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1. Time 00 00 01 Size 5 00MB Volume 26 dB Gain 8 0 dB AGC Safety clip e AGC max gain 52 0 dB 444014 Filename Figure 5 3 The while recording screen Entering the RECORDING option in the MAIN MENU brings up a screen in which you can choose to enter the RECORDING SCREEN or the RECORDING SETTINGS see section 9 page 66 The RECORDING SCREEN shows the time elapsed and the size of the file being recorded A peak meter is present to allow you set gain correctly There is also a volume setting this will only affect the output level of the player and does not affect the recorded sound If enabled in the peak meter settings a counter in front of the peak meters shows the number of times the clip indicator was activated during recording The counter is reset to zero when starting a new recording Note When you start a recording the hard disk will spin up This will cause the peak meters to freeze in the process This is expected behaviour and nothing to worry about The recording continues during the spin up The frequency and channels settings are shown on the last line The controls for this screen are Key Action Up Down Select setting Left Right Adjust selected setting Play Start recording While recording pause recording press again to continue Stop Exit RECORDING SCREEN While recording Stop recording Rec Starts recording While recording close the current file
2. 2522 Figure 10 19 Klondike solitaire This is the classic Klondike solitaire game for Rockbox This is probably the best known solitaire in the world Many people do not even realize that other games exist Though the name may not be familiar the game itself certainly is This is due in no small part to Microsoft s inclusion of the the game in every version of Windows Though popular the odds of winning are rather low perhaps one in thirty hands For the full set of rules to the game and other facinating information visit http www solitairecentral com rules klondike html Key Action Up Down Move Cursor around Left Right Navi Select cards move cards reveal hidden cards A B If a card was selected unselect it else Draw 3 new cards from the remains stack Play Left Put the card from the top of the remains stack on top of the cursor Long Navi Put the card under the cursor on one of the 4 final colour stacks Play Right Put the card on top of the remains stack on one of the final colour stacks Stop Show menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 89 10 1 23 Spacerocks A as AA Figure 10 20 Spacerocks Spacerocks is a clone of the old arcade game Asteroids The goal of the game is to blow up the asteroids and avoid being hit by them Once in a while a UFO will appear shoot this for extra points Key Action Navi Shoot Up Thrust Left Right Turn left right D
3. 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 file to the player and play it in the FILE BROWSER If you want a font to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox fonts directory and the filename must be at most 24 characters long You can browse the fonts in rockbox fonts under SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS DISPLAY gt BROWSE FONTS in the MAIN MENU Warning Advanced Users Only Any BDF font file up to 16 pixels high should be usable with Rockbox To convert from bdf to fnt use the convbdf tool This tool can be found in the tools directory of the Rockbox source code 11 1 3 Loading Languages Rockbox can load language files at runtime Simply copy the 1ng file do not use the lang file to the player and play it in the Rockbox directory browser or select SET TINGS GENERAL SETTINGS LANGUAGES from the MAIN MENU Note If you want a language to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox langs directory and the filename must be a maximum of 24 characters long If your language is not yet supported and you want to write your own language file find the instructions o
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6. Key Action Up Down Go to previous next item in list If you are on the first last entry the cursor will wrap to the last first entry Play Up Down Move one page up down in the list Left Go to the parent directory Navi or Right Executes the default action on the se lected file or enters a directory Play If there is an audio file playing returns to the WHILE PLAYING SCREEN WPS without stopping playback Stop Stops audio playback Long Navi Enter the CONTEXT MENU A B Enter the MAIN MENU Long A B Switches to the QUICK SCREEN see sec tion 5 13 page 43 4 1 2 Context Menu WO a BD 20 43 Context Menu Rename O Create Directory gt Properties Add to Shortcuts Figure 4 2 The Context Menu The CONTEXT MENU allows you to perform certain operations on files or directories To access the CONTEXT MENU position the selector over a file or directory and access the context menu with Long Navi Note The CONTEXT MENU is a context sensitive menu If the CONTEXT MENU is in voked on a file it will display options available for files If the CONTEXT MENU is invoked on a directory it will display options for directories The CONTEXT MENU contains the following options unless otherwise noted each option pertains both to files and directories Playlist Enters the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 34 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 24 Playlist Catalog
7. sff File Frequency in Hz sfm File Name fn File Name without extension Sfp File Path fs File Size In Kilobytes sfv avg if variable bit rate or if constant bit rate d1 First directory from end of file path d2 Second directory from end of file path 243 Third directory from end of file path MIT Example for the AN commands If the path 15 Rock Kent Isola 11 747 mp3 d1 is Isola 42 is Kent You get the picture THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1XX APPENDIX B WPS TAGS 131 B 5 Playlist Song Info Tag Description spb Progress Bar This will replace the entire line with a progress bar You can set the height position and width of the progressbar in pixels Spb height leftpos rightpos toppos Spx Percentage Played In Song spc Current Time In Song spe Total Number of Playlist Entries spm Peak Meter The entire line is used as volume peak meter spn Playlist Name Without path or extension spp Playlist Position spr Remaining Time In Song sps Shuffle Shows s if shuffle mode is enabled spt Total Track Time pv Current volume x dB Can also be used in a conditional pv lt 0 1 2 N gt B 6 Runtime Database Tag Description Srp Song playcount srr 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 B 7 Sound DSP settings Tag SSp Sxf Srg Description Display current playback
8. Open With This OPEN WITH function is the same as the OPEN WITH function in the file browser s CONTEXT MENU Delete Delete the currently playing file Pitch The PITCH SCREEN allows you to change the pitch and at the same time the playback speed of your player The pitch value can be adjusted between 50 and 200 50 means half the normal playback speed and the pitch that is an octave lower than the normal pitch 200 means double playback speed and the pitch that is an octave higher than the normal pitch It is not possible to change the pitch without changing the play back speed and vice versa Changing the pitch can be done in two modes procentual and semitone Initially after the player is switched on procentual mode is active Key Action A B Toggle pitch changing mode Up Down Increase Decrease pitch by 0 1 in pro centual mode or a semitone in semitone mode Long Up Long Increase Decrease pitch by 1 in pro Down centual mode or a semitone in semitone mode Right Left Temporarily increase decrease pitch by 2 0 Navi Reset pitch to 100 Play or Stop Leave the Pitch Screen 4 4 Working with Playlists 4 4 1 Playlist terminology Some common terms that are used in Rockbox when referring to playlists THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 33 Directory A playlist One of the keys to getting the most out of Rockbox is under standing that Rockbox alway
9. The Rockbox Manual for Iriver iHP100 iH P115 iH P120 iH P140 H120 and H140 rockbox or September 24 2008 Rockbox http www rockbox org Open Source Jukebox Firmware Rockbox and this manual is the collaborative effort of the Rockbox team and its contributors See the appendix for a complete list of contributors 2003 2008 The Rockbox Team and its contributors 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough 2003 Jos Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal amp Peter Schlenker Version r18615 3 0 080923 Built using pdfIATEX Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document un der the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invari ant 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CONTENTS 3 Contents 1 Introduction 9 11 Welcome 6 occ eee ee ee ea ee Re eee 9 LE Soe ors ee Hee ee eh wee hee hwy ee ee a 9 13 Naming conventions and marks 10 2 Installation 11 2 1 Overview 11 22 o o o osci addi gos ma h ee bb edhe es wees 11 eo ine IN 12 2 3 1 Automated Installation 12 232 Manual Installation lt 6 06 2a 4 eA wa PS seras we 13 2 3
10. Down Left player down Play Right player up A B Right player down Stop Quit 10 1 15 Robotfindskitten robotfindskitten v1 4142135 nd kitten No just kiddins te u g mB Figure 10 13 Robotfindskitten In this game you are robot Your job is to find kitten This task is complicated by the existence of various things which are not kitten Robot must touch items to determine if they are kitten or not The game ends when robotfindskitten Key Action Up Down Left Move robot Right Stop Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 84 10 1 16 Rockblox Figure 10 14 Rockblox Rockblox is a rockbox version of the classic falling blocks game The aim of the game is to make the falling blocks of different shapes form full rows Whenever a row is com plete it will be cleared and the game score will increase For every ten lines completed the game level increases making the blocks fall faster If the pile of blocks reach the ceiling the game is over Key Action Play Restart game Left Move left Right Move right Down Move down Navi Rotate left Up Rotate right A B Drop Hold switch Pause Stop Quit 10 1 17 Rockblox1d Rockblox1d is a game for people who find rockblox too hard In this version the second dimension is missing so the user only has to move the bricks down No horizontal moving anymore and no need to rotate the brick Key Action Navi Move down faster Stop Quit
11. Left Top of file Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode Right Bottom of file Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode Play Up One line up Play Down One line down Play Left One column left Play Right One column right Navi Toggle autoscroll A B Enter menu Stop Exit text viewer The Viewer s Menu Quit Exits the plugin Viewer Options Encoding sets the codepage in the text viewer Available settings UTF 8 Unicode BIG5 Traditional Chinese KSX 1001 Korean GB 2312 Simple Chinese SJIS Japanese CP1250 Central European ISO 8859 2 Latin Extended ISO 8859 9 Turkish ISO 8859 6 Arabic ISO 8859 11 Thai CP1251 Cyrillic ISO 8859 8 Hebrew ISO 8859 7 Greek ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 This setting only applies to the plugin and is independent from the DEFAULT CODEPAGE setting see section page Word Wrap toggles between Wrap and Chop Off Chop Words breaks lines at white space or hyphen On breaks lines at the maximum column limit Line Mode cycles through Normal Join and Expand and Reflow Lines Reflow Lines justifies the text fully Expand adds a blank line Useful for making the paragraphs clearer in some book style text files Join joins lines Useful for adopting the orphans that occur with e mail style i e pre wrapped text files Normal breaks lines at newline characters Wide View toggles between Narrow and Wide Yes sets maximum column to 114 Useful for navigating large files
12. Software Foundation we sometimes make exceptions for this Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally NO WARRANTY BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND El THER 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 162 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 YOU FOR DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY GENERAL SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CONSE QUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PRO GRAM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING REN DERED 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
13. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 13 values The mountpoint indicates the location of the player in your filesystem On Win dows this is the drive letter the player gets assigned on other systems this is a path in the filesystem Note Rockbox Utility currently lacks some guiding messages Please have a look at the manual installation instructions if you are stuck during installation 2 3 2 Manual Installation Choosing a Rockbox version There are three different types of firmware binaries available from the Rockbox website Release version current build and daily build You need to decide which one you want to install and get the appropriate version for your player Release The release version is the latest stable release free of known critical bugs The current stable release of Rockbox version 3 0 is available at http www rockbox org download Current Build The current build is built at each source code change to the Rockbox SVN repository and represents the current state of Rockbox development This means that the build could contain bugs but most of the time is safe to use You can download the current build from http build rockbox org Archived Build In addition to the release version and the current build there is also an archive of daily builds available for download These are built once a day from the latest source code in the SVN repository You can download archived builds from http
14. 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 vol ume of the right channel relative to the left 6 5 Channels A stereo audio signal consists of two channels left and right The CHANNELS setting determines if these channels are to be combined in any way and if so in what manner they will be combined Available options are Setting Description Stereo Leave the audio signal unmodified Mono Combine both channels and send the resulting signal to both stereo channels resulting in a monophonic output Custom Allows you to manually specify a stereo width with the STEREO WIDTH setting described later in this chapter Mono Left Plays the left channel in both stereo channels Mono Right Plays the right channel in both stereo channels Karaoke Removes all sound that is common to both channels Since most music is recorded with vocals being equally present in both channels to make the singer sound centrally placed this often but not always has the effect of removing the voice track from a song This setting also very often has other undesirable effects on the sound 6 6 Stereo Width Stereo width allows you to manually specify the effect that is applied when the CHAN NELS setting is set to custom All values below 100 wil
15. 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 Navi to pause the game Press Navi again to resume the game Stop the game There are two ways to stop a running game THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 93 e If you want to quit Wormlet entirely simply hit Stop The game will stop immediately and you will return to the game menu e If you want to stop the game and still see the screen hit Play This freezes the game If you hit Play button again a new game starts with the same configuration To return to the games menu you can hit Stop A stopped game can not be resumed The scoreboard On the right side of the game field is the score board For each worm it displays its status and its length The top most entry displays the state of worm 1 the second worm 2 and the third worm 3 When a worm dies its entry on the score board turns black Len Here the current length of the worm is displayed When a worm is eating food it grows by one pixel for each step it moves Hungry That s the normal state of a worm Worms are always hungry and want to eat It is good to have a hungry worm since it means that your worm is alive But it is better to get your worm growing Growing When a worm has eaten a piece of food it starts growing For each step it moves ov
16. chooses next option Down Moves down in the menu Inside a setting decreases the value or chooses previous option Navi Right Selects option Stop Left Exits menu setting or moves to parent menu 5 3 Recent Bookmarks gt a PS B Select Bookmark phony Orchestra Rolling Stones 0 45 3 London Symphony Orchestra Rol 0 05 3 London Symphony Orchestra Rol 0 07 1 Figure 5 2 The list bookmarks screen If the SAVE A LIST OF RECENTLY CREATED BOOKMARKS option is enabled then you can view a list of several recent bookmarks here and select one to jump straight to that track See section 7 7 page 61 for more details on configuring bookmarking in Rockbox Note This entry is not shown in the MAIN MENU when the option is off and the option is off by default 5 4 Files Browse the files on your player see section 4 1 page 22 5 5 Database Browse by the meta data in your audio files see section 4 2 page 25 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 39 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 28 5 7 Settings The SETTINGS menu allows to set or adjust many parameters that affect the way your player works There are many submenus for different parameter areas Every time you are setting a value of a parameter and that value is selected from a list of some pr
17. page name in the Go box at the top of the page Links to wiki pages are also indicated by the symbol ss in front of the page name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx A gt CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 11 2 Installation 2 1 Overview There are two ways of installing Rockbox automated and manual While the manual way is older more tested and proven to work correctly the automated installation is based on a nice graphical application that does almost everything for you It is still important that you have an overview of the installation process to be able to select the correct installation options There are two separate components of Rockbox that need to be installed in order to run Rockbox The Rockbox bootloader The bootloader is the program that tells your player how to load and start other components of Rockbox This is the component of Rockbox that is installed to the flash memory of your Iriver The Rockbox firmware Unlike the Iriver firmware which runs entirely from flash memory most of the Rockbox code is contained in a build that resides on your player s drive This makes it easy to update Rockbox The build consists of a directory called rockbox which contains all of the Rockbox files and is located in the root of your player s drive Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in in stalling Fonts Rockbox can load custom fonts The fonts are distributed as a s
18. 00 6 00 8 00 16 00 24 00 pre recording time off 1 to 30 seconds rec directory path to dir N A spdif enable off on N A force fm mono off on N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX D USER FEEDBACK 141 D User feedback D 1 Bug reports If you experience inappropriate performance from any supported feature please file a bug report on our web page Do not report missing features as bugs instead file them as feature ideas see below For open bug reports refer to http www rockbox org tracker index php type 2 D 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 1 Check that the bug has not already been reported 2 Always include the following information in your bug report e Which exact player you have e Which exact Rockbox version you are using Menu gt Info gt Version e A step by step description of what you did and what happened Whether the problem is repeatable or a one time occurrence e All relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists MP3 files etc IMPOR TANT D 2 Feature ideas To suggest an idea for a feature or to read those made by others see http forums rockbox org index php board 49 0 Please keep in mind that this forum is for the dis cussion of feature ideas they are not requests and there is no guarantee they will be acted upon D 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 1 Check that the feature has not already been suggested Duplicates are really bor ing 2 Chec
19. 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 difficult the entire board is shifted down every time a certain number of shots have been fired Points are awarded depending on how quickly the level was completed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 74 Key Action In menu Play Start new game A B Resume saved game Navi Show high scores Up Down Select starting level Stop Quit In game Play Pause game Left Right Aim the bubble Navi Fire bubble A B Save game Stop Exit to menu 10 1 4 Chessbox Figure 10 4 Chessbox Chessbox is a one person chess game with computer artificial intelligence The chess engine is a port of GNU Chess 2 by John Stanback It also works as a PGN file viewer Instead of executing the game from the plugin menu look for any file with pgn extension in the file browser and execute it Chessbox will show the list of matches included in the file and allow you to select the one you want to watch After that you can scroll back and forth through the moves of the game If the menu is invoked while in the viewer the user is allowed to select a new match from the same file or quit the g
20. A use most recent bookmarks on N A pause on headphone unplug off pause pause and resume N A rewind duration on pause 0 0 15 seconds disable autoresume if phones off on N A not present Last fm Logging off on N A talk dir off number spell N A talk dir clip off on N A talk file off number spell N A talk file clip off on N A talk filetype off on N A talk menu off on N A Announce Battery Level off on N A sort files alpha oldest newest type N A sort dirs alpha oldest newest N A tagcache_autoupdate on off N A warn when erasing dynamic on off N A playlist cuesheet support on off N A folder navigation off on random N A gather runtime data off on N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX C CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 138 Setting Allowed Values Unit skip length track 1 2 3 4 5 10 15 minutes start in screen previous root files db wps N A menu recording radio bookmarks playlist catalog directory path to dir N A replaygain on off N A replaygain type track album track shuffle N A replaygain noclip on off N A replaygain preamp 120 to 120 0 1dB crossfade off shuffle track skip always N A crossfade fade in delay 0 07 seconds crossfade fade out delay 0 to 7 seconds crossfade fade in duration 0 to 15 seconds crossfade fade out duration 0 15 seconds crossfade fade out mode crossfade mix N A crossfeed on off N A crossfeed direct gain 0 to 60 0 1dB crossfeed cross g
21. BROWSE CFG FILES option to quickly change settings A special case configuration file can be used to force a particular setting or settings every time Rockbox starts up e g to set the volume to a safe level Format a new configuration file as above with the required setting s and save it into the rockbox directory with the filename fixed cfg 11 3 3 The MANAGE SETTINGS menu The MANAGE SETTINGS menu can be found in the MAIN MENU The MANAGE SET TINGS menu allows you to save and load 619 files Browse cfg Files Opens the file browser in the rockbox directory and displays all cfg configuration files Selecting a cfg file will cause Rockbox to load the settings contained in that file Pressing Left will exit back to the MANAGE SETTINGS menu See the WRITE CFG FILES option on the MANAGE SETTINGS menu for details of how to save and edit a configuration file Reset Settings This wipes the saved settings in the player and resets all settings to their default values THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 126 Note You can also reset all settings to their default values by turning off the player turning it back on and holding the Rec button immediately after the player turns on Save cfg File This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The configuration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the user settings that are described throughout this manual Hint Use
22. BROWSING AND PLAYING 22 4 Browsing and playing 4 1 File Browser gt a BS Bell Street Fighting Man 3302 Paint It Black 3303 Under My Thumb Ft Mick JJ04 As Tears Go By Ft Marie 3305 Sympathy For The Devil I 3306 Dandelion 3307 Ruby Tuesday Ft Mari 3308 Angie Ft Mick Jagge 3309 She s 4 Rainbow 4310 Gimme Shelter Figure 4 1 The file browser Rockbox lets you browse your music in either of two ways The FILE BROWSER lets you navigate through the files and directories on your player entering directories and executing the default action on each file To help differentiate files each file format is displayed with an icon The DATABASE BROWSER on the other hand allows you to navigate through the music on your player using categories like album artist genre etc You can select whether to browse using the FILE BROWSER or the DATABASE BROWSER by selecting either FILES or DATABASE in the MAIN MENU If you choose the FILE BROWSER the SHOW FILES setting lets you select what types of files you wish to view See section 7 3 page 55 for more information on the SHOW FILES setting Note The FILE BROWSER allows you to manipulate your files in ways that are not available within the DATABASE BROWSER Read more about DATABASE in section 4 2 page 25 The remainder of this section deals with the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 23 4 1 1 File Browser Controls
23. Experimental WAV playback plugin for Archos Recorder Ondio Initial version of Tag Cache Bubbles a bubble game Tetrox a Tetris clone Xobox a Xonix Qix clone Pacbox a pacman arcade machine emulator Chessbox chess game plugin iPod 5G audio playback Color bitmap support in the WPS for color models Brickmania game plugin Unicode support 2005 11 05 Jewels game plugin a Bejeweled clone E 1 2 Enhancements 77 2008 08 06 2008 02 23 2008 01 04 2007 08 08 2007 08 06 2007 08 05 Redesigned recording screen New default theme cabbie 2 0 All new greyscale library with improved performance Added support for grouping tags Organise the plugins into categories Voice file changes Older voices no longer work now all voice files are target specific 2007 08 03 2007 04 04 2007 03 20 Added support for the disc number tag WPS tokenizer Rewritten WPS code rockbox file moved inside rockbox directory THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX E CHANGELOG 145 2007 01 23 Settings are now saved to rockbox config cfg and the hidden config sector is not used anymore x 2006 11 29 Playlists are saved with the extension m3u8 extension m3u is now read using the chosen codepage 2006 09 16 New scheduler Audio playback is now prioritised over other tasks 2006 09 02 Enhanced statusbar in recording screen 2006 08 15 Support for displaying the path in the file browse
24. NO for AUTO CHANGE DIREC TORY to function properly Note This feature only works when songs have been played from the file browser Using it with the database may cause unexpected behavior 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx D D CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 54 you ll have to reboot to start the logging The log file is called scrobbler timeless log and is to be found in the root directory of your player Note See rsLastFMLog for a further description and for tools you can use to Xy submit your Last fm log Cuesheet Support Enables reading of cuesheet files for played tracks If a cuesheet is found for a track track markers are displayed on the progressbar and itis possible to skip between the tracks within the cuesheet Also the information found in the cuesheet file will replace the information from the ID3 tags When you enable this option you ll have to reboot for it to come into effect Skip Length Designed to speed up navigation and prevent unintentional track skip ping when listening to long audio tracks SKIP LENGTH changes the behavior of the Left and Right buttons so that they skip by a given number of minutes instead of skipping to a new track Note To skip tracks with this setting set to a time interval press Short Left Long Xy Right to go fo
