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4. open source jukebox firmware The Rockbox Manual for Archos Ondio 128 SP rockbox org March 5 2013 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 2013 The Rockbox Team and its contributors c 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough 2003 Jos Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal amp Peter Schlenker Version 3 13 Built using pdflATEX 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CONTENTS Contents 1 Introduction LI Wea Su sos uox Ree som de ok ctv RR x 1 2 Getting more help 1 3 Naming conventions and marks 2 Installation ZI Bele Doll o p ER x 2 4 Installing Reckbok o s 2 60 5 ee eom 2 2 1 Automated Installation 2 2 2 Manual Installation 2 2 8 Finishing the install 2 2 4 Enabling Speech Support optional 2 9 Running Rockbox se socs enso 8224 4 6405 2 4
5. Me gt Note e The images must be in BMP format e The image tag must be on its own line e The ID is case sensitive 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 respect each of the player s limits C 21 Alignment and language direction Tag Description hal Align the text left al Align the text left or to the right if RTL language is in use hac Centre the text har Align the text right Align the text right or to the left if RTL language is in use hax The next tag should follow the set language direction When prepended to a viewport declaration the viewport will be horizontally mirrored if the user language is set to a RTL language Currently the Cl V and V1 tags support this 5 Use as a conditional to define options for left to right or right to left languages Sr lt RTL LTR gt alignment tags may be present in one line but they need to be in the order left centre right If the aligned texts overlap they are merged Example 4axAVC THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 148 C 22 Conditional Tags Tag 4A xx true false Description If Else Evaluate for true or false case h xx lt altilalt2 alt3 lelse hif tag operator operand option count tag2 tagN or tagi tag2 tagN E
6. track name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 27 e The ID3 album name e The artist name e Dit rate VBR files display average bitrate and Elapsed and total time e 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 11 2 page 122 for details of customising your WPS While Playing Screen 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 track go to the previous track Long Left Rewind in track Right Go to the next track Long Right Fast forward in track On Off Toggle play pause Long On Off Stop playback Mode Return to the FILE BROWSER DATABASE Long Mode Enter WPS CoNTEXT MENU Long Mode twice Enter MAIN MENU via the WPS Con TEXT MENU Mode Down Key lock software hold switch on off Short Right Skip to the next directory Long Right Short Left Long Left Skip to the previous directory THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 28 4 3 2 Peak Meter The peak meter can be displayed on the While Playing Screen and consist
7. Figure 10 12 pegbox To beat each level you must 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 73 Up Down Left Right On Off Mode Right Mode Up Mode Down Mode On Off 10 1 14 Pong to move around to choose peg to restart level to go up a level to go down a level to quit Figure 10 13 Pong Pong is a simple one or two player tennis game Whenever a player misses the ball the other scores The game starts in demo mode with the CPU controlling both sides As soon as a button to control one of the paddles is pressed control of that paddle passes to the player so for a single player game just press the appropriate buttons to control the side you want to play For a two player game both players should just press the appropriate buttons for their side Left Mode Up Down On Off Left player up Left player down Right player up Right player down Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 74 10 1 15 Reversi This is a simple implementation of the Reversi game The objective of the game is to have a majority of own coloured pieces showing at the end of the game The game rules can be found in the internet You can choos
8. Note Advanced Users Only Any BDF font 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 See s CreateFontszz ConvBdf for more details Or just run convbdf without any parameters to see the possible options 11 1 4 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 SET TINGS GENERAL SETTINGS LANGUAGE from the MAIN MENU Note If you want language to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox 1angs directory and the filename must be a maximum of 24 characters long If your language is not yet supported and you want to write your own language file find the instructions on the Rockbox website s LangFiles 11 1 5 UI Viewport By default the UI is drawn on the whole screen This can be changed so that the UI is confined to a specific area of the screen by use of a UI viewport This is done by adding the following line to the cfg file for a theme ui viewport X Y width height font Only the first two parameters have to be specified the others can be omitted using as a placeholder The syntax is very similar to WPS viewports see section 11 2 2 page 123 Briefly e font is a number 0 is the built in system font 1
9. TD3 Tags Vorbis comments etc THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 18 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 FILE BROWSER stop the playback with the Long On Off button or return to the file browser while keeping playback running using Mode 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 4 page 31 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 Right 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 highli
10. 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 41 5 7 2 Playback Settings The PLAYBACK SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play back The details of this menu are covered in section 7 page 45 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 49 5 7 4 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu contains options that control the visual appearance of Rockbox The details of this menu are covered in section 9 page 59 5 7 5 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 38 player back to initial configuration The details of this menu are covered in section 11 3 page 128 5 8 Playlists 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 manuall
11. 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 values below 10096 will progressively mix the contents of one channel into the other This has the effect of gradually centering the stereo im age until you have monophonic sound at 096 Values above 10096 will progressively remove components in one channel that is also present in the other This has the effect of widening the stereo field A value of 10096 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER SouND S
12. Mode Up Mode Down Zoom out Mode Left Decrease iteration depth less detail Mode Right Increase iteration depth more detail Mode On Off Reset and return to the default image On Off Quit 10 2 7 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen Key Action Right Left Increase decrease speed on the x axis Up Down Increase decrease speed on the y axis On Off or Long Quit On Off 10 2 8 Mosaique Figure 10 31 Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 89 Key Action Up Change the gap between the drawing lines Mode Restart the drawing process On Off or Long On Off 10 2 9 Oscilloscope Exits Mosaique demo Figure 10 32 Oscilloscope This demo shows the shape of the sound samples that make up the music being played Keys Key Mode Mode Right Mode Left Mode On Off Up Down Right Left On Off Action Toggle filled curve plot Toggle whether to scroll or not Toggle drawing orientation Pause the demo Increase decrease volume Increase decrease speed Exit demo THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 90 10 2 10 PictureFlow Figure 10 33 PictureFlow PictureFlow provides a visualisation of your albums with their associated cover art Note PictureFlow is a visual
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14. It is requested but not required that you contact the authors of the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies to give them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document 4 MODIFICATIONS You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above provided that you release the Modified Version under precisely this License with the Modified Version filling the role of the Document thus licensing distribution and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy of it In addition you must do these things in the Modified Version A Use in the Title Page and on the covers if any a title distinct from that of the Document and from those of previous versions which should if there were any be listed in the History section of the Document You may use the same title as a previous version if the original publisher of that version gives permission B List on the Title Page as authors one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version together with at least five of the principal authors of the Document all of its principal authors if it has fewer than five unless they release you from this requirement C State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the Modified Version as the publisher D Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document E Add an appropriate
15. PLUGINS 80 Key Action Mode Shoot Up Thrust Left Right Turn left right Down Teleport Mode On Off Pause game On Off Quit 10 1 25 Star Figure 10 22 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 o s 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 7 block cannot take Key Left Right Up Down Mode Mode 4 Left Mode Up Mode Right On Off Action Move Left Move Right Move Up Move Down Switch between circle and square Previous level Reset level Next level Exit the game THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 81 10 1 26 Sudoku Figure 10 23 Sudoku Sudoku in Rockbox can act as both a plugin and a viewer When starting Sudoku from the BROWSE PLUGINS menu 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 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
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17. gt Di ETER PELLKOFER b EVGENIY KACHALIN gt LENNY KOEPSELL gt HARRY TU PAWEL WYSOCKI gt XINLU HUANG DANIEL DAL TON gt BORIS GJENERO SYLVAIN FOUR MANOIT gt ALEX PARKER MARIO LANG gt JUSTIN FOELL IGOR KUZMIN ADIL SON VICENTE XAVIER JESSE LOCKWOOD gt JONATHAN BACKER SOFIAN BABAI gt COSTAS CALAMVOKIS CATALIN PAT PETER HARLEY KEL LEY gt ALEXANDER EICKHOFF P KEN FAZ ZONE DAvID BISHOP b HEIN PIETER VAN BRAAM b PRZEMYS AW HOLUBOWSKI THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX CREDITS 162 gt STEPAN MOSKOVCHENKO b JOHN S GWYNNE P BRIAN J MOREY STIJN HISKEN gt BERTRIK SIKKEN KARIM BOUCHER gt JAMES ESPINOZA gt FRANZ R HMLAND gt JORDAN ANDERSON MAURUS CUELE NAERE CHRIS ALLEGRETTA gt ALASTAIR S gt MARTIN CRKOVSKY gt ARIYA HIDAYAT gt JONAS HURRELMANN 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 b THOMAS MARTITZ gt PRAKARN SAHASOONTORNVUTE gt GEORGE TAMPLARU gt APOORVA MAHAJAN VUONG MINH gt MATEUSZ KUBICA gt FRANK GEVAERTS gt CHELO SACRISTAN SASCHA WOLF gt NICKOLAY JORDANOV gt JOHANNES VOGGENTHALER gt MARC Guay b ALEX VANDERPOL b JERRY LANGE b YOHANN MISQUITTA gt KEITH PERRI gt MARK Faw CUS IVAN PESIC MARCEL BARBULESCU gt PHIL LIGHT gt ROB PURCHASE gt ANDR
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19. such as the GNU General Public License to permit their use in free software THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 172 H 2 The GNU General Public License Version 2 June 1991 Copyright c 1989 1991 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin Street 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 licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it By contrast the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software to make sure the software is free for all its users T his General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation s software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead You can apply it to your programs too When we speak of free software we are referring to freedom not price Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software and charge for this service if you wish that you receive source code or can get it if you want it that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs and that you know you can do these things To protect your rights we
20. 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 EXAMPLE it 4t 8 shit shin gt 7ia lt t 3 shial t 0 gt The format above will do two different things depending if ID3 tags are present If the ID3 artist and title are present e Display id3 title for 8 seconds e Display id3 artist for 3 seconds e repeat If the ID3 artist and title are not present e Display the filename continuously Note that by using subline display time of 0 in one branch of a conditional a subline can be skipped not displayed when that condition is met Using Images 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 4x tag 2 Preload the image with 4x1 and show it with 4xd This way you can have your images displayed conditionally Example on bitmap preloading and use THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 128 EXAMPLE 4x a static icon bmp 50 50 4x1l b rep off bmp 16 64 4xl c rep all bmp 16 64 4x1l d rep one bmp 16 64 4x1l e rep shuffle bmp 16 64 mm lt 7 xd b Axd Cc 4xd Ca xd gt Four images at the same x and y position are pre
21. 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 39 Running Time This item shows the cumulative overall runtime of your player since you either disconnected it from charging in Rockbox or manually reset this item manual reset is done through pressing any button followed by pressing Right Top Time This item shows the cumulative overall runtime of your player since you last manually reset this item manual reset is done through pressing any button followed by pressing Right 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 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 11 Shortcuts This menu item is a container for user defined shortcuts to files folders or settings With a shortcut e A file can be run i e a music file played plugin started or a cfg loaded e The file browser can be opened with the cursor positioned at a specified file or folder A file s or folder s Current Playlist context menu item can be displayed A setting can be configured any which can be added to the QUICK SCREEN A debug menu item can be displayed useful for developers mostly e The sleep timer can be conf
22. 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 177 AND OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE BE LIABLE TO 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 everyone can redistribute and change under these terms 10 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 one line to give the program s name and a brief idea of what it does Copyright C year name of author This program is
23. MENU THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 113 Lrcplayer Menu Theme settings Change theme related settings Show Statusbar Show hide the statusbar Display Title Show hide the track title Display Time Show hide the current time Backlight Force On Do not turn off the backlight while displaying the lyrics Display Settings Change how the lyrics are displayed Wrap Breaks lines at white space Wipe Wipes the text Alignment Align text to the left centre or right Activate Only Current Line Activate only the current line or the current and previous lines Lyrics Settings Change how the lyrics files are loaded Encoding Sets the codepage used in the plugin Lrc Directory Set the directory where lyrics files are stored must be a maximum of 63 bytes Playback Control Show the playback control menu Time Offset Set an offset for the time tags for the lyrics currently in use Timetag Editor Enter the timetag editor Quit Exit the plugin Editing the time tags The display time for each line can be changed with the timetag editor Selecting a line changes its time to the current position of the track set a specific time or to adjust the time press Long Right to bring up a screen to adjust the time Changes will be saved automatically when the song is changed Editing words in lyrics is not supported 10 4 8 md5sum Open a file a directory or just launch it from t
24. On Windows this means you need to know the drive letter associated with the player On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player On Mac OS X you need to know the volume name of your player 2 2 Installing Rockbox There are two ways to install Rockbox automated and manual The automated way is the preferred method of installing Rockbox for the majority of people Rockbox Utility is a graphical application that does almost everything for you However should you encounter a problem then the manual way is still available to you Rockbox itself comes as a single package There is no need to install additional software to run Rockbox Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in installing 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 appearance of Rockbox can be customised by themes Depending on your taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox 2 2 1 Automated Installation 10 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 Minimal Instal lation THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 2 IN
25. PASCAL BE LOW gt DANNY ATTAR PHILIPP STEPHANI gt TORE JOHNNY BRATVEIT gt MARCIN BuKAT gt ANDREW RODLAND gt LUCA LEONARDO SCORCIA gt GERHARD ZINTEL gt ADRIAN CERETO MASSAGUE gt CHRIS SAV ERY gt RAPHAEL JAKSE WINCENT BALIN gt AARON ROTHBAUM NEJC LOTRIC gt HIN RIK ORN SIGURDSSON gt STEPHEN CARROLL gt JoE BALOUGH b JEROME HEIL TIM GRAF gt MARTIN SAGMULLER JOSHUA HULST gt PIERRE YVES ROOSENS gt HAYDEN PEARCE RODRIGO BARRETTO gt DANIEL RIGBY b ALEXEY POLKHIREV b ISTV N Nacy WOJCIECH LE NIAK TUOMAS AIRAKSINEN gt CALVIN WALDEN MICHAEL GENTRY gt DAVID FOWLE gt FABIAN VOGEL gt MICHAEL STUMMVOLL gt FRANZ JOSEF HAIDER MICHAEL HOHMUTH b SERGIO VERA b MICHAEL LESLIE gt CRAIG MANN gt WILLIAM PETERS LI CRISTINA lALPIGA gt ALEXANDER MESHCHERYAKOV gt RYAN SAWHILL gt THOMAS JAROSCH gt WILL SOWERBUTTS b GABRIEL MAIA gt ROBERT HORN gt ANTE MARETIC gt BEN JAMIN BROWN UWE WIEBACH gt MIKHAIL gt DAVE SLUSHER JEAN MARIE MORAUX ISMAEL CASTI EIRA ALVAREZ gt MARTINS IMIS gt HUAN ZHANG gt LEIF AN DERSEN gt SERGIU ROTARU gt NOE LOJKINE gt OPHIR LOJKINE gt STEPHAN GROSSKLASS gt JOHN MORRIS gt SEAN BARTELL SE HEON RYU ASIER ARSUAGA gt VENCISLAV ATANASOV gt MAURICIO GARRIDO NICK PESKETT gt MICHAEL GOERNER RICHARD BRITTAIN gt ANDREW RYABININ gt MAKSIM POSTOLATI gt STANISLAV CHIZHIK DESU
26. 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 10 1 22 Sokoban Figure 10 19 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 78 Key Action In game Up Down Left Move the sokoban up down left or Right right On Off Menu Mode Left Back to previous level Mode Up Restart level Mode Right Go to next level Mode Undo last movement Mode Down Redo previously undone move Solution playback Mode Pause resume Up Down Increase decrease playback speed Left Right Go backward forward while paused On 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 10 1 23 Solitair
27. Status Bar hwi Display the inbuilt Status Bar in the current viewport These tags override the player setting for the display of the status bar They must be noted on their own line which will not be shown in the WPS 2 Hardware Capabilities Tag Description hcc Check for presence of a real time clock returns c when used unconditionally Atp Does this target have a radio Indicates that the target has touchscreen With the above tags it is possible to find out about the presence of certain hardware and make the theme adapt to it This can be very useful for designing a theme that works on multiple targets with differing hardware capabilities e g targets that do and do not have a clock When used conditionally the true branch is completely ignored if it does not apply Example 4 cc AcH 4cM No clock detected THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 139 C 3 Information from the track tags Tag hia hic iA hid hiG hig in hit iC hiv Way Aik Description Artist Composer Album Artist Album Name Grouping Genre Name Track Number Track Title Comment ID3 version 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 or empty if not an ID3 tag Year Disc Number Remember that this information is not always available so use the conditionals to show alternate information in preference to assuming These tags when written with a capital I e g Ia Ic show the inform
28. 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 165 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 a 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 nothing 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 mathematics 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 designated as being those of Invariant Sections in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License If a section does no
29. 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 Rockbox 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 50 Interpret numbers when sorting As WHOLE NUMBERS enables a sorting algorithm which is similar to the default sorting of for example Windows Explorer Mac OS X s Finder or Nautilus with regards to numbers at the beginning or within filenames It combines consecutive digits to a number used for sorting taking leading zeros into account AS DIGITS disables this algorithm and causes every digit to be compared sepa rately The following table demonstrates the two sorting methods As whole numbers As digits 03 Jackson mp3 03 Jackson mp3 1 Ring Of Fire mp3 1 Ring Of Fire mp3 2 I Walk The Line mp3 10 A Thing Called Love mp3 10 A Thing Called Love mp3 2 I Walk The Line mp3 Episode 1 ogg Episode 1 ogg Episode 57 0gg Episode 233 ogg Episode 233 ogg Episode 57 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 direc
