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3. 13 233 a 13 2 3 3 Enabling Speech Support optional 15 24 Running Rockbox s sn eb es 15 2 5 Updating Rockbox s 5 204456 8 2444 bd be eee ee ee 15 26 Umnstalinge Rockhoxk gt so a aoe oe na RA ER ae ole eee 16 2 6 1 Automatic Uninstallation 16 26 2 Manual Uninstallation eos se ee e aoe Gon OR Ree ee ES 16 3 Quick Start 17 3 amp 1 Basie Overview se spo 8404 44824 65 22 ewe we daw ee 17 31 1 The player s controls 2 4 4 5254856254886 4444 17 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off lt 18 3 1 3 Putting music on your player e ae aapa aas 18 SLL The Tare 18 Sigs 18 3 1 0 Basic concepts gt s sa ea w ecs 19 3a e ra wa we ee te 19 4 Browsing and playing 20 Eile BOW ee e ee ee BR Oe Se ek 20 411 File Browser Controls sp acu e p te Gk we poe ee 21 MA Conten Men o Se e EE 21 41 24 Virtual Keyboard ee e a eA 23 d3 Database essy e ee D a a T ee a 23 O20 2 ra i a a ee ee 23 4 2 2 Initializing the 2 5
4. open source jukebox firmware The Rockbox Manual for Archos Recorder 6 10 15 and 20 rockbox org December 23 2008 Rockbox http www rockbox org Open Source Jukebox Firmware Rockbox and this manual is the collaborative effort of the Rockbox team and its contributors See the appendix for a complete list of contributors 2003 2008 The Rockbox Team and its contributors 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough 2003 Jos Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal amp Peter Schlenker Version 19569 081223 Built using Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sec tions no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CONTENTS 3 Contents 1 Introduction 10 LI en sosa a eo A Bee HS BRE SRE REE RES 10 L2 Getting more help lt o pama samd a ea eR ew eee 4 10 1 3 Naming conventions and marks c ete soie ta deargad 11 2 Installation 12 OL ng nag Ge he eh a oe he ee anga 12 22 Proges oo oes kk KE Re eR HE EES 12 20 Installing 2m 4 5 55 He ee deh ee eR 13 2 3 1 Automated Installation
5. o coso sasacg a aiee oe tle ae ee as 119 12 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader ie Be ee a 120 12 Rockbox Peho e eo ee oe 120 SL e lt co soed d r So Ee a a 120 12 5 2 Terminology and Basic Operation 120 12 5 3 Initial Flashing 121 12 5 4 Updating the Rockbox Image in Flash 122 12 5 5 Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents 122 A File formats 123 1 Supported file formats a a ee 124 WPS Tags 125 BI Bar wwe bk A ee ek 125 Bo oep ee ee ee ee Bk ee BO ae eS 125 B o Power Related Information Ke ek ee he 126 Bee Wile Diore bbe Ee See BR ke Be 126 Bo nip OE Se ESSE EES 127 Runtime Database s secca a ee 127 Bal Viral LED 127 BS Repeat Mod lt e sa s ma aa dats g i w ee ee 05 128 B9 Playback Mode Tape co 128 B10 Volne acia maa pa ae a ee e 128 Ball Series ee ra Be Rea me bee ee ew a 129 Bile Winsted AA ee ee ee ee 129 Bild Alignment Ge DAHLE RRR e 130 B14 Conditional Tags ec o oe
6. 24 4 2 3 The Database Menu 24 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CONTENTS 4 424 Using the Database o reo g i nk pa he eee 25 do While Playing Sergei 2 o ec eee eke Bod aOR ee 26 AS WES Bee COMTO con ee ee See 28 4232 Peak Met r o lt a s mao ea aoee aaao ee ee 28 4 3 3 WPS Context Menu oe a a 0000 29 AA Gick GGS ea BEA a a a G e e we AR 31 AS Working with Playlists aca sa oaot a Wa a i 32 4 5 1 Playlist terminology ee 32 4 5 2 Creating playlists se a 33 453 Adding music to playlists pi a seca ea wee ee dA 34 ASA Moding playlists c o saae beh k ee RE Ee RA ee a 35 ABD Seving playlistis a soote sa eR 35 4 5 6 Loading saved playlists 36 Any Hints 6 04 i448 ee bee 36 5 The Main Menu 37 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu 37 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 37 Recent Bookmarks os rs a aok 38 UGS o ee GB 38 6 0 Database e e scapi eanet SRA ew ae 38 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback 38 Ot MOUIMNOR eee ee ead a EERE Ee he ee oes
7. If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run you must cause it when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty or else saying that you provide a warranty and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions and telling the user how to view a copy of this License Exception if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 156 such an announcement your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves then this License and its terms do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it Thus it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you rather the intent is to exercise the right to con
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9. Note As ZXBox is a 48k emulator only loading of 48k z80 snapshots is possible Default keys The emulator is set up for 5 different buttons Up Down Left Right and Jump Fire Each one of these can be mapped to one key of the Spectrum Keyboard or they can be used like a Kempston joystick Per default the buttons including an additional but fixed menu button are assigned as follows Key Action Up Down Directional movement Left Right Play Jump Fire F1 Open ZXBox menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 98 ZXBox menu Vkeyboard This is a virtual keyboard representing the Spectrum keyboard Controls are the same as in standard Rockbox but you just press one key instead of entering a phrase Play Pause Tape Toggles playing of the tape if it is loaded Save Quick Snapshot Saves snapshot into rockbox zxboxq z80 Load Quick Snapshot Loads snapshot from rockbox zxboxq z80 Save Snapshot Saves a snapshot of the current state You would enter the full path and desired name for example games zx snapshots chuckie sna The snapshot format will be chosen after the extension you specified per default z80 will be taken in case you leave it open Toggle Fast Mode Toggles fastest possible emulation speed no sound maximum frameskip etc This is Useful when loading tapes with some specific loaders Options Map Keys To Kempston Controls whether the player s buttons should sim u
10. 11 4 7 Disk Tidy Disk Tidy deletes junk files left behind by Windows Linux or OS X after a USB connec tion Select the OS s files you want to delete in the Files to Clean menu and select Start Cleaning to begin to process The settings are stored in rockbox rocks apps disktidy config in a plain text file that is user modifiable to allow more entries to be added Available Options All selects all Linux OS X and Windows files None deselects all file options Linux selects Linux files Default files are dolphinview d3lphinview and Trash Windows selects Windows files Default files are Thumbs db RECYCLE BIN Desktop ini Recycled and System Volume Information Mac selects OS X files Default files are _ DS_Store and Trashes Other selects additional files added in by the user Key Action Left or Off Exit Abort THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 107 11 4 8 Firmware_flash Warning Image ignored Firmware_flash Use when flashing Rockbox see section page In the ideal case you ll need this tool only once For safety reasons you may wish to delete firmware_flash rock from rockbox rocks once flashing is complete 11 4 9 Keybox Keybox is an encrypted password storage using the Tiny Encryption Algorithm with a key derived using md5 Using Keybox To get started start up the plugin and select ENTER KEYBOX The first time you enter
11. Create Playlist Rockbox will create a playlist with all tracks in the current directory and all sub directories The playlist will be created one directory level up from where you currently are View Current Playlist Displays the contents of the playlist currently stored in memory THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 4 Save Current Playlist Saves the current dynamic playlist excluding queued tracks to the specified file If no path is provided then playlist is saved to the current directory Playlist Catalog The PLAYLIST CATALOG provides a simple interface to maintain sev eral playlists see section 4 5 page 32 5 10 Plugins With this option you can load and run various plugins that have been written for Rock box There are a wide variety of these supplied with Rockbox including several games some impressive demos and a number of utilities A detailed description of the different plugins is to be found in section 11 page 64 5 11 System This option shows RAM buffer size battery voltage level and estimated time remaining disk total space and disk free space Time and Date Time related menu options Pressing Long Play will voice the current time if voice support is enabled Set Time Date Set current time and date Sleep Timer The SLEEP TIMER powers off your player after playing for a given time It can be set from OFF to 5 hours in 5 minute steps The SLEEP TIMER is reset
12. Examples 1 Load and display the image rockbox bg bmp with ID a at 37 109 7x albg bmp 37 109 2 Load a bitmap strip containing 5 volume icon images all the same size with image ID M and then reference the individual sub images in a conditional X1 M volume bmp 134 153 5 h pv lt xdMa xdMb xdMc xdMd xdMe gt Note e The images must be in a rockbox compatible format 1 bit per pixel BMP e The image tag must be on its own line e The ID is case sensitive giving 52 different ID s e The size of the LCD screen for each player varies See table below for appropriate sizes of each device The x and y coordinates must repect each of the players limits B 13 Alignment Tag Description fal Text is left aligned Text is center aligned Zar Text is right aligned All alignment tags may be present in one line but they need to be in the order left center right If the aligned texts overlap they are merged B 14 Conditional Tags Tag Description A xx lt true false gt If Else Evaluate for true or false case xx lt altilalt2 alt3 else gt Enumerations Evaluate for first second third last condition THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX WPS Tacs 131 B 15 Real Time Clock Tag Description Day of month 469 Zero padded day of month cH padded hour from 00 to 24 Ack Hour from 0 to 24 461 Zero padded hour from 12 to 12
13. ing that could fall directly within that overall subject Thus if the Document is in part a textbook of mathematics a Secondary Section may not explain any mathemat ics The relationship could be a matter of historical connection with the subject or with related matters or of legal commercial philosophical ethical or political position regarding them The Invariant Sections are certain Secondary Sections whose titles are desig nated as being those of Invariant Sections in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License If a section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not allowed to be designated as Invariant The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections If the Document does not identify any Invariant Sections then there are none The Cover Texts are certain short passages of text that are listed as Front Cover Texts or Back Cover Texts in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License A Front Cover Text may be at most 5 words and a Back Cover Text may be at most 25 words A Transparent copy of the Document means a machine readable copy represented in a format whose specification is available to the general public that is suitable for re vising the document straightforwardly with generic text editors or for images composed of pixels generic paint programs or for drawings some widely available drawing edi tor and that is suitable for inpu
14. or FLAC This tag can also be used in a condi tional tag 4 c lt mp1 mp2 mp3 aiff wav vorbis flac mpc a52 wavpack alac aac shn sid adx unknown gt The codec order is as follows MP1 MP2 MP3 AIFF WAV Ogg Vorbis OGG FLAC MPC AC3 WavPack WV ALAC AAC Shorten SHN SID ADX NSF Speex SPC APE File Frequency in Hz File Name File Name without extension File Path File Size In Kilobytes avg if variable bit rate if constant bit rate First directory from end of file path Second directory from end of file path Third directory from end of file path 6099 Example for the commands If the path is Rock Kent Isola 11 747 mp3 d1 is Isola d2 is Kent You get the picture THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX WPS Tacs 127 5 Playlist Song Info Tag 700 PP Apt Arp hrr B 7 Tag lh Description Progress Bar This will replace the entire line with a progress bar You can set the height position and width of the progressbar in pixels pb height leftpos rightpos toppos Percentage Played In Song Current Time In Song Total Number of Playlist Entries Peak Meter The entire line is used as volume peak meter Playlist Name Without path or extension Playlist Position Remaining Time In Song Shuffle Shows s if shuffle mode
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16. The virtual keyboard can be easily changed by making a text file with the required layout More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at sLoadableKeyboardLayouts Key Action Left Right Move about the virtual keyboard moves Up Down the solid cursor On Left or On Move the line cursor within the text line Right Play Inserts the selected keyboard letter at the current cursor position Off Exits the virtual keyboard without saving any changes 1 Shifts between the upper case lower case and accented keyboards F2 Exits the virtual keyboard and saves any changes F3 Deletes the character before the line cur sor 4 2 Database 4 2 1 Introduction This chapter describes the Rockbox music database system Using the information contained in the tags ID3v1 ID3v2 in your audio files Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music files on your player and allows you to browse them by Artist Album Genre Song Name etc The criteria the database uses to sort the songs can be completely customised More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at DataBase THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 24 4 2 2 Initializing the Database The first time you use the database Rockbox will scan your disk for audio files This can take quite a while depending on the number of files on your player This scan happens in the backg
17. cl Hour from 12 to 12 Zcm Month 4614 Minutes cS Seconds cy 2 digit year cY 4 digit year 65 Capital AM PM Lowercase am pm Weekday name cb Month name cu Day of week from 1 to 7 1 is Monday cw Day of week from 0 to 6 0 is Sunday B 16 Other Tags Tag Description hh Display a 4 lt Display lt Display a gt Display a gt Display hs Indicate that the line should scroll Can occur anywhere in a line given that the text is displayed see conditionals above You can specify up to 10 scrolling lines Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as timers peak meters or progress bars THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 132 C Config file options Setting Allowed Values Unit volume 100 to 12 dB bass 15 to 15 dB treble 15 to 15 dB balance 100 to 100 channels stereo mono custom mono left N A mono right karaoke stereo_width 0 to 250 shuffle on off N A repeat off all one shuffle ab N A play selected on off N A party mode on off N A scan min step 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 25 seconds 30 45 60 seek acceleration very fast fast normal slow very N A slow antiskip 5s 15s 30s 1min 2min 3min N A 5min 10min volume fade on off N A sort case on off N A show files all supported music playlists N A show filename exts off on unknown view_all N
18. other operating systems this may vary If the zip file format is not recognised on THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 13 your computer you can find a program to handle them at http www info zip org http sevenzip sf net both of which can be downloaded and used free of charge Text editor As you will see in the following chapters Rockbox is highly configurable In addition to saving configurations Rockbox also allows you to create customised configuration files If you would like to edit custom configuration files on your computer you will need a text editor like Windows Wordpad 2 3 Installing Rockbox 2 3 1 Automated Installation To automatically install Rockbox download the official installer and housekeeping tool ROCKBOX UTILITY It allows you to e Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox Small Installa tion e Automatically install all suggested components Full Installation Selectively install optional components Install additional themes e Install voice files and generate talk clips e Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility Prebuilt binaries for Windows Linux and MacOS X are available at the mRockboxUtility wiki page Warning When first starting ROCKBOX UTILITY run Autodetect found in the con figuration dialog File Configure Autodetection can detect most player types If autodetection fa
19. 115 for more details Browse Fonts Browse the installed fonts on your player Selecting one will activate it See section 12 1 2 page 114 for further details about fonts Browse WPS files Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it stop will exit back to the menu For further information about the WPS see section 4 3 page 26 For information about editing a wps file see section 12 2 page 114 Show Icons Rockbox has the ability to display an icon to the left of the file in the FILE BROWSER For details of these icons see section A 1 page 124 These icons can also be customised See the IconSets and sCustomIcons Wiki pages for details Line Selector Type This option allows you to select which type of line selector to use Pointer A small arrow to the left of the menu text Bar inverse A bar with inverted foreground and background colour THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 60 10 Recording Settings Figure 10 1 The recording settings screen Note To change the location where recordings are stored open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 21 on the directory where you want to store them in the FILE BROWSER and select SET AS RECORDING DIRECTORY 10 1 Quality Choose the quality here 0 to 7 Default is 5 best quality is 7 smallest file size is 0 This setting effects how much your sound sample wi
20. 2 12 Starfield Figure 11 32 Starfield Starfield simulation like the classic screensaver Key Action Right Left Increase decrease number of stars Up Down Increase decrease speed Off Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 90 11 2 13 VU meter Figure 11 33 VU Meter This is a VU meter which displays the volume of the left and right audio channels There are 3 types of meter selectable The analogue meter is a classic needle style The digital meter is modelled after LED volume displays and the mini meter option allows for the display of small meters in addition to the main display as above From the settings menu the decay time for the meter its memory the meter type and the meter scale can be changed Key Action Off Save settings and quit On Help 1 Settings Up Raise Volume Down Lower Volume 11 3 Viewers Viewers are plugins which are associated with specific file extensions They cannot be run directly but are started by playing the associated file Viewers are stored in the rockbox rocks viewers directory 11 3 1 Shortcuts The Shortcuts Plugin allows you to jump to places within the file browser without having to navigate there manually The plugin works with link files A link file is just a text file with every line containing the name of the file or the directory you want to quickly jump to All names should be full absolute names i e they should
21. 38 A SOUR o kk nok PA ao ee Re ee h 39 mae Playback Serine sa cro AOR Be Rk ee eo 39 Geiss Ceneral POWER bone ee Ae eo ee eed 39 Gao Seine o ccor ee ke ea Re ee EE a 39 Theme SAnS eeii e ee Re en Gn Pk ee ee i 39 5 7 6 Recording Settings e cs k e doa Ba he eae ee ea ee 39 7 ee ee a de E 0 39 5 8 1 While Recording Screen 39 59 Playlist ee ae 40 Pee Ea doe a ee amp Gee 41 so A ge Ba ee HA SR a ed ee 41 Quick 41 6 Sound Settings 43 G1 Volume o sdra wosa w Be ed eae ae bak a ee ee 43 G2 Bass oo cee bene bed we de ea eee aS 43 oo ae aa eige me a ee a ee eee ee 43 Oa gc A ge Pee we bee ee ee Se a ea ee eS 44 On Channel kG ee bk 44 Stereo Wdb eo em 44 ota a eaaa ee be oe ee BS 44 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CONTENTS 5 Anto Volume a i ah a ee a ae 45 Pee Super GS de ecg ee
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23. APPENDIX D USER FEEDBACK 138 e Interfacing with other USB devices like cameras or 2 player games over USB The USB system demands that there is a master that talks to a slave The player can only serve as a slave as most other USB devices such as cameras can Thus without a master no communication between the slaves can take place If that is not enough we have no ways of actually controlling the communication performed over USB since the USB circuit in the player is strictly made for disk access and does not allow us to play with it the way we d need for any good communication to work e Support other file systems than FAT32 like NTFS or ext2 or whatever No Rockbox needs to support FAT32 since it can only start off a FAT32 partition since that is the only way the ROM can load it and addingsupport for more file systems will just take away valuable ram for unnecessary features You can partition your player fine just make sure the first one is FAT32 and then make the other ones whatever file system you want Just do not expect Rockbox to understand them e Add scandisk like features It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to a host computer THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX CHANGELOG 139 E Changelog E 1 What is new since v3 0 E 1 1 New features 2008 12 09 Album Art resiz
24. F1 Show Item Menu Long Play Delete Line THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 114 12 Advanced Topics 12 1 Customising the User Interface 12 1 1 Getting Extras Rockbox supports custom fonts A collection of fonts is available for download in the font package at http www rockbox org daily shtml 12 1 2 Loading Fonts Rockbox can load fonts dynamically Simply copy the fnt file to the player and play it in the FILE BROWSER If you want a font to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox fonts directory and the filename must be at most 24 characters long You can browse the fonts in rockbox fonts under SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS DISPLAY BROWSE FONTs in the MAIN MENU Warning Advanced Users Only Any BDF font file up to 16 pixels high should be usable with Rockbox To convert from bdf to fnt use the convbdf tool This tool can be found in the tools directory of the Rockbox source code 12 1 3 Loading Languages Rockbox can load language files at runtime Simply copy the 1ng file do not use the lang file to the player and play it in the Rockbox directory browser or select SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS LANGUAGES from the MAIN MENU Note If you want a language to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox langs directory and the filename must be a maximum of 24 characters long If y
25. FILE BROWSER stop the playback with the Off button or return to the file browser while keeping playback running using On In list views you can go back one step with Left 3 1 6 Basic concepts Playlists Rockbox is playlist oriented This means that every time you play an audio file a so called dynamic playlist is generated unless you play a saved playlist You can modify the dynamic playlist while playing and also save it to a file If you do not want to use playlists you can simply play your files directory based Playlists are covered in detail in section 4 5 page 32 Menu From the menu you can customise Rockbox Rockbox itself is very customisable Also there are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions Context Menu Some views especially the file browser and the WPS have a context menu From the file browser this can be accessed with Long Play The contents of the context menu vary depending on the situation it gets called The context menu itself presents you with some operations you can perform with the currently highlighted file In the file browser this is the file or directory that is highlighted by the cursor From the WPS this is the currently playing file Also there are some actions that do not apply to the current file but refer to the screen from which the context menu gets called One example is the playback menu which can be called using the context menu from within the WPS 3 2 Cust
26. INSERT DIRECTORIES setting to YES if you would like to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently selected directory THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 37 5 The Main Menu 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu Figure 5 1 The main menu The MAIN MENU is the screen from which all of the Rockbox functions can be accessed This is the first screen you will see when starting Rockbox To return to the MAIN MENU press the F1 button All settings are stored on the unit However Rockbox does not spin up the disk solely for the purpose of saving settings Instead Rockbox will save settings when it spins up the disk the next time for example when refilling the MP3 buffer or navigating through the FILE BROWSER Changes to settings may therefore not be saved unless the player is shut down safely see section 3 1 2 page 18 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu Key Action Up Moves up in the menu Inside a setting increases the value or chooses next option Down Moves down in the menu Inside a setting decreases the value or chooses previous option Play Right Selects option Off Left Exits menu setting or moves to parent menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 38 5 3 Recent Bookmarks Figure 5 2 The list bookmarks screen If the SAVE A LIST OF RECENTLY CREATED BOOKMARKS option is enabled then you can view a list of several recent bookmarks h
27. Keybox you will be prompted for a master password and for confirmation of the master password The master password is the password that you must use to access your stored passwords Once inside enter the context menu by pressing Long Play From the context menu you can create new entries delete entries and edit entries Each entry has a title a user name and a password Selecting RESET KEYBox from the main menu will delete the current list of passwords and a new empty list will be created the next time you select ENTER KEYBOX after prompting for a new master password Entries are automatically saved when the plugin is exited 11 4 10 Lamp Lamp is a simple plugin to use your player as a lamp flashlight torch You get an empty screen with maximum brightness Key Action Off Quit 11 4 11 md5sum Open a file a directory or just launch it from the plugin menu to create an md5sum of the file the directory s contents or the whole filesystem If the file s extension is md5 or md5sum it will check the md5 sums in the file instead If the file s extension is md5list it will compute md5 sums for all the files listed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 108 11 4 12 Metronome This plugin can be used as a metronome to keep time during music practice Adjust the tempo through the interface or by tapping it out on the appropriate button Key Action Off Exit plugin Play Start St
28. MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 148 A section Entitled XYZ means a named subunit of the Document whose title ei ther is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following text that translates XYZ in another language Here XYZ stands for a specific section name mentioned below such as Acknowledgements Dedications Endorsements or History To Preserve the Title of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a section Entitled XYZ according to this definition The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which states that this License applies to the Document These Warranty Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this License but only as regards disclaiming warranties any other implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has no effect on the meaning of this License 2 VERBATIM COPYING You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium either commercially or noncommercially provided that this License the copyright notices and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute However you may accept compensation in exchange for copies If you distr
