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3. don t draw the bar or its frame for use with the slider option 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 B 22 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 94 start first character to take 0 being the start 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 with conditionals i e 4cM 0 is the first conditional option Tag Description AC The character The character s The character th The character 7 lt The character lt l The character gt The character gt i The character ht The character s 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 meter
4. 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 B page 84 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 charx11x1 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS T4 Conditional Tags If else Syntax 4 xx lt true false gt If the tag specified by xx has a value the text between the and the is displayed the true part else the text between the and the gt is d
5. 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 e 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 configured e The player can be turned off Note Shortcuts into the database are not possible 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 data what the shortcut actually links to THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER A CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 36 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 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
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7. The Rockbox Manual for Archos Jukebox 5000 6000 Studio 10 and 20 rockbox org March 28 2012 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 2011 The Rockbox Team and its contributors c 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough 2003 Jos Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal amp Peter Schlenker Version 3 11 RC 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CONTENTS 3 Contents 1 Introduction 9 Ti Welkome cT 9 LZ Getting More help s nacca smi a ee eRe EL a 9 1 8 Naming conventions and marks te sote pa t eara 0200 4 10 2 Installation 11 ZI Beie MEME Lolli uk E a Re RUE GR an aa Aue 11 2 4 Installing ROCEDOE os we eno OR Rn 11 2 2 1 Automated Installation rns 11 2 2 2 Manual Installation 2 m m gs onn 12 2 2 3 Finishing the install 2 4
8. BERT BARCA gt FUKUDA TAKAFUMI gt DIM ITAR DIMITROV b OSBORNE JACOBS gt THE LIBMAD TEAM THE WAVPACK TEAM P THE FFMPEG TEAM b THE OGG VORBIS TEAM gt THE LIBA52 TEAM b THE SPEEX TEAM gt THE LIBFAAD TEAM gt THE DOOM TEAM gt THE GNUCHESS TEAM b THE GNUBOY TEAM gt THE PACMAN INSTRUCTIONAL EMU LATOR TEAM THE SPECTEMU TEAM THE LIBMPEG2 TEAM gt THE GAME Music EMU TEAM gt THE OPENSPC DSP EMULATOR TEAM gt THE ALAC DECODER TEAM THE UCL TEAM b THE IPOD LINUX TEAM gt THE VISION 8 EMULATOR TEAM b THE ROBOTFINDSKITTEN TEAM b THE LIBMTP TEAM b THE ASAP TEAM b THE LIBPNG TEAM gt THE PURE DATA TEAM MILLER PUCKETTE AND OTHERS gt THE MIKMOD TEAM MICHAEL MCTERNAN THE ARM UNWINDER AUTHOR THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX G LICENSES 106 G Licenses G 1 GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 November 2002 Copyright 2000 2001 2002 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin St Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed Preamble The purpose of this License is to make a manual textbook or other functional and useful document free in the sense of freedom to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it with or without modifying it either commercially or non commercially Secondarily this License preserves for
9. For information about editing a wps file see section 11 2 page 73 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 83 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 55 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 playback 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 or from the OPEN WITH option on the CONTEXT MENU 10 1 Games 10 1 1 Dice Dice is a simple dice rolling simulator Select number and type of dice to roll in 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 On Roll dice again Menu Quit 10 1 2 Flipit Figure 10 1 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 con
10. JUSTIN FOELL IGOR KUZMIN ADIL SON VICENTE XAVIER JESSE LOCKWOOD gt JONATHAN BACKER SOFIAN BABAI gt COSTAS CALAMVOKIS CATALIN PAT gt 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX F CREDITS 104 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 ALASTAIR S gt MARTIN CRKOVSKY gt ARIYA HIDAYAT gt JONAS HURRELMANN LEE KANG HYUK gt CLEMENS WERTHER 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 gt MARCEL BARBULESCU gt PHIL LIGHT gt ROB PURCHASE gt ANDREAS 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 VA
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13. checks your player s root directory for a file named archos mod 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 archos mod 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 mod 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 Studio Player 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 archos mod An ordinary Rockbox installation only replaces the on disk firmware leaving the flash ROM contents intact That means the Archos firmware still controls the boot process The main reason to change this is to improve the startup time of your player The Archos bootloader is rather slow With Rockbox in flash your player will boot much faster typically in three to five seconds Furthermore you might prefer a clean Rockbox environment with as little remnants of the Archos software as possible On your player it is also possible to execute Rockbox directly from flash ROM increasing the amount of free RAM for buffer
14. life It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback see section 7 5 page 40 11 6 3 Audio format and bitrate Your target uses a hard disk which consumes a large amount of power while spinning up to several hundred mA The less often the hard disk needs to spin up for buffering and the shorter the buffering duration is the lower is the 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 82 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX FILE FORMATS 83 A File formats A 1 Supported file formats Icon File Type Extension Action when selected Directory none Enter the directory Bookmark bmark Display all bookmarks for an audio file Configuration File cfg Load the settings file Chip8 game ch8 Play the Chip8 game b Cuesheet cue View the cuesheet file A Font fnt Change the user interface font to this one T Image jpg View the JPEG image Link link Display list of
15. version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CONTENTS 8 G Licenses 106 G 1 GNU Free Documentation License 106 G 2 The GNU General Public 114 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 9 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
16. 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 Figure 10 8 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 add a bookmark press On The bookmark will be displayed as shown below To delete the bookmark press the same button again THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 64 Figure 10 9 A bookmark 10 3 6 Theme Remove This plugin offers a way to remove a theme Open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 19 upon a theme cfg file and select OPEN WITH gt THEME REMOVE Some files are not removed regardless of the REMOVE OPTIONS such as rockbox default wps Theme Remove menu Remove Theme Selecting this will delete the files specified in the REMOVE OPTIONS After a theme has been successfully removed log message is displayed listing which items have been deleted and which are being kept Exit this screen by pressing any k
17. 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 19 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 28 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 19 it allows you to put tracks into a dynamic playlist If there is no music currently play ing Rockbox will create a new dynamic playlist and put the selected track s into it If there is music currently playing Rockbox will put the selected track s into the cur rent playlist The place in which the newly selected tracks are added to the playlist is determined by the following options Insert Add track s immediately after any tracks added via the most recent INSERT operation If no tracks have yet been added via an INSERT new tracks will be added immediately after the current playing track If playback is stoppe
18. 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 15 3 Quick Start 3 1 Basic Overview 3 1 1 The player s controls ARCHOS Jukebox Studio 20 e o On Play played Minus Plus Menu Stop 20 GB USB Hard Disk Throughout this manual the buttons on the player are labelled according to the picture above Whenever a button name is prefixed by Long a long press of approx imately one second should be performed on that button The buttons are described in detail in the following paragraph Additional information for blind users is available on the Rockbox website at x amp BlindFAQ The main controls of this player are a four way button on the right below the screen and two round buttons to the left of it Hold the player with these controls on the bottom and facing you On the left hand side the higher of the two small buttons is the On the l
19. ESQ ko 78 11 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox 78 Il5 Bockbox im Flashe 225 2 oak edo om Row be x eee 78 Introduchi g e Ce ee Xe eRe Ro RES 78 11 5 2 Terminology and Basic Operation 79 11 5 3 Initial Flashing Procedure lt 79 11 5 4 Updating the Rockbox Image in Flash 80 11 5 5 Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents 81 11 6 Optimising battery runtime oaa cess wao asap adda o ka 81 ILoL Display backlight 26e 81 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CONTENTS 7 TLOZ Antip BOMBE sa ses aa p x RD aa dE 81 11 0 3 Audio format and bitrate 2 koe o uc eR ko RCRUM RS 81 A File formats 83 A 1 Supported file formats 83 B Theme Tags 84 Bil SEHE DAE ok eee ee SRS SOEUR EDGE Rok AE we 84 B 2 Hardware Capabilities ls 84 Information from the track tags lt 85 B 4 Power Related Information 85 B 5 Information about the file lt 86 BB Playlist Song Info 2 87 E Flaylist Viewer 20 easi sk oe pg ee ELM dea RR UR s d 87 pa Rumime Database cee ee ike c Re ee BO RE Re 88 Du He
20. JEFFREY GOODE gt RAAFAT AKKAD DAVIDE QUARTA AN DRE LUPA gt HILTON SHUMWAY gt 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 P SETH OPGENORTH P JONAS AABERG b JUNIO C HAMANO gt COUSINS gt CHRISTOPHE NICOLAS gt YANN MULLER 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX F CREDITS 105 gt DELYAN KRATUNOV gt PURLING NAYUKI gt MAREK SALABA b ALTAY OZ gt MARK BORGERDING gt TOBIAS DIEDRICH gt ANDREW ENGELBRECHT KEVIN SCHOEDEL gt JENS THEESS gt ALEXEY NEMTSEV PASCAL BE LOW gt DANNY ATTAR PHILIPP STEPHANI gt TORE JOHNNY BRATVEIT gt MARCIN BuKAT ANDREW RODLAND b LUCA LEONARDO SCORCIA gt GERHARD ZINTEL gt ADRIAN CERETO MASSAGUE gt CHRIS SAV ER
21. MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 12 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 critical bugs For a manual install the current stable release of Rockbox is available at http www rockbox org download Current Build The current build is built at each source code change to the Rockbox SVN repository
22. 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 SVN 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 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 13 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 below If you have used Rockbox Utility to install Rockbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 13 then you do not need to follow the next section and can skip straight to section 2 2 3 page 13 Installing the firmware 1 Download your chosen versi
23. be created manually by either using the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 19 or using the PLAYLIST menu Both automatically and manually 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 26 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 55 5 10 System Use the MINUS and PLUS keys to step through several pages of information Rockbox Info Displays some basic system information This is from top to bottom the amount of memory Rockbox has available for storing music the buffer The battery status Hard disk size and the amount of free space on the disk Credits Display the list of contributors R
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26. target files and di rectories selecting one jumps to the target See section 10 3 1 page 59 E Language File lng Load the language file E Playlist m3u m3u8 Load the playlist and start playing the first file X Rockbox firmware mod Load the new firmware with ROLO Audio file mp2 mp3 Start playing the file and show the WPS Plugin rock Start the plugin E Text File txt Display the text file using the text viewer plugin iE Flash Image ucl Flash the Rockbox image into the ROM Voice file voice Allow Rockbox to speak menus Z While Playing Screen wps Load the new WPS display config uration THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 84 B Theme Tags Themeing is discussed in detail in section section 11 2 page 73 what follows is a list of the available tags Note The bar type tags such as etc can be further themed see section B 21 page 92 B 1 Status Bar Tag Description Awe Display Status Bar Awd Hide 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 B 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 ATp Indicates that the target has a touch
27. 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 Play Rockbox will automat ically 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 create a new playlist instead of adding to an existing one This will erase any dynamic playlist 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
28. 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 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 2 2 1 Automated Installation To automatically install Rockbox download the official installer and housekeeping tool UTILITY It allows you to e Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox Minimal Instal lation e Automatically install all suggested components Complete Installation e Selectively install optional components e Install voice files and generate talk clips e Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility THE ROCKBOX
29. to render Display the playlist viewer in the current viewport 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 88 96pt and 96s Example AVp 1 4pp Wit App fn Display the playlist position then either the track title from the tags or the filename The viewer will display as many tracks as will fit in the viewport B 8 Runtime Database Tag Description Arp Song playcount Arr Song rating 0 10 This tag can also be used in a conditional tag 1 lt 0111213141516171819110 gt ra Autoscore for the song B 9 Hold Tag Description Amh h if the main unit keys are locked B 10 Virtual LED Tag Description Alh h if the hard disk is accessed B 11 Repeat Mode Tag Description mm Repeat mode 0 4 in the order Off One Shuffle A B Example mm lt Off A11 One Shuffle A B gt B 12 Playback Mode Tag Description Amp Play status 0 4 in the order S
30. 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 31 To browse the files on your player select FILES see section 4 1 page 18 and to browse in a view that is based on the meta data of your audio files select DATABASE see section 4 2 page 21 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 Plus and Minus to move around the selection Use Play to select an item When browsing the file system selecting an audio file plays it The view switches to the TD3 Tags Vorbis comments etc THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 17 While playing screen usually abbreviated as WPS see section 4 3 page 24 The dynamic playlist gets replaced with the contents of the current directory This way you can easily treat directories as play
31. 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 92 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 B 19 Subline Tags Tag Description 4t 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 2 page 74 for details B 20 Text Translation 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 B 2
32. 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 Gather Runtime Data When enabled rockbox will record how often and how long a track is being played when it was last played and its rating This information can be displayed in the WPS and is used in the database browser to for example show the most played unplayed and most recently played tracks Export Modifications This allows for the runtime data to be exported to the file rockbox databa
33. 1 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 93 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 B 21 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 draw 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 nofill don t draw the bar only its frame for use with the slider option nobar
34. 1RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 53 These options set the hotkey function for their respective screens see section 4 5 page 30 The default for the WPS is VIEW PLAYLIST The File Browser default is OFF THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 9 THEME SETTINGS 54 9 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu offers options that you can change to customize the visual appearance of Rockbox Browse Theme Files This option will display all the currently installed themes on the player press Play 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 player 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 73 for more details While Playing Screen Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it Stop will exit back to the menu For further information about the WPS see section 4 3 page 24
35. 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 87 B 6 Playlist Song Info Tag Description hpb Progress Bar This will display a one character cup that empties as the time progresses Full line progress bar amp time display hpx Percentage played in song Ape Current time in song Ape Total number of playlist entries Playlist name without path or extension PP Playlist position Apr Remaining time in song ps s if shuffle mode is enabled hpt Total track time Apv Current volume in dB Can also be used in a conditional V pv 0 1121 IN 0 is used for mute the last option is used for values greater than zero ApS 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 B 7 Playlist Viewer Tag Description AVp start code
36. 7 page 49 Bookmarking needs to be enabled THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 49 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 The 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 available 8 6 3 Sleep Timer The SLEEP TIMER powers off your player after a given time whether playing or not Sleep Timer Shown when the SLEEP TIMER is inactive it can be set from OFF to 5 hours in 5 minute steps While the SLEEP TIMER is reset on boot the value selected is retained and will be used as the default from then on Cancel Sleep Timer h mm Shown when the SLEEP TIMER is active this option dis ables the current SLEEP TIMER 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 alre
37. ANE DOYON gt AUSTIN APPEL gt ANDRE SMITH TRAVIS gt IAN WEBBER PAVEL GNELITSA gt Lurz B HNE b WILL ROBERTSON gt ROBERT CARBONEAU gt YE WEI gt BRYAN CHILDS gt MIKE SCHMITT gt CHRIS TAYLOR gt TOBIAS LANGHOFF gt STEVE GOTTHARDT gt GREG WHITE b MATTIEU FAVR AUX gt MALCOLM TYRRELL b PIOTR JAFIS ZOW gt GARY ALLEN gt JOHN BOUANTOUN gt Tomasz MON gt MATOU EK AL BERT VELI gt CHRIS DOHAN P TAKASHI OBARA RENE PEINTHOR gt ROAN HORNING gt BEN KEROACK gt SEAN MORRISEY gt SHAY GREEN NICK VANDERWEIT gt SIMON MEN ZEL gt TIMO HORSTSCHAFER gt Jacco KON ING gt CHRIS HAM JOSE RAMON GAR CIA gt SIMON DESCARPENTRIES gt DOUGLAS VALENTINE JACOB GARDNER PASCAL BRIEHL DENIS STANISHEVSKIY EDDY COMAN LUKE BLANEY gt MARK REICHE gt MICHAL JEVJAK b PHILIPPE LATULIPPE gt MAURICIO PECCORINI gt NATHAN HEP TING gt AKIO IDEHARA DAGNI MCPHEE gt ALEX GERCHANOVSKY b GERHARD DIRSCHL gt IVAN ZUPAN ALEXANDER PAPST gt CHRISTOPH REITER RHINO BANGA gt PAUL JONES MICHAEL GIACOMELLI gt ALEX WENGER ANDREE BUSCHMANN gt JOHNATHON MIHALOP RENE ALLKIVI gt TOBIAS SCHLADT gt JOHN ZHOU gt CHARLES VOELGER b GERRITT GONZALES gt Di ETER PELLKOFER b EVGENIY KACHALIN gt LENNY KOEPSELL gt HARRY TU gt PAWEL WYSOCKI gt XINLU HUANG gt DANIEL DAL TON b BORIS GJENERO SYLVAIN FOUR MANOIT gt ALEX PARKER MARIO LANG gt
38. C ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 10 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 quickly 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 E page 99 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 alway
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40. HOUT 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX G LICENSES 120 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 program You should also get your employer if you work as a programmer or your school if any to sign a copyright disclaimer for the program if necessary Here is a sample alter the names Yoyodyne Inc hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program Gnomovision w
41. I Bookmark encsc RO RR 49 SR Language own eos 51 Do et E 51 BD Hotkey s o 2 ea we eck Kx x9 XE ee ouo y re usc 52 9 Theme Settings 54 10 Plugins 55 10 1 Games so cos ee ae a eR ee eee ee 55 IUE eU CE a a a a a a 55 LA I TD 55 Dds 56 WLA sco 56 CC 57 IE Credis EN Ee ee e a aa ee So 57 ek Re ee bd ea 57 123 LOSO uox o rs 9 Aoc XR X OS CN Nox dcs 58 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CONTENTS 6 WIRT OL DD bdo Ki ee a 58 Ig a BOW uu ERO gala UU COR etek 59 TUM uou e dex oko Oo MUR Eos mE a 59 UE NE REP oe eee So Pe rm 59 PLA DOSE irn lube docu XO Wo dde beo Rok ee Eg 60 ES hono MEME De de we de 60 IO EL Sort xo ke o9 mo x xD 61 10 3 5 Text Viewer 20e ed x o o9 px Rx REO E RUE s OR S OR 61 10 3 6 Theme Hemove a u ra p 64 Tite WIRE Raa OX OE He