30. Theme Files This option will display all the currently installed themes on the player press Right to load the chosen theme and apply it 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 http themes rockbox org index php target ondiosp 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 11 2 2 page 123 for more details Font Browse the installed fonts on your player Selecting one will activate it See section 11 1 3 page 121 for further details about fonts While Playing Screen Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it Left or On Off 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 11 2 page 122 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 135 These icons can also be customised See the s amp IconSets and s CustomIcons Wik
31. Updating Rockbox e 2 5 Uninstalling Rockbox x ox 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation 2 5 2 Manual Umnstallation o spo eve aos eue ZB Troubleshoot co 3 Quick Start 3 1 Basic Overview 24 3 1 1 The player s controls o saaman aa 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off 3 1 8 Putting music on your player AL Whe first eonbtaeb 2 9 oce LER Jl Base oos oe a E a Ra 3 1 6 Basic concepts 3 2 Customising Rockbox go USB Power 4 4 4 Browsing playing il File Browser o 22 2 ie noe xm leo RR OR ke 4 1 1 File Browser Controls 4 1 2 Context Men 2 9 c3 4 1 8 Virtual Keyboard 4044 AD DatsBASE o uu cass ex RR ROIG DEC ar 4 2 1 Introduction 2 n THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CONTENTS 4 42 2 Initializing the Database o soe RR RR dee 24 12 5 The Database i sso Rom RR ROSE EG CER RH ER 24 124 Using the Database oco e GE EE 25 43 While Playing Sereen 2222s rose cw sm 26 431 WPS Key Controls 22x gov ey Rx eR RC 27 4 3 2 Peak A ee ee ee os 28 4 3 3 The WPS Context Men o 25446483 28 44 Working with Playlists se saa peaa aa ooo ee RE ae 31 44l Playlist
32. Volume changing pv gt The example above will display the text Volume changing if the volume is being changed and 2 5 seconds after the volume button has been released After that it will display the volume value C 19 Settings Tag Description St setting The value of the Rockbox setting with the specified name See name section D page 152 for the list of the available settings Siti Draw bar using from the setting See section 25 page 149 for details Examples THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 146 1 As a simple tag 7St skip length 2 As a conditional 4 St eq enabled lt Eq is enabled Eq is disabled C 20 Images Tag x n filename x yl 4x1 n filename x y nimages tag offset 4x9 n Description Load and display an image n image ID for later referencing 4xd filename file name relative to rockbox and including bmp x x coordinate defaults to 0 if both x and y are not specified y y coordinate defaults to 0 if both x and y are not speci fied Preload an image for later display useful for when your im ages are displayed conditionally n image ID for later referencing in xd filename file name relative to rockbox and including bmp If the filename is list icons the list icon bitmap will be used instead x x coordinate defaults to 0 if both x
33. You can set the timeout for the slideshow between 1 sec ond and 20 seconds Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the FILE BROWSER 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 10 3 5 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 se Video Tutorial 10 3 6 Rockbox flash For playing UCL files on a flashed player Reprograms the flash memory of the player unit see section 11 5 page 130 for details 10 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 10 3 8 Shopper Shopper is a shopping list plugin which allows you to maintain reusable shopping lists 10 3 9 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 8 page 38 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 9
34. also clearly and legibly identify you as the publisher of these copies The front cover must present the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and visible You may add other material on the covers in addition Copying with changes limited to the covers as long as they preserve the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions can be treated as verbatim copying in other respects If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit legibly you should put the first ones listed as many as fit reasonably on the actual cover and continue the rest onto adjacent pages If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering more than 100 you must either include a machine readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy or state in or with each Opaque copy a computer network location from which the general network using public has access to download using public standard network protocols a complete Transparent copy of the Document free of added material If you use the latter option you must take reasonably prudent steps when you begin THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 167 distribution of Opaque copies in quantity to ensure that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque copy directly or through your agents or retailers of that edition to the public
35. and will behave exactly as any other directory on the player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 21 4 1 1 File Browser Controls Key Action Up Down Go to previous next item in list If you are on the first last entry the cursor will wrap to the last first entry Left Go to the parent directory Right Execute the default action on the selected file or enter a directory Mode If there is an audio file playing return to the WHILE PLAYING SCREEN WPS without stopping playback On Off Stop audio playback Long Right Enter the CONTEXT MENU Long Mode Enter the MAIN MENU 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 access the context menu with Long Right Note The CONTEXT MENU is a context sensitive menu If the CONTEXT MENU is 21 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 Playlist Enters the PLAvLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 32 Playlist Catalogue Enters the PLAYLIST CATALOGUE SUBMENU see section 4 4 2 page 32 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13
36. 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 11 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 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 than the one you intended 11 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 11 5 Rockbox in Flash 11 5 1 Introduction When you bought your Ondio 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
37. are stored next to the directory or playlist they reference in a file with the same name as the directory or playlist and a bmark extension To load a bookmark select the bookmark file and then select the bookmark to load There are other ways to load a bookmarks mentioned below Note Bookmarking only works when tracks are launched from the file browser and does not work for tracks launched via the database In addition they do not work with dynamic playlists Bookmark on Stop This option controls whether Rockbox creates a bookmark when playback is stopped manually No Do not create bookmarks Yes Always create bookmarks Ask Ask if a bookmark should be created Yes Recent Only Always create a bookmark but only in the recent bookmarks list Ask Recent Only Ask if a bookmark should be created but only add it to the recent bookmarks list THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 56 When either YES RECENT ONLY or ASK RECENT ONLY is selected bookmarks are only created if the MAINTAIN A LIST OF RECENT BOOKMARKS is enabled Note The RESUME function remembers your position in the most recently ac cessed track regardless of how the BOOKMARK ON STOP option is set Update on Stop If set to No this setting has no effect and does not affect any other settings If set to Yes and the file to which a new bookmark would be added already exists this
38. as many tracks as will fit in the viewport C 11 Runtime Database Tag Description Arp Song playcount Arr Song rating 0 10 This tag can also be used in a conditional tag lt 0111213141516171819110 gt ra Autoscore for the song C 12 Hold Tag Description Amh h if the main unit keys are locked C 13 Virtual LED Tag Description h if the flash storage is accessed C 14 Repeat Mode Tag Description Amm Repeat mode 0 4 in the order Off All One Shuffle A B Example mm lt Off A11 One Shuffle A B gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 144 C 15 Playback Mode Tag Description Amp Play status 0 4 in the order Stop Play Pause Fast For ward Rewind Recording Recording paused FM Radio play ing FM Radio muted Example 4 mp StoplPlaylPause Ffwd Rew Rec Rec pause FM FM pause C 16 Current Screen Tag Description hcs The current screen 1 20 in the order shown below Number Screen 1 Menus 2 WPS 3 Recording screen 4 FM Radio screen 5 Current Playlist screen 6 Settings menus T File browser 8 Database browser 9 Plugin browser 10 Quickscreen 11 Pitchscreen 12 Setting chooser 13 Playlist Catalogue Viewer 14 Plugin 15 Context menu 16 System Info screen 17 Time and Date Screen 18 Bookmark browser 19 Shortcuts menu 20 Irack Info screen The tag can also be used as the switch in a conditional
39. at the maximum column limit Off Chop Words Break lines at white space or hyphen Line Mode Change how lines are displayed Normal Break lines at newline characters Join Join lines together Expand Add a blank line at newlines Useful for making paragraphs clearer in some book style text files Reflow Lines Justify the text Screens Per Page Set the number of screens per page Available options are 1 to 5 screens per page Alignment Set the text alignment Right Set the text alignment to the right Useful for displaying right to left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew Left Set the text alignment to the left Show Header Select whether to show the header The header displays the file path No Do not display the header Yes Display the header Show Footer Select whether to show the footer The footer dispays the page number No Do not display the footer Yes Display the footer Font Select the font to be used by the Text Viewer Show Statusbar Select whether to show the status bar If you select a theme settings that the status bar does not display see section 9 page 59 the status bar is not displayed even if you select Y Es No Do not display the status bar Yes Display the status bar Scroll Settings The scrolling settings submenu Horizontal Submenu for horizontal scrolling settings Scrollbar Toggle the horizontal scrollbar for the current mode If the file fits on one screen there is no scrollbar and
40. be changed in two modes procentual and semitone Initially procentual mode is active The value of the rate is not persistent i e after the player is turned on it will always be set to 10096 Key Action Long Mode Toggle pitch changing mode Up Down Increase Decrease pitch by 0 196 in pro centual mode or by 0 1 semitone in semi tone mode Long Up Long Increase Decrease pitch by 196 in pro Down centual mode or a semitone in semitone mode Left Right Temporarily change pitch by 296 beat match Mode Reset rate to 10096 On Off Leave the PITCH SCREEN Warning Changing the pitch can cause audible Artifacts or Dropouts THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 31 4 4 Working with Playlists 4 4 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 will automatically 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 dynamic playlist is a playlist that is
41. currently selected bookmark Long Right Enter the context menu for the selected bookmark There are two options in the context menu RESUME will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry DELETE will remove the currently selected bookmark entry from the list This entry is not shown in the MAIN MENU when the option is off the default setting See section 8 7 page 55 for more details on configuring bookmarking in Rockbox 5 4 Files Browse the files on your player see section 4 1 page 20 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 37 5 5 Database Browse by the meta data in your audio files see section 4 2 page 24 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 you 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 Right 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
42. device plays the song just hit the On Off 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 Wavetorm Perform Split Loop Mode Scale Mode Figure 10 46 The Split Editor s Main Screen The Split Editor s Main Screen The waveform displays the volume of the song over time It will appear as the song plays 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 ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 117 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
43. e The battery is empty Benchmarks can be resumed if you accidentally load a plugin or turn off your player so long as the log file battery bench txt is not deleted THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 107 Information explained At the top of the battery bench txt file is various information on how to use the plugin followed by the data themselves 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 The same as Time except measured in seconds Level The percent level of the battery estimated by Rockbox and not the actual battery level T he actual battery level can be seen from the Voltage column Time Left This shows the time remaining until the battery is empty again as estimated by Rockbox Voltage The battery voltage in mV at the moment the measurement was taken C This stands for Charger in that column shows if the power adapter was attached to the unit at the time of the measurement USB powered Only for targets that support this U will indicate if the unit was using the USB port for power at the time of the measurement Usage The log file can be used to tell you how long the battery lasted with some limitations see below but it is most useful for graphing discharge c
44. is the user selected font EXAMPLE ui viewport 15 20 100 150 This displays the menu starting at 15px from the left of the screen and 20px from the top of the screen It is 100px wide and 150px high The font is defined in the theme cfg file or in the THEME SETTINGS menu 11 2 Configuring the Theme 11 2 1 Themeing General Info There are various different aspects of the Rockbox interface that can be themed the WPS or WHILE PLAYING SCREEN the FMS or FM SCREEN if the player has a tuner THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 123 and the SBS or BASE SKIN The WPS is the name used to describe the information displayed on the player s screen whilst an audio track is being played the FMS is the screen shown while listening to the radio and the SBS lets you specify a base skin that is shown in the menus and browsers as well as the WPS and FMS The SBS also allows you to control certain aspects of the appearance of the menus browsers There are a number of themes included in Rockbox and you can load one of these at any time by selecting it in SETTINGS THEME SETTINGS BROWSE THEME FILES It is also possible to set individual items of a theme from within the SETTINGS THEME SETTINGS menu 11 2 2 Themes Create Your Own The theme files are simple text files and can be created or edited in your favourite text editor To make sure non English characters display corr
45. 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 separately for every cell on the board The stored values can be displayed inline as small dots by enabling the SHOW MARKINGS settings Note The scratchpad is not saved when saving the game Key Action Up Down Move the cursor Left Right Mode Change number under the cursor Long Constantly changing the number under Mode Down the cursor Long Mode Open Menu Mode Left Add Remove number to scratchpad On Off Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 82 Some places where 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 gene
46. 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 8 MB of RAM You need to use the corresponding package for non modified Ondio You should then install a Rockbox image that makes use of all available RAM as described in the following section 11 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 133 4 Play the file rockbox uc1 or preferably rombox uc1 and follow the instructions The plugin handling this is rockbox flash a viewer plugin 11 5 5 Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents In case you ever want to restore the original flash contents you
47. 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 9 10 15 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 lin peak meter min peak meter max 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 ear dB or dB or 96 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX D CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 155 Setting Allowed Values Unit statusbar off top bottom N A scrollbar off left right N A scrollbar width 3 to LCD width 10 devise a pixels way to get ranges from config h 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX E MENU OVERVIEW 156 E Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX F USER FEEDBACK 157 F User feedback F 1 Bug reports If you experience inappropriate performance from any supporte
48. oae Ron dE x Rodeo hee OR RO RS 143 Clo Playback Mod a i sagori e ook ie a RAE Rx SUE de deo 144 urent Breen Lou som x Toro wo Sp RO EOS d 144 2 145 C 18 Changing Volume so sa 000 domo RR ROS 145 i t 100 ob ea ha ITI 145 C20 Images MC 146 C 21 Alignment and language 147 C22 Conditional Tags so bade ha Pa RR ox ae eee ee 148 Creme OTL Tags C 148 C24 Text Tronslati n uode dem ono eh 149 Coote doer DANS ee oe ks Re ew ee ee ee EUN EO 149 Ce ATOM EL rr 149 Tags MM ee oe do Se OE a a 8 150 D Config file options 152 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CONTENTS 9 E Menu Overview 156 F User feedback 157 El Dus e i ckok Ros ea RO oS ee es 157 F 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 157 Feature teas co koe obo wo S wor XX RUSO Roe OS 157 F 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 157 F 2 2 Features we will not implement 158 G Credits 160 H Licenses 164 H 1 GNU Free Documentation License 164 H 2 The GNU General Public 172 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTI
49. of a label will increment the letter To remove a label click on it until it cycles through the allowed letters and disappears THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 70 Add Edit Comment Add or edit a comment at the current node Done Go back to the previous screen 10 1 9 Jackpot Figure 10 8 Jackpot This is a jackpot slot machine game At the beginning of the game you have 20 Payouts are given when three matching symbols come up Key Action Mode Play On Off Exit the game 10 1 10 Jewels Figure 10 9 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 In puzzle mode the aim of the game is to connect the puzzles by skilful swapping pairs of jewels THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 71 Key Action Left Right Move the cursor around the jewels Up Down Mode Select a jewel On Off Menu 10 1 11 MazezaM Figure 10 10 MazezaM The goal of this puzzle game is to escape a dungeon consisting of ten mazezams l hese are rooms containing rows of blocks which can be shifte
50. 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 To remove a track simply select REMOVE in the context menu 4 4 5 Saving playlists To save the current playlist either enter the PLAYLIST submenu in the WPS CONTEXT MENU see section 4 3 3 page 28 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 4 4 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 catalogue The PLAYLIST CATALOGUE offers a shortcut to all playlists in your player s specified playlist directory It can be used like the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 35 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 hold the Mode button setting
51. seconds List Acceleration Speed This setting controls how fast the scroll speed acceler ates The scroll speed will increase every N seconds For example selecting SPEED UP EVERY 38 will increase the scroll speed every 3 seconds while Up or Down is held Peak Meter The peak meter can be configured with 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 10 ms Peak Hold Time Specifies the time after which the peak indicator will reset For example if you set this value to 5 s 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 indicator will be visible after clipping is detected 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 setti
52. tag For players without certain capabilities e g no FM radio some values will never be returned Examples You are in the 4 cs lt Main menu WPS Recording screen FM Radio screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 145 4A if cs 2 This is the WPS gt C 17 List Title sbs only Tag Description ALt Title text Should be used in a conditional so that non list screens don t show a title when they shouldn t ALi Title icon This uses the same order as custom icons see se CustomlIcons in the wiki except that here 0 is no icon This tag can be used to give custom formatting to list titles Define a viewport with the font and formatting desired and then use A Lt 4Lt to display the title within the viewport If Lt is present anywhere in the sbs then the 4Vi viewport will not show the title C 18 Changing Volume Tag Description Ct if the volume is being changed 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 amount of time in seconds If it is not specified 1 second 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 4 mv 2 5
