Home

Rockbox user manual

1. 113 11 1 2 Loading Fonts 113 11 1 3 Loading Languages 113 11 1 4 UI Viewport 113 11 2 Con guring the Theme 114 11 2 1 Themeing General Info 114 11 2 2 Themes Create Your Own 114 11 2 3 Info Viewport SBS only 116 11 3 Managing Rockbox Settings 119 11 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files 119 11 3 2 Speci cations for cfg Files 120 11 3 3 The Manage Settings menu 120 11 4 Firmware Loading 121 11 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader 121 11 5 Rockbox in Flash 121 11 5 1 Introduction 121 11 5 2 Terminology and Basic Operation 122 11 5 3 Initial Flashing Procedure
2. 100 10 3 14ZXBox 100 10 4 Applications 102 10 4 1 Battery Benchmark 102 10 4 2 Calculator 103 10 4 3 Chess Clock 104 10 4 4 Disk Tidy 105 10 4 5 Firmware ash 106 10 4 6 Keybox 106 10 4 7 md5sum 106 10 4 8 Metronome 106 10 4 9 Random Folder Advance Con guration 107 10 4 10Split Editor 107 10 4 11Stats 111 10 4 12Stopwatch 111 10 4 13Text Editor 111 11 Advanced Topics 113 11 1 Customising the User Interface 113 11 1 1 Getting Extras
3. 50 8 5 1 Start Screen 50 8 5 2 Battery 50 8 5 3 Idle Powero 50 8 5 4 Limits 51 8 6 Bookmarking 51 8 7 Language 52 8 8 Voice 53 9 Theme Settings 55 10 Plugins 57 10 1 Games 57 10 1 1 Blackjack 57 10 1 2 BrickMania 58 10 1 3 Bubbles 59 10 1 4 Chessbox 59 10 1 5 Chopper 60 10 1 6 Dice 61 10 1 7 Flipit 61 10 1 8 Goban
4. 11 2 2 2 Manual Installation 13 2 2 3 Finishing the install 13 2 2 4 Enabling Speech Support optional 13 2 3 Running Rockbox 14 2 4 Updating Rockbox 14 2 5 Uninstalling Rockbox 14 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation 14 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation 14 2 6 Troubleshooting 14 3 Quick Start 15 3 1 Basic Overview 15 3 1 1 The player s controls 15 3 1 2 Turning the player on and o 16 3 1 3 Putting music on your player 16 3 1 4 The rst contact 16 3 1 5 Basic controls 16 3 1 6 Basic concepts 17 3 2 Customi
5. 62 10 1 9 Jackpot 66 10 1 10Jewels 66 10 1 11MazezaM 67 10 1 12Minesweeper 67 10 1 13Pegbox 68 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Contents 6 10 1 14Pong 69 10 1 15Reversi 70 10 1 16Robot ndskitten 70 10 1 17Rockblox 70 10 1 18Rockblox1d 71 10 1 19Rocklife 71 10 1 20Sliding Puzzle 72 10 1 21Snake 73 10 1 22Snake 2 73 10 1 23Sokoban 74 10 1 24Solitaire 75 10
6. 123 11 5 4 Updating the Rockbox Image in Flash 124 11 5 5 Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents 124 11 6 Optimising battery runtime 124 11 6 1 Audio format and bitrate 125 A File formats 126 A 1 Supported le formats 127 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Contents 8 B Theme Tags 128 B 1 Status Bar 128 B 2 Information from the track tags 128 B 3 Viewports 129 B 4 Power Related Information 129 B 5 Information about the le 130 B 6 Playlist Song Info 131 B 7 Runtime Database 131 B 8 Virtual LED 132 B 9 Repeat Mode 132 B 10 Playback Mode 132 B 11 Current Sc
7. 36 5 7 4 Theme Settings 36 5 7 5 Manage Settings 36 5 8 Playlist 37 5 9 Plugins 37 5 10 System 37 6 Sound Settings 39 6 1 Volume 39 6 2 Bass 39 6 3 Treble 39 6 4 Balance 40 6 5 Channels 40 6 6 Stereo Width 40 6 7 Loudness 40 6 8 Auto Volume 41 6 9 Super Bass 41 6 10 MDB Micronas Dynamic Bass 41 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Contents 5
8. 143 F Credits 145 G Licenses 149 G 1 GNU Free Documentation License 149 G 2 The GNU General Public License 157 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 1 Introduction 9 1 Introduction 1 1 Welcome This is the manual for Rockbox Rockbox is an open source rmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and e cient than your device s stock rmware 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 xes 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 con gurable 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 con gure 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
9. Key Action Direction keys Move the cursor Mode Pick up Drop piece Mode On O Change level Long Mode Force play On O Show the menu 10 1 5 Chopper Figure 10 5 Chopper Navigate a cavernous maze without banging into walls the ceiling or the oor How long can you y your chopper The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 61 Key Action Up Mode Make chopper y On O Enter menu 10 1 6 Dice Dice is a simple dice rolling simulator Select number and type of dice to roll in a menu and start by choosing Roll Dice The result is shown as individual numbers as well as the total of the rolled dice Key Action Mode Roll dice again On O Quit 10 1 7 Flipit Figure 10 6 Flipit Flipping the colour of the token under the cursor also ips 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 Left Right Move the cursor Mode Flip Mode Left Shu e Mode Up Solve Mode Right Solve step by step On O Quit the game The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 62 10 1 8 Goban Figure 10 7 Goban Goban is a a plugin for playing viewing and recording games of Go also known as Weiqi Baduk Igo and Goe It uses standard Smart Game Format SGF les for sav ing and loading games You can nd a short introduction to Go a
10. le on your computer using any text editor program See Appendix section C page 137 for available settings Con guration les 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 speci ed in this manual for each setting 4 Lines starting with are ignored This lets you write comments into your con g uration les Example of a con guration le Example volume 70 bass 11 treble 12 balance 0 time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans lng Note As you can see from the example con guration les do not need to contain all b of the Rockbox options You can create con guration les that change only certain set tings So for example supppose you typically use the player at one volume in the car and another when using headphones Further suppose you like to use an inverse LCD when you are in the car and a regular LCD setting when you are using headphones You could create con guration les that control only the volume and LCD settings Create a few di erent les with di erent settings give each le a di erent 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 con guration le can be used to force a particular set
11. vbrfix Note VBR x can only run when music is turned o since it uses the same memory as b the player and can take a while to complete if run on big les The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 100 10 3 13 Wavplay Figure 10 41 Wavplay This plugin is for demo purposes only It is planned to have Wavplay as part of the normal playback engine later At the moment it is only possible to start playing one wav le at a time Therefore playlists are impossible As every other viewer plugin Wavplay is associated with the speci c les Playing a wav le starts the plugin automatically and the Wavplay screen appears This screen gives information about samplerate and length of the playing le Note Seeking within the wav le or changing the volume once the plugin is running is b not possible Wavplay uses the sound settings that were used before except for pitch The only action that can be performed is to stop by pressing On O and Wavplay will be exited and you are returned to the lebrowser If the end of the le has been reached you will also be returned to the lebrowser 10 3 14 ZXBox Figure 10 42 ZXBox ZXBox is a port of the Spectemu ZX Spectrum 48k emulator for Rockbox Zproject s homepage To start a game open a tape le or snapshot saved as tap tzx z80 or sna in the le browser Note As ZXBox is a 48k emulator only loading of 48k z80 snapshots is poss
12. Chapter 1 Introduction 10 main channel for Rockbox is rockbox on irc irc freenode net Many helpful developers and users are usually around Just join and ask your question don t ask to ask if someone knows the answer you ll usually get an answer pretty quickly More information including IRC logs can be found at http www rockbox org irc We also have a web client so that you can join the Rockbox IRC channel without needing to install additional software onto your computer If you think you have found a bug please make sure it actually is a bug and is still present in the most recent version of Rockbox You should try to con rm that by using the above mentioned support channels rst After that you can submit that issue to our tracker Refer to section E page 142 for details on how to use the tracker 1 3 Naming conventions and marks We have some conventions especially for naming that are intended to be consistent throughout this manual Manufacturer and product names are formatted in accordance with the standard rules of English grammar e g Archos playback is currently unsupported Manufacturer and model names are proper nouns and thus are written beginning with a capital letter This manual has some parts that are marked with icons on the margin to help you nding 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
13. In order to b make nding notes easier each one is accompanied by an icon in the margin as here Notes are used to mark useful information that may help you to get the most out of Rockbox Warning This is a warning In contrast to notes mentioned above a warning should be taken more seriously Whereas ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage ignoring warnings could cause serious damage to your player You really should read the warnings especially if you are new to Rockbox This icon marks a section that is intended especially for the blind and visually 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 can probably com pletely 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 Z 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 Z in front of the page name The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 2 Installation 11 2 Installation Installing Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure However before beginning there are a few things it is important to know
14. Mode Toggle Play Pause 10 1 22 Snake 2 Figure 10 18 Snake 2 The Snake Strikes Back Another version of the Snake game Move the snake around and eat the apples that pop up on the screen Each time an apple is eaten the snake gets longer The game ends when the snake hits a wall or runs into itself The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 74 Key Action In menu Up Down Set game speed Right Select starting maze Left Select game type A or B Mode Start the game In game Up Down Left Right Steer the snake Mode Pause and resume the game On O Quit In game A the maze stays the same in game B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one 10 1 23 Sokoban Figure 10 19 Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowded warehouse with a minimal number of pushes and moves The boxes can only be pushed never pulled and only one can be pushed at a time Sokoban may be used as a viewer for viewing saved solutions and playing external level sets with the sok extension Level sets should be in the standard Sokoban text format or RLE Run Length Encoded For more information about the level format see http sokobano de wiki index php title Level format The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 75 Key Action In game Up Down Left Right Move the sokoban up down left
15. The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 28 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 le to a playlist Select the playlist you want the le 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 rst Sound Settings This is a shortcut to the Sound Settings Menu where you can con gure volume bass treble and other settings a ecting the sound of your music See section 6 page 39 for more information Playback Settings This is a shortcut to the Playback Settings Menu where you can con gure shu e repeat party mode skip length and other settings a ecting 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 The value wraps at 10 Bookmarks This allows you to create a bookmark in the currently playing track Show Track Info Figure 4 4 The track info viewer This screen is accessible from the WPS screen and provides a detailed view of all the identity information about the current
16. linear scaling Table 10 1 Controls in the split editor Save dialogue In the save dialogue it is possible to specify which of the les you want to save and their names When nished select Save and the les will be written to disk Note that les The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 110 can not be overwritten so lenames that do not exist yet must be chosen If unsure whether the le already exists simply try to save it If another le with this name exists the dialogue will return and you can choose another lename Figure 10 46 The Split Editor s Save Dialogue Key Action Up Down Select item Right Toggle edit item On O Cancel Table 10 2 Controls in the save dialogue Scale The values in the waveform are scaled according to the settings of the peak meter These can be altered in the peak meter settings see section 8 4 page 49 If extreme minimum or maximum values are set the waveform might be cut o A minimum setting of 60 dB and a maximum setting of 0 dB are recommended These settings should be capable of producing useful waveforms for very soft sounds in logarithmic mode dB When the editor is used on loud sounds such as commercial rock or pop music switching to the linear scale may prove more e ective since the logarithmic scale compresses loud noises and makes it more di cult to identify characteristic shapes Note that it is always possible to t
17. rmware 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 di erent con gurations quickly for di erent purposes e g a large font for in your car di erent 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 lenames spelled out or spoken 1 2 Getting more help This manual is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the Rockbox rmware 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 rst port of call when looking for further help If you cannot nd the information you are searching for on the Rockbox website there are a number of support channels you should have a look at You can try the Rockbox forums located at http forums rockbox org The mailing lists are another option and can be found at http www rockbox org mail From that page you can subscribe to the lists and browse the archives To search the list archives simply use the search eld that is located on the left side of the website Furthermore you can ask on IRC The The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio
18. 2nd buttons will toggle between other available math functions Key Action Left Right Up Down Move around the keypad Mode Select a button Long Mode Calculate On O Quit 10 4 3 Chess Clock Figure 10 44 Chess Clock The chess clock plugin is designed to simulate a chess clock but it can be used in any kind of game with up to ten players Setup Key Action Up Down Increase decrease displayed Value Right Move to next screen Mode Move to previous screen First enter the number of players 1 10 Then set the total game time in mm ss 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 Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 105 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 di erent Keys are as follows Key Action On O Exit plugin Left Restart round for the current player Right Pause the time press again to continue Up Switch to next player Down Switch to previous player Mode Open menu Right to select From the menu it is possible to delete a player modify the round time for the current player or set the total time for the game When
19. Graphic frequency spectrum analyser We cannot access the audio waveform from the MP3 decoder so we cannot analyse it Even if we had access to it the CPU would probably be too slow to perform the analysis anyway Cool sound e ects Adding new sound e ects requires reprogramming the MAS chip and we cannot do that The MAS chip is programmable but we have no access to the chip documentation The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix E User feedback 144 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 Support other le systems than FAT32 like NTFS or ext2 etc No Rockbox needs to support FAT32 since it can only start o a FAT32 partition since that is the only way the ROM can load it and addingsupport for more le systems will just take away valuable ram for unnecessary features You can partition your player ne just make sure the rst one is FAT32 and then make the other ones whatever le
20. Start the plugin Rockbox Video rvf View the movie Rockbox format Text File txt Display the text le using the text viewer plugin Flash Image ucl Flash the Rockbox image into the ROM Voice le voice Allow Rockbox to speak menus Wave Audio File wav Play the WAV le While Playing Screen wps Load the new WPS display con g uration The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix B Theme Tags 128 B Theme Tags Themeing is discussed in detail in section section 11 2 page 114 what follows is a list of the available tags B 1 Status Bar Tag Description we Display Status Bar wd Hide Status Bar wi Display the inbuilt Status Bar in the current viewport These tags override the player setting for the display of the status bar They must be noted on their own line which will not be shown in the WPS B 2 Information from the track tags Tag Description ia Artist ic Composer iA Album Artist id Album Name iG Grouping ig Genre Name in Track Number it Track Title iC Comment iv ID3 version 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 or empty if not an ID3 tag iy Year ik Disc Number Remember that this information is not always available so use the conditionals to show alternate information in preference to assuming These tags when written with a capital I e g Ia or Ic show the information for the next song to be played The Rockbox manua
21. or right On O Menu Mode Left Back to previous level Mode Up Restart level Mode Right Go to next level Mode Undo last movement Mode Down Redo previously undone move Solution playback Mode Pause resume Up Down Increase decrease playback speed Left Right Go backward forward while paused On O Quit Some places where can you can nd level sets http www sourcecode se sokoban levels php http sokobano de en levels php Note that some level sets may contain levels that are too large for this version of Sokoban and are unplayable as a result 10 1 24 Solitaire Figure 10 20 Klondike solitaire This is the classic Klondike solitaire game for Rockbox This is probably the best known solitaire in the world Many people do not even realize that other games exist Though the name may not be familiar the game itself certainly is This is due in no small part to Microsoft s inclusion of the the game in every version of Windows Though popular the odds of winning are rather low perhaps one in thirty hands The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 76 For the full set of rules to the game and other interesting information visit http www solitairecentral com rules klondike html Key Action Up Down Left Right Move Cursor around Mode Select cards move cards reveal hidden cards Long Mode If a card was selected unselect it else Draw 3 new c
22. subline de nition Example s t4 ia s it 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 di erent set and or number of sublines on the line depending on the evaluation of the conditional Example subline with conditionals Example it lt t8 s it s fn gt ia lt t3 s ia t0 gt The format above will do two di erent things depending if ID3 tags are present If the ID3 artist and title are present Display id3 title for 8 seconds Display id3 artist for 3 seconds repeat If the ID3 artist and title are not present Display the lename 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 119 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 xl and show it with xd This way you can have your images displayed conditionally Example on bitmap preloading and use Example x a static_icon bmp 50 50 xl b rep off bmp 16 64 xl c rep all bmp 16 64 xl d rep one bmp 16 64 xl e rep shuffle bmp 16 64 mm lt xdb xdc xdd
23. 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 it fn gt ia lt ia id lt id gt gt pb pc pt That is tracknum title artist album where most elds are only displayed if avail able Could also be rendered as lename or tracknum title artist 11 3 Managing Rockbox Settings 11 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files Rockbox allows users to store and load multiple settings through the use of con guration les A con guration le is simply a text le with the extension cfg A con guration le may reside anywhere on the disk Multiple con guration les are permitted So for example you could have a car cfg le for the settings that you use while playing your jukebox in your car and a headphones cfg le to store the settings that you use while listening to your player through headphones See section 11 3 2 page 120 below for an explanation of the format for con guration les See section 11 3 3 page 120 for an explanation of how to create edit and load con guration les The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 120 11 3 2 Speci cations for cfg Files The Rockbox con guration le is a plain text le so once you use the Save cfg file option to create the le you can edit the
24. 1 25Spacerocks 76 10 1 26Star 77 10 1 27Sudoku 78 10 1 28Wormlet 79 10 1 29Xobox 81 10 2 Demos 82 10 2 1 Bounce 82 10 2 2 Credits 82 10 2 3 Cube 83 10 2 4 Demystify 83 10 2 5 Fire 84 10 2 6 Fractals 84 10 2 7 Logo 85 10 2 8 Mosaique 85 10 2 9 Oscilloscope 86 10 2 10PictureFlow 86 10 2 11Plasma
25. 1 semitone in semi tone mode Long Up Long Down Increase Decrease pitch by 1 in pro centual mode or a semitone in semitone mode Left Right Temporarily change pitch by 2 beat match Mode Reset rate to 100 On O Leave the Pitch Screen Warning Changing the pitch can cause audible Artifacts or Dropouts The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 30 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 y Any time you insert or queue tracks using the Playlist submenu see section 4 4 3 page 31 you are creating or adding to a dynamic playlist Insert In Rockbox to Insert an item into a playlist means putting an item into a playlist and leaving it there even after it is played As you will see later in t
26. 10 4 6 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 rst time you enter Keybox you will be prompted for a master password and for con rmation of the master password The master password is the password that you must use to access your stored passwords Once inside enter the context menu by pressing Long Right From the context menu you can create new entries delete entries and edit entries Each entry has a title a user name and a password Selecting Reset Keybox from the main menu will delete the current list of passwords and a new empty list will be created the next time you select Enter Keybox after prompting for a new master password Entries are automatically saved when the plugin is exited 10 4 7 md5sum Open a le a directory or just launch it from the plugin menu to create an md5sum of the le the directory s contents or the whole lesystem If the le s extension is md5 or md5sum it will check the md5 sums in the le instead If the le s extension is md5list it will compute md5 sums for all the les listed 10 4 8 Metronome This plugin can be used as a metronome to keep time during music practice Adjust the tempo through the interface or by tapping it out on the appropriate button Key Action Long On O Exit plugin
27. 2 1 Before Starting USB connection To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your computer For manual installation uninstallation or should autodetection fail during automatic installation you need to know where to access the player On Windows this means you need to know the drive letter associated with the player On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player On Mac OS X you need to know the volume name of your player 2 2 Installing Rockbox There are two ways to install Rockbox automated and manual The automated way is the preferred method of installing Rockbox for the majority of people Rockbox Utility is a graphical application that does almost everything for you However should you encounter a problem then the manual way is still available to you Rockbox itself comes as a single package There is no need to install additional software to run Rockbox Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in installing Fonts Rockbox can load custom fonts The fonts are distributed as a separate package and thus need to be installed separately They are not required to run Rockbox itself but a lot of themes require the fonts package to be installed Themes The appearance of Rockbox can be customised by themes Depending on your taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox 2 2 1 Automated Installation To automatically install Rockbox
28. 2 Demos 10 2 1 Bounce Figure 10 26 Bounce This demo is of the word Rockbox bouncing across the screen In Scroll mode the bouncing text is replaced by a di erent one scrolling from right to left Key Action Up Down Moves to next previous option Right Left Increases decreases option value Mode Toggles Scroll mode On O 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 10 2 2 Credits The credits plugin scrolls the entire list of the names of all the Rockbox contributors after displaying the Rockbox logo and version This plugin is called when selecting Version from the System section of the Rockbox main menu Exit at any time by pressing Left or On O The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 83 10 2 3 Cube Figure 10 27 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D Key Action Mode Right Display at maximum frame rate Mode Left Pause Mode Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Up Down Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused On O Quit 10 2 4 Demystify Figure 10 28 Demystify Demystify is a screen saver like demo Key Action Left Right Increase decrease speed Up Down Add remove polygon On O Quit The Rockbox manu