42. IO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 90 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 71 is present anywhere in the sbs then the 4Vi viewport will not show the title B 15 Changing Volume Tag Description t if the volume is being changed The tag produces the letter v 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 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 B 16 Settings Tag Description St setting The value of the Rockbox setting with the specified name See name section C page 95 for the list of the available settings Examples 1 As a simple tag ASt skip length 2 As a conditional 4 St eq enabled lt Eq is enabled Eq is disabled THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHO
43. MARK 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 10 4 2 Chess Clock Figure 10 10 Chess Clock The chess clock plugin is designed to simulate a chess clock but it can be used in any kind of game with up to ten players Setup Key Action Plus Minus Increase decrease displayed Value Play Move to next screen Stop Move to previous screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 67 e First enter the number of players 1 10 e Then set the total game time in mm ss e Then the maximum round time is entered For example this could be used to play Scrabble for maximum of 15 minutes each with each round taking no longer than one minute e Done Player 1 starts in paused mode While playing The number of the current player is displayed on the top 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 Exit plugin Stop Restart round for the current player Play Pause the time press again to continue Plus Switch to next player Minus Switch to previous player Menu Open menu Play to select From the menu it is possible to delete a player modify the roun
44. Minus 4 3 2 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 25 Playlist The PLAYLIST submenu allows you to view save search and reshuffle the current playlist To change settings for the PLAYLIST VIEWER press Long Play while viewing the current playlist to bring up the PLAvLIST VIEWER MENU In this menu you can find the PLAYLIST VIEWER SETTINGS Playlist Viewer Settings Show Icons This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entry 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 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 shortcu
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46. ONTENTS 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 80 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 two files to the root firmware model bin and firmware model norom bin The flash plugin will select the correct one for your player Now safely disconnect USB 3 Make sure your batteries are in good shape and fully charged Flashing doesn t need more power than normal operation but you don t want your player to run out of power while flashing 4 Select PLUGINS APPLICATIONS and run the firmware flash plugin It will tell you about your flash and which file it is going to program After pressing Menu it will check the file If the file is OK pressing On will give you a big warning If we still didn t manage to scare you off you need to press Plus 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
47. OV 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 gt STEPHAN WEZEL gt ALYSSA MILBURN gt KEVIN FER RARE gt ANTON OLEYNIKOV gt MARK ARIGO gt MAGNUS WESTERLUND JAKE OWEN gt MUSTAPHA SENHAJI 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX F CREDITS 103 HAND NICK LANHAM gt SEBASTIAN HEN RIKSEN MARTIN SCARRATT b KARL KURBJUN gt TOMASZ MALESINSKI P AN DREW PILLEY MATT V D WESTHUIZEN gt Tim Crist gt Jvo STUDER DAN EVER TON gt IMRE HERCEG SEVEN LE MESLE gt CRAIG BACHELOR gt NIKOLAJ CHRIS TENSEN gt MIKAEL MAGNUSSON
48. Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox directory and displays all cfg configuration files Selecting a cfg file will cause Rockbox to load the settings contained in that file Pressing Stop 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 T his 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 78 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 C page 95 for the full reference of available options Save Sound Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The config uration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the sound related settings Save Theme Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The config uration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the theme related settings 11 4 Firmware Loading When your player powers on it loads the Archos firmware in ROM which automatically
49. Otherwise you ll have seen it working for the last time While Rockbox is still in RAM and operational we could upgrade the plugin via USB and try again If you switch it off it s gone Note After successful flashing you may delete the bin files from the root of your player Note There are no separate flash packages for players modified to have 8 MB of RAM You need to use the corresponding package for non modified Studio Player 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 81 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
50. S STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 91 B 17 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 VI tags support this 451 Use as a conditional to define options for left to right or right to left languages Sr lt RTL LTR gt All 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 4axAV C B 18 Conditional Tags Tag Description A xx true false A xxXalti alt2 alt3 lelse if tag operator operand option count and tagi tag2 tagN tag2 tagN If Else Evaluate for true or false case Enumerations 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 lt lt operand either a second tag a number or text option count optional parameter used to select
51. SILE gt Mo HAMED TAREK MIKE BURKE MICHAEL CHICOINE gt MACIEJ ADAMCZAK TOMER SHALEV b THIBAUT GIRKA gt RASMUS gt WILLIAM POETRA YOGA HADISOESENO gt ADRIAN OSOIANU gt MARTIN gt ORI AVTALION THOMAS SCHOTT 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 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 HALPIN 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
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53. Y gt RAPHAEL JAKSE gt 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 gt RODRIGO BARRETTO DANIEL RIGBY b ALEXEY POLKHIREV b ISTV N Nacy WOJCIECH LE NIAK b TUOMAS AIRAKSINEN gt CALVIN WALDEN MICHAEL GENTRY gt DAVID FowLE gt FABIAN VOGEL gt MICHAEL STUMMVOLL FRANZ JOSEF HAIDER gt MICHAEL HOHMUTH b SERGIO VERA 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 gt 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 MAKSIM POSTOLATI gt STANISLAV CHIZHIK DESU ROZEN b OLIVIER KALOUDOFF gt KESSIA PINHEIRO gt JEAN LOUIS BIASINI gt LORENZO MioRI gt JAMES HUNT gt ARTUR JURASZEK gt WIELAND HOFFMANN gt NATHAN KORTH gt IGOR PETELIN gt C STOR MU OZ gt AL
54. YBOARD see section 4 1 3 page 21 enter a filename for your playlist and accept it and you are done THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 30 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 4 5 Hotkeys Hotkeys are shortcut keys for use in the FILE BROWSER and WPS screen use one press Menu On within the FILE BROWSER or Menu On within the WPS screen The assigned function will launch with reference to the current file or directory if applicable Each screen has its own assignment If there is no assignment for a given screen the hotkey is ignored The default assignment for the File Browser hotkey is OFF while the default for the WPS hotkey is VIEW PLAYLIST The hotkey assignments are changed in the Hotkey menu see section 8 10 page 52 under GENERAL SETTINGS THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 31 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 acce
55. able 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX G LICENSES 112 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 disagreement 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 TERMI
56. ady bookmark for a directory or playlist new bookmarks are added before existing ones Bookmarks 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 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 bookmark should be created THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 50 Yes Recent Only Always create a bookmark but only in the recent bookmarks list Ask Recent Only Ask if bookmark should be created but only add it to the recent bookmarks list 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 o
57. age 44 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 21 The remainder of this section deals with the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 19 4 1 1 File Browser Controls Key Action Minus Plus Go to previous next item in list If you are on the first last entry the cursor will wrap to the last first entry Stop Go to the parent directory Play Execute the default action on the selected file or enter a directory On If there is an audio file playing return to the WHILE PLAYING SCREEN WPS without stopping playback Long Play Enter the CONTEXT MENU Menu Enter the MAIN MENU Menu On Activate the HOTKEY function see sec tion 4 5 page 30 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 Play Note The CONTEXT MENU is a context sensitive menu If the CONTEXT MENU is Ay 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 o
58. ar as in the screenshot above Key Action On Toggle picker and line edit mode Minus Plus Move back and forth in the selected line picker of input line Play Pick character in character bar or act as backspace in the text line Long Play Accept Stop Cancel Menu Flip picker lines 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 files on your player This scan happens in the background so you can choose to return to the Main Menu and continue to listen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 22 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
59. ba 21 4 2 2 Initializing the 21 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CONTENTS 4 42 3 The Database Men sss ze 22 124 Using the Database RO EG 23 d While Playin LG EURO 6 24 431 WPS Key LOBOS 6 3 24 43 2 The WPS Context Men i f mcm ook RR 24 44 Working with Playlists ocea zoom RR RR 26 4 4 1 Playlist terminology lt o o scssi arsaa wa 2 26 AAD Creating playlists o 27 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists gt gt s aos oc me o mopa 28 4441 Modifying plavlisth eaa p a nomo a om 29 AAD Saving Playlists 6 24264 beh e oy OR EST keen 29 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists 30 A HOURS eee by RE ER 30 5 The Main Menu 31 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu s aa saam ag ha na w a aa 31 5 3 Navigating the Main Menu a ssp oz Rs 31 O5 Recent Bookmarks oe don oy REOR EST o9 OUR Roues 32 TESI ae we 32 5 5 Database ec OX om Roos So Pee me ko ks Fede p e RO 33 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback
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61. cannot do that The MAS chip is programmable but we have no access to the chip documentation THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11 RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX E USER FEEDBACK 101 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 understand them e Add scandisk like features It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to a host computer e Alphabetical l
62. case you ever want to restore the original flash contents you will need the backup file The procedure is very similar to initial flashing with the following differences 1 Check that you do not have any firmware bin files in your player s root 2 Select PLUGINS APPLICATIONS 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 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 Display backlight The active backlight consumes a lot of power Therefore choose a setting that disables the backlight after timeout for setting BACKLIGHT see section 8 4 page 45 Avoid to have the backlight enabled all the time 11 6 2 Anti Skip Buffer Having a large anti skip buffer tends to use more power and may reduce your battery
63. ch 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 76 The Rockbox distribution comes with some themes that should look nice on your player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 18 4 Browsing and playing 4 1 File Browser Figure 4 1 The file browser Rockbox lets you browse your music in either of two ways The FILE BROWSER lets you navigate through the files and directories on your player entering directories and executing the default action on each file To help differentiate files each file format is displayed with an icon The DATABASE BROWSER on the other hand allows you to navigate through the music on your player using categories like album artist genre etc You can select whether to browse using the FILE BROWSER or the DATABASE BROWSER by selecting either FILES or DATABASE 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 p
64. ct the previous bookmark Play Resume from the selected bookmark Stop Exit Recent Bookmark menu On Play Delete the currently selected bookmark Long Play 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 49 for more details on configuring bookmarking in Rockbox 5 4 Files Browse the files on your player see section 4 1 page 18 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 33 5 5 Database Browse by the meta data in your audio files see section 4 2 page 21 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 24 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 parameter and that value is selected from a list of some predefined available values you can press Long Play and the selection cursor will jump to the default value for the parameter You can then confirm or cancel the value This is usef
65. d THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 39 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 26 Options YES NO 7 2 Repeat Configures settings related to repeating of directories or playlists Options OFF ALL ONE SHUFFLE 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 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
66. d a new dynamic playlist will get created with the selected tracks Insert Next Add track s immediately after current playing track no matter what else has been inserted Insert Last Add track s to end of playlist Insert Shuffled Add track s to the playlist in a random order 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 34 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 29 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 track s Current playing track is queued The PLAYLIST SUBMENU can be used to add either single tracks or entire directories to a playlist If the PLAYLIST SUBMENU is invoked on a single track it will put only that track into the playlist On the other hand if the 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
67. d 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 3 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 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 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 68 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 Spot
68. e battery level b1 x y width height image bmp bv The battery level in volts Abt Estimated battery time left bp if the charger is connected only on targets that can charge batteries Abc c if the unit is currently charging the battery only on tar gets that have software charge control or monitoring 765 Remaining time of the sleep timer if it is set THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 86 B 5 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 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
69. e beginning again Rockbox chooses which method it should use depending of how much it has to scroll to the left This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of the line length 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 Minus or Plus When set to OFF the acceleration is disabled When any other value is set the acceleration will start to accelerate after holding Minus or Plus for the chosen time in 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 98 will increase the scroll speed every 3 seconds while Mi nus or Plus is held 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
70. e recipients all the rights that you have You must make sure that they too receive or can get the source code And you must show them these terms so they know their rights We protect your rights with two steps 1 copyright the software and 2 offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy distribute and or modify the software Also for each author s protection and ours we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software If the software is modified by someone else and passed on we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors reputations Finally any free program is threatened constantly by software patents We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses in effect making the program proprietary To prevent this we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone s free use or not licensed at all The precise terms and conditions for copying distribution and modification follow GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX G LICENSES 115 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 dis
71. e several limitations e Setting the Sound Option CHANNELS to KARAOKE may disable voice menus e Plugins do not support voice features Voice Directories This option controls voicing of directory names A voice file must be present for this to work Several options are available Spell Speak the directory name by spelling it out letter by letter Support is provided only for the most common letters numbers and punctuation Numbers Each directory is assigned 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 52 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 T his 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 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 Filenam
72. ed 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 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
73. ee AUR da Reus Re de ded 64 104 AODDUSALIOES y omoes E ow d wok ded Roue d 65 10 4 1 Battery Benchmark 24 468 ok m9 oom ee eRe 65 104 2 Ches loek oe o uu o oko boe Rm Rm 66 IDA Disk Tidy 222 us Rea RR x OMe 67 10 4 4 zo een ee be eee Seo eee ee ae us 68 10 4 5 LAMP 22 2046s bie OS Soe Ree S Ses 68 10 4 6 son n s oo 9 Ro m n m x 9 eee ee OR eod 69 IU T COTO o6 gos eoe m m m RR Ree Rh Re de E ces e 69 10 4 8 Random Folder Advance Configuration 69 104 9 Eesmbor uuo OAR TRU Rx 70 ek ee we Re en oe Be ee ee Es 71 IAAT Stopes uu douce eR ee Ret a Rows 71 11 Advanced Topics 72 11 1 Customising the User Interface 72 11 1 1 Customismg The Main Menu RR 72 1119 Lowhus Langhages ice ee ee ee ee eR 72 It2 GonB gurmg the Themes ec a ee p e ee ee eg 73 11 2 1 Themeing General Info 73 11 2 2 Themes Create Your 73 11 3 Managing Rockbox Settings 76 11 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files o e oa p oso ee oon 76 11 3 2 Specifications lor efg Files o ss doe o RR RR 76 11 3 3 The MANAGE SETTINGS MENI ecg sa saw 9 m RR ks TT 114 Fimaware Loading 2 6229 pa box wok poa
74. en the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 19 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 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 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 Information explained At the top of the battery bench txt file is various information on
75. 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 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 PLAYLIST VIEWER open the context menu on the track you want to move or remove If you want to move the track select MOVE in the context menu and then move the blinking cursor to the place where you want the track to be moved and confirm with Play 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 2 page 24 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 KE
76. er Note See mLastFMLog for a further description and for tools you can use to submit your Last fm log 7 10 Cuesheet Support Enables reading of cuesheet files for played tracks If a cuesheet is found for a track track markers are displayed on the progressbar and it is possible to skip between the tracks within the cuesheet Also the information found in the cuesheet file will replace the information from the 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 Minus and Plus 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 42 7 12 Prevent Track Skipping If
77. es This option controls voicing of filenames Again a voice file must be present for this to work The options provided are SPELL NUMBERS and OFF which function the same as for VOICE DIRECTORIES You can use pre generated talk clips to have filenames spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below Use File talk Clips 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 5096 3096 and 1596 See VoiceHowto for more details on configuring speech support in Rockbox 8 10 Hotkey WPS Hotkey File Browser Hotkey THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 1
78. es 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 the audio waveform from the MP3 decoder so we cannot analyse it Even if we had access to it the CPU would probably be too slow to perform the analysis anyway Cool sound effects Adding new sound effects requires reprogramming the MAS chip and we