53. terminology 2 os a 31 442 Creating playliste oa 2o ux om a om Rx A Ee do 31 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists cy s caa poa peca a a 32 4 4 4 Modifying playlists e a 33 AAD Saving playlists uo Losses omo kem Rok v RR we BYES 34 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists 34 5 The Main Menu 35 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu ss serp ee aa 35 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 35 5 8 Recent Bookmark o s s sc ecr ra ok RR Roy 36 Gee UGS MD Pe Gh eee bo 36 5 5 Database e o opca ccsa an nidek dote qoe Ede eo om RR n e Ru 3T 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback 3T Ole ule uk boo m Rond POOR S TOS oes 37 dads o lu n knee oe nok PAG de wee EOM Ee Ee qas D e 37 Gs Playback Seine o a c so ae Sopa ak ee 37 Ga bone o ek Bog oe lk UR UR RN 37 GIA Theme ORNS xe oe ee Re a RUE ee E a 37 Gro Manage Sees ee ee Re en GR Pk ee ee i 37 mn Dishes ee x Ee nr nu EUR pode eS 38 es Sil os ee Go cT 38 210 UT co 2 2 ek ae Re Gee wa 38 SLL ShorteHs o be Ra E Ro ave he ea eae ce a 39 6 Sound Settings 41 Dl Voli
54. 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 Mode Right 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 10 4 12 page 119 below The loop mode In the middle of the bottom line the loop mode icon is displayed There are 4 different loop modes Pressing Mode 4 Up 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 97 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 b
55. the Database browser 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 access this THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 30 screen press Long Mode to access the WPS CONTEXT MENU and select SHOW TRACK INFO 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 The file will be deleted but the playback of the file will not stop immediately Instead the part of the file that has already been buffered i e read into the player s memory will be played This may even be the whole track Pitch The PITCH SCREEN allows you to change the rate of playback i e the playback speed and at the same time the pitch of your player The rate value can be adjusted between 5096 and 20096 5096 means half the normal playback speed and a pitch that is an octave lower than the normal pitch 20096 means double playback speed and a pitch that is an octave higher than the normal pitch The rate can
56. the album or use a generic picture You can place the picture in the same directory as the file in the parent directory or in a fixed directory named rockbox albumart The order Rockbox uses when looking for a picture is as follows a list in braces means that those file extensions are tried in that order 1 embedded JPEG images in ID3v2 or MP4 tags only 2 filename jpeg jpg bmp 3 albumtitle jpeg jpg bmp 4 cover jpeg jpg bmp 5 folder jpg 6 rockbox albumart albumartist albumtitle jpeg jpg bmp 7 albumtitle jpeg jpg bmp 8 cover jpeg jpg bmp THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX ALBUM ART 137 The following characters will be replaced with an underscore _ when looking for albumtitle bmp or albumartist albumtitle bmp V Doublequotes will be replaced by single quotes If no album artist is set artist will be used instead See AlbumArt in the wiki for programs that will help you automate the process of putting album art on your player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 138 C Theme Tags Themeing is discussed in detail in section section 11 2 page 122 what follows is a list of the available tags Note The bar type tags such as pb etc can be further themed see section C 25 page 149 C 1 Status Bar Tag Description Awe Display Status Bar Awd Hide
57. the battery level isn t known it usually is The value N is only used when the battery level is ex actly 100 percent An image can also be used the propor tion of the image shown corresponds to the battery level b1 x y width height image bmp The battery level in volts 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 tar gets that have software charge control or monitoring Remaining time of the sleep timer if it is set THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 141 C 8 Information about the file Tag Description hitb File Bitrate in kbps Afc File Codec e g or FLAC This tag can also be used in a conditional tag 4 c lt mp1 mp2 mp3 aiff wav ogg flac mpcsv a52 wavpacklalaclaac shn sid adx nsf l speex spclapelwmalwmpapro mod sap realaudiocook realaudioaac realaudioac3 realaudioatrac3 ocmc cm3 cmr cms dmc d1t mpt mpd rmt tmc tm8 tm2 omaatrac3 smaf au vox wave64 tta wmavoice mpcsv8 aache aylgbs hes sgc vgm kss unknown gt The codec or der is as shown above Aff File Frequency in Hz Atk File Frequency in kHz Afm File Name yin File Name without extension Afp File Path 5 File Size in Kilobytes hiv avg if variable bit rate or empty string if constant bit rate Ad CN N th segment
58. 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 modifications 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 un
59. the same font as in the main menu To change this behaviour a custom viewport can be defined viewport is a rectangular window on the screen This window also has variable dimensions To define a viewport a line starting AVC has to be present in the theme file The full syntax will be explained later in THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 124 this section All elements placed before the line defining viewport are displayed in the default viewport Elements defined after a viewport declaration are drawn within that viewport Loading images see Appendix section C 20 page 146 should be done within the default viewport A viewport ends either with the end of the file or with the next viewport declaration line Viewports sharing the same coordinates and dimensions cannot be displayed at the same time Viewports cannot be layered transparently over one another Subsequent viewports will be drawn over any other viewports already drawn onto that area of the screen Viewport Declaration Syntax AV x y width height font e font is a number 0 is the built in system font 1 is the current menu font and 2 9 are additional skin loaded fonts see section 11 2 4 page 125 e Only the coordinates have to be specified Leaving the other definitions blank will set them to their default values Note The correct number of commas with hyphens in blank fields are still needed EXAMP
60. this setting has no effect THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 101 No Do not display the horizontal scroll bar Yes Display the horizontal scroll bar Scroll Mode Change the function of the Left and Right buttons Scroll by Screen Move to the previous next screen Scroll by Column Move to the previous next column Vertical Submenu for vertical scrolling settings Scrollbar Toggle the vertical scrollbar for the current mode If the file fits on one screen there is no scrollbar and this setting has no effect No Do not display the vertical scroll bar Yes Display the vertical scroll bar Scroll Mode Change the function of the Scroll up and Scroll down buttons Scroll by Page Scroll up or down one full screen Scroll by Line Scroll up or down one line Overlap Pages Set whether the last line from the previous screen is re tained when scrolling pages No Do not retain previous line Yes Retain previous line Auto scroll Speed Control the speed of auto scrolling in number of lines per second Available options are 1 to 10 lines per second As an example 4 will scroll the text at four lines per second Left Right Key Narrow mode Change the function of the Left and Right buttons when the screen is in narrow mode i e one screen per page Previous Next Page Scroll up or down one full screen Top Bottom Page Move to the top or bottom page Indent Space
61. to have a hungry worm since it means that your worm is alive But it is better to get your worm growing Growing When a worm has eaten a piece 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 worm has crashed against a wall THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 84 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 Iry 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
62. viewed edited using the Add Edit Comment menu option of the Context Menu Controls Key Action Up Move cursor up Down Move cursor down Left Move cursor left if in board navigation mode or retreat one node in the game tree if in tree navigation mode Right Move cursor right if in board navigation mode or advance one node in the game tree if in tree navigation mode On Off Toggle between board and tree navigation modes Mode Play a move or use a tool if play mode has been changed Long Mode Main Menu Menus Main Menu The main menu for game setup and access to other menus New Create new game with your choice of board size and handicaps Save Save the current state of the game It will be saved to sgf gbn def sgf unless otherwise set Save As Save to a specified file Game Info View and modify the metadata of the current game Playback Control Control the playback of the current playlist and modify the volume of your player Zoom Level Zoom in or out on the board If you set the zoom level it will be saved and used again the next time you open this plugin Options Open the Options Menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 68 Context Menu Open the Context Menu which allows you to set play modes and other tools Quit Leave the plugin Any unsaved changes are saved to sgf gbn def sgf Game Info The menu for modifying game info metadata of the current game This info
63. 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 11 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 Browse cfg Files Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox directory and displays all c g configuration files Selecting a cfg file will cause Rockbox to load the settings contained in that file Pressing Left or On Off will exit back to the MANAGE SETTINGS menu See the WRITE CFG FILES option on the MANAGE SETTINGS menu 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 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 130 Hint Use the SAVE CFG FILE feature MAIN MENU MANAGE SETTINGS to save the current settings then use a text editor to customize the settings file See Appendix section D page 152 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
64. 9 10 3 10 Text Viewer Figure 10 38 Text Viewer This is a Viewer for text files with word wrap Just open a txt or nfo file to display it The text viewer features controls to handle various styles of text formatting and has top of file and bottom of file buttons You can view files without a txt or nfo extension by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 21 You can also bookmark pages Default keys 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 Mode Toggle autoscroll Mode On Off Set Reset bookmarks Long Mode Enter menu On Off Exit text viewer Menu Return Return to the file being viewed Viewer Options Change settings for the current file Encoding Set the codepage in the text viewer Available settings ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 ISO 8859 7 Greek ISO 8859 8 Hebrew CP1251 Cyrillic ISO 8859 11 Thai CP1256 Arabic ISO 8859 9 Turkish ISO 8859 2 Latin Extended CP1250 Central European SJIS Japanese GB 2312 Simple Chinese KSX 1001 Korean BIG5 Traditional Chinese THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 100 UTF 8 Unicode This setting only applies to the plugin and is independent from the DEFAULT CODEPAGE setting see section 8 4 page 53 Word Wrap Toggle word wrap mode On Break lines
65. ANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 94 Note Some viewer plugins can only be used by selecting the OPEN WITH option from the CoNTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 21 Viewer Plugin Associated filetype s Context Menu only Shortcuts link Chip 8 Emulator ch8 Frotz 21 gt z8 Image Viewer bmp jpg jpeg png Lua scripting language lua Movie Player rvf Search m3u m3u8 x Sort x Text Viewer txt nfo VBRfix mp3 ES Wavplay Wav ZXBox tap tax sna z80 Shopping list Shopper 10 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 start with a Directory names should also end with a How to create link files You can use your favourite text editor to create a link 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 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 creat
66. ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 22 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 T his option applies only to files and not to directories Rockbox will ask for confirmation before deleting a file Press Right 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 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 10 3 page 93 for more details on viewers Create Directory Create a new directory in the current dire
67. EAS M LLER gt CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS gt MAR TIN RITTER JUSTIN HANNIGAN gt TOMASZ WASILCZYK gt KENJIRO ARAI JOHN KAM INAR gt JORIS GOOSEN gt MARK GANSON gt DAVIDE GENTILE gt JAMES VASILE gt Mo HAMED TAREK MIKE BURKE MICHAEL CHICOINE gt MACIEJ ADAMCZAK TOMER SHALEV gt THIBAUT GIRKA gt RASMUS gt WILLIAM POETRA YOGA HADISOESENO gt ADRIAN OSOIANU gt MARTIN gt ORI AVTALION THOMAS SCHOTT gt DENNIS Ivanov b TAKUMI SUZUKI SHUNSUKE SHIMIZU gt TADAYUKI NISHIZONO b JUN Gu DANIEL WECK gt CLEMENT PIT CLAUDEL gt JELLE GEERTS P TADEUSZ 1315 gt ROSTISLAV CHEKAN FLORIN POPESCU gt VOLKER MISCHE gt VITJA MAKAROV gt FRANCISCO VILA b CHRISTIAN LEES gt RAFAEL CARRE gt DENES BALATONI gt ROY WALLACE gt ERIC LASSAUGE gt FRAN OIS DINEL gt FRANCESCO RIGONI gt JOEL PUIK gt KLAAS BOSTEELS gt TERUAKI KAWASHIMA gt MARCIN LUKASIK gt LE JIN gt ALEX BEN NEE gt STEPHANE QUERTINMONT gt BARTOSZ FABIANOWSKI gt ADAM HOGAN ANDREW MAHONE ANTON VERETENENKO b VI CENTE IBARRA gt RUI ARA JO BRIAN CLOUTIER OLIVIER BARBUT b YOSHI HISA UCHIDA gt SANGGON LEE P KASPAR ROTHENFUSSER gt RYAN PRESS gt CRAIG EL LIOTT gt KENDERES TAMAS ERIC SHAT TOW gt JOSHUA SIMMONS SEI AOYUMI gt MARTIN POOL gt GARETH SCHAKEL gt BRIAN SUTHERLAND gt SAM BOUWER gt Jo HANNES LINKE MICHAEL BURTIN gt SASHA KHAMKOV b Kar POSADOWSKY b JACK HAL
68. ETTINGS 43 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 20 ms 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 larger than 0 dB 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 tone and also several harmonics which are related to that tone The human brain has a mechanism whereby it can actually infer
69. EVE CUNDARI MAT HOLTON gt JAN GAJDOS b ANTOINE CELLERIER gt BRIAN KING gt JIRI JURECEK gt JACOB ERL BECK JEAN PHILIPPE BERNARDY gt DAVE HOOPER gt JONAS HAGGQVIST gt THOM JOHANSEN RINAT ZAKIROV b MANUEL DEJONGHE 5 MARCOEN HIRSCHBERG gt MICHIEL VAN DER KOLK gt TONY MOTAKIS gt ANDY YOUNG b ALEXANDRE BOURGET gt RICHARD S LA CHARIT III CHRIS TIAN GMEINER TOMAS SALFISCHBERGER gt MIIKA PEKKARINEN TAPIO KARPPINEN gt RICHARD OTT O BRIEN Luca Bu RELLI gt ALESSIO LENZI gt DAVID BRYANT gt MARTIN ARVER ALEXANDER SPYRIDAKIS gt PEDRO BALTAZAR VASCONCELOS RAY LAMBERT gt DAVE WIARD b PIETER Bos gt KONSTANTIN ISAKOV BRYAN VANDYKE gt HRISTO KOVACHEV SANDER SWEERS gt ANTONIUS HELLMAN gt RYAN JACKSON gt PER HOLMANG FREDERIC DEVERNAY gt Jos M FANDI O gt GADI COHEN NAF TALI GOLDSTEIN gt DAVID DENT gt FRANK DISCHNER gt LIBERMAN SHACHAR STEPHAN WEZEL gt ALYSSA MILBURN gt KEVIN FER RARE gt ANTON OLEYNIKOV gt MARK ARIGO gt MAGNUS WESTERLUND gt JAKE OWEN gt MUSTAPHA SENHAJI gt ADAM gt JONATHAN GORDON TANG gt TOSHI HIKO ITOH gt DAVID J SONG gt JEONG TAEK IN gt ANDERS KAGERIN PETER D HOYE gt BEN BASHA gt BRANDON LOW gt NATHAN THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX CREDITS 161 HAND NICK LANHAM gt SEBASTIAN HEN RIKSEN MARTIN SCARRATT b KARL KURBJUN
70. K 158 F 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 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 12 MHz SHI 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 th
71. LE 1N 12 20 1 4sThis viewport is displayed permanently It starts 12px from the left and 4s20px from the top of the screen and fills the rest of the screen from 4sthat point The lines will scroll if this text does not fit in the viewport sThe user font is used Viewport definition Default value width height remaining part of screen font user defined Conditional Viewports Any viewport can be displayed either permanently or conditionally Defining a viewport as AVC will display it permanently e AVl C identifier This tag preloads a viewport for later display identifier is a single lowercase letter a z and the parameters use the same logic as the 4V tag explained above e Vd identifier Display the identifier viewport Viewports can share identifiers so that you can display multiple viewports with one Vd line THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO A CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 125 EXAMPLE A mh AVd Ca 10 gt 4V1 a 10 10 50 50 4sYou could now show a hold icon using the 1 and xd tags 4V1 a 0 70 70 14 1 sAacYour DAP is locked 4V1 b 20 14 50 14 1 At 1 4acWarning At 1 4V1 b 20 30 50 50 0 4sYou ve unlocked your player This example checks for hold Viewport a will be displayed if it is on otherwise view port b will display a flashing warning Note The tag to display conditional viewpo
72. NDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 96 Chips Off 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 89 A B CD EF On Off Left Mode Right Down a 2 Key Some places where can you can find ch8 files e The PluginChip8 page on www rockbox org has several attached sPluginChip8 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 Afo chip8 CHIP8 htm e Links to other chip8 emulators http www zophar net chip8 html 10 3 3 Frotz Frotz is a Z Machine interpreter for playing Infocom s interactive fiction games and newer games using the same format To start a game open a z1 z8 file in the FILE BROWSER Most modern games are in the 28 or z8 format but the older formats used by Infocom are supported Z Machine games are text based and most depend heavily on typed commands The virtual keyboard is used for text entry both for typing entire lines and for typing single characters when the game requires single character input Sounds pictures colour and Unicode are not currently supported but the interpreter informs the game of this and almost all games will adapt so that they are still playable This port of Frotz attempts to be compliant with the Z Machine Specification version 1 0 Some places where you can find Z Machine games and information about interactive fiction e The Interactive Fiction Archive where many free modern works can be
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74. 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 T his option turns on the use of talk clips for files On Use special pre recorded 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 method 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 9 THEME SETTINGS 59 9 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu offers options that you can change to customize the visual appearance of Rockbox Browse
75. 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 tag to specify an alternate time in seconds and optional tenths of a second for the subline to be displayed Subline related special characters and tags Split items on a line into separate sublines THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 127 t Set the subline display time The t is followed by either integer seconds 7 5 or seconds and tenths of a second within e g Zt 3 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 5 4 1 5 1 3 Apr Display 143 artist for 4 seconds Display id3 title for
76. OM are flashed OK Minimon can be used for the same purpose 11 5 2 Terminology and Basic Operation Firmware The flash ROM contents as 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 Bootbor see wiki for details The second image is what is booted by default The current firmware files contain a copy of Rockbox 3 2 in the main image It can easily be updated replaced later The bootloader allows to select which image to run Pressing Left at boot selects the first image Up selects the second image which will also be booted if you don t press any button The button mapping is only there for completeness Right selects the built in serial monitor called Minimon You should know this 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 11 5 3 Initial Flashing Procedure You only need to perform this procedure the first time you flash your Ondio 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 You should perform a backup of the current flash ROM contents in case you wan
77. ON 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 Rockbox 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 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 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 d
