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1. 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 amout of time If it is not specified 1 sec is assumed The tag can be used as the switch in a conditional tag to display different things depending on whether the volume is being changed It can produce neat effects when used with conditional viewports Example mv2 5 lt Volume changing pv gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX B WPS Tacs 142 The example above will display the text Volume changing if the volume is being changed and 2 5 secs after the volume button has been released After that it will display the volume value B 12 Settings Tag Description St lt setting name gt Display the value of any Rockbox setting Example Can be used as a simple tag St skip length or with conditionals St eq enabled lt Equalizer is enabled Equalizer is disabled gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX B WPS Tacs 143 B 13 Images Tag Description X filename bmp Load and set a backdrop image for the WPS This image must be exactly the same size as your LCD P filename bmp Load a Progress bar image for the WPS Use pb tag to show the progress bar x n filenamelx y Load and display an image n image ID a z and A Z for later referencing in xd filename filename relative to rockbox and i
2. Show Indicies This toggles display of the line numbering for the playlist Track Display This toggles between filename only and full path for playlist entries Save Current Playlist Allows the current playlist to be saved as a m3u playlist file Playlist catalog View catalog This lists all playlists that are part of the Playlist catalog You can load a new playlist directly from this list Add to playlist Adds the currently playing file to a playlist Select the playlist you want the file to be added to and it will get appended to that playlist Add to new playlist Similar to the previous entry this will add the currently playing track to a playlist You need to enter a name for the new playlist first THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 30 Sound Settings This is a shortcut to the SOUND SETTINGS MENU where you can configure volume bass treble and other settings affecting the sound of your music See section 6 page 43 for more information Playback Settings This is a shortcut to the PLAYBACK SETTINGS MENU where you can configure shuffle repeat party mode study mode and other settings affecting the playback of your music Rating The menu entry is only shown if GATHER RUNTIME INFORMATION is enabled It allows the asignment of a personal rating value 0 10 to a track which can be displayed in the WPS and used in the Database browser Press Right to increment the value The value wraps
3. 161 gt STEPAN MOSKOVCHENKO Pb JOHN S GWYNNE P BRIAN J MOREY gt STIJN HISKEN gt BERTRIK SIKKEN Pb KARIM BOUCHER gt JAMES ESPINOZA Pb FRANZ RUHMLAND gt JORDAN ANDERSON Pb MAURUS CUELE NAERE P CHRIS ALLEGRETTA gt ALASTAIR S gt MARTIN CRKOVSKY gt ARIYA HIDAYAT gt JONAS HURRELMANN gt LEE KANG HYUK gt CLEMENS WERTHER Pb ROBERT MENES gt HENRI VALTA gt MELBA SITJAR gt MEHMET S CATALBAS gt SCOTT TINMAN gt ALEXAN DER KUZMENKOV P THOMAS MARTITZ gt PRAKARN SAHASOONTORNVUTE P GEORGE TAMPLARU gt APOORVA MAHAJAN Pb VUONG MINH HIEP gt MATEUSZ KUBICA gt FRANK GEVAERTS gt CHELO SACRIST N P SASCHA WOLF gt NICKOLAY JORDANOV P JOHANNES VOGGENTHALER P MARC GUAY Pb ALEX VANDERPOL P JERRY LANGE P YOHANN MISQUITTA gt KEITH PERRI gt MARK Faw cus P vAN PESIC Pb MARCEL BARBULESCU gt PHIL LIGHT gt ROB PURCHASE Pb ANDREAS MULLER gt CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS Pb MAR TIN RITTER gt JUSTIN HANNIGAN gt TOMASZ WASILCZYK P KENJIRO ARAI gt JOHN KAM INAR gt JORIS GOOSEN Pb MARK GANSON gt DAVIDE GENTILE P JAMES VASILE gt Mo HAMED TAREK P MIKE BURKE Pb MICHAEL CHICOINE gt MACIEJ ADAMCZAK Pb TOMER SHALEV gt THIBAUT GIRKA Pb RASMUS Ry gt WILLIAM POETRA YOGA HADISOESENO gt ADRIAN OSOIANU P MARTIN PAHL gt ORI AVTALION Pb THOMAS SCHOTT gt DENNIS Ivanov Pb TAKUMI SUZUKI Pb SHUNSUKE SHIMIZU Pb TADAYUKI NISHIZONO gt JUN Gu Pb DANIEL WECK gt CLEMENT PIT CLAUDEL gt JELLE GEE
4. Use File talk Clips This option turns on the use of talk clips for files On Use special pre recorded MP3 files for each file This functions the same as for directories except that the talk clip file must have the same name as the described file with an extra talk extension e g Punkadiddle mp3 would require a file called Punkadiddle mp3 talk Off No checking is made for file talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce disk activity Use of a talk clip takes precedence over other filename voicing Otherwise e g if a talk clip is not available voicing uses the method set under VOICE FILENAMES above Say File Type This option turns on voicing of file types when VOICE FILENAMES is set to SPELL or NUMBERS When VOICE DIRECTORIES is set to SPELL Directory will be voiced after each spelled out directory Announce Battery Level When this option is enabled the battery level is announced when it falls under 50 30 and 15 See VoiceHowto for more details on configuring speech support in Rockbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 CHAPTER 9 THEME SETTINGS 64 9 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu offers options that you can change to customize the visual apperance of Rockbox Browse Themes This option will display all the currently installed themes on the player press Select or Right to load the chosen theme and apply it A theme is a configuration file stored in a specific dir
5. remote viewers iconset time format 1 to 126 2 off 200ms 300ms 500ms 1 2 3 N A 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 30 1min on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 N A 20 25 30 45 60 90 2min 3min 5min 10min 20min 45min 90min on off on off 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 on off on off graphic numeric graphic numeric path filename fnt path filename kbd on off on off pointer bar inverse on off path filename bmp path filename bmp path filename bmp path filename rwps 5 to 63 on off on off N A on dbfs off linear dB or dB or N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 seconds 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 seconds 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 on off 0 to 15 1 to 160 0 to 2500 0 to 200 on off path filename bmp path filename bmp 12hour 24hour N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX D CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 152 Setting Allowed Values Unit rec quality rec frequency rec source rec channels rec mic gain rec left gain rec right gain editable recordings rec timesplit pre recording time rec directory 0 to 7 48 44 32 24 22 16 mic line spdif mono stereo 0 to 15 0 to 15 0 to 15 off on off
6. Reversi game Rocklife plugin Maze game Custom filetype colour feature introduced The 80GB Ipod Video is now supported by Rockbox WAV file viewer Sound on the Sansa e200 Rockbox runs and plays music on the iAudio M5 Add the Rockbox Menu Chopper game Cuesheet support Icons in the menus Album Artist and Comment Tag Support Speex Codec Support Invadrox a Space Invaders clone BlackJack plugin Mazezam a puzzle game for all bitmap lcd targets Toshiba Gigabeat X and F series support File properties in context menu Samplerate and format selection added to recording settings Encoders can be configured individually on a menu specific to the encoder in the recording menu 2006 11 06 2006 10 27 Pitch adjustment in semitone steps Audio dithering option THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX F CHANGELOG 157 gt OA OF OF 77 2006 10 19 2006 10 05 2006 09 15 2006 08 28 support 2006 08 07 2006 07 19 2006 07 18 2006 04 19 2006 03 30 2006 03 28 2006 03 28 2006 03 26 2006 03 26 2006 03 20 2006 03 19 2006 03 12 2006 03 11 2006 02 22 2006 02 13 2006 01 28 2006 01 23 2005 12 06 2005 11 05 last fm audioscrobbler logging support FM radio region setting ZX spectrum emulator plugin zxbox Encoder Codec Interface for recording with additional FM recording Initial version of mpegplayer plugin Rockpaint plugin Playlist catalog Rockbox i
7. Right Left Power 11 2 10 PictureFlow Action Toggle filled curve plot Toggle whether to scroll or not Toggle drawing orientation Pause the demo Increase decrease volume Increase decrease speed Exit demo Fear of the Dark Figure 11 34 PictureFlow THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 104 PictureF low is a plugin that provides a visualisation of your albums with their associated cover art Requirements PictureFlow uses both the album art see section C page 147 and database see section 4 2 page 25 features of Rockbox It is therefore important that these are working correctly before attempting to use PictureFlow In addition there are some other points of which to be aware e PictureFlow will accept album art larger than the dimensions of the screen but the larger the dimensions the longer they will take to scale e The main playback buffer is used which means that unless the size of the playing tracks is small you will have to stop playback to use PictureF low Note PictureF low is a visualisation only It cannot be used to select and play music Keys Key Action Left Right Scroll through albums Up Down Scroll through track list Select Switch between cover view and track list Rec Enter exit menu Power Exit menu or PictureFlow Main Menu Settings Enter the settings menu Return Exit menu Quit Exit PictureFlow plugin Settings Menu Show FPS Disp
8. To make things more difficult the entire board is shifted down every time a certain number of shots have been fired Points are awarded depending on how quickly the level was completed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 73 Key Action Power Pause game Left Right Aim the bubble Select Fire bubble Rec Save game Power Exit to menu 11 1 4 Chessbox Figure 11 4 Chessbox Chessbox is a one person chess game with computer artificial intelligence The chess engine is a port of GNU Chess 2 by John Stanback It also works as a PGN file viewer Instead of executing the game from the plugin menu look for any file with pgn extension in the file browser and execute it Chessbox will show the list of matches included in the file and allow you to select the one you want to watch After that you can scroll back and forth through the moves of the game If the menu is invoked while in the viewer the user is allowed to select a new match from the same file or quit the game Force play while the computer is thinking will cause it to make its move immediately If done while it s your turn the computer will move for you and flip the board so that you are playing from the other side If you want you can force play an entire game and watch the artificial intelligence fight against itself When you quit the game the current state will be saved and restored when you resume the game The menu also allows the user
9. decrease speed Up Down Add remove polygon Power Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 101 11 2 5 Fire Figure 11 30 Fire Fire is a demo displaying a fire effect Key Action Up Down Increase decrease number of flames Left Toggle flame type Right Toggle moving flames Power Quit 11 2 6 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen Key Action Right Left Increase decrease speed on the x axis Up Down Increase decrease speed on the y axis Power Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 102 11 2 7 Mandelbrot Figure 11 31 Mandelbrot This demonstration draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set Key Action Direction keys Move about the image Select Zoom in Long Select Zoom out Long Play Decrease iteration depth less detail Play Increase iteration depth more detail Rec Reset and return to the default image Power Quit 11 2 8 Mosaique Figure 11 32 Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player Press Power to quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 103 11 2 9 Oscilloscope Figure 11 33 Oscilloscope This demo shows the shape of the sound samples that make up the music being played At faster speed rates the player is less responsive to user input and music may start to skip Keys Key Select Rec Long Select Play Up Down
10. each ear hears only the stereo channel corresponding to it The left ear hears only the left channel and the right ear hears only the right channel The result is that sound from headphones does not provide the same spatial cues to your ear and brain as speakers and might for that reason sound unnatural to some listeners The crossfeed function uses an algorithm to feed a delayed and filtered portion of the signal from the right channel into the left channel and vice versa in order to simulate the spatial cues that the ear and brain receive when listening to a set of loudspeakers placed in front of the listener The result is a more natural stereo image that can be especially appreciated in older rock and jazz records where one instrument is often hard panned to just one of the speakers Many people will find such records tiring to listen to using earphones and no crossfeed effect Crossfeed has the following settings Crossfeed Selects whether the crossfeed effect is to be enabled or not Direct Gain How much the level of the audio that travels the direct path from a speaker to the corresponding ear is supposed to be decreased Cross Gain How much the level of the audio that travels the cross path from a speaker to the opposite ear is to be decreased High Frequency Attenuation How much the upper frequencies of the cross path audio will be dampened Note that the total level of the higher frequencies will be a combination of both this set
11. see section C page 147 for the requirements for Album Art to work properly and 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 See section A 2 page 137 for a list of supported audio formats 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 36 To browse the files on you player select FILES see section 4 1 page 21 and THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 19 to browse in a view that is based on the meta data of your audio files select DATABASE see section 4 2 page 25 3 1 5 Basic controls When browsing files and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive In the tree view use Down and Up to move around the selection Use Select Right or Play to select an item When browsing the file system selecting an audio file plays it The view switches to the While playing screen usually abbreviated as WPS see section 4 3 page 27 The dynamic playlist gets replaced with the contents of the current directory This way you can easily treat directories as playlists The created dyn
12. 01 Size 5 00MB Volume 25 dB Gain 0 0 dB Filename Figure 5 3 The while recording screen Entering the RECORDING option in the MAIN MENU brings up a screen in which you can choose to enter the RECORDING SCREEN or the RECORDING SETTINGS see section 10 page 66 The RECORDING SCREEN shows the time elapsed and the size of the file being recorded A peak meter is present to allow you set gain correctly There is also a volume setting this will only affect the output level of the player and does not affect the recorded sound If enabled in the peak meter settings a counter in front of the peak meters shows the number of times the clip indicator was activated during recording The counter is reset to zero when starting a new recording Note When you start a recording the hard disk will spin up This will cause the peak meters to freeze in the process This is expected behaviour and nothing to worry about The recording continues during the spin up The frequency and channels settings are shown on the last line The controls for this screen are Key Action Up Down Select setting Left Right Adjust selected setting Play Start recording While recording pause recording press again to continue Long Play Exit RECORDING SCREEN While recording Stop recording Rec Starts recording While recording close the current file and open a new one Long Rec Open RECORDING SETTINGS see sec tion 10 page 66 T
13. 10 25 Calendar plugin on all RTC equipped targets 2008 10 08 Configurable mono recording mode 2008 10 07 Support for version 1 1 scrobbler log files 2008 10 03 APE playback optimized 2008 09 21 MP3 playback optimized for dual core targets F HF F THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX F CHANGELOG 156 F 3 What is new since v2 5 F 3 1 New features FF FF OF FF F FF OF FF FF OF OF OF FOF OF OF OF OF OF 2008 07 07 2008 05 04 2008 04 23 2008 03 23 2008 03 21 2008 03 18 2007 12 09 2007 11 26 2007 11 11 2007 09 06 2007 09 04 2007 08 06 2007 08 03 2007 08 02 2007 07 27 2007 07 25 2007 06 30 2007 06 29 2007 06 28 2007 06 17 2007 05 23 2007 04 09 2007 03 11 2007 03 04 2007 03 01 2007 02 16 2007 02 14 2007 02 14 2007 02 10 2007 02 09 2007 01 31 2007 01 16 2007 01 02 2006 12 29 2006 11 30 2006 11 06 Added keybox plugin Added study mode Lamp originally flashlight plugin New bitmap strips feature in the WPS Viewport tag added for WPS The Olympus m robe 100 is now a supported target PictureFlow A nice animated visualization for album art Matrix Demo Rockbox can now display album art Sound on Sansa c200 The SanDisk Sansa e200R models are now Rockboxed Make several splashes and confirmation screens speak iPod 8rd gen is now officially a supported target Superdom game Sound on iPod 2nd Gen Jackpot support for bitmap targets
14. 84 adjacent to the current square is revealed The aim is to use the information you are given to work out where the mines are and avoid them When the player is certain that they know the location of a mine it can be tagged to avoid accidentally stepping on it Key Action Up Down Move the cursor across the minefield Left Right Play Toggle flag on off Select Reveal the contents of the current square Rec Display the current game status Power Exit the game 11 1 14 Pacbox Figure 11 12 Pacbox Pacbox is an emulator of the Pacman arcade machine hardware It is a port of PIE Pacman Instructional Emulator http www ascotti org programming pie pie htm ROMs To use the emulator to play Pacman you need a copy of ROMs for Midway Pacman Filename MD5 checksum pacman 5e 2791455babaf26e0b396c78d2b45f8f6 pacman 5f 9240f35d1d2beee0ff17195653b5e405 pacman 6e 290aa5eae9e2f63587b5dd5a7da932da pacman 6f 19a886fcd8b5e88b0ed1b97f9d8659c0 pacman 6h d7cce8bffd9563b133ec1 7ebbb6373d4 pacman 6j 33c0e197be4c787142af6c3be0d8f6b0 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 85 These need to be stored in the rockbox pacman directory on your player In the MAME ROMs collection the necessary files can be found in pacman zip and puckman zip The MAME project itself can be found at http www mame net Keys Key Action Right Move Up Left Move Down Up Move Left Down Move Right Rec Inse
15. Boy Color emulator for Rockbox based on the gnuboy emulator To start a game open a ROM file saved as gb or gbc in the file browser THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 113 Default keys Key Action Up Down Direction keys Left Right Play A button Rec B button Select Start Hold switch Cycle display scaling modes Power Open Rockboy menu Rockboy menu Load Game Loads a previously saved game Save Game Saves your current state Options Max Frameskip Change frameskip setting to improve speed Sound Toggle sound on or off Stats Toggle showing fps and current frameskip Set Keys BUGGY Select this option to set a new keymapping Quit RockBoy Quits the Rockboy plugin 11 3 7 Search This plugin can be used on playlists It searches through the playlist that it opened on looking for any occurrences of the string entered by the user The results of this search are saved to a new playlist search_results m3u within the same directory as the original playlist 11 3 8 Sort This plugin takes a file and sorts it in ascending alphabetical order Case is ignored This is useful for ordering playlists generated by the CREATE PLAYLIST menu option see section 5 9 page 41 11 3 9 Text Viewer This is a Viewer for text files with word wrap Just open a txt file to display it The text viewer features controls to handle various styles of text formatting has top of file and bottom of file
16. JAKUB MATOU EK P AL BERT VELI Pb CHRIS DOHAN gt TAKASHI OBARA gt RENE PEINTHOR gt ROAN HORNING gt BEN KEROACK SEAN MORRISEY gt SHAY GREEN gt NICK VANDERWEIT gt SIMON MEN ZEL gt TIMO HORSTSCHAFER Jacco KON ING gt CHRIS HAM gt JOSE RAMON GAR CIA gt SIMON DESCARPENTRIES gt DOUGLAS VALENTINE P JACOB GARDNER gt PASCAL BRIEHL gt DENIS STANISHEVSKIY gt EDDY COMAN P LUKE BLANEY P MARK REICHE gt MICHAL JEVJAK gt PHILIPPE LATULIPPE gt MAURICIO PECCORINI gt NATHAN HEP TING gt AKIO IDEHARA P DAGNI MCPHEE gt ALEX GERCHANOVSKY Pb GERHARD DIRSCHL gt IVAN ZUPAN ALEXANDER PAPST gt CHRISTOPH REITER gt RHINO BANGA gt PAUL JONES Pb MICHAEL GIACOMELLI gt ALEX WENGER Pb ANDREE BUSCHMANN gt JOHNATHON MIHALOP gt RENE ALLKIVI gt TOBIAS SCHLADT gt JOHN ZHOU P CHARLES VOELGER gt GERRITT GONZALES P DIETER PELLKOFER gt EVGENIY KACHALIN gt LENNY KOEPSELL gt HARRY Tu gt PAWEL WYSOCKI gt XINLU HUANG gt DANIEL DALTON gt BORIS GJENERO P SYLVAIN FOURMANOIT ALEX PARKER gt MARIO LANG P JUSTIN FOELL gt IGOR KUZMIN Pb ADILSON VICENTE XAVIER gt JESSE LOCKWOOD P JONATHAN BACKER SOFIAN BABAI gt COSTAS CALAMVOKIS CATALIN PATULEA Pb PETER HARLEY MAX KELLEY Pb ALEXANDER EICKHOFF PINITNUN SHANASABANG Pb KEN Faz ZONE gt DAvID BISHOP P HEIN PIETER VAN BRAAM gt PRZEMYSLAW HOLUBOWSKI gt gt gt gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAuUDIO M5 APPENDIX G CREDITS
17. ROBINSON gt CHAD LOCKWOOD Pb JOHN PyYBus gt UWE FREESE gt RANDY WOOD gt GREGORY HAERR Pb PHILIPP PERTER MANN gt GILLES ROUX gt MARK HILLEBRAND gt DAMIEN TENEY gt ANDREAS ZWIRTES gt KJELL ERICSON gt JIM HAGANI gt Lu DOVIC LANGE P MIKE HOLDEN gt SIMON ELEN gt MATTHEW P OREILLY gt CHRISTIAN SCHONBERGER gt HENRIK BACKE gt CRAIG SATHER gt JOSE MARIA GARCIA VALDECASAS BERNAL gt STEVIE OH gt JORG HOHENSOHN gt DAVE JONES gt THOMAS PAUL DIFFEN BACH gt ROLAND KLETZING P ITAI SHAKED gt KEITH HUBBARD gt BENJAMIN METZLER gt FREDERIC DANG NGOC gt PIERRE DE LORE gt Huw SMITH gt GARRETT DERNER gt BARRY McINTOSH gt LESLIE DONALD SON Pb LEE PILGRIM gt ZAKK ROBERTS gt FRANCOIS BOUCHER gt MATTHIAS WIEN TAPPER gt BRENT COUTTS gt JENS ARNOLD gt GERALD VANBAREN gt CHRISTI SCARBOR OUGH P STEVE CUNDARI gt MAT HOLTON gt JAN GAJDOS Pb ANTOINE CELLERIER gt BRIAN KING gt JIRI JURECEK gt JACOB ERL BECK gt JEAN PHILIPPE BERNARDY gt DAVE HOOPER Pb JONAS HAGGQVIST Pb THOM JOHANSEN P RINAT ZAKIROV P MANUEL DEJONGHE gt MARCOEN HIRSCHBERG gt MICHIEL VAN DER KOLK gt TONY MOTAKIS gt ANDY YOUNG Pb ALEXANDRE BOURGET gt RICHARD S LA CHARIT III gt CHRIS TIAN GMEINER gt TOMAS SALFISCHBERGER gt MIKA PEKKARINEN gt TAPIO KARPPINEN gt RICHARD OTT O BRIEN Luca Bu RELLI gt ALESSIO LENZI gt DAVID BRYANT gt MARTIN ARVER gt ALEXANDER SPYRIDAK
18. Re ee ae 41 ea IA 41 EL SUBE e ge dB E RR ee ee oe a ed ee ee 41 RUZ Quick Bee eh hee ee a ee ee Re ra 42 6 Sound Settings 43 G1 Volume o sdra wosa w wo aa ahaa a i a a ee ee Oa Ee a 43 G2 Bass oo cee bene ai bed we de eee a 43 pa o os ne kk a ee ae ee hee eee 43 Oa BACE 44 Gr Cannel se A E e 44 OE Sterea Width so s s dhe Re eR 44 GI o EE 44 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CONTENTS 5 eee Tee oa ee a i i a BB A oe aS a a rs we ab 46 Os o ia 47 7 Playback Settings 49 Til IWS o cios ri a a Es 49 TE Repeat i s 6 bees a a a fen 49 7 3 Play Selected First gt lt ma naca er 2 50 7 4 Fast Forward Rewind A 50 To al DUNST ocre eons ae e ee e Gee e e eg ee ee D ee eG 50 10 ate On AR Be a ee ee eS 50 ti Pary Mode naa AA de ee A ee a GS 50 Te CIAO o o ca 50 12 Replaygam lt lt i we Ros a a 52 T 10 Beep Volume o os socs se eee aa ee ee ea ee ee ak 52 7 11 Auto Change Directory 52 Tole 1 E 2 ae 53 T 13 Cuesheet SUPPOE ss egg ia nepa aa aa eH Lee ee a os 53 TIA Skip Leg sos ee ir ee ee ed eed 53 8 General Settings 54 Sl Playlist o sedro epa eau a be Se Be we ee a Be R A 54 Be Ele VE box cca ee eee we we a ee RH a me BO ee 54 Bua DAANA lt a kA ek be ee G
19. Rockbox functions can be accessed This is the first screen you will see when starting Rockbox To return to the MAIN MENU press the Rec button All settings are stored on the unit However Rockbox does not spin up the disk solely for the purpose of saving settings Instead Rockbox will save settings when it spins up the disk the next time for example when refilling the MP3 buffer or navigating through the FILE BROWSER Changes to settings may therefore not be saved unless the player is shut down safely see section 3 1 2 page 18 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 37 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu Key Action Down Selects the next option in the menu Inside a setting increases the value or chooses next option Up Selects the previous option in the menu Inside a setting decreases the value or chooses previous option Select Right or Selects option Play Left or Power Exits menu setting or moves to parent menu 5 3 Recent Bookmarks ES 21 08 E Select Bookmark Rolling Stones 03 Under My 0 04 3 London Symphony Orchestra Rol 0 07 1 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 38 Key Action Down Selects the next bookmark Up Selects the previous bookmar
20. a lecture the very low noise of rustling paper might be considered as background noise During a rock concert the murmur of the audience might be concidered background noise which is much louder compared to rustling paper Also the duration of the signal matters When you record speech you want to record every syllable When you record live music you may not be interested in that chord the guitarist strokes for two minutes before the show to verify his amp is turned on The trigger features numerous parameters to adapt its behaviour to the desired situation Trigger This parameter specifies the trigger mode When set to OFF the recording must be started manually and apart from the Prerecord time no other parameter has any effect ONCE will have the trigger start one recording only after the recording has finished the input signal will not start another recording REPEAT will have the trigger start multiple recordings Prerecord Time This specifies the time that is included into the recording before the trigger event occurs This is very useful if you record a signal that fades in Usually you want to set the prerecord time start duration That ensures that you record the entire sound Strictly speaking the prerecord time is not a special parameter of the trigger It is available during normal recordings too Start Above The start threshold defines the minimal volume a sound must have to start the recording It is displayed numerically in the lin
21. also reset all settings to their default values by turning off the player turning it back on and holding the Rec button immediately after the player turns on THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 134 Save cfg File This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The configuration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the user settings that are described throughout this manual Hint Use the SAVE CFG FILE feature MAIN MENU gt MANAGE SETTINGS to save the current settings then use a text editor to customize the settings file See Appendix section D page 148 for the full reference of available options Save Sound Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The config uration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the sound related settings Save Theme Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The config uration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the theme related settings 12 4 Firmware Loading 12 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader Rockbox is able to load and start another firmware file without rebooting You just play a file with the extension iaudio This can be used to test new firmware versions without deleting your current version THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX A FILE FORMATS 135 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX A FILE FORMATS 136 A File format
22. are Thumbs db RECYCLE BIN Desktop ini Recycled and System Volume Information Mac selects OS X files Default files are _ DS_Store and Trashes Other selects additional files added in by the user Key Action Left or Power Exit Abort 11 4 7 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 Select From the context menu you can create new entries delete entries and edit entries Each entry has a title a user name and a password Selecting RESET KEYBOX from the main menu will delete the current list of passwords and a new empty list will be created the next time you select ENTER KEYBOX after prompting for a new master password Entries are automatically saved when the plugin is exited 11 4 8 Lamp Lamp is a simple plugin to use your player as a lamp flashlight torch You get an empty screen with maximum brightness Key Action Power Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 125 11 4 9 md5sum Open a file a directory or just launch it from the plugin menu to creat