29. Save dialogue In the save dialogue it is possible to specify which of the files you want to save and their names When finished select Save and the files will be written to disk Note that files can not be overwritten so filenames that do not exist yet must be chosen If unsure whether the file already exists simply try to save it If another file with this name exists the dialogue will return and you can choose another filename Figure 11 42 The Split Editor s Save Dialogue Key Action Up Down Select item Play Toggle edit item Off Cancel Table 11 2 Controls in the save dialogue THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 112 Scale The values in the waveform are scaled according to the settings of the peak meter These can be altered in the peak meter settings see section 8 4 page 53 If extreme minimum or maximum values are set the waveform might be cut off A minimum setting of 60 dB and a maximum setting of 0 dB are recommended These settings should be capable of producing useful waveforms for very soft sounds in logarithmic mode dB When the editor is used on loud sounds such as commercial rock or pop music switching to the linear scale may prove more effective since the logarithmic scale compresses loud noises and makes it more difficult to identify characteristic shapes Note that it is always possible to toggle between the two scale modes 11 4 15 Stats Figure 11 43 The st
30. Skip Buffer This setting controls how early Rockbox starts refilling the music buffer from the hard drive when playing A longer Anti Skip Buffer helps prevent skips in music playback if Rockbox has trouble reading from the disk This can happen if the player is knocked shaken or jogged heavily while Rockbox is trying to read the hard drive The anti skip buffer can be set to a value between 0 and 7 seconds Note Having a large anti skip buffer tends to use more power and may reduce your battery life It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback 7 6 Fade on Stop Pause Enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop playing a song If the Fade on Stop Pause option is set to YES your music will fade out when you stop or pause playback and fade in when you resume playback 7 7 Party Mode Enables unstoppable music playback When new songs are selected they are queued at the end of the current dynamic playlist instead of being played immediately Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins 7 8 Auto Change Directory Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a directory If AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY is set to YES Rockbox will continue to the next directory If AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY is set to No playback will stop at the end of the current playlist Using the RANDOM feature requires you to first generate a folder list
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32. and filename of the current song The track name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 27 e The ID3 album name e The ID3 artist name e Bit rate VBR files display average bitrate and avg Elapsed and total time e A slidebar progress meter representing where in the song you are e Peak meter Note e The number of lines shown depends on the size of the font used e The peak meter is only visible if you turn off the status bar or if using a small font that gives 8 or more display lines See section 12 2 page 114 for details of customising your WPS While Playing Screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 28 4 3 1 WPS Key Controls Key Action Up Down Volume up down Left Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track go to previous track Long Left Rewind in track Right Go to next track Long Right Fast forward in track Play Toggle play pause Off Stop playback On Return to the FILE BROWSER Long Play Enter WPS CONTEXT MENU F1 Enter MAIN MENU F2 Switches to the QUICK SCREEN see sec tion 5 12 page 41 F3 Toggles Display quick screen F1 Down Key lock on off F1 Play Mute on off On Up Down Show PITCH SCREEN see section 4 3 3 page 30 F1 On Enter ID3 VIEWER On Left or Skip to the next directory Short Right Long Right On Right or Shor
33. been released After that it will display the volume value THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX WPS Tacs 129 B 11 Settings Tag Description St lt setting name gt Display the value of any Rockbox setting Example Can be used as a simple tag St skip length or with conditionals 7St eq enabled lt Equalizer is enabled Equalizer is disabled gt B 12 Images Tag Description P filename bmp x n filename x y X1 n filename x y nimages xdn 1 Load a Progress bar image for the WPS Use pb tag to show the progress bar Load and display an image n image ID a z and A Z for later referencing in 4x0 filename filename relative to rockbox and in cluding bmp x x coordinate y y coordinate Preload an image for later display useful for when your images are displayed conditionally n image ID a z and A Z for later referencing in filename filename relative to rockbox and in cluding bmp x x coordinate y y coordinate nimages optional number of sub images tiled vertically of the same height contained in the bitmap Default is 1 Display a preloaded image n image ID a z A Z as it was specified in x or 4X1 i optional number of the sub image to display a z for 1 26 and A Z for 27 52 By default the first i e top most sub image will be used THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX WPS Tacs 130
34. choose the FILE BROWSER the SHOW FILES setting lets you select what types of files you wish to view See section 8 2 page 51 for more information on the SHOW FILES setting Note The FILE BROWSER allows you to manipulate your files in ways that are not available within the DATABASE BROWSER Read more about DATABASE in section 4 2 page 23 The remainder of this section deals with the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 21 4 1 1 File Browser Controls Key Action Up Down On Up Down Left Right On Off Long Play F1 F2 F3 Go to previous next item in list If you are on the first last entry the cursor will wrap to the last first entry Move one page up down in the list Go to the parent directory Executes the default action on the se lected file or enters a directory If there is an audio file playing returns to the WHILE PLAYING SCREEN WPS without stopping playback Stops audio playback Enter the CONTEXT MENU Enter the MAIN MENU Switches to the QUICK SCREEN see sec tion 5 12 page 41 Switches to the Display Quick Screen The functions of the F keys are also summarised on the button bar at the bottom of the screen 4 1 2 Context Menu Figure 4 2 The Context Menu The CONTEXT MENU allows you to perform certain operations on files or directories To access the CONTEXT MENU position the selector over a file or directory and acce
35. disable autoresume if phones off on N A not present Last fm Logging off on N A talk dir off number spell N A talk dir clip off on N A talk file off number spell N A talk file clip off on N A talk filetype off on N A talk menu off on N A Announce Battery Level off on N A sort files alpha oldest newest type N A sort dirs alpha oldest newest N A tagcache_autoupdate on off N A warn when erasing dynamic off N A playlist cuesheet support on off N A folder navigation off on random N A gather runtime data off on N A skip length track 1 2 3 4 5 10 15 minutes THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 134 Setting Allowed Values Unit start in screen previous root files db wps N A menu recording bookmarks playlist catalog directory path to dir N A loudness 0 to 17 N A superbass on off N A auto volume off 20ms 2s 4s 8s seconds mdb enable on off N A mdb strength 0 to 127 dB mdb harmonics 0 to 100 mdb center 20 to 300 Hz mdb shape 50 to 300 Hz peak meter release 1 to 126 peak meter hold off 200ms 300ms 500ms 1 2 3 N A 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 30 1min peak meter clip hold on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 10 16 N A 20 25 30 45 60 90 2min 3min 5min 10min 20min 45min 90min peak meter busy on off N A peak meter dbfs on off on dbfs off linear peak meter min 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 dB or peak meter max 0 to 89 dB o
36. display information incorrectly if your files are not properly tagged and you have your music organized in a way different than they assume when attempting to guess the Artist and Album names from your filetree 3 1 4 The first contact After you have first started the player you ll be presented by the MAIN MENU From this menu you can reach every function of Rockbox for more information see section 5 1 page 37 To browse the files on you player select FILES see section 4 1 page 20 and to browse in a view that is based on the meta data of your audio files select DATABASE see section 4 2 page 23 3 1 5 Basic controls When browsing files and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive In the tree view use Down and Up to move around the selection Use Right or On to select an item When browsing the file system selecting an audio file plays it The view switches to the While playing screen usually abbreviated as WPS see section 4 3 page 26 The dynamic playlist gets replaced with the contents of the current directory ID3 Tags Vorbis comments etc THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 19 This way you can easily treat directories as playlists The created dynamic playlist can be extended or modified while playing This is also known as on the fly playlist To go back to the
37. everyone can redistribute and change under these terms To do so attach the following notices to the program It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty and each file should have at least the copyright line and a pointer to where the full notice is found lt one line to give the program s name and a brief idea of what it does gt Copyright C lt year gt lt name of author gt This program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it un der the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License or at your option any later version This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABIL ITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more details You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program if not write to the Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail If the program is interactive make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode Gnomovision version 69 Copyright C lt year gt lt name of author gt Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for details t
38. extract two files to the root firmware_ lt model gt bin and firmware_ lt model gt _norom bin The lt model gt part is slighty different from that in the zip file name The flash plugin will select the correct one for your player Now safely disconnect USB 3 Make sure your batteries are in good shape and fully charged Flashing doesn t need more power than normal operation but you don t want your player to run out of power while flashing 4 Select PLUGINS APPLICATIONS and run the firmware flash plugin It will tell you about your flash and which file it is going to program After pressing F1 it will check the file If the file is OK pressing F2 will give you a big warning If THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 122 we still didn t manage to scare you off you need to press F3 to actually program and verify The programming takes just a few seconds 5 In the unlikely event that the programming or verify steps should give you any error do not switch off the box Otherwise you ll have seen it working for the last time While Rockbox is still in RAM and operational we could upgrade the plugin via USB and try again If you switch it off it s gone Note After successful flashing you may delete the bin files from the root of your player Note There are no separate flash packages for players modified to have 8MB of RAM You need to use the corresponding package for non modified Recor
39. for details of how to save and edit a configuration file Reset Settings This wipes the saved settings in the player and resets all settings to their default values Save cfg File This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The configuration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the user settings that are described throughout this manual Hint Use the SAVE CFG FILE feature MAIN MENU GENERAL SETTINGS to save the current settings then use a text editor to customize the settings file See Appendix section C page 132 for the full reference of available options Save Sound Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The config uration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the sound related settings Save Theme Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The config uration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the theme related settings 12 4 Firmware Loading When your player powers on it loads the Archos firmware in ROM which automatically checks your player s root directory for a file named ajbrec ajz Note that Archos firmware can only read the first ten characters of each filename in this process so do not THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 120 rename your old firmware files with names like ajbrec ajz old and so on because it is possible that the player will load a file other
40. function does not remove runtime database information Gather Runtime Data When enabled rockbox will record how often and how long a track is being played when it was last played and its rating This information can be displayed in the WPS and is used in the database browser to for example show the most played unplayed and most recently played tracks Export Modifications This allows for the runtime data to be exported to the file rockbox database_changelog txt which backs up the runtime data in ASCII format This is needed when database structures change because new code cannot read old database code But all modifications exported to ASCII format should be readable by all database versions THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 25 Import Modifications Allows the rockbox database_changelog txt backup to be conveniently loaded into the database If AUTO UPDATE is enabled this is per formed automatically when the database is initialized 4 2 4 Using the Database Once the database has been initialized you can browse your music by Artist Al bum Genre Song Name etc To use the database go to the MAIN MENU and select DATABASE Note You may need to increase the value of the MAX FILES IN DIR BROWSER setting SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS SYSTEM LIMITS in order to view long lists of tracks in the ID3 database browser There is no option to turn off database completely If you
41. generated from the GENERATE menu option When playing an existing Sudoku game file from Rockbox file browser the plugin is invoked as viewer The selected Sudoku will get loaded and you can start solving it The sudoku games need to be stored as text files with the extension ss as single file per game You can create and save your own grids under the NEW menu option Enter the menu as described in the key table below when you have finished and enter the full path to save to including the ss extension e g sudoku new ss The scratchpad When you play Sudoku on paper most people like to mark numbers in cells that are possible candidates for the cells This can be done with the scratchpad shown as separate column Change the number under the cursor to the number you want to put on the scratchpad and press the scratchpad button the number will then be added If the number was already on the scratchpad it will get removed again The column is stored seperatly for every cell on the board The stored values can be displayed inline as small dots by enabling the SHow MARKINGS settings THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 80 Note The scratchpad is not saved when saving the game Key Action Up Down Move the cursor Left Right Play Change number under the cursor Long Play Constantly changing the number under the cursor F1 Open Menu F2 Add Remove number to scratchpad off Quit Some places w
42. in case you invoke it by accident Minimon won t display anything on the screen To get out of it perform a hardware shutdown of your player 12 5 3 Initial Flashing Procedure You only need to perform this procedure the first time you flash your Recorder You may also want to perform it in case the update procedure for the second image recommends it In the latter case do not perform the steps listed under Preparation Preparation First check whether your Recorder is flashable at all Select SYSTEM DEBUG KEEP Out View HW Inro Check the values in the line starting with Flash If it shows question marks after M and D you re out of luck your player is not flashable without modifying the hardware You can stop here Sorry If your player is flashable you should perform a backup of the current flash ROM contents in case you want to restore it later Select SYSTEM DEBUG KEEP Dump ROM CONTENTS You ll notice a few seconds of disk activity When you connect your player to the PC afterwards you ll find two files in the root of your player Copy the 256KB sized file named internal_rom_2000000 203FFFF to a safe place Flashing 1 Download the correct package for your player from http download rockbox org bootloader archos It is named flash lt model gt lt version gt zip The current packages are v2 2 Unzip the flash package to the root of your player This will
43. instead of simply changing lines This can be useful on slow displays Status Scrollbar Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar Scroll Bar Enables or disables the scroll bar at the left Status Bar Enables or disables the status bar at the upper side Button Bar Enables or disables the button bar prompts for the F keys at the bottom of the screen Volume Display Controls whether the volume is displayed as a graphic or a nu meric value on the Status Bar If you select a numeric display volume is displayed in decibels See section 6 1 page 43 for more on the volume set ting Battery Display Controls whether the battery charge status is displayed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Peak Meter The peak meter can be configured with a number of parameters Peak Release This determines how fast the bar shrinks when the music becomes softer Lower values make the peak meter look smoother Expressed in scale units per 10ms Peak Hold Time Specifies the time after which the peak indicator will reset For example if you set this value to 5s the peak indicator displays the loudest volume value that occurred within the last 5 seconds Larger values are useful if you want to find the peak level of a song which might be of interest when copying music from the player via the analogue output to some other recording device Clip Hold Time The number of seconds that the clipping indic
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46. reservoir disabled so the frames are independent of each other This makes a file easier to edit 10 6 File Split Options This sub menu contains options for file splitting which can be used to split up long recordings into manageable pieces The splits are seamless frame accurate no audio is lost at the split point The break between recordings is only the time required to stop and restart the recording on the order of 2 4 seconds Split Measure This option controls wether to split the recording when the SPLIT FILE SIZE is reached or when the SPLIT TIME has elapsed What to do when Splitting This controls what will happend when the splitting con dition is fullfilled the two available options here are START A NEW FILE or STOP RECORDING Split Time Set the time to record between each split if time is used as SPLIT MEASURE Options hours minutes between splits Off 00 05 00 10 00 15 00 30 1 00 1 14 74 minute CD 1 20 80 minute CD 2 00 4 00 8 00 10 00 12 00 18 00 24 00 Split Filesize Set the filesize to record between each split if filesize is used as SPLIT MEASURE THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 62 10 7 Prerecord Time This setting buffers a small amount of audio so that when the record button is pressed the recording will begin from that number of seconds earlier This is useful for ensuring that a recording begins before a cue that is being waited for 1
47. skipping to a new track Note To skip tracks with this setting set to a time interval press Short Left Long Right to go forward and Short Right Long Left to go back THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER D D CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 50 8 General Settings Figure 8 1 The general settings screen 8 1 Playlist The PLAYLIST sub menu allows you to configure settings related to playlists Recursively Insert Directories If set to ON then when a directory is inserted or queued into a dynamic playlist all subdirectories will also be inserted If set to ASK Rockbox will prompt the user about whether to include sub directories Warn When Erasing Dynamic Playlist If set to YES Rockbox will provide a warning if the user attempts to take an action that will cause Rockbox to erase the current dynamic playlist 8 2 File View The File View menu deals with options relating to how the File Browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this option is set to YES all files that start with upper case letters will be listed first followed by all files that begin with lower case letters If this option is set to NO then case will be ignored when sorting files Sort Directories This option controls how Rockbox sorts directories The default is to sort them alphabetically By DATE sorts them with the oldest directory first By NEWEST DATE sorts them with the newest directory first Sort Files This option controls how Rockbo
48. support FM radio region setting ZX spectrum emulator plugin zxbox Encoder Codec Interface for recording with additional FM recording Initial version of mpegplayer plugin Rockpaint plugin Playlist catalog Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 1G Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 2G DOOM Sound on the iAudio X5 X5L and X5V Experimental WAV playback plugin for Archos Recorder Ondio Initial version of Tag Cache Bubbles a bubble game Tetrox a Tetris clone Xobox a Xonix Qix clone Pacbox a pacman arcade machine emulator THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX CHANGELOG 141 77 2006 02 22 2006 02 13 2006 01 28 2006 01 23 2005 12 06 2005 11 05 Chessbox chess game plugin iPod 5G audio playback Color bitmap support in the WPS for color models Brickmania game plugin Unicode support Jewels game plugin a Bejeweled clone E 2 2 Enhancements gt HF OF 2008 08 06 2008 02 23 2008 01 04 2007 08 08 2007 08 06 2007 08 05 Redesigned recording screen New default theme cabbie 2 0 All new greyscale library with improved performance Added support for grouping tags Organise the plugins into categories Voice file changes Older voices no longer work now all voice files are target specific 2007 08 03 2007 04 04 2007 03 20 2007 01 23 Added support for the disc number ta
49. the other This has the effect of widening the stereo field A value of 100 will leave the stereo field unaltered 6 7 Loudness When listening at low volumes the ear will tend to make bass and treble frequencies sound quieter than they really are To compensate for this LOUDNESS is an effect which emphasises bass and treble in a fashion suited to the human ear Frequencies in the THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 45 vocal range are unaffected since the human ear picks these up very easily at any sound level It is of course also possible to use this effect at higher volumes for enhanced bass and treble 6 8 Auto Volume Auto volume is a feature that automatically lowers the volume on loud parts and then slowly restores the volume to the previous level over a time interval This setting allows this time interval to be configured Short values like 20ms are useful for ensuring a constant volume for in car use and other applications where background noise makes a constant loudness desirable A longer timeout means that the change in volume back to the previous level will be smoother so there will be fewer sharp changes in volume level 6 9 Super Bass This setting changes the threshold at which bass frequencies are affected by the LOUD NESS setting making the sound of drums and bass guitar louder in comparison to the rest of the sound This setting only has an effect if LOUDNESS is set to a value lar
50. this feature with caution Open with Runs a viewer plugin on the file Normally when a file is selected in Rock box Rockbox automatically detects the file type and runs the appropriate plugin The OPEN WITH function can be used to override the default action and select a viewer by hand For example this function can be used to view a text file even if the file has a non standard extension i e the file has an extension of something other than txt See section 11 3 page 90 for more details on viewers Create Directory Create a new directory in the current directory on the disk Properties Shows properties such as size and the time and date of the last modification for the selected file If used on a directory the number of files and subdirectories will be shown as well as the total size Set As Recording Directory Save recordings in the selected directory Add to Shortcuts Adds a link to the selected item in the shortcuts 1link file If the file does not already exist it will be created in the root directory Note that if you create a shortcut to a file Rockbox will not open it upon selecting but simply bring you to it s location in the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 23 4 1 3 Virtual Keyboard Figure 4 3 The virtual keyboard This is the virtual keyboard that is used when entering text in Rockbox for example when renaming a file or creating a new directory
51. this to NO turns automatic bookmarking completely off In contrast YES turns automatic bookmarking on while ASK asks on stopping the track if a bookmark should be created With the above options YES and ASK if there is an existing bmark file the current position information will be added to the front of the existing list up to the maximum number of allowed bookmarks per file currently 10 If no bmark file exists one will be created with the new bookmark information Finally if the MAINTAIN A LIST OF RECENTLY USED BOOKMARKS option is enabled the bookmarking information will be added to recent bookmarks list Yes Recent Only Turns on automatic bookmarking One bookmark only Ask Recent Only Asks if a bookmark should be created when stopping track One bookmark only With the two RECENT ONLY options nothing is written to the bmark file If the MAINTAIN A LIST OF RECENTLY USED BOOKMARKS option is enabled the bookmarking information will however be added to recent bookmarks list Note The RESUME function remembers your position in the most recently ac cessed track regardless of how the BOOKMARK ON STOP option is set Load Last Bookmark When the LOAD LAST BOOKMARK option is set to YES Rock box automatically returns to the position of the last bookmark within a file when that file is played When the LoAD LAST BOOKMARK option is set to ASK Rockbox will give the user the option of starting from the beginning of the track
52. via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin see section 11 4 13 page 108 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 49 Note You must have the REPEAT option set to No for AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY to function properly Note This feature only works when songs have been played from the file browser Using it with the database may cause unexpected behavior 7 9 Last fm Log Enables logging of your played tracks for submittal to http www last fm This service was formely known as Audioscrobbler When you enable this option you ll have to reboot to start the logging The log file is called scrobbler 1log and is to be found in the root directory of your player Note See mLastFMLog for a further description and for tools you can use to submit your Last fm log 7 10 Cuesheet Support Enables reading of cuesheet files for played tracks If a cuesheet is found for a track track markers are displayed on the progressbar and it is possible to skip between the tracks within the cuesheet Also the information found in the cuesheet file will replace the information from the tags When you enable this option you ll have to reboot for it to come into effect 7 11 Skip Length Designed to speed up navigation and prevent unintentional track skipping when listening to long audio tracks SKIP LENGTH changes the behavior of the Left and Right buttons so that they skip by a given number of minutes instead of