29. 3 10 Text Viewer Figure 10 38 Text Viewer This is a Viewer for text les with word wrap Just open a txt or nfo le to display it The text viewer features controls to handle various styles of text formatting and has top of le and bottom of le buttons You can view les without a txt or nfo extension by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 20 You can also bookmark pages The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 96 Default keys Key Action Up Scroll up Down Scroll down Left Top of le Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode Right Bottom of le Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode Mode Toggle autoscroll Mode On O Set Reset bookmarks Long Mode Enter menu On O Exit text viewer Menu Return Return to the le being viewed Viewer Options Change settings for the current le Encoding Set the codepage in the text viewer Available settings ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 ISO 8859 7 Greek ISO 8859 8 Hebrew CP1251 Cyrillic ISO 8859 11 Thai CP1256 Arabic ISO 8859 9 Turkish ISO 8859 2 Latin Extended CP1250 Central European SJIS Japanese GB 2312 Simple Chinese KSX 1001 Korean BIG5 Traditional Chinese UTF 8 Unicode This setting only applies to the plugin and is independent from the Default Codepage setting see section 8 4 page 49 Word Wrap Toggle word wrap mode On Break lines at the maxim
30. 88 10 2 12Snow 88 10 2 13Star eld 89 10 2 14VU meter 89 10 3 Viewers 90 10 3 1 Shortcuts 90 10 3 2 BMP viewer 91 10 3 3 Chip 8 Emulator 92 10 3 4 Frotz 93 10 3 5 JPEG viewer 94 10 3 6 Movie Player 95 10 3 7 Rockbox ash 95 10 3 8 Search 95 10 3 9 Sort 95 10 3 10Text Viewer 95 10 3 11Theme Remove 98 10 3 12VBR x 99 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Contents 7 10 3 13Wavplay
31. Length Designed to speed up navigation when listening to long audio tracks Skip Length changes the behaviour of the Left and Right buttons so that they skip by a given time instead of skipping to a new track The Skip to Outro option changes the behaviour so that the buttons skip to just before the end of the track so that the last few seconds are played before the next track 7 11 Prevent Track Skipping If this option is enabled the ability to manually skip tracks is disabled in order to avoid accidental track skips It does not prevent changing tracks if a track ends which can be achieved by combining this option with Repeat set to One The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 8 General Settings 46 8 General Settings Figure 8 1 The general settings screen 8 1 Playlist The Playlist sub menu allows you to con gure settings related to playlists Recursively Insert Directories If set to On then when a directory is inserted or queued into a dynamic playlist all subdirectories will also be inserted If set to Ask Rockbox will prompt the user about whether to include sub directories Warn When Erasing Dynamic Playlist If set to Yes Rockbox will provide a warning if the user attempts to take an action that will cause Rockbox to erase the current dynamic playlist 8 2 File View The File View menu deals with options relating to how the File Browser displays les Sort Case Sensitive If this option is set to Yes
32. Main Screen The waveform displays the volume of the song over time It will appear as the song plays and help to visually identify the point in time where the split is desired The split point indicator is a vertical line with a small triangle at the top end It is the most important control element of the split editor It can be moved with the Left and Right buttons Later when you have ne tuned the split point the song will be split at this position The split time At the top of the window a time value is displayed This is the point in time within the song at which the split point indicator is positioned The locator Another vertical bar represents the position locator It moves along as the song plays In contrast to the split point indicator it has no triangles at the ends The time bar displays the current position within the song relative to the whole song The entire length of the time bar represents the song length The length of the solid part of the time bar represents the position and length of the displayed part of the song The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 109 The scale mode On the right side of the bottom line the scale mode is displayed The waveform can be scaled either logarithmically or linearly In logarithmic scale mode the letters dB are displayed in linear mode Use Mode Right to switch between these modes Linear mode usually gives better optical hints with commercially r
33. Sound Settings menu o ers a selection of sound properties you may change to customise your listening experience The details of this menu are covered in section 6 page 39 5 7 2 Playback Settings The Playback Settings menu allows you to con gure settings related to audio play back The details of this menu are covered in section 7 page 43 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 46 5 7 4 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 55 5 7 5 Manage Settings The Manage Settings option allows the saving and re loading of user con guration settings browsing the hard drive for alternate rmwares and nally resetting your The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 5 The Main Menu 37 player back to initial con guration The details of this menu are covered in section 11 3 page 119 5 8 Playlist This menu allows you to work with playlists Playlists can be created in three ways Playing a le in a directory causes all the les 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 20 or using the Playlist menu Both automatically and manually created playlists can be edited using thi
34. Stenberg Linus Nielsen Feltz ing Andy Choi Andrew Jamieson Paul Suade Joachim Schiffer Daniel Stenberg Alan Korr Gary Czvitkovicz Stuart Martin Fe lix Arends Ulf Ralberg David H ardeman Thomas Saeys Grant Wier Julien Labruy ere Nicolas Sauzede Robert Hak Dave Chap man Stefan Meyer Eric Linenberg Tom Cvitan Magnus Oman Jerome Kuptz Julien Boissinot Nuutti Ko tivuori Heikki Hannikainen Hard eep Sidhu Markus Braun Justin Heiner Magnus Holmgren Bill Napier George Styles Mats Lidell Lee Marlow Nate Nystrom Nick Robinson Chad Lockwood John Pybus Uwe Freese Randy Wood Gregory Haerr Philipp Perter mann Gilles Roux Mark Hillebrand Damien Teney Andreas Zwirtes Kjell Ericson Jim Hagani Lu dovic Lange Mike Holden Simon El en Matthew P OReilly Christian Sch onberger Henrik Backe Craig Sather Jos e Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal Stevie Oh J org Hohensohn Dave Jones Thomas Paul Diffen bach Roland Kletzing Itai Shaked Keith Hubbard Benjamin Metzler Frederic Dang Ngoc Pierre De lore Huw Smith Garrett Derner Barry McIntosh Leslie Donald son Lee Pilgrim Zakk Roberts Francois Boucher Matthias Wien tapper Brent Coutts Jens Arnold Gerald Vanbaren Christi Scarbor oug
35. Studer Dan Ever ton Imre Herceg Seven Le Mesle Craig Bachelor Nikolaj Chris tensen Mikael Magnusson Dominik Wenger Henrico Witvliet Andrew Scott Miguel A Ar evalo Aaron F Gonzalez Aleksey Kozyulin Jani Kinnunen Rui Marinho Alun Thomas Nils Wallm enius Naoaki Okazaki Will Dyson Matthias Mohr Chris tian Marg Eli Sherer Fredrik Ohrn Nicolas Pennequin Ralf Herz Michael DiFebbo David Rothen berger Robert Keevil Mark Bright Dominik Riebeling Alexander Bon dar Peter Cawley Rani Hod Tom Ross Anton Romanov Jean Luc Ohl Steve Bavin Marianne Arnold Gaetano Vocca Frederik Vestre Wenbin Leo Tom Evans Ewan Davies Fr ed eric Franc ois Marc Andr e Moreau Ioannis Koutoulakis Alistair Marshall Karl Ove Hufthammer V ctor Zabalza Ulrich Pegelow Andreas Mattsson Daniel Ankers Paul Louden Rainer Sin sch Pl acido Revilla Michael Se vakis Lukas Sabota Emanuel Zephir Alexander Levin Barry Wardell Lars van de Klomp Philippe Miossec Jochen Kemnade Corry Lazarowitz Tom Meyer Laurent Baum James Teh Liam Nattrass Christian Hack Wade Brown Vadim Chekan Christopher Borcsok Victor Carde nas Andrew Melville Pengxuan Liu Andrew Cupper Thilo Alexander Ginkel Adam Gashlin Robert Kukla David
36. The optional parameter t speci es that amount of time in seconds If it is not speci ed 1 second is assumed The tag can be used as the switch in a conditional tag to display di erent things depending on whether the volume is being changed It can produce neat e ects when used with conditional viewports Example mv2 5 lt Volume changing pv gt The example above will display the text Volume changing if the volume is being changed and 2 5 seconds after the volume button has been released After that it will display the volume value B 14 Settings Tag Description St lt setting name gt The value of the Rockbox setting with the speci ed name See section C page 137 for the list of the available settings Examples 1 As a simple tag St skip length 2 As a conditional St eq enabled lt Eq is enabled Eq is disabled gt The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix B Theme Tags 134 B 15 Images Tag Description x n filename x y Load and display an image n image ID a z and A Z for later referencing in xd filename le name relative to rockbox and including bmp x x coordinate y y coordinate xl n filename x 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 le name relative to rockbox and including bmp x x coordinate y y coordinate nimage
37. again the next 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 64 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 le 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 ed 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 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 rst 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
38. all its users This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation s software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead You can apply it to your programs too When we speak of free software we are referring to freedom not price Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software and charge for this service if you wish that you receive source code or can get it if you want it that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs and that you know you can do these things To protect your rights we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software or if you modify it For example if you distribute copies of such a program whether gratis or for a fee you must give the recipients all the rights that you have You must make sure that they too receive or can get the source code And you must show them these terms so they know their rights We protect your rights with two steps 1 copyright the software and 2 o er you this license which gives you legal permission to copy distribute and or modify the software Also for each author s protection
39. and ours we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software If the software is modi ed by someone else and passed on we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original so that any problems introduced by others will not re ect on the original authors reputations Finally any free program is threatened constantly by software patents We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses in e ect making the program proprietary To prevent this we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone s free use or not licensed at all The precise terms and conditions for copying distribution and modi cation follow GNU General Public License The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 158 Terms and Conditions For Copying Distribution and Modification 0 This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License The Program below refers to any such program or work and a work based on the Program means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law that is to say a work containing the Program or a portion of it either verbatim or with modi cations and or translated into another language Hereinafter translation is included without
40. betting amount Mode Hit Draw new card Select Right Stay End hand Up Double down On O Pause game and go to menu Cancel 10 1 2 BrickMania Figure 10 2 BrickMania BrickMania is a clone of the classic game Breakout The aim of the game is to destroy all the bricks by hitting them with the ball once or more Sometimes a special item falls down when you destroy a brick For a special item to take e ect you must catch it with the paddle Look out for the bad ones Special items Displayed Name Description N Normal Returns paddle to normal D Die Ball dies lose a life L Life Gain a life F Fire Allows you to shoot bricks with paddle G Glue Ball sticks to paddle each time it hits B Ball Immediately res another ball FL Flip Flip left right movement The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 59 Key Action Left Right Moves the paddle Mode Up Release the ball Fire On O Open menu Quit 10 1 3 Bubbles Figure 10 3 Bubbles The goal of the game is to beat each level as quickly as possible by clearing the board of all bubbles Bubbles are removed from the board when a cluster of three of more of the same type is formed The game is over when any bubbles on the board extend below the bottom line To make things more di cult the entire board is shifted down every time a certain number of shots have been red Points are awarded depending on
41. 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 Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 152 you use the latter option you must take reasonably prudent steps when you begin distribution of Opaque copies in quantity to ensure that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque copy directly or through your agents or retailers of that edition to the public It is requested but not required that you contact the authors of the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies to give them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document 4 MODIFICATIONS You may copy and distribute a Modi ed Version of the Document under the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above provided that you release the Modi ed Version under precisely this License with the Modi ed Version lling the role of the Document thus licensing distribution and modi cation of the Modi ed Version to whoever possesses a copy of it In addition you must do these things in the Modi ed Version A Use i
42. 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 9 The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and or new versions of the General Public License from time to time Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version but may di er in detail to address new problems or concerns Each version is given a distinguishing version number If the Program speci es a version number of this License which applies to it and any later version you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation If the Program does not specify a version number of this License you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation 10 If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are di erent write to the author to ask for permission For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation write to the Free Software Foundation we sometimes make exceptions for this Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the fre
43. download the o cial installer and housekeeping tool Rockbox Utility It allows you to Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox Minimal Instal lation The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 2 Installation 12 Automatically install all suggested components Complete Installation Selectively install optional components Install additional fonts and themes Install voice les and generate talk clips Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility Prebuilt binaries for Windows Linux and Mac OS X are available at the ZRockboxUtility wiki page When rst starting Rockbox Utility run Autodetect found in the con guration dialog File Con gure Autodetection can detect most player types If autodetection fails or is unable to detect the mountpoint make sure to enter the correct values The mountpoint indicates the location of the player in your lesystem On Windows this is the drive letter the player gets assigned on other systems this is a path in the lesystem Choosing a Rockbox version There are three di erent 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 Star
44. dynamic playlists Bookmark on Stop This option controls whether Rockbox creates a bookmark play back is stopped No Do not create bookmarks Yes Always create bookmarks Ask Ask if a bookmark should be created Yes Recent Only Always create a bookmark but only in the recent bookmarks list Ask Recent Only Ask if a bookmark should be created but only add it to the recent bookmarks list When either Yes Recent Only or Ask Recent Only is selected bookmarks are only created if the Maintain a List of Recent Bookmarks is enabled Note The Resume function remembers your position in the most recently ac b cessed track regardless of how the Bookmark on Stop option is set The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 8 General Settings 52 Load Last Bookmark This option controls if Rockbox should automatically load a bookmark for a le when that le is played No Always start from the beginning of the track or playlist Yes Automatically return to the position of the last bookmark Start from the beginning if there are no bookmarks Ask Ask if playback should start from the beginning of the track or from one of the bookmarks Maintain a list of Recent Bookmarks If this option is enabled a list of the most re cently created bookmarks may be accessed through the Recent Bookmarks option in the Main Menu This list contains up to ten entries No Do not keep a list of recently used bookmarks This also re
45. eaten a new piece of food will pop up somewhere Unfortunately for each new piece of food that appears two new argh pieces will appear too The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 80 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 Mode to pause the game Press it again to resume the game Stop the game There are two ways to stop a running game If you want to quit Wormlet entirely simply hit On O The game will stop immediately and you will return to the game menu If you want to stop the game and still see the screen hit On O Mode This freezes the game If you hit On O Mode button again a new game starts with the same con gurat
46. given on the Title Page If there is no section Entitled History in the Document The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 153 create one stating the title year authors and publisher of the Document as given on its Title Page then add an item describing the Modi ed Version as stated in the previous sentence J Preserve the network location if any given in the Document for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document and likewise the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it was based on These may be placed in the History section You may omit a network location for a work that was published at least four years before the Document itself or if the original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission K For any section Entitled Acknowledgements or Dedications Preserve the Title of the section and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and or dedications given therein L Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document unaltered in their text and in their titles Section numbers or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles M Delete any section Entitled Endorsements Such a section may not be included in the Modi ed Version N Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled Endorsements or to con ict in title with any Invariant Section O Preserv
47. how quickly the level was completed Key Action Mode Pause game Left Right Aim the bubble Up Fire bubble On O Exit to menu 10 1 4 Chessbox Figure 10 4 Chessbox The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 60 Chessbox is a one person chess game with computer arti cial intelligence The chess engine is a port of GNU Chess 2 by John Stanback It also works as a PGN le viewer Instead of executing the game from the plugin menu look for any le with pgn extension in the le browser and execute it Chessbox will show the list of matches included in the le 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 le 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 ip the board so that you are playing from the other side If you want you can force play an entire game and watch the arti cial intelligence ght against itself When you quit the game the current state will be saved and restored when you resume the game The menu also allows the user to reload the last game saved save the current position and start a new game without having to quit the game Note This plugin will stop playback b Keys
48. in the theme directory and not currently used Never Remove Selecting this option will always skip deleting the le Always Remove Selecting this option will remove the le with no regard to whether it s used by another theme or not Font Speci es how the fnt le belonging to a theme cfg le is handled If this option is set to Remove if not Used the fonts came from rockbox fonts zip will not be removed as themes may depend on those fonts WPS Speci es how the wps le belonging to a theme cfg le is handled Statusbar Skin Speci es how the sbs le belonging to a theme cfg le is han dled Iconset Speci es how the iconset bmp le belonging to a theme cfg le is han dled Viewers Iconset Speci es how the viewers iconset bmp le belonging to a theme cfg le is handled Create Log File Setting this to No prevents the log le from being created Quit Exits this plugin 10 3 12 VBR x This function scans a VBR Variable Bitrate MP3 le 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 le skips fwd rew does not work correctly or the time display is incorrect To use this plugin open the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 20 upon a mp3 le and select Open With
49. of various things which are not kitten Robot must touch items to determine if they are kitten or not The game ends when robot ndskitten Key Action Up Down Left Right Move robot On O Quit 10 1 17 Rockblox Figure 10 15 Rockblox Rockblox is a Rockbox version of the classic falling blocks game from Russia The aim of the game is to make the falling blocks of di erent shapes form full rows Whenever The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 71 a row is completed it will be cleared away and you gain points For every ten lines completed the game level increases making the blocks fall faster If the pile of blocks reaches the ceiling the game is over Key Action Mode On O Restart game Left Move left Right Move right Down Move down Mode Up Rotate anticlockwise Up Rotate clockwise Mode Drop On O Quit 10 1 18 Rockblox1d Rockblox1d is a game for people who nd 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 Right Move down faster On O Quit 10 1 19 Rocklife This an implementation of J H Conway s Game of Life see http en wikipedia org wiki Conway 27s Game of Life for a detailed description Rockbox can open les with a con guration description cells les Just play such le and the ga
50. selected or with the le selected in the le browser You can then play the le or do with it whatever you want The le will not be played automatically If the link le contains only one entry no list will be shown you will directly jump to that location The le shortcuts link in the root directory is an exception After playing it the list will be shown even if the le contains just one entry If the list you are seeing is from shortcuts link in the root directory you can delete the selected entry by pressing Long Mode Deleting entries from other link les is not possible Advanced Usage Placing the line Display last path segments n where n is a number in the beginning of a link le 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 pre xes 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 10 3 2 BMP viewer This plugin opens bmp les from the File Browser to display them using Rockbox s greyscale library Note This plugin will cause playback to stop b The Rockbox manual Ar
51. shipped with Rockbox by default The voice le is the name of the language for which it is made followed by the extension voice So for English the le name would be english voice This option is on by default but will do nothing unless the appropriate voice le is installed in the correct place on the player The Voice Menus have several limitations Setting the Sound Option Channels to Karaoke may disable voice menus Plugins do not support voice features Voice Directories This option controls voicing of directory names A voice le must be present for this to work Several options are available Spell Speak the directory name by spelling it out letter by letter Support is provided only for the most common letters numbers and punctuation Numbers Each directory is assigned a number based upon its position in the le list They are then announced as Directory 1 Directory 2 etc O 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 les 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 O No checking is made for directory talk clips they are not us
52. 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 Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 88 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 10 2 11 Plasma Figure 10 34 Plasma Plasma is a demo displaying a 80 s style retro plasma e ect Key Action Up Down Adjust frequency On O Quit 10 2 12 Snow Figure 10 35 Have you ever seen snow falling The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 89 This demo replicates snow falling on your screen If you love winter you will love this demo Or maybe not Press On O to quit 10 2 13 Star eld Figure 10 36 Star eld Star eld simulation like the cla
