A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

[2026.07.12]

Added

• bindings: multi-language FFI bindings for 9 languages — Python, TypeScript, Elixir, Gleam, Ruby, Swift, Kotlin, Clojure, and Go — all layered on a single shared rockbox-ffi C ABI (cdylib + staticlib); Python via cffi, TS via Bun/Deno/Node koffi, Ruby via fiddle, Go via purego, Elixir + Gleam through a shared erl_nif NIF, Swift/Kotlin/Clojure via their native FFIs; each ships an interactive console (Python IPython, Ruby IRB) and a playback example, and queue-insertion / resume / m3u8 are exposed uniformly across all nine
• bindings: per-platform prebuilt native libraries bundled into each package with a dedicated bindings-v* release CI pipeline that uploads artifacts to the GitHub Release; Swift gains a static-linked product plus a macOS/iOS xcframework, Kotlin publishes to Maven Central and Clojure to Clojars (clojure-ffi-v* tag), and Python wheels are tagged py3-none-<platform> per-arch
• dsp: new standalone rockbox-dsp crate (v0.2.0) — the Rockbox DSP chain (parametric EQ, tone controls, surround, channel mode, compressor, and replaygain) extracted as a reusable Rust library that compiles lib/rbcodec/dsp via cc; honours settings.toml EQ values (already in tenths) with local-settings precedence, and builds standalone from vendored C sources
• metadata: new standalone rockbox-metadata crate — Rockbox tag/metadata extraction exposed as a library (phase 1 of the rbcodec extraction), with a flat rbmeta_tags bridge over the firmware parsers
• codecs: new standalone rockbox-codecs crate (v0.1.1) — Rockbox decoders as a Rust library (phase 2), using a warble-style shim and -D symbol renames; HE-AAC (SBR + PS) decoding included
• playback: Rockbox-style queue insertion API (insert / insert-next / insert-last), resume with playback-position restore, and first-class .m3u8 playlist handling — all surfaced through the FFI and bindings
• playback: HTTP(S) remote media playback via a MediaSource abstraction (byte-range requests + MIME sniffing), lazy range-buffered remote files, live-radio streaming, and ICY metadata parsing (StreamTitle, station name, bitrate)
• player: the full Rockbox DSP chain + EQ presets (e.g. BassBoost), crossfeed / PBE / AFR and tone cutoffs, and shuffle / repeat modes are now driveable through the high-level player API, with builder and pipe/fluent DX ergonomics
• build/ci: FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD support — headless-host firmware build, a direct libasound sink on FreeBSD/NetBSD and a new libsndio sink on OpenBSD, statvfs-based filesystem code, FTS5 search on the BSDs, and a dedicated bsd-release CI job that builds rockboxd in FreeBSD/NetBSD VMs via cross-platform-actions
• nix: Nix flake packaging — a hermetic .#rockbox build with bundled Typesense and prefetched V8, Rust staticlibs split into a separately-cached derivation, FlakeHub publishing, a Cachix binary cache, and a nix-consume smoke-test workflow; nix run starts the daemon
• tools: tools/console — a Clojure/babashka REPL (with a ./console launcher) that centralizes the monorepo's build/dev/ops commands
• cli: FreeBSD/NetBSD rc.d service examples plus a service README

Fixed

• ci: macOS gpui and embeddable-library builds no longer fail intermittently at link time with Undefined symbols for architecture arm64: _rb_daemon_start — the Cargo/Zig caches in release-gpui, macos-build, and release-embed-lib are now keyed on ${{ matrix.arch }} so a same-OS/different-arch runner (or a drifting *-latest label that silently switches CPU arch) can never restore an incompatible target/ or zig/.zig-cache; the embed step also force-removes librockbox_embed.a before cargo build and asserts rb_daemon_start is present in both librockbox_embed.a and the flattened librockboxd.a via nm, so a stale or mislinked archive aborts the job at its source instead of deep inside the rust-lld output
• playback: fixed a shutdown deadlock exposed by the new queue-insertion path
• firmware: synced with upstream Rockbox master — brings the Sansa Clip Zip LCD flip / display-init fixes, RTL on-screen-keyboard corrections, numerous FS# bug fixes, and a large sweep of rbutil / tools build-warning cleanups

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockboxd/compare/2026.07.02...2026.07.12