53. when the playback of a file skips fwd rew does not work correctly or the time display is incorrect Note VBRfix can only run when music is turned off since it uses the same memory as the player and can take a while to complete if run on big files 11 3 11 Wavplay Figure 11 35 Wavplay THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 97 This plugin is for demo purposes only It is planned to have Wavplay as part of the normal playback engine later At the moment it is only possible to start playing one wav file at a time Therefore playlists are impossible As every other viewer plugin Wavplay is associated with the specific files Playing a wav file starts the plugin automatically and the Wavplay screen appears This screen gives information about samplerate and length of the playing file Note Seeking within the wav file or changing the volume once the plugin is running is not possible Wavplay uses the sound settings that were used before except for pitch The only action that can be performed is to stop by pressing Off and Wavplay will be exited and you are returned to the filebrowser If the end of the file has been reached you will also be returned to the filebrowser 11 3 12 ZXBox Figure 11 36 ZX Box ZXBox is a port of the Spectemu ZX Spectrum 48k emulator for Rockbox sproject s homepage To start a game open a tape file or snapshot saved as tap tzx z80 or sna in the file browser
54. where you can configure shuffle repeat party mode study mode and other settings affecting the playback of your music Rating The menu entry is only shown if GATHER RUNTIME INFORMATION is enabled It allows the asignment of a personal rating value 0 10 to a track which can be displayed in the WPS and used in the Database browser Press Right to increment the value The value wraps at 10 Bookmarks This allows you to create a bookmark in the currently playing track Show Track Info Figure 4 4 The track info viewer This screen is accessible from the WPS screen and provides a detailed view of all the identity information about the current track This info is known as meta data and is stored in audio file formats to keep information on artist album etc To access this screen press F1 On Use Left and Right to move through the information Open With This OPEN WITH function is the same as the OPEN WITH function in the file browser s CONTEXT MENU Delete Delete the currently playing file Pitch The PITCH SCREEN allows you to change the pitch and at the same time the playback speed of your player The pitch value can be adjusted between 50 and 200 50 means half the normal playback speed and the pitch that is an octave lower than the THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 31 normal pitch 200 means double playback speed and the pitch that is an octave higher than the
55. 0 8 Clear Recording Directory Resets the location where the recorded files are saved to the root of your player s drive 10 9 Clipping Light Causes the backlight to flash on when clipping has been detected Options OFF MAIN UNIT ONLY MAIN AND REMOTE UNIT REMOTE UNIT ONLY 10 10 Trigger When you record a source you often are only interested in the sound and not the silence in between The recording trigger provides you with a tool to automatically distinguish between sound and silence and record the sound only Unfortunately it is not very easy to make this distinction between silence and sound because you hardly ever encounter real silence There always are background noises What is considered as background noise depends on the situation For example during a lecture the very low noise of rustling paper might be considered as background noise During a rock concert the murmur of the audience might be concidered background noise which is much louder compared to rustling paper Also the duration of the signal matters When you record speech you want to record every syllable When you record live music you may not be interested in that chord the guitarist strokes for two minutes before the show to verify his amp is turned on The trigger features numerous parameters to adapt its behaviour to the desired situation Trigger This parameter specifies the trigger mode When set to OFF the recording must be started manually and apart from the Pre
56. 28 o o 2 ac6 ee ew 87 112 9 Oscilloscope 6 6 2454460 246 e484 Re Ew 88 O TOP eis ho ee 88 UL Gc ge ee GE A Se ee 89 112 A ee me 89 Be 90 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CONTENTS 11 3 Viewers 11 3 1 Shortcuts 11 3 2 Chip 8 Emulator 11 3 3 JPEG viewer 11 3 4 Movie Player 11 3 5 Rockbox_flash 11 3 6 Rockboy 11 3 7 Search 11 35 Sort 11 3 9 Text Viewer 11 3 10 VBRfix 11 3 11 Wavplay 11 3 12 ZX Box 11 4 Applications 11 4 1 Alpine CD changer emulator 11 4 2 Battery Benchmark 11 4 3 Calculator 11 4 4 Calendar 11 4 5 Chess Clock 11 4 6 Clock 11 4 7 Disk Tidy 11 4 8 Firmware_flash 11 4 9 Keybox 11 4 10 Lamp 11 4 11 md5sum 11 4 12 Metronome 11 4 13 Random Folder Advance Configuration 11 4 14Split Editor 11 4 15 Stats 11 4 16 Stopwatch 11 4 17 Text Editor 12 Advanced Topics 12 1 Customising the User Interface 12 1 1 Getting Extras 12 1 2 Loading Fonts 12 1 3 Loading Languages 12 2 Configuring the WPS 12 2 1 WPS General Info 12 2 2 WPS Build Your Own 12 3 Managing Rockbox Settings 12 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files 12 3 2 Specifications for cfg Files 12 3 3 The MANAGE SETTINGS menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CONTENTS 8 IZA
57. 5 B WPS Tags B 1 Status Bar Tag Description Awe Status Bar Enabled Status Bar Disabled These tags override the player setting for the display of the status bar They must be noted on their own line B 2 ID3 Info Tag Description fia ID3 Artist hic ID3 Composer ID3 Album Name hig ID3 Genre Name fin ID3 Track Number Zit 103 Track Title hiv Version 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 or empty if no id3 tag hiy 103 Year Remember that this information is not always available so use the conditionals to show alternate information in preference to assuming THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX WPS Tacs 126 B 3 Power Related Information Tag 701 Abt kbc B 4 Tag Afb hic Aff Afm Afp his hiv hai 92 Description Show numeric battery level in percent Can also be used in a conditional 91 lt 1 0 1 2 N gt Where the 1 value is used when the battery level isn t known it usually is Show the battery level in volts Show estimated battery time left p if the charger is connected only on targets that can charge batteries c if the unit is currently charging the battery only on targets that have software charge control or monitoring Sleep timer Shows the remaining time if the sleeptimer is set File Info Description File Bitrate in kbps File Codec e g MP3
58. 5 6 Car Adapter 55 8 6 Bookmarking e s sass samasem ies oe 55 BY eo a ee oe BG epee ee i a 57 BE WIG as aid a oe ede acto Aes ae he a a 57 9 Theme Settings 59 10 Recording Settings 60 Cual 60 10 23 Fregene s c eoe ek CAE ae Re eB Se 60 402 OUTER ck ke ae Ae aA Ree eee EE 61 104 Channels 22k 61 10 5 Independent Frames 61 10 6 File Split Options oo saa bse bbe ee ee we ee 61 10 7 Time i eee ee 62 10 8 Clear Recording 62 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CONTENTS 6 10 9 Clipping Light 2 se t e u morea BR ee 62 UI ier soe ck en ge ae ee ao ee Po ee ee Oe eee 62 11 Plugins 64 ILICA bce bee we Ae a A 64 111 Blackisek s moes fe dae ee BAe eee De be he eae Ses 64 11 12 Brick Mas ck RA a wl we EEs ERES 65 11 1 3 Bubbles eR 66 TLLA COn DOK ee ek 67 Whee CROPP aoe Poe ee ce ee 68 WAF DE ce a A eS 68 Diy bok 68 WAF
59. A follow playlist on off N A playlist viewer icons on off N A playlist viewer indices on off N A playlist viewer track display track name full path N A recursive directory insert on off ask N A scroll speed 1 to 25 Hz scroll delay 0 to 2500 ms scroll step pixels screen scroll step pixels Screen Scrolls Out Of View on off N A bidir limit 0 to 200 screen scroll paginated on off N A hold_Ir_for_scroll_in_list on off N A show path in browser off current directory full path N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 133 Setting Allowed Values Unit contrast 0 to 63 N A backlight timeout off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 seconds 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight timeout plugged off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 seconds 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight filters first keypress on off N A backlight on button hold normal off on N A caption backlight on off N A brightness N A disk spindown 3 to 254 seconds battery capacity mAh car adapter mode on off N A idle poweroff off 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 15 minutes 30 45 60 max files in playlist 1000 32000 N A max files in dir 50 10000 N A lang path filename Ing N A wps path filename wps N A autocreate bookmarks off on N A autoload bookmarks off on N A use most recent bookmarks off on N A pause on headphone unplug off pause pause and resume N A rewind duration on pause 0 to 15 seconds
60. AYBACK SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play back The details of this menu are covered in section 7 page 47 5 7 3 General Settings The GENERAL SETTINGS menu allows you to customise the way Rockbox looks and the way it plays music The details of this menu are covered in section 8 page 50 5 7 4 Manage Settings The MANAGE SETTINGS option allows the saving and re loading of user configuration settings browsing the hard drive for alternate firmwares and finally resetting your player back to initial configuration This menu also allows the user to load different versions of the Rockbox firmware The details of this menu are covered in section 12 3 page 118 5 7 5 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu contains options that control the visual apperance of Rock box The details of this menu are covered in section 9 page 59 5 7 6 Recording Settings The RECORDING SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to recording The details of this menu are covered in detail in section 10 page 60 5 8 Recording 5 8 1 While Recording Screen Figure 5 3 The while recording screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 40 Entering the RECORDING option in the MAIN MENU brings up screen in which you choose to enter the RECORDING SCREEN or the RECORDING SETTINGS see section 10 page 60 The RECORDING SCREEN shows the time elapsed and the size of the file be
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63. GELOG 140 OXF OF 77 HF OF 2007 07 27 2007 07 25 2007 06 30 2007 06 29 2007 06 28 2007 06 17 2007 05 23 2007 04 09 2007 03 11 2007 03 04 2007 03 01 2007 02 16 2007 02 14 2007 02 14 2007 02 10 2007 02 09 2007 01 31 2007 01 16 2007 01 02 2006 12 29 2006 11 30 2006 11 06 Sound on iPod 2nd Gen Jackpot support for bitmap targets Reversi game Rocklife plugin Maze game Custom filetype colour feature introduced The 80GB Ipod Video is now supported by Rockbox WAV file viewer Sound on the Sansa e200 Rockbox runs and plays music on the iAudio M5 Add the Rockbox Menu Chopper game Cuesheet support Icons in the menus Album Artist and Comment Tag Support Speex Codec Support Invadrox a Space Invaders clone BlackJack plugin Mazezam a puzzle game for all bitmap lcd targets Toshiba Gigabeat X and F series support File properties in context menu Samplerate and format selection added to recording settings Encoders can be configured individually on a menu specific to the encoder in the recording menu 2006 11 06 2006 10 27 2006 10 19 2006 10 05 2006 09 15 2006 08 28 support 2006 08 07 2006 07 19 2006 07 18 2006 04 19 2006 03 30 2006 03 28 2006 03 28 2006 03 26 2006 03 26 2006 03 20 2006 03 19 2006 03 12 2006 03 11 Pitch adjustment in semitone steps Audio dithering option last fm audioscrobbler logging
64. O WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING REPAIR OR CORRECTION IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRIT ING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE BE LIABLE TO THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 159 YOU FOR DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY GENERAL SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CON SEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS Appendix How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs If you develop a new program and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which
65. OCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 78 11 1 21 Spacerocks Figure 11 18 Spacerocks Spacerocks is a clone of the old arcade game Asteroids The goal of the game is to blow up the asteroids and avoid being hit by them Once in a while a UFO will appear shoot this for extra points Key Action Play Shoot Up Thrust Left Right Turn left right Down Teleport On Pause game Off Quit 11 1 22 Star Figure 11 19 Star game This is a puzzle game It is actually a rewrite of Star a game written by CDK designed for the hp48 calculator Rules Take all of the to go to the next level You can switch control between the filled circle which can take o s and the filled square which is used as a mobile wall to allow your filled circle to get to places on the screen it could not otherwise reach The block cannot take o s THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 79 Key Action Left Move Left Right Move Right Up Move Up Down Move Down On Switch between circle and square F1 Previous level F2 Reset level F3 Next level Off Exit the game 11 1 23 Sudoku Figure 11 20 Sudoku Sudoku in Rockbox can act as both a plugin and a viewer When starting Sudoku from the BROWSE PLUGINS menu a random game will be generated automatically and an estimate of its difficulty very easy easy medium hard or fiendish will be displayed on the screen New games can be
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67. PTER 11 PLUGINS 66 Special items Displayed Name N Normal D Die L Life F Fire G Glue B Ball FL Flip Key Left Right Play Up Off 11 1 3 Bubbles Description Returns paddle to normal Ball dies lose a life Gain a life Allows you to shoot bricks with paddle Ball sticks to paddle each time it hits Immediately fires another ball Flip left right movement Action Moves the paddle Release the ball Fire Open menu Quit Figure 11 3 Bubbles The goal of the game is to beat each level as quickly as possible by clearing the board of all bubbles Bubbles are removed from the board when a cluster of three of more of the same type is formed The game is over when any bubbles on the board extend below the bottom line To make things more difficult the entire board is shifted down every time a certain number of shots have been fired Points are awarded depending on how quickly the level was completed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 67 Key Action On Pause game Left Right Aim the bubble Play Fire bubble 1 Save game Off Exit to menu 11 1 4 Chessbox Figure 11 4 Chessbox Chessbox is a one person chess game with computer artificial intelligence The chess engine is a port of GNU Chess 2 by John Stanback It also works as a PGN file viewer Instead of executing the game from the plugin menu look for any file with pgn extension in the
68. So for example supppose you typically use the player at one volume in the car and another when using headphones Further suppose you like to use an inverse LCD when THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 119 you are in the car and a regular LCD setting when you are using headphones You could create configuration files that control only the volume and LCD settings Create a few different files with different settings give each file a different name such as car cfg headphones cfg etc and you can then use the BROWSE CFG FILES option to quickly change settings A special case configuration file can be used to force a particular setting or settings every time Rockbox starts up e g to set the volume to a safe level Format a new configuration file as above with the required setting s and save it into the rockbox directory with the filename fixed cfg 12 3 3 The Manage Settings menu The MANAGE SETTINGS menu can be found in the MAIN MENU The MANAGE SET TINGS menu allows you to save and load cfg files The MANAGE SETTINGS menu also allows you to load or save different firmware versions Browse cfg Files Opens the file browser in the rockbox directory and displays all cfg configuration files Selecting a cfg file will cause Rockbox to load the settings contained in that file Pressing Left will exit back to the MANAGE SET TINGS menu See the WRITE CFG FILES option on the MANAGE SETTINGS menu
69. TEMU TEAM THE LIBMPEG2 TEAM gt THE GAME_MUSIC_EMU TEAM P THE OPENSPC DSP EMULATOR TEAM THE ALAC DECODER TEAM THE UCL TEAM gt THE IPOD LINUX TEAM THE VISION 8 EMULATOR TEAM THE ROBOTFINDSKIT TEN TEAM THE LIBMTP TEAM THE ASAP TEAM THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 146 G Licenses G 1 GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 November 2002 Copyright 2000 2001 2002 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin St Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed Preamble The purpose of this License is to make a manual textbook or other functional and useful document free in the sense of freedom to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it with or without modifying it either commercially or non commercially Secondarily this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others This License is a kind of copyleft which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense It complements the GNU General Public License which is a copyleft license designed for free software We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software be cause free software needs free document
70. WITH option on the CONTEXT MENU 11 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 11 3 2 page 91 and Rockboy in section 11 3 6 page 93 11 1 1 Blackjack Figure 11 1 Blackjack Blackjack a game played in casinos around the world is now available in the palm of your hand The rules are simple try to get as close to 21 without going over or simply beat out the dealer for the best hand Although this may not seem difficult blackjack is a game renowned for the strategy involved This version includes the ability to split buy insurance and double down For the full set of rules to the game and other facinating information visit http www blackjackinfo com blackjack rules php THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 65 Key Action In menu On Start new game Play Resume saved game Right Show high scores Off Quit In game Left Right Up Down F1 F2 F3 Play Off Enter betting amount Hit Draw new card Stay End hand Double down Save game Return to menu or cancel 11 1 2 BrickMania Figure 11 2 BrickMania BrickMania is a clone of the classic game Breakout The aim of the game is to destroy all the bricks by hitting them with the ball once or more Sometimes a special item falls down when you destroy a brick For a special item to take effect you must catch it with the paddle Look out for the bad ones THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHA
71. Y Tu gt PAWEL WYSOCKI gt XINLU HUANG gt DANIEL DALTON BORIS GJENERO gt SYLVAIN FOURMANOIT ALEX PARKER gt MARIO LANG gt JUSTIN FOELL gt IGOR KUZMIN gt ADILSON VICENTE XAVIER gt JESSE LOCKWOOD gt JONATHAN BACKER SOFIAN BABAI gt COSTAS CALAMVOKIS CATALIN PATULEA gt PETER HARLEY KELLEY gt ALEXANDER EICKHOFF PINITNUN SHANASABANG KEN Faz ZONE gt DAvID BISHOP gt HEIN PIETER VAN BRAAM PRZEMYSLAW HOLUBOWSKI gt gt gt gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX F CREDITS 145 gt STEPAN MOSKOVCHENKO JOHN S GWYNNE P BRIAN J MOREY STIJN HISKEN gt BERTRIK SIKKEN KARIM BOUCHER gt JAMES ESPINOZA gt FRANZ RUHMLAND gt JORDAN ANDERSON gt MAURUS CUELE NAERE gt CHRIS ALLEGRETTA ALASTAIR S gt MARTIN CRKOVSKY gt ARIYA HIDAYAT gt JONAS HURRELMANN gt LEE KANG HYUK gt CLEMENS WERTHER gt ROBERT MENES gt HENRI VALTA gt MELBA SITJAR gt MEHMET 9 CATALBAS gt SCOTT TINMAN ALEXAN DER KUZMENKOV THOMAS MARTITZ gt PRAKARN SAHASOONTORNVUTE gt GEORGE TAMPLARU gt APOORVA MAHAJAN VUONG MINH gt MATEUSZ KUBICA gt FRANK GEVAERTS gt CHELO SACRIST N gt SASCHA WOLF gt NICKOLAY JORDANOV JOHANNES VOGGENTHALER gt MARC Guay ALEX VANDERPOL gt JERRY LANGE YOHANN MISQUITTA gt KEITH PERRI gt MARK Faw cus IVAN PESIC MARCEL BARBULESCU gt PHIL LIGHT gt ROB PURCHASE gt ANDREAS MULLER gt CHRISTO
72. age for your player and unzip it directly to the root of your player You should now find an english voice in the rockbox langs directory on your player Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into effect after a reboot See section 8 8 page 57 for details on voice settings 2 4 Running Rockbox Remove your player from the computer s USB port Unplug any connected power supply and turn the unit off When you next turn the unit on Rockbox should load When you see the Rockbox splash screen Rockbox is loaded and ready for use 2 5 Updating Rockbox Updating Rockbox is easy even if you do not use the Rockbox Utility Download a Rockbox build The latest release of the Rockbox software will always be available from http www rockbox org download Unzip the build to the root directory of your player like you did in the installation stage If your unzip program asks you whether to overwrite files choose the Yes to all option The new build will be installed over your current build Note If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed components THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 16 2 6 Uninstalling Rockbox 2 6 1 Automatic Uninstallation You can uninstall Rockbox automatically by using Rockbox Utility If you installed Rockbox manually you can still use Rockbox Utility for uninstallation but will not be able to do this selectively 2 6 2 Manual Unins
73. ame Loads a previously saved game Save Game Saves your current state Options Max Frameskip Change frameskip setting to improve speed Sound Toggle sound on or off Stats Toggle showing fps and current frameskip Set Keys BUGGY Select this option to set a new keymapping Quit RockBoy Quits the Rockboy plugin 11 3 7 Search This plugin can be used on playlists It searches through the playlist that it opened on looking for any occurrences of the string entered by the user The results of this search are saved to a new playlist search_results m3u within the same directory as the original playlist 11 3 8 Sort This plugin takes a file and sorts it in ascending alphabetical order Case is ignored This is useful for ordering playlists generated by the CREATE PLAYLIST menu option see section 5 9 page 40 11 3 9 Text Viewer This is a Viewer for text files with word wrap Just open a txt file to display it The text viewer features controls to handle various styles of text formatting has top of file and bottom of file buttons You can view files without a txt extension by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 21 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 95 Key Action Up Scroll up Down Scroll down Left Top of file Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode Right Bottom of file Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode On Up One line up On Down O
74. and help to visually identify the point in time where the split is desired The split point indicator is a vertical line with a small triangle at the top end It is the most important control element of the split editor It can be moved with the Left and Right buttons Later when you have fine tuned the split point the song will be split at this position The split time At the top of the window a time value is displayed This is the point in time within the song at which the split point indicator is positioned The locator Another vertical bar represents the position locator It moves along as the song plays In contrast to the split point indicator it has no triangles at the ends The time bar displays the current position within the song relative to the whole song The entire length of the time bar represents the song length The length of the solid part of the time bar represents the position and length of the displayed part of the song The scale mode On the right side of the bottom line the scale mode is displayed The waveform can be scaled either logarithmically or linearly In logarithmic scale mode the letters dB are displayed in linear mode Use F3 to switch between these modes Linear mode usually gives better optical hints with commercially recorded music For quiet recordings especially of human speech the logarithmic scale often is preferable More information in the Scale section 11 4 14 page 112 below The lo
75. ation a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does But this License is not limited to software manuals it can be used for any textual work regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference 1 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS This License applies to any manual or other work in any medium that contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under the terms of this License Such a notice grants a world wide royalty free license unlimited in duration to use that work under the conditions stated herein The Document below refers to any such manual or work Any member of the public is a licensee and is addressed as you You accept the license if you copy modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission under copyright law THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 147 A Modified Version of the Document means any work containing the Document or a portion of it either copied verbatim or with modifications and or translated into another language A Secondary Section is named appendix or a front matter section of the Doc ument that deals exclusively with the relationship of the publishers or authors of the Document to the Document s overall subject or to related matters and contains noth
76. ator will be visible after clipping is detected Clip Counter Show the number of times the clip indicator went active during recording in front of the peak meters Scale Select whether the peak meter displays linear or logarithmic values The human ear perceives loudness on a logarithmic scale If the Scale setting is set to LOGARITHMIC dB scale the volume values are scaled logarithmically The volume meters of digital audio devices usually are scaled this way On the other hand if you are interested in the power level that is applied to your headphones you should choose LINEAR display This setting cannot THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 54 be displayed in units like volts or watts because such units depend on your headphones Minimum and maximum range These two options define the full value range that the peak meter displays Recommended values for the LOGARITHMIC dB setting are 40 dB for minimum and 0 dB for maximum Recommended values for LINEAR display are 0 and 100 Note that 40 dB is approxi mately 1 in linear value but if you change the minimum setting in linear mode slightly and then change to the dB scale there will be a large change You can use these values for zooming into the peak meter Default Codepage A codepage describes the way extended characters that are not available within the ASCII character set are encoded ID3v1 tags do not have a codepage encoding contained
