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1. 13 1 5 Loading Backdrops ssc ea nasra caa 13 16 UL View perh so soca sce Rs eR ka g eem 13 2 Configuring the Theme 13 2 1 Themeing General Info 13 2 2 Themes Create YourOwn 13 2 3 Info Viewport SBS only 13 2 4 Additional Fonts 13 3 Managing Rockbox Settings 13 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files 13 3 2 Specifications for cfg Files 13 3 3 The MANAGE SETTINGS menu 13 4 Firmware Loading oa oe sarasa xo 13 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader 13 5 Optimising battery runtime 13 5 1 Display backlight 13 5 2 Anti Skip Buffer 13 5 3 Beplaygalu ios c 13 5 4 Peak Meter 13 5 5 Audio format and bitrate 13 5 6 Sound settings so s ssa o e omo eoo THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CONTENTS A File formats A 1 Supported file formats B Audio and metadata formats B 1 Supported audio formats B 1 1 Lossy Codecs B 1 2 Lossless Codecs B 1 3 Other Codecs B 1 4 Codec featureset B 2 Supported metadata tags B 2 1 Featureset for generic metadata tags B 2 2 Featureset for codec specific metadata B 2 3 Limitations of metadata handling C Album Art C 1 Limitations C 2 Where to put album art D Theme Tags D 1 St
2. None 852 ac3 adx oma aa3 aif aiff au snd shn vox w64 wav cmc cm3 cmr cms dmc dlt mpt mpd hes VgZ B 2 1 Featureset for generic metadata tags Feature ID3 APE Vorbis 4 ASF Embedded albumart bmp Embedded albumart jpg x x x x Embedded albumart png Embedded cuesheet x x Replaygain information x x x x x Title string x x X x X Artist string x x x x x Album string x x x Genre string X x x x x Disc string or number x Es x X Track string or number x x x x x Year string or number X x x x Composer string x x x x Comment string x E x Albumartist string x x x x x Grouping string x x x Note Embedded album art for ASF is limited to pictures of maximum 64 KB size THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 A A APPENDIX AUDIO AND METADATA FORMATS 170 B 2 2 Featureset for codec specific metadata Feature Codec specific metadata file extension Embedded bmp None Embedded jpg None Embedded png None Replaygain mpc Title tta spc mmf sid rm ra rmvb nsf nsfe mod sap gbs ay sgc vgm Artist tta spc mmf sid rm ra rmvb nsf nsfe sap gbs Sgc vgm Album Spc sid nsf nsfe gbs ay sgc vgm Genre tta spc sap Disc tta Track tta Year Spc sid sap Composer mmf Comment Spc rm ra rmvb vgm Albumartist None Grouping None B
3. open source jukebox firmware The Rockbox Manual for MPIO HD300 rockbox org March 5 2013 Rockbox http www rockbox org Open Source Jukebox Firmware Rockbox and this manual is the collaborative effort of the Rockbox team and its contributors See the appendix for a complete list of contributors 2003 2013 The Rockbox Team and its contributors 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough 2003 Jos Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal amp Peter Schlenker Version 3 13 Built using pdflATEX Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sec tions no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CONTENTS 3 Contents 1 Introduction 11 Ll Wp Oe ee om dee nct R Geo BRE P dE M e o 11 LZ Getting More help sos s ouod eR a a ee ee EG 11 1 8 Naming conventions and marks o oa ca c te soie 0000 4 12 2 Installation 13 ZI Beie PENES Lll uk Row RE n XC EUER de Aue ad 13 2 4 Installing ROCKDOE os 2652 wk eno OR d 13 2 2 1 Automated Installation rns 14 2 2 2 Manual Installation 2 m o gs ons 15 2 2 3 Finish
4. 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 13 2 2 page 154 for more details Font Browse the installed fonts on your player Selecting one will activate it See section 13 1 3 page 152 for further details about fonts While Playing Screen Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it Menu will exit back to the menu For further information about the WPS see section 4 3 page 28 For information about editing a wps file see section 13 2 page 154 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 164 These icons can also be customised See the s amp IconSets and s CustomIcons Wiki pages for details Clear Backdrop Rockbox allows you to select bitmap pictures to use as backdrops see section 13 1 5 page 153 for further information This option allows you to clear the backdrops that you set Status Scrollbar Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar Scroll Bar Allows you to choose where the vertical scroll bar should appear Scroll Bar Width Allows you to choose the width of the scroll bar in pixels Default value is 6 Status Bar Allows you to choose where t
5. x y width height font Vf fgshade AVb C bgshade e Vf and Vb set the foreground and background shade of grey respectively e fgshade and bgshade are numbers in the range 0 black to 3 white e font is a number 0 is the built in system font 1 is the current menu font and 2 9 are additional skin loaded fonts see section 13 2 4 page 157 e Only the coordinates have to be specified Leaving the other definitions blank will set them to their default values Note The correct number of commas with hyphens in blank fields are still needed EXAMPLE 4V 12 20 1 AVf O AVb 3 4sThis viewport is displayed permanently It starts 12px from the left and 4s20px from the top of the screen and fills the rest of the screen from 4sthat point The lines will scroll if this text does not fit in the viewport sThe user font is used the foreground colour is set to black and the Asbackground is set to white THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 A CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 156 Viewport definition Default value width height remaining part of screen font user defined shade black foreground white background Viewport Line Text Styles Tag Description Vs mode param Set the viewport text style to mode from this point forward Mode can be the following Mode Description clear Restore the default style invert Draw lines inverted color Draw
6. Be aiae ol ee ele TT 106 Mono Mode s e siesd ka Ge eo e a TT 10 7 File Split Options oz oom o o d o kom m Rx Rs 77 10 8 Prerecord 77 10 9 Clear Recording Directory 0 02002 noaa dao ao 78 lue eo ee Bok Se A Get Bk ae ECC RS 78 ID EDIBSESE oa Hk seg RICE ee ao vA NE E es ee ON M 78 11 Time and Date 80 12 Plugins 81 12 1 EE ee oe se dom Raa Re Roe ew CBee Be 81 21 Blackjack 2 08 2 i be Eoo Rok bee ee Ye 81 DriekM anii 222a SAR ROR we e de oe ko y Poe ES 82 LXI 6 9 be a mem amp mue Se ee ue deb uui 83 AF Ma o 2 MEME 84 XR Xni o P ee a A ee 85 XN ONU ek we eee A Bo 85 DOON sree SOA pd we dw we i 86 I2 ee ee A ek WWE BO BE ae ee eS 88 GODO i eye ete cee a ek ee ee eI ee ee get 89 Avast look eh de ee Dee ee BE ae ae ee a 93 12A Jackpot oma BA ee oe ae 93 ae ee a ae ee ane oe Ale Meee es eee ae oe 94 a cee eh al ee hoe a ee See a ee le He ee e 95 12 1 l4Mineswegper 26 o ec Be Bde do Ee hx RUE hr AE TRUE 95 DLI FENO 212 aS ae Ree RAS XO d dde A cd eS 96 Ig LIBI
7. Sounds pictures colour and Unicode are not currently supported but the interpreter informs the game of this and almost all games will adapt so that they are still playable This port of Frotz attempts to be compliant with the Z Machine Specification version 1 0 Some places where you can find Z Machine games and information about interactive fiction e The Interactive Fiction Archive where many free modern works can be down loaded http www ifarchive org e The specific folder on the if archive containing Z Machine games http www ifarchive org indexes if archiveXgamesXzcode html e The Infocom homepage with information about how to get the classic commercial Infocom games http www csd uwo ca Infocom e The Frotz homepage for the original Unix port http frotz sourceforge net e Beginner s Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction http www microheaven com IFGuide Key Action Scroll Up Display keyboard to enter text Enter Press enter Menu Open Frotz menu not available at MORE prompts Long Menu Quit 12 3 4 Image Viewer This plugin opens image files from the FILE BROWSER to display them using Rockbox s greyscale library Supported formats are as follows Format File extension s BMP bmp JPEG jpg jpeg PNG png GIF gif THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 123 Note When an audio file is playing the size of the image is limited as the decodi
8. signature of Ty Coon 1 April 1989 Ty Coon President of Vice This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into propri etary programs If your program is a subroutine library you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library If this is what you want to do use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300
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10. Display the playlist position then either the track title from the tags or the filename The viewer will display as many tracks as will fit in the viewport D 11 Runtime Database Tag Description Arp Song playcount Arr Song rating 0 10 This tag can also be used in a conditional tag 4 rr 0 1I213141516 71819 10 ra Autoscore for the song D 12 Sound DSP settings Tag Description 9 Current playback pitch ail Crossfade setting in the order Off Auto Skip Man Skip Shuffle Shuffle and Man Skip Always ALE ReplayGain value in use xy dB If used as a conditional Replaygain type in use A rg 0ff Track Album TrackShuffle AlbumShuffle No tag D 13 Hold Tag Description mh h if the main unit keys are locked THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 179 D 14 Virtual LED Tag Description Alh h if the hard disk is accessed D 15 Repeat Mode Tag Description mm Repeat mode 0 4 in the order Off One Shuffle A B Example 4 mm lt Off A11 One Shuffle A B gt D 16 Playback Mode Tag Description Amp Play status 0 4 in the order Stop Play Pause Fast For ward Rewind Recording Recording paused FM Radio play ing FM Radio muted Example 4 mp StoplPlaylPause Ffwd Rew Rec Rec pause FM FM pause D 17 Current Screen Tag Description ACS The current screen 1 20 in the order shown below THE ROCKBOX MANUAL ve
11. Off No checking is made for file talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce disk activity THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 73 Use of a talk clip takes precedence over other filename voicing Otherwise e g if a talk clip is not available voicing uses the method set under VOICE FILENAMES above Say File Type This option turns on voicing of file types when VOICE FILENAMES is set to SPELL or NUMBERS When VOICE DIRECTORIES is set to SPELL Directory will be voiced after each spelled out directory Announce Battery Level When this option is enabled the battery level is announced when it falls under 50 30 and 15 See VoiceHowto for more details on configuring speech support in Rockbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 9 THEME SETTINGS 74 9 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu offers options that you can change to customize the visual appearance of Rockbox Browse Theme Files This option will display all the currently installed themes on the player press Enter to load the chosen theme and apply it A theme is a configuration file stored in a specific directory that typically changes the WPS font used and on some platforms additional information such as back ground image and text colours There are a number of themes that ship with Rockbox If none of these suit your needs many more can be downloaded from