25. Stop to abort counting and exit the plugin Press it again to quit after counting has finished 10 4 10 Stopwatch Figure 10 41 Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times Key Action Stop Quit Plugin Navi Start stop Down Reset timer only when timer is stopped Play Take lap time Left Right Scroll through lap times THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 119 10 4 11 Text Editor This plugin allows you to view and edit simple text documents on your DAP You can view files by using OPEN WITH from the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 Usage If you start the Text Editor from the plugin browser you will be greeted with a blank screen When started from the OPEN WITH menu item your file should be shown on the screen You can now edit the file The Text Editor is line based This means you can edit one line at a time using the VIRTUAL KEYBOARD see section 4 1 3 page 25 e Move the selection bar to the line you want to edit e Edit the highlighted text line or insert a new one using the Item Menu e When finished editing exit the Text Editor You ll be shown a list of save options Note When you have not changed the file the Text Editor will quit immediately Key Action Navi or Right Edit Line Select Character Left or Stop Exit Abort Editing A B Show Item Menu Long Navi Delete Line THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 120
26. a machine readable copy represented in a format whose specification is available to the general public that is suitable for revising the document straightforwardly with generic text editors or for images com posed of pixels generic paint programs or for drawings some widely available draw ing editor and that is suitable for input to text formatters or for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input to text formatters A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose markup or absence of markup has been arranged to thwart or discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount of text A copy that is not Transparent is called Opaque Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain ASCII without markup Texinfo input format LaTeX input format SGML or XML using a publicly available DTD and standard conforming simple HTML PostScript or PDF designed for human modification Examples of transparent image formats include PNG XCF and JPG Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word processors SGML or XML for which the DTD and or processing tools are not generally available and the machine generated HTML PostScript or PDF produced by some word processors for output purposes only The Title Page means for a printed book the title page itself plus su
27. as long as possible Menu controls THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 92 Key Action Left Right Controls number of worms in the game Game controls Key Action Left Turn left Right Turn right Up Turn Up Down Turn Down The game Use the control keys of your worm to navigate around obstacles and find food Worms do not stop moving except when dead Dead worms are no fun Be careful as your worm will try to eat anything that you steer it across It won t distinguish whether it is edible or not Food The small square hollow pieces are food Move the worm over a food tile to eat it After eating the worm grows Each time a piece of food has been eaten a new piece of food will pop up somewhere Unfortunately for each new piece of food that appears two new argh pieces will appear too 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
28. by all database versions Import Modifications Allows the rockbox database_changelog txt backup to be conveniently loaded into the database If AUTO UPDATE is enabled this is performed 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 Album Genre Song Name etc To use the database go to the MAIN MENU and select DATABASE Note You may need to increase the value of the MAX FILES IN DIR BROWSER setting SETTINGS gt GENERAL SETTINGS SYSTEM gt LIMITS in order to view long lists of tracks in the ID3 database browser There is no option to turn off database completely If you do not want to use it just do not do the initial build of the database and do not load it to RAM THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 28 Tag Type Origin filename string system album string id tag albumartist string id tag artist string id tag comment string id tag composer string id tag genre string id tag grouping string id tag title string id tag bitrate numeric id tag discnum numeric id tag year numeric id tag tracknum numeric id tag filename autoscore numeric runtime db lastplayed numeric runtime db playcount numeric runtime db Pm play time numeric runtime db min Ps play time sec numeric runtime db rating numeric runtime db commitid numeric system entryage numeric system length numeric
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30. currently playing track to a playlist You need to enter a name for the new playlist first Sound Settings This is a shortcut to the SOUND SETTINGS MENU where you can configure volume bass treble and other settings affecting the sound of your music See section 6 page 44 for more information Playback Settings This is a shortcut to the PLAYBACK SETTINGS MENU where you can configure shuf fle repeat party mode study mode and other settings affecting the playback of your music Rating The menu entry is only shown if GATHER RUNTIME INFORMATION is enabled It allows the asignment of a personal rating value 0 10 to a track which can be displayed in the WPS and used in the Database browser Press Right to increment the value The value wraps at 10 Bookmarks This allows you to create a bookmark in the currently playing track Show Track Info WD a Po Title Street Fighting Man Artist London Symphonic Orchestra Album Symphonic Of The Rolling Sto Album Artist London Symphonic Orchestri Work lt No Info gt Figure 4 4 The track info viewer THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 32 This screen is accessible from the WPS screen and provides a detailed view of all the identity information about the current track This info is known as meta data and is stored in audio file formats to keep information on artist album etc To access this screen press Play A B
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33. on when clipping has been detected Options OFF MAIN UNIT ONLY MAIN AND REMOTE UNIT REMOTE UNIT ONLY 9 10 Trigger When you record a source you often are only interested in the sound and not the silence in between The recording trigger provides you with a tool to automatically distinguish between sound and silence and record the sound only Unfortunately it is not very easy to make this distinction between silence and sound because you hardly ever encounter real silence There always are background noises What is considered as background noise depends on the situation For example during a lecture the very low noise of rustling paper might be considered as background noise During a rock concert the murmur of the audience might be concidered background noise which is much louder compared to rustling paper Also the duration of the signal matters When you record speech you want to record every syllable When you record live music you may not be interested in that chord the guitarist strokes for two minutes before the show to verify his amp is turned on The trigger features numerous parameters to adapt its behaviour to the desired situation Trigger This parameter specifies the trigger mode When set to OFF the recording must be started manually and apart from the Prerecord time no other parameter has any effect ONCE will have the trigger start one recording only after the recording has finished the input signal will not start another recordi
34. playing to resume at the bookmarked location Maintain a list of Recently Used Bookmarks This list of Most Recent Bookmarks MRB s may be accessed through the RECENT BOOKMARKS option of the BOOK MARKS sub menu of the Main Menu When set to YES each new bookmark will be added to the MRB list Setting this to NO disables the addition of bookmarks to the MRB list UNIQUE ONLY behaves like the YES setting but in addition all older entries for the current dynamic playlist will be removed from the MRB whenever a new entry is added THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 62 Bookmark Actions context menu When viewing any bookmark list pressing the stan dard context menu key Long Navi will bring up the Bookmark Actions context menu RESUME will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry DELETE will remove just the currently selected bookmark entry from the list 7 8 Language This setting controls the language of the Rockbox user interface Selecting a language will activate it The language files must be in the rockbox langs directory See section 11 1 3 page 120 for further details about languages 7 9 Voice Voice Menus This option controls the voicing of menus settings as they are selected by the cursor In order for this to work a voice file must be present in the rockbox langs directory on the player Voice files are large and are not shipped with Rockbox by default T
35. rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it stop will exit back to the menu For further information about the WPS see section 4 3 page 28 For infor mation about editing a wps file see section 11 2 page 121 Browse RWPS files Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox wps directory and displays all rwps files Selecting one will activate it stop will exit back to the menu Note A rwps file is a special wps file for the remote display Show Icons Rockbox has the ability to display an icon to the left of the file in the FILE BROWSER For details of these icons see section A 1 page 127 These icons can also be customised See the IconSets and CustomIcons Wiki pages for details Clear Backdrop Rockbox allows you to select bitmap pictures to use as backdrops see section 11 1 4 page 120 for further information This option allows you to clear the backdrops that you set THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx A CHAPTER 8 THEME SETTINGS 65 Line Selector Type This option allows you to select which type of line selector to use Pointer A small arrow to the left of the menu text Bar inverse A bar with inverted foreground and background colour THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 9 RECORDING SETTINGS 66 9 Recording Settings HD Zz Recording Settings rom gt Encoder Settings 3 Frequency Source Channels File Split Options Prer
36. seconds repeat Conditionals can be used with sublines to display a different set and or number of sublines on the line depending on the evaluation of the conditional Example subline with conditionals EXAMPLE SPit lt St8ssSit Ss in gt Pia lt t 3 sSialst0 gt The format above will do two different things depending if ID3 tags are present If the ID3 artist and title are present e Display id3 title for 8 seconds e Display id3 artist for 3 seconds e repeat If the ID3 artist and title are not present e Display the filename continuously Note that by using a subline display time of 0 in one branch of a conditional a subline can be skipped not displayed when that condition is met Using Images You can have as many as 52 images in your WPS There are various ways of displaying images 1 Load and always show the image using the x tag 2 Preload the image with x1 and show it with xd This way you can have your images displayed conditionally 3 Load an image and show as backdrop using the X tag The image must be of the same exact dimensions as your display Example on background image use EXAMPLE SX background bmp THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 124 The image with filename background bmp is loaded and used in the WPS Example on bitmap preloading and use EXAMPLE Sx a static_icon bmp 50 50 Sxl b rep_off bmp 16 64 Sxl c r
37. shelving filters Higher values will add a small boost around the cutoff frequency that is almost always undesirable Bands 1 3 Peaking filters Peaking EO filters boost or lower a frequency range cen tered at the center frequency chosen Graphic equalizers in home stereos are usu ally peaking filters The peaking filters in Rockbox s EQ lets you adjust three different parameters for EQ bands 1 through 3 The center parameter controls the center frequency of the frequency range that is affected as described above The gain parameter controls how much each band is adjusted and works as for the low shelf filter Finally the Q parameter controls how wide or narrow the affected frequency range is Higher Q values will affect a narrower band of frequencies while lower Q values will affect a wider band of frequencies Band 4 High shelf filter A high shelf filter boosts or lowers all frequencies above a certain frequency limit much like what a treble control found on ordinary stereo systems does The high shelf filter is adjusted the same way as the low shelf filter except that it works on the high end of the frequency spectrum rather than the low end THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 48 As a general guide EQ band 0 should be used for low frequencies EQ bands 1 through 3 should be used for mids and EQ band 4 should be used for highs Enable EQ This option controls whether the EQ is o
38. some impressive demos and a number of utilities A detailed description of the differ ent plugins is to be found in section 10 page 71 5 12 System This option shows RAM buffer size battery voltage level and estimated time remain ing disk total space and disk free space THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 43 Rockbox Info Displays some basic system information This is from top to bottom the amount of memory Rockbox has available for storing music the buffer The battery status Hard disk size and the amount of free space on the disk Version Software version and credits display Sleep Timer The SLEEP TIMER powers off your player after playing for a given time It can be set from OFF to 5 hours in 5 minute steps The SLEEP TIMER is reset on boot Debug Keep Out This sub menu is intended to be used only by Rockbox develop ers It shows hardware disk battery status and other technical information Warning It is not recommended that users access this menu unless instructed to do so in the course of fixing a problem with Rockbox If you think you have messed up your settings by use of this menu please try to reset all settings before asking for help 5 13 Quick Screen Whilst not strictly part of the MAIN MENU it is worth noting that a few of the more commonly used settings are available from the QUICK SCREEN The QUICK SCREEN screen is accessed with Long A B and exited with A B It allow
39. the file browser has the same effect File Location Custom WPS files may be located anywhere on the drive The only restriction is that they must end in wps When you play a wps file it will be used for future WPS screens and if the played wps file is located in the rockbox wps directory it will be remembered and used after reboot The wps filename must be no more than 24 characters long for it to be remembered 11 2 2 WPS Build Your Own Quite simply enter the WPS code in your favourite text editor Notepad on Windows works fine When you save it instead of saving it as a t xt file save it asa wps file Example Instead of Rockbox txt save the file as Rockbox wps To make sure non english characters display correctly in your WPS you must save the wps file with UTF 8 character encoding This can be done in most editors for example Notepad in Windows 2000 or XP but not in 9x ME can do this See appendix section B page 129 for all the tags that are available e All characters not preceded by are displayed as typed e Lines beginning with are comments and will be ignored e Maximum file size used is 1600 bytes If you have a bigger WPS file only the first part of it will be loaded and used Note Keep in mind that your player resolution is 160x128x2 with the last number giving the colour depth in bits when designing your own WPS or if you use a WPS designed for another target The resolution of the
40. then copy the file to the player Or you can use the context menu on either a file or a directory in the file browser tree and use the Add to shortcuts menu option This will append a line with the full name of the file or the directory to the shortcuts link file in the root directory of the player The file will be created if it does not exist yet You can later rename the automatically created shortcuts link file or move it to another directory if you wish Subsequent calls of the context menu will create it again How to use link files i e jump to desired places To use a link file just play it from the file browser This will show you a list with the entries in the file Selecting one of them will then exit the plugin and leave you within the directory selected or with the file selected in the file browser You can then play the file or do with it whatever you want The file will not be played automatically If the link file contains only one entry no list will be shown you will directly jump to that location The file shortcuts 1ink in the root directory is an exception After playing it the list will be shown even if the file contains just one entry If the list you are seeing is from shortcuts link in the root directory you can delete the selected entry by pressing A B Deleting entries from other 1 ink files is not possible Advanced Usage Placing the line Display last path segments n wher
41. to distribute corresponding source code This alternative is allowed only for noncom mercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer in accord with Subsection b above The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it For an executable work complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains plus any associated interface defi nition files plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable However as a special exception the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed in either source or binary form with the major components compiler kernel and so on of the operating sys THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 160 tem on which the executable runs unless that component itself accompanies the executable If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the 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
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44. your images are displayed condition ally n image ID a z and A Z for later referencing in xd filename filename relative to rockbox and including bmp x x coordinate y y coordinate nimages optional number of sub images tiled vertically of the same height contained in the bitmap Default is 1 Display a preloaded image n image ID a z and A Z as it was specified in 6X OF Sxl i optional number of the sub image to dis play a z for 1 26 and A Z for 27 52 By de fault the first i e top most sub image will be used 1 Load and display the image rockbox bg bmp with ID a at 37 109 xlalbg 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX B WPS TAGS 134 x1 M volume bmp 134 153 5 pv lt xdMa xdMb xdMc xdMd xdMe gt Note e The images must be in a rockbox compatible format 1 bit per pixel BMP e The image tag must be on its own line e The ID is case sensitive giving 52 different ID s e The size of the LCD screen for each player varies See table below for appropriate sizes of each device The x and y coordinates must repect each of the players limits B 13 Alignment Tag Description Sal Text is left aligned sac Text is center aligned sar Text is right aligned All alignment tags may be pr
45. 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 141 D 2 2 Features we will not implement 46 es he ek eee es 142 E Changelog 143 E 1 Whatis new since v2 5 a 143 E 1 1 New features o 0 68 ee ee a 143 E12 Enhancements lt o serous Oe es ee ua kenas 144 E1 supported 2644 had we 2 A 145 F Credits 146 G Licenses 149 G 1 GNU Free Documentation License 000004 149 G 2 The GNU General Public License 157 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 9 1 Introduction 1 1 Welcome This is the manual for Rockbox Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and efficient than your device s stock firmware while remaining easy to use and customisable Rockbox is written by users for users Not only is it free to use it is also released under the GNU General Public License GPL which means that it will always remain free both to use and to change Rockbox has been in development since 2001 and receives new features tweaks and fixes each day to provide you with the best possible experience on your digital audio player A major goal of Rockbox is to be simple and easy to use yet remain very cus tomisable and configurable We believe that you should ne
46. 3 Enabling Speech Support optional 2 646404 16 o be we a ee ES SR SIE 16 25 Updating Rockbox lt td SS SPM pr o 16 26 cca ewe EES ORE EC RG RE EMG 16 2 6 1 Automatic Uninstallation 16 26 2 Manual Uninstallation 566 56 50 eee ee 17 3 Quick Start 18 Sul Basie Overview ociosos fod Seek de cdas 18 Sobek Ee o AAA SHAE EY OE EESE ES 18 312 Turning the player onan off ered eca solu yoe ee EM a 19 aig Starting the angel MRE 0 ee Sey eee h 19 3 1 4 Putting music on your player bea Kew ees 19 3 15 The tirsttontaet ce ee Bek a eae 19 3 16 Basie oe 2 00 6 fue Pon ea bon PVG Gwe Bard amp amp 20 P7 DOEIOCONEEDIS 2 oS 04 IIA 20 22 Castomising Rockbox 244 4 e444 Eo EA ee eRe SES 20 4 Browsing and playing 22 4 1 Bile Browser 24 seo eae Mane KR A See SRS Be Kee Ee 22 4 1 1 File Browser Controls 5 6 ec a es 23 AMD Context Menu e re eeaeee 204 ee ee oY ee Bad oe 23 41 3 Virtual Keyboard oscars ee AAA 25 da Diab aa PES da ad BEES Se es BE Es 25 ga a a A 25 4 22 Initializing the Database ss ke oa AAA AAA 26 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CONTENTS 4 4 2 3 The Database Menu 0 0000 eee ee eee 26 aoe Usmo Ue Dabas oe ccc ee een E Cee ENE ES 27 ma Wile layme eh ee 2 A RE CER OES ORS 28 431 WPSKeyCont
47. AYLIST sub menu in the WPS just select RESHUFFLE Moving and removing tracks To move or remove a track from the current playlist enter the PLAYLIST VIEWER by selecting VIEW CURRENT PLAYLIST in the PLAYLIST submenu in the WPS context menu or the MAIN MENU Once in the PLAYLIST VIEWER open the context menu on the track you want to move or remove If you want to move the track select MOVE in the context menu and then move the blinking cursor to the place where you want the track to be moved and confirm with Navi or Right To remove a track simply select REMOVE in the context menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 36 4 4 5 Saving playlists To save the current playlist either enter the PLAYLIST submenu in the WPS CONTEXT MENU see section 4 3 3 page 30 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 25 enter a filename for your playlist and accept it and you are done 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists Through the FILE BROWSER Playlist files like regular music tracks can be selected through the FILE BROWSER When loading a playlist from disk it will replace the current dynamic playlist Through the PLAYLIST CATALOG The PLAYLIST CATALOG offers a shortcut to all playlists in your player s specified playlist directory It can be used like the FILE BROWSE
48. Be eee K Ge eo ee 42 Pile ICI y a a aw de bee A ee Be Bee 42 IS ie SOPA ssc a bare peas a eS Se Oe Seid See a ee aa 43 6 Sound Settings 44 GI A eo ee BS ew RRA SO SR Ee wae aS 44 Mi DAS Bose fe Bee Hae eo tees a Edo Pew God coe Date Ss 44 63 oe x ale a ee ee oe ee ws ws a ee Oe oe ae 44 G4 Balance be he ok ee OA we eae ee on ee ew 45 65 Channels 6 68 be bee bee de whe ee Be ee Le 45 66 Stereo Width eee ee eee eh ee ee eR 45 AA a xed 2 Go wwe Gos Bw ab we Se BR OM Biwi GH 45 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CONTENTS 5 69 Egualizer RRA AR SAS oe Se a in 47 DIREN ed a AAA AE e AAA 48 7 General Settings 50 Ed PROA ia ee AAA A A de SY 50 2 PR esa eee A AAN E A A 54 Ta VIH e oc a a ir Gk ER 54 74 Database gt 6 6 64 6 eb OR ww be we wwe bw OR ee a 55 o CI ee Ba AAA es Ee Eee NA 55 TO OA di Hk Be RE ORE AAA eek 59 Pol Start Seren cos Bo do he Bk ae ek So ee ee ee K 59 Toa DaI RS Bi OES ALE DRO BEERS OH OS A 59 Pie DIRE ek Aa SoS Eee ee PDS BES eA PES ES 59 Oe Idle Powerom visos Pe ne Ae he Bee eek o lS 60 O NG gt ce hee hte S 60 700 CarAdapter Mode oe ecce ws eS A ee RH D amp S 60 A7 VOUS ig euti ee he aaa HERES Ee OSES 61 OO LIIUI yoo heed ec eee cee ee EP bebe ee Pe eed ees oe 62 PI WOU Ss ara eae eee ewe bd eae Pe ba ee eee SE REE 62 8 Theme Settings 64 9 Recording Settings 66 DL
49. Cur rently Wide and Join cannot be selected together THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 109 No Narrow sets maximum column to the screen width Show Scrollbar toggles scrollbar for the current View mode If the file fits on one screen there is no scrollbar and toggling this setting has no effect On has a scrollbar by default until toggled Off has no scrollbar by default until toggled Overlap Pages toggles between Normal and Overlap Yes tells page down page up to retain one line from previous screen No sets page down page up to one full screen Scroll Mode controls the function of the Scroll up and Scroll down buttons Scroll by Line Scroll by Page Auto scroll Speed controls the speed of auto scrolling in number of lines per scroll step available options are 1 to 10 lines As an example a setting of 4 will scroll up the text four lines per second Show Playback Menu controls the playback of the currently loaded playlist and change the volume of your playerwithout leaving the plugin Return to the text view Note The text viewer automatically saves its settings and also stores the current posi tion in the viewed text files up to the last 46 files Compatibility e Currently messages are in English e Does not currently support right to left languages 10 3 10 VBRfix This function scans a VBR Variable Bitrate MP3 file and updates creates the Xing VBR header The Xing header c
50. E BROWSER Show Path If this setting is set to FULL PATH the full path to the current directory will be displayed on the first line in the FILE BROWSER If setto CURRENT DIRECTORY ONLY only the name of the current directory will be displayed This has a similar effect on the Database browser If set to CURRENT DIRECTORY ONLY or FULL PATH then the title of each menu will be displayed on the first line in the DATABASE BROWSER 7 4 Database This sub menu allows you to configure the database See section 4 2 page 25 for more information about using the database 7 5 Display LCD Settings This sub menu contains settings that relate to the display of the player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 56 Backlight The amount of time the backlight shines after a key press If set to OFF the backlight will not light when a button is pressed If set to ON the backlight will never shut off If set to a time 1 to 90 seconds the backlight will stay lit for that amount of time after a button press Backlight While Plugged In This setting is equivalent to the BACKLIGHT set ting except it applies when the player is plugged into the charger Backlight on Hold This setting controls the behavior of the backlight when the Hold switch is toggled If set to NORMAL the backlight will behave as usual If set to OFF the backlight will be turned off immediately when the Hold switch is engaged and if set to ON the backl
51. E BROWSER Toggle Slideshow Mode Enables or disables the slideshow mode Change Slideshow Timeout You can set the timeout for the slideshow between 1 sec ond and 20 seconds Show Playback Menu From the playback menu you can control the playback of the currently loaded playlist and change the volume of your player Return Returns you to the image Note Progressive scan and other unusual JPEG files are not supported and will result in various unsupported xx messages Processing could also fail if the image is too big to decode which will be explained by a respective message 10 3 4 Midiplay To get MIDI file playback a patchset is required This file contains the instruments required to synthesize the music A sample patchset is available through the wiki at PluginMidiPlay and needs to be extracted to the rockbox directory in the root of your player There should now be a rockbox patchset directory with the patchset directory containing several pat files and two 619 files Just select a MIDI file with either the mid 01 midi extension in the file browser to start playback Key Action Up Down Volume up Volume down Right Left Skip 3 seconds forward backward Play Pause Resume playback Stop Stop playback and quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 105 10 3 5 MPEG Player The Mpeg Player is a video player plugin capable of playing back MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 video streams with MPEG audi