77. ats plugin The stats plugin simply counts the number of files music files and directories on your player Press Off to abort counting and exit the plugin Press it again to quit after counting has finished 11 4 16 Stopwatch Figure 11 44 Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 113 Key Action Off Quit Plugin Play Start stop Left Reset timer only when timer is stopped On Take lap time Up Down Scroll through lap times 11 4 17 Text Editor This plugin allows you to view and edit simple text documents on your DAP You can view files by using OPEN WITH from the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 21 Usage If you start the Text Editor from the plugin browser you will be greeted with a blank screen When started from the OPEN WITH menu item your file should be shown on the screen You can now edit the file The Text Editor is line based This means you can edit one line at a time using the VIRTUAL KEYBOARD see section 4 1 3 page 23 e Move the selection bar to the line you want to edit e Edit the highlighted text line or insert a new one using the Item Menu e When finished editing exit the Text Editor You ll be shown a list of save options Note When you have not changed the file the Text Editor will quit immediately Key Action Right or On Edit Line Select Character Left or Off Exit Abort Editing
78. aylists 8 5 6 Car Adapter Mode This option turns ON and OFF the car ignition auto stop function Car Adapter Mode When using the player in a car CAR ADAPTER MODE automat ically stops playback on the player when power i e from cigarette lighter power adapter to the external DC in jack is turned off If the CAR ADAPTER MODE is set to ON Rockbox will pause playback when the external power off condition is detected Rockbox will then shutdown the player after the length of time set in the IDLE POWEROFF setting see above If power to the DC in jack is turned back on before the Idle Poweroff function has shut the player off playback will be resumed 5 seconds after the power is applied This delay is to allow for the time while the car engine is being started Once the player is shut off either manually or automatically with the IDLE POWEROFF function it must be powered up manually to resume playback 8 6 Bookmarking Bookmarks allow you to save your current position within a track so that you can return to it at a later time Bookmarks are saved on a per directory basis for dynamic playlists THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 56 or for individual saved playlists They are stored next to the directory playlist they reference You can store multiple bookmarks for the same track Bookmark on Stop This option controls whether Rockbox writes a bookmark to the disk when playback is stopped Setting
79. c to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist Figure 4 7 The Playlist Submenu The PLAYLIST SUBMENU is a submenu in the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 21 it allows you to put tracks into a dynamic playlist If there is no music currently play ing Rockbox will create a new dynamic playlist and put the selected track s into it If there is music currently playing Rockbox will put the selected track s into the cur rent playlist The place in which the newly selected tracks are added to the playlist is determined by the following options Insert Add track s immediately after any tracks added via the most recent INSERT operation If no tracks have yet been added via an INSERT new tracks will be added immediately after the current playing track If playback is stopped a new dynamic playlist will get created with the selected tracks Insert Next Add track s immediately after current playing track no matter what else has been inserted Insert Last Add track s to end of playlist Insert Shuffled Add track s to the playlist in a random order Queue Queue is the same as Insert except queued tracks are deleted immediately from the playlist after they have been played Also queued tracks are not saved to the playlist file see section 5 9 page 40 Queue Next Queue track s immediately after current playing track Queue Last Queue track s at end of playlist Queue Shuffled Queue track s in a random ord
80. charger Backlight on Hold This setting controls the behavior of the backlight when the Hold switch is toggled If set to NORMAL the backlight will behave as usual If set to OFF the backlight will be turned off immediately when the Hold switch is engaged and if set to ON the backlight will be turned on and stay on while the Hold switch is engaged Caption Backlight This option turns on the backlight a number of seconds before the start of a new track and keeps it on for the same number of seconds after the beginning so that the display can be read to see song information The amount of time is determined by the value of the backlight timeout setting but is no less than 5 seconds First Keypress Enables Backlight Only With this option enabled the first key press while the backlight is turned off will only turn the backlight on without having any other effect When disabled the first keypress will also perform its appropriate action Contrast Changes the contrast of your LCD display Warning Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to find this menu option again LCD Mode This setting lets you invert the colours of the display Upside Down Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest the buttons This is sometimes useful when carrying the player in a pocket for easy access to the headphone socket Scrolling This feature controls how text will scroll in Rockbox You can configure the following paramet
81. ckbox wps To make sure non english characters display correctly in your WPS you must save the wps file with UTF 8 character encoding This can be done in most editors for example Notepad in Windows 2000 or XP but not in 9x ME can do this See appendix section B page 125 for all the tags that are available e All characters not preceded by are displayed as typed e Lines beginning with are comments and will be ignored e Maximum file size used is 1600 bytes If you have a bigger WPS file only the first part of it will be loaded and used Note Keep in mind that your player resolution is 112x64x1 with the last number giving the colour depth in bits when designing your own WPS if you use a WPS designed for another target Conditional Tags If else Syntax 4 xx lt true false gt If the tag specified by xx has a value the text between the lt and the is displayed the true part else the text between the and the gt is displayed the false part The else part is optional so the does not have to be specified if no else part is desired The conditionals nest so the text in the if and else part can contain all 4 commands including conditionals Enumerations Syntax 4 xx lt altilalt2 alt3 else gt For tags with multiple values like Play status the conditional can hold a list of alternatives one for each value the tag can have Example enumeration EXAMPLE h m
82. d and eat the apples that pop up on the screen Each time an apple is eaten the snake gets longer The game ends when the snake hits a wall or runs into itself Key Action In menu Up Down Set game speed Right Left Select starting maze F3 Select game type A or B Play Start the game In game Up Down Steer the snake Left Right Play Pause and resume the game Off Quit In game A the maze stays the same in game B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 76 11 1 19 Sokoban Figure 11 16 Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowded warehouse with a minimal number of pushes and moves The boxes can only be pushed never pulled and only one can be pushed at a time Sokoban may be used as a viewer for viewing saved solutions and playing external level sets with the sok extension Level sets should be in the standard Sokoban text format or RLE Run Length Encoded For more information about the level format see http sokobano de wiki index php title Level_format Key Action In game Up Down Left Move the sokoban up down left or Right right Off Menu 1 Back to previous level F2 Restart level F3 Go to next level On Undo last movement Play Redo previously undone move Solution playback Play Pause resume Up Down Increase decrease playbac
83. d set under VOICE FILENAMES above Say File Type This option turns on voicing of file types when VOICE FILENAMES is set to SPELL or NUMBERS When VOICE DIRECTORIES is set to SPELL Directory will be voiced after each spelled out directory Announce Battery Level When this option is enabled the battery level is announced when it falls under 50 30 and 15 See VoiceHowto for more details on configuring speech support in Rockbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 9 THEME SETTINGS 59 9 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu offers options that you can change to customize the visual apperance of Rockbox Browse Themes This option will display all the currently installed themes on the player press Right to load the chosen theme and apply it A theme is a configuration file stored in a specific directory that typically changes the WPS font used and on some platforms additional information such as back ground image and text colours There are a number of themes that ship with Rockbox If none of these suit your needs many more can be downloaded from WpsArchos Some of the downloads from this website will actually be standalone WPS files others will be full blown themes Note Themes do not have to be purely visual It is quite possible to create a theme that switches between audio configurations for use in the car with headphones and when connected to an external amplifier See section 12 2 2 page
84. der You should then install a rockbox image that makes use of all available RAM as described in the following section 12 5 4 Updating the Rockbox Image in Flash When Rockbox is booted from flash it does not check for an updated firmware on disk This is one of the reasons why it boots faster than the Archos firmware It means that whenever you update Rockbox you also need to update the image in the flash This is a simple and safe procedure 1 Download or build the Rockbox build you want to use and unzip it to the root of your player Safely disconnect USB 2 ROLO into the new rockbox version 3 Go to the file browser and enter the rockbox directory you might need to set the FILE VIEW option to ALL 4 Play the file rockbox ucl and follow the instructions The plugin handling this is rockbox_flash a viewer plugin 12 5 5 Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents In case you ever want to restore the original flash contents you will need the backup file The procedure is very similar to initial flashing with the following differences 1 Check that you do not have any firmware_ bin files in your player s root 2 Select PLUGINS APPLICATIONS run the firmware flash plugin Write down the filename it displays in the first screen then exit the plugin 3 Connect USB and copy the flash ROM backup file to the root of your player Only use the backup file from that very otherwise you re asking for t
85. difications to it For an executable work complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains plus any associated interface definition files plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable However as a special exception the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed in either source or binary form with the major components compiler kernel and so on of the operating system on which the executable runs unless that component itself accompanies the executable If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 157 the same place counts as distribution of the source code even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code 4 You may not copy modify sublicense or distribute the Program except as ex pressly provided under this License Any attempt otherwise to copy modify sub license or distribute the Program is void and will automatically terminate your rights under this License However parties who have received copies or rights from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance 5 You are not required to accept this License since you have not signed it Ho
86. do not want to use it just do not do the initial build of the database and do not load it to RAM THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 26 Tag Type Origin filename string system album string id tag albumartist string id tag artist string id tag comment string id tag composer string id tag genre string id tag grouping string id tag title string id tag bitrate numeric id tag discnum numeric id tag year numeric id tag tracknum numeric id tag filename autoscore numeric runtime db lastplayed numeric runtime db playcount numeric runtime db Pm play time numeric runtime db min Ps play time sec numeric runtime db rating numeric runtime db commitid numeric system entryage numeric system length numeric system Lm track len numeric system min Ls track len sec numeric system 4 3 While Playing Screen The While Playing Screen WPS displays various pieces of information about the cur rently playing audio file The appearance of the WPS can be configured using WPS configuration files The items shown depend on your configuration all item can be turned on or off independently Refer to section B page 125 for details on how to change the display of the WPS e Status bar The Status bar shows Battery level charger status volume play mode repeat mode shuffle mode and clock In contrast to all other items the status bar is always at the top of the screen e Scrolling path
87. e The act of running the Program is not restricted and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents consti tute a work based on the Program independent of having been made by running the Program Whether that is true depends on what the Program does 1 You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program s source code as you receive it in any medium provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee 2 You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it thus forming a work based on the Program and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above provided that you also meet all of these conditions a You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change b You must cause any work that you distribute or publish that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License NS
88. e The time below is the time remaining for that round and possibly also the total time left if different Keys are as follows THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 104 Key Action Off Exit plugin Left Restart round for the current player Play Pause the time press again to continue Up Switch to next player Down Switch to previous player F1 Open menu Play to select From the menu it is possible to delete a player modify the round time for the current player or set the total time for the game When the round time is up for a player the message ROUND UP is shown press NEXT to continue When the total time is up for a player the message TIME 1 shown The player will then be removed from the timer 11 4 6 Clock Figure 11 40 Clock This is a fully featured analogue and digital clock plugin Key configuration Key Action Left Right Cycle through modes Up Down Cycle through skins F1 Main Menu Play Start Stop Counter Long Reset Counter off Save Settings if enabled and Exit Clock Menu View Clock Exits the menu and returns to the current clock mode display THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 105 Mode Selector Opens a menu from which you can select a clock mode to view Counter Settings Opens a menu from which you can adjust settings pertaining to the counter Mode Settings Opens a menu from which you can adjust s
89. e navigation controls whereas the lower of these two is called Off The small round button in the middle of the large circular button array is called Play button To the right of the Play button there is the Right button left of it is the Left above it Up and below the Play button there is the Down button placed In the row of three rectangular buttons the following buttons can be found from left to right F1 F2 and F3 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER gt CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 18 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys Key Action Long On Start Rockbox Double tap Off Shutdown Rockbox when playback is stopped On shutdown Rockbox automatically saves its settings In the unlikely event of a software failure hardware poweroff or reset can be performed by holding down Off until the player shuts off or reboots 3 1 3 Putting music on your player With the player connected to the computer as an MSC UMS device like a USB Drive music files can be put on the player via any standard file transfer method that you would use to copy files between drives e g Drag n Drop The default directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox missing tag fallback in some WPSes uses the parent directory of a song as the Album name and the parent directory of that folder as the Artist name While files may be organized however you like WPSes may
90. e desired sound is recorded This results in recordings that contain extra snippets of sound in the beginning and the end Unfortunately these snippets can not be deleted easily because they are stored in the same file as the desired recording The purpose of the split editor is to split an mp3 file the input file at a point in time split point Two new files can be generated from the input file The first file contains the part before the split point and the second file contains the part after the split point Once this process has been successful the original file can be deleted or kept as a backup The whole process of splitting an mp3 file consists of three steps e Defining the split point e Generating the result files e If desired deleting the input file with the browser not the split editor How To Use The Split Editor When the device plays the song just hit the Play button to pause when playback has roughly reached the split point This need not be very precise as the split point can be fine tuned later A screen similar to the one below will appear Split Time Bar F Locator Split Point Indicator Waveform Perform Split Loop Mode Scale Mode Figure 11 41 The Split Editor s Main Screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 110 The Split Editor s Main Screen The waveform displays the volume of the song over time It will appear as the song plays
91. e presplit gap a new recording may be started when the signal raises above the start threshold Thus the value of the presplit gap should be smaller than the stop hold time Otherwise the recording would stop anyway and the presplit gap has no effect For most uses I recommend to set this parameter equal to the stop hold time Sometimes you may encounter a sound source e g a CD where the songs have fade outs and hardly any gaps between the tracks Here you can set the stop hold time to long values to ensure that all fade outs are recorded completely By specifying a short presplit gap you still can split the recording into seperate tracks whenever the trigger start condition is met More information can be found at VolumeTriggeredRecording THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 64 11 Plugins Plugins are programs that Rockbox can load and run Only one plugin can be loaded at a time Plugins have exclusive control over the user interface This means you cannot switch back and forth between a plugin and Rockbox When a plugin is loaded you need to exit it to return to the Rockbox interface Most plugins will not interfere with music playback but some of them will stop playback while running Plugins have the file extension rock Most of them can be started from BROWSE PLUGINS in the MAIN MENU Viewer plugins get started automatically by opening an associated file i e text files chip8 games or from the OPEN
92. e the rows carelessly you will get stuck You can have another go by selecting retry level from the menu but this will cost you a life You start the game with three lives Luckily there are checkpoints at levels four and eight Key Action Up Down Left Move Character Right Off Menu 11 1 10 Minesweeper oooooooo oooooooo oooo oooo oooo oooo o000 0000 oooo oooo ooo Figure 11 8 Minesweeper plugin The classic game of minesweeper Use the Up and Down keys to select the required percentage of mines to set the difficulty then press the On key to begin The aim of the game is to uncover all of the squares on the board If a mine is uncovered then the game is over If a mine is not uncovered then the number of mines adjacent to the current square is revealed The aim is to use the information you are given to work out where the mines are and avoid them When the player is certain that they know the location of a mine it can be tagged to avoid accidentally stepping on it THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 71 Key Action Up Down Move the cursor across the minefield Left Right F1 On Toggle flag on off F2 Play Reveal the contents of the current square F3 Display the current game status Off Exit the game 11 1 11 Pegbox Figure 11 9 pegbox To beat each level you m
93. ed functions Playlist The PLAYLIST submenu allows you to view save search and reshuffle the current playlist To change settings for the PLAYLIST VIEWER press F1 while viewing the playlist to bring up the PLAYLIST VIEWER MENU Playlist Viewer Menu Show Icons This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entry and the icon for moving a playlist entry Show Indicies This toggles display of the line numbering for the playlist Track Display This toggles between filename only and full path for playlist entries Save Current Playlist Allows the current playlist to be saved as a m3u playlist file Playlist catalog View catalog This lists all playlists that are part of the Playlist catalog You can load a new playlist directly from this list Add to playlist Adds the currently playing file to a playlist Select the playlist you want the file to be added to and it will get appended to that playlist Add to new playlist Similar to the previous entry this will add the currently playing track to a playlist You need to enter a name for the new playlist first Sound Settings This is a shortcut to the SOUND SETTINGS MENU where you can configure volume bass treble and other settings affecting the sound of your music See section 6 page 43 for more information THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 30 Playback Settings This is a shortcut to the PLAYBACK SETTINGS MENU
94. ee Pe 130 B 15 Real Time Clock i se a os 6 MG ew 131 16 Other Tage c corma mede n ia e ee ee e a ea 131 C Config file options 132 D User feedback 136 DI reparis oc aos aior a a a 136 D 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 136 D2 tess aa tae eR eee PE 136 D 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 136 D 2 2 Features we will not implement 137 E Changelog 139 What is new singe v8 00 scocca omaa maa a a U a a a ai 139 New features ee RE 139 E12 Enhancements 65 44 we PS daa Ha eR OS 139 B 2 What ip new since v2 52 eS RRR ee ee 139 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CONTENTS 9 E21 New o fe a ioaea eR ee eee 139 B22 Enhancements ee A ae a 141 New codecs supported 2 245 24 bun bP eka eee 141 F Credits 143 G Licenses 146 G 1 GNU Free Documentation License 146 G 2 GNU General Public License 154 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 10 1 Introduction 1 1 Welcome This is the manual for Rockbox Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players Roc
95. eeing is from shortcuts 1link in the root directory you can delete the selected entry by pressing F1 Deleting entries from other 1link files is not possible Advanced Usage Placing the line Display last path segments n where n is a number in the beginning of a link file will leave just the last segments of the entries when they are shown For example if n is chosen to be 1 then the entry MyMusic collection song mp3 will be shown as song mp3 This allows you to hide common path prefixes You can also provide a custom display name for each entry individually To do so append a tabulator character after the entry s path followed by your custom name That name will then be used for showing the entry For example EXAMPLE MyMusic collection song mp3 lt TAB gt My favourite song 11 3 2 Chip 8 Emulator Chip8 is a kind of assembly language for a long gone architecture This plugin runs games written using the chip8 instructions To start a game open a 618 file the FILE BROWSER There are lots of tiny Chip8 games usually only about 256 bytes to a couple of KB which were made popular by the HP48 calculator s emulator for them The orig inal Chip8 had 64x32 pixel graphics and the new superchip emulator supports 128x64 graphics The only problem is that they are based on a 4x4 keyboard but since most games do not use all of the buttons this can easily be worked around To do this one may put a c8k file w
96. eft on the table Walls Don t crash into the walls Walls are not edible Crashing a worm against a wall causes it a headache it doesn t survive Game over The game is over when all worms are dead The longest worm wins the game Pause the game Press Play to pause the game Press Play again to resume the game Stop the game There are two ways to stop a running game e If you want to quit Wormlet entirely simply hit Off The game will stop immediately and you will return to the game menu e If you want to stop the game and still see the screen hit On This freezes the game If you hit On button again a new game starts with the same configuration To return to the games menu you can hit Off A stopped game can not be resumed The scoreboard On the right side of the game field is the score board For each worm it displays its status and its length The top most entry displays the state of worm 1 the second worm 2 and the third worm 3 When a worm dies its entry on the score board turns black Len Here the current length of the worm is displayed When a worm is eating food it grows by one pixel for each step it moves Hungry That s the normal state of a worm Worms are always hungry and want to eat It is good to have a hungry worm since it means that your worm is alive But it is better to get your worm growing THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 83 Growing When a worm has eaten a piece
97. ent is captured when the voltage changes If there are too many measurements older entries will be deleted and the log file will inform the user about the interval where entries were lost Benchmarks can be resumed if you accidentally load a plugin or turn off your player as long as the log file battery_bench txt is not deleted Information explained On the top of the file you will see various info on how to use the plugin Time This column reports the total time of operation of the player It is not the time that you started the plug in If you have your player on for 5 minutes and then start the plugin it will start measuring from 5 minutes Seconds As time it shows time passed in seconds Nothing special it is there because it is free and maybe someone might want to make graphs with seconds Level The percent level of the battery estimated by Rockbox This is an estimation and not an accurate result Using the real percentage current battery voltage top battery voltage 100 we can calculate the difference between the estimation Goal of this column is to make the estimation algorithm of Rockbox more accurate Time Left It shows the estimated by Rockbox remaining time until shutdown Again as with Level above this column can be used to see differences between real time left and estimated time left This could help make time left more accurate Voltage The battery voltage the moment the measurement was captured Measure men
98. er THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 35 Play Next Replaces all but the current playing track with track s Current playing track is queued The PLAYLIST SUBMENU can be used to add either single tracks or entire directories to a playlist If the PLAYLIST SUBMENU is invoked on a single track it will put only that track into the playlist On the other hand if the PLAYLIST SUBMENU is invoked on a directory Rockbox adds all of the tracks in that directory to the playlist Note You can control whether or not Rockbox includes the contents of subdirectories when adding an entire directory to a playlists Set the SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS PLAYLIST RECURSIVELY INSERT DIRECTORIES setting to YES if you would like Rockbox to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently selected directory Dynamic playlists are saved so resume will restore them exactly as they were before shutdown Note To view save or reshuffle the current dynamic playlist use the PLAYLIST sub menu in the WPS context menu or in the MAIN MENU 4 5 4 Modifying playlists Reshuffling Reshuffling the current playlist is easily done from the PLAYLIST sub menu in the WPS just select RESHUFFLE Moving and removing tracks To move or remove a track from the current playlist enter the PLAYLIST VIEWER by selecting VIEW CURRENT PLAYLIST in the PLAYLIST submenu in the WPS context menu or the MAIN MENU Once in t