12. Yes Display the header Show Footer Select whether to show the footer The footer dispays the page number No Do not display the footer Yes Display the footer Font Select the font to be used by the Text Viewer Show Statusbar Select whether to show the status bar If you select a theme settings that the status bar does not display see section 9 page 74 the status bar is not displayed even if you select Y Es No Do not display the status bar THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 131 Yes Display the status bar Scroll Settings The scrolling settings submenu Horizontal Submenu for horizontal scrolling settings Scrollbar Toggle the horizontal scrollbar for the current mode If the file fits on one screen there is no scrollbar and this setting has no effect No Do not display the horizontal scroll bar Yes Display the horizontal scroll bar Scroll Mode Change the function of the Left and Right buttons Scroll by Screen Move to the previous next screen Scroll by Column Move to the previous next column Vertical Submenu for vertical scrolling settings Scrollbar Toggle the vertical scrollbar for the current mode If the file fits on one screen there is no scrollbar and this setting has no effect No Do not display the vertical scroll bar Yes Display the vertical scroll bar Scroll Mode Change the function of the Scroll up and Scroll down buttons Scroll by
13. Awe Display Status Bar Awd Hide Status Bar hwi Display the inbuilt Status Bar in the current viewport These tags override the player setting for the display of the status bar They must be noted on their own line which will not be shown in the WPS D 2 Hardware Capabilities Tag Description hcc Check for presence of a real time clock returns c when used unconditionally Atp Does this target have a radio Indicates that the target has a touchscreen With the above tags it is possible to find out about the presence of certain hardware and make the theme adapt to it This can be very useful for designing a theme that works on multiple targets with differing hardware capabilities e g targets that do and do not have a clock When used conditionally the true branch is completely ignored if it does not apply Example 4 cc AcH 4cM No clock detected THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 174 D 3 Information from the track tags Tag hia hic iA hid hiG hig in hit iC hiv Way Aik Description Artist Composer Album Artist Album Name Grouping Genre Name Track Number Track Title Comment ID3 version 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 or empty if not an ID3 tag Year Disc Number Remember that this information is not always available so use the conditionals to show alternate information in preference to assuming These tags when written with a capital I
14. e g 4Ia Ic show the information for the next song to be played D 4 Viewports Tag Description AV x y width height font CLf gshade Vb bgshade Vs node param 4AVl1C identifier sa identifier ViC label 4VIC label VB See section 13 2 2 See section 13 2 2 Preloads a viewport for later display identifier is a single lowercase letter a z and the parameters use the same logic as the V tag explained above Display the identifier viewport E g C lt Vd a Vd b gt will show viewport a if album art is found and b if it isn t Declare a Custom UI Viewport The parameters use the same logic as the AV tag explained above See section 13 2 2 Set the Info Viewport to use the viewport called label as declared with the previous tag Draw this viewport on the backdrop layer THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 175 D 5 Additional Fonts Tag Description 4F1 id filename See section 13 2 4 D 6 Misc Coloring Tags Tag Description Adr x y width heigb Color a rectangle width and height can be to fill the viewport If no color is specified the viewports foreground color will be used If two colors are specified it will do a gradient fill D 7 Power Related Information Tag Description Abl Numeric battery level in percents als
15. markers THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 90 Mark Meaning There are nodes after the current node in the SGF tree d There are sibling variations which can be navigated to using the Next Vari ation menu option of the Context Menu C There is a comment at the current node It can be viewed edited using the Add Edit Comment menu option of the Context Menu Controls Key Action Scroll Up Move cursor up Scroll Down Move cursor down Rewind Move cursor left Forward Move cursor right Enter Play a move or use a tool if play mode has been changed Rec Rewind Retreat one node in the game tree Rec Forward Advance one node in the game tree Menu Main Menu Menus Main Menu The main menu for game setup and access to other menus New Create new game with your choice of board size and handicaps Save Save the current state of the game It will be saved to sgf gbn def sgf unless otherwise set Save As Save to a specified file Game Info View and modify the metadata of the current game Playback Control Control the playback of the current playlist and modify the volume of your player Zoom Level Zoom in or out on the board If you set the zoom level it will be saved and used again the next time you open this plugin Options Open the Options Menu Context Menu Open the Context Menu which allows you to set play modes and other tools Quit Leave the plugin Any unsaved cha
16. player back to initial configuration The details of this menu are covered in section 13 3 page 160 5 8 Recording 5 8 1 While Recording Screen END WAVED 19 18 Time 00 00 01 Size 5 00 Volume 25 dB Gain 0 0 dB Filename Figure 5 3 The while recording screen Selecting the RECORDING option in the MAIN MENU enters the RECORDING SCREEN whilst pressing Long Enter enters the RECORDING SETTINGS see section 10 page 76 The RECORDING SCREEN shows the time elapsed and the size of the file being recorded peak meter is present to allow you set gain correctly There is also 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 in the status bar The controls for this screen are THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 42 Key Action Rewind Select setting Forward Scroll Down Adjust selected setting Scroll Up Play Start recording Wh
17. stream This function is especially useful when the playback of a file skips fwd rew does THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 134 not work correctly or the time display is incorrect To use this plugin open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 upon a mp3 file and select OPEN WITH VBRFIX Note VBRfix can only run when music is turned off since it uses the same memory as the player and can take a while to complete if run on big files 12 3 16 ZXBox Figure 12 44 ZXBox ZX Box is a port of the Spectemu ZX Spectrum 48k emulator for Rockbox sproject s homepage To start a game open a tape file or snapshot saved as tap tzx z80 or sna in the file browser Note As ZXBox is a 48k emulator only loading of 48k z80 snapshots is possible 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 Rewind Directional movement Forward Scroll Up Scroll Down Enter Jump Fire Long Menu Open ZXBox menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 135 ZXBox menu Vkeyboard This is a virtual keyboard representing the Spectrum keyboard Controls are the same as in
18. APPENDIX I LICENSES 214 10 11 12 reliance on consistent application of that system it is up to the author donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice This section is intended to make thoroughly clear what is believed to be a conse quence of the rest of this License Ifthe distribution and or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded In such case this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and or new versions of the General Public License from time to time Such new versions will be similar in spirit to 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 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
19. If a mine is not uncovered THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 96 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 Scroll Up Scroll Down Rewind Forward Enter Play Menu Long Menu 12 1 15 Pegbox Action Move the cursor across the minefield Toggle flag on off Reveal the contents of the current square Display the current game status Exit the game Ione 9000 ae Figure 12 14 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 Scroll Up Scroll Down Rewind Forward Enter Menu Play Rec Long Menu to move around to choose peg to restart level to go up a level to go down a level to quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 97 12 1 16 Pong Figure 12 15 Pong Pong is a simple one or two player tennis game Whenever a player misses the ball the other scores The game starts in demo mode with the CPU controlling both sides As soon as a button to control one of th
20. If a song would clip during playback the volume is lowered for that song Replaygain information is needed for this to work THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 58 Pre amp This allows you to adjust the volume when replaygain is applied Replaygain 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 12 dB and 12 dB in increments of 0 5 dB 7 10 Track Skip Beep Controls the volume of the beep that is heard when skipping forward or backward be tween tracks The beep is disabled when set to OFF 7 11 Auto Change Directory Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a directory If AUTO CHANGE DI RECTORY is set to YES Rockbox will continue to the next directory If AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY is set to NO playback will stop at the end of the current playlist Using the RANDOM feature requires you to first generate a folder list via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin see section 12 4 14 page 148 Note You must have the REPEAT option set to No for AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY to function properly Note This feature only works when songs have been played from the file browser Using it with the database may cause unexpected behaviour 7 12 Constrain Auto Change If enabled a