53. step Scroll Start Delay Controls how many milliseconds Rockbox should wait before a new text begins automatically scrolling Scroll Step Size De nes the number of pixels the text should move for each step as used by the Scroll Speed setting Bidirectional Scroll Limit Rockbox has two di erent automatic horizontal scrolling methods 1 always scrolling the text to the left until the line has ended and then beginning again at the start and 2 moving to the left until you can read the end of the line and then scrolling right until you see the beginning again Rockbox chooses which method it should use depending of how much it has to scroll to the left This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of the line length The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 8 General Settings 49 Screen Scrolls Out of View Screens can be manually scrolled horizontally by pressing Mode Right Left Setting this option to Yes will keep the list entries at their xed 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 De nes 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 Peak Meter The peak m
54. system you want Just do not expect Rockbox to understand them Add scandisk like features It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to a host computer Alphabetical list skipping Skipping around the lists by jumping letters i e skip all C s and go straight to the rst D This isn t feasible with the current list implementation if you really want this you can get similar e ects using the database see section 4 2 page 22 Add support for non standard tag formats APE tags in MP3 les has been rejected a few times already Its not something we want Implementing the ability to playback DRM les Firstly this would be extremely di cult to implement legally Rockbox is not legal entity as such and therefore is unable to enter into license agreements with providers of DRM technology Secondly Rockbox is open source which would mean that any DRM technology we incorporated into our codebase would suddenly become visible to the whole world completely defeating its purpose Remember DRM achieves part of it s security through obscurity and publishing the keys necessary to decrypt DRM d media would essentially render it useless The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix F Credits 145 F Credits People that have contributed to the project one way or another Friends Bj orn
55. the ash ROM is completely erased If the rst 2 KB of the ash ROM are ashed ok Minimon can be used for the same purpose 11 5 2 Terminology and Basic Operation Firmware The ash ROM contents as a whole Image One operating software started from there The replacement rmware contains a bootloader and two images The rst image is the permanent rescue software to be used in case something is wrong with the second main image In current rmware les this rst image contains Bootbox see wiki for details The second image is what is booted by default The current rmware les contain a copy of Rockbox 3 2 in the main image It can easily be updated replaced later The bootloader allows to select which image to run Pressing Left at boot selects the rst image Up selects the second image which will also be booted if you don t press any button The button mapping is only there for completeness Right selects the built in serial monitor called Minimon You should know this in case you invoke it by accident Minimon won t display anything on the screen To get out of it perform a hardware shutdown of your player The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 123 11 5 3 Initial Flashing Procedure You only need to perform this procedure the rst time you ash your Ondio You may also want to perform it in case the update procedure for the second image recommends it In the latte
56. 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 le format whose markup or absence of markup has been arranged to thwart or discourage subsequent modi cation by readers is not Transparent An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount of text A copy that is not Transparent is called Opaque Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain ASCII without markup Texinfo input format LaTeX input format SGML or XML using a publicly available DTD and standard conforming simple HTML PostScript or PDF designed for human modi cation 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 requi
57. the number of les that you can put in any particular directory in the le browser You can con gure the size to be between 50 and 10 000 les in steps of 50 The default is 400 Higher values will shorten the music bu er so you should increase this setting only if you have directories with a large number of les Max Playlist Size This setting controls the maximum size of a playlist The playlist size can be between 1 000 and 32 000 les in steps of 1 000 default is 10 000 Higher values will shorten the music bu er so you should increase this setting only if you have very large playlists 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 or for individual saved playlists You can store multiple bookmarks even for the same track When there s already a bookmark for a directory or playlist new bookmarks are added before existing ones Bookmarks are stored next to the directory or playlist they reference in a le with the same name as the directory or playlist and a bmark extension To load a bookmark select the bookmark le and then select the bookmark to load There are other ways to load a bookmarks mentioned below Note Bookmarking only works when tracks are launched from the le browser and b does not work for tracks launched via the database In addition they do not work with
58. the white player White Rank White s rank in dan or kyu White Team The name of white s team if any Date The date that this game took place This text must follow the format speci ed 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 he board if there are more than one Note variations which don t start with a move are not visible in this way Disable Idle Powero Enable this if you do not want the player to turn o 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 le 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 65 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 di erent play modes and tools addi
59. track This info is known as meta data and is stored in audio le formats to keep information on artist album etc To access this The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 29 screen press Long Mode to access the WPS Context Menu and select Show Track Info Use Left and Right to move through the information Open With This Open With function is the same as the Open With function in the le browser s Context Menu Delete Delete the currently playing le The le will be deleted but the playback of the le will not stop immediately Instead the part of the le that has already been bu ered i e read into the player s memory will be played This may even be the whole track Pitch The Pitch Screen allows you to change the rate of playback i e the playback speed and at the same time the pitch of your player The rate value can be adjusted between 50 and 200 50 means half the normal playback speed and a pitch that is an octave lower than the normal pitch 200 means double playback speed and a pitch that is an octave higher than the normal pitch The rate can be changed in two modes procentual and semitone Initially procentual mode is active The value of the rate is not persistent i e after the player is turned on it will always be set to 100 Key Action Long Mode Toggle pitch changing mode Up Down Increase Decrease pitch by 0 1 in pro centual mode or by 0
60. with a worm is a good way to get them out of the game Hints 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 When you are more experienced watch the tactics of other worms Those worms controlled by arti cial 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 10 1 29 Xobox Figure 10 25 Xobox Xobox is a simple clone of the well known arcade game Qix The aim of the game is to section o 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 nish a level you have to section o more than 75 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 82 Key Action Up Down Left Right Move around the arena Mode Pause On O Open menu 10
61. 1 ogg Episode 1 ogg Episode 57 ogg Episode 233 ogg Episode 233 ogg Episode 57 ogg Show Files This option controls which les are displayed in the File Browser All The File Browser displays all les and directories Extensions are shown No les or directories are hidden Supported The File Browser displays all directories and les supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 127 Files and directories starting with dot or with the hidden ag set are hidden Music The File Browser displays only directories playlists and the supported audio le formats Extensions are stripped Files and directories starting with or with the hidden ag set are hidden Playlists The File Browser displays only directories and playlists for simpli ed navigation Show Filename Extensions This option controls how le extensions are shown in the File Browser O The le extensions are never shown On The le extensions are always shown Only unknown types Only the extensions of unknown letypes are shown Only when viewing all types Only show le extensions when Show Files is set to All Follow Playlist This option determines what directory the File Browser displays rst If Follow Playlist is set to Yes when you enter the File Browser from the WPS you will nd yourself in the same directory as the currently playing le If Follow Playlist is set to No when you enter the File Browser from th
62. 7 Playback Settings 43 7 1 Shu e 43 7 2 Repeat 43 7 3 Play Selected First 44 7 4 Fast Forward Rewind 44 7 5 Fade on Stop Pause 44 7 6 Party Mode 44 7 7 Auto Change Directory 44 7 8 Last fm Log 45 7 9 Cuesheet Support 45 7 10 Skip Length 45 7 11 Prevent Track Skipping 45 8 General Settings 46 8 1 Playlist 46 8 2 File View 46 8 3 Database 48 8 4 Display 48 8 5 System
63. 8 Auto Volume Auto volume is a feature that automatically lowers the volume on loud parts and then slowly restores the volume to the previous level over a time interval This setting allows this time interval to be con gured Short values like 20 ms are useful for ensuring a constant volume for in car use and other applications where background noise makes a constant loudness desirable A longer timeout means that the change in volume back to the previous level will be smoother so there will be fewer sharp changes in volume level 6 9 Super Bass This setting changes the threshold at which bass frequencies are a ected by the Loud ness setting making the sound of drums and bass guitar louder in comparison to the rest of the sound This setting only has an e ect if Loudness is set to a value larger than 0 dB 6 10 MDB Micronas Dynamic Bass The rest of the parameters in this menu relate to the Micronas Dynamic Bass MDB function MDB is designed to enable the user to hear bass notes that the headphones and or speakers are not capable of reproducing Every tone has a fundamental frequency the main tone and also several harmonics which are related to that tone The human brain has a mechanism whereby it can actually infer the presence of bass notes from the higher harmonics that they would generate The practical upshot of this is that MDB produces a more authentic sounding bass by tricking the brain into believing it is hearin
64. 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 philosophical ethical or political position regarding them The Invariant Sections are certain Secondary Sections whose titles are desig nated as being those of Invariant Sections in the notice that says that the Document is released under this License If a section does not t the above de nition 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 speci cation is available to
65. Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 78 10 1 27 Sudoku Figure 10 23 Sudoku Sudoku in Rockbox can act as both a plugin and a viewer When starting Sudoku from the Browse Plugins menu a random game will be generated automatically and an estimate of its di culty very easy easy medium hard or endish will be displayed on the screen New games can be generated from the Generate menu option When playing an existing Sudoku game le from Rockbox le 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 les with the extension ss as single le 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 nished and enter the full path to save to including the ss extension e g sudoku new ss The scratchpad When you play Sudoku on paper most people like to mark numbers in cells that are possible candidates for the cells This can be done with the scratchpad shown as separate column Change the number under the cursor to the number you want to put on the scratchpad and press the scratchpad button the number will then be added If the number was already on the scratchpad it will get removed again The column is stored seperatly for every cell on the board The stored values can be displayed inline as small dots by enabling the Show Markings set
66. Exit the virtual keyboard and save any changes On O Exit the virtual keyboard without saving any changes Up Tap to select a character in Morse code input mode Line edit mode Key Action Left Right Move the line cursor within the text line Mode Delete the character before the line cur sor Up Down Return to the picker area 4 2 Database 4 2 1 Introduction This chapter describes the Rockbox music database system Using the information contained in the tags ID3v1 ID3v2 in your audio les Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music les 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 23 completely customised More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at ZDataBase 4 2 2 Initializing the Database The rst time you use the database Rockbox will scan your disk for audio les This can take quite a while depending on the number of les 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 nished you may be prompted to restart your player before you can use the database Ignoring Directories During Database Initializat
67. General Settings Language from the Main Menu Note If you want a language to be loaded automatically every time you start up it b must be located in the rockbox langs directory and the lename must be a maximum of 24 characters long If your language is not yet supported and you want to write your own language le nd the instructions on the Rockbox website ZLangFiles 11 1 4 UI Viewport By default the UI is drawn on the whole screen This can be changed so that the UI is con ned to a speci c area of the screen by use of a UI viewport This is done by adding The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 114 the following line to the cfg le for a theme ui viewport X Y width height font Only the rst two parameters have to be speci ed the others can be omitted using as a placeholder The syntax is very similar to WPS viewports see section 11 2 2 page 115 Brie y font is a number 0 is the built in system font 1 is the user selected font Example ui viewport 15 20 100 150 This displays the menu starting at 15px from the left of the screen and 20px from the top of the screen It is 100px wide and 150px high The font is de ned in the theme cfg le or in the Theme Settings menu 11 2 Con guring the Theme 11 2 1 Themeing General Info There are various di erent aspects of the Rockbox interface that can be themed the WPS or Whil
68. O Pause the demo Up Down Increase decrease volume Right Left Increase decrease speed On O Exit demo 10 2 10 PictureFlow Figure 10 33 PictureFlow PictureFlow provides a visualisation of your albums with their associated cover art Note PictureFlow is a visualisation only It cannot be used to select and play music b Also using this plugin will cause playback to stop The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 87 Requirements PictureFlow uses both the album art see section page and database see sec tion 4 2 page 22 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 PictureFlow will accept album art larger than the dimensions of the screen but the larger the dimensions the longer they will take to scale Keys Key Action Left Right Scroll through albums Up Down Scroll through track list Up Enter track list Mode Play album from selected track in track list Left Exit track list Long Mode Enter menu On O Exit PictureFlow Main Menu Go to WPS Leave PictureFlow and enter the while playing screen Settings Enter the settings menu Return Exit menu Quit Exit PictureFlow plugin Settings Menu Show FPS Displays frames per second on screen Spacing The distance between the front edges of the side
69. On O Start Stop Mode Tap tempo Left Right Adjust tempo Up Down Adjust volume The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 107 10 4 9 Random Folder Advance Con guration This plugin is used to con gure 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 lter the directories which are scanned by creating a le called rockbox folder advance dir txt Only the directories in this le 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 Text le Exports the list to rockbox folder advance list txt Import List From Text le Imports the list from rockbox folder advance list txt Play Shu ed Starts playback with the selected directories in random order Tracks within a directory will be played in normal order The plugin will exit after starting playback Quit Folder List Editor Keys Key Action Right Delete selected folder Long Right Bring up the context menu which allows you to remove the selected
70. Quesada Jared Stafford Martin Hensel St ephane Doyon Austin Appel Andre Smith Travis Hyyppa Ian Webber Pavel Gnelitsa Lutz B ohne Will Robertson Robert Carboneau Ye Wei Bryan Childs Mike Schmitt Chris Taylor Tobias Langhoff Steve Gotthardt Greg White Mattieu Favr eaux Malcolm Tyrrell Piotr Jafis zow Gary Allen John BouAntoun Tomasz Mon Jakub Matou sek Al bert Veli Chris Dohan Takashi Obara Rene Peinthor Roan Horning Ben Keroack Sean Morrisey Shay Green Nick Vanderweit Simon Men zel Timo Horstsch afer Jacco Kon ing Chris Ham Jose Ramon Gar cia Simon Descarpentries Douglas Valentine Jacob Gardner Pascal Briehl Denis Stanishevskiy Eddy Coman Luke Blaney Mark Reiche Michal Jevjak Philippe Latulippe Mauricio Peccorini Nathan Hep ting Akio Idehara Dagni McPhee Alex Gerchanovsky Gerhard Dirschl Ivan Zupan Alexander Papst Christoph Reiter Rhino Banga Paul Jones Michael Giacomelli Alex Wenger Andree Buschmann Johnathon Mihalop Rene Allkivi Tobias Schladt John Zhou Charles Voelger Gerritt Gonzales Dieter Pellkofer Evgeniy Kachalin Lenny Koepsell Harry Tu Pawel Wysocki Xinlu Huang Daniel Dalton Boris Gjenero Sylvain Fourmanoit Alex Parker Mario Lang Justin Foell I
71. 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 le to most e ectively convey the exclusion of warranty and each le should have at least the copyright line and a pointer to where the full notice is found lt one line to give the program s name and a brief idea of what it does gt Copyright C lt year gt lt name of author gt This program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it un der the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License or at your option any later version This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABIL ITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more details You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program if not write to the Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail If the program is interactive make it output a short noti
72. The Rockbox Manual for Archos Ondio 128 SP rockbox org June 3 2010 2 Rockbox http www rockbox org Open Source Jukebox Firmware Rockbox and this manual is the collaborative e ort of the Rockbox team and its contributors See the appendix for a complete list of contributors c 2003 2010 The Rockbox Team and its contributors c 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough c 2003 Jos e Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal amp Peter Schlenker Version 3 6 Built using pdfLATEX Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sec tions no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Contents 3 Contents 1 Introduction 9 1 1 Welcome 9 1 2 Getting more help 9 1 3 Naming conventions and marks 10 2 Installation 11 2 1 Before Starting 11 2 2 Installing Rockbox 11 2 2 1 Automated Installation
73. al Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 57 10 Plugins Plugins are programs that Rockbox can load and run Only one plugin can be loaded at a time Plugins have exclusive control over the user interface This means you cannot switch back and forth between a plugin and Rockbox When a plugin is loaded you need to exit it to return to the Rockbox interface Most plugins will not interfere with music playback but some of them will stop playback while running Plugins have the le ex tension rock Most of them can be started from Browse Plugins in the Main Menu Viewer plugins get started automatically by opening an associated le i e text les chip8 games or from the Open with option on the Context Menu 10 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 10 3 3 page 92 10 1 1 Blackjack Figure 10 1 Blackjack Blackjack a game played in casinos around the world is now available in the palm of your hand The rules are simple try to get as close to 21 without going over or simply beat out the dealer for the best hand Although this may not seem di cult blackjack is a game renowned for the strategy involved This version includes the ability to split buy insurance and double down For the full set of rules to the game and other facinating information visit http www blackjackinfo com blackjack rules php The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 58 Key Action Left Right Up Down Enter
74. al Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 84 10 2 5 Fire Figure 10 29 Fire Fire is a demo displaying a re e ect Key Action Up Down Increase decrease number of ames Left Toggle ame type Right Toggle moving ames On O Quit 10 2 6 Fractals Figure 10 30 Mandelbrot This demonstration draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set using the greyscale engine The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 85 Key Action Direction keys Move about the image Mode Mode Up Zoom in Mode Down Zoom out Mode Left Decrease iteration depth less detail Mode Right Increase iteration depth more detail Mode On O Reset and return to the default image On O Quit 10 2 7 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen Key Action Right Left Increase decrease speed on the x axis Up Down Increase decrease speed on the y axis On O Quit 10 2 8 Mosaique Figure 10 31 Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player Press On O to quit The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 86 10 2 9 Oscilloscope Figure 10 32 Oscilloscope This demo shows the shape of the sound samples that make up the music being played Keys Key Action Mode Toggle lled curve plot Mode Right Toggle whether to scroll or not Mode Left Toggle drawing orientation Mode On
75. all les that start with upper case letters will be listed rst followed by all les that begin with lower case letters If this option is set to NO then case will be ignored when sorting les Sort Directories This option controls how Rockbox sorts directories The default is to sort them alphabetically By date sorts them with the oldest directory rst By newest date sorts them with the newest directory rst Sort Files This option controls how Rockbox sorts les All of the options for Sort Directories are available in this option In addition there is a By type option which sorts les alphabetically by their type such as mp3 then alphabetically within each type The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 8 General Settings 47 Interpret numbers when sorting As whole numbers enables a sorting algorithm which is similar to the default sorting of for example Windows Explorer Mac OS X s Finder or Nautilus with regards to numbers at the beginning or within lenames It combines consecutive digits to a number used for sorting taking leading zeros into account As digits disables this algorithm and causes every digit to be compared sepa rately The following table demonstrates the two sortings As whole numbers As digits 03 Jackson mp3 03 Jackson mp3 1 Ring Of Fire mp3 1 Ring Of Fire mp3 2 I Walk The Line mp3 10 A Thing Called Love mp3 10 A Thing Called Love mp3 2 I Walk The Line mp3 Episode
76. all power consumption Therefore the bitrate of the audio les does have an impact on the battery runtime as well Lower bitrate audio les will result in longer battery runtime Please do not re encode any existing audio les from one lossy format to another based upon the above mentioned This will reduce the audio quality If you have the choice select the best suiting codec when encoding the original source material The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix A File formats 126 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix A File formats 127 A File formats A 1 Supported le formats Icon File Type Extension Action when selected Directory none Enter the directory Rockbox rmware ajz Load the new rmware with ROLO Bookmark bmark Display all bookmarks for an audio le Game of Life cells Show the con guration with the Rocklife plugin Con guration File cfg Load the settings le Chip8 game ch8 Play the Chip8 game Cuesheet cue View the cuesheet le Font fnt Change the user interface font to this one Image jpg View the JPEG image Link link Display list of target les and di rectories selecting one jumps to the target See section 10 3 1 page 90 Language File lng Load the language le Playlist m3u m3u8 Load the playlist and start playing the rst le Audio le mp2 mp3 Start playing the le and show the WPS Plugin rock