52. E Language File ing Loads a language file Text File EXE This will display the text file using Rockbox text browser plugin cE Configuration File cfg The settings file will be loaded A Font fae This font will replace the current one Plugin rock Starts a Rockbox plugin slo Chip8 game lt ch8 Play a Chip8 game T Image jpg View a JPEG image THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1XX APPENDIX A FILE FORMATS 128 A 2 Supported audio formats Format Extension Notes Lossy codecs MPEG audio mpl mpa mp2 mp3 OGG Vorbis 09g Some old floor 0 files may crash Rockbox Musepack mpc Advanced Audio Coding m4a m4b mp4 Windows Media Audio wma wmv asf ATSC A 52 rab Hals Supports downmixing for playback of 5 1 streams in stereo ADX adx Speex SPX Lossless codecs Waveform audio format wav Audio Interchange File Format aif aiff Free Lossless Audio flac Apple Lossless m4a mp4 Wavpack WV Shorten shn Seeking not supported Monkey s Audio ape mac Only c1000 decodes fast enough to be useful Other codecs Sound Interface Device sid MOD mod NES Sound Format nsf nsfe SPC700 spc Atari SAP sap THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1XX APPENDIX B WPS TAGS 129 B WPS Tags B 1 Status Bar Tag Description we Status Bar Enabled wd Status Bar Disabled These tags override the player setting for the display of the status bar They must be note
53. E ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 116 Key Action Left or Stop Exit Abort 10 4 5 Keybox Keybox is an encrypted password storage using the Tiny Encryption Algorithm with a key derived using md5 Using Keybox To get started start up the plugin and select ENTER KEYBOX The first time you enter Keybox you will be prompted for a master password and for confirmation of the master password The master password is the password that you must use to access your stored passwords Once inside enter the context menu by pressing Long Navi 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 pass words 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 6 Lamp Lamp is a simple plugin to use your player as a lamp flashlight torch You get an empty screen with maximum brightness Key Action Stop Quit 10 4 7 Metronome This plugin can be used as a metronome to keep time during music practice Adjust the tempo through the interface or by tapping it out on the appropriate button THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 117 Key Action Stop Exit plugin Play Start Stop Navi Ta
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55. Enters the PLAYLIST CATALOG SUBMENU see section 4 4 2 page 33 Rename This function lets the user modify the name of a file or directory Cut Copies the name of the currently selected file or directory to the clipboard and marks it to be cut Copy Copies the name of the currently selected file or directory to the clipboard and marks it to be copied Paste Only visible if a file or directory name is on the clipboard When selected it will move or copy the clipboard to the current directory Delete Deletes the currently selected file This option applies only to files and not to directories Rockbox will ask for confirmation before deleting a file Press Navi to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel Delete Directory Deletes the currently selected directory and all of the files and subdi rectories it may contain Deleted directories cannot be recovered Use this feature with caution Set As Backdrop Set the selected bmp file as background image The bitmaps need to meet the conditions explained in section 11 1 4 page 120 Open with Runs a viewer plugin on the file Normally when a file is selected in Rock box Rockbox automatically detects the file type and runs the appropriate plugin The OPEN WITH function can be used to override the default action and select a viewer by hand For example this function can be used to view a text file even if the file has a non standard extension i e the file has an exte
56. FILE BROWSER Long Navi Enter WPS CONTEXT MENU A B Enter MAIN MENU Long A B Switches to the QUICK SCREEN see sec tion 5 13 page 43 Play Up Down Show PITCH SCREEN see section 4 3 3 page 32 Play A B Enter ID3 VIEWER Play Right or Skip to the next directory Short Right Long Right Play Left or Skip to the previous directory Short Left Long Left Long Rec Switches to the Recording screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 30 4 3 2 Peak Meter The peak meter can be displayed on the While Playing Screen and consists of several indicators For a picture of the peak meter please see the While Recording Screen in section 5 8 1 page 40 The bar This is the wide horizontal bar It represents the current volume value The peak indicator This is a little vertical line at the right end of the bar It indicates the peak volume value that occurred recently The clip indicator This is a little black block that is displayed at the very right of the scale when an overflow occurs It usually does not show up during normal playback unless you play an audio file that is distorted heavily If you encounter clipping while recording your recording will sound distorted You should lower the gain Note Note that the clip detection is not very precise Clipping might occur with out being indicated The scale Between the indicators of the right and left channel there are li
57. GENERAL SETTINGS gt SYSTEM gt DISK DIRECTORY CACHE is enabled UPDATE NOW includes that check whether dircache has been enabled or not Initialize Now You can force Rockbox to rescan your disk for tagged files by using the INITIALIZE NOW function in the DATABASE MENU Warning INITIALIZE NOW removes all database files removing runtimedb data THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 27 also and rebuilds the database from scratch Update Now UPDATE NOW causes the database to detect new and deleted files Note Unlike the AUTO UPDATE function UPDATE NOW will update the database regardless of whether the DIRECTORY CACHE is enabled Thus an update using UPDATE NOW may take a long time Unlike INITIALIZE NOW the UPDATE NOW function does not remove runtime database information Gather Runtime Data When enabled rockbox will record how often and how long a track is being played when it was last played and its rating This information can be displayed in the WPS and is used in the database browser to for example show the most played unplayed and most recently played tracks Export Modifications This allows for the runtime data to be exported to the file cockbox database_changelog txt which backs up the runtime data in ASCII format This is needed when database structures change because new code cannot read old database code But all modifications exported to ASCII format should be readable
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59. L IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 106 Quit mpegplayer Exit the plugin Display Options Menu Dithering default off Prevent banding effects in gradients by blending of colours only available on Sansa e200 Sansa c200 and Gigabeat F X Show FPS default off This option displays once a second if your video is full screen this means it will get overwritten by the video and appear to flash once per second the average number of frames decoded per second the total number of frames skipped see the Skip Frames option the current time in 100Hz ticks and the time the current frame is due to be displayed Limit FPS default on With this option disabled mpegplayer will display the video as fast as it can Useful for benchmarking Skip frames default on This option causes mpegplayer to attempt to maintain real time playback by skipping the display of frames but these frames are still de coded Disabling this option can cause loss of A V sync See this page in the Rockbox wiki for information on how to encode your videos to the supported format mPluginMpegplayer 10 3 6 Rockboy 2400 8x04 385 7 Figure 10 36 Rockboy Rockboy is a Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for Rockbox based on the gnuboy emulator To start a game open a ROM file saved as gb or gbc in the file browser THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 107 Default keys Key Action Up Down Direction
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61. NERAL SETTINGS 55 Show Files This option controls which files are displayed in the File Browser All The FILE BROWSER displays all files and directories Extensions are shown No files or directories are hidden Supported The FILE BROWSER displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 127 Files and directories starting with dot or with the hidden flag set are hidden Music The FILE BROWSER displays only directories playlists and the supported audio file formats Extensions are stripped Files and directories starting with or with the hidden flag set are hidden Playlists The FILE BROWSER displays only directories and playlists for simpli fied navigation Show Filename Extensions This option controls how file extensions are shown in the File Browser Off The file extensions are never shown On The file extensions are always shown Only unknown types Only the extensions of unknown filetypes are shown Only when viewing all types Only show file extensions when SHOW FILES is setto ALL Follow Playlist This option determines what directory the FILE BROWSER displays first If FOLLOW PLAYLIST is set to YES when you enter the FILE BROWSER from the WPS you will find yourself in the same directory as the currently playing file If FOLLOW PLAYLIST is set to NO when you enter the FILE BROWSER from the WPS you will find yourself in the directory you were in when you last left the FIL
62. OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS Appendix How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs If you develop a new program and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms To do so attach the following notices to the program It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty and each file should have at least the copyright line and a pointer to where the full notice is found lt one line to give the program s name and a 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 Al
63. R 4 4 7 Helpful Hints Including subdirectories in playlists You can control whether or not Rockbox includes the contents of subdirectories when adding an entire directory to a playlists Set the MAIN MENU gt SETTINGS gt PLAYLIST RECURSIVELY INSERT DIRECTORIES setting to YES if you would like to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently selected directory THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 37 5 The Main Menu 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu mS X Rockbox bel Files JJ Database gt Resume Playback 3 Settings Recording SFM Radio Playlists Plugins System Figure 5 1 The main menu The MAIN MENU is the screen from which all of the Rockbox functions can be accessed This is the first screen you will see when starting Rockbox To return to the MAIN MENU press the A B button All settings are stored on the unit However Rockbox does not spin up the disk solely for the purpose of saving settings Instead Rockbox will save settings when it spins up the disk the next time for example when refilling the MP3 buffer or navigating through the FILE BROWSER Changes to settings may therefore not be saved unless the player is shut down safely see section 3 1 2 page 19 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 38 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu Key Action Up Moves up in the menu Inside a setting increases the value or
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66. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 85 10 1 18 Sliding Puzzle Figure 10 15 Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the whole picture or switch to number tiles if you like it a little easier Key controls Key Action Left Right Up Move Tile and Down Navi Shuffle Play Change between picture and numbered tiles Stop Stop the game 10 1 19 Snake Figure 10 16 Snake This is the popular snake game The aim is to grow your snake as large as possible by eating the dots that appear on the screen The game will end when the snake touches either the borders of the screen or itself THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 86 Key Action Up Down Change levels 1 is slowest 9 is fastest Play Toggle Play Pause 10 1 20 Snake 2 sAME SNAKE i maze o o SPEED HI SCORE o PERS Figure 10 17 Snake 2 The Snake Strikes Back Another version of the Snake game Move the snake around and eat the apples that pop up on the screen Each time an apple is eaten the snake gets longer The game ends when the snake hits a wall or runs into itself Key Action In menu Up Down Set game speed Right Left Select starting maze A B Select game type A or B Play Start the game In game Up Down Left Steer the snake Right Play Pause and resume the game Stop Quit In game A the maze stays the same in g
67. THOR gt ROAN HORN ING gt BEN KEROACK Pb SEAN MORRISEY gt SHAY GREEN gt NICK VANDERWEIT P SI MON MENZEL gt TIMO HORSTSCHAFER gt JACCO KONING gt CHRIS HAM gt JOSE RAMON GARCIA P SIMON DESCARPEN TRIES Pb DOUGLAS VALENTINE P JACOB GARDNER P PASCAL BRIEHL P DENIS STANISHEVSKIY Pb EDDY COMAN P LUKE BLANEY gt MARK REICHE MICHAL JEV JAK Pb PHILIPPE LATULIPPE gt MAURICIO PECCORINI gt NATHAN HEPTING gt AKIO IDEHARA gt DAGNI MCPHEE gt ALEX GER CHANOVSKY gt GERHARD DIRSCHL gt IVAN ZUPAN ALEXANDER PAPST gt CHRISTOPH REITER gt RHINO BANGA gt PAUL JONES gt MICHAEL GIACOMELLI gt ALEX WENGER gt ANDREE BUSCHMANN P JOHNATHON MI HALOP gt RENE ALLKIVI gt TOBIAS SCHLADT gt JOHN ZHOU gt CHARLES VOELGER gt GER RITT GONZALES gt DIETER PELLKOFER gt Ev GENIY KACHALIN Pb LENNY KOEPSELL gt HARRY TU gt PAWEL WYSOCKI gt XINLU HUANG gt DANIEL DALTON P BORIS GJEN ERO Pb SYLVAIN FOURMANOIT Pb ALEX PARKER gt MARIO LANG gt JUSTIN FOELL gt IGOR KUZMIN gt ADILSON VICENTE XAVIER gt JESSE LOCKWOOD P JONATHAN BACKER gt SOFIAN BABAI gt COSTAS CALAMVOKIS gt CATALIN PATULEA gt PETER HARLEY gt MAX KELLEY gt ALEXANDER EICKHOFF gt PINITNUN SHANASABANG P KEN FAZ ZONE P DAVID BISHOP P HEIN PIETER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX F CREDITS 148 VAN BRAAM P PRZEMYS AW HOLUBOWSKI gt STEPAN MOSKOVCHENKO P JOHN S GWYNNE gt BRIAN J MOREY
68. V CHEKAN gt FLORIN POPESCU gt VOLKER MIS CHE gt FRANCISCO VILA gt THE LIBMAD TEAM gt THE WAVPACK TEAM gt THE FFM PEG TEAM gt THE OGG VORBIS TEAM gt THE LIBA52 TEAM P THE SPEEX TEAM P THE LIBFAAD TEAM gt THE DOOM TEAM gt THE GNUCHESS TEAM THE GNUBOY TEAM THE PACMAN INSTRUCTIONAL EMULATOR TEAM gt THE SPECTEMU TEAM P THE LIBMPEG2 TEAM gt THE GAME_MUSIC_EMU TEAM gt THE OPENSPC DSP EMULATOR TEAM gt THE ALAC DECODER TEAM gt THE UCL TEAM gt THE IPOD LINUX TEAM gt THE VISION 8 EMULATOR TEAM gt THE ROBOTFINDSKITTEN TEAM gt THE LIBMTP TEAM THE ASAP TEAM THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 149 G Licenses G 1 GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 November 2002 Copyright 2000 2001 2002 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin St Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed Preamble The purpose of this License is to make a manual textbook or other functional and use ful document free in the sense of freedom to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it with or without modifying it either commercially or non commercially Secondarily this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others T
69. YSTEM section of the Rockbox main menu Exit at any time by pressing Left or Stop THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 96 10 2 3 Cube Figure 10 26 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D Key Action Navi Display at maximum frame rate Play Pause A B Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Up Down Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused Stop Quit 10 2 4 Demystify Figure 10 27 Demystify Demystify is a screen saver like demo THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 97 Key Action Up Down Increase decrease speed Right Left Add remove polygon Stop Quit 10 2 5 Fire Figure 10 28 Fire Fire is a demo displaying a fire effect Key Action Up Down Increase decrease number of flames A B Toggle flame type Rec Toggle moving flames Stop Quit 10 2 6 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen Key Right Left Up Down Stop Action Increase decrease speed on the x axis Increase decrease speed on the y axis Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 98 10 2 7 Mandelbrot Figure 10 29 Mandelbrot This demonstration draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set using the greyscale engine Key Action Direction keys Move about the image Navi Zoom in A B Zoom out Play Left Decrease iteration depth less detail Play Right Incre
70. ain 30 to 120 0 1dB crossfeed hf attenuation 60 to 240 0 1dB crossfeed hf cutoff 500 to 2000 Hz eq enabled on off N A eq precut 0 to 240 0 1dB eq band 0 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 1 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 2 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 3 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 4 cutoff 0 to 32768 Hz eq band 0 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 1 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 2 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 3 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 4 q 0 to 64 N A eq band 0 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB eq band 1 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB eq band 2 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB eq band 3 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB eq band 4 gain 240 to 240 0 1dB dithering enabled on off N A beep off weak moderate strong N A keyclick off weak moderate strong N A keyclick repeats on off N A dircache on off N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX C CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 139 Setting Allowed Values Unit tagcache ram on off N A peak meter release 1 to 126 peak meter hold off 200ms 300ms 500ms 1 2 3 N A 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 30 1min peak meter clip hold on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 N A peak meter busy peak meter dbfs peak meter min peak meter max statusbar scrollbar volume display battery display font kbd invert flip display selector type show icons iconset viewers iconset backdrop rwps remote contrast remote invert remote flip display remote backlight timeout remote backlight timeout plugged remote caption backlight remote scroll s
71. ame Force play while the computer is thinking will cause it to make its move immedi ately If done while it s your turn the computer will move for you and flip the board so that you are playing from the other side If you want you can force play an entire game and watch the artificial intelligence fight against itself When you quit the game the current state will be saved and restored when you re sume 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 75 Keys Key Action Direction keys Move the cursor Navi Pick up Drop piece A B Change level Play Force play Stop Show the menu 10 1 5 Chopper Navigate a cavernous maze without banging into walls the ceiling or the floor How long can you fly your chopper Key Action Navi Up Make chopper fly Stop 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 Play Roll dice again Stop Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xXx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 76 10 1 7 Doom Figure 10 5 Doom This is the famous Doom game Getting started For the game to run you need wad game files located in rockbox doom o
72. ame B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 87 10 1 21 Sokoban Figure 10 18 Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowded ware house with a minimal number of pushes and moves The boxes can only be pushed never pulled and only one can be pushed at a time Sokoban may be used as a viewer for viewing saved solutions and playing external level sets with the sok extension Level sets should be in the standard Sokoban text format or RLE Run Length Encoded For more information about the level format see http sokobano de wiki index php title Level format Key Action In game Up Down Left Move the sokoban up down left or Right right Stop Menu Play Down Back to previous level Play Restart level Play Up Go to next level Rec Undo last movement A B Redo previously undone move Solution playback Play Pause resume Up Down Increase decrease playback speed Left Right Go backward forward while paused Stop Quit Some places where can you can find level sets e http www sourcecode se sokoban levels php e http sokobano de en levels php THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 88 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 22 Solitaire 2
73. an 5f pacman 6e pacman 6f pacman 6h pacman 6j MD5 checksum 2791455babaf26e0b396c78d2b45f8f6 9240f35d1d2beee0ff17195653b5e405 290aa5eae9e2f63587b5dd5a7da932da 19a886fcd8b5e88b0ed1b97f9d8659c0 d7cce8bffd9563b133ec17ebbb6373d4 33c0e197be4c787142af6c3be0d8f6b0 These need to be stored in the rockbox pacman directory on your player In the MAME ROMs collection the necessary files can be found in pacman zip and puckman zip The MAME project itself can be found at http Awww mame net Keys Key Action Right Move Up Left Move Down Up Move Left Down Move Right Rec Insert Coin Navi 1 Player Start Play 2 Player Start A B Menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 82 10 1 13 Pegbox 1142 cy 1112 lt p x x lt IE E E EA EA E A EA EA E BA EA x Figure 10 11 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 Key Action In game Up Down to move around Left Right Navi to select save Play to restart level A B to go up a level Rec to go down a level Stop to quit 10 1 14 Pong 2 2 Figure 10 12 Pong Pong is a simple two player tennis game Whenever a player misses the ball the other scores THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 83 Key Action Up Left player up
74. and open a new one A B Open RECORDING SETTINGS see sec tion 9 page 66 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 41 5 9 FM Radio WD a ES Station 87 50 MHz Mono Mode Scan Figure 5 4 The FM radio screen This menu option switches to the radio screen The FM radio has the ability to record and to remember station frequency settings presets Key Action Left Right Change frequency in SCAN mode or jump to next previous station in PRE SET mode Long Left Right Seek to next station or preset in SCAN mode Up Down Change volume A B Leave the radio screen with the radio playing Stop Stops the radio and returns to MAIN MENU Play Mutes radio playback Long Play Switches between SCAN and PRESET mode Navi Opens a list of radio presets You can view all the presets that you have and switch to the station Long Navi Displays the FM radio settings menu Saving a preset Up to 64 of your favourite stations can be saved as presets Long Navi to go to the menu then select ADD PRESET Enter the name maximum number of characters is 32 Press Play to save Note See this page for pre made FM radio presets from all around the world FmPresets THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx A CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 42 Selecting a preset Navi to go to the presets list Use Up and Down to move the cursor and then press Navi or Right to select Use Left to leave the pres
75. arest the buttons This is sometimes useful when carrying the player in a pocket for easy access to the headphone socket Remote LCD Settings This sub menu contains settings that relate to the display of the remote Backlight Similar to the main unit backlight this option controls the backlight timeout for the remote control The remote backlight is independent from the main unit backlight Backlight on When Plugged This controls the backlight when the player is plugged into the charger THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 57 Caption Backlight This option turns on the backlight a number of seconds be fore the start of a new track and keeps it on for the same number of seconds after the beginning so that the display can be read to see song information The amount of time is determined by the value of the backlight timeout set ting but is no less than 5 seconds First Keypress Enables Backlight Only This controls what happens when you press a button on your remote while the backlight is turned off Like for the main unit if this setting is set to YES the first keypress will light up the remote backlight but have no other effect If set to NO the first keypress will light up the remote backlight and engage the function of the key that is pressed Contrast Changes the contrast of your remote s LCD display Warning Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to find this menu op
76. art playback with the selected song Note If you already have created a dynamic playlist playing a new song will erase the current dynamic playlist and create a new one If you want to add a song to the current playlist rather than erasing the current playlist see the section below on how to add music to a playlist By using Insert and Queue functions If playback is stopped the INSERT and QUEUE functions can be used as described in 4 4 3 to create a new playlist instead of adding to an existing one This will erase any dynamic playlist By using the Playlist catalog The PLAYLIST CATALOG makes it possible to modify and create playlists that are not currently playing To do this select PLAYLIST CATALOG in the CONTEXT MENU There you will have two choices ADD TO PLAYLIST adds the selected track or directory to THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 34 an existing playlist and ADD TO A NEW PLAYLIST creates a new playlist containing the selected track or directory Note All playlists in the PLAYLIST CATALOG are stored by default in the Playlists directory in the root of your player s disk and playlists stored in other locations are not included in the catalog It is however possible to move existing playlists there see section 4 1 2 page 23 By using the Main Menu To create a playlist containing all music on your player you can use the CREATE PLAYLIST command in the PLAYLIST OPTIONS menu found
77. ase iteration depth more detail Rec Reset and return to the default image Stop Quit 10 2 8 Mosaique Figure 10 30 Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player Press Stop to quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 99 10 2 9 Oscilloscope Figure 10 31 Oscilloscope This demo shows the shape of the sound samples that make up the music being played At faster speed rates the player is less responsive to user input and music may start to skip Keys Key Action Navi Toggle filled curve plot A B Toggle whether to scroll or not Rec Toggle drawing orientation Play Pause the demo Up Down Increase decrease volume Right Left Increase decrease speed Stop Exit demo 10 2 10 Plasma Figure 10 32 Plasma THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 100 Plasma is a demo displaying a 80 s style retro plasma effect Key Action Up Down Adjust frequency Stop Quit 10 2 11 Snow Figure 10 33 Have you ever seen snow falling This demo replicates snow falling on your screen If you love winter you will love this demo Or maybe not Press Stop to quit 10 2 12 Starfield Figure 10 34 Starfield Starfield simulation like the classic screensaver THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 101 Key Action Right Left Increase decrease number of stars Up Down Increase decrease spee