21. Ls Delete gt Set As Backdrop gt Open With Create Directory 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 Enter Note The CoNTEXT MENU is a context sensitive menu If the CONTEXT MENU is invoked on a file it will display options available for files If the CONTEXT MENU is invoked on a directory it will display options for directories The CoNTEXT MENU contains the following options unless otherwise noted each option pertains both to files and directories Playlist Enters the PLAvLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 35 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 24 Playlist Catalogue Enters the PLAYLIST CATALOGUE SUBMENU see section 4 4 2 page 34 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 app
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23. Page Scroll up or down one full screen Scroll by Line Scroll up or down one line Overlap Pages Set whether the last line from the previous screen is re tained when scrolling pages No Do not retain previous line Yes Retain previous line Auto scroll Speed Control the speed of auto scrolling in number of lines per second Available options are 1 to 10 lines per second As an example 4 will scroll the text at four lines per second Left Right Key Narrow mode Change the function of the Left and Right buttons when the screen is in narrow mode i e one screen per page Previous Next Page Scroll up or down one full screen Top Bottom Page Move to the top or bottom page Indent Spaces Set the number of spaces to indent the text when line mode is set to REFLOW LINES Available options are 0 to 5 spaces If you select 0 a blank line is displayed as an indent Show Playback Menu Display the playback menu to allow control of the currently play ing music without leaving the plugin THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 132 Select Bookmark Select a saved bookmark In the screenshot below the denotes the current page Select bookmark xPage 33 Line 1 I 5 1 1 Figure 12 42 The select bookmark menu Global Settings Set the default settings for the text viewer The setting items are the same as VIEWER OPTIONS The global settings are stored in rockbox rocks view
24. STOP to Yes Load Last Bookmark This option controls if Rockbox should automatically load a bookmark for a file when that file is played No Always start from the beginning of the track or playlist THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 70 Yes Automatically return to the position of the last bookmark Start from the beginning if there are no bookmarks Ask Ask if playback should start from the beginning of the track or from one of the bookmarks Maintain a list of Recent Bookmarks If this option is enabled a list of the most re cently created bookmarks may be accessed through the RECENT BOOKMARKS option in the MAIN MENU This list contains up to ten entries No Do not keep a list of recently used bookmarks This also removes the RECENT BOOKMARKS from the MAIN MENU Yes Keep a list of recently used bookmarks Each new bookmark is added to the list of recent bookmarks Unique Only Add each new bookmark to the list of recently used bookmarks but only keep one bookmark from the current directory or playlist any previous entries are removed The following keys can be used to navigate in any bookmark list Key Action Scroll Down Selects the next bookmark Scroll Up Selects the previous bookmark Enter Resumes from the selected bookmark Menu Exits Recent Bookmark menu Long Rec Deletes the currently selected bookmark Long Enter Enters the context menu for the selected
25. Scroll Up Scroll Down Enter Shuffle Play Switch between pictures default puz zle album art and your own image if launched via Open With and numbered tiles Long Menu Stop the game 12 1 22 Snake Figure 12 19 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 Scroll Up Scroll Change levels 1 is slowest 9 is fastest Down Play Toggle Play Pause THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 101 12 1 23 Snake 2 Figure 12 20 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 Rewind Steer the snake Forward Scroll Up Scroll Down Play Pause and resume the game Long Menu Quit In game A the maze stays the same in game B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one 12 1 24 Sokoban Figure 12 21 Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowded warehouse with a minimal number of pushes and moves The boxes can only be pushed never pulled and only one can be pushed at a time THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300
26. Shutdown Rockbox THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 20 On shutdown Rockbox automatically saves its settings 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 This will bring you to the short menu where you can choose among Boot Rockbox Boot MPIO firmware and Shutdown Select the option you need with Rewind and Forward and confirm with long Play 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 and Drop Files may be placed wherever you like on the player but it is strongly suggested NOT to put them in the rockbox folder and instead put them in any other folder e g music or audio The default directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox album art searching and missing tag fallback in some WPSes uses the parent directory of a song as the Album name and the parent directory of that folder as the Artist name WPSes may display information incorrectly if your files are not properly tagged and y
27. That ensures that you record the entire sound Strictly speaking the prerecord time is not a special parameter of the trigger It is available during normal recordings too Start Above The start threshold defines the minimal volume a sound must have to start the recording It is displayed numerically in the 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 79 pointing to the right There are two special values The value OFF turns the start condition off With this setting you have to start the recording manually and the trigger only stops the recording according to the stop condition The setting INF sets the trigger to the absolute minimum This setting only makes sense when you record via a digital input as even the noise of the device itself would exceed this threshold immediately for at least The start duration defines the minimal duration that a signal must ex ceed 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 va
28. 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 version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 55 7 3 Play Selected First This setting controls what happens when you select a file for playback while shuffle mode is on If the PLAY SELECTED FIRST setting is YES the file you selected will be played first If this setting is NO a random file in the directory will be played first 7 4 Fast Forward Rewind These settings control the speed and acceleration during fast forward and rewind The setting FF RW MIN STEP controls the initial speed and FF RW ACCEL controls the acceleration 7 5 Anti Skip Buffer This setting controls how early Rockbox starts refilling the music buffer from the hard drive when playing A longer Anti Skip Buffer helps prevent skips in music playback if Rockbox has trouble reading from the disk This can happen if the player is knocked shaken or jogged heavily while Rockbox is trying to read the hard drive The anti skip buffer can be set to various values between 5 seconds and 10 minutes Note Having a large anti skip buffer tends to use more power and may reduce your battery life It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback 7 6 Fade on Stop Pause Enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop play
29. all the Rockbox contributors after displaying the Rockbox logo and version This plugin is called when selecting VERSION from the SYSTEM section of the Rockbox main menu Exit at any time by pressing Menu 12 2 3 Cube Figure 12 29 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 111 Enter Display at maximum frame rate Play Pause Menu Cycle draw mode Rewind Select axis to adjust Forward Scroll Down Change speed angle speed can not be Scroll Up changed while paused Long Menu Quit 12 2 4 Demystify Figure 12 30 Demystify Demystify is screen saver like demo Rewind Increase decrease speed Forward Scroll Up Add remove polygon Scroll Down Menu Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 112 12 2 5 Fire Figure 12 31 Fire Fire is a demo displaying a fire effect Key Action Scroll Up Increase decrease number of flames Scroll Down Rewind Toggle flame type Forward Toggle moving flames Menu Quit 12 2 6 Fractals Figure 12 32 Fractals Mandelbrot set This demonstration draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set using the greyscale engine THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 113 Key Action Scroll Down Move about the image Scroll Up Rewind Forward Play Scroll Up Zoom in Play Scroll Zoom out Dow
30. and play it in the Rockbox directory browser or select SET TINGS GENERAL SETTINGS LANGUAGE from the MAIN MENU Note If you want language to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox langs directory and the filename must be a maximum of 24 characters long If your language is not yet supported and you want to write your own language file find the instructions on the Rockbox website mLangFiles 13 1 5 Loading Backdrops Rockbox supports showing an image as a backdrop in the FILE BROWSER and the menus The backdrop image must be a bmp file of the exact same dimensions as the display in your player 160x128x2 with the last number giving the colour depth in bits To use an image as a backdrop browse to it in the FILE BROWSER and open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 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 13 1 6 UI Viewport By default the UI is drawn on the whole screen This can be changed so that the UI is confined to a specific area of the screen by use of a UI viewport This is done by adding the following line to the cfg file for a theme ui viewport X Y width height font fgshade bgshade Only the first two parameters have to be specified the others can be omitted using as a placeholder T
31. cavernous maze without banging into walls the ceiling or the floor How long can you fly your chopper Key Action Enter Make chopper fly Menu Enter menu 12 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 Enter Roll dice again Menu Quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 86 12 1 7 Doom Figure 12 6 Doom This is the famous Doom game Getting started For the game to run you need wad game files located in rockbox doom on your player Create the directory and save the following files there rockdoom wad The Rockbox wad based on prboom wad from prboom 2 2 6 Your wad files Copy all Doom wads you wish to play into that directory The needed files can be found at mPluginDoom To play addon wads create the addons directory within the doom directory Place wad files in this directory Currently doom only supports a maximum number of 10 addons A free alternative for Doom 2 is FreeDoom http freedoom sourceforge net This can be used in place of doom2 wad or it may be used as an addon in Doom by placing it in the addons directory Menus Rockdoom Menu The Rockdoom menu is shown when Doom is first launched This is the only time it can be accessed before starting the game To re adjust
32. consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason not limited to patent issues conditions are imposed on you whether by court order agreement or otherwise that contradict the conditions of this License they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all For example if a patent license would not permit royalty free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances It is not the purpose of this section to induce you to infringe any patents or other property right claims or to contest validity of any such claims this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system which is implemented by public license practices Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300
33. 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 Insert Shuffled Add track s to the playlist in a random order Insert Last Shuffled Add tracks in a random order to the end of the playlist Queue Queue is the same as Insert except queued tracks are deleted immediately from the playlist after they have been played Also queued tracks are not saved to the playlist file see section 5 10 page 43 Queue Next Queue track s immediately after current playing track Queue Last Queue track s at end of playlist Queue Shuffled Queue track s in a random order Queue Last Shuffled Queue tracks in a random order at the end of the playlist THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 36 Play Next Replaces all but the cu
34. cycling round the defined sublines See section 13 2 4 page 158 for details D 26 Time and Date Tag Description hcd Day of month from 01 to 31 Ace Zero padded day of month from 1 to 31 Act A conditional for 12 24 hour format lt 24 hour stuff 12 hour stuff cH Zero padded hour from 00 to 23 24 hour format Ack Hour from 0 to 23 24 hour format hcl Zero padded hour from 01 to 12 am pm format 1 Hour from 1 to 12 am pm format Month from 01 to 12 Minutes hes Seconds 2 digit year cy 4 digit year Capital AM PM Lowercase am pm Aca Weekday name Acb Month name Day of week from 1 to 7 1 is Monday cw Day of week from 0 to 6 0 is Sunday THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 187 D 27 Text Translation Tag Description 49x English Display the translation of English in the current language e English must be a phrase used in the language file e It should match the Source line in the language file Note checkwps cannot verify that the string is correct so please check on either the simulator or on target D 28 Bar Tags Some tags can be used to display a bar which draws according to the value of the tag To use these tags like a bar you need to use the following parameters XX should be replaced with the actual tag Tag Description AXX x Draw the specified tag as bar width height x x co ordi
35. default Cd Display the album art as configured AC Use in a conditional to determine if an image is available The picture will be rescaled preserving aspect ratio to fit the given maxwidth and maxheight If the aspect ratio doesn t match the configured values the picture will be placed according to the alignment flags Examples 1 Load albumart at position 20 40 and display it without resizing 4C1 20 40 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 184 2 Load albumart at position 0 20 and resize it to be at most 100x100 pixels If the image isn t square align it to the bottom right corner 4C1 0 20 100 100 r b For general information where to put album art see section C page 171 D 22 FM Radio Tag Description tt Is the tuner tuned Atm Scan or preset mode Scan is true preset is false hts Is the station in stereo ta Minimum frequency region specific in MHz Atb Maximum frequency region specific in MHz htt Current frequency in MHz Ti Current preset id ie 1 based number of the preset within the presets list usable in playlist viewer Tn Current preset name usable in playlist viewer TEL Current preset frequency usable in playlist viewer alice Preset count i e the number of stations in the current preset list tx Is RDS available Aty RDS name Atz RDS text Atr Signal strength RSSI Can be used in a conditional or as a ba
36. described above 1 Download official Rockbox bootloader for MPIO HD300 from http download rockbox org bootloader mpio hd300 and save it to your desktop The archive con tains three files bootloader mpio bootloader map and rockbox info txt The first file is actual bootloader two others can be used for debugging and are irrelevant for end user 2 Download mkmpioboot utility from http download rockbox org bootloader mpio mkmpioboot 3 Process previously downloaded official firmware to include rockbox bootloader Open terminal window and type the following command CODE mkmpioboot HD300 UPG SYS bootloader mpio HD300 UPG rb 4 Copy HD300 UPG rb to the SYSTEM folder of your player and rename back to HD300 UPG SYS 5 Safe eject your player 6 Connect Wall charger and turn on the device This should trigger firmware upgrade process which will install rockbox bootloader to the flash memory of the player 2 2 3 Finishing the install 2 2 4 Enabling Speech Support optional If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice file Voice files allow Rockbox to speak the user interface to you Rockbox Utility can install an English voice file or you can download it from http www rockbox org daily shtml and unzip it to the root of your player Rockbox Utility can also aid you in the creation of voice files with different voices or in other languages if you have a suitable speech engine installed on your co
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38. 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 Enter Edit Line Select Character Menu Exit Abort Editing Long Menu Show Item Menu Long Enter Delete Line THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 152 13 Advanced Topics 13 1 Customising the User Interface 13 1 1 Customising The Main Menu It is possible to customise the main menu i e to reorder or to hide some of its items only the main menu can be customised submenus can not To accomplish this load a cfg file as described in section 13 3 page 160 containing the following line root menu order items where items is a comma separated list no spaces around the commas of the following words bookmarks files database wps settings recording radio playlists plugins system_menu shortcuts Each of the words if it occurs in the list activates the appropriate item in the main menu The order of the items is given by the order of the words in the list The items whose words do not occur in the list will be hidden with one exception the menu item SETTINGS will be shown even if its word is not in the list it is added as the last item then The following configuration example will change the main menu so that it will contain only the items for the file browser for resuming the playback and for changing the setti
39. following settings Crossfeed Selects whether the crossfeed effect is to be enabled or not Direct Gain How much the level of the audio that travels the direct path from a speaker to the corresponding ear is supposed to be decreased Cross Gain How much the level of the audio that travels the cross path from a speaker to the opposite ear is to be decreased High Frequency Attenuation How much the upper frequencies of the cross path audio will be dampened Note that the total level of the higher frequencies will be a combination of both this 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 preference Beware that the crossfeed function is capable of making the audio distort if you choose settings which result in a too high output level THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 50 6 8 Equalizer LS 66Hz 8 7 PK X 0 098 288Hz 1 8 Q PK X amp 8 dB 800 1 8 Q PK HS X 8 0056 12000 Edit mode Gain 0 098 4000 1 8 Figure 6 2 The graphical equalizer Rockbox features a parametric equalizer EQ As the name suggests a parametric E
40. full rows Whenever a row is completed it will be cleared away and you gain points For every ten lines completed the game level increases making the blocks fall faster If the pile of blocks reaches the ceiling the game is over THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 99 Key Action Rec Restart game Rewind Move left Forward Move right Enter Move down Scroll Up Rotate anticlockwise Scroll Down Rotate clockwise Play Drop Hold switch Pause Long Menu Quit 12 1 20 1 Rockbloxid is a game for people who find rockblox too hard In this version the second dimension is missing so the user only has to move the bricks down No horizontal moving anymore and no need to rotate the brick Key Scroll Down Menu or Long Menu 12 1 21 Sliding Puzzle Action Move down faster Quit Figure 12 18 Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the whole picture or switch to number tiles if you like it a little easier Includes one picture puzzle but you can switch the puzzle picture to be the album art of the currently playing music THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 100 track if one exists see section C page 171 You can also use the sliding puzzle plugin as a viewer for supported image types to turn your own pictures into a puzzle Key controls Rewind Move Tile Forward
41. game itself certainly is This is due in no small part to Microsoft s inclusion of the the game in every version of Windows Though popular the odds of winning are rather low perhaps one in thirty hands For the full set of rules to the game and other interesting information visit http www solitairecentral com rules klondike html Key Action Rewind Move Cursor around Forward Enter Select cards move cards reveal hidden cards Menu If a card was selected unselect it else Draw 3 new cards from the remains stack Play Put the card from the top of the remains stack on top of the cursor Rec Put the card under the cursor on one of the 4 final colour stacks Long Play Put the card on top of the remains stack on one of the final colour stacks Menu Show menu 12 1 26 Spacerocks soore B T Figure 12 23 Spacerocks Spacerocks is a clone of the old arcade game Asteroids The goal of the game is to blow up the asteroids and avoid being hit by them Once in a while a UFO will appear shoot this for extra points THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 104 Key Action Enter Shoot Rec Thrust Scroll Up Scroll Turn left right Down Long Play Teleport Play Pause game Long Menu Quit 12 1 27 Star Figure 12 24 Star game This is a puzzle game It is actually a rewrite of Star a game written by CDK designed for the hp48 calculator Rules Take all of the o s to