77. an the others as the player must rst be placed into A B repeat mode and then the start and end points de ned To set the Start Point A press Mode The following press of Mode will set the End Point B and a third successive Mode will reset the markers The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 7 Playback Settings 44 7 3 Play Selected First This setting controls what happens when you select a le for playback while shu e mode is on If the Play Selected First setting is Yes the le you selected will be played rst If this setting is No a random le in the directory will be played rst 7 4 Fast Forward Rewind These settings control the speed and acceleration during fast forward and rewind The setting FF RW Min Step controls the initial speed and FF RW Accel controls the acceleration 7 5 Fade on Stop Pause Enables and disables a fade e ect when you pause or stop playing a song If the Fade on Stop Pause option is set to Yes your music will fade out when you stop or pause playback and fade in when you resume playback 7 6 Party Mode Enables unstoppable music playback When new songs are selected they are queued at the end of the current dynamic playlist instead of being played immediately Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins 7 7 Auto Change Directory Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a directory If Auto Change Di rectory i
78. ards from the remains stack Long Down Put the card from the top of the remains stack on top of the cursor Long Up Put the card under the cursor on one of the 4 nal colour stacks Long Right Put the card on top of the remains stack on one of the nal colour stacks On O Show menu 10 1 25 Spacerocks Figure 10 21 Spacerocks Spacerocks is a clone of the old arcade game Asteroids The goal of the game is to blow up the asteroids and avoid being hit by them Once in a while a UFO will appear shoot this for extra points The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 77 Key Action Mode Shoot Up Thrust Left Right Turn left right Down Teleport Mode On O Pause game On O Quit 10 1 26 Star Figure 10 22 Star game This is a puzzle game It is actually a rewrite of Star a game written by CDK designed for the hp48 calculator Rules Take all of the o s to go to the next level You can switch control between the lled circle which can take o s and the lled square which is used as a mobile wall to allow your lled 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 Mode Switch between circle and square Mode Left Previous level Mode Up Reset level Mode Right Next level On O Exit the game The Rockbox manual
79. are For reference the defaults Rockbox uses are Setting Value MDB Strength 50 dB MDB Harmonics 48 MDB Centre Frequency 60 Hz MDB Shape 90 Hz The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 7 Playback Settings 43 7 Playback Settings The Playback Settings menu allows you to con gure settings related to audio play back 7 1 Shu e Turning shu e on will cause Rockbox to randomly re order the playlist Thus to shu e all of the audio les on the player you rst need to create a playlist containing all of them For more information on creating playlists refer to section 4 4 page 30 Options Yes No 7 2 Repeat Con gures settings related to repeating of directories or playlists Options Off All One Shuffle A B O The current playlist will not repeat when it is nished Note If you have the Auto Change Directory option set to Yes Rockbox b 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 nished All The current playlist will repeat when it is nished One Repeat one track over and over Shu e When the current playlist has nished playing it will be shu ed and then repeated A B Repeats between two user de ned points within a track typically used by musi cians when attempting to learn a piece of music This option is more complicated to use th
80. at is displayed at the very right of the scale when an over ow occurs It usually does not show up during normal playback unless you play an audio le that is distorted heavily Note Note that the clip detection is not very precise Clipping might occur b without being indicated The scale Between the indicators of the right and left channel there are little dots These dots represent important volume values In linear mode each dot is a 10 mark In dBFS mode the dots represent the following values from right to left 0 dB 3 dB 6 dB 9 dB 12 dB 18 dB 24 dB 30 dB 40 dB 50 dB 60 dB 4 3 3 The WPS Context Menu Like the context menu for the File Browser the WPS Context Menu allows you quick access to some often used functions Playlist The Playlist submenu allows you to view save search and reshu e the current playlist To change settings for the Playlist Viewer press Long Right while viewing the current playlist to bring up the Playlist Viewer Menu In this menu you can nd the Playlist Viewer Settings Playlist Viewer Settings Show Icons This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entry and the icon for moving a playlist entry Show Indicies This toggles display of the line numbering for the playlist Track Display This toggles between lename only and full path for playlist entries Save Current Playlist Allows the current playlist to be saved as a m3u8 playlist le
81. atically stores its settings the current position and bookmarks in rockbox rocks viewers viewer file dat Bookmarks To add a bookmark press Mode On O The bookmark will be displayed as shown below To delete the bookmark press the same button again Figure 10 40 A bookmark 10 3 11 Theme Remove This plugin o ers a way to remove a theme Open the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 20 upon a theme cfg le and select Open With theme remove Some les are not removed regardless of the Remove Options such as rockbox default wps and the font le currently in use Theme Remove menu Remove Theme Selecting this will delete the les speci ed in the Remove Options After a theme has been succesfully removed a log message is displayed listing which items have been deleted and which are being kept Exit this screen by pressing any key A le called theme remove log txt is created in the root directory of your player listing all the changes Remove Options This menu speci es which items are removed if Remove Theme is selected in the menu The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 99 One of the following options can be chosen for each setting Ask for Removal Selecting this option brings up a dialogue with two options press Right to con rm deletion or any other key to cancel Remove if not Used Selecting this option will remove the le automatically if it is not used by another theme
82. autocreate bookmarks o on N A autoload bookmarks o on N A use most recent bookmarks o on N A pause on headphone unplug o pause pause and resume N A rewind duration on pause 0 to 15 s disable autoresume if phones not present o on N A Last fm Logging o on N A talk dir o number spell N A talk dir clip o on N A talk le o number spell N A talk le clip o on N A talk letype o on N A talk menu o on N A Announce Battery Level o on N A sort les alpha oldest newest type N A sort dirs alpha oldest newest N A sort interpret number digits numbers N A tagcache autoupdate on o N A The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix C Config file options 139 Setting Allowed Values Unit warn when erasing dynamic playlist on o N A cuesheet support on o N A folder navigation o on random N A gather runtime data o on N A skip length outro track 1s 2s 3s 5s 7s 10s 15s 20s 1min 90s 2min 3min 5min 10min 15min N A prevent track skip on o N A start in screen previous root les dB wps menu bookmarks N A playlist catalog directory path to dir N A list accel start delay 0 to 10 ms list accel wait 1 to 10 s loudness 0 to 17 N A superbass on o N A auto volume o 20ms 2s 4s 8s N A mdb enable on o N A
83. browser this is the le or directory that is highlighted by the cursor From the WPS this is the currently playing le Also there are some actions that do not apply to the current le but refer to the screen from which the context menu gets called One example is the playback menu which can be called using the context menu from within the WPS 3 2 Customising Rockbox Rockbox User Interface can be customised using Themes Themes usually only a ect the visual appearance but an advanced user can create a theme that also changes various other settings like le view LCD settings and all other settings that can be modi ed using cfg les This topic is discussed in more detail in section 11 3 page 119 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 b package so make sure you installed them Also if you downloaded additional themes from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts installed as otherwise the theme may not display properly The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 3 Quick Start 18 3 3 USB Power The player can be powered over USB without connecting to your computer by holding Mode while plugging in This allows you to continue using the player normally The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 19 4 Browsing and playing 4 1 File Browser F
84. ce 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 Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 163 The hypothetical commands show w and show c should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License Of course the commands you use may be called some thing other than show w and show c they could even be mouse clicks or menu items whatever suits your program You should also get your employer if you work as a programmer or your school if any to sign a copyright disclaimer for the program if necessary Here is a sample alter the names Yoyodyne Inc hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program Gnomovision which makes passes at compilers written by James Hacker lt signature of Ty Coon gt 1 April 1989 Ty Coon President of Vice This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into propri etary programs If your program is a subroutine library you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library If this is what you want to do use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio
85. chos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 92 Key Action Up Down Left Right Move around in zoomed in image Mode Zoom in Mode Down Zoom out Mode Right Next bmp in directory Mode Left Previous bmp in directory On O Show menu Abort The menu has the following entries Return Returns you to the image 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 Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the File Browser 10 3 3 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 le in the File Browser There are lots of tiny Chip8 games usually only about 256 bytes to a couple of KB which were made popular by the HP48 calculator s emulator for them The original Chip8 had 64 32 pixel graphics and the new superchip emulator supports 128 64 graphics The only problem is that they are based on a 4 4 keyboard but since most games do not use all of the buttons this can easily be worked around To do this one may put a c8k le with the same name as the original program which contains new key mappings for BLINKY ch8 one writes a BLINKY c8k le That c8k le contains 16 characters describing the mapping from the Chip8 keyboard to the default key mapping that way several Chip8 key
86. cuments released under this License and replace the individual copies of this License in the various docu ments with a single copy that is included in the collection provided that you follow the rules of this License for verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects You may extract a single document from such a collection and distribute it individ ually under this License provided you insert a copy of this License into the extracted document and follow this License in all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document 7 AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and independent documents or works in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium is called an 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 ap
87. 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 8 General Settings 50 system instead If your operating system uses a di erent codepage and you are getting garbled extended characters you should adjust this settings In most cases sticking to ISO 8859 1 would be su cient 8 5 System 8 5 1 Start Screen Set the screen that Rockbox will start in The default is the main menu but the following options are available Previous Screen Start Rockbox in the same screen as when it was shut o Main Menu Show the main menu Files Display the le browser starting in the root directory of your player Database Show the default database view Resume Playback Go to the WPS and and resume playback from where it was before tu
88. declaration are drawn within that viewport Loading images see Appendix section B 15 page 134 should be done within the default viewport A viewport ends either with the end of the le or with the next viewport declaration line Viewports sharing the same coordinates and dimensions cannot be displayed at the same time Viewports cannot be layered transparently over one another Subsequent viewports will be drawn over any other viewports already drawn onto that area of the screen Viewport Declaration Syntax V x y width height font font is a number 0 is the built in system font 1 is the user selected font Only the coordinates have to be speci ed Leaving the other de nitions blank will set them to their default values Note The correct number of s vertical bars with hyphens in blank elds are still b needed in any case The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 116 Example V 12 20 1 sThis viewport is displayed permanently It starts 12px from the left and s20px from the top of the screen and fills the rest of the screen from sthat point The lines will scroll if this text does not fit in the viewport sThe user font is used Viewport de nition Default value width height remaining part of screen font user de ned Conditional Viewports Any viewport can be displayed either permanently or conditionally De ning a viewport as V will di
89. dio Chapter 10 Plugins 67 Key Action Left Right Up Down Move the cursor around the jewels Mode Select a jewel On O Menu 10 1 11 MazezaM Figure 10 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 PluginRight Move Character On O Menu 10 1 12 Minesweeper Figure 10 11 Minesweeper plugin The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 68 The classic game of minesweeper The aim of the game is to uncover all of the squares on the board If a mine is uncovered then the game is over If a mine is not uncovered then the number of mines adjacent to the current square is revealed The aim is to use the information you are given to work out where the mines are and avoid them When the player is certain that they know the location of a mine it can be tagged to avoid accidentally stepping on it Key Action Up Down Left Right Move the cursor across the mine eld Mode Toggle ag on o Long Mode Reveal the contents of the cur
90. e The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 8 General Settings 48 WPS you will nd 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 rst 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 e ect on the Database browser If set to Current Directory Only or Full Path then the title of each menu will be displayed on the rst line in the Database Browser 8 3 Database This sub menu allows you to con gure the database See section 4 2 page 22 for more information about using the database 8 4 Display LCD Settings This sub menu contains settings that relate to the display of the player Contrast Changes the contrast of your LCD display Warning Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to nd this menu option again LCD Mode This setting lets you invert the colours of the display Upside Down Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest the buttons This is sometimes useful when carrying the player in a pocket for easy access to the headphone socket Scrolling This feature controls how text will scroll in Rockbox You can con gure the following parameters Scroll Speed Sets how many times per second the automatic horizontal scrolling text will move a
91. e Playing Screen the FMS or FM Screen if the player has a tuner and the SBS or Base Skin The WPS is the name used to describe the information displayed on the player s screen whilst an audio track is being played the FMS is the screen shown while listening to the radio and the SBS lets you specify a base skin that is shown in the menus and browsers as well as the WPS and FMS The SBS also allows you to control certain aspects of the appearance of the menus browsers There are a number of themes included in Rockbox and you can load one of these at any time by selecting it in Settings Theme Settings Browse Theme Files It is also possible to set individual items of a theme from within the Settings Theme Settings menu 11 2 2 Themes Create Your Own The theme les are simple text les and can be created or edited in your favourite text editor To make sure non English characters display correctly in your WPS you must save the wps le with UTF 8 character encoding This can be done in most editors for example Notepad in Windows 2000 or XP but not in 9x ME can do this Files Locations Each di erent themeable aspect requires its own le WPS les have the extension wps FM screen les have the extension fms and SBS les have the extension sbs The main theme le has the extension cfg All les should have the same name The theme cfg le should be placed in the rockbox themes directo
92. e Rockbox website at ZBlindFAQ The main characteristic of the Ondio case is the indent on its lower right side which is the MMC slot Holding the player with this slot in the described position you ll nd the following On the curved top from left to right are the headphone socket the On O button Apart from the already mentioned MMC slot you will nd the USB connector on the player s right side Below the LCD at approximately the center of the player there is the main button pad of the player The centre of the button pad dips inward and helps to operate the directional keys from there Located on a two way button strip are the Left and Right keys with Up above it and Down below it The raised button positioned in the lower left of this round crosspad is labelled Mode The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 3 Quick Start 16 3 1 2 Turning the player on and o To turn on and o your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys Key Action On O Start Rockbox Long On O Shutdown Rockbox On shutdown Rockbox automatically saves its settings In the unlikely event of a software failure hardware powero or reset can be performed by holding down On O until the player shuts o 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 les can be put on the player via any standard le transfer method that you w
93. e 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 le can be used to tell you how long the battery lasted with some limitations see below but it is most useful for graphing discharge curves in order to improve Rockbox s estimation of battery level and time remaining The battery log battery bench txt is in CSV format comma separated variables and thus can be easily imported into a spreadsheet or similar program Limitations As Battery 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 10 4 2 Calculator Figure 10 43 Calculator The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 104 This is a simple scienti c calculator for use on the player It works like a standard calculator Pressing the 1st and
94. e any Warranty Disclaimers If the Modi ed Version includes new front matter sections or appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material copied from the Document you may at your option designate some or all of these sections as invariant To do this add their titles to the list of Invariant Sections in the Modi ed Version s license notice These titles must be distinct from any other section titles You may add a section Entitled Endorsements provided it contains nothing but endorsements of your Modi ed Version by various parties for example statements of peer review or that the text has been approved by an organization as the authoritative de nition of a standard You may add a passage of up to ve 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 Modi ed 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 endorsem
95. e playlist Note You can control whether or not Rockbox includes the contents of subdirectories b 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 reshu e the current dynamic playlist use the Playlist sub b menu in the WPS context menu or in the Main Menu 4 4 4 Modifying playlists Reshu ing Reshu ing the current playlist is easily done from the Playlist sub menu in the WPS just select Reshuffle The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 33 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 con rm with Right To remove a track simply select Remove in the context menu 4 4 5 Saving playlists To save the current playlist either enter the Playlist submenu in the WPS Context Men
96. e right channel in both stereo channels Karaoke Removes all sound that is common to both channels Since most music is recorded with vocals being equally present in both channels to make the singer sound centrally placed this often but not always has the e ect of removing the voice track from a song This setting also very often has other undesirable e ects on the sound 6 6 Stereo Width Stereo width allows you to manually specify the e ect 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 e ect 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 e ect of widening the stereo eld A value of 100 will leave the stereo eld unaltered 6 7 Loudness When listening at low volumes the ear will tend to make bass and treble frequencies sound quieter than they really are To compensate for this Loudness is an e ect which emphasises bass and treble in a fashion suited to the human ear Frequencies in the The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 6 Sound Settings 41 vocal range are una ected since the human ear picks these up very easily at any sound level It is of course also possible to use this e ect at higher volumes for enhanced bass and treble 6
97. e status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally No Warranty 11 Because the program is licensed free of charge there is no warranty for the program to the extent permitted by applicable law Except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and or other parties provide the program as is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you Should the program prove defective you assume the cost of all necessary servicing repair or correction 12 In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writ ing will any copyright holder or any other party who may modify and or redistribute the program as permitted above be liable to The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 162 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
98. ecorded music For quiet recordings especially of human speech the logarithmic scale often is preferable More information in the Scale section 10 4 10 page 110 below The loop mode In the middle of the bottom line the loop mode icon is displayed There are 4 di erent loop modes Pressing Mode Up changes to the next loop mode Playback loops around the split point indicator This mode is best used when searching and zooming for the desired point at which to split the recording Playback loops from the split point indicator to the end of the visible area This mode is best used when ne tuning the split indicator position at the beginning of a recording Playback loops from the beginning of the visible area to the split point This mode is best used when ne tuning the split indicator position at the end of a recording Playback does not loop the borders of the visible area as well as the split point indicator are ignored This mode is best used when playing the song outside of the borders of the displayed region Perform the split 8 The icon above the Left button indicates its function to execute the split When split positioning is complete open the save dialogue with Mode Left Key Action On O Quit plugin Left Right Move the split point indicator Up Down Zoom in out Mode Play from the split position Mode Left Enter the save dialogue Mode Up Toggle loop modes Mode Right Toggle logarithmic
99. ectrum keyboard Display Speed Toggle displaying the emulation speed in percent Invert Colours Inverts the Spectum colour palette sometimes helps visibility Frameskip Sets the number of frames to skip before displaying one With zero frameskip ZXBox tries to display 50 frames per second Sound Turns sound on or o Volume Controls volume of sound output Prede ned Keymap Select one of the prede ned keymaps For example 2w90z means map ZXBox s Up to 2 Down to w Left to 9 Right to 0 and Jump Fire to z This example keymap is used in the Chuckie Egg game The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 102 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 10 4 Applications 10 4 1 Battery Benchmark The Battery Benchmark plugin enables you to test your battery s performance whilst using your player normally Results can be submitted to the ZBatteryRuntime wiki page How it works Once loaded Batt