78. ate the file you can edit the file on your computer using any text editor program See Appendix section C page 136 for available settings Configuration files use the following formatting rules 1 Each setting must be on a separate line THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 125 2 Each line has the format setting value 3 Values must be within the ranges specified in this manual for each setting 4 Lines starting with are ignored This lets you write comments into your config uration files Example of a configuration file EXAMPLE Example configuration file volume 70 bass 11 treble 12 balance 0 time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans lng Note As you can see from the example configuration files do not need to contain all of the Rockbox options You can create configuration files that change only certain set tings So for example supppose you typically use the player at one volume in the car and another when using headphones Further suppose you like to use an inverse LCD when you are in the car and a regular LCD setting when you are using headphones You could create configuration files that control only the volume and LCD settings Create a few different files with different settings give each file a different name such as car cfg headphones cfg etc and you can then use the
79. box runs and plays music on the iAudio M5 Add the Rockbox Menu Chopper game Cuesheet support Icons in the menus Album Artist and Comment Tag Support Speex Codec Support Invadrox a Space Invaders clone BlackJack plugin Mazezam a puzzle game for all bitmap lcd targets THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX E CHANGELOG 144 F HF OF OF OF OF OF 2006 12 29 2006 11 30 2006 11 06 Toshiba Gigabeat X and F series support File properties in context menu Samplerate and format selection added to recording settings En coders can be configured individually on a menu specific to the encoder in the recording menu 2006 11 06 2006 10 27 2006 10 19 2006 10 05 2006 09 15 2006 08 28 support 2006 08 07 2006 07 19 2006 07 18 2006 04 19 2006 03 30 2006 03 28 2006 03 28 2006 03 26 2006 03 26 2006 03 20 2006 03 19 2006 03 12 2006 03 11 2006 02 22 2006 02 13 2006 01 28 2006 01 23 2005 12 06 Pitch adjustment in semitone steps Audio dithering option last fm audioscrobbler logging support FM radio region setting ZX spectrum emulator plugin zxbox Encoder Codec Interface for recording with additional FM recording Initial version of mpegplayer plugin Rockpaint plugin Playlist catalog Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 1G Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 2G DOOM Sound on the iAudio 75 X5L and X5V
80. cces 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 while making normal use of your player Once loaded it will run in the background TSR plu gin reading various info about your battery while you use it Once you finish your ses sion you can find the benchmark output data in a file on your player battery bench txt Please submit your results to the Rockbox wiki BatteryRuntime THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 112 How it works After you load the plug in the operation of your player continues as normal You can do whatever you could do before loading the plugin except loading another plugin If you happen to load a plugin while benchmarking a splash screen will inform you about the termination of the benchmark While you operate it will log various battery related information every time the disk is activated by external causes buffer refill open di
81. ch following pages as are needed to hold legibly the material this License requires to appear in the title page For works in formats which do not have any title page as such Title Page means the text near the most prominent appearance of the work s title preceding the beginning of the body of the text A section Entitled XYZ means a named subunit of the Document whose title either THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 151 is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following text that translates XYZ in another language Here XYZ stands for a specific section name mentioned below such as Acknowledgements Dedications Endorsements or History To Pre serve the Title of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a section Entitled XYZ according to this definition The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which states that this License applies to the Document These Warranty Disclaimers are considered to be included by reference in this License but only as regards disclaiming warranties any other implication that these Warranty Disclaimers may have is void and has no effect on the meaning of this License 2 VERBATIM COPYING You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium either commercially or noncommercially provided that this License the copyright notices and the license no tice saying this License appli
82. comma separated so you can quite easily import it to a spreadsheet program 10 4 2 Calculator Figure 10 38 Calculator This is a simple scientific calculator for use on the player It works like a standard calculator Pressing the 1st and 2nd buttons will toggle between other available math functions THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 114 Key Action Left Right Up Move around the keypad Down Navi Select a button Rec Delete last entered digit or clear after cal culation A B Cycle through the 4 basic operators Play Calculate Stop Quit 10 4 3 Chess Clock Player 1 00 16 09 56 Figure 10 39 Chess Clock The chess clock plugin is designed to simulate a chess clock but it can be used in any kind of game with up to ten players Setup Key Action Right Left Increase decrease displayed Value Play Move to next screen Stop Move to previous screen e First enter the number of players 1 10 e Then set the total game time in mm ss e Then the maximum round time is entered For example this could be used to play Scrabble for a maximum of 15 minutes each with each round taking no longer than one minute THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 115 e Done Player 1 starts in paused mode While playing The number of the current player is displayed on the top line The time below is the time remaining for that round and possibly also the total t
83. configuration Time Demo Runa timed demo to test game speed on a player Only runs on Doom Shareware Player Bobbing Enable or Disable player up Down movement Translucency Enable or Disable sprite translucency Fireballs Plasma Fake Contrast Enable or Disable modified game lighting Always Run Make the player always run Headsup Display Show the player status when in fullscreen Statusbar Always Red Disable color response statusbar InGame Main Menu This menu can only be accessed from within a running game and is displayed by pressing Stop New Game Start anew game Options In game options Load Game Load a saved game Save Game Save the current game Quit Quit the game InGame Options Menu This menu has the folloing options Keys End Game Ends the current game Messages Enable or Disable in game messages Screen Size Shrink or Enlarge the displayed portion of the game Gamma Change the brightness Gamma of the game Sound Volume Change the sound music and system volume Note In game music is not currently supported Key Action Up Move Forward Down Down Left Turn Left Right Turn Right Rec Shoot A B Open Stop Escape Navi Enter Play Change Weapon THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 78 Playing the game After installation of the wad files is complete you can start the game 10 1 8 Flipit 00000 00000 00000 Figure 10 6 Flipit Flipping the colour
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85. d Stop Quit 10 2 13 VU meter VU Meter d Left q Right Figure 10 35 VU Meter This is a VU meter which displays the volume of the left and right audio channels There are 3 types of meter selectable The analogue meter is a classic needle style The digital meter is modelled after LED volume displays and the mini meter option allows for the display of small meters in addition to the main display as above From the settings menu the decay time for the meter its memory the meter type and the meter scale can be changed Key Action Stop Save settings and quit Play Help Navi Settings Up Raise Volume Down Lower Volume 10 3 Viewers Viewers are plugins which are associated with specific file extensions They cannot be run directly but are started by playing the associated file Viewers are stored in the rockbox rocks viewers directory THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 102 10 3 1 Shortcuts The Shortcuts Plugin allows you to jump to places within the file browser without hav ing to navigate there manually The plugin works with link files A link file is just a text file with every line containing the name of the file or the directory you want to quickly jump to All names should be full absolute names i e they should start with a Directory names should also end with a How to create link files You can use your favourite text editor to create a 1ink file on the PC an
86. d on their own line B 2 1D3 Info Tag Description Sia 103 Artist Sic 103 Composer Sid 103 Album Name Sig 103 Genre Name in 103 Track Number it 103 Track Title Siv 1103 Version 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 or empty if no id3 tag Siy 103 Year Remember that this information is not always available so use the conditionals to show alternate information in preference to assuming THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xXx APPENDIX B WPS TAGS 130 B 3 Power Related Information Tag Description b1 Show numeric battery level in percent Can also be used in a conditional 3 b1 lt 1 0 1 2 N gt Where the 1 value is used when the battery level isn t known it usually is sbv Show the battery level in volts sbt Show estimated battery time left Sbp p if the charger is connected only on targets that can charge batteries sbc c if the unit is currently charging the battery only on targets that have software charge control or monitoring bs Sleep timer Shows the remaining time if the sleeptimer is set B 4 File Info Tag Description fb File Bitrate in kbps sfc File Codec e g MP3 or FLAC This tag can also be used in a conditional tag 3 c lt mp1 mp2 mp3 aiff wav vorbis flac mpcl a52 wavpacklalac aac shn sidjadx 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
87. d to be a conse quence of the rest of this License If the distribution and or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries ei ther by patents or by copyrighted interfaces the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribu tion limitation excluding those countries so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded In such case this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and or new versions of the General Public License from time to time Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns Each version is given a distinguishing version number If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and any later version you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation If the Program does not specify a version number of this License you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different write to the author to ask for permission For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation write to the Free
88. duced to eliminate the gap The graphic below illustrates how the different settings work in practice Crossfade iS Fade Out Delay 35 Lp _ Fade Out Duration 6s i Volume dB J Start of crossfade i i Fade In Duration 6s sp Fade In Delay 1s Time Track 1 Track 2 Replaygain This allows you to control the replaygain function The purpose of replay gain is to adjust the volume of the music played so that all songs or albums de pending on your settings have the same apparent volume This prevents sudden THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 53 changes in volume when changing between songs recorded at different volume levels For replaygain to work the songs must have been processed by a program that adds replaygain information to the ID3 tags or Vorbis tags Note APEv2 tags are not currently supported Options for replaygain are Enable Replaygain This turns on off the replaygain function Prevent Clipping Avoid clipping of a song s waveform If a song would clip dur ing playback the volume is lowered for that song Replaygain information is needed for this to work Replaygain Type Choose the type of replaygain to apply Album Gain Maintain a constant volume level between albums but keep any intentional volume variations between songs in an album If album gain val
89. e n is a number in the begin ning of a link file will leave just the last n segments of the entries when they are shown For example if n is chosen to be 1 then the entry MyMusic collection song mp3 will be shown as song mp3 This allows you to hide common path prefixes You can also provide a custom display name for each entry individually To do so append a tabulator character after the entry s path followed by your custom name That name will then be used for showing the entry For example EXAMPLE MyMusic collection song mp3 lt TAB gt My favourite song THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 103 10 3 2 Chip 8 Emulator Chip8 is a kind of assembly language for a long gone architecture This plugin runs games written using the chip8 instructions To start a game open a ch8 file in the FILE BROWSER There are lots of tiny Chip8 games usually only about 256 bytes to a couple of KB which were made popular by the HP48 calculator s emulator for them The origi nal Chip8 had 64x32 pixel graphics and the new superchip emulator supports 128x64 graphics The only problem is that they are based on a 4x4 keyboard but since most games do not use all of the buttons this can easily be worked around To do this one may put a c8k file with the same name as the original program which contains new key mappings for BLINKY ch8 one writes a BLINKY c8k file That c8k file contains 16 characters describing t
90. e player and upon restarting take a few minutes to scan the drive After this the directory cache will work in the background 7 6 4 Idle Poweroff Rockbox can be configured to turn off power after the unit has been idle for a defined number of minutes The player is idle when playback is stopped or paused It is not idle while the USB or charger is connected or while recording Settings are either OFF or 1 to 10 minutes in 1 minute steps Then 15 30 45 and 60 minutes are available 7 6 5 Limits This sub menu relates to limits in the Rockbox operating system Max Entries in File Browser This setting controls the limit on the number of files that you can put in any particular directory in the file browser You can configure the size to be between 50 and 10 000 files in steps of 50 The default is 400 Higher values will shorten the music buffer so you should increase this setting only if you have directories with a large number of files Max Playlist Size This setting controls the maximum size of a playlist The playlist size can be between 1 000 and 32 000 files in steps of 1 000 default is 10 000 Higher values will shorten the music buffer so you should increase this setting only if you have very large playlists 7 6 6 Car Adapter Mode This option turns ON and OFF the car ignition auto stop function Car Adapter Mode When using the player in a car CAR ADAPTER MODE automati cally stops playback on the player when power i e f
91. ecord Time Clear Recording Directory a Clipping Light Figure 9 1 The recording settings screen Note To change the location where recordings are stored open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 on the directory where you want to store them in the FILE BROWSER and select SET AS RECORDING DIRECTORY 9 1 Format Choose which format to save your recording in The available choices are the two uncompressed formats PCM WAVE and AIFF the losslessly compressed WAVPACK and the lossy MPEG LAYER 3 9 2 Encoder Settings This sets the bitrate when using the MPEG LAYER 3 format And has no settings for the other formats 9 3 Frequency Choose the recording frequency sample rate 44 1kHz 22 05kHz and 11 025kHz are available Higher sample rates use up more disk space but give better sound quality Note The 11 025kHz setting is not available when using MPEG LAYER 3 format Note You cannot change the sample rate for digital recordings THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx DD CHAPTER 9 RECORDING SETTINGS 67 9 4 Source Choose the source of the recording The options are SPDIF DIGITAL MIC and LINE IN For recording from the radio see section 5 9 page 41 9 5 Channels This allows you to select mono or stereo recording Please note that for mono recording only the left channel is recorded Mono recordings are usually somewhat smaller than stereo 9 6 File Split Options This sub menu contains options for file sp
92. edefined available values you can press Long Navi and the selection cursor will jump to the default value for the parameter You can then confirm or cancel the value This is useful if you have changed the value of the parameter from the default to some other value and would like to restore the default value 5 7 1 Sound Settings The SOUND SETTINGS menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to customise your listening experience The details of this menu are covered in section 6 page 44 5 7 2 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 7 page 50 5 7 3 Manage Settings The MANAGE SETTINGS option allows the saving and re loading of user configuration settings browsing the hard drive for alternate firmwares and finally resetting your player back to initial configuration The details of this menu are covered in section 11 3 page 124 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 8 page 64 5 7 5 Recording Settings The RECORDING SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to recording The details of this menu are covered in detail in section 9 page 66 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 40 5 8 Recording 5 8 1 While Recording Screen
93. eft Right Move about the virtual keyboard moves Up Down the solid cursor Play Left or Play Move the line cursor within the text line Right Navi Inserts the selected keyboard letter at the current cursor position Stop Exits the virtual keyboard without sav ing any changes Play Exits the virtual keyboard and saves any changes Rec Deletes the character before the line cur sor Play A B Enters Morse input mode Navi Tap to select a character in Morse input 4 2 Database 4 2 1 Introduction mode This chapter describes the Rockbox music database system Using the information con tained in the tags ID3v1 ID3v2 Vorbis Comments Apev2 etc in your audio files Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music files on your player and allows THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 26 you to browse them by Artist Album Genre Song Name etc The criteria the database uses to sort the songs can be completely customised More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at DataBase 4 2 2 Initializing the Database The first time you use the database Rockbox will scan your disk for audio files This can take quite a while depending on the number of files on your player This scan happens in the background so you can choose to return to the Main Menu and continue to listen to music If you shut down your player the scan will continue next time you turn
94. emaining time until shutdown Again as with Level above this column can be used to see differences between real time left and estimated time left This could help make time left more accurate Voltage The battery voltage the moment the measurement was captured Measure ments are captured when this number changes while benchmarking This column can be used to give quite interesting graphs in a spreadsheet program Excel Calc e t c THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 113 M DA Measurements per Disk Activity The number of measurements stored tem porarily in memory before written on the log file This can give you an idea of how many voltage changes there are between disk activity or one hour C Stands for Charger An A in that column shows if there was the power adapter attached to the unit at the time of the measurement S The S column shows the state of the device Charging or not The C indicated that the unit was charging when the measurement was captured USB powered Only for targets that support this A U will indicate if the unit was using the USB port for powering Making graphs While you can tell how long your battery lasted with a single look at the last line of the battery log battery bench txt the most useful purpose of Battery Benchmark is to make graphs using a spreadsheet program like Excel or Calc The battery log battery_bench txt is in CSV format
95. ep_all bmp 16 64 Sx1 d rep_one bmp 16 64 Sxlle rep_shuffle bmp 16 64 mm lt xdb xdc xdd xde gt Four images at the same x and y position are preloaded in the example Which image to display is determined by the mm tag the repeat mode Example File EXAMPLE s in lt sin gt it lt it Sfn gt S ia lt iat id lt id gt gt pb pc pt That is tracknum title artist album where most fields are only displayed if avail able Could also be rendered as filename or tracknum title artist 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 configura tion files A configuration file is simply a text file with the extension cfg A configuration file may reside anywhere on the disk Multiple configuration files are permitted So for example you could have a car cfg file for the settings that you use while playing your jukebox in your car and a headphones cfg file to store the settings that you use while listening to your player through headphones See section 11 3 2 page 124 below for an explanation of the format for configuration files See section 11 3 3 page 125 for an explanation of how to create edit and load configuration files 11 3 2 Specifications for cfg Files The Rockbox configuration file is a plain text file so once you use the SAVE CFG FILE option to cre
96. eparate package and thus need to be installed separately They are not required to run Rockbox itself but a lot of themes require the fonts package to be installed Themes The view of Rockbox can be customized by themes Depending on your taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox 2 2 Prerequisites Before installing Rockbox you should make sure you meet the prerequisites You may need some additional tools for installation In most cases these will already be available on your computer but if not installing some additional software might be necessary USB connection To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your computer For manual installation uninstallation or should autodetection fail THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 12 during automatic installation you need to know where to access the player On Windows this means you need to figure out the drive letter associated with the player On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player For manual installation and customization additional software is required ZIP utility Rockbox is distributed as a compressed archive using the zip format Your computer will normally already have a means of handling such archive files Windows XP has built in support for zip files and presents them to you as directories unless you have installed a third party program that handles com pressed files For o
97. er Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into effect after a reboot See section 7 9 page 62 for details on voice settings 2 4 Running Rockbox Remove your player from the computer s USB port Unplug any connected power supply and turn the unit off When you next turn the unit on Rockbox should load When you see the Rockbox splash screen Rockbox is loaded and ready for use 2 5 Updating Rockbox Updating Rockbox is easy even if you do not use the Rockbox Utility Download a Rockbox build The latest release of the Rockbox software will always be available from http www rockbox org download Unzip the build to the root directory of your player like you did in the installation stage If your unzip program asks you whether to overwrite files choose the Yes to all option The new build will be installed over your current build Note If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed com ponents 2 6 Uninstalling Rockbox Note The Rockbox bootloader allows you to choose between Rockbox and the original firmware See section 3 1 3 page 19 for more information 2 6 1 Automatic Uninstallation You can uninstall Rockbox automatically by using Rockbox Utility If you installed Rockbox manually you can still use Rockbox Utility for uninstallation but will not be THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 17 able to do this selectively Note Rockbox Utility cannot u
98. er and model names are proper nouns and thus are written beginning with a capital letter This manual has some parts that are marked with icons on the margin to help you finding important parts or parts you could skip The following icons are used Note This indicates a note A note starts always with the text Note For easier finding of notes we have put this an icon in the margin like here Notes are used to mark infor mation that could help you or indicate a possible weirdness in rockbox that would be explained Warning This is a warning In contrast to notes mentioned above a warning should be taken more seriously While ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage ignoring warnings could cause serious damage If you are new to rockbox you should really read the warnings before doing anything that is warned about This icon marks a section that is intended especially for the blind and visually im paired As they cannot read the manual in the same way sighted people do we have added some additional descriptions If you are not blind or visually impaired you most likely can completely skip these blocks To make this easier there is an icon shown in the margin on the right Links to the wiki are abbreviated by the name of the wiki page Those names are still linked so you can simply follow them like any other link in this manual If you want to access a wiki page manually go to gt http www rockbox org wiki and type the
99. er food it can grow by one pixel One piece of food lasts for 7 steps After your worm has moved 7 steps the food is used up If another piece of food is eaten while growing it will increase the size of the worm for another 7 steps Crashed This indicates that a worm has crashed against a wall Argh If the score board entry displays Argh it means the worm is dead because it tried to eat an argh Until we can make the worm say Argh it is your job to say Argh aloud Wormed The worm tried to eat another worm or even itself That s why it is dead now Making traps for other players with a worm is a good way to get them out of the game Hints e Initially you will be busy with controlling your worm Try to avoid other worms and crawl far away from them Wait until they curl up themselves and collect the food afterwards Don t worry if the other worms grow longer than yours you can catch up after they ve died e When you are more experienced watch the tactics of other worms Those worms controlled by artificial stupidity head straight for the nearest piece of food Let the other worm have its next piece of food and head for the food it would probably THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 94 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 mo
100. ered portion of the signal from the right channel into the left channel and vice versa in order to simulate the spatial cues that the ear and brain receive when listening to a set of loudspeakers placed in front of the listener The result is a more natural stereo image that can be especially appreciated in older rock and jazz records where one instrument is often hard panned to just one of the speakers Many people will find such records tiring to listen to using earphones and no crossfeed effect Crossfeed has the following settings Crossfeed Selects whether the crossfeed effect is to be enabled or not Direct Gain How much the level of the audio that travels the direct path from a speaker to the corresponding ear is supposed to be decreased Cross Gain How much the level of the audio that travels the cross path from a speaker to the opposite ear is to be decreased High Frequency Attenuation How much the upper frequencies of the cross path au dio will be dampened Note that the total level of the higher frequencies will be a combination of both this setting and the CROSS GAIN setting High Frequency Cutoff Decides at which frequency the cross path audio will start to be cut by the amount described by the HIGH FREQUENCY ATTENUATION setting Most users will find the default settings to yield satisfactory results but for the more adventurous user the settings can be fine tuned to provide a virtual speaker placement suited to ones prefe