42. go to the next level You can switch control between the filled circle which can take o s and the filled square which is used as a mobile wall to allow your filled circle to get to places on the screen it could not otherwise reach The block cannot take Key Action Rewind Move Left Forward Move Right Scroll Up Move Up Scroll Down Move Down Enter Switch between circle and square Play Rewind Previous level Long Play Reset level Play Forward Next level Long Menu Exit the game THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 105 12 1 28 Sudoku Figure 12 25 Sudoku Sudoku in Rockbox can act as both a plugin and a viewer When starting Sudoku from the BROWSE PLUGINS menu a random game will be generated automatically and an estimate of its difficulty very easy easy medium hard or fiendish will be displayed on the screen New games can be generated from the GENERATE menu option When playing an existing Sudoku game file from Rockbox file browser the plugin is invoked as viewer The selected Sudoku will get loaded and you can start solving it The sudoku games need to be stored as text files with the extension ss as single file per game You can create and save your own grids under the NEW menu option Enter the menu as described in the key table below when you have finished and enter the full path to save to including the ss extension e g sudoku new ss The scratchp
43. if the volume is being changed The tag produces the letter while the volume is being changed and some amount of time after that i e after the volume button has been released The optional parameter t specifies that amount of time in seconds If it is not specified 1 second is assumed The tag can be used as the switch in a conditional tag to display different things depending on whether the volume is being changed It can produce neat effects when used with conditional viewports Example 4 mv 2 5 Volume changing gt The example above will display the text Volume changing if the volume is being changed and 2 5 seconds after the volume button has been released After that it will display the volume value D 20 Settings Tag Description St setting The value of the Rockbox setting with the specified name See name gt section E page 190 for the list of the available settings ASt Draw a bar using from the setting See section D 28 page 187 for details Examples 1 As a simple tag 7St skip length 2 As a conditional 4 St eq enabled lt Eq is enabled Eq is disabled THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX D THEME TAGS 182 D 21 Images Tag Description X filename bmp Load and set a backdrop image for the WPS This image must be exactly the same size as your LCD 4x n filename x y Load and display an image n image ID for later referencing in xd
44. in Kilobytes hiv avg if variable bit rate or empty string if constant bit rate Ad CN N th segment from the end of the file s directory N can be 1 D Daaa Example for the 4d N commands If the file is Rock Kent Isola 11 747 mp3 4d 1 is Isola 4d 2 is Kent and d 3 is Rock These tags when written with the first letter capitalized e g 4Fn 4D 2 produce the information for the next file to be played THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 177 D 9 Playlist Song Info Tag Description hpb Progress Bar This will replace the entire line with a progress bar You can set the position width and height of the progressbar in pixels and load a custom image for it width height image bmp Percentage played in song Apc Current time in song Ape Total number of playlist entries Peak Meter The entire line is used as volume peak meter pL Peak meter for the left channel Can be used as a value conditional tag or a bar tag ApR Peak meter for the right channel Can be used as a value a conditional tag or a bar tag Playlist name without path or extension Playlist position Apr Remaining time in song hps s if shuffle mode is enabled hpt Total track time Current volume in dB Can also be used in a conditional A pv lt Mute 0 dB Above 0 dB Mute is 0 volume is the val
45. is displayed the false part The else part is optional so the does not have to be specified THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 158 if no else part is desired The conditionals nest so the text in the if and else part can contain all commands including conditionals Enumerations Syntax 4 xx altilalt2lalt3 lelse For tags with multiple values like Play status the conditional can hold a list of alternatives one for each value the tag can have Example enumeration EXAMPLE lt 5 1 Pause Ffud Rew The last else part is optional and will be displayed if the tag has no value The WPS parser will always display the last part if the tag has no value or if the list of alternatives is too short Next Song Info You can display information about the next song the song that is about to play after the one currently playing unless you change the plan If you use the upper case versions of the three tags F I and D they will instead refer to the next song instead of the current one Example Ig is the genre name used in the next song and is the mp3 frequency Note The next song information will not be available at all times but will most likely be available at the end of a song We suggest you use the conditional display tag a lot when displaying information about the next song Alternating Sublines It is possible to group it
46. 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 12 3 11 Shopper Shopper is a shopping list plugin which allows you to maintain reusable shopping lists THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 129 12 3 12 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 43 12 3 13 Text Viewer wo text 244 8 txt of the University of London and proceeded to Netley to go through the 33 Figure 12 41 Text Viewer This is a Viewer for text files with word wrap Just open a txt or nfo file to display it The text viewer features controls to handle various styles of text formatting and has top of file and bottom of file buttons You can view files without a txt or nfo extension by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 23 You can also bookmark pages Default keys Key Action Scroll Up Scroll up Scroll Down Scroll down Rewind Top of file Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode Forward Bottom of file Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode Play Toggle autoscroll Enter Set Reset bookmarks Menu Enter menu Long Menu Exit text viewer Menu
47. may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different write to the author to ask for permission For software which is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation write to the Free Software Foundation we sometimes make exceptions for this Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally NO WARRANTY BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING REPAIR OR CORRECTION IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRIT ING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 215 AND OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES INCLUDIN
48. more information about SGF files can be read at http senseis xmp net SmartGameFormat or the SGF specification at http www red bean com sgf This plugin can load all modern SGF files file format 3 or 4 with few problems It attempts to preserve SGF properties which it doesn t understand and most common SGF properties are handled fully It is possible to view and edit if you like Kogo s Joseki Dictionary http waterfire us joseki htm with this plugin although the load and save times can be on the order of a minute or two on particularly slow devices Large SGF files may stop audio playback for the duration of the plugin s run in order to free up more memory and some very large SGF files will not even load on devices with little available memory Note The plugin does NOT support SGF files with multiple games in one file These are rare but if you have one don t even try it the file will most likely be corrupted if you save over it You have been warned The file sgf gbn def sgf is used by the plugin to store any unsaved changes in the most recently loaded game This means that if you forget to save your changes you should load sgf gbn def sgf immediately to offload the changes to another file If you load another file first then your changes will be lost permanently The sgf gbn def sgf file is also the file loaded if another is not selected The information panel which displays the current move number may also contain these
49. nearest common value THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 150 12 4 16 Stats Figure 12 50 The stats plugin The stats plugin counts the directories and files the total number as well as the number of audio playlist image and video files on your player Press Menu or Long Menu to abort counting and exit the plugin Press it again to quit after counting has finished 12 4 17 Stopwatch Figure 12 51 Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times Long Menu Quit Plugin Play Start stop Rewind Reset timer only when timer is stopped Forward Take lap time Scroll Up Scroll through lap times Scroll Down THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 151 12 4 18 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
50. number in the beginning of a link file will leave just the last n segments of the entries when they are shown For example if n is chosen to be 1 then the entry MyMusic collection song mp3 will be shown as song mp3 This allows you to hide common path prefixes You can also provide custom display name for each entry individually do so append a tabulator character after the entry s path followed by your custom name That name will then be used for showing the entry For example EXAMPLE MyMusic collection song mp3 lt TAB gt My favourite song 12 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 121 There are lots of tiny Chip8 games usually only about 256 bytes to a couple of KB which were made popular by the 48 calculator s emulator for them The original Chip8 had 64x32 pixel graphics and the new superchip emulator supports 128x64 graphics The only problem is that they are based on 4x4 keyboard but since most games do not use all of the buttons this can easily be worked around To do this one may put 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 descri
51. of MERCHANTABIL ITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more details You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program if not write to the Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail If the program is interactive make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode Gnomovision version 69 Copyright C lt year gt lt name of author gt Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for details type THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 216 show w This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions type show c for details The hypothetical commands show w and show c should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License Of course the commands you use may be called some thing other than show w and show c they could even be mouse clicks or menu items whatever suits your program You should also get your employer if you work as a programmer or your school if any to sign a copyright disclaimer for the program if necessary Here is a sample alter the names Yoyodyne Inc hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program Gnomovision which makes passes at compilers written by James Hacker