100. ed 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 lenames Again a voice le 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 lenames spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below Use File talk Clips This option turns on the use of talk clips for les On Use special pre recorded les for each le This functions the same as for directories except that the talk clip le must have the same name as the described le with an extra talk extension e g Punkadiddle mp3 would require a le called Punkadiddle mp3 talk The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 8 General Settings 54 O No checking is made for le talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce disk activity Use of a talk clip takes precedence over other lename 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 le types when Voice Filenames is set to Spell or Numbers When Voice Directories is set to Spell Directory will be v
101. el which displays the current move number may also contain these markers The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 63 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 Controls Key Action Up Move cursor up Down Move cursor down Left Move cursor left if in board navigation mode or retreat one node in the game tree if in tree navigation mode Right Move cursor right if in board navigation mode or advance one node in the game tree if in tree navigation mode On O Toggle between board and tree navigation modes Mode Play a move or use a tool if play mode has been changed Long Mode Main Menu Menus Main Menu The main menu for game setup and access to other menus New Create 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 sgf unless otherwise set Save As Save to a speci ed le 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
102. ent of any Modi ed Version The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 154 5 COMBINING DOCUMENTS You may combine the Document with other documents released under this License under the terms de ned in section 4 above for modi ed versions provided that you include in the combination all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original documents unmodi ed and list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license notice and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers The combined work need only contain one copy of this License and multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single copy If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but di erent 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 Endorsements 6 COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other do
103. ery 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 re lling the audio bu er 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 le is written to the root directory of your player and is called battery bench txt The plugin will continue to log info until Another plugin is loaded The player is shut down The battery is empty Benchmarks can be resumed if you accidentally load a plugin or turn o your player so long as the log le battery bench txt is not deleted Information explained At the top of the battery bench txt le is various information on how to use the plugin followed by the data themselves The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 103 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 Th
104. ery 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 based on it under Section 2 in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following a Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine readable source code which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange or b Accompany it with a written o er valid for at least three years to give any third party for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution a complete machine readable copy of the corresponding source code to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange or c Accompany it with the information you received as to the o er to distribute corresponding source code This alternative is allowed only for noncom mercial distributio
105. eter can be con gured 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 10 ms Peak Hold Time Speci es the time after which the peak indicator will reset For example if you set this value to 5 s the peak indicator displays the loudest volume value that occurred within the last 5 seconds Larger values are useful if you want to nd the peak level of a song which might be of interest when copying music from the player via the analogue output to some other recording device Clip Hold Time The number of seconds that the clipping indicator will be visible after clipping is detected Scale Select whether the peak meter displays linear or logarithmic values The human ear perceives loudness on a logarithmic scale If the Scale setting is set to Logarithmic dB scale the volume values are scaled logarithmically The volume meters of digital audio devices usually are scaled this way On the other hand if you are interested in the power level that is applied to your headphones you should choose Linear display This setting cannot be displayed in units like volts or watts because such units depend on your headphones Minimum and maximum range These two options de ne the full value range that the peak meter displays Recommended values for the Logarithmic dB setting are 40 dB for minimum and 0
106. f 12 dB 6 2 Bass This setting emphasises or suppresses the lower bass frequencies in the sound A value of 0 dB means that bass sounds are unaltered at response The minimum setting is 12 dB and the maximum is 12 dB 6 3 Treble This setting emphasises or suppresses the higher treble frequencies in the sound A value of 0 dB means that treble sounds are unaltered at response The minimum setting is 12 dB and the maximum is 12 dB The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 6 Sound Settings 40 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 unmodi ed 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 th
107. folder or it s entire folder tree Left or On O Exit 10 4 10 Split Editor When recording an mp3 le it is common practice to start the recording a little bit early and stop it a little bit late to ensure all the desired sound is recorded This results in recordings that contain extra snippets of sound in the beginning and the end Unfortunately these snippets can not be deleted easily because they are stored in the same le as the desired recording The purpose of the split editor is to split an mp3 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 108 le the input le at a point in time split point Two new les can be generated from the input le The rst le contains the part before the split point and the second le contains the part after the split point Once this process has been successful the original le can be deleted or kept as a backup The whole process of splitting an mp3 le consists of three steps De ning the split point Generating the result les If desired deleting the input le with the browser not the split editor How To Use The Split Editor When the device plays the song just hit the On O button to pause when playback has roughly reached the split point This need not be very precise as the split point can be ne tuned later A screen similar to the one below will appear Figure 10 45 The Split Editor s Main Screen The Split Editor s
108. g tones that the headphones or speakers are not capable of reproducing The MDB parameters are as follows MDB enable This turns the MDB feature on or o For many users this will be the only setting they need since Rockbox picks sensible defaults for the other parameters MDB is turned o by default MDB strength How loud the harmonics generated by MDB will be MDB Harmonics The percentage of the low notes that is converted into harmonics If low notes are causing speaker distortion this can be set to 100 to eliminate the fundamental completely and only produce harmonics in the signal If set to 0 this is the same as turning the MDB feature o The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 6 Sound Settings 42 MDB Centre Frequency The cuto frequency of your headphones or speakers This is usually given in the speci cation for the headphones speakers MDB shape It is recommended that this parameter be set to 1 5 times the centre frequency This is the frequency up to which harmonics are generated Some of the lower fundamentals near the cut o range will have their lower harmonics cut since they will be below the range of the speakers Fundamentals between the cut o frequency and the lower frequency will have their harmonics proportionally boosted to compensate and restore the loudness of these notes For most users the defaults should provide an improvement in sound quality and can be safely left as they
109. ghts from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance 5 You are not required to accept this License since you have not signed it However nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License Therefore by modifying or distributing the Program or any work based on the Program you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so and all its terms and conditions for copying distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it 6 Each time you redistribute the Program or any work based on the 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
110. give you any error do not switch o the box Otherwise you ll have seen it working for the last time While Rockbox is still in RAM and operational we could upgrade the plugin via USB and try again If you switch it o it s gone Note After successful ashing you may delete the bin les from the root of your b player Note There are no separate ash packages for players modi ed to have 8 MB of RAM b You need to use the corresponding package for non modi ed Ondio You should then install a Rockbox image that makes use of all available RAM as described in the following section The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 124 11 5 4 Updating the Rockbox Image in Flash When Rockbox is booted from ash it does not check for an updated rmware on disk This is one of the reasons why it boots faster than the Archos rmware It means that whenever you update Rockbox you also need to update the image in the ash This is a simple and safe procedure 1 Download or build the Rockbox build you want to use and unzip it to the root of your player Safely disconnect USB 2 ROLO into the new Rockbox version 3 Go to the le browser and enter the rockbox directory you might need to set the File View option to All 4 Play the le rockbox ucl or preferably rombox ucl and follow the instructions The plugin handling this is rockbox flash a viewer plugin 11 5 5 Restoring the Orig
111. gned texts overlap they are merged B 17 Conditional Tags Tag Description xx lt true false gt If Else Evaluate for true or false case xx lt alt1 alt2 alt3 else gt Enumerations Evaluate for rst second third last condition B 18 Subline Tags Tag Description t lt time gt Set the subline display cycle time t5 or t3 4 formats Split items on a line into separate sublines Allows grouping of several items sublines onto one line with the display cycling round the de ned sublines See section 11 2 3 page 117 for details B 19 Time and Date Tag Description cc Check for presence of the clock hardware The cc tag returns c if the necessary hardware is present and can also be used as a conditional This can be very useful for designing a WPS that works on multiple The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix B Theme Tags 136 targets some with and some without a clock By using this tag as a conditional it is possible to display current date and time on those targets that support this or alternate information on those that do not like the Ondio Example cc lt cH cM No clock detected gt B 20 Text Translation Tag Description Sx lt English gt Display the translation of English in the current language English must be a phrase used in the language le It should match the Source line in the language le Note checkwps canno
112. gor Kuzmin Adilson Vicente Xavier Jesse Lockwood Jonathan Backer Sofian Babai Costas Calamvokis Catalin Patulea Peter Harley Max Kelley Alexander Eickhoff Pinitnun Shanasabang Ken Faz zone David Bishop Hein Pieter van Braam Przemyslaw Holubowski The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix F Credits 147 Stepan Moskovchenko John S Gwynne Brian J Morey Stijn Hisken Bertrik Sikken Karim Boucher James Espinoza Franz R uhmland Jordan Anderson Maurus Cuele naere Chris Allegretta Alastair S Martin Crkovsk y Ariya Hidayat Jonas Hurrelmann Lee Kang Hyuk Clemens Werther Robert Menes Henri Valta Melba Sitjar Mehmet S C atalbas Scott Tinman Alexan der Kuzmenkov Thomas Martitz Prakarn Sahasoontornvute George Tamplaru Apoorva Mahajan Vuong Minh Hiep Mateusz Kubica Frank Gevaerts Chelo Sacrist an Sascha Wolf Nickolay Jordanov Johannes Voggenthaler Marc Guay Alex Vanderpol Jerry Lange Yohann Misquitta Keith Perri Mark Faw cus Ivan Pesic Marcel Barbulescu Phil Light Rob Purchase Andreas M uller Christopher Williams Mar tin Ritter Justin Hannigan Tomasz Wasilczyk Kenjiro Arai John Kam inar Joris Goosen Mark Ganson Davide Gentile James Vasile Mo hamed Tarek Mike Burke Michael Chicoine Macie
113. h Steve Cundari Mat Holton Jan Gajdos Antoine Cellerier Brian King Jiri Jurecek Jacob Erl beck Jean Philippe Bernardy Dave Hooper Jonas H aggqvist Thom Johansen Rinat Zakirov Manuel Dejonghe Marcoen Hirschberg Michiel van der Kolk Tony Motakis Andy Young Alexandre Bourget Richard S La Charit e III Chris tian Gmeiner Tomas Salfischberger Miika Pekkarinen Tapio Karppinen Richard Ott o O Brien Luca Bu relli Alessio Lenzi David Bryant Martin Arver Alexander Spyridakis Pedro Baltazar Vasconcelos Ray Lambert Dave Wiard Pieter Bos Konstantin Isakov Bryan Vandyke Hristo Kovachev Sander Sweers Antonius Hellman Ryan Jackson Per Holm ang Frederic Devernay Jos e M Fandi no Gadi Cohen Naf tali Goldstein David Dent Frank Dischner Liberman Shachar Stephan Wezel Alyssa Milburn Kevin Fer rare Anton Oleynikov Mark Arigo Magnus Westerlund Jake Owen Mustapha Senhaji Adam Boot Jonathan Gordon Tat Tang Toshi hiko Itoh David J Song Jeong Taek In Anders Kagerin Peter D Hoye Ben Basha Brandon Low Nathan The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix F Credits 146 Hand Nick Lanham Sebastian Hen riksen Martin Scarratt Karl Kurbjun Tomasz Malesinski An drew Pilley Matt v d Westhuizen Tim Crist Jvo
114. hed by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License If you have Invariant Sections Front Cover Texts and Back Cover Texts replace the with Texts line with this with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES with the Front Cover Texts being LIST and with the Back Cover Texts being LIST If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts or some other combination of the three merge those two alternatives to suit the situation If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code we recommend re leasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free software license such as the GNU General Public License to permit their use in free software The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 157 G 2 The GNU General Public License Version 2 June 1991 Copyright c 1989 1991 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it By contrast the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software to make sure the software is free for
115. hemes If label is set this viewport can be selectivly used as the Info Viewport using the VI tag The parameters use the same logic as the V tag explained above VI label Set the Info Viewport to use the viewport called label as declared with the previous tag Conditional Tags If else Syntax xx lt true false gt If the tag speci ed by xx has a value the text between the lt and the is displayed the true part else the text between the and the gt is displayed the false part The else part is optional so the does not have to be speci ed 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 xx lt alt1 alt2 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 mp lt Stop Play Pause Ffwd Rew gt The last else part is optional and will be displayed if the tag has no value The WPS parser will always display the last part if the tag has no value or if the list of alternatives is too short Next Song Info You can display information about the next song the song that is about to play after the one currently playing unless you change the plan If you use the upper case versions of the three tags F I and D the
116. his 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 di erence 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 di erent ways By selecting playing a song from the File Browser Whenever a song is selected from the File Browser with Right Rockbox will auto matically create a playlist containing all of the songs in that directory and start playback with the selected song Note If you already have created a dynamic playlist playing a new song will erase the b 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 31 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 ca
117. ible b The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 101 Default keys The emulator is set up for 5 di erent 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 xed menu button are assigned as follows Key Action Up Down Left Right Directional movement Mode Jump Fire On O Open ZXBox menu ZXBox menu Vkeyboard This is a virtual keyboard representing the Spectrum keyboard Controls are the same as in standard Rockbox but you just press one key instead of entering a phrase 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 speci ed 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 speci c loaders Options Map Keys To Kempston Controls whether the player s buttons should sim ulate a Kempston joystick or some assigned keys of the Sp
118. id adx nsf speex spc ape wma mod sap 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 WMA MOD SAP ff File Frequency in Hz fk File Frequency in kHz fm File Name fn File Name without extension fp File Path fs File Size in Kilobytes fv avg if variable bit rate or empty string if constant bit rate d1 First directory from the end of the le path d2 Second directory from the end of the le path d3 Third directory from the end of the le path Example for the dN commands If the path is Rock Kent Isola 11 747 mp3 d1 is Isola d2 is Kent and d3 is Rock These tags when written with the rst letter capitalized e g Fn or D2 produce the information for the next le to be played The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix B Theme Tags 131 B 6 Playlist Song Info Tag Description pb Progress Bar This will replace the entire line with a progress bar You can set the position width and height of the progressbar in pixels and load a custom image for it pb image bmp x y width height 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 Pos
119. iewer txt nfo VBR x mp3 x Wavplay wav ZXBox tap tax sna z80 10 3 1 Shortcuts The Shortcuts Plugin allows you to jump to places within the le browser without having to navigate there manually The plugin works with link les A link le is just a text le with every line containing the name of the le or the directory you want to quickly jump to All names should be full absolute names i e they should start with a Directory names should also end with a The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 91 How to create link les You can use your favourite text editor to create a link le on the PC an then copy the le to the player Or you can use the context menu on either a le or a directory in the le browser tree and use the Add to shortcuts menu option This will append a line with the full name of the le or the directory to the shortcuts link le in the root directory of the player The le will be created if it does not exist yet You can later rename the automatically created shortcuts link le or move it to another directory if you wish Subsequent calls of the context menu will create it again How to use link les i e jump to desired places To use a link le just play it from the le browser This will show you a list with the entries in the le Selecting one of them will then exit the plugin and leave you within the directory
120. igure 4 1 The le browser Rockbox lets you browse your music in either of two ways The File Browser lets you navigate through the les and directories on your player entering directories and executing the default action on each le To help di erentiate les each le 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 les you wish to view See section 8 2 page 47 for more information on the Show Files setting Note The File Browser allows you to manipulate your les in ways that are not b available within the Database Browser Read more about Database in section 4 2 page 22 The remainder of this section deals with the File Browser Unlike the Archos Firmware Rockbox provides multivolume support for the Multi MediaCard this means the player can access both data volumes internal memory and the MMC thus being able to for instance build playlists with les from both volumes In the File Browser a new directory will appear as soon as the device has read the content after inserting the card This new directory s name is generated as lt MMC1 gt and will behave exactly as any
121. inal Flash ROM Contents In case you ever want to restore the original ash contents you will need the backup le The procedure is very similar to initial ashing with the following di erences 1 Check that you do not have any firmware bin les in your player s root 2 Select Plugins Applications and run the firmware flash plugin Write down the lename it displays in the rst screen then exit the plugin 3 Connect USB and copy the ash ROM backup le to the root of your player Only use the backup le from that very box otherwise you re asking for trouble Rename the le so that it matches the name requested by the firmware flash plugin Safely disconnect USB Now follow the instructions given for initial ashing starting with step 3 11 6 Optimising battery runtime Rockbox o ers a lot of settings that have high impact on the battery runtime of your player The largest power savings can be achieved through disabling unneeded hardware components for some of those there are settings available The following provides a short overview of the most relevant settings and rules of thumb The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 125 11 6 1 Audio format and bitrate Your target uses ash that consumes a certain amount of power during access The less often the ash needs to be switched on for bu ering and the shorter the bu ering duration is the lower is the over
122. ion You may have directories on your player whose contents should not be added to the database Placing a le named database ignore in a directory will exclude the les 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 le named database unignore in it The les in that directory and its subdirectories will be scanned and added to the database 4 2 3 The Database Menu Auto Update If Auto update is set to on each time the player boots the database will automatically be updated Initialize Now You can force Rockbox to rescan your disk for tagged les by using the Initialize Now function in the Database Menu Warning Initialize Now removes all database les removing runtimedb data also and rebuilds the database from scratch Update Now Update now causes the database to detect new and deleted les 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 Modi cations This allows for the runtime data t
123. ion To return to the games menu you can hit On O A stopped game can not be resumed The scoreboard On the right side of the game eld 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 81 Argh If the score board entry displays Argh it means the worm is dead because it tried to eat an argh Until we can make the worm say Argh it is your job to say Argh aloud Wormed The worm tried to eat another worm or even itself That s why it is dead now Making traps for other players
124. ist terminology 30 4 4 2 Creating playlists 30 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists 31 4 4 4 Modifying playlists 32 4 4 5 Saving playlists 33 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists 33 4 4 7 Helpful Hints 33 5 The Main Menu 34 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu 34 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 34 5 3 Recent Bookmarks 35 5 4 Files 35 5 5 Database 36 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback 36 5 7 Settings 36 5 7 1 Sound Settings 36 5 7 2 Playback Settings 36 5 7 3 General Settings
125. ition pr Remaining Time In Song ps s if shu e mode is enabled pt Total Track Time pv Current volume in dB Can also be used in a conditional pv lt 0 1 2 N gt 0 is used for mute the last option is used for values greater than zero This can also be used like pb to provide a continuous scale pv image bmp x y width height pS Track is starting An optional number gives how many seconds the tag remains true for after the start of the track The default is 10 seconds if no number is speci ed pS7 lt in the first 7 seconds of track in the rest of the track gt pE Track is ending An optional number gives how many seconds before the end of the track the tag becomes true The default is 10 seconds if no number is speci ed pE7 lt in the last 7 seconds of track in the rest of the track gt Sp Current Playback Pitch B 7 Runtime Database Tag Description rp Song playcount rr Song rating 0 10 This tag can also be used in a conditional tag rr lt 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 gt ra Autoscore for the song The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix B Theme Tags 132 B 8 Virtual LED Tag Description lh h if the ash storage is accessed B 9 Repeat Mode Tag Description mm Repeat mode 0 4 in the order O All One Shu e A B Example mm lt Off All One Shuffle A B gt B 10 Playback Mode Tag Description mp Play status 0 4 in the