99. ere and select one to jump straight to that track See section 8 6 page 55 for more details on configuring bookmarking in Rockbox Note This entry is not shown in the MAIN MENU when the option is off and the option is off by default 5 4 Files Browse the files on your player see section 4 1 page 20 5 5 Database Browse by the meta data in your audio files see section 4 2 page 23 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback Go to the WHILE PLAYING SCREEN and resume if music playback is stopped or paused and there is something to resume see section 4 3 page 26 5 7 Settings The SETTINGS menu allows to set or adjust many parameters that affect the way your player works There are many submenus for different parameter areas Every time you are setting a value of a parameter and that value is selected from a list of some predefined available values you can press Long Play and the selection cursor will jump to the default value for the parameter You can then confirm or cancel the value This is useful if you have changed the value of the parameter from the default to some other value and would like to restore the default value THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 39 5 7 1 Sound Settings The SOUND SETTINGS menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to customise your listening experience The details of this menu are covered in section 6 page 43 5 7 2 Playback Settings The PL
100. ers Scroll Speed Sets how many times per second the automatic horizontal scrolling text will move a step Scroll Start Delay Controls how many milliseconds Rockbox should wait before a new text begins automatically scrolling Scroll Step Size Defines the number of pixels the text should move for each step as used by the Scroll Speed setting Bidirectional Scroll Limit Rockbox has two different automatic horizontal scrolling methods 1 always scrolling the text to the left until the line has ended and then beginning again at the start and 2 moving to the left until you can read the end of the line and then scrolling right until you see the beginning again Rockbox chooses which method it should use depending of how much it has to scroll to the left This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of the line length THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 53 Screen Scrolls Out of View Screens can be manually scrolled horizontally by pressing On Right Left Setting this option to YES will keep the list entries at their fixed positions and allow them to be scrolled out of view whereas No will only scroll those entries which surpass the right margin Screen Scroll Step Size Defines the number of pixels the horizontal manual screen scroll should move for each step Paged Scrolling When set to YES scrolling vertically on pages that surpass the screen size will page up down
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102. ettings pertaining to the current clock mode analog digital binary General Settings Reset Settings Reset all settings to their default values Save Settings Save all settings to disk Show Counter Toggle Counter display Save Choose whether to disable automatic saving saving to disk on exit or saving to disk every settings change Backlight Choose whether to disable the backlight use the user s timeout setting or keep the backlight on Idle Poweroff Toggle Idle Poweroff Note This setting is not saved to disk Help Opens a brief help screen with key mappings and functionality Credits Displays a credits roll Analog mode Small round analog clock is displayed in the middle of the LCD Time readout if enabled is displayed at the upper left If Time readout is in 12 hour 12h mode AM or PM will be displayed at the upper right The Date readout if enabled is displayed at the lower left The Counter if enabled is displayed at the lower right The second hand if enabled is displayed along with the hour and minute hands Digit display if enabled places 12 3 6 and 9 around the face of the clock in their respective positions Digital mode An imitation of an LCD this mode shows a Clock comprised of digital segments The Date readout if enabled is displayed at the bottom center The Second readout if in Text mode is displayed at the top center if in Bar mode i
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104. f the file fits on one screen there is no scrollbar and toggling this setting has no effect THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 96 On has a scrollbar by default until toggled Off has no scrollbar by default until toggled Overlap Pages toggles between Normal and Overlap Yes tells page down page up to retain one line from previous screen No sets page down page up to one full screen Scroll Mode controls the function of the Scroll up and Scroll down buttons Scroll by Line Scroll by Page Auto scroll Speed controls the speed of auto scrolling in number of lines per scroll step available options are 1 to 10 lines As an example a setting of 4 will scroll up the text four lines per second Show Playback Menu controls the playback of the currently loaded playlist and change the volume of your playerwithout leaving the plugin Return to the text view Note The text viewer automatically saves its settings and also stores the current posi tion in the viewed text files up to the last 46 files Compatibility e Currently messages are in English e Does not currently support right to left languages 11 3 10 VBRfix This function scans a VBR Variable Bitrate MP3 file and updates creates the Xing VBR header The Xing header contains information about the VBR stream used to calculate average bit rate time information and to more accurately fwd rew in the stream This function is especially useful
105. f them fails it will not program There s an ultimate safety net to bring back boxes with even completely garbled flash content the UART boot mod which in turn requires the serial mod With that it s possible to reflash independently from the outside even if the flash ROM is completely erased This won t work if you have one of the rare ROMless boxes These have no boot ROM and boot directly from flash If the first 2KB of the flash ROM are flashed ok Minimon can be used for the same purpose 12 5 2 Terminology and Basic Operation Firmware The flash ROM contents as a whole Image One operating software started from there The replacement firmware contains a bootloader and two images The first image is the permanent rescue software to be used in case something is wrong with the second main image In current firmware files this first image contains Bootbox see wiki for details The second image is what is booted by default The current firmware files THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 121 contain a copy of Rockbox 3 1 in the main image It can easily be updated replaced later The bootloader allows to select which image to run Pressing F1 at boot selects the first image F2 selects the second image which will also be booted if you don t press any button The button mapping is only there for completeness F3 selects the built in serial monitor called Minimon You should know this
106. fall faster If the pile of blocks reach the ceiling the game is over Key Action 1 Restart game Left Move left Right Move right Down Move down Play Rotate left Up Rotate right On Drop Off Quit 11 1 15 Rockbloxld Rockbloxid is a game for people who find rockblox too hard In this version the second dimension is missing so the user only has to move the bricks down No horizontal moving anymore and no need to rotate the brick Key Action Play Move down faster Off Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 74 11 1 16 Sliding Puzzle Figure 11 13 Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the whole picture or switch to number tiles if you like it a little easier Key controls Key Action Left Right Up Move Tile and Down F1 Shuffle F2 Change between picture and numbered tiles Off Stop the game 11 1 17 Snake Figure 11 14 Snake This is the popular snake game The aim is to grow your snake as large as possible by eating the dots that appear on the screen The game will end when the snake touches either the borders of the screen or itself THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 75 Key Action Up Down Change levels 1 is slowest 9 is fastest Play Toggle Play Pause 11 1 18 Snake 2 Figure 11 15 Snake 2 The Snake Strikes Back Another version of the Snake game Move the snake aroun
107. file browser and execute it Chessbox will show the list of matches included in the file and allow you to select the one you want to watch After that you can scroll back and forth through the moves of the game If the menu is invoked while in the viewer the user is allowed to select a new match from the same file or quit the game Force play while the computer is thinking will cause it to make its move immediately If done while it s your turn the computer will move for you and flip the board so that you are playing from the other side If you want you can force play an entire game and watch the artificial intelligence fight against itself When you quit the game the current state will be saved and restored when you resume the game The menu also allows the user to reload the last game saved save the current position and start a new game without having to quit the game Note This plugin will stop playback THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 68 Keys Key Action Direction keys Move the cursor Play Pick up Drop piece 1 Change level On Force play Off Show the menu 11 1 5 Chopper Navigate a cavernous maze without banging into walls the ceiling or the floor How long can you fly your chopper Key Action Play Make chopper fly Off Enter menu 11 1 6 Dice Dice is a simple dice rolling simulator Select number and type of dice to roll in a menu and start by choosing Roll Dice The res
108. following information in your bug report e Which exact player you have e Which exact Rockbox version you are using Menu gt Info gt Version A step by step description of what you did and what happened e Whether the problem is repeatable or a one time occurrence e All relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists files etc IMPOR TANT D 2 Feature ideas To suggest an idea for a feature or to read those made by others see http forums rockbox org index php board 49 0 Please keep in mind that this forum is for the dis cussion of feature ideas they are not requests and there is no guarantee they will be acted upon D 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 1 Check that the feature has not already been suggested Duplicates are really boring 2 Check that the feature has not already been implemented Download the latest current daily build and or search the mail list archive 3 Check that the feature is possible to implement see section D 2 2 page 137 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX D USER FEEDBACK 137 D 2 2 Features we will not implement This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do View it as the opposite of a TODO Record to WAV uncompressed or MP3pro format The recording hardware the MAS does not allow us to do this Crossfade between tracks Crossfading would require two mp3 decoders and we only have one This is not
109. g Fonts Rockbox can load custom fonts The fonts are distributed as a separate package and thus need to be installed separately They are not required to run Rockbox itself but a lot of themes require the fonts package to be installed Themes The view of Rockbox can be customized by themes Depending on your taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox 2 2 Prerequisites Before installing Rockbox you should make sure you meet the prerequisites You may need some additional tools for installation In most cases these will already be available on your computer but if not installing some additional software might be necessary USB connection To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your computer For manual installation uninstallation or should autodetection fail during automatic installation you need to know where to access the player On Windows this means you need to figure out the drive letter associated with the player On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player For manual installation and customization additional software is required ZIP utility Rockbox is distributed as a compressed archive using the zip format Your computer will normally already have a means of handling such archive files Win dows XP has built in support for zip files and presents them to you as directories unless you have installed a third party program that handles compressed files For
110. g WPS tokenizer Rewritten WPS code rockbox file moved inside rockbox directory Settings are now saved to rockbox config cfg and the hidden config sector is not used anymore 2006 11 29 Playlists are saved with the extension m3u8 extension m3u is now read using the chosen codepage 2006 09 16 2006 09 02 2006 08 15 2006 02 07 2006 02 06 2005 12 05 New scheduler Audio playback is now prioritised over other tasks Enhanced statusbar in recording screen Support for displaying the path in the file browser Equalizer configuration for software codec platforms The Rockbox manual is available ATEX format New wps added Engineeer2 marquee and DancePuffDuo E 2 3 New codecs supported Lossy codecs F 77 Ogg vorbis MPC A 52 AC3 AAC MP4 WMA ADX Speex Lossless codecs WAV THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX CHANGELOG 142 AIFF FLAC ALAC Wavpack Shorten x Monkey s Audio Other codecs x SID x MOD NSF NSFE SPC x MIDI x SAP THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX F CREDITS 143 F Credits People that have contributed to the project one way or another Friends gt BJORN STENBERG gt LINUS NIELSEN FELTZ ING gt ANDY CHOI gt ANDREW JAMIESON gt PAUL SUADE gt JOACHIM SCHIFFER gt DANIEL STENBERG gt ALAN KORR gt GARY CZVITKOVICZ gt STUART MARTIN P FE LIX ARENDS ULF RAL
111. ger than OdB 6 10 MDB Micronas Dynamic Bass The rest of the parameters in this menu relate to the Micronas Dynamic Bass MDB function MDB is designed to enable the user to hear bass notes that the headphones and or speakers are not capable of reproducing Every tone has a fundamental frequency the main and also several harmonics which are related to that tone The human brain has a mechanism whereby it can actually infer the presence of bass notes from the higher harmonics that they would generate The practical upshot of this is that MDB produces a more authentic sounding bass by tricking the brain into believing it is hearing tones that the headphones or speakers are not capable of reproducing The MDB parameters are as follows MDB enable This turns the MDB feature on or off For many users this will be the only setting they need since Rockbox picks sensible defaults for the other parameters MDB is turned off by default MDB strength How loud the harmonics generated by MDB will be MDB Harmonics The percentage of the low notes that is converted into harmonics If low notes are causing speaker distortion this can be set to 100 to eliminate the fundamental completely and only produce harmonics in the signal If set to 0 this is the same as turning the MDB feature off THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 46 MDB Centre Frequency The cutoff frequency of your headphones or
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113. have the ability to talk to you menus can be voiced and filenames spelled out or spoken 1 2 Getting more help This manual is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the Rockbox firmware There is however more help available The Rockbox website at http www rockbox org contains very extensive documentation and guides written by members of the Rockbox community and this should be your first port of call when looking for further help If you cannot find the information you are searching for on the Rockbox website there are a number of support channels you should have a look at You can try the Rockbox forums located at http forums rockbox org Another option are the mailing lists which can be found at http www rockbox org mail From that page you can subscribe to the lists and browse the archives For searching the list archives simply use the search field that is located on the left side of the website Also you can ask on IRC The main THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 11 channel for Rockbox is rockbox on irc irc freenode net A bunch of helpful developers and users are usually around Just join and ask if someone knows the answer you ll usually get an answer pretty quickly More information including IRC logs can be found at http www rockbox org irc We also have a web client for joining the rockbox IRC channel so there is no need for you to install additional software to your com
114. he PLAYLIST VIEWER open the context menu on the track you want to move or remove If you want to move the track select MOVE in the context menu and then move the blinking cursor to the place where you want the track to be moved and confirm with Right or On To remove a track simply select REMOVE in the context menu 4 5 5 Saving playlists To save the current playlist either enter the PLAYLIST submenu in the WPS CONTEXT MENU see section 4 3 3 page 29 and select SAVE CURRENT PLAYLIST or enter the PLAYLIST OPTIONS menu in the MAIN MENU and select SAVE CURRENT PLAYLIST Either method will bring you to the VIRTUAL KEYBOARD see section 4 1 3 page 23 enter a filename for your playlist and accept it and you are done THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER A A CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 36 4 5 6 Loading saved playlists Through the File Browser Playlist files like regular music tracks can be selected through the FILE BROWSER When loading a playlist from disk it will replace the current dynamic playlist Through the Playlist catalog The PLAYLIST CATALOG offers a shortcut to all playlists in your player s specified playlist directory It can be used like the FILE BROWSER 4 5 7 Helpful Hints Including subdirectories in playlists You can control whether or not Rockbox includes the contents of subdirectories when adding an entire directory to a playlists Set the MAIN MENU gt SETTINGS gt PLAYLIST RECURSIVELY
115. he voicing of menus settings as they are selected by the cursor In order for this to work a voice file must be present in the rockbox langs directory on the player Voice files are large and are not shipped with Rockbox by default The voice file is the name of the language for which it is made followed by the extension voice So for English the file name would be english voice This option is on by default but will do nothing unless the appropriate voice file is installed in the correct place on the player The Voice Menus have several limitations e Setting the Sound Option CHANNELS to KARAOKE may disable voice menus e Plugins and the wake up alarm do not support voice features Voice Directories This option controls voicing of directory names A voice file must be present for this to work Several options are available Spell Speak the directory name by spelling it out letter by letter Support is provided only for the most common letters numbers and punctuation Numbers Each directory is assigned a number based upon its position in the file list They are then announced as Directory 1 Directory 2 etc Off No attempt will be made to speak directory names You can use pre generated talk clips to have directory names spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below Use Directory talk Clips This option turns on the use of talk clips for directories On Use special pre recorded files dir
116. here can you can find ss files e Simple Sudoku Advanced Puzzle Packs 1 and 2 located near the bottom of that page http www angusj com sudoku e Kjell s Sudoku generator solver http kjell haxx se sudoku 11 1 24 Wormlet Figure 11 21 Wormlet game Wormlet is a multi user multi worm game on a multi threaded multi functional Rockbox console You navigate a hungry little worm Help your worm to find food and to avoid poisoned argh tiles The goal is to turn your tiny worm into a big worm for as long as possible For 2 player games a remote control is not necessary but recommended If you try to hold the player in the four hands of two players yov ll find out why Games with three players are only possible using a remote control Menu controls THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 81 Key Action Left Right Controls number of worms in the game Up Down Selects number of players 1 Selects game mode Game controls Players Modes Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 0 Out of con With no player taking part in the game all worms are trol out of control and steered by artificial stupidity 2 key control on player Left 1 turn left Right turn right 4 key control on player Left turn left Up turn up Right turn right Down turn down Remote con on player Left on remote control 2 trol turn left Right VOL DOWN turn right left VOL UP turn right No remote on pla
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118. ial characters and tags Split items on a line into separate sublines t Set the subline display time The t is followed by either integer seconds 7 5 or seconds and tenths of a second t3 5 Each alternating subline can still be optionally scrolled while it is being displayed and scrollable formats can be displayed on the same line with non scrollable formats such as track elapsed time as long as they are separated into different sublines Example subline definition EXAMPLE hshtahia hshit t3hpc pr Display id3 artist for 4 seconds Display id3 title for 2 seconds Display current and remaining track time for 3 seconds repeat Conditionals can be used with sublines to display a different set and or number of sublines on the line depending on the evaluation of the conditional Example subline with conditionals THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 117 EXAMPLE h2it lt ht8hshit hshin gt L7ia lt ft3hshia Z t0 gt The format above will do two different things depending if ID3 tags are present If the artist and title are present e Display id3 title for 8 seconds e Display id3 artist for 3 seconds e repeat If the 103 artist and title are not present e Display the filename continuously Note that by using a subline display time of 0 in one branch of a conditional a subline can be skipped not displayed when that condition is met Using Image
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120. ils or is unable to detect the mountpoint make sure to enter the correct values The mountpoint indicates the location of the player in your filesystem On Win dows this is the drive letter the player gets assigned on other systems this is a path in the filesystem Note Rockbox Utility currently lacks some guiding messages Please have a look at the manual installation instructions if you are stuck during installation 2 3 2 Manual Installation Choosing a Rockbox version There are three different types of firmware binaries available from the Rockbox website Release version current build and daily build You need to decide which one you want to install and get the appropriate version for your player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 14 Release The release version is the latest stable release free of known critical bugs The current stable release of Rockbox version 3 1 is available at http www rockbox org download Current Build The current build is built at each source code change to the Rockbox SVN repository and represents the current state of Rockbox development This means that the build could contain bugs but most of the time is safe to use You can download the current build from http build rockbox org Archived Build In addition to the release version and the current build there is also an archive of daily builds available for download These are built once a day from the lates
121. ing 2008 12 09 FM radio support on Gigabeat S 2008 11 26 Software controlled backlight fading for targets without hardware fad ing e200v1 c200v1 X5 Cowon D2 and H300 E 1 2 Enhancements FF F HF F E 2 2008 12 01 2008 11 20 2008 11 03 2008 10 25 2008 10 08 2008 10 07 2008 10 03 2008 09 21 Several new tags were added to the WPS syntax The build system received a major overhaul Customisable options in the QuickScreen Calendar plugin on all RTC equipped targets Configurable mono recording mode Support for version 1 1 scrobbler log files APE playback optimized MP3 playback optimized for dual core targets What is new since v2 5 E 2 1 New features F FF HF OF 2008 07 07 2008 05 04 2008 04 23 2008 03 23 2008 03 21 2008 03 18 2007 12 09 2007 11 26 2007 11 11 2007 09 06 2007 09 04 2007 08 06 2007 08 03 2007 08 02 Added keybox plugin Added study mode Lamp originally flashlight plugin New bitmap strips feature in the WPS Viewport tag added for WPS The Olympus m robe 100 is now a supported target PictureFlow A nice animated visualization for album art Matrix Demo Rockbox can now display album art Sound on Sansa c200 The SanDisk Sansa e200R models are now Rockboxed Make several splashes and confirmation screens speak iPod 8rd gen is now officially a supported target Superdom game THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX CHAN
122. ing adjusts the volume of your music Like most professional audio gear and many consumer audio products Rockbox uses a decibel scale where 0 dB is a refer ence that indicates the maximum volume that the player can produce without possible distortion clipping All values lower than this reference will be negative and yield a progressively softer volume Values higher than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible These volume levels will ordinarily lead to distorted sound but might work nicely for music that has an other wise low volume level The volume can be adjusted from a minimum of 100 dB to a maximum of 12 dB 6 2 Bass This setting emphasises or suppresses the lower bass frequencies in the sound A value of 0 dB means that bass sounds are unaltered flat response The minimum setting is 12 dB and the maximum is 12 dB 6 3 Treble This setting emphasises or suppresses the higher treble frequencies in the sound A value of 0 dB means that treble sounds are unaltered flat response The minimum setting is 12 dB and the maximum is 12 dB THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 44 6 4 Balance This setting controls the balance between the left and right channels The default 0 means that the left and right outputs are equal in volume Negative numbers increase the volume of the left channel relative to the right positive numbers increase the
123. ing recorded A peak meter is present to allow you set gain correctly There is also a volume setting this will only affect the output level of the player and does not affect the recorded sound If enabled in the peak meter settings a counter in front of the peak meters shows the number of times the clip indicator was activated during recording The counter is reset to zero when starting a new recording The frequency channels and quality settings are shown on the last line The controls for this screen are Key Action Up Down Select setting Left Right Adjust selected setting Play Start recording While recording pause recording press again to continue Off Exit RECORDING SCREEN While recording Stop recording F1 Open RECORDING SETTINGS see sec tion 10 page 60 F2 Quick menu for recording settings A quick press will leave the screen up press F2 again to exit while holding it will close the screen when you release it F3 Quick menu for source setting Quick hold works as for F2 While recording Start a new recording file 5 9 Playlist This menu allows you to work with playlists Playlists can be created in three ways Playing a file in a directory causes all the files in it to be placed in a playlist Playlists can be created manually by either using the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 21 or using the PLAYLIST menu Both automatically and manually created playlists can be edited using this menu