78. PIN gt JOHANNES SCHWARZ gt DUSTIN SKORACKI gt TORNE WUFF b WOOKEY gt NICK SANT gt MICHAEL CARR ERIC CLAYTON MARKO PAHLKE VYTENIS SABELKA NICOLAS PITRE b BENEDIKT Goos gt FREDERICK FULL gt JEFFREY GOODE gt RAAFAT AKKAD DAVIDE QUARTA AN DRE LUPA gt HILTON SHUMWAY MATTHEW BONNETT NICK TRYON gt DAVID JOHNSTON gt RALPH SOTO gt MYKHAILO RADZIEVSKYI gt CHRISTOPHE GOUIRAN gt ASAEL RE ITER gt JENS ERDMANN ROSSO MALTESE gt AMAURY POULY LAURENT PAPIER gt Jo HANNES Boy JASON YU gt AARON DE MILLE gt TOMASZ KOWALCZYK MICHAEL LECHNER gt PETER SCHLENKER DAN DAVISON gt DAVID KAUFFMANN gt CARSTEN SCHREITER gt MICHAEL SPARMANN gt SETH OPGENORTH P JONAS AABERG b JUNIO C HAMANO COUSINS gt CHRISTOPHE NICOLAS gt YANN MULLER gt SASCHA WILDE gt FRED BAUER SIMON ROTHEN PAVEL RzEH K b DIEGO HERRANZ b VIKTOR VARGA b JULIUSZ CHROBOCZEK gt CHRIS TIAN BEIER gt GIOVANNI ZILLI gt SHILOH HAWLEY b PETER LECKY b WILFRED HUGHES gt LAURENT GAUTIER gt SIMON ZHUKOVSKY b DANIEL KLUZ b PHINIT NUN CHANASABAENG b TSE HSIEN CHIANG gt SZYMON DOMENICO Di MISA THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX CREDITS 163 gt DELYAN KRATUNOV gt PURLING NAYUKI gt MAREK SALABA b ALTAY OZ gt MARK BORGERDING gt TOBIAS DIEDRICH FP ANDREW ENGELBRECHT KEVIN SCHOEDEL gt JENS THEESS gt ALEXEY NEMTSEV
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80. ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 126 An example would be 4F1 2 12 Nimbus fnt 100 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 commands including conditionals Enumerations Syntax 4 xx altilalt2lalt3 lelse 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 lt 5 1 Pause Ffud Rew 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 in the next song and is the mp3 frequency
81. Round If part of a tournament the round number for this game Done Return to the previous menu Options Customize the behavior of the plugin in certain ways Show Child Variations Enable this to mark child variations on he board if there are more than one Note variations which don t start with a move are not visible in this way THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 69 Disable Idle Poweroff Enable this if you do not want the player to turn off after a certain period of inactivity depends on your global Rockbox settings Idle Autosave Time Set the amount of idle time to wait before automatically saving any unsaved changes These autosaves go to the file sgf gbn_def sgf regardless of if you have loaded a game or used SAVE AS to save the game before or not Set to OFF to disable this functionality completely Automatically Show Comments If this is enabled and you navigate to a node containing game comments they will automatically be displayed Context Menu The menu for choosing different play modes and tools adding or edit ing comments adding pass moves or switching between sibling variations Play Mode Play moves normally on the board If there are child moves from the current node this mode will let you follow variations by simply playing the first move in the sequence Unless it is following a variation this mode will not allow you to play illegal moves This is the default mode
82. STALLATION 13 e Automatically install all suggested components Complete Installation e Selectively install optional components e Install additional fonts and themes e Install voice files and generate talk clips e Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility Prebuilt binaries for Windows Linux and Mac OS X are available at the mRockboxUtility wiki page When first starting ROCKBOX UTILITY run Autodetect found in the configuration dialog File Configure Autodetection can detect most player types If autodetection fails 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 Windows this is the drive letter the player gets assigned on other systems this is a path in the filesystem Choosing a Rockbox version There are three different versions of Rockbox available from the Rockbox website Re lease version current build and archived daily build You need to decide which one you want to install and get the appropriate version for your player If you select either Min imal Installation or Complete Installation from the Quick Start tab then Rockbox Utility will automatically install the release version of Rockbox Using the Installation tab will allow you to select which version you wish to install Release The release version is the latest stable release free of known critic
83. 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 While playing Done Player 1 starts in paused mode The number of the current player is displayed on the top line The time below is the time remaining for that round and possibly also the total time left if different Keys are as follows Key Action On Off Exit plugin Left Restart round for the current player Right Pause the time press again to continue Up Switch to next player Down Switch to previous player Mode Open menu Right 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 UP is shown The player will then be removed from the timer 10 4 4 Disk Tidy Disk Tidy deletes junk files commonly left behind by Windows Linux and OS X after connecting your player over USB Select the files you want to delete in the Files to THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 110 Clean menu and select Start Cleaning to begin the process The settings are stored in the plain text file rockbox rocks apps disktidy config that is user modifiable to allow custom entries
84. UGINS 65 Key Action Up Mode Make chopper fly On Off Enter menu 10 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 result is shown as individual numbers as well as the total of the rolled dice Key Action Mode Roll dice again On Off Quit 10 1 7 Flipit Figure 10 6 Flipit 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 Mode Flip Mode Left Shuffle Mode Up Solve Mode Right Solve step by step On Off Quit the game THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 66 10 1 8 Goban Figure 10 7 Goban Goban is a a plugin for playing viewing and recording games of Go also known as Weiqi Baduk Igo and Goe It uses standard Smart Game Format SGF files for sav ing and loading games You can find a short introduction to Go at http senseis xmp net WhatlsGo and more information about SGF files can be read at http senseis xmp net SmartGameFormat or SGF specification at http www red bean com sgf This plugin can load all modern SGF files file format 3 or 4 with few problems It attempts to preserve SGF properties which it doesn t understand and most common SGF properties are handl
85. able 8 6 3 Sleep Timer The SLEEP TIMER powers off your player after a given time whether playing or not Start Sleep Timer duration Shown when the SLEEP TIMER is inactive this option will initiate a SLEEP TIMER with the duration shown in brackets THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 55 Cancel Sleep Timer remaining Shown when the SLEEP TIMER is active this option will cancel the current SLEEP TIMER The time remaining before completion is shown in brackets Default Sleep Timer Duration The default number of minutes a new SLEEP TIMER will run for The values range from 5 minutes to 5 hours in 5 minute steps If timer is currently active the timer s duration will be set to the newly entered value The value set is persistent see section D page 152 Start Sleep Timer On Boot If set SLEEP TIMER will be initiated when the device starts Restart Sleep Timer On Keypress If set when a SLEEP TIMER is active and a key is pressed the SLEEP TIMER will be restarted with the initial duration 8 7 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 or for individual saved playlists You can store multiple bookmarks even for the same track When there s already bookmark for a directory or playlist new bookmarks are added before existing ones Bookmarks
86. al bugs For a manual install the current stable release of Rockbox is available at http www rockbox org download Development Build The development build is built at each change to the Rockbox source code 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 For a manual install 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 latest source code in the repository For a manual install you can download archived builds from http www rockbox org daily shtml Note Because current and archived builds are development versions that change fre quently they may behave differently than described in this manual or they may in troduce new and potentially annoying bugs Unless you wish to try the latest and THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 14 greatest features at the price of possibly greater instability or you wish to help with development you should stick with the release Please now go to section 2 2 3 page 14 to complete the installation procedure 2 2 2 Manual Installation The manual installation method is still available to you should you need or desire it by following the instructions
87. am the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients exercise of the rights granted herein You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License 7 If as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason not limited to patent issues conditions are imposed on you whether by court order agreement or otherwise that contradict the conditions of this License they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all For example if a patent license would not permit royalty free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive 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 clai
88. and lines without time tags are ignored THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 112 Location of lyrics files The plugin checks the following directories for lyrics files 1 The directory containing the audio file and its parent directories 2 For each of the above directories the plugin searches for a subdirectory named Lyrics 3 Finally the plugin will search as above but within a directory called Lyrics The name of this directory can be customized see below If the audio file currently playing is Music Artist Album Title mp3 then the fol lowing files will be searched for in this order ext is one of the supported extensions from the list above and will be searched for in the same order as in that list Music Artist Album Title ext Music Artist Title ext Music Title ext Title ext Music Artist Album Lyrics Title ext Music Artist Lyrics Title ext Music Lyrics Title ext Lyrics Title ext Lyrics Musics Artist Album Title ext Lyrics Musics Artist Title ext Lyrics Musics Title ext Lyrics Title ext Controls Key Action Up Down Volume up down Left Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of track go to the previous track Long Left Rewind in track Right Go to the next track Long Right Fast forward in track On Off Toggle play pause Long On Off Exit the plugin Long Mode Enter timetag editor Mode Enter LRCPLAYER
89. and 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 e Alphabetical list skipping Skipping around the lists by jumping letters i e skip all C s and go straight to the first D This isn t feasible with the current list implementation if you really want this you can get similar effects using the database see section 4 2 page 24 e Add support for non standard tag formats APE tags in MP3 files has been rejected a few times already Its not something we want e Implementing the ability to playback DRM files Firstly this would be extremely difficult to implement legally Rockbox is not legal entity as such and therefore is unable to enter into license agreements with providers of DRM technology Secondly Rockbox is open source which would mean that any DRM technology we incorporated into our codebase would sud denly become visible to the whole world completely defeating its purpose Re member DRM achieves part of its security through obscurity and publishing the keys necessary to decrypt DRM d media would essentially render it useless THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX CREDITS 160 G Credits People that have contributed to the project one way or another Friends gt BJORN STENBERG LINUS NIELSEN FELTZ ING gt A
90. and y are not specified y y coordinate defaults to 0 if both x and y are not speci fied 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 as it was specified in Ax 4x1 i optional number of the sub image to display a z for 1 26 and A Z for 27 52 ignored when tag is used Only useable if the ID is a single letter By default the first i e top most sub image will be used tag optional Another tag to calculate the subimage from e g Axd A mh would use the first subimage when mh is on and the second when it is off offset optional Add this number to the value from the tag when chosing the subimage may be negative Display an image as a 9 patch bitmap covering the entire view port 9 patch images are bitmaps split into 9 segments where the four corners are unscaled the four middle sections are scaled along one axis and the middle section is scaled on both axis n image ID THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 147 Examples 1 Load and display the image rockbox bg bmp with ID at 37 109 Ax a bg 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 4x1l M volume bmp 134 153 5 lt Ma xd Mb Axa Mc Axd Md
91. ang path filename Ing N A Wps path filename wps N A autocreate bookmarks off on N A autoload bookmarks off on N A use off on N A most recent bookmarks pause on headphone off pause pause and resume N A unplug rewind duration on pause 0 to 15 5 disable autoresume if off on N A phones 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 154 Setting Allowed Values Unit 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 sort interpret number digits numbers N A tagcache_autoupdate on off N A warn when erasing on off N A dynamic playlist cuesheet support on off N A folder navigation off on random N A constrain next folder off on N A gather runtime data off on N A skip length outro track 15 2s 3s 5s 7s 10s N A 15s 20s 90s 2min 3min 5min 10min 15min prevent track skip on off N A start in screen previous root files dB wps N A menu bookmarks playlist catalog directory path to dir N A list__accel_start_delay 0 to 10 ms list__accel_ wait 1 to 10 5 loudness 0 to 17 N A superbass on off N A auto volume off 20ms 2s 4s 8s N A mdb enable on off N A mdb strength 0 to 127 dB
92. ating 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 left 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 Mode to pause the game Press it 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 On 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 Off Mode This freezes the game If you hit On Off Mode button again a new game starts with the same configuration To return to the games menu you can hit On 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
93. ation for the next song to be played C 4 Viewports Tag Description AN x y width height font V1 identifier 2 4AVdC identifier AVIC label AVB See section 11 2 2 Preloads a viewport for later display identifier is a single lowercase letter a z and the parameters use the same logic as the 96V tag explained above Display the identifier viewport E g 4 C 4Vd a Vd b gt will show viewport a if album art is found and b if it isn t Declare a Custom UI Viewport The parameters use the same logic as the AV tag explained above See section 11 2 2 Set the Info Viewport to use the viewport called label as declared with the previous tag Draw this viewport on the backdrop layer C 5 Additional Fonts Tag Description 4Fl C id filename See section 11 2 4 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 140 C 6 Misc Coloring Tags Tag Description Adr x y width heigb Color a rectangle width and height can be to fill the viewport If no color is specified the viewports foreground color will be used If two colors are specified it will do a gradient fill C 7 Power Related Information Tag 703 Abt bp 4bc hos Description Numeric battery level in percents Can also be used in a conditional b1 lt 1 0 1 2 N gt where the value 1 is used when
94. aw a preloaded image under the bar The full image will be displayed and must be the same size as the bar This must be followed by the label of the desired image THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 150 nofill don t draw the bar only its frame for use with the slider option nobar don t draw the bar or its frame for use with the slider option setting Specify the setting name to draw the bar from bar must be St type the next param is the settings config name Example pb 0 0 nofill slider slider image invert draw a hor izontal progressbar which doesn t fill and draws the image slider image which moves right to left Note If the slider option is used the bar will be shrunk so that the slider fits inside the specified width and height Example 100px bar image with a 16px slider image needs the bar to be 116px wide and should be offset 8px left of the backdrop image to align correctly C 26 Other Tags Tag Description 88 start Get a substring from another tag length tag number Use this tag to get a substring from another tag start first character to take 0 being the start of the string negative means from the end of the string length length of the substring to return for the rest of the string tag tag to get number OPTIONAL if this is present it will assume the substring is a number so it can be used w
95. ay Pause Tape Toggles playing of the tape if it is loaded Save Quick Snapshot Saves snapshot into rockbox zxboxq 280 Load Quick Snapshot Loads snapshot from rockbox zxboxq 280 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 ulate a Kempston joystick or some assigned keys of the Spectrum keyboard Display Speed Toggle displaying the emulation speed in percent Invert Colours Inverts the Spectrum 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 106 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 7 This example keymap is used in the Chuckie Egg game Custom Keymap This menu allows you to
96. before another is set after loading a game or creating a new one Add Black Mode Add black stones to the board as desired These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats Add White Mode Add white stones to the board as desired These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats Erase Stone Mode Remove stones from the board as desired These removed stones are not counted as captured they are simply removed Pass Play a single pass move This does not change the mode of play Next Variation If the game is at the first move in a variation this will navigate to the next variation after the current one This is the only way to reach variations which start with adding or removing stones as you cannot follow them by playing the same move Force Play Mode The same as Play Mode except that this mode will allow you to play illegal moves such as retaking a ko immediately without a ko threat suicide on rulesets which don t allow it including single stone suicide and playing a move where there is already a stone Mark Mode Add generic marks to the board or remove them Circle Mode Add circle marks to the board or remove them Square Mode Add square marks to the board or remove them Triangle Mode Add triangle marks to the board or remove them Label Mode Add one character labels to the board Each label starts at the letter a and each subsequent application
97. below If you have used Rockbox Utility to install Rockbox then you do not need to follow the next section and can skip straight to section 2 2 3 page 14 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 as 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 21 your player s drive Do not try to create separate directory on your player for the Rockbox files The zip file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs 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 rockbox which contains a number of other directories and system files needed by Rockbox 2 2 3 Finishing the install Safely eject unmount the USB drive unplug the cable and restart 2 2 4 Enabling Speech Support optional If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice file Voice files allow Rockbox to speak the user interface to you Rockbox Utility can install an English voice file or you can download it from http www rockbox org daily shtml and unzip it to the root of your player R
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100. ck but some of them will stop playback while running Plugins have the file ex tension 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 WITH option on the CONTEXT MENU 10 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 10 3 2 page 95 10 1 1 Blackjack Figure 10 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 fascinating information visit http www blackjackinfo com blackjack rules php THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 62 Key Action Left Right Enter betting amount Up Down Mode Hit Draw new card Select Right Stay End hand Up Double down On Off Pause game and go to menu Cancel 10 1 2 BrickMania Figure 10 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 br
101. ckly More information including IRC logs can be found at http www rockbox org irc We also have a web client so that you can join the Rockbox IRC channel without needing to install additional software onto your computer 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 F page 157 for details on how to use the tracker 1 3 Naming conventions and marks We have some conventions especially for 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 note note starts always with the text Note In order to make finding notes easier each one is accompanied by an icon in the margin as here Notes are used to mark useful information that may help you to get the most out of Rockbox Warning This is a warning In contrast to notes mentioned above a warning should b