126. j Adamczak Tomer Shalev Thibaut Girka Rasmus Ry William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno Adrian Osoianu Martin Pahl Ori Avtalion Thomas Schott Dennis Ivanov Takumi Suzuki Shunsuke Shimizu Tadayuki Nishizono Jun Gu Daniel Weck Cl ement Pit Claudel Jelle Geerts Tadeusz Py s Rostislav Chekan Florin Popescu Volker Mische Vitja Makarov Francisco Vila Christian Lees Rafa el Carr e Denes Balatoni Roy Wallace Eric Lassauge Franc ois Dinel Francesco Rigoni Jo el Puik Klaas Bosteels Teruaki Kawashima Marcin Lukasik Le Jin Alex Ben nee St ephane Quertinmont Bartosz Fabianowski Adam Hogan Andrew Mahone Anton Veretenenko Vi cente Ibarra Rui Ara ujo Brian Cloutier Olivier Barbut Yoshi hisa Uchida Sanggon Lee Kaspar Rothenfu er Ryan Press Craig El liott Kenderes Tamas Eric Shat tow Joshua Simmons Sei Aoyumi Martin Pool Gareth Schakel Brian Sutherland Sam Bouwer Jo hannes Linke Micha el Burtin Sasha Khamkov Kai Posadowsky Jack Halpin Johannes Schwarz Dustin Skoracki Torne Wuff Wookey Nick Sant Michael Carr Eric Clayton Marko Pahlke Vytenis Sabelka Nicolas Pitre Benedikt Goos Frederick Full Jeffrey Goode Raafat Akkad Davide Quarta An dre Lupa Hilton Shumway Matthew Bon
127. l Archos Ondio Appendix B Theme Tags 129 B 3 Viewports Tag Description V x y width height font See section 11 2 2 Vd identifier Display the identi er viewport E g C lt Vda Vdb gt will show viewport a if album art is found and b if it isn t Vi label Declare a Custom UI Viewport The pa rameters use the same logic as the V tag ex plained above See section 11 2 2 VI label Set the Info Viewport to use the viewport called label as declared with the previous tag B 4 Power Related Information Tag Description bl Numeric battery level in percents Can also be used in a conditional bl lt 1 0 1 2 N gt where the value 1 is used when the battery level isn t known it usually is bv The battery level in volts bt Estimated battery time left bp p if the charger is connected only on targets that can charge batteries bc c if the unit is currently charging the battery only on targets that have software charge control or monitoring bs Remaining time of the sleep timer if it is set The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix B Theme Tags 130 B 5 Information about the le Tag Description fb File Bitrate in kbps fc File Codec e g MP3 or FLAC This tag can also be used in a condi tional tag fc lt mp1 mp2 mp3 aiff wav ogg flac mpc a52 wavpack alac aac shn s
128. les Selecting one will activate it Left or On O will exit back to the menu For further information about the WPS see section 4 3 page 25 For information about editing a wps le see section 11 2 page 114 Show Icons Rockbox has the ability to display an icon to the left of the le in the File Browser For details of these icons see section A 1 page 127 These icons can also be customised See the ZIconSets and ZCustomIcons Wiki pages for details Status Scrollbar Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar Scroll Bar Allows you to choose where the vertical scroll bar should appear Scroll Bar Width Allows you to choose the width of the scroll bar in pixels Default value is 6 Status Bar Allows you to choose where to display the statusbar Volume Display Controls whether the volume is displayed as a graphic or a nu meric value on the Status Bar If you select a numeric display volume is displayed in decibels See section 6 1 page 39 for more on the volume set ting The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 9 Theme Settings 56 Battery Display Controls whether the battery charge status is displayed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Line Selector Type This option allows you to select which type of line selector to use Pointer A small arrow to the left of the menu text Bar inverse A bar with inverted foreground and background colour The Rockbox manu
129. limitation in the term modi cation Each licensee is addressed as you Activities other than copying distribution and modi cation are not covered by this License they are outside its scope The act of running the Program is not restricted and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents consti tute a work based on the Program independent of having been made by running the Program Whether that is true depends on what the Program does 1 You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program s source code as you receive it in any medium provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy and you may at your option o er warranty protection in exchange for a fee 2 You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it thus forming a work based on the Program and copy and distribute such modi cations or work under the terms of Section 1 above provided that you also meet all of these conditions a You must cause the modi ed les to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the les and the date of any change b You must cause any work that y
130. ll games will adapt so that they are still playable This port of Frotz attempts to be compliant with the Z Machine Speci cation version 1 0 Some places where you can nd Z Machine games and information about interactive ction The Interactive Fiction Archive where many free modern works can be down loaded http www ifarchive org The speci c folder on the if archive containing Z Machine games http www ifarchive org indexes if archiveXgamesXzcode html The Infocom homepage with information about how to get the classic commercial Infocom games http www csd uwo ca Infocom The Frotz homepage for the original Unix port http frotz sourceforge net The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 94 A Beginner s Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction http www microheaven com IFGuide Key Action Up Display keyboard to enter text Mode Press enter On O Open Frotz menu not available at MORE prompts Long On O Quit 10 3 5 JPEG viewer This plugin opens jpeg les from the File Browser to display them using Rockbox s greyscale library Note This plugin will cause playback to stop b Key Action Up Down Left Right Move around in zoomed in image Mode Zoom in Mode Down Zoom out Mode Right Next jpeg in directory Mode Left Previous jpeg in directory On O Show menu Abort The menu has the following entries Return Retur
131. mdb strength 0 to 127 dB mdb harmonics 0 to 100 mdb center 20 to 300 Hz mdb shape 50 to 300 Hz peak meter release 1 to 126 peak meter hold o 200ms 300ms 500ms 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 30 1min N A peak meter clip hold on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 2min 3min 5min 10min 20min 45min 90min N A peak meter busy on o N A peak meter dbfs on o on dbfs o linear peak meter min 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 dB or peak meter max 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 dB or statusbar o top bottom N A scrollbar o left right N A scrollbar width 3 to LCD width 10 devise a way to get ranges from con g h pixels volume display graphic numeric N A battery display graphic numeric N A font path lename fnt N A kbd path lename kbd N A invert on o N A The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix C Config file options 140 Setting Allowed Values Unit ip display on o N A selector type pointer bar inverse N A show icons on o N A iconset path lename bmp N A viewers iconset path lename bmp N A The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix D Menu Overview 141 D Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix E User feedback 142 E User feedback E 1 Bug reports If you ex
132. me This function lets the user modify the name of a le or directory Cut Copies the name of the currently selected le or directory to the clipboard and marks it to be cut Copy Copies the name of the currently selected le or directory to the clipboard and marks it to be copied Paste Only visible if a le or directory name is on the clipboard When selected it will move or copy the clipboard to the current directory Delete Deletes the currently selected le This option applies only to les and not to directories Rockbox will ask for con rmation before deleting a le Press Right to con rm deletion or any other key to cancel Delete Directory Deletes the currently selected directory and all of the les and subdi rectories it may contain Deleted directories cannot be recovered Use this feature with caution Open with Runs a viewer plugin on the le Normally when a le is selected in Rock box Rockbox automatically detects the le 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 le even if the le has a non standard extension i e the le has an extension of something other than txt See section 10 3 page 90 for more details on viewers Create Directory Create a new directory in the current directory on the disk Properties Shows proper
133. me con guration stored in it will be loaded into this plugin A cells le is a text le A capital O marks a live cell a dot marks a dead cell all other characters are ignored Everything on a line starting with an exclamation sign and including it is a comment and is ignored The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 72 Key Action Mode Play pause Down Change growth mode Right Next generation Left Status only when paused On O Exit 10 1 20 Sliding Puzzle Figure 10 16 Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the whole picture or switch to number tiles if you like it a little easier Includes one picture puzzle You can also use the sliding puzzle plugin as a viewer for supported image types to turn your own pictures into a puzzle Key controls Key Action Left Right Up and Down Move Tile Long Mode Shu e Mode Switch between pictures default puzzle and your own image if launched via Open With and numbered tiles On O Stop the game The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 73 10 1 21 Snake Figure 10 17 Snake This is the popular snake game The aim is to grow your snake as large as possible by eating the dots that appear on the screen The game will end when the snake touches either the borders of the screen or itself Key Action Up Down Change levels 1 is slowest 9 is fastest
134. moves the Recent Bookmarks from the Main Menu Yes Keep a list of recently used bookmarks Each new bookmark is added to the list of recent bookmarks Unique Only Add each new bookmark to the list of recently used bookmarks but only keep one bookmark from the current directory or playlist any previous entries are removed The following keys can be used to navigate in any bookmark list Key Action Down Selects the next bookmark Up Selects the previous bookmark Right Resumes from the selected bookmark Left or On O Exits Recent Bookmark menu Long Left Deletes the currently selected bookmark Long Right 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 les must be in the rockbox langs directory See section 11 1 3 page 113 for further details about languages The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 8 General Settings 53 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 le must be present in the rockbox langs directory on the player Voice les are large and are not
135. mpeg team The Ogg Vorbis team The liba52 team The Speex team The libfaad team The Doom team The gnuchess team The gnuboy team The Pacman Instructional Emu lator team The Spectemu team The libmpeg2 team The Game Music Emu team The OpenSPC DSP emulator team The ALAC decoder team The UCL team The iPod Linux team The Vision 8 Emulator team The robotfindskitten team The libmtp team The asap team The libpng team The Pure Data team Miller Puckette and others The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 149 G Licenses G 1 GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 November 2002 Copyright c 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 e ective 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 modi cations made by others This License is a kind of copyleft which means that derivative works of the document
136. 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 for works whose purpose is instruction or reference 1 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS This License applies to any manual or other work in any medium that contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under the terms of this License Such a notice grants a world wide royalty free license unlimited in duration to use that work under the conditions stated herein The Document below refers to any such manual or work Any member of the public is a licensee and is addressed as you You accept the license if you copy modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission under copyright law The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 150 A Modi ed Version of the Document means any work containing the Document or a portion of it either copied verbatim or with modi cations and or translated into another language
137. n and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an o er in accord with Subsection b above The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modi cations to it For an executable work complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains plus any associated interface de nition les plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable However as a special exception the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed in either source or binary form with the major components compiler kernel and so on of the operating system on which the executable runs unless that component itself accompanies the executable If distribution of executable or object code is made by o ering access to copy from a designated place then o ering equivalent access to copy the source code from The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 160 the same place counts as distribution of the source code even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code 4 You may not copy modify sublicense or distribute the Program except as ex pressly provided under this License Any attempt otherwise to copy modify sub license or distribute the Program is void and will automatically terminate your rights under this License However parties who have received copies or ri
138. n 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 modi cations in the Modi ed Version together with at least ve of the principal authors of the Document all of its principal authors if it has fewer than ve unless they release you from this requirement C State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the Modi ed Version as the publisher D Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document E Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modi cations adjacent to the other copyright notices F Include immediately after the copyright notices a license notice giving the public permission to use the Modi ed Version under the terms of this License in the form shown in the Addendum below G Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections and required Cover Texts given in the Document s license notice H Include an unaltered copy of this License I Preserve the section Entitled History Preserve its Title and add to it an item stating at least the title year new authors and publisher of the Modi ed Version as
139. n you have not changed the le the Text Editor will quit immediately b Key Action Right Edit Line Select Character Left or On O Exit Abort Editing Long Mode Show Item Menu Long Right Delete Line The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 113 11 Advanced Topics 11 1 Customising the User Interface 11 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 11 1 2 Loading Fonts Rockbox can load fonts dynamically Simply copy the fnt le 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 lename must be at most 24 characters long You can browse the fonts in rockbox fonts under Settings Theme Settings Font in the Main Menu Note Advanced Users Only Any BDF font should be usable with Rockbox To convert b from bdf to fnt use the convbdf tool This tool can be found in the tools directory of the Rockbox source code See ZCreateFonts ConvBdf for more details Or just run convbdf without any parameters to see the possible options 11 1 3 Loading Languages Rockbox can load language les at runtime Simply copy the lng le do not use the lang le to the player and play it in the Rockbox directory browser or select Set tings
140. ndio Appendix E User feedback 143 E 2 2 Features we will not implement This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do View it as the opposite of a TODO Record to WAV uncompressed or MP3pro format The recording hardware the MAS does not allow us to do this Crossfade between tracks Crossfading would require two mp3 decoders and we only have one This is not possible Support MP3pro WMA or other sound format playback The mp3 decoding hardware can only play MP3 We cannot make it play other sound formats Converting OGG MP3 The mp3 decoding hardware cannot decode OGG It can be reprogrammed but there is too little memory for OGG and we have no documentation on how to program the MAS DSP Doing the conversion with the CPU is impossible since a 12 MHz SH1 is far too slow for this daunting task Archos Multimedia support The Archos Multimedia is a completely di erent beast It is an entirely di er ent architecture di erent CPU and upgrading the software is done a completely di erent way We do not wish to venture into this Others may do so We will not Multi band or graphic equaliser We cannot access information for that kind of visualisation from the MP3 decoding hardware CBR recording The MP3 encoding hardware does not allow this Change tempo of a song without changing pitch The MP3 decoding hardware does not allow this
141. nett Nick Tryon David Johnston Ralph Soto Mykhailo Radzievskyi Christophe Gouiran Asael Re iter Jens Erdmann Rosso Maltese Amaury Pouly Laurent Papier Jo hannes Boy Jason Yu Aaron De Mille Tomasz Kowalczyk Michael Lechner Peter Schlenker Dan Davison David Kauffmann Carsten Schreiter Michael Sparmann Seth Opgenorth Jonas Aaberg Junio C Hamano Bob Cousins Christophe Nicolas Yann Muller Sascha Wilde Fred Bauer Simon Rothen Pavel Rzeh ak Diego Herranz Viktor Varga Juliusz Chroboczek Chris tian Beier Giovanni Zilli Shiloh Hawley Peter Leck y Wilfred Hughes Laurent Gautier Simon Zhukovsky Daniel Kluz Phinit nun Chanasabaeng Tse Hsien Chi ang Szymon Dziok Domenico Di The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix F Credits 148 Misa Delyan Kratunov Purling Yukie Marek Salaba Altay Oz Peter Lecky Mark Borgerding Tobias Diedrich Andrew Engel brecht Kevin Schoedel Jens Thee Alexey Nemtsev Pascal Below Danny Attar Philipp Stephani Tore Johnny Br atveit Marcin Bukat Andrew Rodland Luca Leonardo Scorcia Gerhard Zintel Adri an Cereto Massagu e Chris Sav ery Rapha el Jakse Wincent Balin Aaron Rothbaum Nejc Lotric The libmad team The wavpack team The ff
142. ng or edit ing comments adding pass moves or switching between sibling variations Play Mode Play moves normally on the board If there are child moves from the current node this mode will let you follow variations by simply playing the rst 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 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 rst move in a variation this will navigate to the next variation after the current one This is the only way to reach variations which start with adding or removing stones as you cannot follow them by playing the same move Force Play Mode The same as Play Mode except that this mode will allow you to play illegal moves such as retaking a ko immediately without a ko threat suicide on rulesets which don t allow it including single stone suicide and playing a move where there is al
143. 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 32 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 Shu ed Add track s to the playlist in a random order Insert Last Shu ed Add tracks in a random order to the end of the playlist Queue Queue is the same as Insert except queued tracks are deleted immediately from the playlist after they have been played Also queued tracks are not saved to the playlist le see section 5 8 page 37 Queue Next Queue track s immediately after current playing track Queue Last Queue track s at end of playlist Queue Shu ed Queue track s in a random order Queue Last Shu ed Queue tracks in a random order at the end of the playlist Play Next Replaces all but the current playing track with track s Current playing track is queued The Playlist Submenu can be used to add either single tracks or entire directories to a playlist If the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a single track it will put only that track into the playlist On the other hand if the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a directory Rockbox adds all of the tracks in that directory to th
144. ns you to the image 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 Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the File Browser Note Progressive scan and other unusual JPEG les are not supported and will result b 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 95 10 3 6 Movie Player Play movies on your player In order to do this movies must be in AVI format and then converted to RVF Rockbox s own video format For more details on how to use this plugin please see ZVideoTutorial 10 3 7 Rockbox ash For playing UCL les on a ashed player Reprograms the ash memory of the player unit see section 11 5 page 121 for details 10 3 8 Search This plugin can be used on playlists It searches through the playlist that it opened on looking for any occurrences of the string entered by the user The results of this search are saved to a new playlist search results m3u within the same directory as the original playlist 10 3 9 Sort This plugin takes a le and sorts it in ascending alphabetical order Case is ignored This is useful for ordering playlists generated by the Create Playlist menu option see section 5 8 page 37 10
145. nting where in the song you are Peak meter Note b The number of lines shown depends on the size of the font used The peak meter is only visible if you turn o the status bar or if using a small font that gives 8 or more display lines See section 11 2 page 114 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 rst seconds of a track go to the previous track Long Left Rewind in track Right Go to the next track Long Right Fast forward in track On O Toggle play pause Long On O Stop playback Mode Return to the File Browser Database Long Mode Enter WPS Context Menu Long Mode twice Enter Main Menu via the WPS Con text Menu Mode Down Key lock on o Short Right Long Right Skip to the next directory Short Left Long Left Skip to the previous directory The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 27 4 3 2 Peak Meter The peak meter can be displayed on the While Playing Screen and consists of several indicators The bar This is the wide horizontal bar It represents the current volume value The peak indicator This is a little vertical line at the right end of the bar It indicates the peak volume value that occurred recently The clip indicator This is a little black block th
146. o be exported to the le 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 modi cations exported to ASCII format should be readable by all database versions The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 24 Import Modi cations 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 b Settings General Settings System Limits in order to view long lists of tracks in the ID3 database browser There is no option to turn o 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 Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 25 Tag Type Origin lename 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 s
147. oggle between the two scale modes The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 111 10 4 11 Stats Figure 10 47 The stats plugin The stats plugin simply counts the number of les music les and directories on your player Press On O to abort counting and exit the plugin Press it again to quit after counting has nished 10 4 12 Stopwatch Figure 10 48 Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times Key Action On O Quit Plugin Right Start stop Left Reset timer only when timer is stopped Mode Take lap time Up Down Scroll through lap times 10 4 13 Text Editor This plugin allows you to view and edit simple text documents on your DAP You can view les by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 20 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 112 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 le should be shown on the screen You can now edit the le The Text Editor is line based This means you can edit one line at a time using the Virtual Keyboard see section 4 1 3 page 21 Move the selection bar to the line you want to edit Edit the highlighted text line or insert a new one using the Item Menu When nished editing exit the Text Editor You ll be shown a list of save options Note Whe
148. oiced 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 ZVoiceHowto for more details on con guring speech support in Rockbox The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 9 Theme Settings 55 9 Theme Settings The Theme Settings menu o ers options that you can change to customize the visual apperance of Rockbox Browse Theme Files This option will display all the currently installed themes on the player press Right to load the chosen theme and apply it A theme is a con guration le stored in a speci c directory that typically changes the WPS font used and on some platforms additional information such as back ground image and text colours There are a number of themes that ship with Rockbox If none of these suit your needs many more can be downloaded from http themes rockbox org index php target ondiosp Note Themes do not have to be purely visual It is quite possible to create a theme b that switches between audio con gurations for use in the car with headphones and when connected to an external ampli er See section 11 2 2 page 114 for more details Font Browse the installed fonts on your player Selecting one will activate it See section 11 1 2 page 113 for further details about fonts While Playing Screen Opens the File Browser in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps
149. order Stop Play Pause Fast Forward Rewind Recording Recording paused FM Radio playing FM Radio muted Example mp lt Stop Play Pause Ffwd Rew Rec Rec pause FM FM pause gt B 11 Current Screen Tag Description cs The current screen 1 5 in the order Menus WPS Recording screen FM Radio screen Current Playlist screen The tag can also be used as the switch in a conditional tag For players without some capabilities e g having no FM radio some values will be never yielded Example You are in the cs lt Main menu WPS Recording screen FM Radio screen gt B 12 List Title sbs only Tag Description Lt Title text Should be used in a conditional so that non list screens don t show a title when they shouldn t Li Title icon This uses the same order as custom icons see ZCustomIcons in the wiki except that here 0 is no icon The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix B Theme Tags 133 This tag can be used to give custom formatting to list titles De ne a viewport with the font and formatting desired and then use Lt lt Lt gt to display the title within the viewport If Lt is present anywhere in the sbs then the Vi viewport will not show the title B 13 Changing Volume Tag Description mv t v if the volume is being changed The tag produces the letter v while the volume is being changed and some amount of time after that i e after the volume button has been released
150. other directory on the player The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 20 4 1 1 File Browser Controls Key Action Up Down Go to previous next item in list If you are on the rst last entry the cursor will wrap to the last rst entry Left Go to the parent directory Right Execute the default action on the selected le or enter a directory Mode If there is an audio le playing return to the While Playing Screen WPS without stopping playback On O Stop audio playback Long Right Enter the Context Menu Long Mode Enter the Main Menu 4 1 2 Context Menu Figure 4 2 The Context Menu The Context Menu allows you to perform certain operations on les or directories To access the Context Menu position the selector over a le or directory and access the context menu with Long Right Note The Context Menu is a context sensitive menu If the Context Menu is b invoked on a le it will display options available for les 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 les and directories Playlist Enters the Playlist Submenu see section 4 4 3 page 31 Playlist Catalog Enters the Playlist Catalog Submenu see section 4 4 2 page 31 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 21 Rena
151. other pertinent obligations then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all For example if a patent license would not permit royalty free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system which is implemented by public license practices Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system it is up to the author donor to The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 161 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 8 If the distribution and or use of the Program is restricted in certain
152. ou distribute or publish that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License c If the modi ed program normally reads commands interactively when run you must cause it when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty or else saying that you provide a warranty and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions and telling the user how to view a copy of this License Exception if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 159 such an announcement your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement These requirements apply to the modi ed work as a whole If identi able 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 ev
153. ou will also need a voice le Voice les allow Rockbox to speak the user interface to you Rockbox Utility can install an English voice le 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 les with di erent 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 e ect after a reboot See section 8 8 page 53 for details on voice settings Rockbox Utility can also aid in the production of talk les which allow Rockbox to speak le and folder names The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 2 Installation 14 2 3 Running Rockbox When you turn the unit on Rockbox should load 2 4 Updating Rockbox Rockbox can be easily updated with Rockbox Utility You can also update Rockbox manually download a Rockbox build as detailed above and unzip the build to the root directory of your player as in the manual installation stage If your unzip program asks you whether to overwrite les choose the Yes to all option The new build will be installed over your current build Note If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed b components 2 5 Uninstalling Rockbox 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation You can uninstall Rockbox automatically by using Rockbox Utility If you installed Rockbo
154. ould use to copy les between drives e g Drag and Drop The default directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox missing tag fallback in some WPSes uses the parent directory of a song as the Album name and the parent directory of that folder as the Artist name While les may be organized however you like WPSes may display information incorrectly if your les are not properly tagged and you have your music organized in a way di erent than they assume when attempting to guess the Artist and Album names from your letree 3 1 4 The rst contact After you have rst 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 34 To browse the les on you player select Files see section 4 1 page 19 and to browse in a view that is based on the meta data1 of your audio les select Database see section 4 2 page 22 3 1 5 Basic controls When browsing les and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive In the tree view use Down and Up to move around the selection Use Right to select an item When browsing the le system selecting an audio le plays it The view switches to the While playing screen usually abbreviated as WPS see section 4 3 page 25 The dynamic playlist gets replaced wi
155. pear on printed covers that bracket the whole aggregate The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 155 8 TRANSLATION Translation is considered a kind of modi cation so you may distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4 Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special permission from their copyright holders but you may include translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the original versions of these Invariant Sections You may include a translation of this License and all the license notices in the Document and any Warranty Disclaimers provided that you also include the original English version of this License and the original versions of those notices and disclaimers In case of a disagreement between the translation and the original version of this License or a notice or disclaimer the original version will prevail If a section in the Document is Entitled Acknowledgements Dedications or His tory the requirement section 4 to Preserve its Title section 1 will typically require changing the actual title 9 TERMINATION You may not copy modify sublicense or distribute the Document except as expressly provided for under this License Any other attempt to copy modify sublicense or distribute the Document is void and will automatically terminate your rights under this License However parties who have received copies or rights from
156. perience inappropriate performance from any supported feature please le a bug report on our web page Do not report missing features as bugs instead le 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 Which exact player you have Which exact Rockbox version you are using Menu System Rockbox Info Version A step by step description of what you did and what happened Whether the problem is repeatable or a one time occurrence All relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists MP3 les etc IMPORTANT E 2 Feature ideas To suggest an idea for a feature or to read those made by others see http forums rockbox org index php board 49 0 Please keep in mind that this forum is for the dis cussion of feature ideas they are not requests and there is no guarantee they will be acted upon E 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 1 Check that the feature has not already been suggested Duplicates are really boring 2 Check that the feature has not already been implemented Download the latest current daily build and or search the mail list archive 3 Check that the feature is possible to implement see section E 2 2 page 143 The Rockbox manual Archos O
157. r case do not perform the steps listed under Preparation Preparation You should perform a backup of the current ash ROM contents in case you want to restore it later Select System Debug Keep Out Dump ROM contents You ll notice a few seconds of disk activity When you connect your player to the PC afterwards you ll nd two les in the root of your player Copy the 256 KB sized le named internal rom 2000000 203FFFF bin to a safe place Flashing 1 Download the correct package for your player from http download rockbox org bootloader archos It is named flash lt model gt lt version gt zip The current packages are v3 2 Unzip the ash package to the root of your player This will extract one le to the root firmware lt model gt bin Now safely disconnect USB 3 Make sure you use a set of fresh batteries Flashing doesn t need more power than normal operation but you don t want your player to run out of power while ashing 4 Select Plugins Applications and run the firmware flash plugin It will tell you about your ash and which le it is going to program After pressing Left it will check the le If the le is OK pressing Up will give you a big warning If we still didn t manage to scare you o you need to press Right to actually program and verify The programming takes just a few seconds 5 In the unlikely event that the programming or verify steps should
158. ready a stone Mark Mode Add generic marks to the board or remove them Circle Mode Add circle marks to the board or remove them Square Mode Add square marks to the board or remove them Triangle Mode Add triangle marks to the board or remove them Label Mode Add one character labels to the board Each label starts at the letter a and each subsequent application 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 66 10 1 9 Jackpot Figure 10 8 Jackpot This is a jackpot slot machine game At the beginning of the game you have 20 Payouts are given when three matching symbols come up Key Action Mode Play On O Exit the game 10 1 10 Jewels Figure 10 9 Jewels Jewels is a simple yet addicting game which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible before running out of available moves Higher points are awarded to larger combos The game advances to the next level after every one hundred points and randomly clears several jewels In puzzle mode the aim of the game is to connect the puzzles by skilful swapping pairs of jewels The Rockbox manual Archos On
159. reen 132 B 12 List Title sbs only 132 B 13 Changing Volume 133 B 14 Settings 133 B 15 Images 134 B 16 Alignment 135 B 17 Conditional Tags 135 B 18 Subline Tags 135 B 19 Time and Date 135 B 20 Text Translation 136 B 21 Other Tags 136 C Con g le options 137 D Menu Overview 141 E User feedback 142 E 1 Bug reports 142 E 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 142 E 2 Feature ideas 142 E 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 142 E 2 2 Features we will not implement
160. release Please now go to section 2 2 3 page 13 to complete the installation procedure 2 2 2 Manual Installation The manual installation method is still available to you should you need or desire it by following the instructions below If you have used Rockbox Utility to install Rockbox then you do not need to follow the next section and can skip straight to section 2 2 3 page 13 Installing the rmware 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 le that you downloaded and use the Extract all command of your unzip program to extract the les onto your player Note The entire contents of the zip le should be extracted directly to the root of b your player s drive Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the Rockbox les The zip le already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs If the contents of the zip le are extracted correctly you will have a le called ajbrec ajz in the main directory of your player s drive and also a directory called rockbox which contains a number of other directories and system les needed by Rockbox 2 2 3 Finishing the install Safely eject unmount the USB drive unplug the cable and restart 2 2 4 Enabling Speech Support optional If you wish to use speech support y
161. rent square Long Mode On O Display the current game status On O Exit the game 10 1 13 Pegbox Figure 10 12 pegbox To beat each level you must destroy all of the pegs If two like pegs are pushed into each other they disappear except for triangles which form a solid block and crosses which allow you to choose a replacement block The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 69 Key Action In game Up Down Left Right to move around On O to choose peg Mode Right to restart level Mode Up to go up a level Mode Down to go down a level Mode On O to quit 10 1 14 Pong Figure 10 13 Pong Pong is a simple two player tennis game Whenever a player misses the ball the other scores Key Action Left Left player up Mode Left player down Up Right player up Down Right player down On O Quit The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 70 10 1 15 Reversi This is a simple implementation of the Reversi game The objective of the game is to have a majority of own coloured pieces showing at the end of the game The game rules can be found in the internet You can choose to play manually you place both the white and dark pieces or to play against a not very smart robot 10 1 16 Robot ndskitten Figure 10 14 Robot ndskitten In this game you are robot Your job is to nd kitten This task is complicated by the existence
162. res 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 Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 151 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 speci c section name mentioned below such as Acknowledgements Dedications Endorsements or History To Preserve the Title of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a section Entitled XYZ according to this de nition 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 e ect 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 condition
163. rmware still controls the boot process The main reason to change this is to improve the startup time of your player The Archos bootloader is rather slow With Rockbox in ash your player will boot much faster typically in three to ve seconds Furthermore you might prefer a clean Rockbox environment with as little remnants of the Archos software as possible On your player it is also possible to execute Rockbox directly from ash ROM increasing the amount of free RAM for bu ering music This is called Rombox Warning Flashing your player is somewhat dangerous like programming a mainboard BIOS CD DVD drive rmware mobile phone etc If the power fails the chip breaks while programming or most of all the programming software malfunctions you ll have a dead box We take no responsibility of any kind you do that at your own risk However we tried as carefully as possible to bulletproof this code There are a lot of sanity checks If any of them fails it will not program Warning After ashing Rockbox never try to ROLO the Archos rmware version 1 32b This version is a ash update itself If it is applied when Rockbox is ashed you ll end up with a garbled ash ROM and hence a dead box There s an ultimate safety net to bring back boxes with even completely garbled ash content the UART boot mod which in turn requires the serial mod With that it s possible to re ash independently from the outside even if
164. rning o if there is a playlist to resume Settings Display the main settings menu Recent Bookmarks Show the list of recent bookmarks as described in section 8 6 page 51 Bookmarking needs to be enabled 8 5 2 Battery Options relating to the batteries in the player Battery Capacity This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity in mAh the battery being used has The default is 1000 mAh which is the capacity value for the standard batteries shipped with the player Rockbox uses this value for runtime estimation not battery percentage calculation Changing this setting has no e ect whatsoever on actual battery life This setting only a ects the accuracy of the runtime estimation as shown on screen Battery Type This setting tells Rockbox which type of battery is currently used in the player The two supported battery types are Alkaline or NiMH 8 5 3 Idle Powero Rockbox can be con gured to turn o power after the unit has been idle for a de ned number of minutes The player is idle when playback is stopped or paused It is not idle while the USB or charger is connected Settings are either Off or 1 to 10 minutes in 1 minute steps Then 15 30 45 or 60 minutes are available The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 8 General Settings 51 8 5 4 Limits This sub menu relates to limits in the Rockbox operating system Max Entries in File Browser This setting controls the limit on
165. ry while the wps fms and sbs les should be placed in the rockbox wps directory Any The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 115 images used by the theme should be placed in a subdirectory of rockbox wps with the same name as the theme e g if the theme les are named mytheme wps mytheme sbs etc then the images should be placed in rockbox wps mytheme All full list of the available tags are given in appendix section B page 128 some of the more powerful concepts in theme designe are discussed below All characters not preceded by are displayed as typed Lines beginning with are comments and will be ignored Note Keep in mind that your player resolution is 112 64 1 with the last number b giving the colour depth in bits when designing your own WPS or if you use a WPS designed for another target Viewports By default a viewport lling the whole screen contains all the elements de ned in the wps le The text is rendered in the same font as in the main menu To change this behaviour a custom viewport can be de ned A viewport is a rectangular window on the screen This window also has variable dimensions To de ne a viewport a line starting V has to be present in the wps le The full syntax will be explained later in this section All elements placed before the line de ning a viewport are displayed in the default viewport Elements de ned after a viewport
166. s 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 speci ed in x or xl i optional number of the sub image to display a z for 1 26 and A Z for 27 52 By default the rst 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 a bg bmp 37 109 2 Load a bitmap strip containing 5 volume icon images all the same size with image ID M and then reference the individual sub images in a conditional xl M volume bmp 134 153 5 pv lt xdMa xdMb xdMc xdMd xdMe gt Note b The images must be in BMP format The image tag must be on its own line The ID is case sensitive giving 52 di erent ID s The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix B Theme Tags 135 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 16 Alignment Tag Description al Align the text left aL Align the text left or to the right if RTL language is in use ac Centre the text ar Align the text right aR Align the text right or to the left if RTL language is in use All alignment tags may be present in one line but they need to be in the order left centre right If the ali
167. s can be pressed using only one Rockbox key For example a le containing the single line Code 0122458469ABCDEF would correspond to the following non default mappings 3 2 6 8 7 4 8 6 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 93 The default keymappings are Chip8 O 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F Key On O Up Up Left Mode Right Down Some places where can you can nd ch8 les The PluginChip8 page on www rockbox org has several attached ZPluginChip8 Check out the HP48 chip games section http www hpcalc org hp48 games chip PC emulator by the guy who wrote the HP48 emulator http www pdc kth se lfo chip8 CHIP8 htm Links to other chip8 emulators http www zophar net chip8 html 10 3 4 Frotz Frotz is a Z Machine interpreter for playing Infocom s interactive ction games and newer games using the same format To start a game open a z1 z8 le in the File Browser Most modern games are in the z5 or z8 format but the older formats used by Infocom are supported Z Machine games are text based and most depend heavily on typed commands The virtual keyboard is used for text entry both for typing entire lines and for typing single characters when the game requires single character input Sounds pictures colour and Unicode are not currently supported but the interpreter informs the game of this and almost a
168. s 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 speci ed le 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 30 5 9 Plugins With this option you can load and run various plugins that have been written for Rock box There are a wide variety of these supplied with Rockbox including several games some impressive demos and a number of utilities A detailed description of the di erent plugins is to be found in section 10 page 57 5 10 System Rockbox Info Displays some basic system information This is from top to bottom the amount of memory Rockbox has available for storing music the bu er The battery status Memory size and amount of free space on the two data volumes this info is given seperately for internal memory Int and for a plugged in memory card MMC Credits Display the list of contributors Sleep Timer The Sleep Timer powers o your player after playing for a given time It can be set from Off to 5 hours in 5 minute
169. s 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 rst generate a folder list via the Random Folder Advance Con guration plugin see section 10 4 9 page 107 Note You must have the Repeat option set to No for Auto Change Directory to b function properly Note This feature only works when songs have been played from the le browser Using b it with the database may cause unexpected behaviour The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 7 Playback Settings 45 7 8 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 re boot to start the logging The log le is called scrobbler timeless log and is to be found in the root directory of your player Note See ZLastFMLog for a further description and for tools you can use to submit b your Last fm log 7 9 Cuesheet Support Enables reading of cuesheet les 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 le will replace the information from the ID3 tags When you enable this option you ll have to reboot for it to come into e ect 7 10 Skip
170. s 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 numbering 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 t legibly you should put the rst ones listed as many as t reasonably on the actual cover and continue the rest onto adjacent pages If you publish or distribute Opaque
171. sing Rockbox 17 3 3 USB Power 18 4 Browsing and playing 19 4 1 File Browser 19 4 1 1 File Browser Controls 20 4 1 2 Context Menu 20 4 1 3 Virtual Keyboard 21 4 2 Database 22 4 2 1 Introduction 22 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Contents 4 4 2 2 Initializing the Database 23 4 2 3 The Database Menu 23 4 2 4 Using the Database 24 4 3 While Playing Screen 25 4 3 1 WPS Key Controls 26 4 3 2 Peak Meter 27 4 3 3 The WPS Context Menu 27 4 4 Working with Playlists 30 4 4 1 Playl
172. sk The con g uration le has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the sound related settings Save Theme Settings This option writes a cfg le to your player s disk The con g uration le has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the theme related settings 11 4 Firmware Loading When your player powers on it loads the Archos rmware in ROM which automatically checks your player s root directory for a le named ajbrec ajz Note that Archos rmware can only read the rst ten characters of each lename in this process so do not rename your old rmware les with names like ajbrec ajz old and so on because it is possible that the player will load a le other than the one you intended 11 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader Rockbox is able to load and start another rmware le without rebooting You just play a le with the extension ajz This can be used to test new rmware versions without deleting your current version 11 5 Rockbox in Flash 11 5 1 Introduction When you bought your Ondio it came with the Archos rmware in ash ROM When you power on your player this Archos rmware starts and then loads an updated rmware from disk if present ajbrec ajz An ordinary Rockbox installation only The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 122 replaces the on disk rmware leaving the ash ROM contents intact That means the Archos