124. is Up Down Increase decrease speed on the y axis Off Quit 11 2 7 Mandelbrot Figure 11 27 Mandelbrot This demonstration draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set using the greyscale engine Key Action Direction keys Play On F1 F2 F3 off 11 2 8 Mosaique Move about the image Zoom in Zoom out Decrease iteration depth less detail Increase iteration depth more detail Reset and return to the default image Quit Figure 11 28 Mosaique THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 88 This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player Press Off to quit 11 2 9 Oscilloscope Figure 11 29 Oscilloscope This demo shows the shape of the sound samples that make up the music being played Keys Key Action F1 Toggle filled curve plot F2 Toggle whether to scroll or not F3 Toggle drawing orientation Play Pause the demo Up Down Increase decrease volume Right Left Increase decrease speed Off Exit demo 11 2 10 Plasma Figure 11 30 Plasma Plasma is a demo displaying a 80 s style retro plasma effect THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 89 Key Action Up Down Adjust frequency Off Quit 11 2 11 Snow Figure 11 31 Have you ever seen snow falling This demo replicates snow falling on your screen If you love winter you will love this demo Or maybe not Press Off to quit 11
125. is enabled Total Track Time Current volume x dB Can also be used in a conditional lt 0 1 2 gt Runtime Database Description Song playcount Song rating 0 10 This tag can also be used in a conditional tag rr lt 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 gt Virtual LED Description h if the hard disk is accessed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX WPS Tacs 128 B 8 Repeat Mode Tag Description mm Repeat mode 0 4 in the order Off All One Shuffle A B Example mm lt Off A11 One Shuffle A B gt B 9 Playback Mode Tags Tag Description mp Play status 0 4 in the order Stop Play Pause Fast forward Rewind Example mp lt Stop Play Pause Ffwd Rew gt B 10 Changing Volume Tag Description if the volume is being changed 06 57 The tag produces the letter while the volume is being changed and some amount of time after that i e after the volume button has been released The optional parameter t specifies that amout of time If it is not specified 1 sec is assumed The tag can be used as the switch in a conditional tag to display different things depending on whether the volume is being changed It can produce neat effects when used with conditional viewports Example mv2 5 lt Volume changing pv gt The example above will display the text Volume changing if the volume is being changed and 2 5 secs after the volume button has
126. ith the same name as the original program which contains new key mappings for BLINKY ch8 one writes a BLINKY c8k file That c8k file contains 16 characters describing the mapping from the Chip8 keyboard to THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 92 the default key mapping that way several Chip8 keys can be pressed using only one Rockbox key For example a file containing the single line CODE 0122458469ABCDEF would correspond to the following non default mappings 3 gt 2 6 8 7 8 gt 6 The default keymappings are Of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 EF S gt 3 pZ Sw 6 4 6 amp Some places where you can find ch8 files e The PluginChip8 page on www rockbox org has several attached mPluginChip8 e Check out the HP48 chip games section http www hpcalc org hp48 games chip e PC emulator by the guy who wrote the HP48 emulator http www pdc kth se lfo chip8 CHIP8 htm e Links to other chip8 emulators http www zophar net chip8 html 11 3 3 JPEG viewer Open a JPEG file in the FILE BROWSER to view it using Rockbox s greyscale library Note This plugin will cause playback to stop Key Action Up Down Move around in zoomed in image Left Right Play Zoom in On Zoom out F3 Next jpeg in directory F2 Previous jpeg in directory Off Show menu The menu has the following entrie
127. ive copies directly or indirectly through you then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system which is implemented by public license practices Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system it is up to the author donor to THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 158 10 11 12 decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a conse quence of the rest of this License Ifthe distribution and or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution li
128. k speed Left Right Go backward forward while paused Off Quit Some places where can you can find level sets e http www sourcecode se sokoban levels php e http sokobano de en levels php Note that some level sets may contain levels that are too large for this version of Sokoban and are unplayable as a result THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 77 11 1 20 Solitaire Figure 11 17 Klondike solitaire This is the classic Klondike solitaire game for Rockbox This is probably the best known solitaire in the world Many people do not even realize that other games exist Though the name may not be familiar the game itself certainly is This is due in no small part to Microsoft s inclusion of the the game in every version of Windows Though popular the odds of winning are rather low perhaps one in thirty hands For the full set of rules to the game and other interesting information visit http www solitairecentral com rules klondike html Key Action Up Down Move Cursor around Left Right On Select cards move cards reveal hidden cards 1 If a card was selected unselect it else Draw 3 new cards from the remains stack Play Put the card from the top of the remains stack on top of the cursor F2 Put the card under the cursor on one of the 4 final colour stacks F3 Put the card on top of the remains stack on one of the final colour stacks Off Show menu THE R
129. kbox aims to be considerably more functional and efficient than your device s stock firmware while remaining easy to use and customisable Rockbox is written by users for users Not only is it free to use it is also released under the GNU General Public License GPL which means that it will always remain free both to use and to change Rockbox has been in development since 2001 and receives new features tweaks and fixes each day to provide you with the best possible experience on your digital audio player A major goal of Rockbox is to be simple and easy to use yet remain very customisable and configurable We believe that you should never need to go through a series of menus for an action you perform frequently We also believe that you should be able to configure almost anything about Rockbox you could want pertaining to functionality Another top priority of Rockbox is audio playback quality Rockbox for most models includes a wider range of sound settings than the device s original firmware A lot of work has been put into making Rockbox sound the best it can and improvements are constantly being made All models have access to a large number of plugins including many games applications and graphical demos You can load different configurations quickly for different purposes e g a large font for in your car different sound settings for at home Rockbox features a very wide range of languages and all supported models also
130. l toggle between other available math functions THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 102 Key Action Left Right Move around the keypad Up Down Play Select a button 1 Delete last entered digit or clear after cal culation F2 Cycle through the 4 basic operators F3 Calculate Off Quit 11 4 4 Calendar Figure 11 38 Calendar This is a small and simple calendar application with memo saving function Dots indicate dates with memos The available memo types are one off yearly monthly and weekly memos Key Action Left Right Move the selector Up Down Play Show memos for the selected day On Up Previous Next month Down Off Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 103 11 4 5 Chess Clock Figure 11 39 Chess Clock The chess clock plugin is designed to simulate a chess clock but it can be used in any kind of game with up to ten players Setup Key Action Up Down Increase decrease displayed Value Play Move to next screen Off Move to previous screen e First enter the number of players 1 10 e Then set the total game time in mm ss e Then the maximum round time is entered For example this could be used to play Scrabble for a maximum of 15 minutes each with each round taking no longer than one minute e Done Player 1 starts in paused mode While playing The number of the current player is displayed on the top lin
131. late a Kempston joystick or some assigned keys of the Spectrum keyboard Display Speed Toggle displaying the emulation speed in percent Invert Colors Inverts the Spectum colour palette sometimes helps visibility Frameskip Sets the number of frames to skip before displaying one With zero frameskip ZXBox tries to display 50 frames per second Sound Turns sound on or off Volume Controls volume of sound output Predefined Keymap Select one of the predefined keymaps For example 2w90Z means map ZXBox s Up to 2 Down to w Left to 9 Right to 0 and Jump Fire to z This example keymap is used in the Chuckie Egg game Custom Keymap This menu allows you to map one of the Spectrum keys acces sible through the plugin s virtual keyboard to each one of the buttons Quit Quits the emulator Hacking graphics Due to ZXBox s simple but fast scaling to the screen by dropping lines and columns some games can become unplayable It is possible to hack graphics to make them better visible with the help of an utility such as the Spectrum Graphics Editor Useful tools can be found at the World of Spectrum site http www worldofspectrum org utilities html THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 99 11 4 Applications 11 4 1 Alpine CD changer emulator This plugin emulates an Alpine CD changer It allows to plug the Archos to a compatible head unit and control the playback from there
132. ll automatically THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 33 create a playlist containing all songs in it This means that just about anything that is described in this chapter with respect to playlists also applies to directories Dynamic playlist A dynamic playlist is a playlist that is created On the fly Any time you insert or queue tracks using the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 5 3 page 34 you are creating or adding to a dynamic playlist Insert In Rockbox to INSERT an item into a playlist means putting an item into a playlist and leaving it there even after it is played As you will see later in this chapter Rockbox can INSERT into a playlist in several places Queue In Rockbox to QUEUE a song means to put the song into a playlist and then to remove the song from the playlist once it has been played The only difference between INSERT and QUEUE is that the QUEUE option removes the song from the playlist once it has been played and the INSERT option does not 4 5 2 Creating playlists Rockbox can create playlists in four different ways By selecting playing a song from the File Browser Whenever a song is selected from the FILE BROWSER with Right Rockbox will auto matically create a playlist containing all of the songs in that directory and start playback with the selected song Note If you already have created a dynamic playlist playing a new song will erase the cu
133. ll be compressed Higher quality settings result in larger MP3 files The quality setting is just a way of selecting an average bit rate or number of bits per second for a recording When this setting is lowered recordings are compressed more meaning worse sound quality and the average bitrate changes as follows Frequency Bitrate Kbit s quality 0 7 44100Hz stereo 75 80 90 100 120 140 160 170 22050Hz stereo 39 41 45 50 60 80 110 130 44100Hz mono 65 68 73 80 90 105 125 140 22050Hz mono 35 38 40 45 50 60 75 90 10 2 Frequency Choose the recording frequency sample rate 48kHz 44 1kHz 32kHz 24kHz 22 05kHz 16kHz are available Higher sample rates use up more disk space but give better sound quality The frequency setting also determines which version of the MPEG standard THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 61 the sound is recorded using MPEG v1 for 48 44 1 and 32 MPEG v2 for 24 22 05 and 16 Note You cannot change the sample rate for digital recordings 10 3 Source Choose the source of the recording The options are SPDIF DIGITAL MIC and LINE IN 10 4 Channels This allows you to select mono or stereo recording Please note that for mono recording only the left channel is recorded Mono recordings are usually somewhat smaller than stereo 10 5 Independent Frames The independent frames option tells the player to encode with the bit
134. mitation excluding those countries so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded In such case this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and or new versions of the General Public License from time to time Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns Each version is given a distinguishing version number If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and any later version you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation If the Program does not specify a version number of this License you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different write to the author to ask for permission For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation write to the Free Software Foundation we sometimes make exceptions for this Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally No WARRANTY BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE THERE IS N
135. mple you could have a car cfg file for the settings that you use while playing your jukebox in your car and a headphones cfg file to store the settings that you use while listening to your player through headphones See section 12 3 2 page 118 below for an explanation of the format for configuration files See section 12 3 3 page 119 for an explanation of how to create edit and load configuration files 12 3 2 Specifications for cfg Files The Rockbox configuration file is a plain text file so once you use the SAVE CFG FILE option to create the file you can edit the file on your computer using any text editor program See Appendix section C page 132 for available settings Configuration files use the following formatting rules 1 Each setting must be on a separate line 2 Each line has the format setting value 3 Values must be within the ranges specified in this manual for each setting 4 Lines starting with are ignored This lets you write comments into your config uration files Example of a configuration file EXAMPLE Example configuration file volume 70 bass 11 treble 12 balance 0 time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans 1ng Note As you can see from the example configuration files do not need to contain all of 21 the Rockbox options You can create configuration files that change only certain settings
136. name talk in each directory These must be generated in advance and are typically produced synthetically using a text to speech engine on a PC Off No checking is made for directory talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce disk activity Use of a talk clip takes precedence over other directory name voicing Otherwise e g if a talk clip is not available voicing uses the method set under VOICE DIRECTORIES above THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 58 Voice Filenames This option controls voicing of filenames Again a voice file must be present for this to work The options provided are SPELL NUMBERS and OFF which function the same as for VOICE DIRECTORIES You can use pre generated talk clips to have filenames spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below Use File talk Clips This option turns on the use of talk clips for files On Use special pre recorded MP3 files for each file This functions the same as for directories except that the talk clip file must have the same name as the described file with an extra talk extension e g Punkadiddle mp3 would require a file called Punkadiddle mp3 talk Off No checking is made for file talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce disk activity Use of a talk clip takes precedence over other filename voicing Otherwise e g if a talk clip is not available voicing uses the metho
137. ne line down On Left One column left On Right One column right Play Toggle autoscroll F1 Enter menu off Exit text viewer The Viewer s Menu Quit Exits the plugin Viewer Options Encoding sets the codepage in the text viewer Available settings UTF 8 Unicode BIG5 Traditional Chinese KSX 1001 Korean GB 2312 Simple Chinese SJIS Japanese CP1250 Central European ISO 8859 2 Latin Extended ISO 8859 9 Turkish ISO 8859 6 Arabic ISO 8859 11 Thai CP1251 Cyrillic ISO 8859 8 Hebrew ISO 8859 7 Greek ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 This setting only applies to the plugin and is inde pendent from the DEFAULT CODEPAGE setting see section page Word Wrap toggles between Wrap and Chop Off Chop Words breaks lines at white space or hyphen On breaks lines at the maximum column limit Line Mode cycles through Normal Join and Expand and Reflow Lines Reflow Lines justifies the text fully Expand adds a blank line Useful for making the paragraphs clearer in some book style text files Join joins lines Useful for adopting the orphans that occur with e mail style i e pre wrapped text files Normal breaks lines at newline characters Wide View toggles between Narrow and Wide Yes sets maximum column to 114 Useful for navigating large files Cur rently Wide and Join cannot be selected together No Narrow sets maximum column to the screen width Show Scrollbar toggles scrollbar for the current View mode I
138. normal pitch It is not possible to change the pitch without changing the playback speed and vice versa Changing the pitch can be done in two modes procentual and semitone Initially after the player is switched on procentual mode is active Key Action 1 Toggle pitch changing mode Up Down Increase Decrease pitch by 0 1 in pro Long Up Long Down Right Left On Off centual mode or a semitone in semitone mode Increase Decrease pitch by 1 in pro centual mode or a semitone in semitone mode Temporarily increase decrease pitch by 2 0 Reset pitch to 100 Leave the Pitch Screen Warning Changing the pitch can cause audible Artifacts or Dropouts 4 4 Quick Screens Figure 4 5 The F2 quick screen Figure 4 6 The F3 quick screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 32 Rockbox handles function buttons in a different way to the Archos software 1 is always bound to the menu function while F2 and F3 enable two quick screens F2 displays some browse and play settings which are likely to be changed frequently This settings are Shuffle mode Repeat mode and the Show files options Shuffle mode plays each track in the currently playing list in a random order rather than in the order shown in the browser Repeat mode repeats either a single track One or the entire playlist All Show files determines what type files can be seen in the brow
139. ntrols the amount of time between THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 55 the last user activity and the time that the disk spins down This idle time is only affected by user activity like navigating through the FILE BROWSER When the hard disk spins up to fill the audio buffer it automatically spins down afterwards 8 5 4 Idle Poweroff Rockbox can be configured to turn off power after the unit has been idle for a defined number of minutes The player is idle when playback is stopped or paused It is not idle while the USB or charger is connected or while recording Settings are either OFF or 1 to 10 minutes in 1 minute steps Then 15 30 45 and 60 minutes are available 8 5 5 Limits This sub menu relates to limits in the Rockbox operating system Max Entries in File Browser This setting controls the limit on the number of files that you can put in any particular directory in the file browser You can configure the size to be between 50 and 10 000 files in steps of 50 The default is 400 Higher values will shorten the music buffer so you should increase this setting only if you have directories with a large number of files Max Playlist Size This setting controls the maximum size of a playlist The playlist size can be between 1 000 and 32 000 files in steps of 1 000 default is 10 000 Higher values will shorten the music buffer so you should increase this setting only if you have very large pl
140. o food and make sure you keep between your opponent and the food So you can always reach it before your opponent e While playing the game the player can still play music For single player game use any music you like For berserk games with 2 players use hard rock and for player games use heavy metal or X Phobie http www x phobie de Play fair and don t kick your opponent in the toe or poke him in the eye That would be bad manners THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 84 11 1 25 Xobox Figure 11 22 Xobox Xobox is a simple clone of the well known arcade game Qix The aim of the game is to section off parts of the arena with your trail in order to remove that section from the game Be careful not to get in the way of enemy balls because if they hit you or your trail you lose a life To finish a level you have to section off more than 75 Key Action Up Down Left around the arena Right Play Pause Off Open menu 11 2 Demos 11 2 1 Bounce Figure 11 23 Bounce This demo is of the word Rockbox bouncing across the screen There is also an analogue clock in the background In SCROLL MODE the bouncing text is replaced by a different one scrolling from right to left THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 85 Key Action Up Down Moves to next previous option Left Right Increases decreases option value On Toggles Scroll mode Off Exit
141. of food it starts growing For each step it moves over food it can grow by one pixel One piece of food lasts for 7 steps After your worm has moved 7 steps the food is used up If another piece of food is eaten while growing it will increase the size of the worm for another 7 steps Crashed This indicates that a worm has crashed against a wall Argh If the score board entry displays Argh it means the worm is dead because it tried to eat an argh Until we can make the worm say Argh it is your job to say Argh aloud Wormed The worm tried to eat another worm or even itself That s why it is dead now Making traps for other players with a worm is a good way to get them out of the game Hints e Initially you will be busy with controlling your worm Try to avoid other worms and crawl far away from them Wait until they curl up themselves and collect the food afterwards Don t worry if the other worms grow longer than yours you can catch up after they ve died e When you are more experienced watch the tactics of other worms Those worms controlled by artificial stupidity head straight for the nearest piece of food Let the other worm have its next piece of food and head for the food it would probably want next Try to put yourself between the opponent and that food From now on you can control the other worm by blocking it You could trap it by making 1 pixel wide U turn You also could move from food t
142. of or from the bookmark When the LOAD LAST BOOKMARK option is set to NO playback always starts from the beginning of the track and the user must play the bookmark or use the LOAD BOOKMARK function in the Main Menu while the file is playing to resume at the bookmarked location Maintain a list of Recently Used Bookmarks This list of Most Recent Bookmarks MRB s may be accessed through the RECENT BOOKMARKS option of the BOOK MARKS sub menu of the Main Menu When set to YES each new bookmark will be added to the MRB list Setting this to No disables the addition of bookmarks to the MRB list UNIQUE ONLY behaves like the YES setting but in addition all older entries for the current dynamic playlist will be removed from the MRB whenever a new entry is added Bookmark Actions context menu When viewing any bookmark list pressing the stan dard context menu key Long Play will bring up the Bookmark Actions context menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 57 RESUME will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry DELETE will remove just the currently selected bookmark entry from the list 8 7 Language This setting controls the language of the Rockbox user interface Selecting a language will activate it The language files must be in the rockbox langs directory See section 12 1 3 page 114 for further details about languages 8 8 Voice Voice Menus This option controls t
143. omising Rockbox Rockbox User Interface can be customised using Themes Themes usually only affect the visual appearance but an advanced user can create a theme that also changes various other settings like file view LCD settings and all other settings that can be modified using cfg files This topic is discussed in more detail in section 12 3 page 118 The Rockbox distribution comes with some themes that should look nice on your player Note Some of the themes shipped with Rockbox need additional fonts from the fonts package so make sure you installed them Also if you downloaded additional themes from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts installed as otherwise the theme may get displayed garbled THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 20 4 Browsing and playing 4 1 File Browser Figure 4 1 The file browser Rockbox lets you browse your music in either of two ways The FILE BROWSER lets you navigate through the files and directories on your player entering directories and executing the default action on each file To help differentiate files each file format is displayed with an icon The DATABASE BROWSER on the other hand allows you to navigate through the music on your player using categories like album artist genre etc You can select whether to browse using the FILE BROWSER or the DATABASE BROWSER by selecting either FILES or DATABASE the MAIN If you
144. on boot Time Format Choose 12 or 24 hour clock Rockbox Info Displays some basic system information This is from top to bottom the amount of memory Rockbox has available for storing music the buffer The battery status Hard disk size and the amount of free space on the disk Version Software version and credits display Debug Keep Out This sub menu is intended to be used only by Rockbox developers It shows hardware disk battery status and other technical information Warning It is not recommended that users access this menu unless instructed to do so in the course of fixing a problem with Rockbox If you think you have messed up your settings by use of this menu please try to reset all settings before asking for help 5 12 Quick Screen Whilst not strictly part of the MAIN MENU it is worth noting that a few of the more commonly used settings are available from the QUICK SCREEN The QUICK SCREEN THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 42 screen is accessed with F2 and exited with Play It allows rapid access to the SHUFFLE and REPEAT modes section page and the SHOW FILES option section 8 2 page 51 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 43 6 Sound Settings Figure 6 1 The sound settings screen The sound settings menu offers a selection of sound settings you may change to customise your listening experience 6 1 Volume This sett