23. at 10 Bookmarks This allows you to create a bookmark in the currently playing track Show Track Info Mm Street Fighting Man London Symphonic Orchestra Alburn Symphonic Of The Rolling Sto Album Artist London Symphonic Orchestri Work lt No Info gt Figure 4 4 The track info viewer This screen is accessible from the WPS screen and provides a detailed view of all the identity information about the current track This info is known as meta data and is stored in audio file formats to keep information on artist album etc To access this screen press Long Select to access the WPS CONTEXT MENU and select SHOW TRACK INFO Open With This OPEN WITH function is the same as the OPEN WITH function in the file browser s CONTEXT MENU THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 31 Delete Delete the currently playing file Pitch The PITCH SCREEN allows you to change the pitch and at the same time the playback speed of your player The pitch value can be adjusted between 50 and 200 50 means half the normal playback speed and the pitch that is an octave lower than the normal pitch 200 means double playback speed and the pitch that is an octave higher than the normal pitch It is not possible to change the pitch without changing the playback speed and vice versa Changing the pitch can be done in two modes procentual and semitone Initially after the player is switched on
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25. buttons You can view files without a txt extension by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 22 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 114 Key Action Up Scroll up Down Scroll down Left Top of file Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode Right Bottom of file Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode Play Toggle autoscroll Select Enter menu Power Exit text viewer The Viewer s Menu Quit Exits the plugin Viewer Options Encoding sets the codepage in the text viewer Available settings UTF 8 Unicode BIG5 Traditional Chinese KSX 1001 Korean GB 2312 Simple Chinese SJIS Japanese CP 1250 Central European ISO 8859 2 Latin Extended ISO 8859 9 Turkish ISO 8859 6 Arabic ISO 8859 11 Thai CP1251 Cyrillic ISO 8859 8 Hebrew ISO 8859 7 Greek ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 This setting only applies to the plugin and is inde pendent from the DEFAULT CODEPAGE setting see section 8 4 page 58 Word Wrap toggles between Wrap and Chop Off Chop Words breaks lines at white space or hyphen On breaks lines at the maximum column limit Line Mode cycles through Normal Join and Expand and Reflow Lines Reflow Lines justifies the text fully Expand adds a blank line Useful for making the paragraphs clearer in some book style text files Join joins lines Useful for adopting the orphans that occur with e mail style i e pre wrapped text files Normal breaks
26. context menu gets called One example is the playback menu which can be called using the context menu from within the WPS ID3 Tags Vorbis comments etc THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 20 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 12 3 page 132 The Rockbox distribution comes with some themes that should look nice on your player Note Some of the themes shipped with Rockbox need additional fonts from the fonts package so make sure you installed them Also if you downloaded additional themes from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts installed as otherwise the theme may get displayed garbled THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 21 4 Browsing and playing 4 1 File Browser a wD 20 02 Street Fighting Man 3302 Paint It Black 3303 Under My Thumb Ft Mick J304 As Tears Go By Ft Marie 3305 Sympathy For The Devil I 3306 Dandelion 3307 Ruby Tuesday Ft Mari 3308 Angie Ft Mick Jagge 3309 She s A Rainbow 3310 Gimme Shelter Figure 4 1 The file browser Rockbox lets you browse your music in eithe
27. different automatic horizontal scrolling methods 1 always scrolling the text to the left until the line has ended and then beginning again at the start and 2 moving to the left until you can read the end of the line and then scrolling right until you see the beginning again Rockbox chooses which method it should use depending of how much it has to scroll to the left This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of the line length Screen Scrolls Out of View Screens can be manually scrolled horizontally by pressing Setting this option to YES will keep the list entries at their fixed positions and allow them to be scrolled out of view whereas No will only scroll those entries which surpass the right margin Screen Scroll Step Size Defines the number of pixels the horizontal manual screen scroll should move for each step Paged Scrolling When set to YES scrolling vertically on pages that surpass the screen size will page up down instead of simply changing lines This can be useful on slow displays Status Scrollbar Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar Scroll Bar Enables or disables the scroll bar at the left Status Bar Enables or disables the status bar at the upper side Volume Display Controls whether the volume is displayed as a graphic or a nu meric value on the Status Bar If you select a numeric display volume is displayed in decibels See section 6 1 page 43 fo
28. displaying Track name Artist Album etc in the default font as a purely text based layout There are a number of WPS files included in Rockbox and you can load one of these at any time by selecting it in SETTINGS THEME SETTINGS BROWSE WPS FILES There is a related option to browse rwps files for player s with LCD remote controls installed This will load a similar WPS screen for the remote Note Playing a wps from the FILE BROWSER has the same effect File Location Custom WPS files may be located anywhere on the drive The only restriction is that they must end in wps When you play a wps file it will be used for future WPS screens and if the played wps file is located in the rockbox wps directory it will be remembered and used after reboot The wps filename must be no more than 24 characters long for it to be remembered 12 2 2 WPS Build Your Own Quite simply enter the WPS code in your favourite text editor Notepad on Windows works fine When you save it instead of saving it as a txt file save it as a wps file Example Instead of Rockbox txt save the file as Rockbox wps To make sure non english characters display correctly in your WPS you must save the wps file with UTF 8 character encoding This can be done in most editors for example Notepad in Windows 2000 or XP but not in 9x ME can do this See appendix section B page 138 for all the tags that are available e All characters n
29. files at runtime Simply copy the 1ng file do not use the lang file to the player and play it in the Rockbox directory browser or select SETTINGS gt GENERAL SETTINGS LANGUAGE from the MAIN MENU Note If you want a language to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox langs directory and the filename must be a maximum of 24 characters long If your language is not yet supported and you want to write your own language file find the instructions on the Rockbox website mLangFiles 12 1 4 Loading Backdrops Rockbox supports showing an image as a backdrop in the FILE BROWSER and the menus The backdrop image must be a bmp file of the exact same dimensions as the display in your player 160x128x2 with the last number giving the colour depth in bits To use an image as a backdrop browse to it in the FILE BROWSER and open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 22 on it and select the option SET AS BACKDROP If you want rockbox to remember your backdrop the next time you start your player the backdrop must be placed in the rockbox backdrops directory THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 A CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 129 12 2 Configuring the WPS 12 2 1 WPS General Info Description The WPS or WHILE PLAYING SCREEN is the name used to describe the information displayed on the player s screen whilst an audio track is being played The default WPS is a relatively simple screen
30. for works whose purpose is instruction or reference 1 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS This License applies to any manual or other work in any medium that contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under the terms of this License Such a notice grants a world wide royalty free license unlimited in duration to use that work under the conditions stated herein The Document below refers to any such manual or work Any member of the public is a licensee and is addressed as 7 you You accept the license if you copy modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission under copyright law THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 163 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 noth ing that could fall directly within that overall subject Thus if the Document is in part a textbook of mathematics a Secondary Section may not explain any mathemat ics The relationship could be a matter of historical connection with the subject or with related matters or of legal commercial philosophica
31. hard drive The anti skip buffer can be set to various values between 5 seconds and 10 minutes Note Having a large anti skip buffer tends to use more power and may reduce your battery life It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback 7 6 Fade on Stop Pause Enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop playing a song If the Fade on Stop Pause option is set to YES your music will fade out when you stop or pause playback and fade in when you resume playback 7 7 Party Mode Enables unstoppable music playback When new songs are selected they are queued at the end of the current dynamic playlist instead of being played immediately Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins 7 8 Crossfade This setting enables a cross fader At the end of a song the song will fade out as the next song fades in creating a smooth transition between songs The crossfade setting is particularly effective when the player is set on shuffle Options for crossfade settings are THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 51 Enable Crossfade If set to OFF crossfade is disabled If set to ALWAYS songs will always crossfade into one another If set to SHUFFLE crossfade is enabled when the shuffle feature is set to YES but disabled otherwise If set to track skip only tracks will only crossfade when you manually cha
32. in Long Select Zoom out Play Next jpeg in directory Rec Previous jpeg in directory Power Show menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 110 The menu has the following entries Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the FILE BROWSER Toggle Slideshow Mode Enables or disables the slideshow mode Change Slideshow Timeout You can set the timeout for the slideshow between 1 sec ond and 20 seconds Show Playback Menu From the playback menu you can control the playback of the currently loaded playlist and change the volume of your player Return Returns you to the image Note Progressive scan and other unusual JPEG files are not supported and will result in various unsupported xx messages Processing could also fail if the image is too big to decode which will be explained by a respective message 11 3 4 Midiplay To get MIDI file playback a patchset is required This file contains the instruments required to synthesize the music A sample patchset is available through the wiki at PluginMidiPlay and needs to be extracted to the rockbox directory in the root of your player There should now be a rockbox patchset directory with the patchset directory containing several pat files and two cfg files Just select a MIDI file with either the mid or midi extension in the file browser to start playback Key Action Up Down Volume up Volume down Right Left Skip 3 seconds forward backward Pla
33. in recording screen 2006 08 15 Support for displaying the path in the file browser THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX F CHANGELOG 158 2006 02 07 Equalizer configuration for software codec platforms 2006 02 06 The Rockbox manual is available in ATEXformat 2005 12 05 New wps added Engineeer2 marquee and DancePuffDuo F 3 3 New codecs supported Lossy codecs Ogg vorbis MPC A 52 AC3 AAC MP4 WMA ADX Speex F 77 Lossless codecs WAV AIFF FLAC ALAC Wavpack Shorten x Monkey s Audio Other codecs x SID x MOD NSF NSFE SPC x MIDI x SAP THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX G CREDITS 159 G Credits People that have contributed to the project one way or another Friends gt BJORN STENBERG gt LINUS NIELSEN FELTZ ING gt ANDY CHOI gt ANDREW JAMIESON gt PAUL SUADE Pb JOACHIM SCHIFFER gt DANIEL STENBERG gt ALAN KORR gt GARY CZVITKOVICZ Pb STUART MARTIN gt FE LIX ARENDS Pb ULF RALBERG Pb DAVID HARDEMAN Pb THOMAS SAEYS gt GRANT WIER Pb JULIEN LABRUY RE Pb NICOLAS SAUZEDE Pb ROBERT HAK Pb DAVE CHAP MAN gt STEFAN MEYER P ERIC LINENBERG gt Tom CVITAN gt MAGNUS OMAN gt JEROME KUPTZ gt JULIEN BOISSINOT gt NuuTTI KO TIVUORI gt HEIKKI HANNIKAINEN gt HARD EEP SIDHU gt MARKUS BRAUN P JUSTIN HEINER P MAGNUS HOLMGREN P BILL NAPIER gt GEORGE STYLES gt MATS LIDELL gt LEE MARLOW gt NATE NYSTROM P NICK
34. 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 LCD Mode This setting lets you invert the colours of the display Upside Down Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest the buttons This is sometimes useful when carrying the player in a pocket for easy access to the headphone socket Remote LCD Settings This sub menu contains settings that relate to the display of the remote Backlight Similar to the main unit backlight this option controls the backlight timeout for the remote control The remote backlight is independent from the main unit backlight Backlight on When Plugged This controls the backlight when the player is plugged into the charger Caption Backlight This option turns on the backlight a number of seconds before the start of a new track and keeps it on for the same number of seconds after the beginning so that the display can be read to see song information The amount of time is determined by the value of the backlight timeout setting but is no less than 5 seconds First Keypress Enables Backlight Only This controls what happens when you press a button on your remote whi
35. lines at newline characters Wide View toggles between Narrow and Wide Yes sets maximum column to 114 Useful for navigating large files Cur rently Wide and Join cannot be selected together No Narrow sets maximum column to the screen width Show Scrollbar toggles scrollbar for the current View mode If the file fits on one screen there is no scrollbar and toggling this setting has no effect On has a scrollbar by default until toggled Off has no scrollbar by default until toggled Overlap Pages toggles between Normal and Overlap THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 115 Yes tells page down page up to retain one line from previous screen No sets page down page up to one full screen Scroll Mode controls the function of the Scroll up and Scroll down buttons Scroll by Line Scroll by Page Auto scroll Speed controls the speed of auto scrolling in number of lines per scroll step available options are 1 to 10 lines As an example a setting of 4 will scroll up the text four lines per second Show Playback Menu controls the playback of the currently loaded playlist and change the volume of your playerwithout leaving the plugin Return to the text view Note The text viewer automatically saves its settings and also stores the current posi tion in the viewed text files up to the last 46 files Compatibility e Currently messages are in English e Does not currently support right to left langua
36. modifying the Program or works based on it 6 Each time you redistribute the Program or any work based on the Program the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients exercise of the rights granted herein You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to this License 7 If as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason not limited to patent issues conditions are imposed on you whether by court order agreement or otherwise that contradict the conditions of this License they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all For example if a patent license would not permit royalty free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other c
37. not Transparent if used for any substantial amount of text A copy that is not Transparent is called Opaque Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain ASCII without markup Texinfo input format LaTeX input format SGML or XML using a publicly available DTD and standard conforming simple HTML PostScript or PDF designed for human modification Examples of transparent image formats include PNG XCF and JPG Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word processors SGML or XML for which the DTD and or processing tools are not generally available and the machine generated HTML PostScript or PDF produced by some word processors for output purposes only The Title Page means for a printed book the title page itself plus such following pages as are needed to hold legibly the material this License requires to appear in the title page For works in formats which do not have any title page as such Title Page means the text near the most prominent appearance of the work s title preceding the beginning of the body of the text THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 164 A section Entitled XYZ means a named subunit of the Document whose title ei ther is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following text that translates XYZ in another language Here XYZ stands for a specific section name mentioned below such as A
38. of alternatives is too short Next Song Info You can display information about the next song the song that is about to play after the one currently playing unless you change the plan If you use the upper case versions of the three tags F I and D they will instead refer to the next song instead of the current one Example Ig is the genre name used in the next song and Ff is the mp3 frequency Note The next song information will not be available at all times but will most likely be available at the end of a song We suggest you use the conditional display tag a lot when displaying information about the next song Alternating Sublines It is possible to group items on each line into 2 or more groups or sublines Each subline will be displayed in succession on the line for a specified time alternating continuously through each defined subline Items on a line are broken into sublines with the semicolon character The display time for each subline defaults to 2 seconds unless modified by using the t 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 t Set the subline display time The t is followed by either integer seconds 75 or seconds and tenths of a second t3 5 Each alternating subline can still be optionally scrolled while it is being di
39. of the tracks in that directory to the playlist Note You can control whether or not Rockbox includes the contents of subdirectories when adding an entire directory to a playlists Set the SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS PLAYLIST RECURSIVELY INSERT DIRECTORIES setting to YES if you would like Rockbox to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently selected directory Dynamic playlists are saved so resume will restore them exactly as they were before shutdown Note To view save or reshuffle the current dynamic playlist use the PLAYLIST sub menu in the WPS context menu or in the MAIN MENU 4 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 Select Right or Play To remove a track simply select REMOVE in the context menu 4 4 5 Saving playlists To save the current playlist either enter the PLAYLIST submenu in the WPS CONTEXT MENU see section 4 3 3 page 29 a
40. player White Rank White s rank in dan or kyu White Team The name of white s team if any Date The date that this game took place This text must follow the format specified at http www red bean com sgf properties html DT to be read by other SGF readers Event The name of the event which this game was a part of if any Place The place that this game took place Round If part of a tournament the round number for this game Done Return to the previous menu Options Customize the behavior of the plugin in certain ways Show Child Variations Enable this to mark child variations on the board if there are more than one Note variations which don t start with a move are not visible in this way Disable Idle Poweroff Enable this if you do not want the player to turn off after a certain period of inactivity depends on your global Rockbox settings Idle Autosave Time Set the amount of idle time to wait before automatically saving any unsaved changes These autosaves go to the file sgf gbn_def sgf regardless of if you have loaded a game or used Save As to save the game before or not Set to Off to disable this functionality completely Automatically Show Comments If this is enabled and you navigate to a node containing game comments they will automatically be displayed Context Menu The menu for choosing different play modes and tools adding or edit ing comments adding pass moves or switching between sibling vari
41. present in both channels to make the singer sound centrally placed this often but not always has the effect of removing the voice track from a song This setting also very often has other undesirable effects on the sound 6 6 Stereo Width Stereo width allows you to manually specify the effect that is applied when the CHAN NELS setting is set to custom All values below 100 will progressively mix the con tents of one channel into the other This has the effect of gradually centering the stereo image until you have monophonic sound at 0 Values above 100 will progressively remove components in one channel that is also present in the other This has the effect of widening the stereo field A value of 100 will leave the stereo field unaltered 6 7 Crossfeed Crossfeed attempts to make the experience of listening to music on headphones more similar to listening to music with stereo speakers When you listen to music through speakers each ear will hear sound originating from both speakers However the sound THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 45 from the left speaker reaches your right ear slightly later than it does your left ear and vice versa The human ear and brain together are very good at interpreting the time differences between direct sounds and reflected sounds and using that information to identify the direction that the sound is coming from On the other hand when listening to head phones
42. procentual mode is active Key Action Select Toggle pitch changing mode Up Down Increase Decrease pitch by 0 1 in pro centual mode or a semitone in semitone mode Long Up Long Increase Decrease pitch by 1 in pro Down centual mode or a semitone in semitone mode Right Left Temporarily increase decrease pitch by 2 0 Power Reset pitch to 100 Play Leave the Pitch Screen 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 A dynamic playlist is a playlist that is created On the fly Any time you insert or queue tracks using the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 33 you are creating or adding to a dynamic playlist THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 32 Insert In Rockbox to INSERT an item into a playlist means putting an item into a playlist and leaving it there ev
43. the CONTEXT MENU Rec Enter the MAIN MENU Long Rec Switches to the QUICK SCREEN see sec tion 5 12 page 42 4 1 2 Context Menu 20 48 Context Menu gt A gt 2 Prop 9 Add to Shortcuts 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 Select Note The CONTEXT MENU is a context sensitive menu If the CONTEXT MENU is invoked on a file it will display options available for files If the CONTEXT MENU is invoked on a directory it will display options for directories The CONTEXT MENU contains the following options unless otherwise noted each option pertains both to files and directories Playlist Enters the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 33 Playlist Catalog Enters the PLAYLIST CATALOG SUBMENU see section 4 4 2 page 32 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAuUDIO M5 A CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 23 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 c
44. the cur rent time if voice support is enabled Set Time Date Set current time and date Sleep Timer The SLEEP TIMER powers off your player after playing for a given time It can be set from OFF to 5 hours in 5 minute steps The SLEEP TIMER is reset on boot Time Format Choose 12 or 24 hour clock Rockbox Info Displays some basic system information This is from top to bottom the amount of memory Rockbox has available for storing music the buffer The battery status Hard disk size and the amount of free space on the disk Credits Display the list of contributors THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 42 Debug Keep Out This sub menu is intended to be used only by Rockbox developers It shows hardware disk battery status and other technical information Warning It is not recommended that users access this menu unless instructed to do so in the course of fixing a problem with Rockbox If you think you have messed up your settings by use of this menu please try to reset all settings before asking for help 5 12 Quick Screen Although the QUICK SCREEN is accessible from nearly everywhere not just the MAIN MENU it is worth mentioning here It allows rapid access to your three favourite settings The default settings are SHUFFLE section 7 page 49 REPEAT section 7 page 49 and the SHOW FILES section 8 2 page 55 options but almost all configurable options in Rockbox can be placed on this s
45. 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 Py 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 15 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 then you do not need to follow the next section and can skip straight to section 2 2 3 page 15 Installing the firmware 1 Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section 2 Connect your player to the computer via USB as described in the manual that came with your player 3 Take the zip file that you downloaded and use the Extract all command of your unzip program to extract the files onto your player Note The entire contents of the zip file should be extracted directly to the root of A your pl
46. 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 118 Information explained At the top of the battery_bench txt file is various information on how to use the plugin followed by the data themselves Time This column reports the total time of operation of the player It is not the time that you started the plug in If you have your player on for 5 minutes and then start the plugin it will start measuring from 5 minutes Seconds The same as Time except measured in seconds Level The percent level of the battery estimated by Rockbox and not the actual battery level The actual battery level can be seen from the Voltage column Time Left This shows the time remaining until the battery is empty again as estimated by Rockbox Voltage The battery voltage in mV at the moment the measurement was taken C This stands for Charger 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 li
47. with the same configuration To return to the games menu you can hit Power A stopped game can not be resumed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 97 The scoreboard On the right side of the game field is the score board For each worm it displays its status and its length The top most entry displays the state of worm 1 the second worm 2 and the third worm 3 When a worm dies its entry on the score board turns black Len Here the current length of the worm is displayed When a worm is eating food it grows by one pixel for each step it moves Hungry That s the normal state of a worm Worms are always hungry and want to eat It is good to have a hungry worm since it means that your worm is alive But it is better to get your worm growing Growing When a worm has eaten a piece of food it starts growing For each step it moves over food it can grow by one pixel One piece of food lasts for 7 steps After your worm has moved 7 steps the food is used up If another piece of food is eaten while growing it will increase the size of the worm for another 7 steps Crashed This indicates that a worm has crashed against a wall Argh If the score board entry displays Argh it means the worm is dead because it tried to eat an argh Until we can make the worm say Argh it is your job to say Argh aloud Wormed The worm tried to eat another worm or even itself That s why it is dead now Making traps