79. ey 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 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 Play 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 WPS Specifies how the wps 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 7 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 65 not work correctly or the time display is incorrect To use this plugin op
80. firmware A lot of work has been put into making Rockbox sound the best it can and improvements are constantly being made All models have access to a large number of plugins including many games applications and graphical demos You can load different configurations quickly for different purposes e g a large font for in your car different sound settings for at home Rockbox features a very wide range of languages and all supported models also 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 11R
81. 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 a subline display time of 0 in one branch of a conditional a subline can be skipped not displayed when that condition is met Using 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 76 EXAMPLE 4x a static_icon bmp 50 50 4x1 b rep_off bmp 16 64 4x1 c rep_all bmp 16 64 4x1 d rep_one bmp 16 64 4x1 e rep_shuffle bmp 16 64 mm lt 7 xd b Axd Cc xd d xd gt Four images at the same x and y position are preloaded 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 1 gt gt ApbApc Apt That is tracknum title artist album where most fields are only displayed if avail able Could also be rendered as fi
82. g 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 E 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 E 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 1 Check that the feature has not already been suggested Duplicates are really boring 2 Check that the feature has not already been implemented Download the latest current daily build and or search the mail list archive 3 Check that the feature is possible to implement see section E 2 2 page 100 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX E USER FEEDBACK 100 E 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 do
83. g the OPEN WITH option from the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 19 Viewer Plugin Associated filetype s Context Menu only Shortcuts link Chip 8 Emulator ch8 Frotz 21 z8 Image Viewer bmp jpg jpeg png Lua scripting language lua Search m3u m3u8 x Sort x Text Viewer txt nfo VBRfix mp3 x 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 60 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 created shortcuts link file or move it to another directory if you wish Sub
84. gt DOMINIK WENGER gt HENRICO WITVLIET gt ANDREW SCOTT gt MIGUEL A AR VALO gt AARON GONZALEZ gt ALEKSEY KOZYULIN gt JANI KINNUNEN RUI MARINHO gt ALUN THOMAS gt Nits WALLMENIUS gt NAOAKI OKAZAKI WILL DvsoN gt MATTHIAS MoHR gt CHRIS TIAN b ELI SHERER gt FREDRIK HRN gt NICOLAS PENNEQUIN gt RALF HERZ gt MICHAEL DIFEBBO DAVID ROTHEN BERGER gt ROBERT KEEVIL gt MARK BRIGHT gt DOMINIK RIEBELING gt ALEXANDER BON DAR gt PETER CAWLEY RANI TOM Ross gt ANTON ROMANOV b JEAN LUC OHL gt STEVE BAVIN gt MARIANNE ARNOLD gt GAETANO VOCCA b FREDERIK VESTRE gt WENBIN LEO gt TOM EVANS EWAN DAVIES gt FR D RIC FRANCOIS gt MARC ANDR MOREAU IOANNIS KOUTOULAKIS gt ALISTAIR MARSHALL KARL OVE HUFTHAMMER gt V CTOR ZABALZA gt ULRICH PEGELOW gt ANDREAS MATTSSON gt DANIEL ANKERS PAUL LOUDEN RAINER SIN SCH gt PLACIDO REVILLA MICHAEL SE VAKIS gt LUKAS SABOTA gt EMANUEL ZEPHIR gt ALEXANDER LEVIN gt BARRY WARDELL gt LARS VAN DE KLOMP P PHILIPPE MIOSSEC gt JOCHEN KEMNADE gt CORRY LAZAROWITZ gt Tom MEYER LAURENT BAUM P JAMES LIAM NATTRASS b CHRISTIAN HACK gt WADE BROWN gt VADIM CHEKAN gt CHRISTOPHER BORCSOK gt VICTOR CARDE NAS gt ANDREW MELVILLE gt PENGXUAN LIU gt ANDREW CUPPER THILO ALEXANDER GINKEL gt ADAM GASHLIN gt ROBERT KUKLA gt DAVID QUESADA JARED STAFFORD gt MARTIN HENSEL b STEPH
85. gt JULIEN LABRUYERE b NICOLAS SAUZEDE gt ROBERT DAVE CHAP MAN b STEFAN MEYER ERIC LINENBERG gt CVITAN gt MAGNUS OMAN gt JEROME KUPTZ JULIEN BOISSINOT gt NuuTTI KO TIVUORI gt HEIKKI HANNIKAINEN HARD EEP SIDHU MARKUS BRAUN P JUSTIN HEINER gt MAGNUS HOLMGREN b BILL NAPIER gt GEORGE STYLES gt MATS LIDELL gt LEE MARLOW gt NATE NYSTROM P NICK ROBINSON gt CHAD LOCKWOOD b JOHN PvBUS gt UWE FREESE P RANDY WOOD gt GREGORY HAERR b PHILIPP PERTER MANN GILLES ROUX gt MARK HILLEBRAND gt DAMIEN TENEY gt ANDREAS ZWIRTES gt KJELL ERICSON JIM gt Lu DOVIC LANGE gt MIKE HOLDEN gt SIMON ELEN gt MATTHEW P OREILLY gt CHRISTIAN SCHONBERGER HENRIK BACKE P CRAIG SATHER gt JOS MARIA GARCIA VALDECASAS BERNAL gt STEVIE OH gt JORG HOHENSOHN gt DAVE JONES gt THOMAS PAUL DIFFEN BACH gt ROLAND KLETZING b ITAI SHAKED gt KEITH HUBBARD gt BENJAMIN METZLER gt FREDERIC DANG NGOOC b PIERRE DE LORE gt Huw SMITH gt GARRETT DERNER gt BARRY MCINTOSH b LESLIE DONALD SON b LEE PILGRIM b ZAKK ROBERTS gt FRANCOIS BOUCHER gt MATTHIAS WIEN TAPPER gt BRENT COUTTS P JENS ARNOLD gt GERALD VANBAREN gt CHRISTI SCARBOR OUGH STEVE CUNDARI gt 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 ZAKIR
86. hich 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER
87. 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 66 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 An A in that column shows if the power adapter was attached to the unit at the time of the measurement U USB powered Only for targets that support this A 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 curves 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 BENCH
88. ibel scale where 0 dB is a refer ence that indicates the maximum volume that the player can produce without possible distortion clipping All values lower than this reference will be negative and yield a progressively softer volume Values higher than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible These volume levels will 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 78 dB to a maximum of 18 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 15 dB and the maximum is 15 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 15 dB and the maximum is 15 dB THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 6 SouND SETTINGS 38 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 consist
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90. iles database wps settings playlists plugins system_menu shutdown shortcuts Each of the words if it oc curs in the list activates the appropriate item 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 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 wan
91. ill 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 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 playlist that is created the fly Any time you insert or queue tracks using the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 28 you are creating or adding to a dynamic playlist THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 27 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
92. in list on off 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 S battery capacity devise a way to get ranges mAh from config h car adapter mode on off 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 lang path filename Ing N A wps path filename wps N A autocreate bookmarks off on N A autoload bookmarks off on N A use 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 S 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 talk file clip off on N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX C CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 97 Setting Allowed Values Unit talk filetype off on N A talk menu off on N A Announce Batter
93. ing 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 79 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 There s an ultimate safety net to bring back boxes with even completely garbled flash content the UART boot mod which in turn requires the serial mod With that it s possible to reflash independently from the outside even if the flash ROM is completely erased This won t work if you have one of the rare ROMless boxes These have no boot ROM and boot directly from flash If the first 2 KB of the flash ROM are flashed OK Minimon can be used for the same purpose 11 5 2 Terminology and Basic Operation Firmware The flash ROM contents as a whole Image One operating software started from there The replacement firmware contains a bootloader and two images The first image is the permanent rescue software to be used in case something is wrong with the second main image In current firmware files this first image contains Bootbor see
94. is License Front Cover Text may be at most 5 words and a Back Cover Text may be at most 25 words Transparent copy of the Document means a machine readable copy represented in format whose specification is available to the general public that is suitable for re vising the document straightforwardly with generic text editors or for images composed of pixels generic paint programs or for drawings some widely available drawing edi tor and that is suitable for input to text formatters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input to text formatters copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose markup or absence of markup has been arranged to thwart or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount of text copy that is not Transparent is called Opaque Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain ASCII without markup Texinfo input format LaTeX input format SGML or XML using a publicly available DTD and standard conforming simple HTML PostScript or PDF designed for human modification Examples of transparent image formats include PNG XCF and JPG Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word processors SGML or XML for which the DTD and or processing tools are not generally available and the machine generated HTML
95. is set to YES your music will fade out when you stop or pause playback and fade in when you resume playback 7 7 Party Mode Enables unstoppable music playback When new songs are selected they are queued at the end of the current dynamic playlist instead of being played immediately Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins 7 8 Auto Change Directory Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a directory If AUTO CHANGE 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 ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS A1 the RANDOM feature requires you to first generate a folder list via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin see section 10 4 8 page 69 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 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 1log and is to be found in the root directory of your play