173. splay it permanently Vl identifier This tag preloads a viewport for later display identi er is a single lowercase letter a z and the parameters use the same logic as the V tag explained above Vd identifier Display the identi er viewport Viewports can share identi ers so that you can display multiple viewports with one Vd line Example mh lt Vda Vdb gt Vl a 10 10 50 50 sYou could now show a hold icon using the xl and xd tags Vl a 0 70 70 14 1 s acYour DAP is locked Vl b 20 14 50 14 1 t1 acWarning t 1 Vl b 20 30 50 50 0 sYou ve unlocked your player This example checks for hold Viewport a will be displayed if it is on otherwise view port b will display a ashing warning Note The tag to display conditional viewports must come before the tag to preload the b viewport in the wps le 11 2 3 Info Viewport SBS only As mentioned above it is possible to set a UI viewport via the theme cfg le It is also possible to set the UI viewport through the SBS le and to conditionally select di erent UI viewports The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 117 Vi label This viewport is used as Custom UI Viewport in the case that the theme doesn t have a ui viewport set in the theme cfg le Having this is strongly recommended since it makes you able to use the SBS with other t
174. ssic screensaver Key Action Right Left Increase decrease number of stars Up Down Increase decrease speed On O Quit 10 2 14 VU meter Figure 10 37 VU Meter This is a VU meter which displays the volume of the left and right audio channels There are 3 types of meter selectable The analogue meter is a classic needle style The digital meter is modelled after LED volume displays and the mini meter option allows for the display of small meters in addition to the main display as above From the settings menu the decay time for the meter its memory the meter type and the meter scale can be changed The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 90 Key Action On O Save settings and quit Mode Help Long Mode Settings Up Raise Volume Down Lower Volume 10 3 Viewers Viewers are plugins which are associated with speci c le extensions They cannot be run directly but are started by playing the associated le Viewers are stored in the rockbox rocks viewers directory Note Some viewer plugins can only be used by selecting the Open With option b from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 20 Viewer Plugin Associated letype s Context Menu only BMP Viewer bmp Shortcuts link Chip 8 Emulator ch8 Frotz z1 z8 JPEG Viewer jpg jpeg Lua scripting language lua Movie Player rvf Search m3u m3u8 x Sort x Text V
175. st viewer indices on o N A playlist viewer track display track name full path N A recursive directory insert on o ask N A scroll speed 1 to 25 Hz scroll delay 0 to 2500 ms scroll step devise a way to get ranges from con g h pixels screen scroll step devise a way to get ranges from con g h pixels Screen Scrolls Out Of View on o N A bidir limit 0 to 200 screen scroll paginated on o N A The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix C Config file options 138 Setting Allowed Values Unit hold lr for scroll in list on o N A show path in browser o current directory full path N A contrast 0 to 63 N A backlight timeout o on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 s backlight timeout plugged o on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 s backlight lters rst keypress on o N A backlight on button hold normal o on N A caption backlight on o N A brightness devise a way to get ranges from con g h N A disk spindown 3 to 254 s battery capacity devise a way to get ranges from con g h mAh battery type alkaline nimh N A idle powero o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 30 45 60 min max les in playlist 1000 32000 N A max les in dir 50 10000 N A lang path lename lng N A wps path lename wps N A
176. steps The Sleep Timer is reset on boot The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 5 The Main Menu 38 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 xing 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 6 Sound Settings 39 6 Sound Settings Figure 6 1 The sound settings screen The sound settings menu o ers 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 other wise low volume level The volume can be adjusted from a minimum of 100 dB to a maximum o
177. t tab then Rockbox Utility will automatically install the release version of Rockbox Using the Installation tab will allow you to select which version you wish to install Release The release version is the latest stable release free of known critical bugs For a manual install the current stable release of Rockbox is available at http www rockbox org download Current Build The current build is built at each source code change to the Rockbox SVN repository and represents the current state of Rockbox development This means that the build could contain bugs but most of the time is safe to use For a manual install you can download the current build from http build rockbox org Archived Build In addition to the release version and the current build there is also an archive of daily builds available for download These are built once a day from the latest source code in the SVN repository For a manual install you can download archived builds from http www rockbox org daily shtml Note Because current and archived builds are development versions that change fre b quently they may behave di erently 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 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 2 Installation 13 development you should stick with the
178. t http senseis xmp net WhatIsGo and more information about SGF les can be read at http senseis xmp net SmartGameFormat or the SGF speci cation at http www red bean com sgf This plugin can load all modern SGF les le format 3 or 4 with few problems It at tempts 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 water re 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 les may stop audio playback for the duration of the plugin s run in order to free up more memory and some very large SGF les will not even load on devices with little available memory Note The plugin does NOT support SGF les with multiple games in one le These b are rare but if you have one don t even try it the le will most likely be corrupted if you save over it You have been warned The le 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 o oad the changes to another le If you load another le rst then your changes will be lost permanently The sgf gbn def sgf le is also the le loaded if another is not selected The information pan
179. t verify that the string is correct so please check on either the b simulator or on target B 21 Other Tags Tag Description The character lt The character lt The character gt The character gt The character s Indicate that the line should scroll Can occur anywhere in a line given that the text is displayed see conditionals above You can specify up to ten scrolling lines Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as timers peak meters or progress bars The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix C Config file options 137 C Con g le options Setting Allowed Values Unit volume 100 to 12 dB bass 12 to 12 dB treble 12 to 12 dB balance 100 to 100 channels stereo mono custom mono left mono right karaoke N A stereo width 0 to 250 shu e on o N A repeat o all one shu e ab N A play selected on o N A party mode on o N A scan min step 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 25 30 45 60 s seek acceleration very fast fast normal slow very slow N A antiskip 5s 15s 30s 1min 2min 3min 5min 10min N A volume fade on o N A sort case on o N A show les all supported music playlists N A show lename exts o on unknown view all N A follow playlist on o N A playlist viewer icons on o N A playli
180. talog in the Context Menu There you will have two choices Add to playlist adds the selected track or directory to an existing playlist and Add to a new playlist creates a new playlist containing the selected track or directory Note All playlists in the Playlist catalog are stored by default in the Playlists b 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 20 By using the Main Menu To create a playlist containing all music on your player you can use the Create Playlist command in the Playlists menu found in the Main Menu The created playlist will be named root m3u8 and saved in the root of your player s disk 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist Figure 4 5 The Playlist Submenu The Playlist Submenu is a submenu in the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 20 it allows you to put tracks into a dynamic playlist If there is no music currently play ing Rockbox will create a new dynamic playlist and put the selected track s into it If there is music currently playing Rockbox will put the selected track s into the cur rent playlist The place in which the newly selected tracks are added to the playlist is determined by the following options Insert Add track s immediately after any tracks added via the most recent Insert operation If
181. tatus bar and the current le path Note If the status bar position is not set to the top of the screen then Status b bar and Both are not available Show Footer Select whether to show the status bar and the page number None Do not display the status bar or the page number Page Num Display only the page number Status bar Display only the status bar Both Display both the status bar and the page number Note If the status bar position is not set to the bottom of the screen then b Status bar and Both are not available Font Select the font to be used by the Text Viewer Scroll Mode Change the function of the Scroll up and Scroll down buttons Scroll by Page Scroll by Line Auto scroll Speed Control the speed of auto scrolling in number of lines per sec ond Available options are 1 to 10 lines per second As an example 4 will scroll the text at four lines per second Show Playback Menu Display the playback menu to allow control of the currently play ing music without leaving the plugin Select Bookmark Select a saved bookmark In the screenshot below the denotes the current page The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 98 Figure 10 39 The select bookmark menu Global Settings Set the default settings for the text viewer The setting items are the same as Viewer Options The global settings are stored in rockbox rocks viewers viewer dat Quit Exits the plugin The text viewer autom
182. ted bookmark Long Right Enter the context menu for the selected bookmark There are two options in the context menu Resume will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry Delete will remove the currently selected bookmark entry from the list This entry is not shown in the Main Menu when the option is o the default setting See section 8 6 page 51 for more details on con guring bookmarking in Rockbox 5 4 Files Browse the les on your player see section 4 1 page 19 The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 5 The Main Menu 36 5 5 Database Browse by the meta data in your audio les see section 4 2 page 22 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 25 5 7 Settings The Settings menu allows you to set or adjust many parameters that a ect the way your player works There are many submenus for di erent parameter areas Every time you are setting a value of a parameter and that value is selected from a list of some prede ned available values you can press Long Right and the selection cursor will jump to the default value for the parameter You can then con rm or cancel the value This is useful if you have changed the value of the parameter from the default to some other value and would like to restore the default value 5 7 1 Sound Settings The
183. th the contents of the current directory This way you can easily treat directories as playlists The created dynamic playlist can be extended or modi ed while playing This is also known as on the y playlist To go back to the 1ID3 Tags Vorbis comments etc The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 3 Quick Start 17 File Browser stop the playback with the Long On O button or return to the le browser while keeping playback running using Mode In list views you can go back one step with Left 3 1 6 Basic concepts Playlists Rockbox is playlist oriented This means that every time you play an audio le 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 le If you do not want to use playlists you can simply play your les directory based Playlists are covered in detail in section 4 4 page 30 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 le browser and the WPS have a context menu From the le browser this can be accessed with Long Right The contents of the context menu vary depending on the situation it gets called The context menu itself presents you with some operations you can perform with the currently highlighted le In the le
184. the round time is up for a player the message ROUND UP is shown press NEXT to continue When the total time is up for a player the message TIME UP is shown The player will then be removed from the timer 10 4 4 Disk Tidy Disk Tidy deletes junk les left behind by Windows Linux or OS X after a USB connec tion Select the OS s les 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 le that is user modi able to allow more entries to be added Available Options All selects all Linux OS X and Windows les None deselects all le options Linux selects Linux les Default les are dolphinview d3lphinview and Trash Windows selects Windows les Default les are Thumbs db RECYCLE BIN Desktop ini Recycled and System Volume Information Mac selects OS X les Default les are DS Store and Trashes Other selects additional les added in by the user Key Action Left or On O Exit Abort The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 106 10 4 5 Firmware ash Warning Image ignored Firmware ash Use when ashing Rockbox see section page In the ideal case you ll need this tool only once For safety reasons you may wish to delete rmware ash rock from rockbox rocks once ashing is complete
185. ties such as size and the time and date of the last modi cation for the selected le If used on a directory the number of les and subdirectories will be shown as well as the total size Add to Shortcuts Adds a link to the selected item in the shortcuts link le If the le does not already exist it will be created in the root directory Note that if you create a shortcut to a le Rockbox will not open it upon selecting but simply bring you to it s location in the File Browser 4 1 3 Virtual Keyboard Figure 4 3 The virtual keyboard The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 22 This is the virtual keyboard that is used when entering text in Rockbox for example when renaming a le or creating a new directory The virtual keyboard can be easily changed by making a text le with the required layout More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at ZLoadableKeyboardLayouts Also you can switch to Morse code input mode by changing the Use Morse Code Input setting Picker area Key Action Left Right Move the cursor on the virtual keyboard If you move out of the picker area you get the previous next page of characters if there is more than one Up Down Move the cursor on the virtual keyboard If you move out of the picker area you get to the line edit mode Mode Insert the selected keyboard letter at the current line cursor position Long Mode
186. ting or settings every time Rockbox starts up e g to set the volume to a safe level Format a new con guration le as above with the required setting s and save it into the rockbox directory with the lename fixed cfg 11 3 3 The Manage Settings menu The Manage Settings menu can be found in the Main Menu The Manage Set tings menu allows you to save and load cfg les The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 121 Browse cfg Files Opens the File Browser in the rockbox directory and displays all cfg con guration les Selecting a cfg le will cause Rockbox to load the settings contained in that le 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 con guration le Reset Settings This wipes the saved settings in the player and resets all settings to their default values Save cfg File This option writes a cfg le to your player s disk The con guration le 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 Manage Settings to save the current settings then use a text editor to customize the settings le See Appendix section C page 137 for the full reference of available options Save Sound Settings This option writes a cfg le to your player s di
187. tings Note The scratchpad is not saved when saving the game b Key Action Up Down Left Right Move the cursor Mode Change number under the cursor Long Mode Down Constantly changing the number under the cursor Long Mode Open Menu Mode Left Add Remove number to scratchpad On O Quit The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 79 Some places where can you can nd ss les Simple Sudoku Advanced Puzzle Packs 1 and 2 located near the bottom of that page http www angusj com sudoku Kjell s Sudoku generator solver http kjell haxx se sudoku 10 1 28 Wormlet Figure 10 24 Wormlet game Wormlet is a multi worm game on a multi threaded multi functional Rockbox console You navigate a hungry little worm Help your worm to nd food and to avoid poisoned argh tiles The goal is to turn your tiny worm into a big worm for as long as possible Game controls Key Action Left Turn left Right Turn right Up Turn Up Down Turn Down The game Use the control keys of your worm to navigate around obstacles and nd food Worms do not stop moving except when dead Dead worms are no fun Be careful as your worm will try to eat anything that you steer it across It won t distinguish whether it is edible or not Food The small square hollow pieces are food Move the worm over a food tile to eat it After eating the worm grows Each time a piece of food has been
188. tings 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 re lling the MP3 bu er or navigating through the File Browser Changes to settings may therefore not be saved unless the player is shut down safely see section 3 1 2 page 16 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu Key Action Down Select the next option in the menu Inside a setting increase the value or choose next option Up Select the previous option in the menu Inside a setting decrease the value or choose previous option Right Select option Left or On O Exit menu or setting or move to parent menu The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 5 The Main Menu 35 5 3 Recent Bookmarks Figure 5 2 The list bookmarks screen If the Save a list of recently created bookmarks option is enabled then you can view a list of several recent bookmarks here and select one to jump straight to that track Note Bookmarking only works when tracks are launched from the le browser and b does not currently work for tracks launched via the database In addition they do not currently work with dynamic playlists Key Action Down Select the next bookmark Up Select the previous bookmark Right Resume from the selected bookmark Left or On O Exit Recent Bookmark menu Long Left Delete the currently selec
189. tring id tag bitrate numeric id tag discnum numeric id tag year numeric id tag tracknum numeric id tag lename autoscore numeric runtime db lastplayed numeric runtime db playcount numeric runtime db Pm play time min numeric runtime db Ps play time sec numeric runtime db rating numeric runtime db commitid numeric system entryage numeric system length numeric system Lm track len min numeric system 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 le The appearance of the WPS can be con gured using WPS con guration les The items shown depend on your con guration all items can be turned on or o independently Refer to section B page 128 for details on how to change the display of the WPS Status bar The Status bar shows Battery level USB power mode key lock status memory access indicator In contrast to all other items the status bar is always at the top of the screen Scrolling path and lename of the current song The ID3 track name The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 4 Browsing and playing 26 The ID3 album name The ID3 artist name Bit rate VBR les display average bitrate and avg Elapsed and total time A slidebar progress meter represe
190. u see section 4 3 3 page 27 and select Save Current Playlist or enter the Playlist Options menu in the Main Menu and select Save Current Playlist Either method will bring you to the Virtual Keyboard see section 4 1 3 page 21 enter a lename for your playlist and accept it and you are done 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists Through the File Browser Playlist les like regular music tracks can be selected through the File Browser When loading a playlist from disk it will replace the current dynamic playlist Through the Playlist catalog The Playlist catalog o ers a shortcut to all playlists in your player s speci ed 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 Settings General Settings Playlists Recursively Insert Directories setting to On if you would like to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently selected directory The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 5 The Main Menu 34 5 The Main Menu 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu Figure 5 1 The main menu The Main Menu is the screen from which all of the Rockbox functions can be accessed This is the rst screen you will see when starting Rockbox To return to the Main Menu hold the Mode button All set
191. um column limit O Chop Words Break lines at white space or hyphen Line Mode Change how lines are displayed Normal Break lines at newline characters Join Join lines together Expand Add a blank line at newlines Useful for making paragraphs clearer in some book style text les Re ow Lines Justify the text Wide View Set the viewmode No Narrow Set the maximum column width to the screen width Yes Set the maximum column width to 114 pixels Currently Wide and Join cannot be selected together Alignment Set the text alignment The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 10 Plugins 97 Right Set the text alignment to the right Useful for displaying right to left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew Left Set the text alignment to the left Show Scrollbar Toggle the scrollbar for the current mode If the le ts on one screen there is no scrollbar and toggling this setting has no e ect O Turn the scrollbar o On Turn the scrollbar on Overlap Pages Set whether the last line from the previous screen is retained when scrolling pages No Set page down page up to one full screen Yes Set page down page up to retain one line from the previous screen Show Header Select whether to show the status bar and the current le path None Do not display the status bar or the current le path File Path Display only the current le path Status bar Display only the status bar Both Display both the s
192. x manually you can still use Rockbox Utility for uninstallation but will not be able to do this selectively 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation If you would like to go back to using the original Archos software connect the player to your computer and delete the ajbrec ajz le If you wish to clean up your disk you may also wish to delete the rockbox directory and its contents Turn the Archos o Turn the player back on and the original Archos software will load 2 6 Troubleshooting File Not Found If you receive a File Not Found from the bootloader then the bootloader cannot nd the Rockbox rmware This is usually a result of not extracting the contents of the zip le to the proper location and should not happen when Rockbox has been installed with Rockbox Utility To x 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 les need to be located The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 3 Quick Start 15 3 Quick Start 3 1 Basic Overview 3 1 1 The player s controls Throughout this manual the buttons on the player are labelled according to the picture above Whenever a button name is pre xed 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 th
193. y 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 b 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 speci ed time alternating continuously through each de ned subline The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Chapter 11 Advanced Topics 118 Items on a line are broken into sublines with the semicolon character The display time for each subline defaults to 2 seconds unless modi ed 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 t5 or seconds and tenths of a second t3 5 Each alternating subline can still be optionally scrolled while it is being displayed and scrollable formats can be displayed on the same line with non scrollable formats such as track elapsed time as long as they are separated into di erent sublines Example
194. you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance 10 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE The Free Software Foundation may publish new revised versions of the GNU Free Doc umentation License from time to time Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version but may di er in detail to address new problems or concerns See http www gnu org copyleft Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number If the Docu ment speci es that a particular numbered version of this License or any later version applies to it you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that speci ed version or of any later version that has been published not as a draft by the Free Software Foundation If the Document does not specify a version number of this License you may choose any version ever published not as a draft by the Free Software Foundation ADDENDUM How to use this License for your documents To use this License in a document you have written include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page The Rockbox manual Archos Ondio Appendix G Licenses 156 Copyright c YEAR YOUR NAME Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documenta tion License Version 1 2 or any later version publis

Rockbox user manual

Contents

Download Pdf Manuals

Related Search

Related Contents