48. 0 05 0 10 0 15 0 30 1 00 2 00 4 00 6 00 8 00 16 00 24 00 off 1 to 30 path to dir 0 small size 7 high quality kHz N A N A N A N A N A N A h mm seconds N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX E USER FEEDBACK 153 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 bug reports 1 Check that the bug has not already been reported 2 Always include the following information in your bug report e Which exact player you have e Which exact Rockbox version you are using Menu gt Info gt Version A step by step description of what you did and what happened e Whether the problem is repeatable or a one time occurrence e All relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists MP3 files etc IMPOR TANT 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 bee
49. 107 Me bk EGov dee a See 107 A cee ha ae Oo He ee eH da oe 107 11 22 Chp Enmlator secos 4244 4 0L dee eed Bee A eed 108 Ias JPEG VIEWER s sa cop ee ee a eR ee a 109 ILSA MB ae ke Re ey be Re eee BOS 110 113 5 MPEG Player oo e saeba aad ok ra ee 110 113 6 Reckboy 2 s modra apoen aa ee ee a e a aa eb 112 11 9 7 Search 2 ocea a Bae OER Pa ee eRe eae Se 113 11 3 8 Bort ea ek ee ah a ke ee 113 e Tort VENET cs ek a ee een ho doe ke eo Ge o E e i 113 De 2 ios a na ee a A e ee a iaa 115 es ee ee ce ae ee Ee oe eae ek ia 115 TLA APPIO cup a ee ee ee Bok we a e ee eek a 117 114 1 Battery Benchmark scott da eS 117 LAR Calculator gt poc e a a a e de ai 119 1143 Calendar 22 6 66 ened week g ieie a a aa 119 11 44 Chess Clock peo te he ee a e E a 120 CE aaiae ia we RR a eR HG ee me amp Bae 121 AUR DEKE ooo ae EA ee YDS dae ee ay 123 DAA POS o Ss ah a de o Bh ae ie ee eke e 124 We 4 ora RA Ee Ae RO 124 TAD DABA AER RA e 125 11 4 10 Metronome lt ee 125 11 4 11 Random Folder Advance Configuration 125 VLA LISAS cisco rica eA ee ee we ee a we ee 126 11413 Stopwatch 22 5 bch ha ee a AR eee ee 126 14 14 Text Editor ca e cos em Ke a a a a 127 12 Advanced Topics 128 12 1 Customising the User Interface o e lt 128 12 Getting Esitas o a ee ee ke ee ae ee
50. 2 2 4 Enabling Speech Support optional 15 2 0 Running Rockbox s sose bes BRR eae Behe eke eb es 15 2A Updating Rockbox s cacas eean be bd be eee ee 15 25 Unnstallas gt so a aoe oe na RO ER ae ole eee 16 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation ssa e aasa as aapa oads 16 22 Manaal Uninstallation e spoe ave ras eos ed ee eee ee es 16 20 E a ea a ee eke ee ee eee ee 16 3 Quick Start 17 3 1 Basic Overview s 542 2465 bade ee a ew ee 17 SLi The players controls ee A ee a a Re L a a 17 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off lt 18 aie Putting musie on your player mo sp ie p ete Wp ee Es 18 ma The eomtaeh ue ek be Se Beek a ee 18 Solar Basie 6 6 A ee ea Pe Re a 19 31 0 Basic concepts lt s oe oe a ee 19 32 Customising Rockbox veais ee a a E a we ee be ae ES 20 4 Browsing and playing 21 AL Ele Browser s ooe 8 8 ptem oie o k a E a AE 21 4AL1 File Browser Controls ooe so conseact See eck Pb ale Pe e EE a 22 412 Context Menu oca ee le Sa Ee Se ee 22 4 1 3 Virtual Keyboard ce ee ee ee ee 24 42 Database aace so oaoa aa meet Ee ey ae a 25 4 2 Introduction sora 00 S445 4 4 Da Dee ew eas 25 4 2 2 Initializing the Database 25 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CONTENTS 4 4 2 3 The Database Menu 00502 eae 25 424 Using the Dalabasl eee RO OR ee a ee ia
51. 2 Demos 11 2 1 Bounce Figure 11 27 Bounce This demo is of the word Rockbox bouncing across the screen There is also an analogue clock in the background In SCROLL MODE the bouncing text is replaced by a different one scrolling from right to left THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 99 Key Action Up Down Moves to next previous option Left Right Increases decreases option value Play Toggles Scroll mode Power Exits bounce demo Available options are Xdist Ydist The distance to X axis and Y axis respectively Xadd Yadd How fast the code moves on the sine curve on each axis Xsane Ysane Changes the appearance of the bouncing 11 2 2 Credits The credits plugin scrolls the entire list of the names of all the Rockbox contributors after displaying the Rockbox logo and version This plugin is called when selecting VERSION from the SYSTEM section of the Rockbox main menu Exit at any time by pressing Left or Power 11 2 3 Cube Figure 11 28 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 100 Key Action Rec Display at maximum frame rate Play Pause Select Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Up Down Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused Power Quit 11 2 4 Demystify Figure 11 29 Demystify Demystify is a screen saver like demo Key Action Right Left Increase
52. 26 34 While Playing Dereon oo on ee be ee Rk Ae 27 43 1 WPS Key Controls 2 4 66 ess ee a 28 a3 2 Peak Meter oc c sos cea aoa e 28 4 33 The WPS Context Menu a 29 AA Working with Playlists sacada satoa ra Wa GR dee 31 4 4 1 Playlist terminology lt lt sosca saca aa aa e wo a aa a a 31 4 4 2 Creating playlists e a 004 32 44 3 Adding music to playlists pi a seca s o acma aa aa a a 33 AAA Modifying playlists i sse cre era RE pat odi A k e 34 AAS Seving playlistis somieres e Ew OE e a 34 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists 34 AAT Helphil Hints oo iaceat 35 5 The Main Menu 36 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu sepad 36 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 37 5 3 Recent Bookmarks cecs row a ank RR 37 A 38 6 0 Database e e a ee aed 38 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback o o o 38 Ot SOLES scudo a oes 38 A A 39 ada Playback Serine sa cao Bae AOR aa dd ee 39 Gia Ceneral ROWER os bine ee Ae a eb 39 Gao Mareage Seine ioe ee RA ee BP e ee Ew 39 dir Theme ORNS osa Re en Ge PR ee ee 39 6 7 6 Recording Settings e cc i e coa Ba hae a ee 39 o ETE E E E Be we a eS 40 5 8 1 While Recording Screen e 40 59 Playlist eS Sa a we he ee a Re
53. ALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING REPAIR OR CORRECTION IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRIT ING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE BE LIABLE TO THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 175 YOU FOR DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY GENERAL SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CON SEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS Appendix How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs If you develop a new program and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms To do so attach the following notices to the program It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty and each file should have at least the copyright line and a pointer to where the full notice is found lt one line to give the program s name and a brie
54. BDX open source jukebox firmware The Rockbox Manual for laudio M5 rockbox org March 23 2009 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 2009 The Rockbox Team and its contributors 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough 2003 Jos Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal amp Peter Schlenker Version 3 2 090323 Built using pdfIl4T X 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 TAUDIO M5 CONTENTS 3 Contents 1 Introduction 10 Ti REDEE e a d a A ey OA De BRE 10 1 2 Getting Were help lt o rasoma smi a ea eR ew eee eS 10 1 3 Naming conventions and marks c ete soie ta t sargade 11 2 Installation 12 2i Beige Siar sae Ga dk e De eee Bek ee aed 12 22 Reckboe i p cesou keke eee eee Rew eR eR 12 2 2 1 Automated Installation e 13 22 2 Manual Installation s sei a noair e ee Re ew eR a 14 2 2 0 Finishing the install e eae ee ee eso ds 15
55. E ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 52 7 9 Replaygain This allows you to control the replaygain function The purpose of replaygain is to adjust the volume of the music played so that all songs or albums depending on your settings have the same apparent volume This prevents sudden changes in volume when changing between songs recorded at different volume levels For replaygain to work the songs must have been processed by a program that adds replaygain information to the ID3 tags or Vorbis tags Note APEv2 tags are not currently supported Options for replaygain are Enable Replaygain This turns on off the replaygain function Prevent Clipping Avoid clipping of a song s waveform If a song would clip during playback the volume is lowered for that song Replaygain information is needed for this to work Replaygain Type Choose the type of replaygain to apply Album Gain Maintain a constant volume level between albums but keep any in tentional volume variations between songs in an album If album gain value is not available uses track gain information Track Gain Maintain a constant volume level between tracks If track gain value is not available no replaygain is applied Track Gain If Shuffling Maintains a constant volume between tracks if SHUFFLE is set to YES Reverts to album mode if SHUFFLE is set to No Pre amp This allows you to adjust the volume when replaygain is applied Replaygain oft
56. Go also known as Weidi Baduk Igo and Goe It uses standard Smart Game Format SGF files for saving and loading games You can find a short introduction to Go at http senseis xmp net WhatlsGo and more information about SGF files can be read at http senseis xmp net SmartGameFormat or the SGF specification at http www red bean com sgf This plugin can load all modern SGF files file format 3 or 4 with few problems It attempts to preserve SGF properties which it doesn t understand and most common SGF properties are handled fully It is possible to view and edit if you like Kogo s Joseki Dictionary http waterfire us joseki htm with this plugin although the load and save times can be on the order of a minute or two on particularly slow devices Large SGF files may stop audio playback for the duration of the plugin s run in order to free up more memory and some very large SGF files will not even load on devices with little available memory Note The plugin does NOT support SGF files with multiple games in one file These are rare but if you have one don t even try it the file will most likely be corrupted if you save over it You have been warned The file sgf gbn_def sgf is used by the plugin to store any unsaved changes in the most recently loaded game This means that if you forget to save your changes you should load sgf gbn def sgf immediately to offload the changes to another file If you load another file f
57. HE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 41 5 9 Playlist This menu allows you to work with playlists Playlists can be created in three ways Playing a file in a directory causes all the files in it to be placed in a playlist Playlists can be created manually by either using the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 22 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 Playlist Catalog The PLAYLIST CATALOG provides a simple interface to maintain sev eral playlists see section 4 4 page 31 5 10 Plugins With this option you can load and run various plugins that have been written for Rock box There are a wide variety of these supplied with Rockbox including several games some impressive demos and a number of utilities A detailed description of the different plugins is to be found in section 11 page 70 5 11 System Time and Date Time related menu options Pressing Long Select will voice
58. IO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 29 The peak indicator This is a little vertical line at the right end of the bar It indicates the peak volume value that occurred recently The clip indicator This is a little black block that is displayed at the very right of the scale when an overflow occurs It usually does not show up during normal playback unless you play an audio file that is distorted heavily If you encounter clipping while recording your recording will sound distorted You should lower the gain Note Note that the clip detection is not very precise Clipping might occur Py without being indicated The scale Between the indicators of the right and left channel there are little dots These dots represent important volume values In linear mode each dot is a 10 mark In dbfs mode the dots represent the following values from right to left Odb 3db 6db 9db 12db 18db 24db 30db 40db 50db 60db 4 3 3 The WPS Context Menu Like the context menu for the FILE BROWSER the WPS CONTEXT MENU allows you quick access to some often used functions Playlist The PLAYLIST submenu allows you to view save search and reshuffle the current playlist To change settings for the PLAYLIST VIEWER press Rec while viewing the playlist to bring up the PLAYLIST VIEWER MENU Playlist Viewer Menu Show Icons This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entry and the icon for moving a playlist entry
59. IS gt PEDRO BALTAZAR VASCONCELOS gt RAY LAMBERT gt DAVE WIARD P PIETER Bos gt KONSTANTIN ISAKOV Pb BRYAN VANDYKE gt HRISTO KOVACHEV SANDER SWEERS gt ANTONIUS HELLMAN P RYAN JACKSON gt PER HOLMANG gt FREDERIC DEVERNAY gt Jos M FANDI O gt GADI COHEN gt 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 P JAKE OWEN gt MUSTAPHA SENHAJI Pb ADAM BOOT gt JONATHAN GORDON gt TAT TANG gt TOSHI HIKO ITOH gt DAVID J SONG gt JEONG TAEK IN gt ANDERS KAGERIN gt PETER D HOYE gt BEN BASHA gt BRANDON Low P NATHAN THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX G CREDITS 160 HAND gt NICK LANHAM gt SEBASTIAN HEN RIKSEN P MARTIN SCARRATT Pb KARL KURBJUN Pb TOMASZ MALESINSKI Pb AN DREW PILLEY gt MATT V D WESTHUIZEN gt Tim CRIST gt JvO STUDER gt DAN EVER TON gt IMRE HERCEG gt SEVEN LE MESLE gt CRAIG BACHELOR P NIKOLAJ CHRIS TENSEN gt MIKAEL MAGNUSSON gt DOMINIK WENGER P HENRICO WITVLIET gt ANDREW SCOTT Pb MIGUEL A AR VALO Pb AARON F GONZALEZ gt ALEKSEY KOZYULIN gt JANI KINNUNEN gt RUI MARINHO gt ALUN THOMAS gt Nits WALLM NIUS P NAOAKI OKAZAKI gt WILL DYSON gt MATTHIAS MOHR gt CHRIS TIAN MARG Pb ELI SHERER P FREDRIK HRN gt NICOLAS PENNEQUIN gt RALF HERZ gt MICHAEL DIFEBBO P DAVID ROTHEN BERGE
60. License and multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single copy If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but different contents make the title of each such section unique by adding at the end of it in parentheses the name of the original author or publisher of that section if known or else a unique number Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work In the combination you must combine any sections Entitled History in the various original documents forming one section Entitled History likewise combine any sec tions Entitled Acknowledgements and any sections Entitled Dedications You must delete all sections Entitled 7 Endorsements 6 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents released under this License and replace the individual copies of this License in the various docu ments with a single copy that is included in the collection provided that you follow the rules of this License for verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects You may extract a single document from such a collection and distribute it individ ually under this License provided you insert a copy of this License into the extracted document and follow this License in all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document 7 AGGREGATIO
61. Lossless codecs Waveform audio format Wav Audio Interchange File Format aif aiff Free Lossless Audio flac Apple Lossless m a mp4 Wavpack WV Shorten shn Seeking not supported Monkey s Audio ape mac c1000 and c2000 files decode fast enough to be useful Other codecs Sound Interface Device sid MOD mod NES Sound Format nsf nsfe SPC700 Spc Atari SAP sap THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 APPENDIX B WPS Tacs 138 B WPS Tags B 1 Status Bar Tag Description Y we Status Bar Enabled Status Bar Disabled Jwda These tags override the player setting for the display of the status bar They must be noted on their own line B 2 ID3 Info Tag Description fia ID3 Artist hic ID3 Composer id ID3 Album Name hig ID3 Genre Name fin ID3 Track Number it 103 Track Title hiv 103 Version 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 or empty if no id3 tag hiy I1D3 Year Remember that this information is not always available so use the conditionals to show alternate information in preference to assuming THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX B WPS Tacs 139 B 3 Power Related Information Tag b1 bv bt bp hbc bs B 4 Tag Afb hic Aff 7 m Afp his hiv hai 92 143 Description Show numeric battery level in percent Can also be used in a conditional 4 b1 lt 1 0 1 2 1 gt Where the 1 value is used when the battery level isn t kn
62. M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 162 H Licenses H 1 GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 November 2002 Copyright 2000 2001 2002 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin St Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed Preamble The purpose of this License is to make a manual textbook or other functional and useful document free in the sense of freedom to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it with or without modifying it either commercially or non commercially Secondarily this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others This License is a kind of copyleft which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense It complements the GNU General Public License which is a copyleft license designed for free software We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software be cause free software needs free documentation a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does But this License is not limited to software manuals it can be used for any textual work regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book We recommend this License principally
63. Mark Mode Add generic marks to the board or remove them Circle Mode Add circle marks to the board or remove them Square Mode Add square marks to the board or remove them Triangle Mode Add triangle marks to the board or remove them Label Mode Add one character labels to the board Each label starts at the letter a and each subsequent application of a label will increment the letter To remove a label click on it until it cycles through the allowed letters and disappears Add Edit Comment Add or edit a comment at the current node Done Go back to the previous screen 11 1 10 Invadrox BERE ee ee ee ek eS ek eed OS RS RD Se a Se ee Po Be Bo se Se De Bo Be So Se Pr a da SP lt B gt A hr lt B gt x gt Figure 11 8 Invadrox Invadrox is a clone of the classic arcade game Space Invaders Kill those pesky aliens before they get to you Remember they increase speed drop down and reverse direction after every pass THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAuDIo M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 82 Key Action Left and Right Move left and right Select Fire Power Quit 11 1 11 Jewels OOACHBOGA Figure 11 9 Jewels Jewels is a simple yet addicting game which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible before running out of available moves Higher points are awarded to larger combos The game advance
64. N WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and independent documents or works in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium is called an aggregate if the copyright resulting from the compilation is not used to limit the legal rights of the compilation s users beyond what the individual works permit When the Document is included in an aggregate this License does not apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves derivative works of the Document If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these copies of the Docu ment then if the Document is less than one half of the entire aggregate the Document s Cover Texts may be placed on covers that bracket the Document within the aggregate or the electronic equivalent of covers if the Document is in electronic form Otherwise they must appear on printed covers that bracket the whole aggregate THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 168 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
65. Now will update the database 21 regardless of whether the DIRECTORY CACHE is enabled Thus an update using UPDATE NOW may take a long time 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 database_changelog txt which backs up the runtime data in ASCII format This is needed when database structures change because new code cannot read old database code But all modifications exported to ASCII format should be readable by all database versions Import Modifications Allows the rockbox database_changelog txt backup to be conveniently loaded into the database If AUTO UPDATE is enabled this is per formed automatically when the database is initialized 4 2 4 Using the Database Once the database has been initialized you can browse your music by Artist Al bum Genre Song Name etc To use the database go to the MAIN MENU and select DATABASE Note You may need to increase the value of the MAX FILES IN DIR BROWSER setting Py SETTINGS gt GENERAL SETTINGS SYSTEM LIMITS in order to view long
66. PTER 11 PLUGINS 109 To do this one may put a c8k file with the same name as the original program which contains new key mappings for BLINKY ch8 one writes a BLINKY c8k file That c8k file contains 16 characters describing the mapping from the Chip8 keyboard to the default key mapping that way several Chip8 keys can be pressed using only one Rockbox key For example a file containing the single line CODE 0122458469ABCDEF would correspond to the following non default mappings 3 2 6 8 7 gt 6 The default keymappings are Chip8 Of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6789 ABCODEF lt p gt E 2 z o a vd 5 Q lt A on amp A Some places where can you can find ch8 files e The PluginChip8 page on www rockbox org has several attached mPluginChip8 e Check out the HP48 chip games section http www hpcalc org hp48 games chip e PC emulator by the guy who wrote the HP48 emulator http www pdc kth se lfo chip8 CHIP8 htm e Links to other chip8 emulators http www zophar net chip8 html 11 3 3 JPEG viewer Open a JPEG file in the FILE BROWSER to view it using Rockbox s greyscale library Note When an audio file is playing the size of the image is limited as the decoding Py process needs to share memory with audio tracks To be able to view a bigger file you may need to stop playback Key Action Up Down Move around in zoomed in image Left Right Select Zoom
67. R gt ROBERT KEEVIL gt MARK BRIGHT gt DOMINIK RIEBELING gt ALEXANDER BON DAR gt PETER CAWLEY gt RANI HoD gt TOM Ross Pb ANTON ROMANOV Pb JEAN LUC OHL gt STEVE BAVIN MARIANNE ARNOLD gt GAETANO VOCCA gt FREDERIK VESTRE gt WENBIN LEO gt TOM EVANS Pb EWAN Davies Pb FR D RIC FRANCOIS Pb MARC ANDRE MOREAU Pb IOANNIS KOUTOULAKIS gt ALISTAIR MARSHALL Pb KARL OVE HUFTHAMMER gt V CTOR ZABALZA gt ULRICH PEGELOW gt ANDREAS MATTSSON gt DANIEL ANKERS Pb PAUL LOUDEN P RAINER SIN SCH gt PL CIDO REVILLA Pb MICHAEL SE VAKIS Pb LUKAS SABOTA P EMANUEL ZEPHIR gt ALEXANDER LEVIN gt BARRY WARDELL gt LARS VAN DE KLOMP gt PHILIPPE MIOSSEC gt JOCHEN KEMNADE P CORRY LAZAROWITZ gt Tom MEYER gt LAURENT BAUM gt JAMES TEH Pb LIAM NATTRASS P CHRISTIAN Hack Pb WADE BROWN Pb VADIM CHEKAN gt CHRISTOPHER BORCSOK gt VICTOR CARDE NAS gt ANDREW MELVILLE gt PENGXUAN LIU gt ANDREW CUPPER Pb THILO ALEXANDER GINKEL gt ADAM GASHLIN gt ROBERT KUKLA gt DAVID QUESADA Pb JARED STAFFORD gt MARTIN HENSEL Pb ST PHANE DOYON gt AUSTIN APPEL gt ANDRE SMITH gt TRAVIS HYYPPA gt IAN WEBBER gt PAVEL GNELITSA gt Lutz BOHNE Pb WILL ROBERTSON gt ROBERT CARBONEAU gt YE WEI gt BRYAN CHILDS gt MIKE SCHMITT P CHRIS TAYLOR gt TOBIAS LANGHOFF P STEVE GOTTHARDT gt GREG WHITE gt MATTIEU FAVR AUX gt MALCOLM TYRRELL P PIOTR JAFIS ZOW gt GARY ALLEN gt JOHN BOUANTOUN gt TOMASZ MON gt
68. R 1 INTRODUCTION 11 channel for Rockbox is rockbox on irc irc freenode net A bunch of helpful developers and users are usually around Just join and ask if someone knows the answer you ll usually get an answer pretty quickly More information including IRC logs can be found at http www rockbox org irc We also have a web client for joining the rockbox IRC channel so there is no need for you to install additional software to your 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 153 for details on how to use the tracker 1 3 Naming conventions and marks We have some conventions especially on naming that are intended to be consistent throughout this manual Manufacturer and product names are formatted in accordance with the standard rules of English grammar e g Iaudio playback is currently unsupported Manufacturer and model names are proper nouns and thus are written beginning with a capital letter This manual has some parts that are marked with icons on the margin to help you finding important parts or parts you could skip The following icons are used Note This indicates a note A note starts always with the text Note For easier finding of notes we have put thi
69. R 11 PLUGINS 91 Key Action In game Up Down Left Move the sokoban up down left or Right right Power Menu Rec Restart level Select Undo last movement Play Redo previously undone move Solution playback Play Pause resume Up Down Increase decrease playback speed Left Right Go backward forward while paused Power Quit Some places where can you can find level sets e http www sourcecode se sokoban levels php e http sokobano de en levels php Note that some level sets may contain levels that are too large for this version of Sokoban and are unplayable as a result 11 1 24 Solitaire Figure 11 21 Klondike solitaire This is the classic Klondike solitaire game for Rockbox This is probably the best known solitaire in the world Many people do not even realize that other games exist Though the name may not be familiar the game itself certainly is This is due in no small part to Microsoft s inclusion of the the game in every version of Windows Though popular the odds of winning are rather low perhaps one in thirty hands For the full set of rules to the game and other interesting information visit http www solitairecentral com rules klondike html THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 92 Key Action Up Down Move Cursor around Left Right Select Select cards move cards reveal hidden cards Play If a card was sele
70. RTS gt TADEUSZ PY gt ROSTISLAV CHEKAN gt FLORIN POPESCU gt VOLKER MISCHE gt VITJA MAKAROV gt FRANCISCO VILA Pb CHRISTIAN LEES gt RAFA L CARR gt DENES BALATONI gt Roy WALLACE P 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 ST PHANE QUERTINMONT gt BARTOSZ FABIANOWSKI Pb ADAM HOGAN Pb ANDREW MAHONE P ANTON VERETENENKO Pb VI CENTE IBARRA P RUI ARA JO Pb BRIAN CLOUTIER gt OLIVIER BARBUT gt YOSHIHISA UCHIDA gt SANGGON LEE gt ANTON VERETE NENKO P KASPAR ROTHENFUSSER gt P RYAN PRESS Pb CRAIG ELLIOTT Pb KENDERES TAMAS ERIC SHATTOW gt JOSHUA SIMMONS gt SEI AOYUMI Pb MARTIN POOL Pb GARETH SCHAKEL gt BRIAN SUTHERLAND Pb SAM BOUWER Pb JOHANNES LINKE Pb MICHAEL BURTIN gt SASHA KHAMKOV P KAI POSAD OWSKY gt THE LIBMAD TEAM gt THE wav PACK TEAM gt THE FFMPEG TEAM gt THE OGG VORBIS TEAM Pb THE LIBA52 TEAM gt THE SPEEX TEAM gt THE LIBFAAD TEAM gt THE DOOM TEAM gt THE GNUCHESS TEAM gt THE GNUBOY TEAM P THE PACMAN INSTRUCTIONAL EMULATOR TEAM gt THE SPECTEMU TEAM Pb THE LIBMPEG2 TEAM gt THE GAME_MUSIC_EMU TEAM P THE OPENSPC DSP EMULATOR TEAM Pb THE ALAC DECODER TEAM gt THE UCL TEAM gt THE IPOD LINUX TEAM gt THE VISION 8 EMULATOR TEAM gt THE ROBOTFINDSKIT TEN TEAM gt THE LIBMTP TEAM gt THE ASAP TEAM THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO
71. Readout enabled in Digital Mode and disabled in LCD Mode Fullscreen A Fullscreen clock is displayed Show Border if enabled will draw a small box at every hour position 1 through 12 Invert Seconds if enabled will invert the LCD as the seconds pass Second Hand if enabled will draw a second hand among the hour and minute hands Binary mode This mode shows a Binary clock The hour is displayed on the top line the minute is displayed on the middle line and the seconds are on the last line Circle mode if enabled draws empty and full circles instead of zeros and ones For help on reading binary please visit http en wikipedia org wiki Binary_numeral_system Plain mode This mode shows a plain clock in large text that takes up nearly the whole LCD 11 4 6 Disk Tidy Disk Tidy deletes junk files left behind by Windows Linux or OS X after a USB connec tion Select the OS s files you want to delete in the Files to Clean menu and select Start Cleaning to begin to process The settings are stored in rockbox rocks apps disktidy config in a plain text file that is user modifiable to allow more entries to be added Available Options All selects all Linux OS X and Windows files None deselects all file options THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 124 Linux selects Linux files Default files are dolphinview d3lphinview and Trash Windows selects Windows files Default files
