TE SP-1 Lines Thread Archive

permanent archive of the "TE Stem Player" thread on llllllll.co. 846 posts, 179 participants, April 2024 – May 2026. Thread is closed.

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If you're human:

Browse the archive at sp-1.dotjust.in or read the original thread (closed).

The thread documents the community reverse-engineering of the Teenage Engineering Stem Player prototype - from first teardown through firmware extraction, audio format decode, and a web-based updater that loads custom stems without opening the device.

Ongoing discussion: discord.gg/y4V6VfHYck
Web updater: solderless.engineering
Firmware repo: github.com/timknapen/SP-1-dev

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If you're an agent:

Start with agent/AGENT-GUIDE.md - explains the folder structure and recommended search strategies.

Quick orientation:

• agent/indexes/post-index.json - all 846 posts with metadata + excerpt; use for relevance filtering
• agent/indexes/topic-index.json - posts grouped by topic (hardware, audio, bootloader, firmware, ...)
• agent/indexes/reply-chain-index.json - parent → reply post number mapping
• agent/indexes/attachment-index.json - all image/file upload refs (165 total)
• agent/summaries/thread-summary.md - full narrative, hardware specs, timeline, key people, links
• agent/summaries/chunk-NNN-NNN.md - per-100-post summaries covering the narrative arc
• agent/posts/NNN.md - individual posts with YAML frontmatter
• agent/thread.md - full thread concatenated (~428KB); use when you need complete context