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103. esent in one line but they need to be in the order left center right If the aligned texts overlap they are merged B 14 Conditional Tags Tag Description xx lt true false gt If Else Evaluate for true or false case xx lt altllalt2 alt3 else gt Enumerations Evaluate for first second third last condition THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1Xx APPENDIX B WPS TAGS 135 B 15 Other Tags Tag Description 2 Display a 70 lt Display Display a gt Display a gt Display a 55 Indicate that the line should scroll Can occur anywhere in a line given that the text is displayed see conditionals above You can specify up to 10 scrolling lines Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as timers peak meters or progress bars THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1Xx APPENDIX C CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 136 C Config file options Setting Allowed Values Unit volume 84 to 0 dB bass 0 to 24 dB treble 0 to 6 dB balance 100 to 100 channels stereo mono custom mono left N A mono right karaoke stereo_width 0 to 250 shuffle on off N A repeat off all one shuffle ab N A play selected on off N A party mode on off N A scan min step 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 25 30 seconds 45 60 seek acceleration very fast fast normal slow very N A slow antiskip 5s 155 30s 1min 2min 3min N A 5min 10min volume fade on off N A
104. et without selecting anything Removing a preset Navi to go to the presets list Use Up and Down to move the cursor and then press Long Navi on the preset that you wish to remove then select REMOVE PRESET Note The radio will turn off when starting playback of an audio file 5 10 Playlist This menu allows you to work with playlists Playlists can be created in three ways Playing a file in a directory causes all the files in it to be placed in a playlist Playlists can be created manually by either using the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 or using the PLAYLIST menu Both automatically and manually created playlists can be edited using this menu Create Playlist Rockbox will create a playlist with all tracks in the current directory and all sub directories The playlist will be created one directory level up from where you currently are View Current Playlist Displays the contents of the playlist currently stored in mem ory Save Current Playlist Saves the current dynamic playlist excluding queued tracks to the specified file If no path is provided then playlist is saved to the current directory Playlist Catalog The PLAYLIST CATALOG provides a simple interface to maintain sev eral playlists see section 4 4 page 32 5 11 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
105. even the noise of the device itself would exceed this threshold immediately for at least The start duration defines the minimal duration that a signal must exceed the start threshold to start the recording Depending on your situation you may want to set this setting to 0 e g when copying a song from a commercial medium or to quite big values Because sound is not continuous by nature think of per cussion neglectable dropouts are tolerated during this start duration Stop Below When the sound level drops below the stop threshold the recording is stopped It is displayed numerically in the line Stop Below Just like the start threshold the unit of the stop threshold depends on the settings of the peak meter There s also a small triangular marker in the peak meter at the bottom of the screen In contrast to the start threshold marker it points to the left The value OFF turns the stop condition off With this setting you have to stop the recording manually for at least This time specifies the duration the signal must drop below the stop thresh old to stop the recording By selecting high values you can ensure that for exam ple trailing fade outs are recorded entirely Presplit Gap When the signal drops below the stop threshold for the time specified by the presplit gap a new recording may be started when the signal raises above the start threshold Thus the value of the presplit gap should be smaller than the stop hold time Othe
106. file the current position information will be added to the front of the existing list up to the maximum number of allowed bookmarks per file currently 10 If no bmark file exists one will be created with the new bookmark information Finally if the MAINTAIN A LIST OF RECENTLY USED BOOKMARKS option is enabled the bookmarking information will be added to recent bookmarks list Yes Recent Only Turns on automatic bookmarking One bookmark only Ask Recent Only Asks if a bookmark should be created when stopping track One bookmark only With the two RECENT ONLY options nothing is written to the bmark file If the MAINTAIN A LIST OF RECENTLY USED BOOKMARKS option is enabled the bookmarking information will however be added to recent bookmarks list Note The RESUME function remembers your position in the most recently ac cessed track regardless of how the BOOKMARK ON STOP option is set Load Last Bookmark When the LOAD LAST BOOKMARK option is set to YES Rock box automatically returns to the position of the last bookmark within a file when that file is played When the LOAD LAST BOOKMARK option is set to ASK Rockbox will give the user the option of starting from the beginning of the track of or from the bookmark When the LOAD LAST BOOKMARK option is set to NO playback always starts from the beginning of the track and the user must play the bookmark or use the LOAD BOOKMARK function in the Main Menu while the file is
107. forums rockbox org Another option are the mailing lists which can be found at http www rockbox org mail From that page you can subscribe to the lists and browse the archives For searching the list archives simply use the search field that is located on the left side of the website Also you can ask on IRC The main channel THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 10 for Rockbox is rockbox on irc irc freenode net A bunch of helpful developers and users are usually around Just join and ask if someone knows the answer you ll usu ally get an answer pretty quickly More information including IRC logs can be found at http www rockbox org irc We also have a web client for joining the rockbox IRC channel so there is no need for you to install additional software to your computer If you think you have found a bug please make sure it actually is a bug and is still present in the most recent version of rockbox You should try to confirm that by using the above mentioned support channels first After that you can submit that issue to our tracker Refer to section D page 141 for details on how to use the tracker 1 3 Naming conventions and marks We have some conventions especially on naming that are intended to be consistent throughout this manual Manufacturer and product names are formatted in accordance with the standard rules of English grammar e g Iriver playback is currently unsupported Manufac tur
108. fwpatchernu exe which is built without Unicode support 3 Go to your desktop and double click on whichever version of the firmware patcher you downloaded in the prior step 4 In the firmware patcher dialog box click on the BROWSE button and navigate to the hex file that you previously downloaded to your desktop 5 Click PATCH The firmware patcher will patch the original firmware to include the Rockbox bootloader The hex file on your desktop is now a modified version of the original hex file 6 Turn on your Iriver and connect it to your computer via USB 7 Copy or move the modified hex file directly to the root of your player s drive Do not put it inside a directory on your player 8 Disconnect the jukebox from USB Be sure to use Windows safely remove hard ware option Warning Before proceeding further make sure that your player has a full charge or that it is connected to the power adaptor Interrupting the next step due to a power failure most likely will brick your player 9 Update your player s firmware with the patched bootloader To do this turn the jukebox on Press and hold the Navi button to enter the main menu and navigate to GENERAL FIRMWARE UPGRADE Select YES when asked to confirm if you want to upgrade the firmware The Iriver will display a message indicating that the firmware update is in progress Do not interrupt this process When the firmware update is complete the player will
109. gt STIJN HISKEN gt BERTRIK SIKKEN Pb KARIM BOUCHER gt JAMES ESPINOZA Pb FRANZ RUHMLAND gt JORDAN ANDERSON gt MAURUS CUELE NAERE gt CHRIS ALLEGRETTA gt ALASTAIR S gt MARTIN CRKOVSKY Pb ARIYA HIDAYAT gt JONAS HURRELMANN gt LEE KANG HYUK gt CLEMENS WERTHER gt ROBERT MENES gt HENRI VALTA gt MELBA SITJAR gt MEHMET S CATALBAS gt SCOTT TINMAN gt ALEXAN DER KUZMENKOV Pb THOMAS MARTITZ gt PRAKARN SAHASOONTORNVUTE gt GEORGE TAMPLARU gt APOORVA MAHAJAN gt VUONG MINH HIEP gt MATEUSZ KUBICA gt FRANK GEVAERTS gt CHELO SACRIST N gt SASCHA WOLF gt NICKOLAY JORDANOV gt JOHANNES VOGGENTHALER gt MARC GUAY gt ALEX VANDERPOL P JERRY LANGE gt YOHANN MISQUITTA KEITH PERRI gt MARK FAW CUS gt IVAN PESIC gt MARCEL BARBULESCU gt PHIL LIGHT gt ROB PURCHASE gt ANDREAS MULLER gt CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS gt MAR TIN RITTER gt JUSTIN HANNIGAN gt TOMASZ WASILCZYK P KENJIRO ARAI gt JOHN KAM INAR gt JORIS GOOSEN Pb MARK GANSON gt DAVIDE GENTILE JAMES VASILE gt MO HAMED TAREK gt MIKE BURKE gt MICHAEL CHICOINE gt MACIEJ ADAMCZAK gt TOMER SHALEV gt THIBAUT GIRKA Pb RASMUS RY gt WILLIAM POETRA YOGA HADISOESENO gt ADRIAN OSOIANU P MARTIN PAHL gt ORI AVTALION gt THOMAS SCHOTT gt DENNIS IVANOV Pb TAKUMI SUZUKI Pb SHUNSUKE SHIMIZU gt TADAYUKI NISHIZONO P JUN GU gt DANIEL WECK gt CLEMENT PIT CLAUDEL gt JELLE GEERTS gt TADEUSZ PYS ROSTISLA
110. he battery being used has The default is 1300mAh which is the capacity value for the standard battery shipped with the player Rockbox uses this value to estimate remaining battery life for the info screen and WPS Changing this setting has no effect whatsoever on actual battery life This setting only affects the accuracy of the battery life estimation as shown on screen 7 6 3 Disk Options relating to the hard disk Disk Spindown Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it is idle for a certain amount of time This setting controls the amount of time between the last user activity and the time that the disk spins down This idle time is only affected by user activity like navigating through the FILE BROWSER When the hard disk spins up to fill the audio buffer it automatically spins down afterwards Directory Cache Rockbox has the ability to cache the contents of your drive in RAM The DIRECTORY CACHE takes a small amount of memory away from Rockbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 60 that would otherwise be used to buffer music but it speeds up navigation in the file browser by eliminating the slight pause between the time a navigation button is pressed and the time Rockbox responds Turning this setting on activates the directory cache and turning it off deactivates the directory cache Note The first time you enable the directory cache Rockbox will request a reboot of th
111. he mapping from the Chip8 keyboard to the default key mapping that way several Chip8 keys can be pressed using only one Rockbox key For example a file containing the single line CODE 0122458469ABCDEF would correspond to the following non default mappings 3 gt 2 6 gt 8 7 gt 4 8 gt 6 The default keymappings are Chip8 Off 0 1 2 3 4 5 67 89 A BC D E F a E PS o a a 3 2242 A Some places where can you can find 618 files e The PluginChip8 page on www rockbox org has several attached PluginChip8 e Check out the HP48 chip games section http www hpcalc org hp48 games chip e PC emulator by the guy who wrote the HP48 emulator http www pdc kth se lfo chip8 CHIP8 htm e Links to other chip8 emulators http www zophar net chip8 html 10 3 3 JPEG viewer Open a JPEG file in the FILE BROWSER to view it using Rockbox s greyscale library Note When an audio file is playing the size of the image is limited as the decoding THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 104 process needs to share memory with audio tracks To be able to view a bigger file you may need to stop playback Key Action Up Down Left Move around in zoomed in image Right Navi Zoom in A B Zoom out Play Next jpeg in directory Rec Previous jpeg in directory Stop Show menu The menu has the following entries Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the FIL
112. he voice file is the name of the language for which it is made followed by the extension voice So for English the file name would be english voice This option is on by default but will do nothing unless the appropriate voice file is installed in the correct place on the player The Voice Menus have several limi tations e Setting the Sound Option CHANNELS to KARAOKE may disable voice menus e Plugins do not support voice features Voice Directories This option controls voicing of directory names A voice file must be present for this to work Several options are available Spell Speak the directory name by spelling it out letter by letter Support is provided only for the most common letters numbers and punctuation Numbers Each directory is assigned a number based upon its position in the file list They are then announced as Directory 1 Directory 2 etc Off No attempt will be made to speak directory names You can use pre generated talk clips to have directory names spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below Use Directory talk Clips This option turns on the use of talk clips for directories On Use special pre recorded MP3 files dirname talk in each directory These must be generated in advance and are typically produced synthetically us ing a text to speech engine on a PC Off No checking is made for directory talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce di
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114. ic EQ may wish to use the presets instead of trying to configure the EQ or use the presets for designing their own custom EQ settings 6 9 Dithering This setting controls the dithering and noise shaping functionality of Rockbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 49 Most of Rockbox audio file decoders work at a higher bit depth than the 16 bits used for output on the player s audio connectors The simplest way to convert from one bit depth to another is simply discarding all the surplus bits This is the default behaviour and adds distortion to the signal that will vary in character along with the desired sound Dithering adds low level noise to the signal prior to throwing away the surplus bits which gives the resulting signal a uniform noise floor which is independent of the sig nal Most people find this noise preferable to the time varying noise heard when not performing dithering After dithering noise shaping is performed This basically just pushes the dithering noise to the parts of the frequency spectrum humans cannot hear so easily In Rockbox case some of the noise is pushed up to above 10 kHz This setting will be put to its best use when listening to dynamic music with fre quently occuring quiet parts classical music being a typical example It is worth noting that the effects of dithering and noise shaping are very subtle and not easily noticable Rockbox uses highpass triangular dis
115. icense If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all For example if a patent license would not permit royalty free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims this section has the THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 161 10 11 sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system which is implemented by public license practices Many people have made gen erous 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 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 believe
116. id3 tag priority v2 v1 v1 v2 N A sort case on off N A show files all supported music playlists N A show filename exts off on unknown view _all N A follow playlist on off N A playlist viewer icons on off N A playlist viewer indices on off N A playlist viewer track display track name full path N A recursive directory insert on off ask N A scroll speed 1 to 25 Hz scroll delay 0 to 2500 ms scroll step pixels screen scroll step pixels Screen Scrolls Out Of View on off N A bidir limit 0 to 200 screen scroll paginated on off N A hold_lr_for_scroll_in_list on off N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX C CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 137 Setting Allowed Values Unit show path in browser off current directory full path N A contrast 0 to 63 N A backlight timeout off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 seconds 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight timeout plugged off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 seconds 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight filters first keypress on off N A backlight on button hold normal off on N A caption backlight on off N A brightness N A disk spindown 3 to 254 seconds battery capacity mAh car adapter mode on off N A idle poweroff off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 30 minutes 45 60 max files in playlist 1000 32000 N A max files in dir 50 10000 N A lang path filename Ing N A wps path filename wps N A autocreate bookmarks off on N A autoload bookmarks off on N
117. ight will be turned on and stay on while the Hold switch is engaged Caption Backlight This option turns on the backlight a number of seconds be fore the start of a new track and keeps it on for the same number of seconds after the beginning so that the display can be read to see song information The amount of time is determined by the value of the backlight timeout set ting but is no less than 5 seconds Backlight Fade In The amount of time that the backlight will take to fade from off to on after a button is pressed If set to OFF the backlight will turn on immediately with no fade in Can also be set to 500MS 15 or 2S Backlight Fade Out Like Backlight fade in this controls the amount of time that the backlight will take to fade from on to off after a button is pressed If set to OFF the backlight will turn off immediately with no fade out Other valid values 500MS 15 25 35 45 5S or 10S First Keypress Enables Backlight Only With this option enabled the first key press while the backlight is turned off will only turn the backlight on without having any other effect When disabled the first keypress will also perform its appropriate action Contrast Changes the contrast of your LCD display Warning Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to find this menu option again LCD Mode This setting lets you invert the colours of the display Upside Down Displays the screen so that the top of the display is ne
118. ime left if different Keys are as follows Key Action Navi Exit plugin Stop Restart round for the current player Play Pause the time press again to continue Right Switch to next player Left Switch to previous player Rec Open menu Play to select From the menu it is possible to delete a player modify the round time for the current player or set the total time for the game When the round time is up for a player the message ROUND UP is shown press NEXT to continue When the total time is up for a player the message TIME UP is shown The player will then be removed from the timer 10 4 4 Disk Tidy Disk Tidy deletes junk files left behind by Windows Linux or OS X after a USB connec tion Select the OS s files you want to delete in the Files to Clean menu and select Start Cleaning to begin to process The settings are stored in rockbox rocks apps disktidy config in a plain text file that is user modifiable to allow more entries to be added Available Options All selects all Linux OS X and Windows files None deselects all file options Linux selects Linux files Default files are dolphinview d3lphinview and Trash x Windows selects Windows files Default files are Thumbs db RECYCLE BIN Desktop ini Recycledand System Volume Information Mac selects OS X files Default files are _ DS_Store and Trashes Other selects additional files added in by the user TH
119. in the MAIN MENU The created playlist will be named root m3u and saved in the root of your player s disk 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist a SD Play list Insert Next Insert Last Insert Shuffled Queue Queue Next Queue Last Queue Shuffled Play Next Figure 4 5 The Playlist Submenu The PLAYLIST SUBMENU is a submenu in the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 it allows you to put tracks into a dynamic playlist If there is no music currently play ing Rockbox will create a new dynamic playlist and put the selected track s into it If there is music currently playing Rockbox will put the selected track s into the cur rent playlist The place in which the newly selected tracks are added to the playlist is determined by the following options Insert Add track s immediately after any tracks added via the most recent INSERT operation If no tracks have yet been added via an INSERT new tracks will be added immediately after the current playing track If playback is stopped a new dynamic playlist will get created with the selected tracks Insert Next Add track s immediately after current playing track no matter what else has been inserted Insert Last Add track s to end of playlist THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 35 Insert Shuffled Add track s to the playlist in a random order Queue Queue is the same a
120. instructions will explain how to download and patch the Iriver firmware with the Rockbox bootloader and install it on your jukebox 1 Download a supported version of the Iriver firmware for your Iriver iHP100 iHP115 iHP120 iHP140 H120 and H140 from the Iriver website links can be found on ssIriverBoot Supported Iriver firmware versions currently include 1 63US 1 63EU 1 63K 1 65US 1 65EU 1 65K 1 66US 1 66EU and 1 66K Note that the H140 uses the same firmware as the H120 H120 and H140 owners should use the firmware called ihp_120 hex Likewise the iHP110 and iHP115 use the same firmware called ihp_100 hex Be sure to use the correct firmware file for your player If the file that you downloaded is a zip file use an unzip utility like mentioned in the prerequisites section to extract the hex from the zip file to THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 15 your desktop Likewise if the file that you downloaded is an exe file double click on the exe file to extract the hex file to your desktop When running Linux you should be able extracting exe files using unzip 2 Download the firmware patcher fwpat cher exe from http download rockbox org bootloader iriver and save it to your desktop Warning The firmware patcher contains Unicode support which is not sup ported by all versions of Windows If you have difficulty with the firmware patcher try downloading the alternate firmware patcher
121. it on After the scan is finished you may be prompted to restart your player before you can use the database Ignoring Directories During Database Initialization You may have directories on your player whose contents should not be added to the database Placing a file named database ignore in a directory will exclude the files in that directory and all its subdirectories from scanning their tags and adding them to the database This will speed up the database initialization If a subdirectory of an ignored directory should still be scanned place a file named database unignore in it The files in that directory and its subdirectories will be scanned and added to the database 4 2 3 The Database Menu Load To RAM The database can either be kept on disk to save memory or loaded into RAM for fast browsing Setting this to YES loads the database to RAM allowing faster browsing and searching Setting this option to NO keeps the database on the disk meaning slower browsing but it does not use extra RAM and saves some battery on boot up Note If you browse your music frequently using the database you should load Xy to RAM as this will reduce the overall battery consumption because the disk will not need to spin on each search Auto Update If AUTO UPDATE is set to ON each time the player boots the database will automatically be updated Note The AUTO UPDATE will only check for deleted files if the DIRECTORY CACHE SETTINGS
122. ive permis sion to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Mod ified Version THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 154 5 COMBINING DOCUMENTS You may combine the Document with other documents released under this License under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified versions provided that you include in the combination all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original documents unmodified and list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license notice and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers The combined work need only contain one copy of this License and multiple identi cal Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single copy If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but different contents make the title of each such section unique by adding at the end of it in parentheses the name of the original author or publisher of that section if known or else a unique number Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work In the combination you must combine any sections Entitled History in the vari ous original documents forming one section Entitled History likewise combine any sections Entitled Acknowledgements and any sections Entitled Dedications You must delete all sections Entitled Endorsements 6 COLL
123. k that the feature has not already been implemented Download the latest current daily build and or search the mail list archive 3 Check that the feature is possible to implement see section D 2 2 page 142 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX D USER FEEDBACK 142 D 2 2 Features we will not implement This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do View it as the opposite of a TODO e Interfacing with other USB devices like cameras or 2 player games over USB The USB system demands that there is a master that talks to a slave The player can only serve as a slave as most other USB devices such as cameras can Thus without a master no communication between the slaves can take place If that is not enough we have no ways of actually controlling the communication per formed 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 communi cation to work e Support other file systems than FAT32 like NTFS or ext2 or whatever No support for more file systems will just take away valuable ram for unneces sary features You can partition your player fine just make sure the first one is FAT32 and then make the other ones whatever file system you want Just do not expect Rockbox to understand them e Add scandisk like features It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a l
124. keys Left Right Play A button Stop B button Rec Start Navi Select Hold switch Cycle display scaling modes A B Open Rockboy menu Rockboy menu Load Game Loads a previously saved game Save Game Saves your current state Options Max Frameskip Change frameskip setting to improve speed Sound Toggle sound on or off Stats Toggle showing fps and current frameskip Set Keys BUGGY Select this option to set a new keymapping Quit RockBoy Quits the Rockboy plugin 10 3 7 Search This plugin can be used on playlists It searches through the playlist that it opened on looking for any occurrences of the string entered by the user The results of this search are saved to a new playlist search_results m3u within the same directory as the original playlist 10 3 8 Sort This plugin takes a file and sorts it in ascending alphabetical order Case is ignored This is useful for ordering playlists generated by the CREATE PLAYLIST menu option see section 5 10 page 42 10 3 9 Text Viewer This is a Viewer for text files with word wrap Just open a txt file to display it The text viewer features controls to handle various styles of text formatting has top of file and THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 108 bottom of file buttons You can view files without a t xt extension by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 23 Key Action Up Scroll up Down Scroll down