102. copyright notice for your modifications adjacent to the other copyright notices F Include immediately after the copyright notices a license notice giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the terms of this License in the form shown in the Addendum below G Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections and required Cover Texts given in the Document s license notice H Include an unaltered copy of this License I Preserve the section Entitled History Preserve its Title and add to it an item stating at least the title year new authors and publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page If there is no section Entitled History in the Document create one stating the title year authors and publisher of the Document as given THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 168 on its Title Page then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence J Preserve the network location if any given in the Document for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document and likewise the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it was based on These may be placed in the History section You may omit a network location for a work that was published at least four years before the Document itself or if the original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission For an
103. created the Any time you insert or queue tracks using the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 32 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 4 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 current 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 4 3 to creat
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105. ctory 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 Start File Browser Here This option allows users to set the currently selected directory as the default start directory for the file browser This option is not available for files Note If you have AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY and CONSTRAIN AUTO CHANGE enabled the directories returned will be constrained to the directory you have chosen here and those below it See section 7 8 page 47 Add to Shortcuts Adds a link to the selected item in the shortcuts link 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 its location in the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO 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 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 LoadableKeyboardLayouts Also you can switch to Morse code input mod
106. cy 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 50 dB MDB Harmonics 48 MDB Centre Frequency 60 Hz MDB Shape 90 Hz THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 45 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 4 page 31 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 it 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
107. d 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 F 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 1 Check that the bug has not already been reported 2 Always include the following information in your bug report e Which exact player you have e Which exact Rockbox version you are using Menu System Rockbox Info Version e step by step description of what you did and what happened e Whether the problem is repeatable or a one time occurrence e relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists MP3 files etc IMPORTANT F 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 F 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 Check that the feature is possible to implement see section F 2 2 page 158 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX F USER FEEDBAC
108. d left or right You can move the rows only by pushing them and if you move 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 On Off Menu 10 1 12 Minesweeper oO o o o o o o m ooooooogo oooooooo mimm mimm 00000000 Figure 10 11 Minesweeper plugin THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 72 The classic game of minesweeper 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 Key Action Up Down Move the cursor across the minefield Left Right Mode Toggle flag on off Long Mode Reveal the contents of the current square Long Display the current game status Mode On Off On Off Exit the game 10 1 13 Pegbox
109. de Right Next generation Left Status only when paused On Off Exit 10 2 13 Snow Figure 10 35 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 On Off or Long On Off to quit 10 2 14 Starfield Figure 10 36 Starfield THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 93 Starfield simulation like the classic screensaver Key Action Right Left Increase decrease number of stars Up Down Increase decrease speed On Off or Long Quit On Off 10 2 15 VU meter Figure 10 37 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 On Off Save settings and quit Mode Help Long Mode Settings Up Raise Volume Down Lower Volume 10 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 THE ROCKBOX M
110. down loaded http www ifarchive org e The specific folder on the if archive containing Z Machine games http www ifarchive org indexes if archiveXgamesXzcode html e The Infocom homepage with information about how to get the classic commercial Infocom games http www csd uwo ca Infocom e The Frotz homepage for the original Unix port http frotz sourceforge net THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 97 e Beginner s Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction http www microheaven com IFGuide Key Action Up Display keyboard to enter text Mode Press enter On Off Open Frotz menu not available at MORE prompts Long On Off Quit 10 3 4 Image Viewer This plugin opens image files from the FILE BROWSER to display them using Rockbox s greyscale library Supported formats are as follows Format File extension s BMP JPEG PNG GIF bmp jJpg jpe jpeg png gif Note This plugin will cause playback to stop Key Action Up Down Move around in zoomed in image Left Right Mode Zoom in Mode Down Zoom out Mode Right Next image in directory Mode Left Previous image in directory On Off Show menu Abort The menu has the following entries THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 98 Return Returns you to the image Toggle Slideshow Mode Enables or disables the slideshow mode Change Slideshow Timeout
111. e Figure 10 20 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 79 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 Mode Select cards move cards reveal hidden cards Long Mode If a card was selected unselect it else Draw 3 new cards from the remains stack Long Down Put the card from the top of the remains stack on top of the cursor Long Up Put the card under the cursor on one of the 4 final colour stacks Long Right Put the card on top of the remains stack on one of the final colour stacks On Off Show menu 10 1 24 Spacerocks Figure 10 21 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10
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113. e Original Flash ROM Contents 133 11 6 Optimising battery runtime 133 ILG L Peak Met r gt o s ce eco S o9 ox me Romo Rho om 133 11 6 2 Audio format aud bitrate ocs sa suos o o E os 133 A File formats 134 A Supported Die Omate c ecca BOE elk s 135 B Album Art 136 DL Limitations eae RE 9 m R mox Rem BUR X E Dee us 136 Where to soo n Reo E eom Ro EUR RI RD ARR RD n 136 C Theme Tags 138 Cl Bebe Bat 2 ide eee PA REGE d due EO UL Wow 138 Hardware Capabilities s soe eoo go do oy e OX m don 138 Information from the track tags 22222 e 139 CA Viewports o so coe 54 suba bee S D HORS e E XU 139 C Additional Fonts 022 De RR REOR GR E 139 CE Mise Coloring 1485 soc aoe pop nok A xh EE RUE db IS TR a 140 C T Power Related Information uu soo Gea Re EM XR 140 GB Intormstion about the fil 222229 Oe ee D p e ee ew eut 141 C9 PFPlaylist Song nio c c s rodga aoa eee eee ee eSB 142 C 10 Playlist Viewer oo sco sm koe aa e aa a 142 C 11 Runtime Database 2229x 9 ox ee 143 222 2 x ky mom obo OR ox Rx RE XU uox dca 143 Clg VIeual LED 24232 EE eo EO Ros 143 Cla Mode 22x loe
114. e a new playlist instead of adding to an existing one This will erase any dynamic playlist THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 32 By using the Playlist catalogue The PLAYLIST CATALOGUE makes it possible to modify and create playlists that are not currently playing To do this select PLAYLIST CATALOGUE 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 CATALOGUE 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 catalogue It is however possible to move existing playlists there see section 4 1 2 page 21 By using the Main Menu To create a playlist containing all music on your player you can use the CREATE PLAYLIST command in the PLAYLISTS menu found in the MAIN MENU The created playlist will be named root m3u8 and saved in the root of your player s disk 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist Figure 4 5 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 playli
115. e 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX F USER FEEDBACK 159 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 way 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 etc 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 underst
116. e by changing the USE MORSE CODE INPUT setting Note When the cursor is on the input line Mode deletes the preceding character Key Left Right Up Down Mode Long Mode On Off Up Action Move the cursor on the virtual keyboard If you move out of the picker area you get the previous next page of characters if there is more than one Move the cursor on the virtual keyboard If you move out of the picker area you get to the line edit mode Insert the selected keyboard letter at the current line cursor position Exit the virtual keyboard and save any changes Exit the virtual keyboard without saving any changes Tap to select a character in Morse code input mode THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 24 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 x DataBase 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 fil
117. e taken more seriously Whereas ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage ignoring warnings could cause serious damage to your player You really should read the warnings especially if you are new to Rockbox This icon marks a section that is intended especially for the blind and visually im paired 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 can probably 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 box at the top of the page Links to wiki pages are also indicated by the symbol s in front of the page name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO A 4 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 12 2 Installation Installing Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure However before beginning there are a few important things to know 2 1 Before Starting 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
118. e to play manually you place both the white and dark pieces or to play against a not very smart robot 10 1 16 Robotfindskitten Figure 10 14 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 On Off Quit 10 1 17 Rockblox Figure 10 15 Rockblox Rockblox is a Rockbox version of the classic falling blocks game from Russia The aim of the game is to make the falling blocks of different shapes form full rows Whenever THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 75 a row is completed it will be cleared away and you gain points For every ten lines completed the game level increases making the blocks fall faster If the pile of blocks reaches the ceiling the game is over Key Action Mode On Off Restart game Left Move left Right Move right Down Move down Mode Up Rotate anticlockwise Up Rotate clockwise Mode Drop On Off Quit 10 1 18 Rockblox1d 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 Down Move down faster On Off or Long Quit On Of
119. ectly in your theme you must save the theme files 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 Files Locations Each different themeable aspect requires its own file WPS files have the extension wps FM screen files have the extension fms and SBS files have the extension sbs The main theme file has the extension cfg files should have the same name The theme cfg file should be placed in the rockbox themes directory while the wps fms and sbs files should be placed in the rockbox wps directory Any images used by the theme should be placed in a subdirectory of rockbox wps with the same name as the theme e g if the theme files are named mytheme wps mytheme sbs etc then the images should be placed in rockbox wps mytheme full list of the available tags are given in appendix section C page 138 some of the more powerful concepts in theme design are discussed below e All characters not preceded by are displayed as typed e Lines beginning with are comments and will be ignored Note Keep in mind that your player s resolution is 112x64x1 with the last number giving the colour depth in bits when designing your own WPS or if you use a WPS designed for another target Viewports By default a viewport filling the whole screen contains all the elements defined in each theme file The text is rendered in
120. ed fully It is possible to view and edit if you like Kogo s Joseki Dictionary http waterfire us joseki htm with this plugin although the load and save times can be on the order of a minute or two on particularly slow devices Large SGF files may stop audio playback for the duration of the plugin s run in order to free up more memory and some very large SGF files will not even load on devices with little available memory Note The plugin does NOT support SGF files with multiple games in one file T hese are rare but if you have one don t even try it the file will most likely be corrupted if you save over it You have been warned The file sgf gbn def sgf is used by the plugin to store any unsaved changes in the most recently loaded game This means that if you forget to save your changes you should load sgf gbn def sgf immediately to offload the changes to another file If you load another file first then your changes will be lost permanently The sgf gbn def sgf file is also the file loaded if another is not selected The information panel which displays the current move number may also contain these markers THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 67 Mark Meaning There are nodes after the current node in the SGF tree d There are sibling variations which can be navigated to using the Next Vari ation menu option of the Context Menu C There is a comment at the current node It can be
121. ed immediately Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins 7 7 Auto Change Directory Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a directory If AuTO CHANGE DI RECTORY 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 via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin see section 10 4 10 page 114 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 behaviour THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 47 7 8 Constrain Auto Change If enabled and you have set START FILE BROWSER HERE to a directory other than root AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY will be constrained to the directory you have chosen and those below it See section 4 1 2 page 22 7 9 Last fm Log Enables logging of your played tracks for submittal to http www last fm This service was formerly known as Audioscrobbler When you enable this option you ll have to reboot to start the logging The log file is called scrobbler timeless log and is to be found in the root directory of your player Note See r amp LastF MLog for a furthe
122. ed 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 1link 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 95 If the link file contains only one entry no list will be shown you will directly jump to that location The file shortcuts link 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 seeing is from shortcuts link in the root directory you can delete the selected entry by pressing Long Mode Deleting entries from other link 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 n 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 custom display name fo
123. ement between the translation and the original version of this License or a notice or disclaimer the original version will prevail If a section in the Document is Entitled Acknowledgements Dedications or His tory the requirement section 4 to Preserve its Title section 1 will typically require changing the actual title 9 TERMINATION You may not copy modify sublicense or distribute the Document except as expressly provided for under this License Any other attempt to copy modify sublicense or distribute the Document 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 10 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE The Free Software Foundation may publish new revised versions of 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 particular numbered version of this License 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
124. er a theme has been successfully removed a log message is displayed listing which items have been deleted and which are being kept Exit this screen by pressing any key A file called theme remove log txt is created in the root di rectory of your player listing all the changes Remove Options This menu specifies which items are removed if REMOVE THEME is selected in the menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 103 One of the following options can be chosen for each setting Ask for Removal Selecting this option brings up a dialogue with two options press Right to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel Remove if not Used Selecting this option will remove the file automatically if it is not used by another theme in the theme directory and not currently used Never Remove Selecting this option will always skip deleting the file Always Remove Selecting this option will remove the file with no regard to whether it s used by another theme or not Font Specifies how the fnt file belonging to a theme cfg file is handled If this option is set to REMOVE IF NOT USED the fonts came from rockbox fonts zip will not be removed as themes may depend on those fonts WPS Specifies how the wps file belonging to a theme cfg file is handled Statusbar Skin Specifies how the sbs file belonging to a theme cfg file is han dled Iconset Specifies how the iconset bmp file belonging to a the
125. es on your player This scan happens in the background 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 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 function does not remove runtime database information Gat
126. f 10 1 19 Sliding Puzzle Figure 10 16 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 Includes one picture puzzle THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 6 You can also use the sliding puzzle plugin as a viewer for supported image types to turn your own pictures into a puzzle Key controls Left Right Up Move Tile and Down Long Mode Shuffle Mode Switch between pictures default puzzle and your own image if launched via Open With and numbered tiles On Off Stop the game 10 1 20 Snake Figure 10 17 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 Up Down Change levels 1 is slowest 9 is fastest Mode Toggle Play Pause THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 77 10 1 21 Snake 2 Figure 10 18 Snake 2 The Snake Strikes Back Another version of the Snake game Move the snake around 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 Up Down Steer the snake Left Right Mode Pause and resume the game On Off
127. 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 MERCHANTA BIL 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 year name of author Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for details type THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 178 show w This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions type show c for details 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 w and show c they could even be mouse clicks or menu items whatever suits your pro
128. from the end of the file s directory N can be 1 D Daaa Example for the 4d N commands If the file is Rock Kent Isola 11 747 mp3 4d 1 is Isola 4d 2 is Kent and d 3 is Rock These tags when written with the first letter capitalized e g 4Fn 4D 2 produce the information for the next file to be played THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 142 C 9 Playlist Song Info Tag Description hpb Progress Bar This will replace the entire line with a progress bar You can set the position width and height of the progressbar in pixels and load a custom image for it Apb x y width height image bmp hpx Percentage played in song Apc Current time in song Ape Total number of playlist entries Peak Meter The entire line is used as volume peak meter pL Peak meter for the left channel Can be used as a value conditional tag or a bar tag ApR Peak meter for the right channel Can be used as a value a conditional tag or a bar tag Playlist name without path or extension Playlist position Apr Remaining time in song hps s if shuffle mode is enabled hpt Total track time Current volume in dB Can also be used in a conditional A pv lt Mute 0 dBlAbove 0 dB Mute is 096 volume is the values between Mute and max 0 dB is max volume and Above 0 dB is amplified volume This can also be used like pb to p
129. g 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 section Entitled XY Z means a named subunit of the Document whose title ei THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 166 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 War