96. isplayed the false part The else part is optional so the does not have to be specified if no else part is desired The conditionals nest so the text in the if and else part can contain all 4 commands including conditionals Enumerations Syntax 4 xx 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 Play Pause Ffwd Rew gt 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 AIg is the genre name used in the next song and is the mp3 frequency Note The next song information will not be available at all times but will most likely be available at the end of a song We suggest you use the conditional display tag a lot when displaying information about the next song Alternating Sublines It is possible to group items on each line into 2 or more groups or sublines Each subline will be displayed in successi
97. ist 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 21 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX F CREDITS 102 F Credits People that have contributed to the project one way or another Friends gt BJORN STENBERG LINUS NIELSEN FELTZ ING gt ANDY CHOI gt ANDREW JAMIESON gt PAUL SUADE b JOACHIM SCHIFFER gt DANIEL STENBERG gt ALAN KORR GARY CZVITKOVICZ STUART MARTIN gt FE LIX ARENDS gt ULF RALBERG P DAVID HARDEMAN THOMAS SAEYS gt GRANT WIER
98. lename 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 76 below for an explanation of the format for configuration files See section 11 3 3 page 77 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 C page 95 for available settings Configuration files use the following formatting rules 1 Each setting must be on a separate line 2 Each line has the format setting value 3 Values must be within the ranges specified in this manual for each setting THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 77 4 Lines starting with are ignored This lets yo
99. light V100 and Trashes Other selects additional files added to the configuration file by the user Key Action Stop Exit Abort 10 4 4 Keybox Keybox is an encrypted password storage using the Tiny Encryption Algorithm with a key derived using md5 Using Keybox To get started start up the plugin and select ENTER KEYBOX The first time you enter Keybox you will be prompted for a master password and for confirmation of the master password The master password is the password that you must use to access your stored passwords Once inside enter the context menu by pressing Long Play From the context menu you can create new entries delete entries and edit entries Each entry has a title a user name and a password Selecting REsET KEYBOX from the main menu will delete the current list of passwords and a new empty list will be created the next time you select ENTER KEYBOX after prompting for a new master password Entries are automatically saved when the plugin is exited 10 4 5 Lamp Lamp is a simple plugin to use your player as lamp flashlight torch You get an empty screen with maximum brightness THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 69 Key Action Menu or Long Exit to menu Menu 10 4 6 md5sum Open a file a directory or just launch it from the plugin menu to create an md5sum of the file the directory s contents or the whole filesy
100. lists 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 Stop button or return to the file browser while keeping playback running using On In list views you can go back one step with Stop 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 26 Menu From the menu you can customise Rockbox Rockbox itself is very customisable Also there are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions Context Menu Some views especially the file browser and the WPS have a context menu From the file browser this can be accessed with Long Play The contents of the context menu vary depending on the situation it gets called The context menu itself presents you with some operations you can perform with the currently highlighted file In the file browser this is the file or directory that is highlighted by the cursor From the WPS this is the currently playing file Also there are some actions that do not apply to the current file but refer to the screen from whi
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104. mple 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 59 for more details on viewers Create Directory Create a new directory in the current directory on the disk Properties Shows properties such as size and the time and date of the last modification for the selected file If used on a directory the number of files and subdirectories will be shown as well as the total size 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 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 21 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 current text line to be entered or edited is always listed on the first line of the display The second line of the display can contain the character selection b
105. n turns on the backlight a number of seconds before the start of a new track and keeps it on for the same number of seconds after the beginning so that the display can be read to see song information The amount of time is determined by the value of the backlight timeout setting but is no less than 5 seconds First Keypress Enables Backlight Only With this option enabled the first key press while the backlight is turned off will only turn the backlight on without having any other effect When disabled the first keypress will also perform its appropriate action Contrast Changes the contrast of your LCD display Warning Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to find THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 46 this menu option again 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 Bidirectional Scroll Limit Rockbox has two different automatic horizontal scrolling methods 1 always scrolling the text to the left until the line has ended and then beginning again at the start and 2 moving to the left until you can read the end of the line and then scrolling right until you see th
106. nd 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 Glyphs To Cache This sets the default memory allocation size for fonts in unique glyphs This 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 5 4 Line In This option activates the line in port on player which is off by default This is useful for such applications as e Game boy player human THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 48 e laptop 1 human e LAN party computer gt player gt human 8 5 5 Car Adapter Mode This option turns ON and OFF the car ignition auto stop function Car Adapter Mode When using the player in a car CAR ADAPTER MODE automat ically stops playback on the player when power i e from cigarette ligh
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108. ng the entry For example EXAMPLE MyMusic collection song mp3 lt TAB gt My favourite song 10 3 2 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 3 Shopper Shopper is a shopping list plugin which allows you to maintain reusable shopping lists THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 61 10 3 4 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 34 10 3 5 Text Viewer Figure 10 7 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 19 You can also bookmark pages Default keys Key Action Minus Scroll up Plus Scroll down Menu Minus Top of file Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode Menu Plus Bottom of file Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode Play Toggle aut
109. ollowing keys can be used to navigate in any bookmark list THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 51 Key Action Plus Selects the next bookmark Minus Selects the previous bookmark Play Resumes from the selected bookmark Stop Exits Recent Bookmark menu On Play Deletes the currently selected bookmark Long Play Enters the context menu for the selected bookmark 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 2 page 72 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 file must be present in the rockbox langs directory on the player Voice files are large and are not shipped with Rockbox by default The voice file is the name of the language for which it is made followed by the extension voice So for English the file name would be english voice This option is on by default but will do nothing unless the appropriate voice file is installed in the correct place on the player The Voice Menus hav
110. ome into effect after a reboot See section 8 9 page 51 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 2 3 Running Rockbox When you turn the unit on Rockbox should load THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 14 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 computer and delete the archos mod 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
111. on 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX G LICENSES 107 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 not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not allowed to be designated as Invariant The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections If the Document does not identify any Invariant Sections then there are none The Cover Texts are certain short passages of text that are listed as Front Cover Texts or Back Cover Texts in the notice that says that the Document is released under th
112. on 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 your player s drive Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the Rockbox files The zip file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs If the contents of the zip file are extracted correctly you will have a file called archos mod 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 Rockbox 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 c
113. on 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 75 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 4t 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 hsht 4 hia AsAit 4t 3 4pc Apr Display id3 artist for 4 seconds Display id3 title for 2 seconds Display current and remaining track time for 3 seconds repeat Conditionals can be used with sublines to display a different set and or number of sublines on the line depending on the evaluation of the conditional Example subline with conditionals EXAMPLE APit lt t 8 shit shin gt 7ia lt t 3 shial t 0 gt The
114. or 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 unless that component itself accompanies the executable THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX G LICENSES 117 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 sa
115. ories This option controls how Rockbox sorts directories The default is to sort them alphabetically Bv DATE sorts them with the oldest directory first Bv 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 Bv TYPE option which sorts files alphabetically by their type such as mp3 then alphabetically within each type THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 44 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 display