125. l progressively mix the con tents of one channel into the other This has the effect of gradually centering the stereo image until you have monophonic sound at 0 Values above 100 will progressively remove components in one channel that is also present in the other This has the effect of widening the stereo field A value of 100 will leave the stereo field unaltered 6 7 Crossfeed Crossfeed attempts to make the experience of listening to music on headphones more similar to listening to music with stereo speakers When you listen to music through THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 46 speakers each ear will hear sound originating from both speakers However the sound from the left speaker reaches your right ear slightly later than it does your left ear and vice versa The human ear and brain together are very good at interpreting the time differences between direct sounds and reflected sounds and using that information to identify the direction that the sound is coming from On the other hand when listening to head phones each ear hears only the stereo channel corresponding to it The left ear hears only the left channel and the right ear hears only the right channel The result is that sound from headphones does not provide the same spatial cues to your ear and brain as speakers and might for that reason sound unnatural to some listeners The crossfeed function uses an algorithm to feed a delayed and filt
126. le Options for crossfade settings are THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 52 Enable Crossfade If set to OFF crossfade is disabled If set to ALWAYS songs will always crossfade into one another If set to SHUFFLE crossfade is en abled when the shuffle feature is set to YES but disabled otherwise If set to track skip only tracks will only crossfade when you manually change tracks Fade In Delay The fade in delay is the length of time between when the cross fade process begins and when the new track begins to fade in Fade In Duration The length of time in seconds that it takes your music to fade in once the FADE IN DELAY has ended Fade Out Delay The fade out delay is the length of time between when the crossfade process begins and when the old track begins to fade out Fade Out Duration The length of time in seconds that it takes your music to fade out once the FADE OUT DELAY has ended Fade Out Mode If set to CROSSFADE one song will fade out and the next song will simultaneously fade in If set to MIX the ending song will continue to play as normal until its end while the starting song will fade in from under it MIX mode is not used for manual track skips even if it is selected here Note The rules above apply except in the instance where FADE OUT DELAY plus FADE OUT DURATION is less then FADE IN DELAY which would create a gap in the audio In this case the FADE IN DELAY is re
127. litting which can be used to split up long recordings into manageable pieces The splits are seamless frame accurate no audio is lost at the split point The break between recordings is only the time required to stop and restart the recording on the order of 2 4 seconds Split Measure This option controls wether to split the recording when the SPLIT FILE SIZE is reached or when the SPLIT TIME has elapsed What to do when Splitting This controls what will happend when the splitting con dition is fullfilled the two available options here are START A NEW FILE or STOP RECORDING Split Time Set the time to record between each split if time is used as SPLIT MEASURE Options hours minutes between splits Off 00 05 00 10 00 15 00 30 1 00 1 14 74 minute CD 1 20 80 minute CD 2 00 4 00 8 00 10 00 12 00 18 00 24 00 Split Filesize Set the filesize to record between each split if filesize is used as SPLIT MEASURE 9 7 Prerecord Time This setting buffers a small amount of audio so that when the record button is pressed the recording will begin from that number of seconds earlier This is useful for ensuring that a recording begins before a cue that is being waited for 9 8 Clear Recording Directory Resets the location where the recorded files are saved to the root of your player s drive THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 9 RECORDING SETTINGS 68 9 9 Clipping Light Causes the backlight to flash
128. lives Luckily there are checkpoints at levels four and eight Key Action Up Down Left Move Character Right Stop Menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 80 10 1 11 Minesweeper 44 Figure 10 9 Minesweeper plugin The classic game of minesweeper Use the Up and Down keys to select the required percentage of mines to set the difficulty then press the Navi key to begin The aim of the game is to uncover all of the squares on the board If a mine is un covered 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 Move the cursor across the minefield Right Play Rec Toggle flag on off Navi Reveal the contents of the current square A B Display the current game status Stop Exit the game 10 1 12 Pacbox Figure 10 10 Pacbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 81 Pacbox is an emulator of the Pacman arcade machine hardware It is a port of PIE Pacman Instructional Emulator http www ascotti org programming pie pie htm ROMs To use the emulator to play Pacman you need a copy of ROMs for Midway Pacman Filename pacman 5e pacm
129. minal target peak level of 7dB and will quickly increase or decrease gain to reach it 9 12 AGC clip time This setting controls how long the level is too loud or soft before the AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL kicks in THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 71 10 Plugins Plugins are programs that Rockbox can load and run Only one plugin can be loaded at a time Plugins have exclusive control over the user interface This means you cannot switch back and forth between a plugin and Rockbox When a plugin is loaded you need to exit it to return to the Rockbox interface Most plugins will not interfere with music playback but some of them will stop playback while running Plugins have the file extension rock Most of them can be started from BROWSE PLUGINS in the MAIN MENU Viewer plugins get started automatically by opening an associated file i e text files chip8 games or from the OPEN WITH option on the CONTEXT MENU 10 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 10 3 2 page 103 and Rockboy in section 10 3 6 page 106 10 1 1 Blackjack Dealer Money 990 Bet re Player Total 24 Figure 10 1 Blackjack Blackjack a game played in casinos around the world is now available in the palm of your hand The rules are simple try to get as close to 21 without going over or simply beat out the dealer for the best hand Although this may not seem difficult blackjack is a game renowned for
130. minate your rights under this License However parties who have received copies or rights from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance 10 FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE The Free Software Foundation may publish new revised versions of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns See http www gnu org copyleft Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number If the Docu ment specifies that a particular numbered version of this License or any later version applies to it you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or of any later version that has been published not as a draft by the Free Software Foundation If the Document does not specify a version number of this License you may choose any version ever published not as a draft by the Free Software Foundation ADDENDUM How to use this License for your documents To use this License in a document you have written include a copy of the License in the document and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 156 Copyright YEAR YOUR NAME Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document u
131. n or off Graphical EQ This option brings up a graphic EQ screen which allows adjustment of each of the three parameters described above gain center frequency and Q for each of the five EQ bands Key Action Up Raises the highlighted parameter Down Lowers the highlighted parameter Left Moves to the previous EQ band Right Moves to the next EQ band Navi Toggles the cursor among the three pa rameters gain center frequency Q for the selected EQ band A B Exits the graphic EQ screen Pre cut If too much gain is added through the graphical EQ your music may distort The PRECUT setting allows you to adjust the overall gain of the EQ If your music distorts when using the EQ trying changing this setting to a nega tive value Simple EQ This option provides an easier alternative for those who are daunted by all of the parameters that can be adjusted using the graphical EQ With the SIMPLE EQ the only parameter that can be adjusted is the gain Advanced EQ This sub menu provides options for adjusting the same parameters as the GRAPHICAL EQ The only difference is that the parameters are adjusted through textual menus rather than through a graphic interface Save EQ Preset This option saves the current EQ configuration ina cfg file Browse EQ Presets This menu displays a list of EQ presets as well as any EQ con figurations saved using the SAVE EQ PRESET option Users unfamiliar with the operation of a parametr
132. n the Rockbox website mLangFiles 11 1 4 Loading Backdrops Rockbox supports showing an image as a backdrop in the FILE BROWSER and the menus The backdrop image must be a bmp file of the exact same dimensions as the display in your player 160x128x2 with the last number giving the colour depth in bits To use an image as a backdrop browse to it in the FILE BROWSER and open the CON TEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 on it and select the option SET AS BACKDROP If you want rockbox to remember your backdrop the next time you start your player the backdrop must be placed in the rockbox backdrops directory THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx A CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 121 11 2 Configuring the WPS 11 2 1 WPS General Info Description The WPS or While Playing Screen is the name used to describe the in formation displayed on the player s screen whilst an audio track is being played The default WPS is a relatively simple screen displaying Track name Artist Al bum etc in the default font as a purely text based layout There are a number of WPS files included in Rockbox and you can load one of these at anytime by selecting it in GENERAL SETTINGS DISPLAY gt BROWSE WPS FILES There is a related option to browse rwps files for player s with LCD remote controls in stalled This will load a similar WPS screen for the remote but with usually a simpler and more concise layout Note Playing a wps from
133. n 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 Navi or Right to select an item When browsing the file system selecting an audio file plays it The view switches to the While playing screen usually abbreviated as WPS see section 4 3 page 28 The dynamic playlist gets replaced with the contents of the current directory This way you can easily treat directories as playlists The created dynamic playlist can be extended or modified while playing This is also known as on the fly playlist To go back to the FILE BROWSER stop the playback with the Stop button or return to the file browser while keeping playback running using Navi In list views you can go back one step with Left 3 1 7 Basic concepts Playlists Rockbox is playlist oriented This means that every time you play an audio file a so called dynamic playlist is generated unless you play a saved playlist You can mod ify the dynamic playlist while playing and also save it to a file If you do not want to use playlists you can simply play your files directory based Playlists are covered in detail in section 4 4 page 32 Menu From the menu you can customise Rockbox Rockbox itself is very customisable Also there are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions Context Menu Some views especially the file browser and the WPS have a context menu From
134. n your player Create the directory and save the following files there rockdoom wad The Rockbox wad based on prboom wad from prboom 2 2 6 Your wad files Copy all Doom wads you wish to play into that directory The needed files can be found at sPluginDoom To play addon wads create the addons directory within the doom directory Place wad files in this directory Currently doom only supports a maximum number of 10 addons A free alternative for Doom 2 15 FreeDoom http freedoom sourceforge net This can be used in place of doom2 wad or it may be used as an addon in Doom by placing it in the addons directory Menus Rockdoom Menu The Rockdoom menu is shown when Doom is first launched This is the only time it can be accessed before starting the game To re adjust Rock doom options you will need to quit your current game and restart the plugin Main Menu The Doom plugin has a main menu which is brought up before a game is started It has the following entries Game Select which official wad to launch Addon Select which unofficial addon wad to launch From rockbox doom addons directory Demos Select which demo file to play on game start Options Configure low level Doom options Play Game Launch the wad addon Demo chosen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 77 Options Menu This menu has the following options Sound Enable or Disable sound in Doom Set Keys Change the game key
135. nce Battery Level When this option is enabled the battery level is announced when it falls under 50 30 and 15 See VoiceHowto for more details on configuring speech support in Rockbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 8 THEME SETTINGS 64 8 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu offers options that you can change to customize the visual apperance of Rockbox Browse Themes This option will display all the currently installed themes on the player press Navi or Right to load the chosen theme and apply it A theme is a configuration file stored in a specific directory that typically changes the WPS and remote WPS font used and on some platforms additional informa tion such as background image and text colours There are a number of themes that ship with Rockbox If none of these suit your needs many more can be downloaded from WpsIriverH100 Some of the downloads from this website will actually be standalone WPS files others will be full blown themes Note Themes do not have to be purely visual It is quite possible to create a theme that switches between audio configurations for use in the car with headphones and when connected to an external amplifier See section 11 2 2 page 121 for more details Browse Fonts Browse the installed fonts on your player Selecting one will activate it See section 11 1 2 page 120 for further details about fonts Browse WPS files Opens the FILE BROWSER in the
136. nder the terms of the GNU Free Documen tation License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Soft ware 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 IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 157 G 2 The GNU General Public License Version 2 June 1991 Copyright 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
137. ng REPEAT will have the trigger start multiple recordings Trigtype Add description of Trigtype Options STOP PAUSE NEW FILE Prerecord Time This specifies the time that is included into the recording before the trigger event occurs This is very useful if you record a signal that fades in Usu ally you want to set the prerecord time start duration That ensures that you record the entire sound Strictly speaking the prerecord time is not a special pa rameter of the trigger It is available during normal recordings too Start Above The start threshold defines the minimal volume a sound must have to start the recording It is displayed numerically in the line Start Above Note that the unit of the threshold depends on the settings of the peak meter i e When the peak meter displays db you can adjust the level in db and when the peak meter is set to linear the threshold is displayed as percentage In the peak meter at the bottom of the screen the start threshold is displayed graphically by a little triangle pointing to the right There are two special values The value OFF turns the start condition off With this setting you have to start the recording manually and the trigger only stops the recording according to the stop condition The setting INF sets the trigger to the absolute minimum This setting only makes sense when THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 9 RECORDING SETTINGS 69 you record via a digital input as
138. ng Rockbox Stans o oc eRe Bee OR ES 124 113 1 Introduction ctg Piles ees cats ecto eo BU auaa 124 11 32 opedncahons for Eg Piles osne secte ee bs Pa exe ees 124 113 3 The MANAGE SETTINGS menu eb ee eae 125 114 Firmware Loading sdo sees he oO ES AA BH amp amp 126 1141 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader 5444444444 126 A File formats 127 AL Supported fil eformals lt soss a ee ee e EEE A 127 A2 Supported audio formated lt lt lt cee Gee ee AAA AAA 128 B WPS Tags 129 Bl Status Bar rcu eye be ew a ee Ee Dee 129 B2 TDA AI 129 B 3 Power Related Information 130 Ba Bile nie lt 0 4 5 ose ey a aa a 130 BS Playlist Song NiO see eo ts oe AA AAA AA A 131 B6 Runtime Database 6606048404604 a a a e o bo de 131 B7 SOU US ie a ee a E 131 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CONTENTS 8 BS Hold Switches 132 BO 6 be ee ee ek a 132 B0 ESE cca Soe A mA A E ORS CEE AEE 132 B 11 Playback Mode Tags oo coocoo coace dore ria ete a e AA 132 LA A AA 133 B13 Alignment sp A E RRA a he ARA 134 BA Conditional Tags oce o SEG ie EGEESS 3 134 BIS Oer Te sk ee Be 135 C Config file options 136 D User feedback 141 LL ie PO ee eh aa a AAA a 141 D 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 141 D2 Feature ideas e ee a ce Rw A Te a 141 D 2
139. ninstall the bootloader due to the fact that it requires a flashing procedure To uninstall the bootloader completely follow the manual uninstal lation instructions below 2 6 2 Manual Uninstallation Note If you want to remove the Rockbox bootloader simply flash an unpatched Iriver firmware Be aware that doing so will also remove the bootloader USB mode As that mode can come in quite handy especially when having disk errors it is recommended to keep the bootloader It also gives you the possibility of trying Rockbox anytime later by simply installing the distribution files The Rockbox bootloader will automatically start the original firmware if the rockbox directory has been deleted If you wish to clean up your disk you may also wish to delete the rockbox direc tory and its contents Turn the Iriver off Turn the player back on and the original Iriver software will load THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 18 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 pic ture above Whenever a button name is prefixed by Long a long press of approxi mately one second should be performed on that button The buttons are described in detail in the following paragraph Additional information for blind users is available on the Rockbox website at BlindFAQ gt If you put the player on a table with
140. nsion of something other than t xt See section 10 3 page 101 for more details on viewers Create Directory Create a new directory in the current directory on the disk Properties Shows properties such as size and the time and date of the last modifica tion for the selected file If used on a directory the number of files and subdirec tories will be shown as well as the total size Set As Recording Directory Save recordings in the selected directory Add to Shortcuts Adds a link to the selected item in the shortcuts link file If the file does not already exist it will be created in the root directory Note that if you create a shortcut to a file Rockbox will not open it upon selecting but simply bring you to it s location in the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 25 4 1 3 Virtual Keyboard gS DEF G abcdefg KCMN hiskima 789 RSTU oparstu 456 VWXYZ T Pas 20 nee LEX i SOG 09123 Bay RAZARA 1111 ee e666 8850 Dog 1 dump_8861 Figure 4 3 The virtual keyboard This is the virtual keyboard that is used when entering text in Rockbox for example when renaming a file or creating a new directory The virtual keyboard can be easily changed by making a text file with the required layout More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at ss LoadableKeyboardLayouts Key Action L
141. o multiplexed into mpg files To play a video file you just select it in the Rockbox FILE BROWSER If your file does not have the mpg extension but is encoded in the supported format you will need to use the OPEN WITH context menu option and choose MPEGPLAYER Key Action Play Pause Resume Stop Stop Up Down Adjust volume up down A B Open the MPEG Player menu When a video file is selected the start Menu will be displayed unless it is disabled via the option start menu see below In the latter case the video will start play ing immediately unless a resume point is found in which case the resume menu is presented Start Menu Play from beginning Resume information is discarded and the video plays from the start Resume time min x x Resume video playback at stored resume time x x start of the video if no resume time is found Set start time min A preview screen is presented consisting of a thumbnail preview and a progress bar where the user can select a start time by seeking through the video The video playback is started by pressing the select button Quit mpegplayer Exit the plugin Resume Menu Yes min x x Resume video playback at stored resume time x x No Play video from the beginning Main Menu Display Options Opens Display Options submenu see below Start Menu default on Enable disable the start menu Clear all resumes x Discard all x resume points THE ROCKBOX MANUA
142. of the tape if it is loaded Save Quick Snapshot Saves snapshot into rockbox zxboxq 280 Load Quick Snapshot Loads snapshot from rockbox zxboxq 280 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 111 Save Snapshot Saves a snapshot of the current state You would enter the full path and desired name for example games zx snapshots chuckie sna The snapshot format will be chosen after the extension you specified per default 2 8 0 will be taken in case you leave it open Toggle Fast Mode Toggles fastest possible emulation speed no sound maximum frameskip etc This is Useful when loading tapes with some specific loaders Options Map Keys To Kempston Controls whether the player s buttons should sim ulate a Kempston joystick or some assigned keys of the Spectrum key board Display Speed Toggle displaying the emulation speed in percent Invert Colors Inverts the Spectum colour palette sometimes helps visibility Frameskip Sets the number of frames to skip before displaying one With zero frameskip ZXBox tries to display 50 frames per second Sound Turns sound on or off Volume Controls volume of sound output Predefined Keymap Select one of the predefined keymaps For example 2W90Z means map ZXBox s Up to 2 Down to W Left to 9 Right to 0 and Jump Fire to Z This example keymap is used in the Chuckie Egg game Custom Keymap This menu allows you to map one of the Spectrum keys a
143. of the token under the cursor also flips the tokens above below left and right of the cursor The ai one colour m is to end up with a screen containing tokens of only Action Key Up Down Left Move the cursor Right Navi Flip A B Shuffle Play Solve Rec Solve step by step Stop Quit the game 10 1 9 Jewels MOA OBA DE 90000 OA AKBOOOKY ADOADAOK P 99DOOVA Vento 09990940 Figure 10 7 Jewels THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 79 Jewels is a simple yet addicting game which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible before running out of available moves Higher points are awarded to larger combos The game advances to the next level after every one hundred points and randomly clears several jewels Key Action Left Right Up Down Move the cursor around the jewels Navi Select a jewel Long Navi Show the in game menu Stop Exit 10 1 10 MazezaM Figure 10 8 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
144. on will not be available at all times but will most likely be available at the end of a song We suggest you use the conditional display tag a lot when displaying information about the next song Alternating Sublines It is possible to group items on each line into 2 or more groups or sublines Each subline will be displayed in succession on the line for a specified time alternating con tinuously through each defined subline Items on a line are broken into sublines with the semicolon character The display time for each subline defaults to 2 seconds unless modified by using the t tag to specify an alternate time in seconds and optional tenths of a second for the subline to be displayed Subline related special characters and tags Split items on a line into separate sublines t Set the subline display time The t is followed by either integer seconds t 5 or seconds and tenths of a second t 3 5 Each alternating subline can still be optionally scrolled while it is being displayed and scrollable formats can be displayed on the same line with non scrollable formats THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 123 such as track elapsed time as long as they are separated into different sublines Exam ple subline definition EXAMPLE Ssst4 ia Sssit st3 pc Spr Display 103 artist for 4 seconds Display id3 title for 2 seconds Display current and remaining track time for 3
145. ontains information about the VBR stream used to calculate average bit rate time information and to more accurately fwd rew in the stream This function is especially useful when the playback of a file skips fwd rew does not work correctly or the time display is incorrect Note VBRfix can only run when music is turned off since it uses the same memory as the player and can take a while to complete if run on big files THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx A A CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 110 10 3 11 ZXBox Figure 10 37 ZXBox ZXBox is a port of the Spectemu ZX Spectrum 48k emulator for Rockbox gt project s homepage To start a game open a tape file or snapshot saved as tap tzx z80 or sna in the file browser Note As ZXBox is a 48k emulator only loading of 48k z80 snapshots is possible Default keys The emulator is set up for 5 different buttons Up Down Left Right and Jump Fire Each one of these can be mapped to one key of the Spectrum Keyboard or they can be used like a Kempston joystick Per default the buttons including an additional but fixed menu button are assigned as follows Key Action Up Down Directional movement Left Right Play Jump Fire A B 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 enter ing a phrase Play Pause Tape Toggles playing
146. ot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to a host computer THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX E CHANGELOG 143 E Changelog E 1 What is new since v2 5 E 1 1 New features OF FF FF FF OF OF OF FOF OF OF OF OF OF OXF OF 2008 07 07 2008 05 04 2008 04 23 2008 03 23 2008 03 21 2008 03 18 2007 12 09 2007 11 26 2007 11 11 2007 09 06 2007 09 04 2007 08 06 2007 08 03 2007 08 02 2007 07 27 2007 07 25 2007 06 30 2007 06 29 2007 06 28 2007 06 17 2007 05 23 2007 04 09 2007 03 11 2007 03 04 2007 03 01 2007 02 16 2007 02 14 2007 02 14 2007 02 10 2007 02 09 2007 01 31 2007 01 16 2007 01 02 Added keybox plugin Added study mode Lamp originally flashlight plugin New bitmap strips feature in the WPS Viewport tag added for WPS The Olympus m robe 100 is now a supported target PictureFlow A nice animated visualization for album art Matrix Demo Rockbox can now display album art Sound on Sansa c200 The SanDisk Sansa e200R models are now Rockboxed Make several splashes and confirmation screens speak iPod 3rd gen is now officially a supported target Superdom game Sound on iPod 2nd Gen Jackpot support for bitmap targets Reversi game Rocklife plugin Maze game Custom filetype colour feature introduced The 80GB Ipod Video is now supported by Rockbox WAV file viewer Sound on the Sansa e200 Rock