52. 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 Special items Displayed Name ones Description Normal Die Life Fire Glue Ball Flip e z Returns paddle to normal Ball dies lose a life Gain a life Allows you to shoot bricks with paddle Ball sticks to paddle each time it hits Immediately fires another ball Flip left right movement THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 83 Key Action Rewind Moves the paddle Forward Enter Release the ball Fire Menu Open menu Quit 12 1 3 Bubbles Figure 12 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 Key Action Scroll Up Pause game Rewind Aim the bubble Forward Enter Fire bubble Menu or Long Exit to menu Menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 84 12 1 4 Chessbox Figure 12 4 Chessbox Chessbox is a one pe
53. or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles M Delete any section Entitled Endorsements Such a section may not be included in the Modified Version N Do not retitle any existing section to be Entitled Endorsements or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section O Preserve any Warranty Disclaimers If the Modified Version includes new front matter sections or appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material copied from the Document you may at your option designate some or all of these sections as invariant To do this add their titles to the list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version s license notice These titles must be distinct from any other section titles You may add a section Entitled Endorsements provided it contains nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various parties for example statements of peer review or that the text has been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a standard You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front Cover Text and a passage of up to 25 words as a Back Cover Text to the end of the list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version Only one passage of Front Cover Text and one of Back Cover Text may be added by or through arrangements made by any one entity If the Document already includes a cover text for the same cover previously added by you or by arrangement made by the same entity y
54. path as the wav file using the same filename To use this plugin open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 on a wav file and select OPEN WITH ENCODER Note The encoder will choose the appropriate bitstream format from the sample rate of the input file The output bitstream format is MPEG 1 Layer 3 for 32 44 1 and 48 kHz and MPEG 2 Layer 3 for 16 22 05 and 24 kHz MPEG 2 5 Layer 3 is not supported 12 3 9 Rockboy 2400 8x04 385 7 _ Figure 12 40 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 version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 128 Default keys Key Action Rewind Direction keys Forward Scroll Up Scroll Down Play A button Rec B button Long Play Start Enter Select Hold switch Cycle display scaling modes Menu 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 Reset Resets the Emulator Quit RockBoy Quits the Rockboy plugin 12 3 10 Search This plugin can be used on playlists It searches through the playlist that
55. physically performing source distribution a complete machine readable copy of the corresponding source code to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange or c Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code This alternative is allowed only for noncom mercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer in accord with Subsection b above The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it For an executable work complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains plus any associated interface definition files plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable However as a special exception the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed in either source or binary form with the major components compiler kernel and so on of the operating system on which the executable runs unless that component itself accompanies the executable THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 213 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 cod
56. playback screen Quit mpegplayer Exit the plugin Settings Menu Display Options Open DISPLAY OPTIONS submenu see below Audio Options Open AUDIO OPTIONS submenu see below Resume Options default Start menu Enable disable the start menu Play Mode default Single Set to ALL to play multiple mpg files in the directory continuously THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 126 Clear all resumes x Discard all x resume points 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 Display 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 100 Hz ticks and the time the current frame is due to be displayed Limit FPS default on With this option disabled mpegplayer will display the video as fast as it can Useful for benchmarking Skip frames default on This option causes mpegplayer to attempt to maintain real time playback by skipping the display of frames but these frames are still decoded Disabling this option can cause loss of A V sync Backlight Brightness default Use setting Choose brightness to use during video
57. split into 9 segments where the four corners are unscaled the four middle sections are scaled along one axis and the middle section is scaled on both axis n image ID Examples THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX D THEME TAGS 183 1 Load and display the image rockbox bg bmp with ID a at 37 109 4X a bg bmp 37 109 2 Load a bitmap strip containing 5 volume icon images all the same size with image ID M and then reference the individual sub images in a conditional 4X1 M volume bmp 134 153 5 lt Ma xd Mb Axa Mc Axd Md xd Me gt Note e The images must be in BMP format e The image tag must be on its own line e The ID is case sensitive e The size of the LCD screen for each player varies See table below for appropriate sizes of each device The x and y coordinates must respect each of the player s limits D 21 1 How to display the album art Once the album art files are present on your player they can be displayed as follows Tag Description 1 maxwidth Define the settings for album art maxheight x X coordinate hor align y y coordinate vert align maxwidth Maximum height maxheight Maximum width hor align Horizontal alignment enter as I or r for left centre or right Centre is default vert align Vertical alignment enter as t c or b for top centre or bottom Centre is
58. tag2 tagN tag2 tagN If Else Evaluate for true or false case Enumerations Evaluate for first second third last condition Allows very simple comparisons with other tags tag the tag to check against operator the comparison to perform possible options are gt gt lt lt operand either a second tag a number or text option count optional parameter used to select which pa rameter of a tag to use when the tag has multiple options e g lt gt Logical and operator Will be evaluate to true if all the tag parameters are true Logical or operator Will be evaluate to true if any of the tag parameters are true Examples of the if tag THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 186 Atif gt 0 lt Clipping possible Volume OK will display Clipping possible if the volume is higher than or equal to 0 dB Volume OK if it is lower 4 if Aia 4Ia same artist this artist and the next artist are the same Note When performing a comparison against a string tag such as ia only and work and the comparison is not case sensitive D 25 Subline Tags Tag Description 4t time Set the subline display cycle time t 5 or t 3 4 formats Split items on a line into separate sublines Allows grouping of several items sublines onto one line with the display
59. the database In addition they do not currently work with dynamic playlists Key Action Scroll Down Select the next bookmark Scroll Up Select the previous bookmark Enter Resume from the selected bookmark Menu Exit Recent Bookmark menu Long Rec Delete the currently selected bookmark Long Enter Enter the context menu for the selected bookmark There are two options in the context menu RESUME will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry DELETE will remove the currently selected bookmark entry from the list This entry is not shown in the MAIN MENU when the option is off the default setting See section 8 7 page 69 for more details on configuring bookmarking in Rockbox 5 4 Files Browse the files on your player see section 4 1 page 22 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 40 5 5 Database Browse by the meta data in your audio files see section 4 2 page 26 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 you to set or adjust many parameters that affect the way your player works There are many submenus for different parameter areas Every time you are setting a value of a parameter and that value is selected from a list of some predefined available values you can press Lo
60. the text coloured by the value given in param Functionally equivalent to using the Vf tag Conditional Viewports Any viewport can be displayed either permanently or conditionally Defining a viewport as AVC will display it permanently e Vl identifier This tag preloads a viewport for later display identifier is a single lowercase letter a z and the parameters use the same logic as the 4V tag explained above e Vd identifier Display the identifier viewport Viewports can share identifiers so that you can display multiple viewports with one Vd line EXAMPLE A C AVd Vd b gt 4V1 a 10 10 50 50 4C1 0 0 50 50 c c 4Cd 4V1 a 0 70 70 14 1 you have it Album art 4V1 5 20 14 50 14 1 At 1 4acWarning At 1 4V1 5 20 30 50 50 1 sNo album art found 4scheck your filenames THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 157 This example checks for album art Album art will be displayed in viewport a if it is found Otherwise a flashing warning will be displayed in viewport b Note The tag to display conditional viewports must come before the tag to preload the viewport in the wps file 13 2 3 Info Viewport SBS only As mentioned above it is possible to set a UI viewport via the theme cfg file It is also possible to set the UI viewport through the SBS file and to conditionally selec