145. op On Tap tempo Left Right Adjust tempo Up Down Adjust volume 11 4 13 Random Folder Advance Configuration This plugin is used to configure the folders which will be considered when the Auto Change Directory feature is set to RANDOM Menu Generate Folder List Generates a list of all folders found on the player You can filter the directories which are scanned by creating a file called rockbox folder_advance_dir txt Only the directories in this file and any contained directories will be scanned You can have up to 10 directories ignored by the scan by placing a minus sign before them in the list i e CDs will cause everything in the CDs directory to be ignored If you just want CDs to be ignored but want to include the folders within 16 you need to have both CDs and CDs as entries Edit Folder List Enter the folder list editor Export List To Textfile Exports the list to rockbox folder_advance_list txt Import List From Textfile Imports the list from rockbox folder_advance_list txt Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 109 Folder List Editor Keys Key Action Right or On Delete selected folder Long Play Bring up the context menu which allows you to remove the selected folder or it s entire folder tree Left or Off Exit 11 4 14 Split Editor When recording an mp3 file it is common practice to start the recording a little bit early and stop it a little bit late to ensure all th
146. op mode In the middle of the bottom line the loop mode icon is displayed There are 4 different loop modes Pressing F2 changes to the next loop mode Playback loops around the split point indicator This mode is best used when searching and zooming for the desired point at which to split the recording T Playback loops from the split point indicator to the end of the visible area This mode is best used when fine tuning the split indicator position at the beginning of a recording I4 T Playback loops from the beginning of the visible area to the split point This mode is best used when fine tuning the split indicator position at the end of a recording Playback does not loop the borders of the visible area as well as the split point indicator are ignored This mode is best used when playing the song outside of the borders of the displayed region Perform the split 8 The icon above the F1 button indicates its function to execute the split When split positioning is complete open the save dialogue with F1 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 111 Key Action Off Quit plugin Left Right Move the split point indicator Up Down Zoom in out Play Play from the split position 1 Enter the save dialogue F2 Toggle loop modes F3 Toggle logarithmic linear scaling On Left Play half speed On Right Play 150 speed On Play Play normal speed Table 11 1 Controls in the split editor
147. our language is not yet supported and you want to write your own language file find the instructions on the Rockbox website mLangFiles 12 2 Configuring the WPS 12 2 1 WPS General Info Description The WPS or While Playing Screen is the name used to describe the infor mation displayed on the player s screen whilst an audio track is being played The default WPS is a relatively simple screen displaying Track name Artist Album etc in the default font as a purely text based layout There are a number of WPS THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 115 files included in Rockbox and you can load one of these at anytime by selecting it in GENERAL SETTINGS DISPLAY BROWSE WPS FILES Note Playing a wps from the file browser has the same effect File Location Custom WPS files may be located anywhere on the drive The only restriction is that they must end in wps When you play a wps file it will be used for future WPS screens and if the played wps file is located in the rockbox wps directory it will be remembered and used after reboot The wps filename must be no more than 24 characters long for it to be remembered 12 2 2 WPS Build Your Own Quite simply enter the WPS code in your favourite text editor Notepad on Windows works fine When you save it instead of saving it as a txt file save it as a wps file Example Instead of Rockbox txt save the file as Ro
148. p lt Stop Play Pause Ffwd Rew gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 116 The last else part is optional and will be displayed if the tag has no value The WPS parser will always display the last part if the tag has no value or if the list of alternatives is too short Next Song Info You can display information about the next song the song that is about to play after the one currently playing unless you change the plan If you use the upper case versions of the three tags F I and D they will instead refer to the next song instead of the current one Example Ig is the genre name used the next song and Ff is the mp3 frequency Note The next song information will not be available at all times but will most likely be available at the end of a song We suggest you use the conditional display tag a lot when displaying information about the next song Alternating Sublines It is possible to group items on each line into 2 or more groups or sublines Each subline will be displayed in succession on the line for a specified time alternating continuously through each defined subline Items on a line are broken into sublines with the semicolon character The display time for each subline defaults to 2 seconds unless modified by using the 4t tag to specify an alternate time in seconds and optional tenths of a second for the subline to be displayed Subline related spec
149. possible Support MP3pro WMA or other sound format playback The mp3 decoding hardware can only play MP3 We cannot make it play other sound formats Converting OGG MP3 The mp3 decoding hardware cannot decode OGG It can be reprogrammed but there is too little memory for OGG and we have no documentation on how to program the MAS DSP Doing the conversion with the CPU is impossible since a 12MHz SH1 is far too slow for this daunting task Archos Multimedia support The Archos Multimedia is a completely different beast It is an entirely differ ent architecture different CPU and upgrading the software is done a completely different way We do not wish to venture into this Others may do so We will not Multi band or graphic equaliser We cannot access information for that kind of visualisation from the MP3 decoding hardware CBR recording The MP3 encoding hardware does not allow this Change tempo of a song without changing pitch The MP3 decoding hardware does not allow this Graphic frequency spectrum analyser We cannot access the audio waveform from the MP3 decoder so we cannot analyse it Even if we had access to it the CPU would probably be too slow to perform the analysis anyway Cool sound effects Adding new sound effects requires reprogramming the MAS chip and we cannot do that The MAS chip is programmable but we have no access to the chip documentation THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER
150. puter If you think you have found a bug please make sure it actually is a bug and is still present in the most recent version of rockbox You should try to confirm that by using the above mentioned support channels first After that you can submit that issue to our tracker Refer to section D page 136 for details on how to use the tracker 1 3 Naming conventions and marks We have some conventions especially on naming that are intended to be consistent throughout this manual Manufacturer and product names are formatted in accordance with the standard rules of English grammar e g Archos playback is currently unsupported Manufacturer and model names are proper nouns and thus are written beginning with a capital letter This manual has some parts that are marked with icons on the margin to help you finding important parts or parts you could skip The following icons are used Note This indicates a note A note starts always with the text Note For easier finding of notes we have put this an icon in the margin like here Notes are used to mark information that could help you or indicate a possible weirdness in rockbox that would be explained Warning This is a warning In contrast to notes mentioned above a warning should be taken more seriously While ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage ignoring warnings could cause serious damage If you are new to rockbox you should really read the warnings before doing an
151. r all protocols requiring more lines an external controller would be necessary Note Archos FMs do not have the remote pin internally connected but one unit that was opened was internally prepared for it a matter of closing a bridge 11 4 2 Battery Benchmark The Battery Benchmark Plugin enables you to test your battery s performance while making normal use of your player Once loaded it will run in the background TSR plu gin reading various info about your battery while you use it Once you finish your ses sion you can find the benchmark output data in a file on your player battery_bench txt Please submit your results to the Rockbox wiki mBatteryRuntime THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 100 How it works After you load the plug in the operation of your player continues as normal You can do whatever you could do before loading the plugin except loading another plugin If you happen to load a plugin while benchmarking a splash screen will inform you about the termination of the benchmark While you operate it will log various battery related information every time the disk is activated by external causes buffer refill open directory USB mode or an hour passes without updating the log file The plugin will continue to log info until e Another plugin is loaded e The player is shut down e The battery is empty Between disk activity or an hour it will log info in memory every measurem
152. r 0 to 100 dB or statusbar on off N A scrollbar on off N A volume display graphic numeric N A battery display graphic numeric N A font path filename fnt N A kbd path filename kbd N A invert on off N A flip display on off N A selector type pointer bar inverse N A show icons on off N A iconset path filename bmp N A viewers iconset path filename bmp N A time format 12hour 24hour N A rec quality 0 to 7 0 small size 7 high quality rec frequency 48 44 32 24 22 16 kHz rec source mic line spdif N A rec channels mono stereo N A rec mic gain 0 to 15 N A rec left gain 0 to 15 N A rec right gain 0 to 15 N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 135 Setting Allowed Values Unit editable recordings off on N A rec timesplit off 0 05 0 10 0 15 0 30 1 00 h mm 2 00 4 00 6 00 8 00 16 00 24 00 pre recording time off 1 to 30 seconds rec directory path to dir N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX D USER FEEDBACK 136 D User feedback D 1 Bug reports If you experience inappropriate performance from any supported feature please file a bug report on our web page Do not report missing features as bugs instead file them as feature ideas see below For open bug reports refer to http www rockbox org tracker index php type 2 D 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 1 Check that the bug has not already been reported 2 Always include the
153. record time no other parameter has any effect ONCE will have the trigger start one recording only after the recording has finished the input signal will not start another recording REPEAT will have the trigger start multiple recordings Trigtype Add description of Trigtype Options STOP PAUSE NEW FILE Prerecord Time This specifies the time that is included into the recording before the trigger event occurs This is very useful if you record a signal that fades in Usually you want to set the prerecord time j start duration That ensures that you record the entire sound Strictly speaking the prerecord time is not a special parameter of the trigger It is available during normal recordings too THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 63 Start Above The start threshold defines the minimal volume a sound must have to start the recording It is displayed numerically in the line Start Above Note that the unit of the threshold depends the settings of the peak meter i e When the peak meter displays db you can adjust the level in db and when the peak meter is set to linear the threshold is displayed as percentage In the peak meter at the bottom of the screen the start threshold is displayed graphically by a little triangle pointing to the right There are two special values The value OFF turns the start condition off With this setting you have to start the recording manually and the trigger only s
154. rouble Rename the file so that it matches the name requested by the firmware_flash plugin Safely disconnect USB Now follow the instructions given for initial flashing starting with step 3 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX FILE FORMATS 123 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX FILE FORMATS 124 A File formats A 1 Supported file formats Icon File Type Extension Action when selected Directory none The browser enters that directory Audio file mp2 mp3 Rockbox takes you to the WPS and starts playing the file Cuesheet View cuesheet file fi Wave Audio File Play a WAV file Playlist m3u m3u8 Rockbox loads the playlist and starts play ing the first file K Rockbox firmware ajz ROLO will load the new firmware While Playing Screen wps The new WPS display configuration will be loaded Language File lng Loads a language file Text File txt This will display the text file using Rockbox text browser plugin 55 Configuration File cfg The settings file will be loaded A Font fnt This font will replace the current one Plugin rock Starts a Rockbox plugin Flash Image ucl This Rockbox image will be flashed into the ROM k Chip8 game ch8 Play a Chip8 game T Image jpg View a JPEG image Rockbox Video rvf View a movie Rockbox format THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX WPS Tacs 12
155. round so you can choose to return to the Main Menu and continue to listen to music If you shut down your player the scan will continue next time you turn it on After the scan is finished you may be prompted to restart your player before you can use the database Ignoring Directories During Database Initialization You may have directories on your player whose contents should not be added to the database Placing a file named database ignore in a directory will exclude the files in that directory and all its subdirectories from scanning their tags and adding them to the database This will speed up the database initialization If a subdirectory of an ignored directory should still be scanned place a file named database unignore in it The files in that directory and its subdirectories will be scanned and added to the database 4 2 3 The Database Menu Auto Update If AUTO UPDATE is set to ON each time the player boots the database will automatically be updated AUTO UPDATE does not detect deleted files To remove deleted files from the database you need to run UPDATE Now Initialize Now You can force Rockbox to rescan your disk for tagged files by using the INITIALIZE Now function in the DATABASE MENU Warning INITIALIZE Now removes all database files removing runtimedb data also and rebuilds the database from scratch Update Now UPDATE NOW causes the database to detect new and deleted files Unlike INITIALIZE Now the UPDATE Now
156. rrent dynamic playlist and create a new one If you want to add a song to the current playlist rather than erasing the current playlist see the section below on how to add music to a playlist By using Insert and Queue functions If playback is stopped the INSERT and QUEUE functions can be used as described in 4 5 3 to create a new playlist instead of adding to an existing one This will erase any dynamic playlist By using the Playlist catalog The PLAYLIST CATALOG makes it possible to modify and create playlists that are not currently playing To do this select PLAYLIST CATALOG in the CONTEXT MENU There you will have two choices ADD TO PLAYLIST adds the selected track or directory to an existing playlist and ADD TO A NEW PLAYLIST creates a new playlist containing the selected track or directory Note All playlists in the PLAYLIST CATALOG are stored by default in the Playlists directory in the root of your player s disk and playlists stored in other locations are not included in the catalog It is however possible to move existing playlists there see section 4 1 2 page 21 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 34 By using the Main Menu To create a playlist containing all music on your player you can use the CREATE PLAYLIST command in the PLAYLIST OPTIONS menu found in the MAIN MENU The created playlist will be named root m3u and saved in the root of your player s disk 4 5 3 Adding musi
157. s Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 93 Toggle Slideshow Mode Enables or disables the slideshow mode Change Slideshow Timeout You can set the timeout for the slideshow between 1 sec ond and 20 seconds Return Returns you to the image Note Progressive scan and other unusual JPEG files are not supported and will result in various unsupported xx messages Processing could also fail if the image is too big to decode which will be explained by a respective message 11 3 4 Movie Player Play movies on your player In order to do this movies must be in AVI format and then converted to RVF Rockbox s own video format For more details on how to use this plugin please see VideoTutorial 11 3 5 Rockbox_flash For playing UCL files on a flashed player Reprograms the flash memory of the player unit see section 12 5 page 120 for details 11 3 6 Rockboy Figure 11 34 Rockboy Rockboy is a Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for Rockbox based on the gnuboy emulator To start game open a ROM file saved as gb or gbc in the file browser THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 94 Default keys Key Action Up Down Direction keys Left Right 1 A button F2 B button F3 Start Play Select On Cycle display scaling modes Off Open Rockboy menu Rockboy menu Load G
158. s You can have as many as 52 images in your WPS There are various ways of displaying images 1 Load and always show the image using the x tag 2 Preload the image with x1 and show it with This way you can have your images displayed conditionally Example on bitmap preloading and use EXAMPLE 16 1601 50 50 23 9 011 16 64 451 811 16 64 451 01 16 64 4x1 e rep_shuffle bmp 16 64 lt gt Four images at the same x y position are preloaded in the example Which image to display is determined by the tag the repeat mode Example File EXAMPLE dsh in lt hin gt it lt fit in gt ia lt ia id lt gt gt That is tracknum title artist album where most fields are only displayed if avail able Could also be rendered as filename or tracknum title artist THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 118 12 3 Managing Rockbox Settings 12 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files Rockbox allows users to store and load multiple settings through the use of configuration files A configuration file is simply a text file with the extension cfg A configuration file may reside anywhere on the disk Multiple configuration files are permitted So for exa
159. s bounce demo Available options are Xdist Ydist The distance to X axis and Y axis respectively Xadd Yadd How fast the code moves on the sine curve on each axis Xsane Ysane Changes the appearance of the bouncing 11 2 2 Credits The credits plugin scrolls the entire list of the names of all the Rockbox contributors after displaying the Rockbox logo and version This plugin is called when selecting VERSION from the SYSTEM section of the Rockbox main menu Exit at any time by pressing Left or Off 11 2 3 Cube Figure 11 24 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D Key Action On Display at maximum frame rate Play Pause F3 Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Up Down Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused Off Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 86 11 2 4 Demystify Figure 11 25 Demystify Demystify is a screen saver like demo Key Action Up Down Increase decrease speed Right Left Add remove polygon Off Quit 11 2 5 Fire Figure 11 26 Fire Fire is a demo displaying a fire effect Key Action Up Down Increase decrease number of flames On Toggle flame type Play Toggle moving flames Off Quit 11 2 6 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 87 Key Action Right Left Increase decrease speed on the x ax
160. s displayed as a progress bar at the top of the LCD if in Invert mode will invert the LCD left to right as the seconds pass a fully inverted LCD means the entire minute has passed The Counter if displayed is shown at the upper left The Blinking Colon if enabled blinks the colon once every second 12 hour mode if enabled will display the time in a 12 hour format LCD mode Based on the Digital Mode the LCD mode is another imitation of an LCD The settings available in this mode are exactly the same as Digital Mode but they are independent THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 106 of Digital Mode For example you can have the Date Readout enabled in Digital Mode and disabled in LCD Mode Fullscreen A Fullscreen clock is displayed Show Border if enabled will draw a small box at every hour position 1 through 12 Invert Seconds if enabled will invert the LCD as the seconds pass Second Hand if enabled will draw a second hand among the hour and minute hands Binary mode This mode shows a Binary clock The hour is displayed on the top line the minute is displayed on the middle line and the seconds are on the last line Circle mode if enabled draws empty and full circles instead of zeros and ones For help on reading binary please visit http en wikipedia org wiki Binary_numeral_system Plain mode This mode shows a plain clock in large text that takes up nearly the whole LCD
161. ser This can be just MP3 files and directories Music Playlists MP3 files and directories Playlists any files that Rockbox supports Supported or all files on the disk All See section page for more information about these settings Key Action Left Controls Shuffle mode setting Right Controls Repeat mode setting Down Controls Show file setting F3 controls frequently used display options Scroll bar turns the display of the Scroll bar on the left of the screen on or off Status bar turns the status display at the top of the screen on or off Upside down inverts the screen so that the top of the display appears nearest to the buttons This is sometimes useful when storing the player in a pocket Key assignments swap over with the display orientation where it is logical for them to do so See section 8 4 page 51 for more information about these settings Key Action Left Controls scroll bar display Right Controls status bar display Down Controls upside down screen setting 4 5 Working with Playlists 4 5 1 Playlist terminology Some common terms that are used in Rockbox when referring to playlists Directory A playlist One of the keys to getting the most out of Rockbox is under standing that Rockbox always considers the song that it is playing to be part of a playlist and in some situations Rockbox will create a playlist automatically For example if you are playing the contents of a directory Rockbox wi
162. so Rockbox needs to know what encoding has been used when generating these tags This should be ISO 8859 1 but to support lan guages outside Western Europe most applications use the setting of your operating system instead If your operating system uses a different codepage and you are getting garbled extended characters you should adjust this settings In most cases sticking to ISO 8859 1 would be sufficient 8 5 System 8 5 1 Start Screen Set the screen that Rockbox will start in Selecting RESUME PLAYBACK will resume playback where it was when the player was shut off if there is a playlist to resume and will then end up in the WPS Selecting PREVIOUS SCREEN will make Rockbox start in the screen it was when the player was shut off 8 5 2 Battery Options relating to the batteries in the player Battery Capacity This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity in mAh the battery being used has The default is 1500mAh which is the capacity value for the standard batteries shipped with the player Rockbox uses this value to estimate remaining battery life for the info screen and WPS Changing this setting has no effect whatsoever on actual battery life This setting only affects the accuracy of the battery life estimation as shown on screen 8 5 3 Disk Options relating to the hard disk Disk Spindown Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it is idle for a certain amount of time This setting co
163. speakers This is usually given in the specification for the headphones speakers MDB shape It is recommended that this parameter be set to 1 5 times the centre frequency This is the frequency up to which harmonics are generated Some of the lower fundamentals near the cut off range will have their lower harmonics cut since they will be below the range of the speakers Fundamentals between the cut off frequency and the lower frequency will have their harmonics proportionally boosted to compensate and restore the loudness of these notes For most users the defaults should provide an improvement in sound quality and can be safely left as they are For reference the defaults Rockbox uses are Setting Value MDB Strength 50dB MDB Harmonics 48 MDB Centre Frequency 60Hz MDB Shape 90Hz THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 4T 7 Playback Settings The PLAYBACK SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play back 7 1 Shuffle Turning shuffle on will cause Rockbox to randomly re order the playlist Thus to shuffle all of the audio files on the player you first need to create a playlist containing all of them For more information on creating playlists refer to section 4 5 page 32 Options YES No 7 2 Repeat Configures settings related to repeating of directories or playlists Options OFF ALL ONE SHUFFLE A B Off The current playlist will not repeat when i
164. ss the context menu with Long Play Note The CONTEXT MENU is a context sensitive menu If the CONTEXT MENU is invoked on a file it will display options available for files If the CONTEXT MENU is invoked on a directory it will display options for directories The CONTEXT MENU contains the following options unless otherwise noted each option pertains both to files and directories THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 22 Playlist Enters the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 5 3 page 34 Playlist Catalog Enters the PLAYLIST CATALOG SUBMENU see section 4 5 2 page 33 Rename This function lets the user modify the name of a file or directory Cut Copies the name of the currently selected file or directory to the clipboard and marks it to be cut Copy Copies the name of the currently selected file or directory to the clipboard and marks it to be copied Paste Only visible if a file or directory name is on the clipboard When selected it will move or copy the clipboard to the current directory Delete Deletes the currently selected file This option applies only to files and not to directories Rockbox will ask for confirmation before deleting a file Press Play to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel Delete Directory Deletes the currently selected directory and all of the files and subdi rectories it may contain Deleted directories cannot be recovered Use
165. start with a Directory names should also end with a How to create 1link files You can use your favourite text editor to create a 1 file on the PC an then copy the file to the player Or you can use the context menu on either a file or a directory in THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 91 the file browser tree and use the Add to shortcuts menu option This will append a line with the full name of the file or the directory to the shortcuts link file in the root directory of the player The file will be created if it does not exist yet You can later rename the automatically created shortcuts link file or move it to another directory if you wish Subsequent calls of the context menu will create it again How to use 1 files i e jump to desired places To use a link file just play it from the file browser This will show you a list with the entries in the file Selecting one of them will then exit the plugin and leave you within the directory selected or with the file selected in the file browser You can then play the file or do with it whatever you want The file will not be played automatically If the link file contains only one entry no list will be shown you will directly jump to that location The file shortcuts 1link in the root directory is an exception After playing it the list will be shown even if the file contains just one entry If the list you are s