147. over and continue the rest onto adjacent pages If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering more than 100 you must either include a machine readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy or state in or with each Opaque copy a computer network location from which the general network using public has access to download using public standard network protocols a complete Transparent copy of the Document free of added mate rial If you use the latter option you must take reasonably prudent steps when you THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 152 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 Modified Version of the Document under the condi tions of sections 2 and 3 above provided that you release the Modified Version under precisely this License with the Modified Version filling the role of the Document thus licensing distribution and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a
148. own Teleport Rec Pause game Stop Quit 10 1 24 Star Figure 10 21 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 075 to go to the next level You can switch control between the filled circle which can take o s and the filled square which is used as a mobile wall THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 90 to allow your filled circle to get to places on the screen it could not otherwise reach The yy block cannot take 079 Key Action Left Move Left Right Move Right Up Move Up Down Move Down A B Switch between circle and square A B Left Previous level A B Up Reset level A B Right Next level Stop Exit the game 10 1 25 Sudoku Figure 10 22 Sudoku Sudoku in Rockbox is implemented as both a plugin and a viewer When you start Sudoku in plugin mode from the BROWSE PLUGINS menu a random game will be generated automatically and an estimate of its difficulty very easy easy medium hard or fiendish will be displayed on the screen New games can be generated from the GENERATE menu option When you use Sudoku as a viewer for playing pre generated Sudoku games You need sudoku games stored one game per file in text files with the ss extension see links below You then browse these games using the normal FILE BROWSER and open the file to launch Sudoku You can create and save
149. ox will retry over and over again until it succeeds but may eventually reach the end of the memory buffer When that happens Rockbox must stop playing and wait for more data from the disk which causes your music to skip The anti skip setting tells Rockbox how much extra buffer memory to spare to handle this situation This setting therefore allows you to reduce the chances of there being a gap or pause during playback of songs The anti skip buffer can be set to various values between 5 seconds and 10 min utes Note Having a large anti skip buffer tends to use more power and may reduce your battery life It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback Fade on Stop Pause Enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop play ing 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 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 im mediately Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins Crossfade This setting enables a cross fader At the end of a song the song will fade out as the next song fades in creating a smooth transition between songs The crossfade setting is particularly effective when the player is set on shuff
150. p tempo Left Right Adjust tempo Up Down Adjust volume 10 4 8 Random Folder Advance Configuration This plugin is used to configure the folders which will be considered when the Auto Change Directory feature is set to RANDOM Menu Generate Folder List Generates a list of all folders found on the player You can filter the directories which are scanned by creating a file called cockbox folder_advance_dir txt Only the directories in this file and any contained directories will be scanned You can have up to 10 directories ig nored by the scan by placing a minus sign before them in the list i e CDs will cause everything in the CDs directory to be ignored If you just want CDs to be ignored but want to include the folders within it you need to have both CDs and CDs as entries Edit Folder List Enter the folder list editor Export List To Textfile Exports the list to rockbox folder_advance_list txt Import List From Textfile Imports the list from rockbox folder_advance_list txt Quit Folder List Editor Keys Key Action Navi or Right Delete selected folder Long Navi Bring up the context menu which allows you to remove the selected folder or it s entire folder tree Left or Stop Exit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 118 10 4 9 Stats Figure 10 40 The stats plugin The stats plugin simply counts the number of files music files and directories on your player Press
151. peed remote scroll step remote scroll delay remote bidir limit backlight filters first remote keypress remote iconset remote viewers iconset remote reduce ticking 25 30 45 60 90 2min 3min 5min 10min 20min 45min 90min on off on off 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 on off on off graphic numeric graphic numeric path filename fnt path filename kbd on off on off pointer bar inverse on off path filename bmp path filename bmp path filename bmp path filename rwps 5 to 63 on off on off N A on dbfs off linear dB or dB or N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 seconds 20 25 30 45 60 90 off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 seconds 20 25 30 45 60 90 on off 0 to 15 1 to 160 0 to 2500 0 to 200 on off path filename bmp path filename bmp on off N A N A N A ms N A N A N A N A N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX C CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 140 Setting Allowed Values Unit rec quality 0 07 0 small size 7 high quality rec frequency 48 44 32 24 22 16 kHz rec source mic line spdif N A rec channels mono stereo N A rec mic gain 0 to 15 N A rec left gain 0 to 15 N A rec right gain 0 to 15 N A editable recordings off on N A rec timesplit off 0 05 0 10 0 15 0 30 1 00 2 00 h mm 4
152. pitch Crossfade setting in the order Off Shuffle Skip Always ReplayGain value in use x y dB If used as a conditional Replaygain type in use rg lt Off Track Album TrackShuffle AlbumShuffle No tag gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xXx APPENDIX B WPS TAGS 132 B 8 Hold Switches Tag Description mh h if the main unit hold switch is on mr r if the remote hold switch is on B 9 Virtual LED Tag Description 1h h if the hard disk is accessed B 10 Repeat Mode Tag Description smm Repeat mode 0 4 in the order Off All One Shuffle Example mm lt Off Al1 One Shuffle A B gt B 11 Playback Mode Tags Tag Description smp Play status 0 4 in the order Stop Play Pause Fast forward Rewind Example mp lt Stop Play Pause F fwd Rew gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xXx APPENDIX B WPS TAGS 133 B 12 Images Tag Description o X filename bmp o TU filename bmp n filename x y AS X x1 n filenamelx y nimages xdn i Examples Load and set a backdrop image for the WPS This image must be exactly the same size as your LCD Load a Progress bar image for the WPS Use Spb tag to show the progress bar Load and display an image n image ID a z and A Z for later referencing in xd filename filename relative to rockbox and including bmp x x coordinate y y coordinate Preload an image for later display useful for when
153. r 2006 02 07 Equalizer configuration for software codec platforms 2006 02 06 The Rockbox manual is available in 4TEXformat 2005 12 05 New wps added Engineeer2 marquee and DancePuffDuo 77 E 1 3 New codecs supported Lossy codecs Ogg vorbis MPC A 52 AC3 AAC MP4 WMA ADX Speex Lossless codecs x WAV AIFF FLAC ALAC Wavpack Shorten Monkey s Audio Other codecs x SID x MOD NSF NSFE SPC x MIDI SAP THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX F CREDITS 146 F Credits People that have contributed to the project one way or another Friends gt BJORN STENBERG gt LINUS NIELSEN FELTZ ING gt ANDY CHOI gt ANDREW JAMIESON gt PAUL SUADE P JOACHIM SCHIFFER gt DANIEL STENBERG gt ALAN KORR gt GARY CZVITKOVICZ Pb STUART MARTIN gt FE LIX ARENDS Pb ULF RALBERG P DAVID HARDEMAN P THOMAS SAEYS Pb GRANT WIER gt JULIEN LABRUYERE Pb NICOLAS SAUZEDE P ROBERT HAK Pb DAVE CHAP MAN gt STEFAN MEYER gt ERIC LINENBERG gt TOM CVITAN gt MAGNUS OMAN P JEROME KUPTZ gt JULIEN BOISSINOT gt NUUTTI KO TIVUORI gt HEIKKI HANNIKAINEN gt HARD EEP SIDHU P MARKUS BRAUN P JUSTIN HEINER gt MAGNUS HOLMGREN P BILL NAPIER gt GEORGE STYLES gt MATS LIDELL gt LEE MARLOW P NATE NYSTROM P NICK ROBINSON gt CHAD LOCKWOOD gt JOHN PYBUS gt UWE FREESE gt RANDY WOOD gt GREGORY HAERR gt PHILIPP PERTER MANN P GILLES ROUX MARK
154. r with modifications and or translated into another language Hereinafter translation is included without limitation in the term modification Each licensee is addressed as you Activities other than copying distribution and modification are not covered by this License they are outside its scope The act of running the Program is not re stricted and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute 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 war ranty and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee 2 You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it thus forming a work based on the Program and copy and distribute such modifica tions or work under the terms of Section 1 above provided that you also meet all of these conditions a You must cause the modified files to carry prominent no
155. rectory USB mode or an hour passes without updating the log file The plugin will continue to log info until e Another plugin is loaded e The player is shut down e The battery is empty Between disk activity or an hour it will log info in memory every measurement is captured when the voltage changes If there are too many measurements older entries will be deleted and the log file will inform the user about the interval where entries were lost Benchmarks can be resumed if you accidentally load a plugin or turn off your player as long as the log file battery_bench txt is not deleted Information explained On the top of the file you will see various info on how to use the plugin Time This column reports the total time of operation of the player It is not the time that you started the plug in If you have your player on for 5 minutes and then start the plugin it will start measuring from 5 minutes Seconds As time it shows time passed in seconds Nothing special it is there because it is free and maybe someone might want to make graphs with seconds Level The percent level of the battery estimated by Rockbox This is an estimation and not an accurate result Using the real percentage current battery voltage top battery voltage 100 we can calculate the difference between the estima tion Goal of this column is to make the estimation algorithm of Rockbox more accurate Time Left It shows the estimated by Rockbox r
156. remote is 128x64x1 pixels Conditional Tags If else Syntax 3 xx lt true false gt THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx A CHAPTER 11 ADVANCED TOPICS 122 If the tag specified by xx has a value the text between the lt and the is displayed the true part else the text between the and the gt is displayed the false part The else part is optional so the does not have to be specified if no else part is desired The conditionals nest so the text in the if and else part can contain all commands including conditionals Enumerations Syntax 3 xx lt altllalt2 alt3 Jelse 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 F fwd Rew gt The last else part is optional and will be displayed if the tag has no value The WPS parser will always display the last part if the tag has no value or if the list of alternatives is too short Next Song Info You can display information about the next song the song that is about to play after the one currently playing unless you change the plan If you use the upper case versions of the three tags F I and D they will instead refer to the next song instead of the current one Example 19 is the genre name used in the next song and F f 15 the mp3 frequency Note The next song informati
157. rence Beware that the crossfeed function is capable of making the audio distort if you choose settings which result in a too high output level THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 47 6 8 Equalizer LS 6GHz 6 7 Q PK 0 6dB__ 200Hz 1 0 Q PK 0 6dB__ S00Hz 1 8 Q PK HS 0 0dB 12000Hz Edit mode Gain B 0dB_ 4000Hz 1 6 Figure 6 2 The graphical equalizer Rockbox features a parametric equalizer EQ As the name suggests a parametric EQ lets you control several different parameters for each band of the EQ In some ways the EQ is similar to the BASS and TREBLE settings described earlier but the EQ allows you to control the sound much more carefully Rockbox s parametric EQ is composed of five different bands Band 0 Low shelf filter The low shelf filter boosts or lowers all frequencies below a certain frequency limit much like what a bass control found on ordinary stereo systems does Adjust the cutoff frequency parameter to decide where the shelv ing starts to take effect For example a cutoff frequency of 50 Hz will adjust only very low frequencies A cutoff frequency of 200 Hz on the other hand will ad just a much wider range of bass frequencies The gain parameter controls how much the loudness of the band is adjusted Positive numbers make the EQ band louder while negative numbers make that EQ band quieter The Q parameter should always be set to 0 7 for the
158. rols e668 ee eR ste eee ARA 29 432 Peak Meter 204 2d ea a Od Eee ee ean haw ed Sale dO 30 433 The WPS Context Menu cc ee ka a 30 4 4 Working with Playlists lt gt SEES RSS SREP ESESAS ES 32 441 Playlistterminology 32 142 Creatine playlists cio 33 443 Adding music to playlists eS we ERR i a 34 4 4 4 Modifying playlists ewe 2 eee 35 e o recs eae ee ey ee ea papi 36 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists o ooo 36 187 Wepre lt lt lt e EOS DRA RR ee Hee HS 36 5 The Main Menu 37 31 Introducing the Main Wen s ca AA 37 52 Navigating Me Main Menu ene 38 5 3 Recent Bookmarks 6 6 6655 be bee eee eee 38 BE o hs sa Bk Mae Bee eh wo Dd Bh BPA ed ee PE a Oh we GE 38 Bi Database ia GD A eee GOO See Oe 38 56 Now Playing Resume Playback 45 4 ve taue ds 39 er POI so ed oe tee CE tReet CEES ER PRESS ESe ESS ES 39 57A GOOT ENE ced st oe be Boy 8 oe eh ee ow Re oe be i 39 DJa General ee OS oe ee GL ey SE RS x BeOS 39 242 Manage SERIES emu ee eee eke eee ee KS 39 Sim Theme Sens sera ka i oes panh Oe KEE A 39 Bias Keconrine sitora vache Cee OE se eee KEES 39 58 Recording a he he hh eR GRD ERE DEERE SORE BERS 40 58 1 Recording Screen lt ss sossa sors on se roa he ARA 40 SO TMP Oea coa E A aa A as 41 AU e a Oe a a Eee Phe IR S 42 A or a we OS
159. rom cigarette lighter power adapter to the external DC in jack is turned off If the CAR ADAPTER MODE is set to ON Rockbox will pause playback when the external power off condition is detected Rockbox will then shutdown the player after the length of time set in the IDLE POWEROFF setting see above If power to the DC in jack is turned back on before the Idle Poweroff function has shut the player off playback will be resumed 5 seconds after the power is applied This delay is to allow for the time while the car engine is being started Once the player is shut off either manually or automatically with the IDLE POWEROFF function it must be powered up manually to resume playback THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 61 7 7 Bookmarking Bookmarks allow you to save your current position within a track so that you can return to it at a later time Bookmarks are saved on a per directory basis for dynamic playlists or for individual saved playlists They are stored next to the directory playlist they reference You can store multiple bookmarks for the same track Bookmark on Stop This option controls whether Rockbox writes a bookmark to the disk when playback is stopped Setting this to NO turns automatic bookmarking completely off In contrast YES turns automatic bookmarking on while ASK asks on stopping the track if a bookmark should be created With the above options YES and ASK if there is an existing bmark
160. rward and Short Right Long Left to go back 7 2 Playlist The PLAYLIST sub menu allows you to configure settings related to playlists Recursively Insert Directories If set to ON then when a directory is inserted or queued into a dynamic playlist all subdirectories will also be inserted If set to ASK Rockbox will prompt the user about whether to include sub directories Warn When Erasing Dynamic Playlist If set to YES Rockbox will provide a warn ing if the user attempts to take an action that will cause Rockbox to erase the current dynamic playlist 7 3 File View The File View menu deals with options relating to how the File Browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this option is set to YES all files that start with upper case letters will be listed first followed by all files that begin with lower case letters If this option is set to NO then case will be ignored when sorting files Sort Directories This option controls how Rockbox sorts directories The default is to sort them alphabetically BY DATE sorts them with the oldest directory first BY NEWEST DATE sorts them with the newest directory first Sort Files This option controls how Rockbox sorts files All of the options for SORT DIRECTORIES are available in this option In addition there is a BY TYPE option which sorts files alphabetically by their type such as mp3 then alphabetically within each type THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GE
161. rwise the recording would stop anyway and the presplit gap has no effect For most uses I recommend to set this parameter equal to the stop hold time Sometimes you may encounter a sound source e g a CD where the songs have fade outs and hardly any gaps between the tracks Here you can set the stop hold time to long values to ensure that all fade outs are recorded completely By specifying a short presplit gap you still can split the recording into seperate tracks whenever the trigger start condition is met More information can be found at VolumeTriggeredRecording 9 11 Automatic Gain Control The AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL has five different presets for automatically control ling the gain while recording Safety clip This preset will lower the gain when the levels get too high 1dB and will never increase gain Live slow This preset is designed to be used for recording of live shows and has quite large headroom for loud parts It heads for a nominal target peak level of 94B and will slowly increase or decrease gain to reach it THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 9 RECORDING SETTINGS 70 DJ Set Slow This preset heads for a nominal target peak level of 5dB and will slowly increase or decrease gain to reach it Medium This preset heads for a nominal target peak level of 6dB and will increase or decrease gain to reach it Voice fast This preset is designed to be used for voice recording and heads for a no
162. s Insert except queued tracks are deleted immediately from the playlist after they have been played Also queued tracks are not saved to the playlist file see section 5 10 page 42 Queue Next Queue track s immediately after current playing track Queue Last Queue track s at end of playlist Queue Shuffled Queue track s in a random order Play Next Replaces all but the current playing track with track s Current playing track is queued The PLAYLIST SUBMENU can be used to add either single tracks or entire directories to a playlist If the PLAYLIST SUBMENU is invoked on a single track it will put only that track into the playlist On the other hand if the PLAYLIST SUBMENU is invoked on a directory Rockbox adds all of the tracks in that directory to the playlist Note You can control whether or not Rockbox includes the contents of subdirectories when adding an entire directory to a playlists Set the SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS PLAYLIST RECURSIVELY INSERT DIRECTORIES setting to YES if you would like Rockbox to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently selected directory Dynamic playlists are saved so resume will restore them exactly as they were before shutdown Note To view save or reshuffle the current dynamic playlist use the PLAYLIST sub menu in the WPS context menu or in the MAIN MENU 4 4 4 Modifying playlists Reshuffling Reshuffeling the current playlist is easily done from the PL
163. s considers the song that it is playing to be part of a playlist and in some situations Rockbox will create a playlist automatically For example if you are playing the contents of a directory Rockbox will automatically create a playlist containing all songs in it This means that just about anything that is described in this chapter with respect to playlists also applies to directories Dynamic playlist A dynamic playlist is a playlist that is created On the fly Any time you insert or queue tracks using the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 34 you are creating or adding to a dynamic playlist Insert In Rockbox to INSERT an item into a playlist means putting an item into a playlist and leaving it there even after it is played As you will see later in this chapter Rockbox can INSERT into a playlist in several places Queue In Rockbox to QUEUE a song means to put the song into a playlist and then to remove the song from the playlist once it has been played The only difference between INSERT and QUEUE is that the QUEUE option removes the song from the playlist once it has been played and the INSERT option does not 4 4 2 Creating playlists Rockbox can create playlists in four different ways By selecting playing a song from the File Browser Whenever a song is selected from the FILE BROWSER with Navi or Right Rockbox will automatically create a playlist containing all of the songs in that directory and st
164. s drive If you receive a 1 error when you start Rockbox you have not extracted the contents of the zip file to the proper location Installing the fonts package Rockbox has a fonts package that is available at http www rockbox org daily shtml or from the extras link in the menu on the Rockbox website While the current builds and daily builds change frequently the fonts package rarely changes and is therefore not included in these builds When installing Rockbox for the first time you should install the fonts package The release version on the other hand does not change so fonts are included with it 1 Download the fonts package from the link above 2 Take the file that you downloaded above and use the Extract all command of your unzip program to extract the files in the zip file onto your player As with the firmware installation the entire contents of the fonts zip should be extracted directly to the root of your player s drive Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the fonts The zip already contains the correct internal structure Installing the bootloader Installing the bootloader is the trickiest part of the installation The Rockbox bootloader allows users to boot into either the Rockbox firmware or the Iriver firmware For legal reasons we cannot distribute the bootloader Instead we have developed a program that will patch the Iriver firmware with the Rockbox bootloader These
165. s rapid access to the SHUFFLE and REPEAT modes section 7 1 page 50 and the SHOW FILES option sec tion 7 3 page 55 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 44 6 Sound Settings a Sound Settings al CEEE a E o Channel Configuration dth Crossfeed Si Equalizer Dithering a a T o Figure 6 1 The sound settings screen The sound settings menu offers a selection of sound settings you may change to cus tomise 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 The volume can be adjusted from a minimum of 84 dB to a maximum of 0 dB 6 2 Bass This setting emphasises the lower bass frequencies in the sound A value of 0 dB means that bass sounds are unaltered flat response The minimum setting is 0 dB and the maximum is 24 dB 6 3 Treble This setting emphasises the higher treble frequencies in the sound A value of 0 dB means that treble sounds are unaltered flat response The minimum setting is 0 dB and the maximum is 6 dB THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 45 6 4 Balance
166. sic be comes softer Lower values make the peak meter look smoother Expressed in scale units per 10ms Peak Hold Time Specifies the time after which the peak indicator will reset For example if you set this value to 5s the peak indicator displays the loudest volume value that occurred within the last 5 seconds Larger values are use ful if you want to find the peak level of a song which might be of interest when copying music from the player via the analogue output to some other recording device Clip Hold Time The number of seconds that the clipping indicator will be visible after clipping is detected Clip Counter Show the number of times the clip indicator went active during recording in front of the peak meters Scale Select whether the peak meter displays linear or logarithmic values The human ear perceives loudness on a logarithmic scale If the Scale setting is set to LOGARITHMIC dB scale the volume values are scaled logarithmically The volume meters of digital audio devices usually are scaled this way On the other hand if you are interested in the 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 define the full value range that the peak meter displays Recommended values for the LOGARITHMIC dB setting are 40 dB for minimum and 0 dB for ma
167. sk activity THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 63 Use of a talk clip takes precedence over other directory name voicing Otherwise e g if a talk clip is not available voicing uses the method set under VOICE DIRECTORIES above Voice Filenames This option controls voicing of filenames Again a voice file must be present for this to work The options provided are SPELL NUMBERS and OFF which function the same as for VOICE DIRECTORIES You can use pre generated talk clips to have filenames spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below Use File talk Clips This option turns on the use of talk clips for files On Use special pre recorded MP3 files for each file This functions the same as for directories except that the talk clip file must have the same name as the described file with an extra talk extension e g Punkadiddle mp3 would require a file called Punkadiddle mp3 talk Off No checking is made for file talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce disk activity Use of a talk clip takes precedence over other filename voicing Otherwise e g if a talk clip is not available voicing uses the method set under VOICE FILENAMES above Say File Type This option turns on voicing of file types when VOICE FILENAMES is set to SPELL or NUMBERS When VOICE DIRECTORIES is set to SPELL Directory will be voiced after each spelled out directory Annou
168. so add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail If the program is interactive make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 163 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 hypothetical commands show wand show cshould show the appropriate parts of the General Public License Of course the commands you use may be called some thing other than show wand show c they could even be mouse clicks or menu items whatever suits your program You should also get your employer if you work as a programmer or your school if any to sign a copyright disclaimer for the program if necessary Here is a sample alter the names Yoyodyne Inc hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program Gnomovision which makes passes at compilers written by James Hacker lt signature of Ty Coon gt 1 April 1989 Ty Coon President of Vice This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into pro prietary 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