72. S settings Note The scratchpad is not saved when saving the game THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 95 Key Action Up Down Move the cursor Left Right Select Change number under the cursor Long Select Constantly changing the number under the cursor Play Open Menu Rec Add Remove number to scratchpad Power Quit Some places where can you can find ss files e Simple Sudoku Advanced Puzzle Packs 1 and 2 located near the bottom of that page http www angusj com sudoku e Kjell s Sudoku generator solver http kjell haxx se sudoku 11 1 28 Wormlet Figure 11 25 Wormlet game Wormlet is a multi worm game on a multi threaded multi functional Rockbox console You navigate a hungry little worm Help your worm to find food and to avoid poisoned argh tiles The goal is to turn your tiny worm into a big worm for as long as possible Menu controls Key Action Left Right Controls number of worms in the game Game controls THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 96 Key Action Left Turn left Right Turn right Up Turn Up Down Turn Down The game Use the control keys of your worm to navigate around obstacles and find food Worms do not stop moving except when dead Dead worms are no fun Be careful as your worm will try to eat anything that you steer it across It won t distinguish whether it is edible or not Food The small square hollow pieces ar
73. Speak the directory name by spelling it out letter by letter Support is provided only for the most common letters numbers and punctuation Numbers Each directory is assigned a number based upon its position in the file list They are then announced as Directory 1 Directory 2 etc THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 63 Off No attempt will be made to speak directory names You can use pre generated talk clips to have directory names spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below Use Directory talk Clips This option turns on the use of talk clips for directories On Use special pre recorded MP3 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 Filenames This option controls voicing of filenames Again a voice file must be present for this to work The options provided are SPELL NUMBERS and OFF which function the same as for VOICE DIRECTORIES You can use pre generated talk clips to have filenames spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below
74. U There you will have two choices ADD TO PLAYLIST adds the selected track or directory to an existing playlist and ADD TO A NEW PLAYLIST creates a new playlist containing the selected track or directory Note All playlists in the PLAYLIST CATALOG are stored by default in the Playlists directory in the root of your player s disk and playlists stored in other locations are not included in the catalog It is however possible to move existing playlists there see section 4 1 2 page 22 By using the Main Menu To create a playlist containing all music on your player you can use the CREATE PLAYLIST command in the PLAYLIST OPTIONS menu found in the MAIN MENU The created playlist will be named root m3u and saved in the root of your player s disk THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 33 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist MO PD 16 19 Playlist Shox Next Insert Last Insert Shuffled Queue Queue Next Queue Last Queue Shuffled Play Next Figure 4 5 The Playlist Submenu The PLAYLIST SUBMENU is a submenu in the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 22 1t 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
75. X MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 94 11 1 27 Sudoku Figure 11 24 Sudoku Sudoku in Rockbox can act as both a plugin and a viewer When starting Sudoku from the BROWSE PLUGINS menu a random game will be generated automatically and an estimate of its difficulty very easy easy medium hard or fiendish will be displayed on the screen New games can be generated from the GENERATE menu option When playing an existing Sudoku game file from Rockbox file browser the plugin is invoked as viewer The selected Sudoku will get loaded and you can start solving it The sudoku games need to be stored as text files with the extension ss as single file per game You can create and save your own grids under the NEW menu option Enter the menu as described in the key table below when you have finished and enter the full path to save to including the ss extension e g sudoku new ss The scratchpad When you play Sudoku on paper most people like to mark numbers in cells that are possible candidates for the cells This can be done with the scratchpad shown as separate column Change the number under the cursor to the number you want to put on the scratchpad and press the scratchpad button the number will then be added If the number was already on the scratchpad it will get removed again The column is stored seperatly for every cell on the board The stored values can be displayed inline as small dots by enabling the SHow MARKING
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78. also be inserted If set to ASK Rockbox will prompt the user about whether to include sub directories Warn When Erasing Dynamic Playlist If set to YES Rockbox will provide a warning if the user attempts to take an action that will cause Rockbox to erase the current dynamic playlist 8 2 File View The File View menu deals with options relating to how the File Browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this option is set to YES all files that start with upper case letters will be listed first followed by all files that begin with lower case letters If this option is set to NO then case will be ignored when sorting files Sort Directories This option controls how Rockbox sorts directories The default is to sort them alphabetically By DATE sorts them with the oldest directory first By NEWEST DATE sorts them with the newest directory first Sort Files This option controls how Rockbox sorts files All of the options for SORT DIRECTORIES are available in this option In addition there is a By TYPE option which sorts files alphabetically by their type such as mp3 then alphabetically within each type THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 55 Show Files This option controls which files are displayed in the File Browser All The FILE BROWSER displays all files and directories Extensions are shown No files or directories are hidden Supported The FILE BROWSER displays all directories and files s
79. amic playlist can be extended or modified while playing This is also known as on the fly playlist To go back to the FILE BROWSER stop the playback with the Long Play button or return to the file browser while keeping playback running using Select In list views you can go back one step with Left 3 1 6 Basic concepts Playlists Rockbox is playlist oriented This means that every time you play an audio file a so called dynamic playlist is generated unless you play a saved playlist You can modify the dynamic playlist while playing and also save it to a file If you do not want to use playlists you can simply play your files directory based Playlists are covered in detail in section 4 4 page 31 Menu From the menu you can customise Rockbox Rockbox itself is very customisable Also there are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions Context Menu Some views especially the file browser and the WPS have a context menu From the file browser this can be accessed with Long Select The contents of the context menu vary depending on the situation it gets called The context menu itself presents you with some operations you can perform with the currently highlighted file In the file browser this is the file or directory that is highlighted by the cursor From the WPS this is the currently playing file Also there are some actions that do not apply to the current file but refer to the screen from which the
80. amic playlists or for individual saved playlists They are stored next to the directory playlist they reference You can store multiple bookmarks for the same track THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 61 Bookmark on Stop This option controls whether Rockbox writes a bookmark to the disk when playback is stopped Setting this to NO turns automatic bookmarking completely off In contrast YES turns automatic bookmarking on while ASK asks on stopping the track if a bookmark should be created With the above options YES and ASK if there is an existing bmark file the current position information will be added to the front of the existing list up to the maximum number of allowed bookmarks per file currently 10 If no bmark file exists one will be created with the new bookmark information Finally if the MAINTAIN A LIST OF RECENTLY UsED BOOKMARKS option is enabled the bookmarking information will be added to recent bookmarks list Yes Recent Only Turns on automatic bookmarking One bookmark only Ask Recent Only Asks if a bookmark should be created when stopping track One bookmark only With the two RECENT ONLY options nothing is written to the bmark file If the MAINTAIN A LIST OF RECENTLY USED BOOKMARKS option is enabled the bookmarking information will however be added to recent bookmarks list Note The RESUME function remembers your position in the most recently ac cessed track regardl
81. an 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 laudio software connect the player to your computer download the original laudio M5 firmware from the laudio website and copy it to the FIRMWARE directory on your laudio M5 Turn off the player remove the USB cable and insert the charger The original firmware will automatically be flashed If you wish to clean up your disk you may also wish to delete the rockbox directory and its contents 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 TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 17 3 Quick Start 3 1 Basic Overview 3 1 1 The player s controls Rec COLOR SOUND Up Play Left Right Select HDD Digital Audio amp Video Player Down Throughout this manual the
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83. ase 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 25 for more information about using the database 8 4 Display LCD Settings This sub menu contains settings that relate to the display of the player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 56 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 option turns on the backlight a number of seconds before the start of a new track and keeps it on for the same number of seconds after the beginning so that the display can be read to see song
84. ations Play Mode Play moves normally on the board If there are child moves from the current node this mode will let you follow variations by simply playing the first move in the sequence Unless it is following a variation this mode will not allow you to play illegal moves This is the default mode before another is set after loading a game or creating a new one Add Black Mode Add black stones to the board as desired These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 81 Add White Mode Add white stones to the board as desired These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats Erase Stone Mode Remove stones from the board as desired These removed stones are not counted as captured they are simply removed Pass Play a single pass move This does not change the mode of play Next Variation If the game is at the first move in a variation this will navigate to the next variation after the current one This is the only way to reach varia tions which start with adding or removing stones as you cannot follow them by playing the same move Force Play Mode The same as Play Mode except that this mode will allow you to play illegal moves such as retaking a ko immediately without a ko threat suicide on rulesets which don t allow it including single stone suicide and playing a move where there is already a stone
85. ay Start new game Down Resume saved game Right Show high scores Power Quit In game Left Right Up Down Select Rec Play Down Power Enter betting amount Hit Draw new card Stay End hand Double down Save game Return to menu or cancel 11 1 2 BrickMania Life 1 184 Level 1 E Figure 11 2 BrickMania BrickMania is a clone of the classic game Breakout The aim of the game is to destroy all the bricks by hitting them with the ball once or more Sometimes a special item falls down when you destroy a brick For a special item to take effect you must catch it with the paddle Look out for the bad ones THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 72 Special items Displayed Name N Normal D Die L Life F Fire G Glue B Ball FL Flip Key Left Right Play Up Power 11 1 3 Bubbles Description Returns paddle to normal Ball dies lose a life Gain a life Allows you to shoot bricks with paddle Ball sticks to paddle each time it hits Immediately fires another ball Flip left right movement Action Moves the paddle Release the ball Fire Open menu Quit Figure 11 3 Bubbles The goal of the game is to beat each level as quickly as possible by clearing the board of all bubbles Bubbles are removed from the board when a cluster of three of more of the same type is formed The game is over when any bubbles on the board extend below the bottom line
86. ayer 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 directory called rockbox which contains all the files needed by Rockbox in the main directory of your player s drive THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 15 Installing the bootloader The Iaudio M5 has a built in bootloader which performs the firmware update and can also access the hard drive via USB The Rockbox bootloader can therefore be very minimalistic as it does not require it s own USB mode This makes it less dangerous to install the Rockbox bootloader as you can always restore it using the Iaudio bootloader Note The Rockbox bootloader overwrites the original firmware making it impossible to dual boot Installation A e Download the Rockbox bootloader binary from http download rockbox org bootloader iaudio Use the m5_fw bin file e Copy it to the FIRMWARE directory on your player 2 2 3 Finishing the install After installing you need to power cycle the player by doing the following steps e Safely eject unmount your player and unplug the USB cable e Hold the Power button to turn off the player e Insert the charger The Rockbox bootloader will automatically be flashed 2 2 4 Enabling Speech Support optional If you wish to use speec
87. ayer the message TIME UP is shown The player will then be removed from the timer 11 4 5 Clock Ke Figure 11 44 Clock This is a fully featured analogue and digital clock plugin THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IauDIio M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 122 Key configuration Key Action Left Right Cycle through modes Up Down Cycle through skins Rec Main Menu Select Start Stop Counter Long Select Reset Counter Power Save Settings if enabled and Exit Clock Menu View Clock Exits the menu and returns to the current clock mode display Mode Selector Opens a menu from which you can select a clock mode to view Counter Settings Opens a menu from which you can adjust settings pertaining to the counter Mode Settings Opens a menu from which you can adjust settings pertaining to the current clock mode analog digital binary General Settings Reset Settings Reset all settings to their default values Save Settings Save all settings to disk Show Counter Toggle Counter display Save Choose whether to disable automatic saving saving to disk on exit or saving to disk every settings change Backlight Choose whether to disable the backlight use the user s timeout setting or keep the backlight on Idle Poweroff Toggle Idle Poweroff Note This setting is not saved to disk Help Opens a brief help screen with key mappings and functionality Credits Displays a credits roll Analog mode Small round analog cl
88. buttons on the player are labelled according to the picture above Whenever a button name is prefixed by Long a long press of approx imately one second should be performed on that button The buttons are described in detail in the following paragraph Additional information for blind users is available on the Rockbox website at BlindFAQ gt j The player is curved so that the end with the screen on it is thicker than the other end Hold the player wih the thick end towards the top and the screen facing towards you Half way up the front of the unit on the right hand side is a four way joystick which is the Up Down Left and Right buttons When pressed it serves as Select On the right hand side of the player from top to bottom first there is a two way switch the Power button is activated by pushing this switch up and pushing this switch down until it clicks slightly will activate the Hold button When the switch is in this position none of the other keys will have an effect Below the switch is a lozenge shaped button which is the Rec button and below that the final button on this side of the unit the Play button Just below this is a small THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAuUDIO M5 CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 18 hole which is difficult to locate by touch which is the internal microphone At the very bottom of this side of the unit is the reset hole which can be used to perform a hard reset by inserting a paper clip On the bottom of the u
89. ch contains all of the Rockbox files and is located in the root of your player s drive Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in installing THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 13 Fonts Rockbox can load custom fonts The fonts are distributed as a separate package and thus need to be installed separately They are not required to run Rockbox itself but a lot of themes require the fonts package to be installed Themes The appearance of Rockbox can be customised by themes Depending on your taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox 2 2 1 Automated Installation To automatically install Rockbox download the official installer and housekeeping tool ROCKBOX UTILITY It allows you to e Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox Minimal Instal lation Automatically install all suggested components Complete Installation Selectively install optional components Install additional fonts and themes e Install voice files and generate talk clips e Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility Prebuilt binaries for Windows Linux and Mac OS X are available at the mRockboxUtility wiki page When first starting ROCKBOX UTILITY run Autodetect found in the configuration dialog File Configure Autodetection can detect most player types If autodetection fails or is unabl
90. cknowledgements Dedications Endorsements or History To Preserve the Title of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a section Entitled XYZ according to this definition The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which states that this License applies to the Document These Warranty Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this License but only as regards disclaiming warranties any other implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has no effect on the meaning of this License 2 VERBATIM COPYING You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium either commercially or noncommercially provided that this License the copyright notices and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute However you may accept compensation in exchange for copies If you distribute a large enough number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3 You may also lend copies under the same conditions stated above and you may publicly display copies 3 COPYING IN QUANTITY If you publish printed copies or copies in media that commonly have printed covers of the Document nu
91. contrast to all other items the status bar is always at the top of the screen e Scrolling path and filename of the current song e The ID3 track name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 28 e The ID3 album name e The ID3 artist name e Bit rate VBR files display average bitrate and avg Elapsed and total time e A slidebar progress meter representing where in the song you are e Peak meter See section 12 2 page 129 for details of customising your WPS While Playing Screen 4 3 1 WPS Key Controls Key Action Up Down Volume up down Left Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track go to previous track Long Left Rewind in track Right Go to next track Long Right Fast forward in track Play Toggle play pause Long Play Stop playback Select Return to the FILE BROWSER Long Select Enter WPS CONTEXT MENU Rec Enter MAIN MENU Long Rec Switches to the QUICK SCREEN see sec tion 5 12 page 42 Short Right Skip to the next directory Long Right Short Left Long Skip to the previous directory Left 4 3 2 Peak Meter The peak meter can be displayed on the While Playing Screen and consists of several indicators For a picture of the peak meter please see the While Recording Screen in section 5 8 1 page 40 The bar This is the wide horizontal bar It represents the current volume value THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUD
92. creen To change the options navigate through the menus to the setting you want to add and press Long Select In the menu which appears you will be given options to place the setting on the QUICK SCREEN Press Long Rec to access it and Rec to exit The direction buttons will modify the individual setting values as indicated by the arrow icons THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 43 6 Sound Settings BD 33 Sound Settings a 3 Bass 4 Treble 4 Balance 4 Channel Configuration Stereo Width gt Crossfeed Equalizer Dithering 21 42 Figure 6 1 The sound settings screen The sound settings menu offers a selection of sound settings you may change to customise your listening experience 6 1 Volume This setting adjusts the volume of your music Like most professional audio gear and many consumer audio products Rockbox uses a decibel scale where 0 dB is a refer ence that indicates the maximum volume that the player can produce without possible distortion clipping All values lower than this reference will be negative and yield a progressively softer volume Values higher than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible These volume levels will ordinarily lead to distorted sound but might work nicely for music that has an otherwise low volume level The volume can be adjusted from a minimum of 73 dB to a maximum of 6 dB 6 2 Bass This sett
93. cross gain 30 to 120 0 1dB crossfeed hf attenuation 60 to 240 0 1dB crossfeed hf cutoff 500 to 2000 Hz eq enabled on off N A eq precut 0 to 240 0 1dB eq band 0 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 1 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 2 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 3 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 4 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 0 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 1 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 2 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 3 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 4 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 0 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB eq band 1 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB eq band 2 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB eq band 3 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB eq band 4 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB dithering enabled on off N A beep off weak moderate strong N A keyclick off weak moderate strong N A keyclick repeats on off N A dircache on off N A tagcache_ram on off N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX D CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 151 Setting Allowed Values Unit peak meter release peak meter hold peak meter clip hold peak meter busy peak meter dbfs peak meter min peak meter max statusbar scrollbar volume display battery display font kbd invert flip display selector type show icons iconset viewers iconset backdrop rwps remote contrast remote invert remote flip display remote backlight timeout remote backlight timeout plugged remote caption backlight remote scroll speed remote scroll step remote scroll delay remote bidir limit backlight filters first remote keypress remote iconset
94. cted unselect it else Draw 3 new cards from the remains stack Long Play Put the card from the top of the remains stack on top of the cursor Long Select Put the card under the cursor on one of the 4 final colour stacks Rec Put the card on top of the remains stack on one of the final colour stacks Power Show menu 11 1 25 Spacerocks are dl S 55 AA Figure 11 22 Spacerocks Spacerocks is a clone of the old arcade game Asteroids The goal of the game is to blow up the asteroids and avoid being hit by them Once in a while a UFO will appear shoot this for extra points Key Action Select Shoot Up Thrust Left Right Turn left right Down Teleport Play Pause game Power Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 93 11 1 26 Star Figure 11 23 Star game This is a puzzle game It is actually a rewrite of Star a game written by CDK designed for the hp48 calculator Rules Take all of the o s to go to the next level You can switch control between the filled circle which can take o s and the filled square which is used as a mobile wall to allow your filled circle to get to places on the screen it could not otherwise reach The block cannot take o s Key Action Left Move Left Right Move Right Up Move Up Down Move Down Select Switch between circle and square Play Down Previous level Play Right Reset level Play Right Next level Power Exit the game THE ROCKBO
95. ctrum humans cannot hear so easily In Rockbox case some of the noise is pushed up to above 10 kHz This setting will be put to its best use when listening to dynamic music with frequently occuring quiet parts classical music being a typical example It is worth noting that the effects of dithering and noise shaping are very subtle and not easily noticable Rockbox uses highpass triangular distribution noise as the dithering noise source and a third order noise shaper THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 49 7 Playback Settings The PLAYBACK SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play back 7 1 Shuffle Turning shuffle on will cause Rockbox to randomly re order the playlist Thus to shuffle all of the audio files on the player you first need to create a playlist containing all of them For more information on creating playlists refer to section 4 4 page 31 Options YES No 7 2 Repeat Configures settings related to repeating of directories or playlists Options OFF ALL ONE SHUFFLE A B Off The current playlist will not repeat when it is finished Note If you have the AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY option set to YES Rockbox will move on to the next directory on your hard drive If the AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY option is set to NO playback will stop when the current directory or playlist is finished All The current playlist will repeat when it is finished One Repeat
96. d show c they could even be mouse clicks or menu items whatever suits your program You should also get your employer if you work as a programmer or your school if any to sign a copyright disclaimer for the program if necessary Here is a sample alter the names Yoyodyne Inc hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program Gnomovision which makes passes at compilers written by James Hacker lt signature of Ty Coon gt 1 April 1989 Ty Coon President of Vice This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into propri etary programs If your program is a subroutine library you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library If this is what you want to do use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5
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98. decs supported ocios 8 6480 be ad a 158 G Credits 159 H Licenses 162 H 1 GNU Free Documentation License 102 H 2 The GNU General Public License oeaan p euas apita 170 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 10 1 Introduction 1 1 Welcome This is the manual for Rockbox Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players 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 A major goal of Rockbox is to be simple and easy to use yet remain very customisable and configurable We believe that you should never need to go through a series of menus for an action you perform frequently We also believe that you should be able to configure almost anything about Rockbox you could want pertaining to functionality Another top priority of Rockbox is audio playback quality Rockbox for most models includes a wider range of sound settings than the device s original fir
