Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 8.19

Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 8.19: audiobooks, sharper covers and Customize. Linux 6.18 and the native Reborn music player for the Innioasis Y2.

Already running Y2Linux

Settings → About & Updates → Check for Updates → Update Now.

What's new

• Audiobooks. Put books in a folder named Audiobooks (or Hörbücher), use .m4b files, or tag them with the genre Audiobook, and Home → Audiobooks appears. Books you are listening to come first, with Chapter 3 of 12 · 45 %; a book's page shows its chapters and how long it still runs. Books never show up among your songs, albums or artists, and they are not scrobbled.
  • Chapters: the chapter marks inside M4B and MP3 files, otherwise one file per chapter. Next and Previous move by chapter; holding them winds through the book in big steps.
  • Your place is kept for every book, also across restarts and updates and after renaming a folder; when you continue, the book goes back a few seconds (more after a long pause). A finished book starts over.
  • Speed: 0.75× to 2× per book, without changing the voice's pitch (hold Select on Now Playing → Speed).
  • Very long single-file books play (they used to stay silent beyond about 9 hours), and M4B files that carry their cover as a video track are no longer refused.
  • Guide: Audiobooks.
• Sleep timer, for music and books: hold Select on Now Playing → Sleep Timer → 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes (it fades out) or the end of the chapter or song.
• Sharper covers. Covers are shown at the size they are drawn, scaled with a better filter, and small covers in lists are made from the full picture. Wide or tall covers are cropped to their centre instead of stretched. The cover cache holds 3 000 albums (it is rebuilt once after the update). For your own files: square covers of 300–600 px look best.
• Settings → Customize (new):
  • Wrap Around: menus continue at the other end (Menus, the default), also long lists (Everywhere), or not at all (Off). A fast spin through a long list stops at its end first.
  • When Screen Off: what the wheel and its buttons do in the dark: Locked (safe in a pocket), Buttons (Play/Pause, Previous/Next; as before), or Wheel + Buttons (also the wheel as volume and the centre as Play/Pause). Power, the volume keys and headphone buttons always work.
  • Home Menu and Album View moved here from Display.
• Bluetooth headphones while paused: the player stays awake for 15 minutes, so your headphones' own play button can continue.

Everything from Beta 8.17 is included (8.18 was a test build only).

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.8.19-first-install.zip below and the Innioasis Y2 firmware package v3.2.0 from Innioasis (only this version works; it is also your way back to stock).

1. Unpack both.
2. SP Flash Tool → Download Only → load MT6582_Android_scatter.txt from the Y2Linux zip. Exactly BOOTIMG, RECOVERY, ANDROID and USRDATA are ticked.
3. Click Download and connect the switched-off Y2; wait for the green tick.
4. Unplug and press Power: the player sets up its Internal Storage (a few seconds), then Y2Linux and Reborn start, music works.
5. Connect the Y2 to the computer and copy (don't move) system.img from the Innioasis package into the Firmware folder on Internal Storage. The player takes the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth firmware from it and turns the radios on.

Full guide: INSTALL · How updates work: Recovery and updates · Storage: Storage · Audiobooks · Headphone settings: Headphone output · Error reports

Known issues (beta)

• Some car radios don't show the song and artist yet; we are looking into it.
• In a very long single-file book, jumping to another chapter takes 2–3 seconds.
• The highest volume is still lower than stock's, even at High; demanding headphones may want more.
• The restart fix of Beta 8.4 is not yet confirmed over many restarts. If the screen ever stays dark, hold Power for 10 s and start again.
• Battery life in sleep is not yet stock-like (about 8 mA vs stock 1.3 mA; some players draw more, #42).
• GC9503V players keep the old screen-off behaviour until a GC9503V owner has confirmed the new sequence (#45).
• The charging fix (#47) is not yet confirmed on an affected player; if yours still doesn't charge, please send a report.
• The player cannot detect wired headphones yet; the jack plays whenever no Bluetooth headphones are connected.
• BBC radio stations stream only in HLS, which the player does not play yet (planned for a later beta).
• FM radio is in the works for a later beta.

Files

• Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.8.19-first-install.zip: images, scatter files and checksums for SP Flash Tool. The data image has no SSH key (developers: tools/production/first_owner.py).
• manifest.json, manifest.sig, rootfs.ext4.gz, bootimg.img.gz, recovery.img.gz: the signed over-the-air update (Ed25519 key platform-v1-release-20261015, sequence 8302).
• Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.8.19-sources-buildroot-legal-info.tar (licences, manifests, this project's packages) and the third-party, toolchain and Linux sources linked below: corresponding sources. Our own code: Y2Linux and Y2Reborn at tag baseline-118. The headphone profiles are AutoEq results (MIT, Jaakko Pasanen); their licence ships with them.
• SHA256SUMS for the attached files.

Beta software: use at your own risk. Not affiliated with Innioasis, MediaTek, Last.fm, AutoEq, Strawberry or Google. Noto Sans CJK is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Details: Beta 8.19 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

• Y2Linux-sources-third-party-b24c80bffef1.tar (attached to baseline-114), SHA-256 b24c80bffef118ebe6f08843ae51e8516dd9be04decc1e76e5063c4eb7a2b2ca
• Y2Linux-sources-toolchain-f7cda4c7d213.tar (attached to baseline-75), SHA-256 f7cda4c7d2134bed15dacc7afd7e1687621a57412d60e49c725efc3880bf1bc6
• linux-6.18.56.tar.xz (attached to baseline-52), SHA-256 4633bbda2ab95eaf2a7af4041236451d6759c72e6946265531af4b3aacefbf89