116. oscroll On Set Reset bookmarks Menu Enter menu Stop Exit text viewer Menu Return Return to the file being viewed Viewer Options Change settings for the current file THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 62 Encoding Set the codepage in the text viewer Available settings ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 ISO 8859 7 Greek CP1251 Cyrillic ISO 8859 9 Turkish ISO 8859 2 Latin Extended CP1250 Central European UTF 8 Uni code This setting only applies to the plugin and is independent from the DEFAULT CODEPAGE setting see section 8 4 page 46 Word Wrap Toggle word wrap mode On Break lines 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 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 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
117. 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX G LICENSES 109 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 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 Modifi
118. ower of the two buttons is the Menu button The large circular button on the right contains clockwise from the top the Play the Plus the Stop and the Minus buttons On the top on the player is the headphone socket on the left and the line out jack on the right On the bottom of the player is the line in jack on the left the DC In jack on the right and the USB connector in the centre THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER gt CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 16 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys Key Action Long On Start Rockbox From the Main Shutdown Rockbox Menu select Shutdown 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 Stop 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 instead 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
119. port 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 Folder List Editor Keys Key Action Play Delete selected folder Long Play Bring up the context menu which allows you to remove the selected folder or its entire folder tree Stop Exit 10 4 9 Resistor Calculator WARNING Image not found Figure 10 11 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 71 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 and a safe bet and the current that it will draw likewise with the fir
120. press On The following press of On will set the End Point B and a third successive On will reset the markers THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 40 7 3 Play Selected First This setting controls what happens when you select a file for playback while shuffle mode is on If the PLAY SELECTED FIRST setting is YES the file you selected will be played first If this setting is NO a random file in the directory will be played first 7 4 Fast Forward Rewind These settings control the speed and acceleration during fast forward and rewind The setting FF RW MIN STEP controls the initial speed and FF RW ACCEL controls the acceleration 7 5 Anti Skip Buffer This setting controls how early Rockbox starts refilling the music buffer from the hard drive when playing A longer Anti Skip Buffer helps prevent skips in music playback if Rockbox has trouble reading from the disk This can happen if the player is knocked shaken or jogged heavily while Rockbox is trying to read the hard drive The anti skip buffer can be set to a value between 0 and 7 seconds Note Having a large anti skip buffer tends to use more power and may reduce your battery life It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback 7 6 Fade on Stop Pause Enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop playing a song If the Fade on Stop Pause option
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123. s all files and directories Extensions are shown No files or directories are hidden Supported The FILE BROWSER displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 83 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 45 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
124. s 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 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 unaltere
125. s or progress bars THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX C CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 95 C Config file options Setting Allowed Values Unit volume 78 to 18 dB bass 15 to 15 dB treble 15 to 15 dB balance 100 to 100 channels stereo mono custom mono left N A mono right karaoke stereo width 0 to 250 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 S 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 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 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX C CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 96 Setting Allowed Values Unit bidir limit 0 to 200 screen scroll paginated on off N A hold lr for scroll
126. s 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 be 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER 4 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 11 2 Installation Installing Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure However before beginning
127. screen 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 85 B 3 Information from the track tags Tag hia hic AiA hid hiG hig in hit hic 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 716 show the information for the next song to be played B 4 Power Related Information Tag Description 701 Numeric battery level in percents Can also be used in a conditional 1 lt 11011121 1 gt where the value 1 is used when 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 th
128. se 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 23 4 2 4 Using the Database Once the database has been initialized you can browse your music by Artist AI bum Genre Song Name etc To use the database go to the MAIN MENU and select DATABASE Note You may need to increase the value of the MAX FILES IN DIR BROWSER setting SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS SYSTEM LIMITS in order to view long lists of tracks in the ID3 database browser There is no option to turn off database completely If you do not want to use it just do not do the initial build of the database and do not load it to RAM 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 n
129. sequent 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 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 Menu 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 for each entry individually do so append a tabulator character after the entry s path followed by your custom name That name will then be used for showi
130. setting is set to FULL PATH the full path to the current directory will be displayed on the first line in the FILE BROWSER If set to CURRENT DIRECTORY ONLY only the name of the current directory will be displayed This has a similar effect on the Database browser If set to CURRENT DIRECTORY ONLY or FULL PATH then the title of each menu will be displayed on the first line in the DATABASE BROWSER 8 3 Database This sub menu allows you to configure the database See section 4 2 page 21 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 Backlight The amount of time the backlight shines after a key press If set to OFF the backlight will not light when a button is pressed If set to ON the backlight will never shut off If set to a time 1 to 90 seconds the backlight will stay lit for that amount of time after a button press Backlight While Plugged In This setting is equivalent to the BACKLIGHT set ting except it applies when the player is plugged into the charger Backlight on Hold This setting controls the behavior of the backlight when the Hold switch is toggled If set to NORMAL the backlight will behave as usual If set to OFF the backlight will be turned off immediately when the Hold switch is engaged and if set to ON the backlight will be turned on and stay on while the Hold switch is engaged Caption Backlight This optio
131. setting you want to change see section C page 95 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 shutdown 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 6 SouND SETTINGS 37 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 dec
132. 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS AT Battery Capacity This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity in mAh the battery being used has The default is 1500 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 8 5 2 Disk Options relating to the hard disk Disk Spindown Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it is idle for a certain amount of time This setting controls the amount of time between the last user activity and the time that the disk spins down This idle time is only affected by user activity like navigating through the FILE BROWSER When the hard disk spins up to fill the audio buffer it automatically spins down afterwards 8 5 3 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 a
133. ssed This is the first screen you will see when starting Rockbox To return to the MAIN MENU press the Menu button settings are stored on the unit However Rockbox does not access the hard disk solely for the purpose of saving settings Instead Rockbox will save settings when it accesses the hard disk 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 16 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu Key Action Plus Select the next option in the menu Inside setting increase the value or choose next option Minus Select the previous option in the menu Inside a setting decrease the value or choose previous option Play Select option Stop Exit menu or setting or move to parent THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 32 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 Plus Select the next bookmark Minus Sele
134. st 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 10 4 10 Stats Figure 10 12 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 Menu or Long Menu to abort counting and exit the plugin Press it again to quit after counting has finished 10 4 11 Stopwatch Figure 10 13 Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times Key Action Menu Quit Plugin Play Start stop Stop Reset timer only when timer is stopped On Take lap time Minus Plus Scroll through lap times THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 72 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 To accomplish this load a cfg file as described in section 11 3 page 76 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 f
135. stem 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 md5list it will compute md5 sums for all the files listed 10 4 7 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 Menu Exit plugin Menu Stop Long On Start On Tap tempo Minus Plus Adjust tempo Play Stop Adjust volume 10 4 8 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 list editor THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 70 Export List To Textfile Exports the list to rockbox folder_advance_list txt Im