99. drop using the X tag The image must be of the same exact dimensions as your display Example on background image use EXAMPLE 7X background bmp The image with filename background bmp is loaded and used in the WPS Example on bitmap preloading and use THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 132 EXAMPLE 4x 16 1601 50 50 1 9 011 16 64 4x1 c rep_all bmp 16 64 4x1 d rep_one bmp 16 64 4x1 e rep_shuffle bmp 16 64 7 mm lt xdb xdc xdd xde 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 s in lt in gt it lt it1 ftn gt ia lt ia id lt id gt gt 7pbhpc pt That is tracknum title artist album where most fields are only displayed if avail able Could also be rendered as filename or tracknum title artist 12 3 Managing Rockbox Settings 12 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files Rockbox allows users to store and load multiple settings through the use of configuration files A configuration file is simply a text file with the extension cfg A configuration file may reside anywhere on the disk Multiple configuration files are permitted So for example you could have a car cfg file for the settings that you use while playing your juk
100. e Start Above Note that the unit of the threshold depends on the settings of the peak meter i e When the peak meter displays db you can adjust the level in db and when the peak meter is set to linear the threshold is displayed as percentage In the peak meter at the bottom of the screen the start threshold is displayed graphically by a little triangle pointing to the right There are two special values The value OFF turns the start condition off With this setting you have to start the recording manually and the trigger only stops the recording according to the stop condition The setting INF sets the trigger to the absolute minimum This setting only makes sense when you record via a digital input as even the noise of the device itself would exceed this threshold immediately THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 69 for at least The start duration defines the minimal duration that a signal must exceed the start threshold to start the recording Depending on your situation you may want to set this setting to 0 e g when copying a song from a commercial medium or to quite big values Because sound is not continuous by nature think of per cussion neglectable dropouts are tolerated during this start duration Stop Below When the sound level drops below the stop threshold the recording is stopped It is displayed numerically in the line Stop Below Just like the start threshold the unit of the stop thr
101. e an md5sum of the file the directory s contents or the whole filesystem If the file s extension is md5 or md5sun 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 11 4 10 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 Power Exit plugin Play Start Stop Rec Tap tempo Left Right Adjust tempo Up Down Adjust volume 11 4 11 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 Export List To Textfile Exports the list to rockbox folder_advance_list txt Import List From Textfile Imports the l
102. e food Move the worm over a food tile to eat it After eating the worm grows Each time a piece of food has been eaten a new piece of food will pop up somewhere Unfortunately for each new piece of food that appears two new argh pieces will appear too Argh An argh is a black square poisoned piece slightly bigger than food that makes a worm say Argh when run into A worm that eats an argh is dead Thus eating an argh must be avoided under any circumstances Arghs have the annoying tendency to accumulate Worms Thou shall not eat worms Neither other worms nor thyself Eating worms is blasphemous cannibalism not healthy and causes instant death And it doesn t help anyway the other worm isn t hurt by the bite It will go on creeping happily and eat all the food you left on the table Walls Don t crash into the walls Walls are not edible Crashing a worm against a wall causes it a headache it doesn t survive Game over The game is over when all worms are dead The longest worm wins the game Pause the game Press Play to pause the game Press Play again to resume the game Stop the game There are two ways to stop a running game e If you want to quit Wormlet entirely simply hit Power The game will stop immediately and you will return to the game menu e If you want to stop the game and still see the screen hit Rec This freezes the game If you hit Rec button again a new game starts
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104. e keymap is used in the Chuckie Egg game Custom Keymap This menu allows you to map one of the Spectrum keys acces sible through the plugin s virtual keyboard to each one of the buttons Quit Quits the emulator Hacking graphics Due to ZXBox s simple but fast scaling to the screen by dropping lines and columns some games can become unplayable It is possible to hack graphics to make them better visible with the help of an utility such as the Spectrum Graphics Editor Useful tools can be found at the World of Spectrum site http www worldofspectrum org utilities html 11 4 Applications 11 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 BatteryRuntime wiki page How it works Once loaded BATTERY BENCHMARK runs in the background recording various informa tion about your battery to memory A 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
105. e seeing is from shortcuts link in the root directory you can delete the selected entry by pressing Rec Deleting entries from other 1link files is not possible Advanced Usage Placing the line Display last path segments n where n is a number in the beginning of a link file will leave just the last 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 a custom display name for each entry individually To do so append a tabulator character after the entry s path followed by your custom name That name will then be used for showing the entry For example EXAMPLE MyMusic collection song mp3 lt TAB gt My favourite song 11 3 2 Chip 8 Emulator Chip8 is a kind of assembly language for a long gone architecture This plugin runs games written using the chip8 instructions To start a game open a ch8 file in the FILE BROWSER There are lots of tiny Chip8 games usually only about 256 bytes to a couple of KB which were made popular by the HP48 calculator s emulator for them The orig inal Chip8 had 64x32 pixel graphics and the new superchip emulator supports 128x64 graphics The only problem is that they are based on a 4x4 keyboard but since most games do not use all of the buttons this can easily be worked around THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHA
106. e 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 14 Current Build The current build is built at each source code change to the Rockbox SVN repository and represents the current state of Rockbox development This means that the build could contain bugs but most of the time is safe to use 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
107. ebox in your car and a headphones cfg file to store the settings that you use while listening to your player through headphones See section 12 3 2 page 132 below for an explanation of the format for configuration files See section 12 3 3 page 133 for an explanation of how to create edit and load configuration files 12 3 2 Specifications for cfg Files The Rockbox configuration file is a plain text file so once you use the SAVE CFG FILE option to create the file you can edit the file on your computer using any text editor program See Appendix section D page 148 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 TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 133 4 Lines starting with are ignored This lets you write comments into your config uration files Example of a configuration file EXAMPLE Example configuration file volume 70 bass 11 treble 12 balance 0 time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans lng Note As you can see from the example configuration files do not need to contain all of the Rockbox options You can create configuration files that change only certain settings So for example
108. ectory that typically changes the WPS and remote WPS font used and on some platforms additional information such as background 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 Some of the downloads from this website will actually be standalone WPS files others will be full blown themes Note Themes do not have to be purely visual It is quite possible to create a theme that switches between audio configurations for use in the car with headphones and when connected to an external amplifier See section 12 2 2 page 129 for more details Browse Fonts Browse the installed fonts on your player Selecting one will activate it See section 12 1 2 page 128 for further details about fonts Browse WPS files Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it stop will exit back to the menu For further information about the WPS see section 4 3 page 27 For information about editing a wps file see section 12 2 page 129 Browse RWPS files Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox wps directory and displays all rwps files Selecting one will activate it stop will exit back to the menu Note A rwps file is a special wps file for the remote display 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
109. ee 128 121 2 Loading Fonts sa dors sosea 2468484 128 12 1 3 Loading Languages lt 128 12 14 Loading Backdrops s a sr a o ee a ee a 128 122 the WPS io sos ansa a ior Boie ara A ae oe GR a 129 T221 WFS General DHO sos eo a ea na OAR e a ee a 129 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CONTENTS 8 12223 WES Build Your en a ars ake a ee ed a 129 12 4 Managing Rockbox Settings o s c ep 2 ce oe en ee Ke oe Re ek 132 123 1 Inproductiog to cfe Files 4 e Yee he a ew BE 132 123 2 Specifications lor efg Files sso ce cocos eee 132 12 3 3 The MANAGE SETTINGS menu o o 133 12 4 Firmware Loading o lt co ebie a waaa esas 134 12 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader oaoa a 134 File formats 135 Al Dle Omas ea A A ee p E i 136 A 2 Supported audio formats e a a 137 WPS Tags 138 EE Bint Bar o wwe hk oe e bk A He ee ek e ah Gaa 138 BE TOS ING oep een ee RA ee BO ae ae eS 138 Bo Power Related Information osos rar e e ek ee ee 139 Bee Wile Diore ne bbe ee Ee Bee Be kee Be a 139 Bo nio oia a eee eee OE A ee 140 B 6 Runtime Database lt lt o ess ee 140 Bf Sound DSP Y settings o c ee he C4 A A AA Be 140 BS Viral LED 2 2 Be eee ae ee he a ee ae 141 B9 Repeat Mode cnica Pe A ee eee Be be be 141 B10 Playback Mode Tage 2 0 0 pe ee Be BA Rae bee 141 Ba
110. en after it is played As you will see later in this chapter Rockbox can INSERT into a playlist in several places Queue In Rockbox to QUEUE a song means to put the song into a playlist and then to remove the song from the playlist once it has been played The only difference between INSERT and QUEUE is that the QUEUE option removes the song from the playlist once it has been played and the INSERT option does not 4 4 2 Creating playlists Rockbox can create playlists in four different ways By selecting playing a song from the File Browser Whenever a song is selected from the FILE BROWSER with Select or Right Rockbox will automatically 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 catalog The PLAYLIST CATALOG makes it possible to modify and create playlists that are not currently playing To do this select PLAYLIST CATALOG in the CONTEXT MEN
111. en lowers the volume sometimes quite much so here you can compensate for that Please note that a large positive pre amp setting can cause clipping unless prevent clipping is enabled The pre amp can be set to any decibel dB value between 12dB and 12dB in increments of 0 1dB 7 10 Beep Volume Controls the volume of the beep that is heard when skipping forward or backward be tween tracks The beep is disabled when set to OFF 7 11 Auto Change Directory Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a directory If AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY is set to YES Rockbox will continue to the next directory If AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY is set to NO playback will stop at the end of the current playlist Using the RANDOM feature requires you to first generate a folder list via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin see section 11 4 11 page 125 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 53 Note You must have the REPEAT option set to No for AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY to function properly Note This feature only works when songs have been played from the file browser Using it with the database may cause unexpected behavior 7 12 Last fm Log Enables logging of your played tracks for submittal to http www last fm This service was formely known as Audioscrobbler When you enable this option you ll have to reboot to start the logging The log file is called scrobbler log and is to be found in the root direc
112. es in that directory and its subdirectories will be scanned and added to the database 4 2 3 The Database Menu Load To RAM The database can either be kept on disk to save memory or loaded into RAM for fast browsing Setting this to YES loads the database to RAM allowing faster browsing and searching Setting this option to NO keeps the database on the disk meaning slower browsing but it does not use extra RAM and saves some battery on boot up Note If you browse your music frequently using the database you should load 21 to RAM as this will reduce the overall battery consumption because the disk will not need to spin on each search Auto Update If AUTO UPDATE is set to ON each time the player boots the database will automatically be updated Note The Auro UPDATE will only check for deleted files if the DIRECTORY Py CACHE SETTINGS gt GENERAL SETTINGS SYSTEM DISK DIRECTORY THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 26 CACHE is enabled UPDATE NOw includes that check whether dircache has been enabled or not 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 Note Unlike the AUTO UPDATE function UPDATE
113. eshold depends on the settings of the peak meter There s also a small triangular marker in the peak meter at the bottom of the screen In contrast to the start threshold marker it points to the left The value OFF turns the stop condition off With this setting you have to stop the recording manually for at least This time specifies the duration the signal must drop below the stop thresh old to stop the recording By selecting high values you can ensure that for example trailing fade outs are recorded entirely Presplit Gap When the signal drops below the stop threshold for the time specified by the presplit gap a new recording may be started when the signal raises above the start threshold Thus the value of the presplit gap should be smaller than the stop hold time Otherwise the recording would stop anyway and the presplit gap has no effect For most uses I recommend to set this parameter equal to the stop hold time Sometimes you may encounter a sound source e g a CD where the songs have fade outs and hardly any gaps between the tracks Here you can set the stop hold time to long values to ensure that all fade outs are recorded completely By specifying a short presplit gap you still can split the recording into seperate tracks whenever the trigger start condition is met More information can be found at VolumeTriggeredRecording THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 70 11 Plugins Plugins are programs t
114. ess of how the BOOKMARK ON STOP option is set Load Last Bookmark When the LOAD LAST BOOKMARK option is set to YES Rock box automatically returns to the position of the last bookmark within a file when that file is played When the LOAD LAST BOOKMARK option is set to ASK Rockbox will give the user the option of starting from the beginning of the track of or from the bookmark When the LOAD LAST BOOKMARK option is set to NO playback always starts from the beginning of the track and the user must play the bookmark or use the LOAD BOOKMARK function in the Main Menu while the file is playing to resume at the bookmarked location Maintain a list of Recently Used Bookmarks This list of Most Recent Bookmarks MRB s may be accessed through the RECENT BOOKMARKS option of the BOOK MARKS sub menu of the Main Menu When set to YES each new bookmark will be added to the MRB list Setting this to No disables the addition of bookmarks to the MRB list UNIQUE ONLY behaves like the YES setting but in addition all older entries for the current dynamic playlist will be removed from the MRB whenever a new entry is added Bookmark list keys The following keys can be used to navigate in any bookmark list THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 62 Key Action Down Selects the next bookmark Up Selects the previous bookmark Select Right or Resumes from the selected bookmark Play Left or Power Exits Recent Book
115. esume time x x No Play video from the beginning Main Menu Display Options Opens Display Options submenu see below Start Menu default on Enable disable the start menu Clear all resumes x Discard all x resume points Quit mpegplayer Exit the plugin Display Options Menu Dithering default off Prevent banding effects in gradients by blending of colours only available on Sansa e200 Sansa c200 and Gigabeat F X THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 112 Show FPS default off This option displays once a second if your video is full screen this means it will get overwritten by the video and appear to flash once per second the average number of frames decoded per second the total number of frames skipped see the Skip Frames option the current time in 100Hz ticks and the time the current frame is due to be displayed Limit FPS default on With this option disabled mpegplayer will display the video as fast as it can Useful for benchmarking Skip frames default on This option causes mpegplayer to attempt to maintain real time playback by skipping the display of frames but these frames are still decoded Disabling this option can cause loss of A V sync See this page in the Rockbox wiki for information on how to encode your videos to the supported format PluginMpegplayer 11 3 6 Rockboy 2400 8x04 385 Figure 11 39 Rockboy Rockboy is a Nintendo Game Boy and Game
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117. f idea of what it does gt Copyright C lt year gt lt name of author gt This program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it un der the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License or at your option any later version This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABIL ITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more details You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program if not write to the Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail If the program is interactive make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode Gnomovision version 69 Copyright C lt year gt lt name of author gt Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for details type show w This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions type show c for details THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 176 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 wan
118. for other players with a worm is a good way to get them out of the game Hints e Initially you will be busy with controlling your worm Try to avoid other worms and crawl far away from them Wait until they curl up themselves and collect the food afterwards Don t worry if the other worms grow longer than yours you can catch up after they ve died e When you are more experienced watch the tactics of other worms Those worms controlled by artificial stupidity head straight for the nearest piece of food Let the other worm have its next piece of food and head for the food it would probably want next Try to put yourself between the opponent and that food From now on you can control the other worm by blocking it You could trap it by making a 1 pixel wide U turn You also could move from food to food and make sure you keep between your opponent and the food So you can always reach it before your opponent THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 98 11 1 29 Xobox Figure 11 26 Xobox Xobox is a simple clone of the well known arcade game Qix The aim of the game is to section off parts of the arena with your trail in order to remove that section from the game Be careful not to get in the way of enemy balls because if they hit you or your trail you lose a life To finish a level you have to section off more than 75 Key Action Up Down Left Move around the arena Right Play Pause Power Open menu 11
119. fore 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 There are two separate components which need to be installed in order to run Rockbox The Rockbox bootloader The bootloader is the program that tells your player how to load and start other components of Rockbox and for providing the dual boot function This is the component of Rockbox that is installed to the flash memory of your laudio Note Dual boot does not currently work on the M5 The Rockbox firmware Unlike the laudio firmware which runs entirely from flash memory most of the Rockbox code is contained in a build that resides on your player s drive This makes it easy to update Rockbox The build consists of a directory called rockbox whi
120. ge 24 e Move the selection bar to the line you want to edit e Edit the highlighted text line or insert a new one using the Item Menu e When finished editing exit the Text Editor You ll be shown a list of save options Note When you have not changed the file the Text Editor will quit immediately Key Action Select Right or Edit Line Select Character Play Left or Power Exit Abort Editing Rec Show Item Menu Long Select Delete Line THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 128 12 Advanced Topics 12 1 Customising the User Interface 12 1 1 Getting Extras Rockbox supports custom fonts A collection of fonts is available for download in the font package at http www rockbox org daily shtml 12 1 2 Loading Fonts Rockbox can load fonts dynamically Simply copy the fnt file to the player and play it in the FILE BROWSER If you want a font to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox fonts directory and the filename must be at most 24 characters long You can browse the fonts in rockbox fonts under SETTINGS THEME SETTINGS BROWSE FONTS in the MAIN MENU Note Advanced Users Only Any BDF font file up to 16 pixels high should be usable with Rockbox To convert from bdf to fnt use the convbdf tool This tool can be found in the tools directory of the Rockbox source code 12 1 3 Loading Languages Rockbox can load language
121. ges 11 3 10 VBRfix This function scans a VBR Variable Bitrate MP3 file and updates creates the Xing VBR header The Xing header contains information about the VBR stream used to calculate average bit rate time information and to more accurately fwd rew in the stream This function is especially useful when the playback of a file skips fwd rew does not work correctly or the time display is incorrect Note VBRfix can only run when music is turned off since it uses the same memory as the player and can take a while to complete if run on big files 11 3 11 ZXBox Figure 11 40 ZX Box THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 A CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 116 ZX Box is a port of the Spectemu ZX Spectrum 48k emulator for Rockbox sproject s homepage To start a game open a tape file or snapshot saved as tap tzx z80 or sna in the file browser Note As ZXBox is a 48k emulator only loading of 48k z80 snapshots is possible 21 Default keys The emulator is set up for 5 different buttons Up Down Left Right and Jump Fire Each one of these can be mapped to one key of the Spectrum Keyboard or they can be used like a Kempston joystick Per default the buttons including an additional but fixed menu button are assigned as follows Key Action Up Down Directional movement Left Right Select Jump Fire Play Open ZXBox menu ZXBox menu Vkeyboard This is a virtual keyboard representing the Spectrum keyboard Con
122. h 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 come into effect after a reboot See section 8 8 page 62 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 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 16 you whether to overwrite files choose the Yes to all option The new build will be installed over your current build The bootloader only changes rarely and should not normally need to be updated Note If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed 21 components 2 5 Uninstalling Rockbox 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation You c
123. hat Rockbox can load and run Only one plugin can be loaded at a time Plugins have exclusive control over the user interface This means you cannot switch back and forth between a plugin and Rockbox When a plugin is loaded you need to exit it to return to the Rockbox interface Most plugins will not interfere with music playback but some of them will stop playback while running Plugins have the file extension rock Most of them can be started from BROWSE PLUGINS in the MAIN MENU Viewer plugins get started automatically by opening an associated file i e text files chip8 games or from the OPEN WITH option on the CONTEXT MENU 11 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 11 3 2 page 108 and Rockboy in section 11 3 6 page 112 11 1 1 Blackjack Dealer Money 990 Bet re Player Total Figure 11 1 Blackjack Blackjack a game played in casinos around the world is now available in the palm of your hand The rules are simple try to get as close to 21 without going over or simply beat out the dealer for the best hand Although this may not seem difficult blackjack is a game renowned for the strategy involved This version includes the ability to split buy insurance and double down For the full set of rules to the game and other facinating information visit http www blackjackinfo com blackjack rules php THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 71 Key Action In menu Pl
124. ime Set the time to record between each split if time is used as SPLIT MEASURE Options hours minutes between splits Off 00 05 00 10 00 15 00 30 1 00 1 14 74 minute CD 1 20 80 minute CD 2 00 4 00 8 00 10 00 12 00 18 00 24 00 Split Filesize Set the filesize to record between each split if filesize is used as SPLIT MEASURE 10 8 Prerecord Time This setting buffers a small amount of audio so that when the record button is pressed the recording will begin from that number of seconds earlier This is useful for ensuring that a recording begins before a cue that is being waited for 10 9 Clear Recording Directory Resets the location where the recorded files are saved to the root of your player s drive THE ROCKBOX MANUAL Taubio M5 CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 68 10 10 Clipping Light Causes the backlight to flash on when clipping has been detected Options OFF MAIN UNIT ONLY MAIN AND REMOTE UNIT REMOTE UNIT ONLY 10 11 Trigger When you record a source you often are only interested in the sound and not the silence in between The recording trigger provides you with a tool to automatically distinguish between sound and silence and record the sound only Unfortunately it is not very easy to make this distinction between silence and sound because you hardly ever encounter real silence There always are background noises What is considered as background noise depends on the situation For example during
125. ing emphasises or suppresses the lower bass frequencies in the sound A value of 0 dB means that bass sounds are unaltered flat response 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 ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 44 6 4 Balance This setting controls the balance between the left and right channels The default 0 means that the left and right outputs are equal in volume Negative numbers increase the volume of the left channel relative to the right positive numbers increase the volume of the right channel relative to the left 6 5 Channels A stereo audio signal consists of two channels left and right The CHANNELS setting determines if these channels are to be combined in any way and if so in what manner they will be combined Available options are Setting Description Stereo Leave the audio signal unmodified Mono Combine both channels and send the resulting signal to both stereo channels resulting in a monophonic output Custom Allows you to manually specify a stereo width with the STEREO WIDTH setting described later in this chapter Mono Left Plays the left channel in both stereo channels Mono Right Plays the right channel in both stereo channels Karaoke Removes all sound that is common to both channels Since most music is recorded with vocals being equally