130. g the centre slide Therefore if set to 4 there will be 3 slides on the left the centre slide and then 3 slides on the right Zoom Changes the distance at which slides are rendered from the camera Show album title Allows setting the album title to be shown above or below the cover art or not at all Resize Covers Set whether to automatically resize the covers or to leave them at their original size Rebuild cache Rebuild the PictureFlow cache This is needed in order for PictureFlow to pick up new albums and may occasionally be needed if albums are removed 10 2 11 Plasma Figure 10 34 Plasma Plasma is a demo displaying a 80 s style retro plasma effect Key Action Up Down Increase decrease Frequency On Off Long Exit On Off THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 92 10 2 12 Rocklife This an implementation of J H Conway s Game of Life see http en wikipedia org wiki Conway9627s Game of Life for a detailed description Rockbox can open files with a configuration description cells files Just play such file and the game configuration stored in it will be loaded into this plugin A cells file is a text file A capital O marks a live cell a dot marks a dead cell all other characters are ignored Everything on a line starting with an exclamation sign and including it is a comment and is ignored Mode Play pause Down Change growth mo
131. g tracks if a track ends which can be THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 48 achieved by combining this option with REPEAT set to ONE 1 13 Rewind on Pause This option rewinds the current track by a small amount whenever it is paused not stopped The amount to rewind can be set between 0 and 15 seconds THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 49 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
132. ght 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 170 8 TRANSLATION Translation is considered a kind of modification so you may distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4 Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special permission from their copyright holders but you may include translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the original versions of these Invariant Sections You may include a translation of this License and all the license notices in the Document and any Warranty Disclaimers provided that you also include the original English version of this License and the original versions of those notices and disclaimers In case of a disagre
133. ghted 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 Customising 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 11 3 page 128 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 not display properly THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO A CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 19 3 3 USB Power To power your player over USB hold Mode while plugging it in This will prevent it from connecting to your computer and let you continue to use it normally Your player must already be in Rockbox for this to function THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 20 4 Browsi
134. gram 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 signature of Ty Coon 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO
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136. he 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 nd5sum it will check the md5 sums in the file instead If the file s extension is mdolist it will compute md5 sums for all the files listed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 114 10 4 9 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 Long On Off Exit plugin On Off Stop Long Mode Start Mode Tap tempo Left Right Adjust tempo Up Down Adjust volume 10 4 10 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 it you need to have both CDs and CDs as entries Edit Folder List Enter the folder lis
137. her 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 25 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 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 gt 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 do not want to use it just do not do the ini
138. hip8 game View the cuesheet file Change the user interface font to this one View the JPEG image Display list of target files and di rectories selecting one jumps to the target See section 10 3 1 page 94 Load the language file Load the playlist and start playing the first file Start playing the file and show the WPS Start the plugin View the movie Rockbox format Display the text file using the text viewer plugin Flash the Rockbox image into the ROM Allow Rockbox to speak menus Play the WAV file Load the new WPS display config uration THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX B ALBUM ART 136 B Album Art Rockbox allows you to put the album art or another image related to the music on your player to display it in the PictureFlow plugin For this feature to work there are a few requirements B 1 Limitations Rockbox currently only supports loading images located on the flash storage for use in PictureFlow The image files must be in either BMP or JPEG format Rockbox does not support RLE compressed BMP files nor does it support progressive and multi scan JPEG files JPEG files must consist of a single scan with interleaved components as progessive and multi scan images require much more memory to decode B 2 Where to put album art The pictures can be named a number of different ways and placed to a number of different locations You can have pictures specific to the file or
139. i pages for details Status Scrollbar Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar Scroll Bar Allows you to choose where the vertical scroll bar should appear Scroll Bar Width Allows you to choose the width of the scroll bar in pixels Default value is 6 Status Bar Allows you to choose where to display the statusbar 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 41 for more on the volume set ting THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 9 THEME SETTINGS 60 Battery Display Controls whether the battery charge status is displayed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Line Selector Type This option allows you to select which type of line selector to use Pointer small arrow to the left of the menu text Bar inverse A bar with inverted foreground and background colour THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 61 10 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 playba
140. ick For a special item to take effect you must catch it with the paddle Look out for the bad ones Special items Displayed Name Description N Normal Returns paddle to normal D Die Ball dies lose a life L Life Gain a life F Fire Allows you to shoot bricks with paddle G Glue Ball sticks to paddle each time it hits B Ball Immediately fires another ball FL Flip Flip left right movement THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 63 Key Action Left Right Moves the paddle Mode Up Release the ball Fire On Off Open menu Quit 10 1 3 Bubbles Figure 10 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 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 Key Action Mode Pause game Left Right Aim the bubble Up Fire bubble On Off or Long Exit to menu On Off 10 1 4 Chessbox Figure 10 4 Chessbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 64 Chessbox is a one person chess game with computer artificial intelligence The chess engine is port of GNU Ches
141. icons on off N A playlist viewer indices on off N A playlist viewer track track name full path N A display recursive directory insert on off ask N A scroll speed 1 to 25 Hz scroll delay 0 to 2500 ms scroll step devise a way to get ranges pixels from config h screen scroll step devise a way to get ranges pixels from config h Screen Scrolls Out Of on off N A View THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 153 Setting Allowed Values Unit bidir limit 0 to 200 70 screen scroll paginated on off N A hold lr for scroll in list on off N A show path in browser off current directory full path N A contrast 0 to 63 N A backlight timeout off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 S 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight timeout plugged off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 S 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight filters first on off N A keypress backlight on button hold normal off on N A caption backlight on off N A brightness devise a way to get ranges N A from config h disk spindown 3 to 254 5 battery capacity devise a way to get ranges mAh from config h battery type alkaline nimh N A idle poweroff off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 min 30 45 60 sleeptimer duration 5 to 300 in steps of 5 min sleeptimer on startup off on N A keypress restarts off on N A sleeptimer max files in playlist 1000 32000 N A max files in dir 50 10000 N A l
142. ifferent 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 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 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 The mailing lists are another option and can be found at http www rockbox org mail From that page you can subscribe to the lists and browse the archives To search the list archives simply use the search field that is located on the left side of the website Furthermore you can ask on IRC The THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 11 main channel for Rockbox is rockbox on irc irc freenode net Many helpful developers and users are usually around Just join and ask your question don t ask to ask if someone knows the answer you ll usually get an answer pretty qui
143. igured e The player can be turned off Note Shortcuts into the database are not possible 21 Shortcuts are loaded from the file rockbox shortcuts txt which lists each item to be displayed Each shortcut looks like the following EXAMPLE shortcut type shortcut type gt data what the shortcut actually links to name what the shortcut should be displayed as icon number of the theme icon to use see mCustomIcons gt talkclip filename of a talk clip to speak when voice menus are enabled THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 5 MAIN MENU 40 Only type and data are required except if type is separator in which case data is also not required Available types are file data is the name of the file to run browse data is the file or the folder to open the file browser at playlist menu data is the file or the folder to open the Current Playlist context menu item on setting data is the config name of the setting you want to change see section D page 152 for the list of the possible settings debug data is the name of the debug menu item to display separator data is ignored name can be used to display text or left blank to make the list more accessible with visual gaps time data needs to be sleep X where X is the number of minutes to run the sleep timer for 0 to disable name is required for this shortcut type shutd
144. ill 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 Right 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 10 4 7 Lrcplayer This plugin displays lyrics in 1rc files and some other formats synchronized with the song being played Supported file types 1rc 2 1rc8 snc 4 txt 5 id3v2 SYLT or USLT tags in mp3 files 1rc8 files are the same as 1rc files except that they are UT F8 encoded The Lyrics3 tag is not supported Supported tags and formats for 1rc files The following tags are supported ti title ar artist offset offset msec Each line should resemble one of the following time taglline time tagl time taglline time tag lt word time tag gt word lt word time tag gt lt word time tag The time tag must be in the form mm ss mm ss xx or mm ss xxx where mm is minutes ss is seconds xx is tenth of milliseconds and xxx is milliseconds Any other tags
145. isation only It cannot be used to select and play music Also using this plugin will cause playback to stop Requirements PictureFlow uses both the album art see section page 136 and database see section 4 2 page 24 features of Rockbox It is therefore important that these are working correctly before attempting to use PictureFlow In addition there are some other points of which to be aware e PictureFlow will accept album art larger than the dimensions of the screen but the larger the dimensions the longer they will take to scale Keys Key Action Left Right Scroll through albums Up Down Scroll through track list Up Enter track list Mode Play album from selected track in track list Left Exit track list Long Mode Enter menu On Off Exit PictureFlow Main Menu Go to WPS Leave PictureFlow and enter the while playing screen Settings Enter the settings menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 91 Return Exit menu Quit Exit PictureFlow plugin Settings Menu Show FPS Displays frames per second on screen Spacing The distance between the front edges of the side slides i e changes the degree of overlap of the side slides A larger number means less overlap Scales with zoom Centre margin The distance in screen pixels with zoom at 100 between the centre and side slides Scales with zoom Number of slides Sets the number of slides at each side includin
146. 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 Mode The following press of Mode will set the End Point B and a third successive Mode will reset the markers THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 46 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 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 6 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 play
147. ith conditionals i e 4cM 0 is the first conditional option THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 151 Tag Description C dis hh h lt l gt A5 ht s The character The character The character The character The character The character The character The character The character 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 ten scrolling lines Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as timers peak meters or progress bars THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 152 D Config file options Setting Allowed Values Unit volume 100 to 4 12 dB bass 12 to 4 12 dB treble 12 to 4 12 dB balance 100 to 100 96 channels stereo mono custom mono left N A mono right karaoke stereo width 0 to 250 06 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 5 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 A follow playlist on off N A playlist viewer
148. itor 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 Edit Line Select Character Left or On Off Exit Abort Editing Long Mode Show Item Menu Long Right Delete Line THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 121 11 Advanced Topics 11 1 Customising the User Interface 11 1 1 Customising The Main Menu It is possible to customise the main menu i e to reorder or to hide some of its items only the main menu can be customised submenus can not accomplish this load a cfg file as described in section 11 3 page 128 containing the following line root menu order items where items is a comma separated list no spaces around the commas of the following words bookmarks files database wps settings playlists plugins system menu shortcuts Each of the words if it occurs in the list activates the appropriate ite
149. k Cover Text to the end of the list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version Only one passage of Front Cover Text and one of Back Cover Text may be added by or through arrangements made by any one entity If the Document already includes a cover text for the same cover previously added by you or by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of you may not add another but you may replace the old one on explicit permission from the previous publisher that added the old one The author s and publisher s of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 169 5 COMBINING DOCUMENTS You may combine the Document with other documents released under this License under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified versions provided that you include in the combination all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original documents unmodified and list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license notice and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers The combined work need only contain one copy of this License and multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single copy If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but different contents make the title of each such section unique by adding a
150. l 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 52 it has to scroll to the left This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of the line length Screen Scrolls Out of View Screens can be manually scrolled horizontally by pressing Mode 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 instead of simply changing lines This can be useful on slow displays List Acceleration Start Delay This setting enables the acceleration of scroll speed in lists when holding Up or Down When set to OFF the acceleration is disabled When any other value is set the acceleration will start to accelerate after holding Up or Down for the chosen time in
151. le These volume levels will ordi narily lead to distorted sound but might work nicely for music that has an otherwise 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER SouND SETTINGS 42 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 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 Stereo Leave the audio signal unmodified Mono Combine both channels and send the resulting signal to both stereo channels resulting in a monophonic output
152. lects the previous bookmark Right Resumes from the selected bookmark Left or On Off Exits Recent Bookmark menu Long Left Deletes the currently selected bookmark Long Right Enters the context menu for the selected bookmark THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 57 There are two options in the context menu e RESUME will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry e DELETE will remove the currently selected bookmark entry from the list 8 8 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 11 1 4 page 122 for further details about languages 8 9 Voice Voice Menus This option controls the voicing of menus settings as they are selected by the cursor In order for this to work a voice fille 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 do not s
153. less that component itself accompanies the executable THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 175 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 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 However nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License Therefore by modifying or distributing the Program or any work based on the Program you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so and all its terms and conditions for copying distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it 6 Each time you redistribute the Program or any work based on the Progr
154. loaded in the example Which image to display is determined by the mm tag the repeat mode Example File EXAMPLE Ash in lt hin A4 it Ait 4fn 4 ia ia id id gt gt ApbApc Apt 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 11 3 Managing Rockbox Settings 11 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files Rockbox allows users to store and load multiple settings through the use of configuration files configuration file is simply a text file with the extension cfg configuration file may reside anywhere on the disk Multiple configuration files are permitted So for example 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 11 3 2 page 128 below for an explanation of the format for configuration files See section 11 3 3 page 129 for an explanation of how to create edit and load configuration files 11 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 D page 152 for available settings Configuration files use the following for
155. m in the main menu The order of the items is given by the order of the words in the list The items whose words do not occur in the list will be hidden with one exception the menu item SETTINGS will be shown even if its word is not in the list it is added as the last item then The following configuration example will change the main menu so that it will contain only the items for the file browser for resuming the playback and for changing the settings the latter will be added automatically EXAMPLE root menu order files wps To reset the menu items to the default use root menu order ie use a hyphen instead of items This configuration entry can only be created and edited with a text editor It is not possible to change this setting via the settings menu 11 1 2 Getting Extras Rockbox supports custom fonts collection of fonts is available for download in the font package at http www rockbox org daily shtml 11 1 3 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 THEME SETTINGS FONT in the MAIN MENU THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 122
156. 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 10 4 Applications 10 4 1 Battery Benchmark The BATTERY BENCHMARK plugin enables you to test your battery s performance whilst using your player normally Results can be submitted to the mBatteryRuntime wiki page How it works Once loaded BATTERY BENCHMARK runs in the background recording various informa tion about your battery to memory new point is written to memory every minute Every time the disk is accessed for any reason such as refilling the audio buffer open ing a directory or entering USB mode etc then the information in memory is written to disk Once the memory becomes full after many hours then the data are written to disk anyway This is done so that the data are not biased by excessive additional disk accesses The file is written to the root directory of your player and is called battery bench txt The plugin will continue to log info until e Another plugin is loaded e The player is shut down