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137. t 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 37 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 the Database browser The value wraps at 10 Bookmarks This allows you to create a bookmark in the currently playing track THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 26 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 screen press Long Play to access the WPS CONTEXT MENU and select SHOW TRACK INFO Use Minus and Plus 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 w
138. t to write your own language file find the instructions on the Rockbox website s LangFiles THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 73 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 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 correctly 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
139. taining tokens of only one colour THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 56 On Menu Move the cursor Minus Plus Play Flip On Minus Shuffle On Plus Solve On Play Solve step by step Stop Quit the game 10 1 3 Jackpot Figure 10 2 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 On Play Exit the game Menu 10 1 4 Rockblox Figure 10 3 Rockblox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 57 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 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 Stop Menu Restart game Minus Move left Plus Move right Menu Move down On 4 Play Rotate anticlockwise Play Rotate clockwise On Drop Stop Quit 10 2 Demos 10 2 1 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 S
140. ter power adapter to the external DC in jack is turned off If the CAR ADAPTER MODE is set to ON Rockbox will pause playback when the external power off condition is detected Rockbox will then shutdown the player after the length of time set in the IDLE POWEROFF setting see section 8 6 2 page 49 If power to the DC in jack is turned back on before the Idle Poweroff function has shut the player off playback will be resumed 5 seconds after the power is applied This delay is to allow for the time while the car engine is being started Once the player is shut off either manually or automatically with the IDLE POWEROFF function it must be powered up manually to resume playback 8 6 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
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143. ther settings If set to Yes and the file to which a new bookmark would be added already exists this 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 f
144. there is no scrollbar and this setting has no effect 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 63 Scroll by Line Scroll up or down one 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 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 Spaces 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
145. therwise noted each option pertains both to files and directories Playlist Enters the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 28 Playlist Catalogue Enters the PLAYLIST CATALOGUE SUBMENU see section 4 4 2 page 27 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 20 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 Play to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel Delete Directory Deletes the currently selected directory and all of the files and subdi rectories it may contain Deleted directories cannot be recovered Use 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 exa
146. this option is enabled the ability to manually skip tracks is disabled in order to avoid accidental track skips It does not prevent changing tracks if a track ends which can be achieved by combining this option with REPEAT set to ONE 7 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 43 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 Direct
147. top 10 2 2 Cube Figure 10 4 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 58 Key Action On Display at maximum frame rate Play Pause Menu Cycle draw mode On Plus Select axis to adjust On Minus Plus Minus Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused Stop Quit 10 2 3 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen Key Action Plus Minus Increase decrease speed on the x axis Play Stop Increase decrease speed on the y axis Menu or Long Quit Menu 10 2 4 Mosaique Figure 10 5 Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player Key Action Play Change the gap between the drawing lines On Restart the drawing process Menu or Long Exits Mosaique demo Menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 59 10 2 5 Snow Figure 10 6 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 Menu or Long Menu to quit 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 Note Some viewer plugins can only be used by selectin
148. top Play Pause Fast For ward Rewind Recording Recording paused FM Radio play ing FM Radio muted Example 4 mp lt Stop Play Pause Ffwd Rew Rec Rec pause FM FM pause THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX B THEME TAGS 89 B 13 Current Screen Description Tag Number 2 COND oP The current screen 1 18 in the order shown below Screen Menus WPS Recording screen FM Radio screen Current Playlist screen Settings menus File browser Database browser Plugin browser Quickscreen Pitchscreen Setting chooser Playlist Catalogue Viewer Plugin Context menu System Info screen Time and Date Screen Bookmark browser Shortcuts menu The tag can also be used as the switch in a conditional tag For players without certain capabilities e g no FM radio some values will never be returned Examples You are in the lt menu WPS Recording screen FM Radio screen 4A if cs 2 This is the WPS gt B 14 List Title sbs only Description Tag ALt Title text Should be used in a conditional so that non list ALi screens don t show a title when they shouldn t Title icon This uses the same order as custom icons see CustomlIcons in the wiki except that here 0 is no icon THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUD
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150. u write comments into your config uration files Example of a configuration file EXAMPLE volume 70 bass 11 treble 12 balance 0 time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans 1ng Note As you can see from the example configuration files do not need to contain all of 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 A special case configuration file can be used to force a particular setting or settings every time Rockbox starts up e g to set the volume to a safe level Format a new configuration file as above with the required setting s and save it into the rockbox directory with the filename fixed cfg 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
151. ul if you have changed the value of the parameter from the default to some other value and would like to restore the default value 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 37 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 39 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 43 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 54 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 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 34 player back to initial configuration The details of this menu are covered in section 11 3 page 76 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
152. umeric 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 24 4 3 While Playing Screen The While Playing Screen WPS displays various pieces of information about the cur rently playing audio file Note e Playlist index Playlist size Artist Title e Current time Progress indicator Left See section 11 2 page 73 for details of customising your WPS While Playing Screen 4 3 1 WPS Key Controls Key Action Menu Plus Volume up down Menu Minus Minus Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of track go to the previous track Long Minus Rewind in track Plus Go to the next track Long Plus Fast forward in track Play Toggle play pause Stop Stop playback On Return to the FILE BROWSER DATABASE Long Play Enter WPS CoNTEXT MENU Menu Enter MAIN MENU Menu 4 Stop Key lock software hold switch on off Menu Play Mute on off Menu On Activate the HOTKEY function see sec tion 4 5 page 30 Short Plus Skip to the next directory Long Plus Short Minus Skip to the previous directory Long
153. unning Time Shows the runtime of your player in hours minutes and seconds 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 Play THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 35 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 Play 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 Shutdown This menu option saves the Rockbox configuration and turns off the hard drive before shutting down the machine For maximum safety this procedure is recommended when turning off the player There is a very small risk of hard disk corruption otherwise See section 3 1 2 page 16 for more details 5 12 Shortcuts This menu item is a container for user defined shortcuts to files folders or settings With a shortcut
154. 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 Minus at boot selects the first image Play selects the second image which will also be booted if you don t press any button The button mapping is only there for completeness Plus 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 Studio Player You may also want to perform it in case the update procedure for the second image recommends it In the latter case do not perform the steps listed under Preparation Preparation First check whether your Studio Player is flashable at all Select SYSTEM DEBUG KEEP OuT View HW Iro Cycle through the displayed values with Plus Minus until Flash is displayed If it shows question marks you re out of luck your player is not flashable without modifying the hardware You can stop here Sorry If your player is flashable you should perform a backup of the current flash ROM contents in case you want to restore it later Select SYSTEM DEBUG KEEP DuMP ROM C
155. y Level off on N A hotkey wps off view playlist show track info N A pitchscreen open with delete hotkey tree off open with delete insert insert N A shuffled 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 gather runtime data off on N A skip length outro track 15 2s 3s 5s 7s 10s N A 15s 20s Imin 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 S jump scroll 0 to 5 N A jump scroll delay 0 to 250 0 01 s THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX D MENU OVERVIEW 98 D Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 11RC ARCHOS STUDIO PLAYER APPENDIX E USER FEEDBACK 99 E User feedback E 1 Bug reports If you experience inappropriate performance from any supported feature please file a bug report on our web page Do not report missing features as bugs instead file them as feature ideas see below For open bug reports refer to http www rockbox org tracker index php type 2 E 1 1 Rules for submitting new bu

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