126. ion This chapter describes the Rockbox music database system Using the information contained in the tags ID3v1 ID3v2 Vorbis Comments Apev2 etc in your audio files Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music files on your player and allows you to browse them by Artist Album Genre Song Name etc The criteria the database uses to sort the songs can be completely customised More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at DataBase 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 to music If you shut down your player the scan will continue next time you turn it on After the scan is finished you may be prompted to restart your player before you can use the database Ignoring Directories During Database Initialization You may have directories on your player whose contents should not be added to the database Placing a file named database ignore in a directory will exclude the files in that directory and all its subdirectories from scanning their tags and adding them to the database This will speed up the database initialization If a subdirectory of an ignored directory should still be scanned place a file named database unignore in it The fil
127. ircumstances It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system which is implemented by public license practices Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system it is up to the author donor to THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 174 10 11 12 decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a conse quence of the rest of this License Ifthe distribution and or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded In such case this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and or new versions of the General Public License from time to time Such new versions will be similar in spirit to
128. irst then your changes will be lost permanently The sgf gbn 091 sgf file is also the file loaded if another is not selected The information panel which displays the current move number may also contain these markers Mark Meaning There are nodes after the current node in the SGF tree There are sibling variations which can be navigated to using the Next Vari ation menu option of the Context Menu C There is a comment at the current node It can be viewed edited using the Add Edit Comment menu option of the Context Menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 79 Controls Key Action Up Move cursor up Down Move cursor down Left Move cursor left Right Move cursor right Select Play a move or use a tool if play mode has been changed Play Retreat one node in the game tree Rec Advance one node in the game tree Power Main Menu Long Select Context Menu Menus Main Menu The main menu for game setup and access to other menus New Create a new game with your choice of board size and handicaps Save Save the current state of the game It will be saved to sgf gbn_def 8 1 unless otherwise set Save As Save to a specified file Game Info View and modify the metadata of the current game Playback Control Control the playback of the current playlist and modify the volume of your player Zoom Level Zoom in or out on the board If you set the zoom level it will be saved and used again the ne
129. is FreeDoom http freedoom sourceforge net This can be used in place of doom2 wad or it may be used as an addon in Doom by placing it in the addons directory Menus Rockdoom Menu The Rockdoom menu is shown when Doom is first launched This is the only time it can be accessed before starting the game To re adjust Rockdoom options you will need to quit your current game and restart the plugin Main Menu The Doom plugin has a main menu which is brought up before a game is started It has the following entries Game Select which official wad to launch Addon Select which unofficial addon wad to launch From rockbox doom addons directory Demos Select which demo file to play on game start Options Configure low level Doom options Play Game Launch the wad addon Demo chosen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 76 Options Menu This menu has the following options Sound Enable or Disable sound in Doom Set Keys Change the game key configuration Time Demo Run a timed demo to test game speed on a player Only runs on Doom Shareware Player Bobbing Enable or Disable player up Down movement Translucency Enable or Disable sprite translucency Fireballs Plasma Fake Contrast Enable or Disable modified game lighting Always Run Make the player always run Headsup Display Show the player status when in fullscreen Statusbar Always Red Disable color response statusbar InGame Main Menu Thi
130. ist from rockbox folder_advance_list txt Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 126 Folder List Editor Keys Key Select Right or Play Long Select Left or Power 11 4 12 Stats Action Delete selected folder Bring up the context menu which allows you to remove the selected folder or it s entire folder tree Exit Figure 11 45 The stats plugin The stats plugin simply counts the number of files music files and directories on your player Press Power to abort counting and exit the plugin Press it again to quit after counting has finished 11 4 13 Stopwatch Figure 11 46 Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 127 Key Action Power Quit Plugin Play Start stop Rec Reset timer only when timer is stopped Select Take lap time Up Down Scroll through lap times 11 4 14 Text Editor This plugin allows you to view and edit simple text documents on your DAP You can view files by using OPEN WITH from the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 22 Usage If you start the Text Editor from the plugin browser you will be greeted with a blank screen When started from the OPEN WITH menu item your file should be shown on the screen You can now edit the file The Text Editor is line based This means you can edit one line at a time using the VIRTUAL KEYBOARD see section 4 1 3 pa
131. k Select Right or Resumes from the selected bookmark Play Left or Power Exits Recent Bookmark menu Long Rec Deletes the currently selected bookmark Long Select Enters 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 6 page 60 for more details on configuring bookmarking in Rockbox 5 4 Files Browse the files on your player see section 4 1 page 21 5 5 Database Browse by the meta data in your audio files see section 4 2 page 25 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 27 5 7 Settings The SETTINGS menu allows to set or adjust many parameters that affect the way your player works There are many submenus for different parameter areas Every time you are setting a value of a parameter and that value is selected from a list of some predefined available values you can press Long Select and the selection cursor will jump to the default value for the parameter You can then confirm or cancel the value This is useful if you have changed the value of the parameter from the default to some other value and would
132. l ethical or political position regarding them The Invariant Sections are certain Secondary Sections whose titles are desig nated as being those of Invariant Sections in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License If a section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not allowed to be designated as Invariant The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections If the Document does not identify any Invariant Sections then there are none The Cover Texts are certain short passages of text that are listed as Front Cover Texts or Back Cover Texts in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License A Front Cover Text may be at most 5 words and a Back Cover Text may be at most 25 words A Transparent copy of the Document means a machine readable copy represented in a format whose specification is available to the general public that is suitable for re vising the document straightforwardly with generic text editors or for images composed of pixels generic paint programs or for drawings some widely available drawing edi tor and that is suitable for input to text formatters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input to text formatters A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose markup or absence of markup has been arranged to thwart or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent An image format is
133. lays frames per second on screen Spacing The distance between the front edges of the side slides i e changes the degree of overlap of the side slides A larger number means less overlap Scales with zoom Centre margin The distance in screen pixels with zoom at 100 between the centre and side slides Scales with zoom THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 A CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 105 Number of slides Sets the number of slides at each side including the centre slide Therefore if set to 4 there will be 3 slides on the left the centre slide and then 3 slides on the right Zoom Changes the distance at which slides are rendered from the camera Show album title Allows setting the album title to be shown above or below the cover art or not at all Resize Covers Set whether to automatically resize the covers or to leave them at their original size Rebuild cache Rebuild the PictureFlow cache This is needed in order for PictureFlow to pick up new albums and may occasionally be needed if albums are removed 11 2 11 Plasma Figure 11 35 Plasma Plasma is a demo displaying a 80 s style retro plasma effect Key Action Up Down Adjust frequency Power Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 106 11 2 12 Snow Figure 11 36 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 Powe
134. ld 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 8 5 6 Car Adapter Mode This option turns ON and OFF the car ignition auto stop function Car Adapter Mode When using the player in a car CAR ADAPTER MODE automat ically stops playback on the player when power i e from cigarette lighter power adapter to the external DC in jack is turned off If the CAR ADAPTER MODE is set to ON Rockbox will pause playback when the external power off condition is detected Rockbox will then shutdown the player after the length of time set in the IDLE POWEROFF setting see above If power to the DC in jack is turned back on before the Idle Poweroff function has shut the player off playback will be resumed 5 seconds after the power is applied This delay is to allow for the time while the car engine is being started Once the player is shut off either manually or automatically with the IDLE POWEROFF function it must be powered up manually to resume playback 8 6 Bookmarking Bookmarks allow you to save your current position within a track so that you can return to it at a later time Bookmarks are saved on a per directory basis for dyn
135. le the backlight is turned off Like for the main unit if this setting is set to YES the first keypress will light up the remote backlight but have no other effect If set to No the first keypress will light up the remote backlight and engage the function of the key that is pressed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 57 Contrast Changes the contrast of your remote s LCD display Warning Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to find this menu option again LCD Mode This setting lets you invert the whole screen so now you get a black background and light text and graphics Upside Down Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest the buttons This is sometimes useful when carrying the player in a pocket for easy access to the headphone socket Scrolling This feature controls how text will scroll in Rockbox You can configure the following parameters Scroll Speed Sets how many times per second the automatic horizontal scrolling text will move a step Scroll Start Delay Controls how many milliseconds Rockbox should wait before a new text begins automatically scrolling Scroll Step Size Defines the number of pixels the text should move for each step as used by the Scroll Speed setting Remote Scrolling Options The options here have the same effect on the remote LCD as the options mentioned above have on the main LCD Bidirectional Scroll Limit Rockbox has two
136. like to restore the default value THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 39 5 7 1 Sound Settings The SOUND SETTINGS menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to customise your listening experience The details of this menu are covered in section 6 page 43 5 7 2 Playback Settings The PLAYBACK SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play back The details of this menu are covered in section 7 page 49 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 54 5 7 4 Manage Settings The MANAGE SETTINGS option allows the saving and re loading of user configuration settings browsing the hard drive for alternate firmwares and finally resetting your player back to initial configuration The details of this menu are covered in section 12 3 page 132 5 7 5 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu contains options that control the visual apperance of Rock box The details of this menu are covered in section 9 page 64 5 7 6 Recording Settings The RECORDING SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to recording The details of this menu are covered in detail in section 10 page 66 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 40 5 8 Recording 5 8 1 While Recording Screen WAVED 19 18 Time 00 00
137. lipboard to the current directory Delete Deletes the currently selected file This option applies only to files and not to directories Rockbox will ask for confirmation before deleting a file Press Select 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 Set As Backdrop Set the selected bmp file as background image The bitmaps need to meet the conditions explained in section 12 1 4 page 128 Open with Runs a viewer plugin on the file Normally when a file is selected in Rock box Rockbox automatically detects the file type and runs the appropriate plugin The OPEN WITH function can be used to override the default action and select a viewer by hand For example this function can be used to view a text file even if the file has a non standard extension i e the file has an extension of something other than txt See section 11 3 page 107 for more details on viewers Create Directory Create a new directory in the current directory on the disk Properties Shows properties such as size and the time and date of the last modification for the selected file If used on a directory the number of files and subdirectories will be shown as well as the total size Set As Recording Directory Save recordings in the selected directory Add to Shortcut
138. 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 27 Tag Type Origin filename string system album string id tag albumartist string id tag artist string id tag comment string id tag composer string id tag genre string id tag grouping string id tag title string id tag bitrate numeric id tag discnum numeric id tag year numeric id tag tracknum numeric id tag filename autoscore numeric runtime db lastplayed numeric runtime db playcount numeric runtime db Pm play time numeric runtime db min Ps play time sec numeric runtime db rating numeric runtime db commitid numeric system entryage numeric system length numeric system Lm track len numeric system min Ls track len sec numeric system 4 3 While Playing Screen The While Playing Screen WPS displays various pieces of information about the cur rently playing audio file The appearance of the WPS can be configured using WPS configuration files The items shown depend on your configuration all item can be turned on or off independently Refer to section B page 138 for details on how to change the display of the WPS e Status bar The Status bar shows Battery level charger status volume play mode repeat mode shuffle mode and clock In
139. ll Chonning Volume os ec s a we RR Ew EE ee a 141 Bile o ooer ee hee eR AN 142 A IIA 143 B 14 Alb Art e sacret acean ie e e da bee 144 B 15 Aligvineit 222 2845 4460 4b 4 oe SEERA rr a eS 145 B 16 Conditional Tags o soos 2524485 sa a eee be 145 B 17 Real Time Clock 000 ee eR eee ED ee hae eee 146 Beer Tage ae ke oe wk oe ee eA A 146 Album Art 147 Col Toroduetion e ea atp oci sok ae pie he ee hie ee he ee 147 2 Limitations 2254s 28242 24a Soe eee ee ee ee 147 C3 Where to put album art s s 147 Config file options 148 User feedback 153 Bl B g reports oc oor aioe eo Be AA A Be eee G 153 E 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 153 E2 Featureideas sa cis wea ee ek Rae ee ee PE RAE eR oS 153 E 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 153 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CONTENTS 9 E 2 2 Features we will not implement 2 4 154 F Changelog 155 Fil What is mew since vO o RAR we eae eS 155 ELL New feat res oc soniou p aiana ew eee ee a E ei 155 Fal Exentos so os bw ihm i a ee ia ad ke ed 155 F 2 What is new since BO 155 F 2 1 New features aoaaa a 155 F 22 Buhancements p soa e pra me a ke d e a ee bE 155 F3 What i new since v2 o ccoo koe maw eng Epa a ee Es 156 Fal New features o yw eed a ee doe a ote dew Se es 156 F32 Enhancements 56454 2a 64 484 84 o Sa ey 157 F 33 New co
140. 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 88 Key Action Play Restart game Left Move left Right Move right Down Move down Select Power Rotate left Up Rotate right Rec Drop Hold switch Pause Power Quit 11 1 19 Rockblox1d Rockblox1d is a game for people who find rockblox too hard In this version the second dimension is missing so the user only has to move the bricks down No horizontal moving anymore and no need to rotate the brick Key Action Select Move down faster Power Quit 11 1 20 Sliding Puzzle Figure 11 17 Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the whole picture or switch to number tiles if you like it a little easier Key controls THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 89 Key Action Move Tile Shuffle Change between picture and numbered tiles Stop the game 11 1 21 Snake Figure 11 18 Snake This is the popular snake game The aim is to grow your snake as large as possible by eating the dots that appear on the screen The game will end when the snake touches either the borders of the screen or itself Key Action U
141. mark menu Long Rec Deletes the currently selected bookmark Long Select Enters 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 8 7 Language This setting controls the language of the Rockbox user interface Selecting a language will activate it The language files must be in the rockbox langs directory See section 12 1 3 page 128 for further details about languages 8 8 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 have several limitations e Setting the Sound Option CHANNELS to KARAOKE may disable voice menus e Plugins and the wake up alarm do not support voice features Voice Directories This option controls voicing of directory names A voice file must be present for this to work Several options are available Spell
142. mbering more than 100 and the Document s license notice requires Cover Texts you must enclose the copies in covers that carry clearly and legibly all these Cover Texts Front Cover Texts on the front cover and Back Cover Texts on the back cover Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify you as the publisher of these copies The front cover must present the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and visible You may add other material on the covers in addition Copying with changes limited to the covers as long as they preserve the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions can be treated as verbatim copying in other respects If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit legibly you should put the first ones listed as many as fit reasonably on the actual cover and continue the rest onto adjacent pages If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering more than 100 you must either include a machine readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy or state in or with each Opaque copy a computer network location from which the general network using public has access to download using public standard network protocols a complete Transparent copy of the Document free of added material If THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 165 you use the latter option you must take reasonably prudent steps when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in q
143. memos for the selected day Rec Play Previous Next month Power Quit 11 4 4 Chess Clock Player 1 00 16 09 56 Figure 11 43 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 Right Left Increase decrease displayed Value Select Move to next screen Rec Move to previous screen e First enter the number of players 1 10 e Then set the total game time in mm ss e Then the maximum round time is entered For example this could be used to play Scrabble for a maximum of 15 minutes each with each round taking no longer than one minute Done Player 1 starts in paused mode THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 121 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 Rec Exit plugin Power Restart round for the current player Play Pause the time press again to continue Right Switch to next player Left Switch to previous player Select Open menu press again to select From the menu it is possible to delete a player modify the round time for the current player or set the total time for the game When the round time is up for a player the message ROUND UP is shown press NEXT to continue When the total time is up for a pl
144. mitations 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 BENCHMARK needs to write the data held in memory to disk in order to save them it is possible that should Rockbox shut down due to low battery then there will not be enough power remaining to write the data to disk Therefore all measurements since the previous save will be lost THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 119 11 4 2 Calculator Figure 11 41 Calculator This is a simple scientific calculator for use on the player It works like a standard calculator Pressing the lst and 2nd buttons will toggle between other available math functions Key Action Left Right Move around the keypad Up Down Select Select a button Rec Delete last entered digit or clear after cal culation Play Calculate Power Quit 11 4 3 Calendar Figure 11 42 Calendar This is a small and simple calendar application with memo saving function Dots indicate dates with memos The available memo types are one off yearly monthly and weekly memos THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 120 Key Action Left Right Move the selector Up Down Select Show
145. mware 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 a comprehensive introduction to the Rockbox firmware There is however more help available The Rockbox website at http www rockbox org contains very extensive documentation and guides written by members of the Rockbox community and this should be your first port of call when looking for further help If you cannot find the information you are searching for on the Rockbox website there are a number of support channels you should have a look at You can try the Rockbox forums located at http forums rockbox org Another option are the mailing lists which can be found at http www rockbox org mail From that page you can subscribe to the lists and browse the archives For searching the list archives simply use the search field that is located on the left side of the website Also you can ask on IRC The main THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTE
146. n cluding bmp x x coordinate y y coordinate x1 n filenamelx y nimages Preload an image for later display useful for when your images are displayed conditionally n image ID a z and A Z for later referencing in xd filename filename relative to rockbox and in cluding bmp x x coordinate y y coordinate nimages optional number of sub images tiled vertically of the same height contained in the bitmap Default is 1 xdn i Display a preloaded image n image ID a z and A Z as it was specified in x or 4x1 i optional number of the sub image to display a z for 1 26 and A Z for 27 52 By default the first i e top most sub image will be used Examples 1 Load and display the image rockbox bg bmp with ID a at 37 109 x albg bmp 37 109 2 Load a bitmap strip containing 5 volume icon images all the same size with image ID M and then reference the individual sub images in a conditional x1 M volume bmp 134 153 5 h pv lt xdMa xdMb xdMc xdMd xdMe gt Note THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX B WPS Tacs 144 e The images must be in a rockbox compatible format 1 bit per pixel BMP e The image tag must be on its own line e The ID is case sensitive giving 52 different ID s e The size of the LCD screen for each player varies See table below for appropriate sizes of each device The x and y coordinates must repect each of the players limits B 14 Album A
147. n 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 154 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX E USER FEEDBACK 154 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 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 or whatever No support 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 operati
148. nd select SAVE CURRENT PLAYLIST or enter the PLAYLIST OPTIONS menu in the MAIN MENU and select SAVE CURRENT PLAYLIST Either method will bring you to the VIRTUAL KEYBOARD see section 4 1 3 page 24 enter a filename for your playlist and accept it and you are done 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists Through the File Browser Playlist files like regular music tracks can be selected through the FILE BROWSER When loading a playlist from disk it will replace the current dynamic playlist THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 35 Through the Playlist catalog The PLAYLIST CATALOG offers a shortcut to all playlists in your player s specified playlist directory It can be used like the FILE BROWSER 4 4 7 Helpful Hints Including subdirectories in playlists You can control whether or not Rockbox includes the contents of subdirectories when adding an entire directory to a playlists Set the MAIN MENU gt SETTINGS PLAYLIST RECURSIVELY INSERT DIRECTORIES setting to YES if you would like to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently selected directory THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 36 5 The Main Menu 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu BS 21 32 Rockbox S Jd Database gt Resume Playback 3 Settings Recording Playlists Plugins 2 System Figure 5 1 The main menu The MAIN MENU is the screen from which all of the
149. nge tracks Fade In Delay The fade in delay is the length of time between when the crossfade process begins and when the new track begins to fade in Fade In Duration The length of time in seconds that it takes your music to fade in once the FADE IN DELAY has ended Fade Out Delay The fade out delay is the length of time between when the crossfade process begins and when the old track begins to fade out Fade Out Duration The length of time in seconds that it takes your music to fade out once the FADE OUT DELAY has ended Fade Out Mode If set to CROSSFADE one song will fade out and the next song will simultaneously fade in If set to MIX the ending song will continue to play as normal until its end while the starting song will fade in from under it MIX mode is not used for manual track skips even if it is selected here Note The rules above apply except in the instance where FADE OUT DELAY plus FADE OUT DURATION is less then FADE In DELAY which would create a gap in the audio In this case the FADE IN DELAY is reduced to eliminate the gap The graphic below illustrates how the different settings work in practice Crossfade Fade Out Delay 3s jap Fade Out Duration 5s i i Volume dB _ Startof crossfade i r Fade In Duration 6s EN J Fade In Delay 1s Time Track 1 Track 2 TH
