Custom software · Solar
Why Solar for your Innioasis
Solar is the network-first software. It switches on the Wi-Fi chip that stock software mostly ignores and turns the player into a device that streams, searches, and downloads music — Deezer, Soulseek, podcasts, even YouTube — all without a phone in the middle.
Model availability
Which Innioasis models run it?
Why people pick it
The player connects to the internet.
- Stream and download from Deezer — Reach searches, streams, and downloads from Deezer using your own account — MP3 on free accounts, FLAC with Premium.
- Soulseek search — Search peer libraries on Soulseek, the long-running file-sharing network, and grab tracks directly.
- Podcast downloads — Subscribe, browse, and download episodes straight to the device over Wi-Fi.
- A stem player — Split songs into vocals, drums, bass, and melody with Lalal.ai stem separation, then mash up one to three tracks with the scroll wheel.
- Rockbox on the same ROM — Solar and Rockbox-Y1 ride together — switch launchers from Settings without reflashing or rebooting.
- YouTube playback — The network-first route includes YouTube playback, turning the player into more of a pocket media machine.
Community
What the community says
Solar is the software for people who looked at their player, saw Wi-Fi hardware sitting unused, and asked “why can’t this just work like my phone?” It is the route most discussed in the r/innioasis community when the topic turns to streaming and downloads on the device itself.
The project’s own releases describe Solar as a work-in-progress interface, and the community treats it that way: exciting when it clicks, with setup steps (like connecting your Deezer account) that reward a patient reader.
What the project offers
- Reach: unified Deezer + Soulseek search, streaming, and downloads
- Get Music: combined Deezer and Reach search from the home menu
- Podcast subscriptions and episode downloads over Wi-Fi
- Stem Player: Gen1-style vocal / drums / bass / melody mixing with the scroll wheel
- Global quick menu for playback, queue, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth from any screen
- Y1 theme support — apply themes from the original Y1 software
- Rockbox-Y1 co-installed with a unified keymap; switch launchers without reboot
- About screen with version, attribution, and OTA update check
Things to know first
- Solar is a work-in-progress interface — releases iterate quickly and rough edges are expected
- Deezer needs your own account’s arl cookie, set up from a PC on the same Wi-Fi; treat the arl like a password
- FLAC quality needs a Deezer Premium account; free accounts use MP3
- Streaming and downloads need a Wi-Fi network — this is not an offline-first software
- If something fails, restoring Original Software for your model is the way back
Get started
Select your model in Updater CE, choose Solar, and pick the release listed for your player. The written guides cover the network setup steps in order.