157. matting 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 129 4 Lines starting with are ignored This lets you write comments into your config uration files Example of a configuration file EXAMPLE volume 70 bass 11 treble 12 balance O time format 12hour volume display numeric Show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans lng Note As you can see from the example configuration files do not need to contain all of the Rockbox options You can create configuration files that change only certain set tings So for example suppose 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 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 special case configuration file can be used to force a particular setting or settings every time Rockbox starts up e g to set the
158. me cfg file is han dled Viewers Iconset Specifies how the viewers iconset bmp file belonging to a theme cfg file is handled Create Log File Setting this to NO prevents the log file from being created Quit Exits this plugin 10 3 12 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 when the playback of a file skips fwd rew does not work correctly or the time display is incorrect To use this plugin open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 21 upon a mp3 file and select OPEN WrTH VBRFIX 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 104 10 3 13 Wavplay Figure 10 41 Wavplay 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 abo
159. me minimum or maximum values are set the waveform might be cut off 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 10 4 13 Stats Figure 10 48 The stats plugin The stats plugin counts the directories and files the total number as well as the number of audio playlist image and video files on your player Press On Off or Long On Off to abort counting and exit the plugin Press it again to quit after counting has finished 10 4 14 Stopwatch Figure 10 49 Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 120 Key Action On Off Quit Plugin Right Start stop Left Reset timer only when timer is stopped Mode Take lap time Up Down Scroll through lap times 10 4 15 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 Ed
160. modification follow GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 173 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0 This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License The Program below refers to any such program or work and a work based on the Program means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law that is to say a work containing the Program or a portion of it either verbatim or with modifications and or translated into another language Hereinafter translation is included without limitation in the term modification Each licensee is addressed as you Activities other than copying distribution and modification are not covered by this License they are outside its scope 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 inta
161. mputer 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 2 6 Troubleshooting File Not Found If you receive a File Not Found from the bootloader then the bootloader cannot find the Rockbox firmware This is usually a result of not extracting the contents of the zip file to the proper location and should not happen when Rockbox has been installed with Rockbox Utility To fix this either install Rockbox with the Rockbox Utility which will take care of this for you or recheck the Manual Install section to see where the files need to be located THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 16 3 Quick Start 3 1 Basic Overview 3 1 1 The player s controls On Off Left Down Mode 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 The main characteristic of the Ondio case is the indent on its lower right side which is the MMC slot Holding the player with this slot in the described position
162. ms 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX LICENSES 176 10 11 12 reliance on consistent application of that system it is up to the author donor to 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 If the 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 limitation 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 i
163. nd a safe bet and the current that it will draw likewise with the first option Then use the onscreen keyboard to type in the supply voltage and if selected the custom forward current This function produces safe estimates but use your own judgement when using these output values Power rating and displayed resistance are rounded up to the nearest common value THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 116 10 4 12 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 the 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 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
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165. ng 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 in the MAIN MENU If you choose the FILE BROWSER the SHOW FILES setting lets you select what types of files you wish to view See section 8 2 page 50 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 24 The remainder of this section deals with the FILE BROWSER Unlike the Archos Firmware Rockbox provides multivolume support for the Multi MediaCard this means the player can access both data volumes internal memory and the MMC thus being able to for instance build playlists with files from both volumes In the FILE BROWSER a new directory will appear as soon as the device has read the content after inserting the card This new directory s name is generated as lt MMC1 gt
166. ng cannot be displayed in units like volts or watts because such units depend on your headphones THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 53 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 10096 Note that 40 dB is approxi mately 196 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 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 Battery Options relating to the batteries in the player Battery Capacity This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity in mAh the bat
167. nslation Tag Description 5 English Display the translation of English in the current language e English must be a phrase used in the language file e It should match the Source line in the language file Note checkwps cannot verify that the string is correct so please check on either the simulator or on target C 25 Bar Tags Some tags can be used to display a bar which draws according to the value of the tag To use these tags like a bar you need to use the following parameters XX should be replaced with the actual tag Tag Description AXX x y Draw the specified tag as a bar width height x X co ordinate at which to start drawing the bar options y y co ordinate at which to start drawing the bar width width of the bar for the full viewport width height height of the bar to set to the font height for horizontal bars and to the viewport height for vertical bars options any of the options set out below C 25 1 Options image the next option is either the filename or image label to use for the fill image horizontal force the bar to be drawn horizontally vertical force the bar to be drawn vertically invert invert the draw direction i e right to left or top to bottom slider draw a preloaded image over the top of the bar so that the centre of the image matches the current position This must be followed by the label of the desired image backdrop dr
168. numerations Evaluate for first second third last condition Allows very simple comparisons with other tags tag the tag to check against operator the comparison to perform possible options are gt gt gt lt lt operand either a second tag number or text option count optional parameter used to select which pa rameter of a tag to use when the tag has multiple options e g lt gt Logical operator Will be evaluate to true if all the tag parameters are true Logical or operator Will be evaluate to true if any of the tag parameters are true Examples of the if tag A if Apv gt 0 lt Clipping possible Volume OK will display Clipping possible if the volume is higher than or equal to 0 dB Volume OK if it is lower 4 if Aia 4Ia same artist this artist and the next artist are the same Note When performing a comparison against a string tag such as ia only and work and the comparison is not case sensitive C 23 Subline Tags Tag Description t time Set the subline display cycle time t 5 or t 3 4 formats Split items on a line into separate sublines Allows grouping of several items sublines onto one line with the display cycling round the defined sublines See section 11 2 4 page 126 for details THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 149 C 24 Text Tra
169. o be switched on for buffering and the shorter the buffering duration is the lower is the overall power consumption Therefore the bitrate of the audio files does have an impact on the battery runtime as well Lower bitrate audio files will result in longer battery runtime Please do not re encode any existing audio files from one lossy format to another based upon the above mentioned This will reduce the audio quality If you have the choice select the best suiting codec when encoding the original source material THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX FILE FORMATS 134 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX FILE FORMATS 135 A File formats A 1 Supported file formats Icon File Type X Bel Directory Rockbox firmware Bookmark Game of Life Configuration File Chip8 game Cuesheet Font Image Link Language File Playlist Audio file Plugin Rockbox Video Text File Flash Image Voice file Wave Audio File While Playing Screen Extension none ajz bmark cells cfg 608 cue fnt jpg link 1ng m3u m3u8 mp2 mp3 rock rvf txt Jacl voice Wav Wps Action when selected Enter the directory Load the new firmware with ROLO Display all bookmarks for an audio file Show the configuration with the Rocklife plugin Load the settings file Play the C
170. ockbox Utility can also aid you in the creation of voice files with different voices or in other languages if you have a suitable speech engine installed on your computer Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into effect after a reboot See section 8 9 page 57 for details on voice settings Rockbox Utility can also aid in the production of talk files which allow Rockbox to speak file and folder names THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 15 2 3 Running Rockbox When you turn the unit on Rockbox should load 2 4 Updating Rockbox Rockbox can be easily updated with Rockbox Utility You can also update Rockbox manually download a Rockbox build as detailed above and unzip the build to the root directory of your player as in the manual installation stage If your unzip program asks you whether to overwrite files choose the 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 2 5 Uninstalling Rockbox 2 5 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 5 2 Manual Uninstallation If you would like to go back to using the original Archos software connect the player to your co
171. option overrides the previous setting BOOKMARK ON STOP and unconditionally creates a bookmark This is useful if you don t generally want to create bookmarks but only want to add them to already existing bookmark files In this case you should set the setting BOOKMARK ON STOP to No and the setting UPDATE ON STOP to Yes Load Last Bookmark This option controls if Rockbox should automatically load a bookmark for a file when that file is played No Always start from the beginning of the track or playlist Yes Automatically return to the position of the last bookmark Start from the beginning if there are no bookmarks Ask Ask if playback should start from the beginning of the track or from one of the bookmarks Maintain a list of Recent Bookmarks If this option is enabled a list of the most re cently created bookmarks may be accessed through the RECENT BOOKMARKS option in the MAIN MENU This list contains up to ten entries No Do not keep a list of recently used bookmarks This also removes the RECENT BOOKMARKS from the MAIN MENU Yes Keep a list of recently used bookmarks Each new bookmark is added to the list of recent bookmarks Unique Only Add each new bookmark to the list of recently used bookmarks but only keep one bookmark from the current directory or playlist any previous entries are removed The following keys can be used to navigate in any bookmark list Key Action Down Selects the next bookmark Up Se
172. orders of the displayed region Perform the split 8 The icon above the Left button indicates its function to execute the split When split positioning is complete open the save dialogue with Mode Left THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 118 Key Action On Off Quit plugin Left Right Move the split point indicator Up Down Zoom in out Mode Play from the split position Mode Left Enter the save dialogue Mode Up Toggle loop modes Mode Right Toggle logarithmic linear scaling Table 10 1 Controls in the split editor 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 10 47 The Split Editor s Save Dialogue Key Action Up Down Select item Right Toggle edit item On Off Cancel Table 10 2 Controls in the save dialogue THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 119 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 52 If extre
173. own data is ignored name can be used to display text If the name icon items are not specified a sensible default will be used Note For the browse type if you want the file browser to start inside a folder make sure the data has the trailing slash i e Music instead of Music Without the trailing slash it will cause the file broser to open with Music selected instead The file shortcuts txt can be edited with any text editor Most items can also be added to it through their context menu item Add to shortcuts A reboot is needed for manual changes to shortcuts txt to be applied Shortcuts can be manually removed by selecting the one you wish to remove and pressing Long Right THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 6 SouND SETTINGS A1 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 setting 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 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 possib
174. probably want next Iry 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 a 1 pixel wide U turn You also could move from food to food and make sure you keep between your opponent and the food So you can always reach it before your opponent 10 1 28 Xobox Figure 10 25 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 7596 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 85 Key Action Up Down Left Move around the arena Right Mode Pause On Off Open menu 10 2 Demos 10 2 1 Bounce Figure 10 26 Bounce This demo is of the word Rockbox bouncing across the screen In SCROLL MODE the bouncing text is replaced by a different one scrolling from right to left Key Action Up Down Moves to next previous option Right Left Increases decreases option value Mode Toggles Scroll mode On Off or Long Exits bounce demo On Off 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
175. r 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 ID3 tags When you enable this option you ll have to reboot for it to come into effect Cuesheet files should have the same file name as the audio file they reference except with the extension cue This file can either reside in the same directory as the audio file checked first or within the rockbox cue directory The contents of a cuesheet file can also be embedded within the metadata of an audio file There is currently support for the FLAC tag Vorbis comment CUESHEET or the ID3v2 TXXX CUESHEET tag 7 11 Skip Length Designed to speed up navigation when listening to long audio tracks SkIP LENGTH changes the behaviour of the Left and Right buttons so that they skip by a given time instead of skipping to a new track The SKIP TO OUTRO option changes the behaviour so that the buttons skip to just before the end of the track so that the last few seconds are played before the next track 7 12 Prevent Track Skipping If this option is enabled the ability to manually skip tracks is disabled in order to avoid accidental track skips It does not prevent changin
176. r 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 10 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 ch8 file in 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 original Chip8 had 64x32 pixel graphics and the new superchip emulator supports 128x64 graphics The only problem is that they are based on 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 c8k file with 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 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 gt 8 7 4 8 gt 6 The default keymappings are THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS O
177. rack 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 PLAvLIST 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 playlist 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 4 4 Modifying playlists Reshuffling Reshuffling the current playlist is easily done from the PLAYLIST sub menu in the WPS just select RESHUFFLE THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO A A CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 34 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 the PLAvLIST VIEWER open the context menu
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179. rator solver http kjell haxx se sudoku 10 1 27 Wormlet Figure 10 24 Wormlet game Wormlet is a 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 Game controls Key Action Left Turn left Right Turn right Up Turn Up Down Turn Down 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 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 83 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 E
180. rmation will be saved to the SGF file and can be viewed in almost all SGF readers Basic Info Shows a quick view of the basic game metadata if any has been set otherwise does nothing This option does not allow editing Time Limit The time limit of the current game Overtime The overtime settings of the current game Result The result of the current game This text must follow the format specified at http www red bean com sgf properties html 4RE to be read by other SGF readers Some examples are B R Black wins by resignation B 5 5 Black wins by 5 5 points W T White wins on Time Handicap The handicap of the current game Komi The komi of the current game compensation to the white player for black having the first move Ruleset The name of the ruleset in use for this game The NZ and GOE rulesets include suicide as a legal move for multi stone suicide only the rest do not Black Player The name of the black player Black Rank Black s rank in dan or kyu Black Team The name of black s team if any White Player The name of the white player White Rank White s rank in dan or kyu White Team The name of white s team if any Date The date that this game took place This text must follow the format specified at http www red bean com sgf properties html44DT to be read by other SGF readers Event The name of the event which this game was a part of if any Place The place that this game took place
181. rovide a continuous scale x y width height image bmp 5 Track is starting An optional number gives how many seconds the tag remains true for after the start of the track The de fault is 10 seconds if no number is specified 4 pS 7 lt in the first 7 seconds of tracklin the rest of the track ApE Irack is ending optional number gives how many seconds before the end of the track the tag becomes true The default is 10 seconds if no number is specified A pE 7 in the last 7 seconds of track lin the rest of the track 5 Current playback pitch C 10 Playlist Viewer Tag Description 4AVp start code to render Display the playlist viewer in the current viewport THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO APPENDIX C THEME TAGS 143 e start is the offset relative to the currently playing track for the playlist to display from 0 the current track 1 is the next track etc e code to render is a line of skin code which will be displayed for each line in the viewer All text tags are supported including conditionals and sublines The entire viewport will be used so don t expect other tags in the same viewport to work well Supported tags are pp all tags starting with 96i most tags starting with f Mpt and 96s Example AVp 1 4pp fn Display the playlist position then either the track title from the tags or the filename The viewer will display
182. rts must come before the tag to preload the viewport in the wps file 11 2 3 Info Viewport SBS only As mentioned above it is possible to set a UI viewport via the theme cfg file It is also possible to set the UI viewport through the SBS file and to conditionally select different UI viewports e Vi C 1label This viewport is used as Custom UI Viewport in the case that the theme doesn t have a ui viewport set in the theme cfg file Having this is strongly recommended since it makes you able to use the SBS with other themes If label is set this viewport can be selectivly used as the Info Viewport using the VI tag The parameters use the same logic as the 4V tag explained above e VIC label Set the Info Viewport to use the viewport called label as declared with the previous tag 11 2 4 Additional Fonts Additional fonts can be loaded within each screen file to be used in that screen In this way not only can you have different fonts between e g the menu and the WPS but you can use multiple fonts in each of the individual screens AFl C id filename glyphs glyp e id is the number you want to use in viewport declarations 0 and 1 are reserved and so can t be used e filename is the font filename to load Fonts should be stored in rockbox fonts e glyphs is an optional specification of how many unique glyphs to store in memory Default is from the system setting GLYPHS To LOAD THE