150. nit is the connector for the Iaudio subpack or dock On the top of the unit is a charge indicator light which may feel a bit like a button but is not From the top of the player on the left hand side is the headphone socket then the remote connector Below this is a cover which protects the USB and charging connec tor 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys Key Action Power Start Rockbox Long Power Shutdown Rockbox On shutdown Rockbox automatically saves its settings If you have problems with your settings such as accidentally having set the colours to black on black they can be reset at boot time See the Reset Settings in section 12 3 3 page 133 for details In the unlikely event of a software failure hardware poweroff or reset can be performed by holding down Power until the player shuts off or reboots 3 1 3 Putting music on your player With the player connected to the computer as an MSC UMS device like a USB Drive music files can be put on the player via any standard file transfer method that you would use to copy files between drives e g Drag n Drop The default directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox album art searching and missing tag fallback in some WPSes uses the parent directory of a song as the Album name and the parent directory of that folder as the Artist name While files may be organized however you like
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152. nt bookmarks off on N A pause on headphone unplug off pause pause and resume N A rewind duration on pause 0 to 15 seconds disable autoresume if phones off on N A not present Last fm Logging off on N A talk dir off number spell N A talk dir clip off on N A talk file off number spell N A talk file clip off on N A talk filetype off on N A talk menu off on N A Announce Battery Level off on N A sort files alpha oldest newest type N A sort dirs alpha oldest newest N A sort interpret number digits numbers N A tagcache_autoupdate on off N A warn when erasing dynamic on off N A playlist cuesheet support on off N A folder navigation off on random N A gather runtime data off on N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 1 0 10 M5 APPENDIX D CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 150 Setting Allowed Values Unit skip length track 1 2 3 4 5 10 15 minutes start in screen previous root files db wps N A menu recording bookmarks playlist catalog directory path to dir N A replaygain on off N A replaygain type track album track shuffle N A replaygain noclip on off N A replaygain preamp 120 to 120 0 1dB crossfade off shuffle track skip always N A crossfade fade in delay 0 to 7 seconds crossfade fade out delay 0 to 7 seconds crossfade fade in duration 0 to 15 seconds crossfade fade out duration 0 to 15 seconds crossfade fade out mode crossfade mix N A crossfeed on off N A crossfeed direct gain 0 to 60 0 1dB crossfeed
153. ock is displayed in the middle of the LCD Time readout if enabled is displayed at the upper left If Time readout is in 12 hour 12h mode AM or PM will be displayed at the upper right The Date readout if enabled is displayed at the lower left The Counter if enabled is displayed at the lower right The second hand if enabled is displayed along with the hour and minute hands Digit display if enabled places 12 3 6 and 9 around the face of the clock in their respective positions THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 123 Digital mode An imitation of an LCD this mode shows a Clock comprised of digital segments The Date readout if enabled is displayed at the bottom center The Second readout if in Text mode is displayed at the top center if in Bar mode is displayed as a progress bar at the top of the LCD if in Invert mode will invert the LCD left to right as the seconds pass a fully inverted LCD means the entire minute has passed The Counter if displayed is shown at the upper left The Blinking Colon if enabled blinks the colon once every second 12 hour mode if enabled will display the time in a 12 hour format LCD mode Based on the Digital Mode the LCD mode is another imitation of an LCD The settings available in this mode are exactly the same as Digital Mode but they are independent of Digital Mode For example you can have the Date
154. on that would drain the batteries and take a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to a host computer THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX F CHANGELOG 155 F Changelog F 1 What is new since v3 1 F 1 1 New features 2009 03 06 PictureFlow supports all targets except Archos Player and can func tion during playback on all non Archos targets 2009 03 01 New alternative sorting algorithm which is number aware 2009 02 11 New game Goban plugin 2009 01 11 Battery charging on Sansa e200v1 c200v1 2008 12 27 PictureFlow resizes cover art on load and supports greyscale targets 2008 12 25 Preliminary support for Ipod accessories gt gt 7 F 1 2 Enhancements 2009 03 08 Faster text graphics rendering on colour targets and in the greyscale library speeding up list scrolling noticeably on ipod Video 2009 02 21 Add LCD sleep wakeup for iPod Video 5G 5 5G which allows sig nificant increase of battery runtime F 2 What is new since v3 0 F 2 1 New features 2008 12 09 Album Art resizing 2008 12 09 FM radio support on Gigabeat S 2008 11 26 Software controlled backlight fading for targets without hardware fad ing e200v1 c200v1 X5 Cowon D2 and H300 F 2 2 Enhancements 2008 12 01 Several new tags were added to the WPS syntax 2008 11 20 The build system received a major overhaul 2008 11 03 Customisable options in the QuickScreen 2008
155. one track over and over Shuffle When the current playlist has finished playing it will be shuffled and then repeated A B Repeats between two user defined points within a track typically used by musi cians when attempting to learn a piece of music This option is more complicated to use than the others as the player must first be placed into A B repeat mode and then the start and end points defined To set the Start Point A press Select The following press of Select will set the End Point B and a third successive Select will reset the markers THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 50 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
156. or the other formats 10 3 Frequency Choose the recording frequency sample rate are available Higher sample rates use up more disk space but give better sound quality Note The 11 025kHz setting is not available when usingMPEG LAYER 3 format 10 4 Source Choose the source of the recording The options are MIC and LINE N THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 A CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 67 10 5 Channels This allows you to select mono or stereo recording Please note that for mono recording only the left channel is recorded Mono recordings are usually somewhat smaller than stereo 10 6 Mono Mode When configured to record to mono and the source is a stereo signal use this setting to configure how the mono signal is created Options are L R and L R 10 7 File Split Options This sub menu contains options for file splitting which can be used to split up long recordings into manageable pieces The splits are seamless frame accurate no audio is lost at the split point The break between recordings is only the time required to stop and restart the recording on the order of 2 4 seconds Split Measure This option controls wether to split the recording when the SPLIT FILE SIZE is reached or when the SPLIT TIME has elapsed What to do when Splitting This controls what will happend when the splitting con dition is fullfilled the two available options here are START A NEW FILE or STOP RECORDING Split T
157. ot preceded by are displayed as typed e Lines beginning with are comments and will be ignored e Maximum file size used is 1600 bytes If you have a bigger WPS file only the first part of it will be loaded and used Note Keep in mind that your player resolution is 160x128x2 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 resolution of the remote is 128x96x2 pixels Conditional Tags If else Syntax xx lt true false gt If the tag specified by xx has a value the text between the lt and the is displayed the true part else the text between the and the gt is displayed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 A CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 130 the false part The else part is optional so the does not have to be specified if no else part is desired The conditionals nest so the text in the if and else part can contain all commands including conditionals Enumerations Syntax 4 xx lt altilalt2 alt3 else gt For tags with multiple values like Play status the conditional can hold a list of alternatives one for each value the tag can have Example enumeration EXAMPLE 7 7mp lt Stop Play Pause F wd 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
158. own it usually is Show the battery level in volts Show estimated battery time left p if the charger is connected only on targets that can charge batteries c if the unit is currently charging the battery only on targets that have software charge control or monitoring Sleep timer Shows the remaining time if the sleeptimer is set File Info Description File Bitrate in kbps File Codec e g MP3 or FLAC This tag can also be used in a condi tional tag 4 c lt mp1 mp2 mp3 aiff wav vorbis flac mpc a52 wavpack alac aac shn sid adx unknown gt The codec order is as follows MP1 MP2 MP3 AIFF WAV Ogg Vorbis OGG FLAC MPC AC3 WavPack WV ALAC AAC Shorten SHN SID ADX NSF Speex SPC APE File Frequency in Hz File Name File Name without extension File Path File Size In Kilobytes avg if variable bit rate or if constant bit rate First directory from end of file path Second directory from end of file path Third directory from end of file path 6099 Example for the 4dN commands If the path is Rock Kent Isola 11 747 mp3 d1 is Isola d2 is Kent You get the picture THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX B WPS Tacs 140 B 5 Playlist Song Info Tag hpb Description Progress Bar This will replace the entire line with a progress bar You can set the height position and width of the progressbar in pixels
159. p Down Change levels 1 is slowest 9 is fastest Play Toggle Play Pause 11 1 22 Snake 2 GAME SNAKE O uaze o o SPEED HI SCORE o Figure 11 19 Snake 2 The Snake Strikes Back THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 90 Another version of the Snake game Move the snake around and eat the apples that pop up on the screen Each time an apple is eaten the snake gets longer The game ends when the snake hits a wall or runs into itself Key Action In menu Up Down Set game speed Right Left Select starting maze Play Select game type A or B Select Start the game In game Up Down Steer the snake Left Right Select Pause and resume the game Power Quit In game A the maze stays the same in game B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one 11 1 23 Sokoban Figure 11 20 Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowded warehouse with a minimal number of pushes and moves The boxes can only be pushed never pulled and only one can be pushed at a time Sokoban may be used as a viewer for viewing saved solutions and playing external level sets with the sok extension Level sets should be in the standard Sokoban text format or RLE Run Length Encoded For more information about the level format see http sokobano de wiki index php title Level_format THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTE
160. pb height leftpos rightpos toppos px Percentage Played In Song pc Current Time In Song pe Total Number of Playlist Entries pm Peak Meter The entire line is used as volume peak meter pn Playlist Name Without path or extension pp Playlist Position pr Remaining Time In Song ps Shuffle Shows s if shuffle mode is enabled pt Total Track Time pv Current volume x dB Can also be used in a conditional pv lt 0 1 2 N gt B 6 Runtime Database Tag Description rp Song playcount rr Song rating 0 10 This tag can also be used in a conditional tag rr lt o 1 213 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 gt B 7 Sound DSP settings Tag Description Sp Display current playback pitch xf Crossfade setting in the order Off Shuffle Skip Always rg ReplayGain value in use x y dB If used as a conditional Replaygain type in use 4 rg lt Off Track Album TrackShuffle AlbumShuffle No tag gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX B WPS Tacs 141 B 8 Virtual LED Tag Description Alh h if the hard disk is accessed B 9 Repeat Mode Tag Description mm Repeat mode 0 4 in the order Off All One Shuffle Example mm lt Off A11 One Shuffle A B gt B 10 Playback Mode Tags Tag Description mp Play status 0 4 in the order Stop Play Pause Fast forward Rewind Example mp lt Stop Play Pause Ffwd Rew gt B 11 Changing Volume Tag Description mv t v if the volume is being changed
161. place in which the newly selected tracks are added to the playlist is determined by the following options Insert Add track s immediately after any tracks added via the most recent INSERT operation If no tracks have yet been added via an INSERT new tracks will be added immediately after the current playing track If playback is stopped a new dynamic playlist will get created with the selected tracks Insert Next Add track s immediately after current playing track no matter what else has been inserted Insert Last Add track s to end of playlist Insert Shuffled Add track s to the playlist in a random order Queue Queue is the same as Insert except queued tracks are deleted immediately from the playlist after they have been played Also queued tracks are not saved to the playlist file see section 5 9 page 41 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 Play Next Replaces all but the current playing track with track s Current playing track is queued THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 34 The PLAYLIST SUBMENU can be used to add either single tracks or entire directories to a playlist If the PLAYLIST SUBMENU is invoked on a single track it will put only that track into the playlist On the other hand if the PLAYLIST SUBMENU is invoked on a directory Rockbox adds all
162. program under these conditions and telling the user how to view a copy of this License Exception if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 172 such an announcement your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves then this License and its terms do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it Thus it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you rather the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative or collective works based on the Program In addition mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program or with a work based on the Program on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License 3 You may copy and distribute the Program or a work
163. r ee e he ee 55 MA Depp exc coronar rra aa Aa ES 55 Bo BG 2c ar a RA a be 59 S L Start Sere or he eR ee ed 59 80 2 Battery co ew ae we p ee ee eS 59 Be DR ie eke eee ae PRE RE ee wee eee Re 59 28 04 Idle Powers c cocos cda is be Pee eee wae oe ee 60 30 LINS eee eA ee he he ee 60 8 5 6 Car Adapter Mode 0 eee eee ee 60 Boy 1 lt a a eec ne ee a Ge See eS OP Ee a 60 NS E SAN 62 AA a Rk 62 9 Theme Settings 64 10 Recording Settings 66 101 Tormak saa ka ee ee ee ee SO ee we Oe Be ee 66 10 2 Encoder Settings 2 ve ee eee ee ee ee 66 103 Prequeney os o cumpa Ewe a ee ee ed 66 Ie AE 66 105 Channels socios sta aa A a a ek 67 10 6 Mono Mode s a a 67 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CONTENTS 6 10 7 File AE pues ei Ae eo RA a aa oe A 67 WO Prorecord Time caco rr a en e ee ee 67 10 9 Clear Recording Directory sos soe omea ee 67 TOC hippie Debbie a ee A et ee aa 68 WETITASSSE os see SOS Ake GO Se he ee a a a e 68 11 Plugins 70 A AA 70 eee 70 ste Wisi x Sa ke Re 71 MARA se ee ce A Ew ee Se ee Se a 72 AAA AED i cy A ek RG BR eee Se BE a 73 1115 Chopper cacr svi eo ee ee RG A eR a eae i a 74 115 goce E A E A a a 74 4 MM e ed ew a ype eee Wh ee ae ls hw 75 dae FERDE A ek ae wee Se Ge 77 Ce ca
164. r example a cutoff frequency of 50 Hz will adjust only very low frequencies A cutoff frequency of 200 Hz on the other hand will adjust a much wider range of bass frequencies The gain parameter controls how much the loudness of the band is adjusted Positive numbers make the EQ band louder while negative numbers make that EQ band quieter The Q parameter should always be set to 0 7 for the shelving filters Higher values will add a small boost around the cutoff frequency that is almost always undesirable Bands 1 3 Peaking filters Peaking EQ filters boost or lower a frequency range centered at the center frequency chosen Graphic equalizers in home stereos are usually peaking filters The peaking filters in Rockbox s EQ lets you adjust three different parameters for EQ bands 1 through 3 The center parameter controls the center frequency of the frequency range that is affected as described above The gain parameter controls how much each band is adjusted and works as for the low shelf filter Finally the Q parameter controls how wide or narrow the affected frequency range is Higher Q values will affect a narrower band of frequencies while lower Q values will affect a wider band of frequencies Band 4 High shelf filter A high shelf filter boosts or lowers all frequencies above a certain frequency limit much like what a treble control found on ordinary stereo systems does The high shelf filter is adjusted
165. r example statements of peer review or that the text has been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a standard You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front Cover Text and a passage of up to 25 words as a Back Cover Text to the end of the list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version Only one passage of Front Cover Text and one of Back Cover Text may be added by or through arrangements made by any one entity If the Document already includes a cover text for the same cover previously added by you or by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of you may not add another but you may replace the old one on explicit permission from the previous publisher that added the old one The author s and publisher s of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX H LICENSES 167 5 COMBINING DOCUMENTS You may combine the Document with other documents released under this License under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified versions provided that you include in the combination all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original documents unmodified and list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license notice and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers The combined work need only contain one copy of this
166. r more on the volume set ting THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 58 Battery Display Controls whether the battery charge status is displayed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Peak Meter The peak meter can be configured with a number of parameters Peak Release This determines how fast the bar shrinks when the music becomes softer Lower values make the peak meter look smoother Expressed in scale units per 10ms Peak Hold Time Specifies the time after which the peak indicator will reset For example if you set this value to 5s the peak indicator displays the loudest volume value that occurred within the last 5 seconds Larger values are useful if you want to find the peak level of a song which might be of interest when copying music from the player via the analogue output to some other recording device Clip Hold Time The number of seconds that the clipping indicator will be visible after clipping is detected Clip Counter Show the number of times the clip indicator went active during recording in front of the peak meters Scale Select whether the peak meter displays linear or logarithmic values The human ear perceives loudness on a logarithmic scale If the Scale setting is set to LOGARITHMIC dB scale the volume values are scaled logarithmically The volume meters of digital audio devices usually are scaled this way On the other hand if you are interested in the po
167. r of two ways The FILE BROWSER lets you navigate through the files and directories on your player entering directories and executing the default action on each file To help differentiate files each file format is displayed with an icon The DATABASE BROWSER on the other hand allows you to navigate through the music on your player using categories like album artist genre etc You can select whether to browse using the FILE BROWSER or the DATABASE BROWSER by selecting either FILES or DATABASE in the MAIN MENU If you choose the FILE BROWSER the SHOW FILES setting lets you select what types of files you wish to view See section 8 2 page 55 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 25 The remainder of this section deals with the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 22 4 1 1 File Browser Controls Key Action Up Down Go to previous next item in list If you are on the first last entry the cursor will wrap to the last first entry Left Go to the parent directory Select or Right Executes the default action on the se lected file or enters a directory Play If there is an audio file playing returns to the WHILE PLAYING SCREEN WPS without stopping playback Long Play Stops audio playback Long Select Enter
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169. r to quit 11 2 13 Starfield Figure 11 37 Starfield Starfield simulation like the classic screensaver Key Action Right Left Increase decrease number of stars Up Down Increase decrease speed Power Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 107 11 2 14 VU meter Figure 11 38 VU Meter This is a VU meter which displays the volume of the left and right audio channels There are 3 types of meter selectable The analogue meter is a classic needle style The digital meter is modelled after LED volume displays and the mini meter option allows for the display of small meters in addition to the main display as above From the settings menu the decay time for the meter its memory the meter type and the meter scale can be changed Key Action Power Save settings and quit Play Help Select Settings Up Raise Volume Down Lower Volume 11 3 Viewers Viewers are plugins which are associated with specific file extensions They cannot be run directly but are started by playing the associated file Viewers are stored in the rockbox rocks viewers directory 11 3 1 Shortcuts The Shortcuts Plugin allows you to jump to places within the file browser without having to navigate there manually The plugin works with link files A link file is just a text file with every line containing the name of the file or the directory you want to quickly jump to All names should be full absolute name
170. rd last condition THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX B WPS Tacs 146 B 17 Real Time Clock Tag Description cd Day of month ce Zero padded day of month cH Zero padded hour from 00 to 24 ck Hour from 0 to 24 461 Zero padded hour from 12 to 12 cl Hour from 12 to 12 cm Month 4614 Minutes cS Seconds cy 2 digit year cY 4 digit year cP Capital AM PM cp Lowercase am pm ca Weekday name cb Month name cu Day of week from 1 to 7 1 is Monday cw Day of week from 0 to 6 0 is Sunday B 18 Other Tags Tag Description hh Display a lt Display a lt Display a gt Display a gt 7 Display a y hs Indicate that the line should scroll Can occur anywhere in a line given that the text is displayed see conditionals above You can specify up to 10 scrolling lines Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as timers peak meters or progress bars THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX C ALBUM ART 147 C Album Art C 1 Introduction Rockbox allows you to put the album art or another image related to the music on your playerto display it in the PictureFlow plugin or in the WPS For this feature to work you must observe a few rules C 2 Limitations Rockbox does not support album art embedded in your files tags and will instead look for a picture located in the filesystem In addition to this the pictures must be in the BMP fo
171. rmat C 3 Where to put album art The pictures can be named a number of different ways and placed a number of different locations You can have pictures specific to the file or the album or use a generic picture You can place the picture in the same direcotry as the file in the parent directory or in a fixed directory named rockbox albumart The order Rockbox uses when looking for a picture is as follows 1 filename bmp 2 albumtitle bmp 3 cover bmp 4 rockbox albumart artist albumtitle bmp 5 albumtitle bmp 6 cover bmp The following characters will be replaced with an underscore _ when looking for albumtitle bmp or artist albumtitle bmp A lt gt Doublequotes will be replaced by single qutoes See s AlbumArt in the wiki for more details and programs that will help you automate the process of putting album art on your player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX D CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 148 D Config file options Setting Allowed Values Unit volume dB bass dB treble dB balance 100 to 100 channels stereo mono custom mono left N A mono right karaoke stereo_width 0 to 250 shuffle on off N A repeat off all one shuffle ab N A play selected on off N A party mode on off N A scan min step 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 25 seconds 30 45 60 seek acceleration very fast fast normal slow very N A slow antiskip 5s 15s 30s 1min 2min 3min N A 5min 10min
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173. rt Tag Description C1 x y 1 c r maxwidth t clblmaxheight1 Define the settings for albumart x x coordinate y y coordinate maxwidth Maximum height maxheight Maximum width AC Display the album art as config ured This tag can also be used as a conditional The picture will be rescaled preserving aspect ratio to fit the given maxwidth and maxheight If the aspect ratio doesn t match the configured values the picture will be placed according to the flags to the maxwidth and maxheight parameters e maxwidth 1 Align left c Align center default r Align right e maxheight t Align left c Align center default b Align right Examples 1 Load albumart at position 20 40 and display it without resizing C1 20 40 2 Load albumart at position 0 20 and resize it to be at most 100x100 pixels If the image isn t square align it to the bottom right corner CL 0 20 r100 b100 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 APPENDIX B WPS Tacs 145 B 15 Alignment Tag Description al Text is left aligned fac Text is center aligned har Text is right aligned All alignment tags may be present in one line but they need to be in the order left center right If the aligned texts overlap they are merged B 16 Conditional Tags Tag Description 7xx lt truelfalse gt If Else Evaluate for true or false case 7xx lt altilalt2lalt3 lelse gt Enumerations Evaluate for first second thi
174. rt Coin Select 1 Player Start Power 2 Player Start Play Menu 11 1 15 Pegbox wo Palen pate Figure 11 13 pegbox To beat each level you must destroy all of the pegs If two like pegs are pushed into each other they disappear except for triangles which form a solid block and crosses which allow you to choose a replacement block THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 86 Key Action In game Up Down to move around Left Right Select to select save Rec to restart level Play to go up a level Power to quit 11 1 16 Pong 2 2 Figure 11 14 Pong Pong is a simple two player tennis game Whenever a player misses the ball the other scores Key Action Up Left player up Down Left player down Rec Right player up Play Right player down Power Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 87 11 1 17 Robotfindskitten robotfindskitten v1 4142132 nd kitten No just kidding B g mB i Figure 11 15 Robotfindskitten In this game you are robot Your job is to find kitten This task is complicated by the existence of various things which are not kitten Robot must touch items to determine if they are kitten or not The game ends when robotfindskitten Key Action Up Down Left Move robot Right Power Quit 11 1 18 Rockblox Figure 11 16 Rockblox Rockblox is a Rockbox version of the classic falling blocks game from Russia The aim of the game is to
175. s A 1 Supported file formats Icon File Type Extension Action when selected Directory none The browser enters that directory f Audio file various see section A 2 Rockbox takes you to the page 137 WPS and starts playing the file E Cuesheet cue View a cuesheet file E Playlist m3u m3u8 Rockbox loads the playlist and starts play ing the first file K Rockbox firmware iaudio ROLO will load the new firmware gt While Playing Screen wps The new WPS display configuration will be loaded Language File lng Loads a language file Text File txt This will display the text file using Rockbox text browser plugin E Configuration File cfg The settings file will be loaded A Font fnt This font will replace the current one Plugin rock Starts a Rockbox plugin sl Chip8 game 608 Play a Chip8 game T Image jpg View a JPEG image Link Link Display list of target files and directories selecting one jumps to the tar get see section 11 3 1 page 107 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX A FILE FORMATS 137 A 2 Supported audio formats Format Extension Notes Lossy codecs MPEG audio mp1 mpa mp2 mp3 OGG Vorbis 068 oga Some old floor 0 files may crash Rockbox Musepack mpc Advanced Audio Coding m4a m4b mp4 Windows Media Audio wma wmv asf ATSC A 52 ab2 ac3 Supports downmixing for playback of 5 1 streams in stereo ADX adx Speex Spx
