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Y2Linux 1.0 Beta 4: internet radio. Linux 6.18 and the native Reborn music player for the Innioasis Y2.

Already running Y2Linux

Settings → About & Updates → Check for Updates → Download Update → Restart and Install.

What's new: Radio

Home → Radio (needs Wi-Fi):

  • Popular, Countries, Genres and Search from the free community directory radio-browser.info, tens of thousands of stations. Search uses the wheel keyboard.
  • Favorites: hold Select on a station, or on Now Playing, and choose Add to Favorites. They are kept across restarts and updates.
  • My Stations: copy your own .m3u or .pls station lists into a folder named Radio on Internal Storage or the SD card.
  • Now Playing shows LIVE RADIO, the song the station announces, and how the connection is doing; a short Wi-Fi drop reconnects by itself.
  • MP3, AAC and Ogg streams. Stations that only offer HLS/DASH streams are not supported yet and are left out of the lists.
  • Under the hood, the music decoder still never touches the network: the player's own download tool receives the stream (with certificate checks) and hands over plain audio.

Install (from stock)

You need SP Flash Tool v5.2032, a USB cable, Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.4-first-install.zip below and the Innioasis Y2 firmware package v3.2.0 from Innioasis (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: Y2Linux and Reborn start, music works.
  5. Connect the Y2 to the computer and copy (don't move) system.img from the Innioasis package onto the Firmware drive. The player takes the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth firmware from it and turns the radios on.

Full guide: INSTALL · How updates work: Recovery and updates

Known issues (beta)

  • Internet radio was built and tested on the computer, including real stations; this is its first release on the player.
  • Streaming keeps Wi-Fi busy: battery use is higher than for local music, and Bluetooth headphones may drop out more often while streaming (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth share one antenna on the Y2).
  • FM radio is planned for the next beta.
  • Battery life in sleep is not yet stock-like (about 9 mA vs stock 1.3 mA).
  • The player cannot detect wired headphones yet. Tested on one hardware revision and one player.

Files

  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.4-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 5300).
  • Y2Linux-1.0.0-beta.4-sources-buildroot-legal-info.tar (licences, manifests, this project's packages) and the third-party sources and Linux source linked below: corresponding sources. Our own code: Y2Linux and Y2Reborn at tag baseline-53.
  • SHA256SUMS for the attached files.

Beta software: use at your own risk. Not affiliated with Innioasis or MediaTek. Details: Beta 4 report.

Sources unchanged since an earlier release

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