183. s 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 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 Keys Key Action Direction keys Move the cursor Mode Pick up Drop piece Mode On Off Change level Long Mode Force play On Off Show the menu 10 1 5 Chopper Figure 10 5 Chopper Navigate a cavernous maze without banging into walls the ceiling or the floor How long can you fly your chopper THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PL
184. s Set the number of spaces to indent the text when line mode is set to REFLOW LINES Available options are 0 to 5 spaces If you select 0 a blank line is displayed as an indent Show Playback Menu Display the playback menu to allow control of the currently play ing music without leaving the plugin Select Bookmark Select a saved bookmark In the screenshot below the denotes the current page THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 102 Figure 10 39 The select bookmark menu Global Settings Set the default settings for the text viewer The setting items are the same as VIEWER OPTIONS The global settings are stored in rockbox rocks viewers viewer dat Quit Exits the plugin The text viewer automatically stores its settings the current position and bookmarks in rockbox rocks viewers viewer file dat Bookmarks To add a bookmark press Mode On Off The bookmark will be displayed as shown below To delete the bookmark press the same button again Figure 10 40 A bookmark 10 3 11 Theme Remove This plugin offers a way to remove a theme Open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 21 upon a theme cfg file and select OPEN WITH THEME REMOVE Some files are not removed regardless of the REMOVE OPTIONS such as rockbox default wps and the font file currently in use Theme Remove menu Remove Theme Selecting this will delete the files specified in the REMOVE OPTIONS Aft
185. s are stored on the unit However Rockbox does not access the flash storage solely for the purpose of saving settings Instead Rockbox will save settings when it accesses the flash storage the next time for example when refilling the music 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 17 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu Key Action Down Select the next option in the menu Inside setting increase the value or choose next option Up Select the previous option in the menu Inside a setting decrease the value or choose previous option Right Select option Left or On Off Exit menu or setting or move to parent menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 36 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 here and select one to jump straight to that track Note Bookmarking only works when tracks are launched from the file browser and does not currently work for tracks launched via the database In addition they do not currently work with dynamic playlists Key Action Down Select the next bookmark Up Select the previous bookmark Right Resume from the selected bookmark Left or On Off Exit Recent Bookmark menu Long Left Delete the
186. s given a distinguishing version number If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and 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 NO 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
187. s of several indicators 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 unless you play an audio file that is distorted heavily 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 0 dB 3 dB 6 dB 9 dB 12 dB 18 dB 24 dB 30 dB 40 dB 50 dB 60 dB 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 used functions Playlist The PLAYLIST submenu allows you to view save search and reshuffle the current playlist To change settings for the PLAYLIST VIEWER press Long Right while viewing the current playlist to bring up the PLAvLIST VIEWER MENU In this menu you can find the PLAvLIST VIEWER SETTINGS Playlist Viewer Settings Show Icons This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entr
188. should be set to the number of unique language glyphs and punctu ation marks that are frequently displayed The default is 250 Note You will need to restart your player for changes to MAX ENTRIES IN FILE BROWSER or MAX PLAYLIST SIZE to take effect while GLYPHS To CACHE will affect the next font load 8 6 Startup Shutdown The STARTUP SHUTDOWN sub menu allows you to configure items which are run at startup or initiate a shutdown when conditions are met 8 6 1 Start Screen Set the screen that Rockbox will start in The default is the main menu but the following options are available Previous Screen Start Rockbox in the same screen as when it was shut off Main Menu Show the main menu Files Display the file browser starting in the root directory of your player Database Show the default database view Resume Playback Go to the WPS and and resume playback from where it was before turning off if there is a playlist to resume Settings Display the main settings menu Recent Bookmarks Show the list of recent bookmarks as described in section 8 7 page 55 Bookmarking needs to be enabled 8 6 2 Idle Poweroff Rockbox can be configured to turn off power after the unit has been idle for a defined number of minutes T he player is idle when playback is stopped or paused It is not idle while the USB or charger is connected Settings are either OFF or 1 to 10 minutes in 1 minute steps Then 15 30 45 or 60 minutes are avail
189. 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 On your player it is also possible to execute Rockbox directly from flash ROM increasing the amount of free RAM for buffering music This is called Romboz 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 131 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 of them fails it will not program Warning After flashing Rockbox never try to ROLO the Archos firmware version 1 32b This version is a flash update itself If it is applied when Rockbox is flashed you ll end up with a garbled flash ROM and hence dead box 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 If the first 2 KB of the flash R
190. splayed 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 24 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 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 parameters 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 Scrol
191. st 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 33 Insert Last Add track s to end of playlist Insert Shuffled Add track s to the playlist in a random order Insert Last Shuffled Add tracks in a random order to the end of the playlist 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 8 page 38 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 order Queue Last Shuffled Queue tracks in a random order at the end of the playlist Play Next Replaces all but the current playing track with t
192. t 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 Play Shuffled Starts playback with the selected directories in random order Tracks within a directory will be played in normal order The plugin will exit after starting playback Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 115 Folder List Editor Keys Key Action Right Delete selected folder Long Right Bring up the context menu which allows you to remove the selected folder or its entire folder tree Left or On Off Exit 10 4 11 Resistor Calculator Figure 10 45 Resistor calculator The resistor calculator is a plugin that works in 3 modes Colour to Resistance In Colour to Resistance mode use the menus to select the colours of the bands of a resistor which you would like to know the resistance of Resistance to Colour In Resistance to Colour mode use the menus to select the unit that you would like to use choose from Ohms Kiloohms Megaohms and use the on screen keyboard to input the value of the resistor that you would like to know the colour code of The colour codes are presented textually LED resistance LED resistance calculator is used to determine the resistor necessary to light an LED safely at a given voltage First select the voltage that the LED will use the first option is the most common a
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194. t the end of it in parentheses the name of the original author or publisher of that section if known or else a unique number Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work In the combination you must combine any sections Entitled History in the various original documents forming one section Entitled History likewise combine any sec tions Entitled Acknowledgements and any sections Entitled Dedications You must delete all sections Entitled Endorsements 6 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents released under this License and replace the individual copies of this License in the various docu ments with a single copy that is included in the collection provided that you follow the rules of this License for verbatim copying 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 ageregate if the copyri
195. t 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 256 KB sized file named internal rom 2000000 203FFFF bin to a safe place THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 132 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 v3 2 Unzip the flash package to the root of your player This will extract one file to the root firmware model bin Now safely disconnect USB 3 Make sure you use a set of fresh batteries 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 Left it will check the file If the file is OK pressing Up will give you a big warning If we still didn t manage to scare you off you need to press Right 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
196. tead put them in any other folder e g music or audio 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 WPSes may 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 35 To browse the files on your 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 24 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 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 This way you
197. tery being used has The default is 1000 mAh which is the capacity value for the standard batteries shipped with the player Rockbox uses this value for runtime estimation not battery percentage calculation Changing this setting has no effect whatsoever on actual battery life This setting only affects the accuracy of the runtime estimation as shown on screen Battery Type This setting tells Rockbox which type of battery is currently used in the player The two supported battery types are Alkaline or NiMH 8 5 2 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 see 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 playlists THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 54 Glyphs To Cache This sets the default memory allocation size for fonts in unique glyphs This
198. the bouncing 10 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 On Off THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 86 10 2 3 Cube Figure 10 27 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D Mode Right Display at maximum frame rate Mode Left Pause Mode Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Up Down Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused On Off Quit 10 2 4 Demystify Figure 10 28 Demystify Demystify is screen saver like demo Left Right Increase decrease speed Up Down Add remove polygon On Off Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 87 10 2 5 Fire Figure 10 29 Fire Fire is a demo displaying a fire effect Key Action Up Down Increase decrease number of flames Left Toggle flame type Right Toggle moving flames On Off Quit 10 2 6 Fractals Figure 10 30 Fractals Mandelbrot set This demonstration draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set using the greyscale engine THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 88 Key Action Direction keys Move about the image Mode Zoom in
199. 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 version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 6 SouND SETTINGS 44 MDB Centre Frequency The cutoff frequency of your headphones or 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 frequen
200. tial build of the database and do not load it to RAM THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO 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 items can be turned on or off independently Refer to section C page 138 for details on how to change the display of the WPS e Status bar The Status bar shows Battery level USB power mode key lock status memory access indicator In contrast to all other items the status bar is always at the top of the screen e Scrolling path and filename of the current song e The
201. to be added The asterisk character can be used as a wild card which will match any string however only the first asterisk will be recognised as a wild card with any additional uses being taken as literal Warning Be careful when you use custom entries as you could accidentally delete important files 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 Spotlight V100 and Trashes Other selects additional files added to the configuration file by the user Key Action Left or On Off Exit Abort 10 4 5 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 10 4 6 Keybox Keybox is an encrypted password storage using the Tiny Encryption Algorithm with a key derived using md5 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 111 Using Keybox To get started start up the plugin and select ENTER The first time you enter Keybox you w
202. tories are hidden Supported The FILE BROWSER displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 135 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 when you enter the FILE BROWSER from the WPS you will find yourself in the same directory as the currently playing file THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 51 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 di
203. upport 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 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 dirname 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 58 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 Voice Filenames This option controls voicing of filenames Again a voice file must be present for this to work The options provided are SPELL
204. urves in order to improve Rockbox s estimation of battery level and time remaining The battery log battery bench txt is in CSV format comma separated variables and thus can be easily imported into a spreadsheet or similar program Limitations As BATTERY BENCHMARK needs to write the data held in memory to disk in order to save them it is possible that should Rockbox shut down due to low battery then there will not be enough power remaining to write the data to disk T herefore all measurements since the previous save will be lost THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 108 10 4 2 Calculator Figure 10 43 Calculator This is a simple scientific calculator for use on the player It works like a standard calculator Pressing the 1st and 2nd buttons will toggle between other available math functions Left Right Move around the keypad Up Down Mode Select a button Long Mode Calculate On Off Quit 10 4 3 Chess Clock Figure 10 44 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 109 Setup Key Action Up Down Increase decrease displayed Value Right Move to next screen Mode Move to previous screen e First enter the number of players 1 10 e Then set the total game time in mm ss
205. ut sample rate 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 On Off and Wavplay will be exited and you are returned to the file browser If the end of the file has been reached you will also be returned to the file browser 10 3 14 ZXBox Figure 10 42 ZXBox ZX Box 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 Note As ZXBox is a 48k emulator only loading of 48k z80 snapshots is possible THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 105 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 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 Mode Jump Fire On Off Open ZXBox menu 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 Pl
206. 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 and 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 box otherwise you re asking for trouble 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 11 6 Optimising battery runtime Rockbox offers a lot of settings that have high impact on the battery runtime of your player T he largest power savings can be achieved through disabling unneeded hardware components for some of those there are settings available The following provides a short overview of the most relevant settings and rules of thumb 11 6 1 Peak Meter The peak meter is a feature of the While Playing Screen and will be updated with a high framerate Depending on your player this might result in a high CPU load save battery runtime you should switch this feature off see section 4 3 2 page 28 11 6 2 Audio format and bitrate Your target uses flash that consumes a certain amount of power during access The less often the flash needs t
207. y and the icon for moving a playlist entry Show Indices 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 m3u8 playlist file THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 29 Playlist catalogue View catalogue This lists all playlists that are part of the Playlist catalogue 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 41 for more information Playback Settings This is a shortcut to the PLAYBACK SETTINGS MENU where you can configure shuffle repeat party mode skip length 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 assignment of a personal rating value 0 10 to a track which can be displayed in the WPS and used in
208. y created playlists can be edited using this menu 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 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 View Catalogue Provides a simple interface to maintain several playlists see sec tion 4 4 page 31 5 9 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 detailed description of the different plugins is to be found in section 10 page 61 5 10 System 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 Memory size and amount of free space on the two data volumes this info is given separately for internal memory Int and for a plugged in memory card Credits Display the list of contributors Running Time Shows the runtime of your player in hours minutes and seconds THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version
209. y section Entitled Acknowledgements or Dedications Preserve the Title of the section and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and or dedications given therein L Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document unaltered in their text and in their titles Section numbers or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles M Delete any section Entitled Endorsements Such a section may not be included in the Modified Version N Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled Endorsements or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section O Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers If the Modified Version includes new front matter sections or appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material copied from the Document you may at your option designate some or all of these sections as invariant To do this add their titles to the list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version s license notice These titles must be distinct from any other section titles You may add a section Entitled Endorsements provided it contains nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various parties for example statements of peer review or that the text has been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a standard You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front Cover Text and a passage of up to 25 words as a Bac
210. you ll find the following On the curved top from left to right are the headphone socket the On Off button Apart from the already mentioned MMC slot you will find the USB connector on the player s right side Below the LCD at approximately the center of the player there is the main button pad of the player T he centre of the button pad dips inward and helps to operate the directional keys from there Located on a two way button strip are the Left and Right keys with Up above it and Down below it The raised button positioned in the lower left of this round crosspad is labelled Mode THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 ARCHOS ONDIO gt CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 17 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys Key Action On Off Start Rockbox Long On Off Shutdown Rockbox 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 On 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 and Drop Files may be placed wherever you like on the player but it is strongly suggested NOT to put them in the rockbox folder and ins

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