166. t Left Long Left Skip to the previous directory 4 3 2 Peak Meter The peak meter can be displayed on the While Playing Screen and consists of several indicators For a picture of the peak meter please see the While Recording Screen in section 5 8 1 page 39 The bar This is the wide horizontal bar It represents the current volume value The peak indicator This is a little vertical line at the right end of the bar It indicates the peak volume value that occurred recently The clip indicator This is a little black block that is displayed at the very right of the scale when an overflow occurs It usually does not show up during normal playback THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 29 unless you play an audio file that is distorted heavily If you encounter clipping while recording your recording will sound distorted You should lower the gain Note Note that the clip detection is not very precise Clipping might occur without being indicated The scale Between the indicators of the right and left channel there are little dots These dots represent important volume values In linear mode each dot is a 10 mark In dbfs mode the dots represent the following values from right to left Odb 3db 6db 9db 12db 18db 24db 30db 40db 50db 60db 4 3 3 The WPS Context Menu Like the context menu for the FILE BROWSER the WPS CONTEXT MENU allows you quick access to some often us
167. t is finished Note If you have the AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY option set to YES Rockbox will move on to the next directory on your hard drive If the AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY option is set to No playback will stop when the current directory or playlist is finished All The current playlist will repeat when it is finished One Repeat one track over and over Shuffle When the current playlist has finished playing it will be shuffled and then repeated A B Repeats between two user defined points within a track typically used by musi cians when attempting to learn a piece of music This option is more complicated to use than the others as the player must first be placed into A B repeat mode and then the start and end points defined To set the Start Point A press On Right Setting the End Point B is done accordingly using On Left To reset the markers press On Off THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 48 7 3 Play Selected First This setting controls what happens when you select a file for playback while shuffle mode is on If the PLAY SELECTED FIRST setting is YES the file you selected will be played first If this setting is NO a random file in the directory will be played first 7 4 Fast Forward Rewind These settings control the speed and acceleration during fast forward and rewind The setting FF RW MIN STEP controls the initial speed and FF RW ACCEL controls the acceleration 7 5 Anti
168. t source code in the SVN repository You can download archived builds from http www rockbox org daily shtml Warning Because current builds and daily builds are development versions which change frequently they may behave differently than described in this manual or they may introduce new and maybe annoying bugs If you do not want to get undefined behaviour from your player you should stick to the current stable release if there is one for your player If you want to help with project development you can try development builds and help by reporting bugs Just be aware that these are development builds that are highly functional but not perfect Installing the firmware 1 Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section 2 Connect your player to the computer via USB described in the manual that came with your player 3 Take the zip file that you downloaded and use the Extract all command of your unzip program to extract the files onto your player Note The entire contents of the zip file should be extracted directly to the root of your player s drive Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the Rockbox files The zip file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs Note If the contents of the zip file are extracted correctly you will have a file called ajbrec ajz in the main directory of your player s drive and also a directory called rockbo
169. t to text formatters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input to text formatters A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose markup or absence of markup has been arranged to thwart or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount of text A copy that is not Transparent is called Opaque Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain ASCII without markup Texinfo input format LaTeX input format SGML or XML using a publicly available DTD and standard conforming simple HTML PostScript or PDF designed for human modification Examples of transparent image formats include PNG XCF and JPG Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word processors SGML or XML for which the DTD and or processing tools are not generally available and the machine generated HTML PostScript or PDF produced by some word processors for output purposes only The Title Page means for a printed book the title page itself plus such following pages as are needed to hold legibly the material this License requires to appear in the title page For works in formats which do not have any title page as such Title Page means the text near the most prominent appearance of the work s title preceding the beginning of the body of the text THE ROCKBOX
170. tallation If you would like to go back to using the original Archos software connect the player to your computer and delete the ajbrec ajz file If you wish to clean up your disk you may also wish to delete the rockbox directory and its contents Turn the Archos off Turn the player back on and the original Archos software will load THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 17 3 Quick Start 3 1 Basic Overview 3 1 1 The player s controls ARCHOS Jukebox Recorder 20 9 0 Up Play Right Down 20 GB USB 2 0 Hard Disk Throughout this manual the buttons on the player are labelled according to the picture above Whenever a button name is prefixed by Long a long press of approx imately one second should be performed on that button The buttons are described in detail in the following paragraph Additional information for blind users is available on the Rockbox website at BlindFAQ Holding the Jukebox in front of you there should be three rectangular buttons in a horizontal line towards the middle of the unit and below this to the left there is a circular four button array with the circular Play button as a fifth button in the centre These are the navigation controls Below the rectangular buttons and to the right of the circular buttons are two small round buttons one above the other The On button is the topmost of the two buttons located below and to the left of th
171. than the one you intended 12 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader Rockbox is able to load and start another firmware file without rebooting You just play a file with the extension ajz This can be used to test new firmware versions without deleting your current version 12 5 Rockbox in Flash 12 5 1 Introduction When you bought your Recorder it came with the Archos firmware in flash ROM When you power on your player this Archos firmware starts and then loads an updated firmware from disk if present ajbrec ajz An ordinary Rockbox installation only replaces the on disk firmware leaving the flash ROM contents intact That means the Archos firmware still controls the boot process The main reason to change this is to improve the startup time of your player The Archos bootloader is rather slow With Rockbox in flash your player will boot much faster typically in three to five seconds Furthermore you might prefer a clean Rockbox environment with as little remnants of the Archos software as possible Warning Flashing your player is somewhat dangerous like programming a mainboard BIOS CD DVD drive firmware mobile phone etc If the power fails the chip breaks while programming or most of all the programming software malfunctions you ll have a dead box We take no responsibility of any kind you do that at your own risk However we tried as carefully as possible to bulletproof this code There are a lot of sanity checks If any o
172. the GNU Free Doc umentation License from time to time Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns See http www gnu org copyleft Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number If the Docu ment specifies that a particular numbered version of this License 701 any later version applies to it you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or of any later version that has been published not as a draft by the Free Software Foundation If the Document does not specify a version number of this License you may choose any version ever published not as a draft by the Free Software Foundation ADDENDUM How to use this License for your documents To use this License in a document you have written include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 153 Copyright YEAR YOUR NAME Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documenta tion License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License If you
173. too Currently implemented is track change shuffle seek but no disk change The plugin is a TSR meaning it silently operates in the background once started It will keep doing so until a new plugin is started Alpine also did M Bus as OEM for other brands Honda Acura Volvo BMW etc Nowadays Alpine uses a different protocol called Ai Net not supported by this plugin As well as all other protocols please do not ask for such The cable Hookup to Archos works by connecting the headphone output including the remote pin you need a 4 ring 3 5 mm plug for that to the changer jack of the radio M Bus radios have a DIN style circular jack with 8 pins 7 in a 270 degree circle one in the center A standard 5 pin DIN plug is OK for this since we do not use the other power pins As OEM they shuffled the pins around a bit better check first if it is not genuine Alpine The bus pin is pulled high to 12 volts with a 2kOhm resistor pulses driven low Because it is open collector this is not harmful to the Archos ASCII art of the 4 pin headphone plug _ left gt Alpine pin _ right gt Alpine pin _ remote gt Alpine pin _ ground gt Alpine pin Ne BO 3 The remote pin can be programmed bidirectional that is the reason this works Very luckily the M Bus uses a single wire communication and the two radios I tried are happy with the 3 3 Volt level the Arcos can deliver So the connection is a simple cable Fo
174. tops the recording according to the stop condition The setting INF sets the trigger to the absolute minimum This setting only makes sense when you record via a digital input as even the noise of the device itself would exceed this threshold immediately for at least The start duration defines the minimal duration that a signal must exceed the start threshold to start the recording Depending on your situation you may want to set this setting to 0 e g when copying a song from a commercial medium or to quite big values Because sound is not continuous by nature think of per cussion neglectable dropouts are tolerated during this start duration Stop Below When the sound level drops below the stop threshold the recording is stopped It is displayed numerically in the line Stop Below Just like the start threshold the unit of the stop threshold depends on the settings of the peak meter There s also a small triangular marker in the peak meter at the bottom of the screen In contrast to the start threshold marker it points to the left The value OFF turns the stop condition off With this setting you have to stop the recording manually for at least This time specifies the duration the signal must drop below the stop thresh old to stop the recording By selecting high values you can ensure that for example trailing fade outs are recorded entirely Presplit Gap When the signal drops below the stop threshold for the time specified by th
175. trol the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program In addition mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program or with a work based on the Program on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License 3 You may copy and distribute the Program or a work based on it under Section 2 in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following a Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine readable source code which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange or b Accompany it with a written offer valid for at least three years to give any third party for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution a complete machine readable copy of the corresponding source code to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange or c Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code This alternative is allowed only for noncom mercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer in accord with Subsection b above The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making mo
176. ts are captured when this number changes while benchmarking This column can be used to give quite interesting graphs in a spreadsheet program Excel Calc e t c THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 101 M DA Measurements per Disk Activity The number of measurements stored tem porarily in memory before written on the log file This can give you an idea of how many voltage changes there are between disk activity or one hour C Stands for Charger An A in that column shows if there was the power adapter attached to the unit at the time of the measurement S The S column shows the state of the device Charging or not The C indicated that the unit was charging when the measurement was captured U USB powered Only for targets that support this A U will indicate if the unit was using the USB port for powering Making graphs While you can tell how long your battery lasted with a single look at the last line of the battery log battery_bench txt the most useful purpose of Battery Benchmark is to make graphs using a spreadsheet program like Excel or Calc The battery log battery_bench txt is in CSV format comma separated so you can quite easily import it to a spreadsheet program 11 4 3 Calculator Figure 11 37 Calculator This is a simple scientific calculator for use on the player It works like a standard calculator Pressing the lst and 2nd buttons wil
177. ult is shown as individual numbers as well as the total of the rolled dice Key Action On Roll dice again Off Quit 11 1 7 Flipit Figure 11 5 Flipit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 69 Flipping the colour of the token under the cursor also flips the tokens above below left and right of the cursor The aim is to end up with a screen containing tokens of only one colour Key Action Up Down Move the cursor Left Right Play Flip 1 Shuffle F2 Solve F3 Solve step by step Off Quit the game 11 1 8 Jewels Figure 11 6 Jewels Jewels is a simple yet addicting game which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible before running out of available moves Higher points are awarded to larger combos The game advances to the next level after every one hundred points and randomly clears several jewels Key Action Left Right Up Down Move the cursor around the jewels Play Select a jewel Long Play Show the in game menu Off Exit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 70 11 1 9 MazezaM Figure 11 7 MazezaM The goal of this puzzle game is to escape a dungeon consisting of ten mazezams These are rooms containing rows of blocks which can be shifted left or right You can move the rows only by pushing them and if you mov
178. ust destroy all of the pegs If two like pegs are pushed into each other they disappear except for triangles which form a solid block and crosses which allow you to choose a replacement block Key Action In game Up Down to move around Left Right On to select save F2 to restart level 1 to go up a level F3 to go down a level Off to quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 72 11 1 12 Pong Figure 11 10 Pong Pong is a simple two player tennis game Whenever a player misses the ball the other scores Key Action 1 Left player up Left Left player down F3 Right player up Right Right player down Off Quit 11 1 13 Robotfindskitten Figure 11 11 Robotfindskitten In this game you are robot Your job is to find kitten This task is complicated by the existence of various things which are not kitten Robot must touch items to determine if they are kitten or not The game ends when robotfindskitten Key Action Up Down Left Move robot Right Off Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 73 11 1 14 Rockblox Figure 11 12 Rockblox Rockblox is a rockbox version of the classic falling blocks game The aim of the game is to make the falling blocks of different shapes form full rows Whenever a row is complete it will be cleared and the game score will increase For every ten lines completed the game level increases making the blocks
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180. volume of the right channel relative to the left 6 5 Channels A stereo audio signal consists of two channels left and right The CHANNELS setting determines if these channels are to be combined in any way and if so in what manner they will be combined Available options are Setting Description Stereo Leave the audio signal unmodified Mono Combine both channels and send the resulting signal to both stereo channels resulting in a monophonic output Custom Allows you to manually specify a stereo width with the STEREO WIDTH setting described later in this chapter Mono Left Plays the left channel in both stereo channels Mono Right Plays the right channel in both stereo channels Karaoke Removes all sound that is common to both channels Since most music is recorded with vocals being equally present in both channels to make the singer sound centrally placed this often but not always has the effect of removing the voice track from a song This setting also very often has other undesirable effects on the sound 6 6 Stereo Width Stereo width allows you to manually specify the effect that is applied when the CHAN NELS setting is set to custom All values below 100 will progressively mix the con tents of one channel into the other This has the effect of gradually centering the stereo image until you have monophonic sound at 0 Values above 100 will progressively remove components in one channel that is also present in
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182. when you enter the FILE BROWSER from the WPS you will find yourself in the same directory as the currently playing file If FOLLOW PLAYLIST is set to NO when you enter the FILE BROWSER from the WPS you will find yourself in the directory you were in when you last left the FILE BROWSER Show Path If this setting is set to FULL PATH the full path to the current directory will be displayed on the first line in the FILE BROWSER If set to CURRENT DIRECTORY ONLY only the name of the current directory will be displayed This has a similar effect on the Database browser If set to CURRENT DIRECTORY ONLY or FULL PATH then the title of each menu will be displayed on the first line in the DATABASE BROWSER 8 3 Database This sub menu allows you to configure the database See section 4 2 page 23 for more information about using the database 8 4 Display LCD Settings This sub menu contains settings that relate to the display of the player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 52 Backlight The amount of time the backlight shines after a key press If set to OFF the backlight will not light when a button is pressed If set to ON the backlight will never shut off If set to a time 1 to 90 seconds the backlight will stay lit for that amount of time after a button press Backlight While Plugged In This setting is equivalent to the BACKLIGHT set ting except it applies when the player is plugged into the
183. x which contains a number of other directories and system files needed by Rockbox If you receive a 1 error when you start Rockbox you have not extracted the contents of the zip file to the proper location Installing the fonts package Rockbox has a fonts package that is available at http www rockbox org daily shtml or from the extras link in the menu on the Rockbox website While the current builds THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER A CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 15 and daily builds change frequently the fonts package rarely changes and is therefore not included in these builds When installing Rockbox for the first time you should install the fonts package The release version on the other hand does not change so fonts are included with it 1 Download the fonts package from the link above 2 Take the file that you downloaded above and use the Extract all command of your unzip program to extract the files in the zip file onto your player As with the firmware installation the entire contents of the fonts zip should be extracted directly to the root of your player s drive Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the fonts The zip already contains the correct internal structure 2 3 3 Enabling Speech Support optional If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice file English ones are available from http www rockbox org daily shtml Download the voice pack
184. x sorts files All of the options for SORT DIRECTORIES are available in this option In addition there is a By TYPE option which sorts files alphabetically by their type such as mp3 then alphabetically within each type THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 51 Show Files This option controls which files are displayed in the File Browser All The FILE BROWSER displays all files and directories Extensions are shown No files or directories are hidden Supported The FILE BROWSER displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 124 Files and directories starting with dot or with the hidden flag set are hidden Music The FILE BROWSER displays only directories playlists and the supported audio file formats Extensions are stripped Files and directories starting with or with the hidden flag set are hidden Playlists The FILE BROWSER displays only directories and playlists for simplified navigation Show Filename Extensions This option controls how file extensions are shown in the File Browser Off The file extensions are never shown On The file extensions are always shown Only unknown types Only the extensions of unknown filetypes are shown Only when viewing all types Only show file extensions when SHOW FILES is set to ALL Follow Playlist This option determines what directory the FILE BROWSER displays first If FOLLOW PLAYLIST is set to YES
185. yer Left on player F2 control turn left Right turn left F3 turn turn right right 3 Remote con on player Left on remote control on player F2 trol turn left Right VOL DOWN turn left F3 turn turn right left VOL right UP turn right The game Use the control keys of your worm to navigate around obstacles and find food Worms do not stop moving except when dead Dead worms are no fun Be careful as your worm will try to eat anything that you steer it across It won t distinguish whether it is edible or not THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 82 Food The small square hollow pieces are food Move the worm over a food tile to eat it After eating the worm grows Each time a piece of food has been eaten a new piece of food will pop up somewhere Unfortunately for each new piece of food that appears two new argh pieces will appear too Argh An argh is a black square poisoned piece slightly bigger than food that makes a worm say Argh when run into A worm that eats an argh is dead Thus eating an argh must be avoided under any circumstances Arghs have the annoying tendency to accumulate Worms Thou shall not eat worms Neither other worms nor thyself Eating worms is blasphemous cannibalism not healthy and causes instant death And it doesn t help anyway the other worm isn t hurt by the bite It will go on creeping happily and eat all the food you l
186. ying of each of the documents in all other respects You may extract a single document from such a collection and distribute it individ ually under this License provided you insert a copy of this License into the extracted document and follow this License in all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document 7 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and independent documents or works in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium is called an aggregate if the copyright resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights of the compilation s users beyond what the individual works permit When the Document is included in an aggregate this License does not apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves derivative works of the Document If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these copies of the Docu ment then if the Document is less than one half of the entire aggregate the Document s Cover Texts may be placed on covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate or the electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole aggregate THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 152 8 TRANSLATION Translation is considered a kind of modification so you may distribute translations o
187. ype show w This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions type show for details THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER APPENDIX G LICENSES 160 The hypothetical commands show w and show c should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License Of course the commands you use may be called some thing other than show wand show c they could even be mouse clicks or menu items whatever suits your program You should also get your employer if you work as a programmer or your school if any to sign a copyright disclaimer for the program if necessary Here is a sample alter the names Yoyodyne Inc hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program Gnomovision which makes passes at compilers written by James Hacker lt signature of Ty Coon gt 1 April 1989 Ty Coon President of Vice This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into propri etary programs If your program is a subroutine library you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library If this is what you want to do use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER
188. ything that is warned about This icon marks a section that is intended especially for the blind and visually impaired As they cannot read the manual in the same way sighted people do we have added some additional descriptions If you are not blind or visually impaired you most likely can completely skip these blocks To make this easier there is an icon shown in the margin on the right Links to the wiki are abbreviated by the name of the wiki page Those names are still linked so you can simply follow them like any other link in this manual If you want to access a wiki page manually go to http www rockbox org wiki and type the page name in the Go box at the top of the page Links to wiki pages are also indicated by the symbol in front of the page name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ARCHOS RECORDER 4 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 12 2 Installation 2 1 Overview There are two ways of installing Rockbox automated and manual While the manual way is older more tested and proven to work correctly the automated installation is based on a nice graphical application that does almost everything for you It is still important that you have an overview of the installation process to be able to select the correct installation options Rockbox itself comes as a single package There is no need to install additional software for running Rockbox Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in installin

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