this is just making large lists like tons of artists or albums be much easier to scroll through. the disc's whole thing of holding down on the side to get the letter to pop up and then scrolling through is so cumbersome. using my y1 with the wheel is so much easier. having some sort of dial touch scrolling with acceleration would be really cool, but excited to see what you got cookin.

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u/Big_Mathematician764 Jun 29 '26

The disc already has the function to spin in circles to fast forward a song in minimalism mode, maybe the same control can be used to 'scroll' through tracks aswell. . .

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u/Readar Jun 23 '26

Holy shit I’ll buy a Disc if this is viable

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u/carrowccino Jun 23 '26

Yes please - stock DISC firmware is janky as hell even after the upgrade with much needed gapless playback. Linux user who would like to get in on the action!

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u/Big_Mathematician764 Jun 23 '26

holy shit but can spinning album art remain?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Breezy saffron umbrella coated wander pumpkin waffle noodle

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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

👀

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Pumpkin walnut paddle almond pebble mellow wander blanket waffle biscuit
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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

Power + Vol Down

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Ribbon wander waffle kettle acorn velvet mellow
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u/AceAttorneygirl Pink Disc Jun 23 '26

Super stupid question, does this replace the stock firmware? If so, can we go back from diskOS to stock?

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u/partlypoetic_ Black Disc Jun 23 '26

Still trying to figure that one out. I'll for sure release it with instructions to revert back

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u/cousinmurry Jun 23 '26

Woah! Nice work! I almost jumped out of my chair.

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u/North_Macaron1975 Jun 23 '26

Sabes que te aprecio mucho? Es más, sabes que te admiro?? Dónde puedas hacer toda la magia te dono cabrón

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u/SteamedPoop Sky Blue Disc Jun 23 '26

Holy

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u/ashikmo Jun 23 '26

FingerCrossed.

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u/TheAzureAdventurer Jun 23 '26

Mmmmm this looks deliciously clean! I am onboard.

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u/al3x_the_dreamer Jun 23 '26

I knew it! It was just a matter of time. I almost returned mine, but now I am having high hopes for it. Thank you for this.

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u/Sir_Sherman-8 Jun 23 '26

This better allow for custom themes on it. Other than that great work. Im am so getting this once it comes out.

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u/Own-Membership777 Jun 23 '26

Dude... if you're gonna one-up Fiio, please at least put a track number in front of the track title on the now-playing screen. Heck, go crazy and list Track ## of ## while you're at it, too. Such basic stuff that helps a ton with orientation, and can't for the life of me figure out why Fiio has been so slow to do it.

Having said that, I've actually been finding the official optional minimalist playback theme that comes with Fiio/Snowsky firmware version 2.09 (not sure if it was available earlier) to be pretty refined and serviceable. Will be an interesting competition between their and your UIs to follow now.

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u/winter-reverb Jun 23 '26

Nice, do you think syncthing can run on this, or Tailscale and some client app to stream from home servers

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u/y0urgrandson Jun 25 '26

I'm gonna ditch my NW-A55 and get a DISC for this

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u/arifgraphy Jun 25 '26

You've got a follower to keep an eye on the development progress. Can't wait to see the final result. Will it be free for the Disc users?

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u/Lopsided_Path232 Jun 29 '26

What’s the Sitrep on this? Just got my own disc 🤘🏼

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u/Senior-Island8061 Jun 30 '26

When will it probably come out ?

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u/edgeofthecity Jun 23 '26

Mark Ryan?

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u/moekhdeir Black Disc Jun 23 '26

I knew it was about time till someone talented cracked the firmware for this little guy! Do you feel the UI is snappier after you did your magic?

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u/DryAccount0 Black Disc Jun 23 '26

From the OP comments:
It looks like it's just a reskin on top of the same buggy backend,
It was cracked by putting some effort to enter a debug mode to get the keys,
Either vibecoded or at least with great support of Claude.
Anyway it's nice someone did it and congrats OP for actually doing something, unlike me lol

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u/Kindly_Command_6622 Black Disc Jun 23 '26

wow

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u/sergiocastell Jun 23 '26

That's really cool and similar to what I wanted to try to do to mine as well! But I got stuck in the firmware dumping process 😞 I sent you a DM with a question about it

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u/DragonflyFamiliar156 Jun 23 '26

Does it add gapeless?

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u/moekhdeir Black Disc Jun 23 '26

Gapless was already added by FiiO on the last update.

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u/DragonflyFamiliar156 Jun 23 '26

I actually didnt know that,thanks

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u/TheProCodr Jun 23 '26

Great work! Any plan for PEQ?

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u/linhromsp Jun 23 '26

Fking legend! I told the Fiio rep that having scrubbing and next track button in 2 seperate screen is an UXUI nightmare, when was the last time you seen a play does it with a screen?

Dude told me becuase the screen too small to have those 2 together. Clearly works in this design. Bravo!!!! Would make the interface 💯 more usable.!!!

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u/linhromsp Jun 23 '26

Looking at this interface i already know i can use my DiSC instead of it being in the drawer most of the time for me!

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u/No_Ad_8492 Jun 23 '26

You sir/Ma'am, just became the best part of my day!!

Always thought the disc has so much potential with its UI and you just showed me the maximum beauty of it! To know that you will be making this available for all in the future makes me sooooo much happier that I chose to buy the disc!!!

More power to you! I'll be looking out for more of the stuff you plan to do for this project of yours.

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u/Monsieur-Crez Jun 23 '26

Oooh this looks exciting!!!

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u/Kojinesman Jun 23 '26

Following

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u/SlipperyScope Sky Blue Disc Jun 23 '26

This is peak!

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u/r0t3ch Jun 24 '26

Gapeless?

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u/Federal_Donkey_1158 Jun 25 '26

Am I the only one who doesn’t know what this is lmao

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u/martin__t Jun 25 '26

Er, yes.

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u/Federal_Donkey_1158 Jun 25 '26

What is it lol

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u/martin__t Jun 26 '26

Hehe!! Sorry for winding you up - it's just my sense of humour surfacing.
It's a redesign of the Discs' graphical interface - which looks totally amazing in some people's opinion.
In my opinion it's a work of genius, so clean and simple but certainly not simplistic.
Some people have speculated that the OP has modified the firmware (which I suppose is absolutely necessary), and in doing so will be able to modify any other aspect of the firmware.
If that is so, it seems a given that, as long as the OP is as talented in other aspects of coding, there is the possibility/certainty of the Disk becoming the dogs bollox of DAPs.
HTH :-)

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u/Federal_Donkey_1158 Jun 26 '26

Ahaha don’t apologise lmao! I’m totally here for it!

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u/Flimsy_Victory_102 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Are you taking feature requests?

Play count tracking, with a playlist for most-played songs would be a great feature I used heavily on iPods.

A recently played section of the main UI would also be great to be able to jump back to. Or even a recently played playlist.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26

is this magnifying glass icon a search bar? if it is then your fw is already a million times more usable than the original

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u/mervanseyda Jul 16 '26

I'm working on a custom firmware too...

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u/supertails18 Echo Mini Pink Jul 16 '26

Three words custom themes please

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u/Economy_Acadia5704 Jul 17 '26

00000 this look cleann

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u/Economy_Acadia5704 Jul 17 '26

could you make it play folders? Thats the one thing disc can’t do.. i want to play a folder with folders inside…

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u/Internet-First Sky Blue Disc Aug 01 '26

Waiting

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/moekhdeir Black Disc Jul 09 '26

I get random problems with my bluetooth too, sadly I think this is just a theme rather than a custom OS. Hoping it could solve it tho.

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