176. s 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 it s location in the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 24 4 1 3 Virtual Keyboard 6065 tx 466860 ul Bad readme txt Figure 4 3 The virtual keyboard This is the virtual keyboard that is used when entering text in Rockbox for example when renaming a file or creating a new directory The virtual keyboard can be easily changed by making a text file with the required layout More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at sLoadableKeyboardLayouts Picker area Key Action Up Down Move about the virtual keyboard If you move out of the picker area you get to the Line edit mode Left Right moves the solid cursor Select Inserts the currently selected keyboard letter at the current filename cursor po sition Play Exits the virtual keyboard and saves any changes Rec Exits the virtual keyboard without saving Line edit mode any changes Key Action Left Right Move left and right Select Deletes the letter to the left of the cursor Up Down Returns to the picker area THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 25 4 2 Database 4 2 1 Introduct
177. s i e they should start with a Directory names should also end with a THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 108 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 Subsequent calls of the context menu will create it again How to use link 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 1ink 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 ar
178. s an icon in the margin like here Notes are used to mark information that could help you or indicate a possible weirdness in rockbox that would be explained Warning This is a warning In contrast to notes mentioned above a warning should be taken more seriously While ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage ignoring warnings could cause serious damage If you are new to rockbox you should really read the warnings before doing anything that is warned about This icon marks a section that is intended especially for the blind and visually impaired As they cannot read the manual in the same way sighted people do we have added some additional descriptions If you are not blind or visually impaired you most likely can completely skip these blocks To make this easier there is an icon shown in the margin on the right Links to the wiki are abbreviated by the name of the wiki page Those names are still linked so you can simply follow them like any other link in this manual If you want to access a wiki page manually go to http www rockbox org wiki and type the page name in the Go box at the top of the page Links to wiki pages are also indicated by the symbol in front of the page name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 gt CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 12 2 Installation Installing Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure However before beginning there are a few things it is important to know 2 1 Be
179. s as the GRAPHICAL EQ The only difference is that the parameters are adjusted through textual menus rather than through a graphic interface Save EQ Preset This option saves the current EQ configuration in a cfg file Browse EQ Presets This menu displays a list of EQ presets as well as any EQ con figurations saved using the SAVE EQ PRESET option Users unfamiliar with the operation of a parametric EQ may wish to use the presets instead of trying to configure the EQ or use the presets for designing their own custom EQ settings 6 9 Dithering This setting controls the dithering and noise shaping functionality of Rockbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 48 Most of Rockbox audio file decoders work at a higher bit depth than the 16 bits used for output on the player s audio connectors The simplest way to convert from one bit depth to another is simply discarding all the surplus bits This is the default behaviour and adds distortion to the signal that will vary in character along with the desired sound Dithering adds low level noise to the signal prior to throwing away the surplus bits which gives the resulting signal a uniform noise floor which is independent of the sig nal Most people find this noise preferable to the time varying noise heard when not performing dithering After dithering noise shaping is performed This basically just pushes the dithering noise to the parts of the frequency spe
180. s functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 1G Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 2G DOOM Sound on the iAudio X5 X5L and X5V Experimental WAV playback plugin for Archos Recorder Ondio Initial version of Tag Cache Bubbles a bubble game Tetrox a Tetris clone Xobox a Xonix Qix clone Pacbox a pacman arcade machine emulator Chessbox chess game plugin iPod 5G audio playback Color bitmap support in the WPS for color models Brickmania game plugin Unicode support Jewels game plugin a Bejeweled clone F 3 2 Enhancements 7 7 7 gt CO 2008 08 06 2008 02 23 2008 01 04 2007 08 08 2007 08 06 2007 08 05 Redesigned recording screen New default theme cabbie 2 0 All new greyscale library with improved performance Added support for grouping tags Organise the plugins into categories Voice file changes Older voices no longer work now all voice files are target specific 2007 08 03 2007 04 04 2007 03 20 2007 01 23 Added support for the disc number tag WPS tokenizer Rewritten WPS code rockbox file moved inside rockbox directory Settings are now saved to rockbox config cfg and the hidden config sector is not used anymore 2006 11 29 Playlists are saved with the extension m3u8 extension m3u is now read using the chosen codepage 2006 09 16 New scheduler Audio playback is now prioritised over other tasks 2006 09 02 Enhanced statusbar
181. s menu can only be accessed from within a running game and is displayed by pressing Power New Game Start a new game Options In game options Load Game Load a saved game Save Game Save the current game Quit Quit the game InGame Options Menu This menu has the folloing options End Game Ends the current game Messages Enable or Disable in game messages Screen Size Shrink or Enlarge the displayed portion of the game Gamma Change the brightness Gamma of the game Sound Volume Change the sound music and system volume Note In game music is not currently supported Keys Key Action Up Move Forward Down Down Left Turn Left Right Turn Right Select Shoot Play Open Power InGame Menu Select Enter Rec Change Weapon THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 77 Playing the game After installation of the wad files is complete you can start the game 11 1 8 Flipit Figure 11 6 Flipit Flipping the colour of the token under the cursor also flips the tokens above below left and right of the cursor The aim is to end up with a screen containing tokens of only one colour Key Action Up Down Move the cursor Left Right Select Flip Play Left Shuffle Play Right Solve Play Up Solve step by step Power Quit the game 11 1 9 Goban Figure 11 7 Goban THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAUDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 78 Goban is a a plugin for playing viewing and recording games of
182. s the ability to cache the contents of your drive in RAM The DIRECTORY CACHE takes a small amount of memory away from Rockbox that would otherwise be used to buffer music but it speeds up navigation in the file browser by eliminating the slight pause between the time a navigation button is pressed and the time Rockbox responds Turning this setting on activates the directory cache and turning it off deactivates the directory cache Note The first time you enable the directory cache Rockbox will request a reboot of the player and upon restarting take a few minutes to scan the drive After this the directory cache will work in the background THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 60 8 5 4 Idle Poweroff Rockbox can be configured to turn off power after the unit has been idle for a defined number of minutes The player is idle when playback is stopped or paused It is not idle while the USB or charger is connected or while recording Settings are either OFF or 1 to 10 minutes in 1 minute steps Then 15 30 45 and 60 minutes are available 8 5 5 Limits This sub menu relates to limits in the Rockbox operating system Max Entries in File Browser This setting controls the limit on the number of files that you can put in any particular directory in the file browser You can configure the size to be between 50 and 10 000 files in steps of 50 The default is 400 Higher values will shorten the music buffer so you shou
183. s to the next level after every one hundred points and randomly clears several jewels Key Action Left Right Up Down Move the cursor around the jewels Select Select a jewel Long Select Show the in game menu Power Exit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 83 11 1 12 MazezaM gt 3 Cc ES E Figure 11 10 MazezaM The goal of this puzzle game is to escape a dungeon consisting of ten mazezams These are rooms containing rows of blocks which can be shifted left or right You can move the rows only by pushing them and if you move the rows carelessly you will get stuck You can have another go by selecting retry level from the menu but this will cost you a life You start the game with three lives Luckily there are checkpoints at levels four and eight Key Action Up Down Left Move Character Right Power Menu 11 1 13 Minesweeper 2 EEE EEREEEE asas ld 1 1 1 2 2 2 43 Maia 2 2 1 y AmE ajajaj Jajaja 2 mim E EEEE Figure 11 11 Minesweeper plugin The classic game of minesweeper Use the Up and Down keys to select the required percentage of mines to set the difficulty then press the Rec key to begin The aim of the game is to uncover all of the squares on the board If a mine is uncovered then the game is over If a mine is not uncovered then the number of mines THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauUDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS
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185. section A 1 page 136 These icons can also be customised See the r IconSets and s Customlcons Wiki pages for details Clear Backdrop Rockbox allows you to select bitmap pictures to use as backdrops see section 12 1 4 page 128 for further information This option allows you to clear the backdrops that you set Line Selector Type This option allows you to select which type of line selector to use THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 A A CHAPTER 9 THEME SETTINGS 65 Pointer A small arrow to the left of the menu text Bar inverse A bar with inverted foreground and background colour THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 66 10 Recording Settings mo 22 09 a Recording Settings Encoder Settings 3 Frequency Source 4 Channels File Split Options 4 Prerecord Time E Clear Recording Directory Clipping Light Figure 10 1 The recording settings screen Note To change the location where recordings are stored open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 22 on the directory where you want to store them in the FILE BROWSER and select Ser As RECORDING DIRECTORY 10 1 Format Choose which format to save your recording in The available choices are the two un compressed formats PCM WAVE and AIFF the losslessly compressed WAVPACK and the lossy MPEG LAYER 3 10 2 Encoder Settings This sets the bitrate when using the MPEG LAYER 3 format And has no settings f
186. splayed 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 12 ADVANCED TOPICS 131 EXAMPLE s t4hia hs hit t3 pc pr Display id3 artist for 4 seconds Display id3 title for 2 seconds Display current and remaining track time for 3 seconds repeat Conditionals can be used with sublines to display a different set and or number of sublines on the line depending on the evaluation of the conditional Example subline with conditionals EXAMPLE h2it lt ht8hshit hshin gt L2ia lt At3hshia L t0 gt The format above will do two different things depending if ID3 tags are present If the ID3 artist and title are present e Display id3 title for 8 seconds e Display id3 artist for 3 seconds e repeat If the D3 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 x tag 2 Preload the image with x1 and show it with xd This way you can have your images displayed conditionally 3 Load an image and show as back
187. supppose you typically use the player at one volume in the car and another when using headphones Further suppose you like to use an inverse LCD when you are in the car and a regular LCD setting when you are using headphones You could create configuration files that control only the volume and LCD settings Create a few different files with different settings give each file a different name such as car cfg headphones cfg etc and you can then use the BROWSE CFG FILES option to quickly change settings A special case configuration file can be used to force a particular setting or settings every time Rockbox starts up e g to set the volume to a safe level Format a new configuration file as above with the required setting s and save it into the rockbox directory with the filename fixed cfg 12 3 3 The Manage Settings menu The MANAGE SETTINGS menu can be found in the MAIN MENU The MANAGE SET TINGS menu allows you to save and load cfg files Browse cfg Files Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox directory and displays all cfg configuration files Selecting a cfg file will cause Rockbox to load the settings contained in that file Pressing Left will exit back to the MANAGE SETTINGS menu See the WRITE CFG FILES option on the MANAGE SETTINGS menu for details of how to save and edit a configuration file Reset Settings This wipes the saved settings in the player and resets all settings to their default values Note You can
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189. the same way as the low shelf filter except that it works on the high end of the frequency spectrum rather than the low end THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 47 As a general guide EQ band 0 should be used for low frequencies EQ bands 1 through 3 should be used for mids and EQ band 4 should be used for highs Enable EQ This option controls whether the EQ is on or off Graphical EQ This option brings up a graphic EQ screen which allows adjustment of each of the three parameters described above gain center frequency and Q for each of the five EQ bands Key Action Up Raises the highlighted parameter Down Lowers the highlighted parameter Left Moves to the previous EQ band Right Moves to the next EQ band Select Toggles the cursor among the three pa rameters gain center frequency Q for the selected EQ band Power Rec Exits the graphic EQ screen Pre cut If too much gain is added through the graphical EQ your music may distort The PRECUT setting allows you to adjust the overall gain of the EQ If your music distorts when using the EQ trying changing this setting to a negative value Simple EQ This option provides an easier alternative for those who are daunted by all of the parameters that can be adjusted using the graphical EQ With the SIMPLE EQ the only parameter that can be adjusted is the gain Advanced EQ This sub menu provides options for adjusting the same parameter
190. ting and the CROSS GAIN setting High Frequency Cutoff Decides at which frequency the cross path audio will start to be cut by the amount described by the HIGH FREQUENCY ATTENUATION setting Most users will find the default settings to yield satisfactory results but for the more adventurous user the settings can be fine tuned to provide a virtual speaker placement suited to ones preference Beware that the crossfeed function is capable of making the audio distort if you choose settings which result in a too high output level THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 46 6 8 Equalizer Si 66Hz 6 7 PK 0 6d8__ 206Hz 1 8 Q PK 0 60d8__ S060Hz 1 8 Q PK 0 60d8_ 460060Hz 1 0 HS 12000Hz Edit mode Gain Figure 6 2 The graphical equalizer Rockbox features a parametric equalizer EQ As the name suggests a parametric EQ lets you control several different parameters for each band of the EQ In some ways the EQ is similar to the BASS and TREBLE settings described earlier but the EQ allows you to control the sound much more carefully Rockbox s parametric EQ is composed of five different bands Band 0 Low shelf filter The low shelf filter boosts or lowers all frequencies below a certain frequency limit much like what a bass control found on ordinary stereo systems does Adjust the cutoff frequency parameter to decide where the shelv ing starts to take effect Fo
191. to reload the last game saved save the current position and start a new game without having to quit the game THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 74 Keys Key Action Direction keys Move the cursor Select Pick up Drop piece Rec Change level Play Force play Power Show the menu 11 1 5 Chopper Navigate a cavernous maze without banging into walls the ceiling or the floor How long can you fly your chopper Key Action Select Up Make chopper fly Power Enter menu 11 1 6 Dice Dice is a simple dice rolling simulator Select number and type of dice to roll in a menu and start by choosing Roll Dice The result is shown as individual numbers as well as the total of the rolled dice Key Action Play Roll dice again Power Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 75 11 1 7 Doom Figure 11 5 Doom This is the famous Doom game Getting started For the game to run you need wad game files located in rockbox doom on your player Create the directory and save the following files there rockdoom wad The Rockbox wad based on prboom wad from prboom 2 2 6 Your wad files Copy all Doom wads you wish to play into that directory The needed files can be found at mPluginDoom To play addon wads create the addons directory within the doom directory Place wad files in this directory Currently doom only supports a maximum number of 10 addons A free alternative for Doom 2
192. tory of your player Note See mLastFMLog for a further description and for tools you can use to submit your Last fm log 7 13 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 7 14 Skip Length Designed to speed up navigation and prevent unintentional track skipping when listening to long audio tracks SKIP LENGTH changes the behavior of the Left and Right buttons so that they skip by a given number of minutes instead of skipping to a new track Note To skip tracks with this setting set to a time interval press Short Left Long Right to go forward and Short Right Long Left to go back THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 D D CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 54 8 General Settings mS 22 81 General Settings Playback Settings Playlists File View 4 Database Display System E Bookmarking Language Woice 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
193. trols are the same as in standard Rockbox but you just press one key instead of entering a phrase Play Pause Tape Toggles playing of the tape if it is loaded Save Quick Snapshot Saves snapshot into rockbox zxboxq z80 Load Quick Snapshot Loads snapshot from rockbox zxboxq z80 Save Snapshot Saves a snapshot of the current state You would enter the full path and desired name for example games zx snapshots chuckie sna The snapshot format will be chosen after the extension you specified per default z80 will be taken in case you leave it open Toggle Fast Mode Toggles fastest possible emulation speed no sound maximum frameskip etc This is Useful when loading tapes with some specific loaders Options Map Keys To Kempston Controls whether the player s buttons should sim ulate a Kempston joystick or some assigned keys of the Spectrum keyboard Display Speed Toggle displaying the emulation speed in percent Invert Colors Inverts the Spectum colour palette sometimes helps visibility Frameskip Sets the number of frames to skip before displaying one With zero frameskip ZXBox tries to display 50 frames per second THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 117 Sound Turns sound on or off Volume Controls volume of sound output Predefined Keymap Select one of the predefined keymaps For example 2w90Z means map ZXBox s Up to 2 Down to w Left to 9 Right to 0 and Jump Fire to z This exampl
194. uantity 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 Modified Version under precisely this License with the Modified Version filling the role of the Document thus licensing distribution and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy of it In addition you must do these things in the Modified Version A Use in the Title Page and on the covers if any a title distinct from that of the Document and from those of previous versions which should if there were any be listed in the History section of the Document You may use the same title as a previous version if the original publisher of that version gives permission B List on the Title Page as authors one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version together with at least five of the principal authors of the Document all of its principal authors if it h
195. upported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 136 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 If FOLLOW PLAYLIST is set to NO when you enter the FILE BROWSER from the WPS you will find yourself in the directory you were in when you last left the FILE BROWSER Show Path If this setting is set to FULL PATH the full path to the current directory will be displayed on the first line in the FILE BROWSER If set to CURRENT DIRECTORY ONLY only the name of the current directory will be displayed This has a similar effect on the Datab
196. 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 display track name full path N A recursive directory insert on off ask N A scroll speed 1 to 25 Hz scroll delay 0 to 2500 ms scroll step pixels screen scroll step pixels Screen Scrolls Out Of View on off N A bidir limit 0 to 200 screen scroll paginated on off N A hold _lr_for_scroll_in list on off N A show path in browser off current directory full path N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauDIO M5 APPENDIX D CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 149 Setting Allowed Values Unit contrast 0 to 63 N A backlight timeout off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 seconds 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight timeout plugged off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 seconds 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight filters first keypress on off N A backlight on button hold normal off on N A caption backlight on off N A brightness N A disk spindown 3 to 254 seconds battery capacity mAh car adapter mode on off N A idle poweroff off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 minutes 30 45 60 max files in playlist 1000 32000 N A max files in dir 50 10000 N A lang path filename Ing N A wps path filename wps N A autocreate bookmarks off on N A autoload bookmarks off on N A use most rece
197. wer level that is applied to your headphones you should choose LINEAR display This setting cannot be displayed in units like volts or watts because such units depend on your headphones Minimum and maximum range These two options define the full value range that the peak meter displays Recommended values for the LOGARITHMIC dB setting are 40 dB for minimum and 0 dB for maximum Recommended values for LINEAR display are 0 and 100 Note that 40 dB is approxi mately 1 in linear value but if you change the minimum setting in linear mode slightly and then change to the dB scale there will be a large change You can use these values for zooming into the peak meter Default Codepage A codepage describes the way extended characters that are not available within the ASCII character set are encoded ID3v1 tags do not have a codepage encoding contained so Rockbox needs to know what encoding has been used when generating these tags This should be ISO 8859 1 but to support lan guages outside Western Europe most applications use the setting of your operating system instead If your operating system uses a different codepage and you are getting garbled extended characters you should adjust this settings In most cases sticking to ISO 8859 1 would be sufficient THE ROCKBOX MANUAL 0110 M5 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 59 8 5 System 8 5 1 Start Screen Set the screen that Rockbox will start in Selecting RESUME PLAYBACK
198. will resume playback where it was when the player was shut off if there is a playlist to resume and will then end up in the WPS Selecting PREVIOUS SCREEN will make Rockbox start in the screen it was when the player was shut off 8 5 2 Battery Options relating to the battery in the player Battery Capacity This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity in mAh the battery being used has The default is 950mAh which is the capacity value for the standard battery shipped with the player Rockbox uses this value to estimate remaining battery life for the info screen and WPS Changing this setting has no effect whatsoever on actual battery life This setting only affects the accuracy of the battery life estimation as shown on screen Rockbox does not automatically distinguish between the L models and the simple models which determine the default value If your dap is an M5L set the value to 2250mAh for more accuracy in the runtime estimation 8 5 3 Disk Options relating to the hard disk Disk Spindown Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it is idle for a certain amount of time This setting 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 Directory Cache Rockbox ha
199. xt time you open this plugin Options Open the Options Menu Context Menu Open the Context Menu which allows you to set play modes and other tools Quit Leave the plugin Any unsaved changes are saved to sgf gbn_def sgf Game Info The menu for modifying game info metadata of the current game This information will be saved to the SGF file and can be viewed in almost all SGF readers Basic Info Shows a quick view of the basic game metadata if any has been set otherwise does nothing This option does not allow editing Time Limit The time limit of the current game Overtime The overtime settings of the current game Result The result of the current game This text must follow the format speci fied at http www red bean com sgf properties html RE to be read by other SGF readers Some examples are B R Black wins by resignation B 5 5 Black wins THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TAubDIo M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 80 by 5 5 points W T White wins on Time Handicap The handicap of the current game Komi The komi of the current game compensation to the white player for black having the first move Ruleset The name of the ruleset in use for this game The NZ and GOE rulesets include suicide as a legal move for multi stone suicide only the rest do not Black Player The name of the black player Black Rank Black s rank in dan or kyu Black Team The name of black s team if any White Player The name of the white
200. y Pause Resume playback Power Stop playback and quit 11 3 5 MPEG Player The Mpeg Player is a video player plugin capable of playing back MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 video streams with MPEG audio multiplexed into mpg files To play a video file you just select it in the Rockbox FILE BROWSER If your file does not have the mpg extension but is encoded in the supported format you will need to use the OPEN WITH context menu option and choose MPEGPLAYER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TauUDIO M5 CHAPTER 11 PLUGINS 111 Key Action Play Pause Resume Long Play Stop Up Down Adjust volume up down Rec Open the MPEG Player menu When a video file is selected the start Menu will be displayed unless it is disabled via the option start menu see below In the latter case the video will start playing immediately unless a resume point is found in which case the resume menu is presented Start Menu Play from beginning Resume information is discarded and the video plays from the start Resume time min x x Resume video playback at stored resume time x x start of the video if no resume time is found Set start time min A preview screen is presented consisting of a thumbnail preview and a progress bar where the user can select a start time by seeking through the video The video playback is started by pressing the select button Quit mpegplayer Exit the plugin Resume Menu Yes min x x Resume video playback at stored r

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