169. system Lm track len numeric system min Ls track len sec numeric system 4 3 While Playing Screen The While Playing Screen WPS displays various pieces of information about the cur rently playing audio file The appearance of the WPS can be configured using WPS configuration files The items shown depend on your configuration all item can be turned on or off independently Refer to section B page 129 for details on how to change the display of the WPS e Status bar The Status bar shows Battery level charger status volume play mode repeat mode shuffle mode In contrast to all other items the status bar is always at the top of the screen e Scrolling path and filename of the current song e The ID3 track name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 29 The ID3 album name The ID3 artist name Bit rate VBR files display average bitrate and avg e Elapsed and total time e A slidebar progress meter representing where in the song you are e Peak meter See section 11 2 page 121 for details of customising your WPS While Playing Screen 4 3 1 WPS Key Controls Key Action Up Down Volume up down Left Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track go to previous track Long Left Rewind in track Right Go to next track Long Right Fast forward in track Play Toggle play pause Stop Stop playback Navi Return to the
170. t SANDER SWEERS gt ANTONIUS HELLMAN P RYAN JACK SON gt PER HOLMANG gt FREDERIC DEV ERNAY Pb JOS M FANDI O gt GADI CO HEN gt NAFTALI GOLDSTEIN DAVID DENT gt FRANK DISCHNER gt LIBERMAN SHACHAR gt STEPHAN WEZEL Pb ALYSSA MILBURN gt KEVIN FERRARE gt ANTON OLEYNIKOV gt MARK ARIGO Pb MAGNUS WESTER LUND gt JAKE OWEN gt MUSTAPHA SENHAJI gt ADAM BOOT gt JONATHAN GORDON gt TAT TANG gt TOSHIHIKO ITOH gt DAVID J SONG gt JEONG TAEK IN gt ANDERS KAGERIN P PE TER D HOYE gt BEN BASHA gt BRANDON LOW THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX F CREDITS 147 gt NATHAN HAND gt NICK LANHAM P SE BASTIAN HENRIKSEN gt MARTIN SCARRATT gt KARL KURBJUN gt TOMASZ MALESINSKI gt ANDREW PILLEY gt MATT V D WEST HUIZEN gt TIM CRIST gt JVO STUDER gt DAN EVERTON gt IMRE HERCEG gt SEVEN LE MESLE gt CRAIG BACHELOR P NIKOLAJ CHRIS TENSEN gt MIKAEL MAGNUSSON gt DOMINIK WENGER gt HENRICO WITVLIET gt ANDREW SCOTT gt MIGUEL A AR VALO gt AARON F GONZALEZ gt ALEKSEY KOZYULIN gt JANI KINNUNEN P RUI MARINHO Pb ALUN THOMAS gt NILS WALLMENIUS gt NAOAKI OKAZAKI Pb WILL DYSON Pb MATTHIAS MOHR gt CHRISTIAN MARG gt ELI SHERER gt FREDRIK HRN Pb NICOLAS PENNEQUIN gt RALF HERZ gt MICHAEL DIFEBBO gt DAVID ROTHENBERGER gt ROBERT KEEVIL gt MARK BRIGHT gt DOMINIK RIEBELING gt ALEXAN DER BONDAR gt PETER CAWLEY P RANI Hop TO
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172. t least the title year new authors and publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page If there is no section Entitled History in the Docu ment create one stating the title year authors and publisher of the Document THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 153 as given on its Title Page then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence J Preserve the network location if any given in the Document for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document and likewise the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it was based on These may be placed in the History section You may omit a network location for a work that was pub lished 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 Ti tle of the section and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and or dedications given therein L Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document unaltered in their text and in their titles Section numbers or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles M Delete any section Entitled Endorsements Such a section may not be included in the Modified Version N Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled
173. tails In the unlikely event of a software failure a hardware reset can be performed by inserting a paperclip gently into the Reset hole 3 1 3 Starting the original firmware Rockbox has a dual boot feature To boot into the original firmware when the player is turned off press and hold the Rec button and then press the Play button 3 1 4 Putting music on your player With the player connected to the computer as an MSC UMS device like a USB Drive music files can be put on the player via any standard file transfer method that you would use to copy files between drives e g Drag n Drop The default directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox album art searching WPS missing tag fallback is ArtistName AlbumName ext See section A 2 page 128 for a list of supported audio formats 3 1 5 The first contact After you have first started the player you ll be presented by the MAIN MENU From this menu you can reach every function of Rockbox for more information see sec tion 5 1 page 37 To browse the files on you player select FILES see section 4 1 page 22 and to browse in a view that is based on the meta data of your audio files select DATABASE see section 4 2 page 25 11D3 Tags Vorbis comments etc THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 20 3 1 6 Basic controls When browsing files and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented The navigation i
174. tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of the line length Screen Scrolls Out of View Screens can be manually scrolled horizontally by pressing Long Right Left Setting this option to YES will keep the list entries at their fixed positions and allow them to be scrolled out of view whereas NO will only scroll those entries which surpass the right margin THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 58 Screen Scroll Step Size Defines the number of pixels the horizontal manual screen scroll should move for each step Paged Scrolling When set to YES scrolling vertically on pages that surpass the screen size will page up down instead of simply changing lines This can be useful on slow displays Status Scrollbar Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar Scroll Bar Enables or disables the scroll bar at the left Status Bar Enables or disables the status bar at the upper side Volume Display Controls whether the volume is displayed as a graphic or a numeric value on the Status Bar If you select a numeric display volume is displayed in decibels See section 6 1 page 44 for more on the volume setting Battery Display Controls whether the battery charge status is displayed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Peak Meter The peak meter can be configured with a number of parameters Peak Release This determines how fast the bar shrinks when the mu
175. the file browser this can be accessed with Long Navi The contents of the context menu vary depending on the situation it gets called The context menu itself presents you with some operations you can perform with the currently highlighted file In the file browser this is the file or directory that is highlighted by the cursor From the WPS this is the currently playing file Also there are some actions that do not apply to the current file but refer to the screen from which the context menu gets called One example is the playback menu which can be called using the context menu from within the WPS 3 2 Customising Rockbox Rockbox User Interface can be customised using Themes Themes usually only affect the visual appearance but an advanced user can create a theme that also changes vari ous other settings like file view LCD settings and all other settings that can be modified THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 21 using cfg files This topic is discussed in more detail in section 11 3 page 124 The Rockbox distribution comes with some themes that should look nice on your player Note Some of the themes shipped with Rockbox need additional fonts from the fonts package so make sure you installed them Also if you downloaded additional themes from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts installed as otherwise the theme may get displayed garbled THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4
176. the SAVE CFG FILE feature MAIN MENU gt GENERAL SETTINGS to save the current settings then use a text editor to customize the settings file See Appendix section C page 136 for the full reference of available options Save Sound Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The con figuration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the sound related settings Save Theme Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The con figuration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the theme related settings 11 4 Firmware Loading 11 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader Rockbox is able to load and start another firmware file without rebooting You just play a file with the extension iriver This can be used to test new firmware versions without deleting your current version THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX A FILE FORMATS 127 A File formats A 1 Supported file formats Icon File Type Extension Action when selected 8 Directory none The browser enters that directory Ni Audio file various see section A 2 Rockbox takes you to the page 128 WPS and starts playing the file B Cuesheet cue View a cuesheet file Playlist m3u m3u8 Rockbox loads the playlist and starts play ing the first file K Rockbox firmware river ROLO will load the new firmware gt While Playing Screen wps The new WPS display configuration will be loaded
177. the joystick pointing towards you and the curved sides at the top you will find the following if you start from the top right corner and follow the side of the player in a clockwise direction On the right side the buttons Play Stop A B and the Hold switch Next comes the USB port on the bottom a small hole for resetting the player then the charger plug On the left side is the Rec button The top has a headphone mini jack plug remote port optical line in and optical line out connectors The joystick in the middle of the player is used to navigate menus by pressing it up down left and right Pressing the joystick button is labelled Navi throughout this manual Its directions are labelled Right Down Left and Up The internal microphone is located on the left hand side of the nit towards the top As THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1XX CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 19 mentioned there is a small hole on the bottom of the unit between the power and USB sockets You can hard reset the device by inserting a paperclip into this hole 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys Key Action Play Start Rockbox Long Stop Shutdown Rockbox On shutdown Rockbox automatically saves its settings If you have problems with your settings such as accidentally having set the colours to black on black they can be reset at boot time See the Reset Settings in section 11 3 3 page 125 for de
178. 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 IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 72 Key Action In menu Play Start new game A B Resume saved game Navi Show high scores Stop Quit In game Left Right Up Down Enter betting amount Play Hit Draw new card Rec Stay End hand Navi Double down A B Save game Stop Return to menu or cancel 10 1 2 BrickMania Life 1 184 Level 1 L s 5 cca 6 w m 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 effect you must catch it with the paddle Look out for the bad ones THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 73 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 pad dle G Glue Ball sticks to paddle each time it hits B Ball Immediately fires another ball FL Flip Flip left right movement Key Action Left Right Moves the paddle Navi Up Release the ball Fire Stop Open menu Quit 10 1
179. ther operating systems this may vary If the zip file for mat is not recognised on your computer you can find a program to handle them at http www info zip org or http sevenzip sf net both of which can be down loaded and used free of charge Text editor As you will see in the following chapters Rockbox is highly configurable In addition to saving configurations Rockbox also allows you to create customised configuration files If you would like to edit custom configuration files on your computer you will need a text editor like Windows Wordpad 2 3 Installing Rockbox 2 3 1 Automated Installation To automatically install Rockbox download the official installer and housekeeping tool ROCKBOX UTILITY It allows you to e Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox Small Installa tion e Automatically install all suggested components Full Installation Selectively install optional components Install additional themes e Install voice files and generate talk clips e Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility Prebuilt binaries for Windows Linux and MacOS X are available at the RockboxUtility wiki page Warning When first starting ROCKBOX UTILITY run Autodetect found in the con figuration dialog File Configure Autodetection can detect most player types If autodetection fails or is unable to detect the mountpoint make sure to enter the correct
180. tices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change b You must cause any work that you distribute or publish that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License wa If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when run you must cause it when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way to print or display an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty or else saying that you provide a warranty and that users may redistribute the program under these conditions and telling the user how to view a copy of this License THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx APPENDIX G LICENSES 159 Exception if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an announcement your work based on the Program is not required to print an announcement These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves then this License and its terms do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program the distribution of the whole must be on the t
181. tion again LCD Mode This setting lets you invert the whole screen so now you get a black background and light text and graphics Upside Down Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest the buttons This is sometimes useful when carrying the player in a pocket for easy access to the headphone socket Reduce Ticking Enable this option if you can hear a ticking sound in your head phones when using your remote Scrolling This feature controls how text will scroll in Rockbox You can configure the following parameters Scroll Speed Sets how many times per second the automatic horizontal scrolling text will move a step Scroll Start Delay Controls how many milliseconds Rockbox should wait be fore a new text begins automatically scrolling Scroll Step Size Defines the number of pixels the text should move for each step as used by the Scroll Speed setting Remote Scrolling Options The options here have the same effect on the remote LCD as the options mentioned above have on the main LCD Bidirectional Scroll Limit Rockbox has two different automatic horizontal scrolling methods 1 always scrolling the text to the left until the line has ended and then beginning again at the start and 2 moving to the left until you can read the end of the line and then scrolling right until you see the beginning again Rockbox chooses which method it should use depending of how much it has to scroll to the left This setting lets you
182. tribution noise as the dithering noise source and a third order noise shaper THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 50 7 General Settings mp a BS le General Settings Playback Settings Playlists File View Database Display System E Bookmarking Language Voice Figure 7 1 The general settings screen 7 1 Playback The PLAYBACK sub menu allows you to configure settings related to audio playback Shuffle Turning shuffle on will cause Rockbox to randomly re order the playlist Thus to shuffle all of the audio files on the player you first need to create a playlist con taining all of them For more information on creating playlists refer to section 4 4 page 32 Options YES NO Repeat Configures settings related to repeating of directories or playlists Options OFF ALL ONE SHUFFLE A B Off The current playlist will not repeat when it is finished Note If you have the AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY option set to YES Rock box 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 cur rent directory or playlist is finished All The current playlist will repeat when it is finished One Repeat one track over and over Shuffle When the current playlist has finished playing it will be shuffled and then repeated A B Repeats between two user defined points within a track typically used by musicians when a
183. ttempting to learn a piece of music This option is more complicated to use than the others as the player must first be placed into A B repeat mode and then the start and end points defined THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 51 To set the Start Point A press Play Left Setting the End Point B is done accordingly using Play Right To reset the markers press Play Navi Play Selected First This setting controls what happens when you select a file for play back while shuffle mode is on If the PLAY SELECTED FIRST setting is YES the file you selected will be played first If this setting is NO a random file in the direc tory will be played first 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 Anti Skip Buffer This setting allows you to control how much music is stored in the player s memory whilst playing a song acting as a buffer against shock or play back problems The player transfers the selected amount of the forthcoming song into its memory at high speed whilst you are playing the song It keeps a rolling buffer which keeps feeding more of the forthcoming song into memory as it goes along If the player is knocked shaken or jogged heavily while Rockbox is trying to read the hard drive Rockbox might not be able to read the drive Rockb
184. ttle dots These dots represent important volume values In linear mode each dot is a 10 mark In dbfs mode the dots represent the following values from right to left Odb 3db 6db 9db 12db 18db 24db 30db 40db 50db 60db 4 3 3 The WPS Context Menu Like the context menu for the FILE BROWSER the WPS CONTEXT MENU allows you quick access to some often used functions Playlist The PLAYLIST submenu allows you to view save search and reshuffle the current playlist To change settings for the PLAYLIST VIEWER press A B while viewing the playlist to bring up the PLAYLIST VIEWER MENU Playlist Viewer Menu Show Icons This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entry and the icon for moving a playlist entry Show Indicies This toggles display of the line numbering for the playlist Track Display This toggles between filename only and full path for playlist entries Save Current Playlist Allows the current playlist to be saved as a m3u playlist file THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 31 Playlist catalog View catalog This lists all playlists that are part of the Playlist catalog You can load a new playlist directly from this list Add to playlist Adds the currently playing file to a playlist Select the playlist you want the file to be added to and it will get appended to that playlist Add to new playlist Similar to the previous entry this will add the
185. turn itself off The update firmware process usually takes a minute or so You have now installed the Rockbox bootloader Note If you install the Rockbox bootloader but do not install the Rockbox firmware the Rockbox bootloader will load the Iriver firmware when the jukebox is turned on To load the Iriver firmware press and hold Rec before powering up the player until the Iriver logo appears Note The bootloader has a built in bootloader USB mode This function switches THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 16 to USB mode when the player is connected to a computer upon power up This way you can access the player s hard disk without the need to boot any firmware which is also useful when your hard disk is damaged The screen will simply display the text bootloader USB mode After you disconnect the player from USB the bootloader will continue booting Rockbox As in bootloader USB mode the firmware itself has not been loaded this is also a simple way of updating Rockbox After the disconnect the bootloader will load the updated version of Rockbox 2 3 3 Enabling Speech Support optional If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice file English ones are available from http www rockbox org daily shtml Download the voice package for your player and unzip it directly to the root of your player You should now find an english voice in the rockbox langs directory on your play
186. ue is not available uses track gain information Track Gain Maintain a constant volume level between tracks If track gain value is not available no replaygain is applied Track Gain If Shuffling Maintains a constant volume between tracks if SHUF FLE is set to YES Reverts to album mode if SHUFFLE is set to NO Pre amp This allows you to adjust the volume when replaygain is applied Re playgain often lowers the volume sometimes quite much so here you can compensate for that Please note that a large positive pre amp setting can cause clipping unless prevent clipping is enabled The pre amp can be set to any decibel dB value between 12dB and 12dB in increments of 0 1dB Beep Volume Controls the volume of the beep that is heard when skipping forward or backward between tracks The beep is disabled when set to OFF Optical Output Enables or disables the optical S PDIF output to allow a digital con nection to a suitable external decoder To enable optical output set to YES Auto Change Directory Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a di rectory If AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY is set to YES Rockbox will continue to the next directory If AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY is set to NO playback will stop at the end of the current playlist Using the RANDOM feature requires you to first generate a folder list via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin see section 10 4 8 page 117 Note You must have the REPEAT option set to
187. ve 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 27 Xobox Figure 10 24 Xobox Xobox is a simple clone of the well known arcade game Qix The aim of the game is to section off parts of the arena with your trail in order to remove that section from the game Be careful not to get in the way of enemy balls because if they hit you or your trail you lose a life To finish a level you have to section off more than 75 Key Action Up Down Left Move around the arena Right A B Pause Stop Open menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 95 10 2 Demos 10 2 1 Bounce x ae KCOR Figure 10 25 Bounce This demo is of the word Rockbox bouncing across the screen In SCROLL MODE the bouncing text is replaced by a different one scrolling from right to left Key Action Up Down Moves to next previous option Left Right Increases decreases option value Navi Toggles Scroll mode Stop 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 S
188. ver need to go through a series of menus for an action you perform frequently We also believe that you should be able to configure almost anything about Rockbox you could want pertaining to functionality Another top priority of Rockbox is audio playback quality Rockbox for most models includes a wider range of sound settings than the device s original firmware A lot of work has been put into making Rockbox sound the best it can and improvements are constantly being made All models have access to a large number of plugins including many games applications and graphical demos You can load different configurations quickly for different purposes e g a large font for in your car different sound settings for at home Rockbox features a very wide range of languages and all supported models also have the ability to talk to you menus can be voiced and filenames spelled out or spoken 1 2 Getting more help This manual is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the Rockbox firmware There is however more help available The Rockbox website at http www rockbox org contains very extensive documentation and guides written by members of the Rockbox community and this should be your first port of call when looking for further help If you cannot find the information you are searching for on the Rockbox website there are a number of support channels you should have a look at You can try the Rockbox forums located at http
189. www rockbox org daily shtml Warning Because current builds and daily builds are development versions which change frequently they may behave differently than described in this manual or they may introduce new and maybe annoying bugs If you do not want to get undefined behaviour from your player you should stick to the current stable release if there is one for your player If you want to help with project development you can try devel opment builds and help by reporting bugs Just be aware that these are development builds that are highly functional but not perfect Installing the firmware 1 Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section 2 Connect your player to the computer via USB as described in the manual that came with your player 3 Take the zip file that you downloaded and use the Extract all command of your unzip program to extract the files onto your player Note The entire contents of the zip file should be extracted directly to the root THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 14 of your player s drive Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the Rockbox files The zip file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs Note If the contents of the zip file are extracted correctly you will have a directory called rockbox which contains all the files needed by Rockbox in the main directory of your player
190. ximum Recommended values for LINEAR display are 0 and 100 Note that 40 dB is approximately 1 in linear value but if you change the minimum setting in linear mode THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 7 GENERAL SETTINGS 59 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 sup port languages outside Western Europe most applications use the setting of your operating system instead If your operating system uses a different codepage and you are getting garbled extended characters you should adjust this settings In most cases sticking to ISO 8859 1 would be sufficient 7 6 System 7 6 1 Start Screen Set the screen that Rockbox will start in Selecting RESUME PLAYBACK will resume playback where it was when the player was shut off if there is a playlist to resume and will then end up in the WPS Selecting PREVIOUS SCREEN will make Rockbox start in the screen it was when the player was shut off 7 6 2 Battery Options relating to the battery in the player Battery Capacity This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity in mAh t
191. your own grids under the NEW menu option Enter the menu as described in the key table below when you have finished and enter the full path to save to including the ss extension e g sudoku new ss THE ROCKBOX MANUAL IRIVER H1xx CHAPTER 10 PLUGINS 91 The thing on the left AKA 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 column on the left Change the number under the cursor to a number which might be valid and press the scratch pad button the number will then be added on the left The column is stored seperatly for every cell on the board These are NOT saved when saving the game Key Action Up Down Left Move the cursor Right Navi Play Change number under the cursor Long Play Constantly changing the number under the cursor A B Open Menu Rec Add Remove number to scratchpad Stop Quit Some places where can you can find ss files e Simple Sudoku Advanced Puzzle Packs 1 and 2 located near the bottom of that page http www angusj com sudoku e Kjell s Sudoku generator solver http kjell haxx se sudoku 10 1 26 Wormlet Figure 10 23 Wormlet game Wormlet is a multi worm game on a multi threaded multi functional Rockbox console You navigate a hungry little worm Help your worm to find food and to avoid poisoned argh tiles The goal is to turn your tiny worm into a big worm for

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