61. 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 considered 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 plays for two minutes before the show to verify his amp is turned on The trigger features numerous parameters to adapt its behaviour to the desired situation Trigger This parameter specifies the trigger mode When set to OFF the recording must be started manually and apart from the Prerecord time no other parameter has any effect ONCE will have the trigger start one recording only after the recording has finished the input signal will not start another recording REPEAT will have the trigger start multiple recordings 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 Usually you want to set the prerecord time greater than or equal to the start duration
62. 0 dB or peak meter max 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 100 dB or statusbar off top bottom N A scrollbar off left right N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX E CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 194 Setting Allowed Values Unit scrollbar width 3 to LCD width 10 devise a pixels way to get ranges from config h volume display graphic numeric N A battery display graphic numeric N A font path filename fnt N A kbd path filename kbd N A invert on off N A flip display on off N A selector type pointer bar inverse N A show icons on off N A iconset path filename bmp N A viewers iconset path filename bmp N A backdrop path filename bmp N A time format 12hour 24hour N A rec quality 0 to 7 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 h mm 2 00 4 00 6 00 8 00 16 00 24 00 pre recording time off 1 to 30 S rec path path to dir N A force fm mono off on N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX F MENU OVERVIEW 195 F Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX G USER FEEDBACK 196 G User feedback G 1 Bug reports If you expe
63. 02 L1 GNU Free Documentation License 202 L2 The GNU General Public License llle 210 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 11 1 Introduction 1 1 Welcome This is the manual for Rockbox Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and efficient than your device s stock firmware while remaining easy to use and customisable Rockbox is written by users for users Not only is it free to use it is also released under the GNU General Public License GPL which means that it will always remain free both to use and to change Rockbox has been in development since 2001 and receives new features tweaks and fixes each day to provide you with the best possible experience on your digital audio player A major goal of Rockbox is to be simple and easy to use yet remain very customisable and configurable We believe that you should never need to go through a series of menus for an action you perform frequently We also believe that you should be able to configure almost anything about Rockbox you could want pertaining to functionality Another top priority of Rockbox is audio playback quality Rockbox for most models includes a wider range of sound settings than the device s original firmware A lot of work has been put into making Rockbox sound the best it can and improvement
64. 2 3 Limitations of metadata handling 1 Multiple tags e g for Genre are not supported The first tag item of a set of multiple tags is used 2 Only one tag type is supported for each audio format 3 Overall there are 900 bytes available to load metadata strings 4 The maximum size of each metadata item e g Artists is limited to 240 bytes THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX ALBUM ART 171 Album Art Rockbox allows you to put the album art or another image related to the music on your player to display it in the PictureFlow plugin or in the theme For this feature to work there are a few requirements C 1 Limitations Rockbox supports embedded album art only for some specific formats see section B 2 1 page 169 for full details It additionally supports loading images located on the hard disk PictureFlow is currently unable to use embedded album art The image files must be in either BMP or JPEG format while embedded album art is currently limited to JPEG Embedded JPEG images must not be unsynchronized Rockbox does not support RLE compressed BMP files nor does it support progressive and multi scan JPEG files JPEG files must consist of a single scan with interleaved components as progessive and multi scan images require much more memory to decode C 2 Where to put album art The pictures can be named a number of different ways and placed to a number of different locations You can h
65. 3 Key Action Rewind Change frequency in SCAN mode or Forward jump to next previous station in PRE Long Rewind Long Forward Scroll Up Scroll Down SET mode Seek to next station in SCAN mode Change volume Menu Leave the radio screen with the radio playing Long Menu Stop the radio and return to MAIN MENU Play Mute radio playback Long Play Switch between SCAN and PRESET mode Enter Open a list of radio presets You can view all the presets that you have and switch to the station Long Enter Display the FM radio settings menu Saving a preset Up to 64 of your favourite stations can be saved as presets Long Enter to go to the menu then select ADD PRESET Enter the name maximum number of characters is 32 Press Play to save Selecting a preset Enter to go to the presets list Use Scroll Up and Scroll Down to move the cursor and then press Enter to select Use Menu to leave the preset list without selecting anything Removing a preset Enter to go to the presets list Use Scroll Up and Scroll Down to move the cursor and then press Long Enter 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 Playlists This menu allows you to work with playlists Playlists can be created in three ways Playing a file in a directory causes all the files in it to be placed in a playlist Playlists can be created manually by eithe
66. 3 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX G USER FEEDBACK 197 G 2 2 Features we will not implement This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do View it as the opposite of a TODO e Interfacing with other USB devices like cameras or 2 player games over USB The USB system demands that there is a master that talks to a slave The player can only serve as a slave as most other USB devices such as cameras can Thus without a master no communication between the slaves can take place If that is not enough we have no way of actually controlling the communication performed over USB since the USB circuit in the player is strictly made for disk access and does not allow us to play with it the way we d need for any good communication to work e Support other file systems than FAT32 like NTFS or ext2 etc No support for more file systems will just take away valuable ram for unnecessary features You can partition your player fine just make sure the first one is FAT32 and then make the other ones whatever file system you want Just do not expect Rockbox to understand them e Add scandisk like features It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to a host computer e Alphabetical list skipping Skipping around the lists by jumping letters i e skip all C s and go straight to the first D This isn t fe
67. 30 A ee ER Euh QU dew Guide Ae d Ae E E oe ul 112 Noc 112 122 1 9933 3 E 90x E GRE XS EU des 113 12 2 8 Mosaique uns uk X do Ro BUS OS REOR dh 113 12 2 9 Oscilloscope s sn a o ko HR EON OR hos 114 12310 PictureFlow o3 222a os eR ooo Ro RR Rom Ro G 115 P22 ILPIASDERSO 205 sooo oc Rm RR Rm RR RE e 116 22 DOCE gy RO Yeu X Red eR Wem SUE ee bg 117 EO E GN cun eode geo xm ROW Reve roe ub wu esed ou 117 TAS CARMEN own Oe Mods dw eec ow 8 118 SIN IUE c EC C 118 12 2 VIBNVBES o oo so sooo uo Rok X unc ox clem AS no EHE ee wo Nox e mcd 119 12 231 Sborbeute ouo xx osos Roche Be E Cx do 119 Eitan eR RE RR UR Gm 120 Xo POO a eee we i RO eR we eee XC oue mde deu 121 12 241 Tee Vione Si Lodo kon Rr oe Ru CAU RR RET geo 122 12 3 9 Lus scripting language so oo gone 123 pA fw ne ee 124 12 3 4 MPEG Playere cc 2202222 ke RE nk ow 99 124 L2 3 5 MP3 Encoder ck dm eR EAS EEG Rew eoe 126 12 3 8 Rockboy a 2454 hd ba ee o me m REOR ON WD ee 127 A su om ho x Xl 3e m ROO GG bubo 128 LO LDSBODBER zoo ludo de RUE ul UR GE ec he Rs d E Reis 128 DS
68. 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 33 Key Action Play Toggle pitch changing mode cycle through all available modes Scroll Up Increase Decrease pitch by 0 196 in pro Scroll Down Long Scroll Up Long Scroll centual mode or 0 1 semitone in semi tone mode Increase Decrease pitch by 196 in pro centual mode or a semitone in semitone Down mode Rewind Temporarily change pitch by 296 beat Forward match or modify speed in timestretch mode Enter Reset pitch and speed to 10096 Menu Leave the PITCH SCREEN 4 4 Working with Playlists 4 4 1 Playlist terminology Some common terms that are used in Rockbox when referring to playlists Directory A playlist One of the keys to getting the most out of Rockbox is under standing that Rockbox always considers the song that it is playing to be part of a playlist and in some situations Rockbox will create a playlist automatically For example if you are playing the contents of a directory Rockbox will automatically create a playlist containing all songs in it This means that just about anything that is described in this chapter with respect to playlists also applies to directories Dynamic playlist dynamic playlist is a playlist that is created the Any time you insert or queue tracks using the PLAYLIST SUBMENU see section 4 4 3 page 35 you are creating or adding to a dynamic playlist Insert In Rockbox to INSERT an item into
69. 700 Resume Gapless PA Note The seek implementations of NES Sound Format Sound Interface Device Game Boy Sound Format AY Sound Chip Music Hudson Entertainment System Sound For mat MSX Konami Sound System and SMS GG CV Sound Format use subtracks instead of seconds whereas each subtrack equals a second THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX AUDIO AND METADATA FORMATS 169 B 2 Supported metadata tags Rockbox supports different metadata formats v1 0 v1 1 v2 2 v2 3 and v2 4 APE v1 and v2 Vorbis MP4 and ASF Few codecs use codec specific tags several codecs do not use any tags yet The following table gives In general those tag formats are ID3 an overview about what tag types rockbox supports for which audio file extension Note There is always only one tag type supported for each file extension Tag type File extension ID3 1 mpa mp2 mp3 rm ra rmvb tta APE mpc ape mac wv Vorbis ogg oga spx flac MP4 m4a m4b mp4 ASF wmv asf Codec specific mmf mod nsf nsfe sap sid spc gbs ay kss sgc
70. CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 102 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 Scroll Up Scroll Down Rewind Forward Long Menu Play Rewind Play Enter Play Forward Move the sokoban up down left or right Menu Back to previous level Restart level Go to next level Rec Undo last movement Play Redo previously undone move Solution playback Play Pause resume Scroll Up Scroll Increase decrease playback speed Down Rewind Forward Go backward forward while paused Long Menu Quit Some places where can you can find level sets e http www sourcecode se sokoban levels php e http sokobano de en levels php Note that some level sets may contain levels that are too large for this version of Sokoban and are unplayable as a result 12 1 25 Solitaire DRES estis enn E irre Figure 12 22 Klondike solitaire THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 103 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
71. CKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 53 amplify the signal so that the loudest possible signal after compression will be just under the clipping limit This is desirable because the compressed signal without makeup gain is quieter than the input signal Makeup Gain in Auto restores the signal to the maximum possible level and brings the quieter audio up with it This is what makes it possible to hear the quieter audio in noisy environments The RATIO setting determines how aggressively the compressor reduces gain above the threshold For example the 2 1 setting means that for each two decibels of input signal above the threshold the compressor will only allow the output to appear as one decibel The higher the ratio the harder the signal is compressed The ratio setting of Limit means essentially a ratio of infinity to one In this case the output signal is not allowed to exceed the threshold at all The KNEE setting determines how abrupt the transition is from a non compressed signal to a compressed signal Hard Knee means that the transition occurs precisely at the threshold The Soft Knee setting smoothes the transition from plus or minus three decibels around the threshold The RELEASE TIME setting sets the recovery time after the signal is compressed Once the compressor determines that compression is necessary the input signal is reduced appropriately but the gain isn t allowed to immediately return to nor
72. EN RUI MARINHO gt ALUN THOMAS gt Nits WALLMENIUS gt NAOAKI OKAZAKI WILL DvsoN gt MATTHIAS MoHR gt CHRIS TIAN b ELI SHERER gt FREDRIK HRN gt NICOLAS PENNEQUIN gt RALF HERZ gt MICHAEL DIFEBBO DAVID ROTHEN BERGER gt ROBERT KEEVIL gt MARK BRIGHT gt DOMINIK RIEBELING gt ALEXANDER BON DAR gt PETER CAWLEY RANI TOM Ross gt ANTON ROMANOV b JEAN LUC OHL gt STEVE BAVIN gt MARIANNE ARNOLD gt GAETANO VOCCA b FREDERIK VESTRE gt WENBIN LEO gt TOM EVANS EWAN DAVIES gt FR D RIC FRANCOIS gt MARC ANDR MOREAU IOANNIS KOUTOULAKIS gt ALISTAIR MARSHALL KARL OVE HUFTHAMMER gt V CTOR ZABALZA gt ULRICH PEGELOW gt ANDREAS MATTSSON gt DANIEL ANKERS PAUL LOUDEN RAINER SIN SCH gt PLACIDO REVILLA MICHAEL SE VAKIS gt LUKAS SABOTA gt EMANUEL ZEPHIR gt ALEXANDER LEVIN gt BARRY WARDELL gt LARS VAN DE KLOMP P PHILIPPE MIOSSEC gt JOCHEN KEMNADE gt CORRY LAZAROWITZ gt Tom MEYER LAURENT BAUM JAMES TEH LIAM NATTRASS b CHRISTIAN Hack gt WADE BROWN VADIM CHEKAN gt CHRISTOPHER BORCSOK gt VICTOR CARDE NAS gt ANDREW MELVILLE gt PENGXUAN LIU gt ANDREW CUPPER THILO ALEXANDER GINKEL gt ADAM GASHLIN gt ROBERT KUKLA gt DAVID QUESADA gt JARED STAFFORD gt MARTIN HENSEL b ST PHANE DOYON gt AUSTIN APPEL gt ANDRE SMITH TRAVIS gt IAN WEBBER PAVEL GNELITSA gt LUTZ B HNE b WILL ROBERTSON gt ROBE
73. ENKIEWICZ gt DARIO CASTELLARIN gt THIAGO KENJI OKADA MANUEL FLURY gt VANJA CVELBAR gt RICHARD QUIRK gt KIRILL STRYAPONOFF gt THE LIBMAD TEAM THE WAVPACK TEAM gt THE FFMPEG TEAM b THE OGG VORBIS TEAM gt THE LIBA52 TEAM THE SPEEX TEAM THE LIBFAAD TEAM gt THE DOOM TEAM THE GNUCHESS TEAM THE GNUBOY TEAM gt THE PACMAN INSTRUCTIONAL EMU LATOR TEAM gt THE SPECTEMU TEAM THE LIBMPEG2 TEAM gt THE GAME Music EMU TEAM gt THE OPENSPC DSP EMULATOR TEAM gt THE ALAC DECODER TEAM THE UCL TEAM b THE IPOD LINUX TEAM gt THE VISION 8 EMULATOR TEAM b THE ROBOTFINDSKITTEN TEAM b THE LIBMTP TEAM b THE ASAP TEAM b THE LIBPNG TEAM b THE PURE DATA TEAM MILLER PUCKETTE AND OTHERS gt THE MIKMOD TEAM MICHAEL MCTERNAN THE ARM UNWINDER AUTHOR THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 202 1 Licenses 1 1 GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 November 2002 Copyright 2000 2001 2002 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin St Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed Preamble The purpose of this License is to make a manual textbook or other functional and useful document free in the sense of freedom to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it with or without modifying it either commercially or non co
74. G ANY GENERAL SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CON SEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS Appendix How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs If you develop a new program and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms To do so attach the following notices to the program It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty and each file should have at least the copyright line and a pointer to where the full notice is found lt one line to give the program s name and a 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
75. G LAYER 3 10 2 Encoder Settings MP3 only This sets the bitrate when using the MPEG LAYER 3 format 10 3 Frequency Choose the recording frequency sample rate are available Higher sample rates use up more disk space but give better sound quality Note The 11 025 kHz setting is not available when using MPEG LAYER 3 format THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 77 10 4 Source Choose the source of the recording The options are MICROPHONE LINE IN and FM RADIO For more information on recording from the radio see section 5 9 page 42 10 5 Channels This allows you to select mono or stereo recording Please note that for mono recording only the left channel is recorded Mono recordings are usually somewhat smaller than stereo 10 6 Mono Mode When configured to record to mono and the source is a stereo signal use this setting to configure how the mono signal is created Options are L R and L R 10 7 File Split Options This sub menu contains options for file splitting which can be used to split up long recordings into manageable pieces The splits are seamless frame accurate no audio is lost at the split point The break between recordings is only the time required to stop and restart the recording on the order of 2 4 seconds Split Measure This option controls whether to split the recording when the SPLIT FILESIZE is reached or when the SPLIT TIME h
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78. IS CATALIN PAT gt PETER HARLEY KEL LEY gt ALEXANDER EICKHOFF KEN FAZ ZONE DAvID BISHOP HEIN PIETER VAN BRAAM b PRZEMYSLAW HOLUBOWSKI THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX CREDITS 200 gt STEPAN MOSKOVCHENKO b JOHN S GWYNNE P BRIAN J MOREY STIJN HISKEN gt BERTRIK SIKKEN KARIM BOUCHER gt JAMES ESPINOZA gt FRANZ R HMLAND gt JORDAN ANDERSON MAURUS CUELE NAERE CHRIS ALLEGRETTA ALASTAIR S gt MARTIN CRKOVSKY gt ARIYA HIDAYAT gt JONAS HURRELMANN LEE KANG HYUK gt CLEMENS WERTHER ROBERT MENES gt HENRI VALTA gt MELBA SITJAR gt MEHMET 9 CATALBAS gt SCOTT TINMAN ALEXAN DER KUZMENKOV b THOMAS MARTITZ gt PRAKARN SAHASOONTORNVUTE gt GEORGE TAMPLARU gt APOORVA MAHAJAN VUONG MINH gt MATEUSZ KUBICA gt FRANK GEVAERTS gt CHELO SACRISTAN SASCHA WOLF gt NICKOLAY JORDANOV JOHANNES VOGGENTHALER gt MARC Guay b ALEX VANDERPOL b JERRY LANGE b YOHANN MISQUITTA gt KEITH PERRI gt MARK Faw CUS gt IVAN PESIC gt MARCEL BARBULESCU gt PHIL LIGHT gt ROB PURCHASE gt ANDREAS M LLER gt CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS gt MAR TIN RITTER JUSTIN HANNIGAN gt TOMASZ WASILCZYK gt KENJIRO ARAI JOHN KAM INAR gt JORIS GOOSEN gt MARK GANSON gt DAVIDE GENTILE gt JAMES VASILE gt Mo HAMED TAREK MIKE BURKE MICHAEL CHICOINE gt MACIEJ ADAMCZAK TOMER SHALEV b THIBAUT GIRKA gt RASMUS gt WILLIAM P
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80. MPLE it 4t 8 shit shin gt 7ia lt t 3 sh ial t 0 gt The format above will do two different things depending if ID3 tags are present If the 103 artist and title are present e Display id3 title for 8 seconds e Display id3 artist for 3 seconds e repeat If the ID3 artist and title are not present e Display the filename continuously Note that by using a subline display time of 0 in one branch of a conditional a subline can be skipped not displayed when that condition is met Using Images You can have as many as 52 images in your WPS There are various ways of displaying images 1 Load and always show the image using the 4x tag 2 Preload the image with 4x1 and show it with 4xd This way you can have your images displayed conditionally 3 Load an image and show as backdrop using the 4X tag The image must be of the same exact dimensions as your display Example on background image use EXAMPLE 4X background bmp The image with filename background bmp is loaded and used in the WPS Example on bitmap preloading and use THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 160 EXAMPLE 4x a static_icon bmp 50 50 4x1 b rep_off bmp 16 64 4x1 c rep_all bmp 16 64 4x1 d rep_one bmp 16 64 4x1 e rep_shuffle bmp 16 64 mm lt 7 xd b Axd Cc xd d xd e gt Four images at the same x and y position are preloa
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84. Q 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 as the bass control found on ordinary stereo sys tems does Adjust the cutoff frequency parameter to decide where the shelving 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 adjust a much wider range of bass frequencies The gain parameter controls how much the loudness of the band is adjusted Positive numbers make the EQ band louder while negative numbers make that EQ band quieter The Q parameter should always be set to 0 7 for the shelving filters Higher values will add a small boost around the cutoff frequency that is almost always undesirable Bands 1 8 Peaking filters Peaking EQ filters boost or lower a frequency range cen tered at the centre frequency chosen Graphic equalizers in home stereos are usually peaking filters The peaking filters in Rockbox s EQ lets you adjust three different parameters for EQ bands 1 through 3 The centre parameter controls the centre frequency of the frequency range that is
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86. Return Return to the file being viewed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 130 Viewer Options Change settings for the current file Encoding Set the codepage in the text viewer Available settings 150 8859 1 Latin 1 ISO 8859 7 Greek ISO 8859 8 Hebrew CP1251 Cyrillic ISO 8859 11 Thai CP1256 Arabic ISO 8859 9 Turkish ISO 8859 2 Latin Extended CP1250 Central European SJIS Japanese GB 2312 Simple Chinese KSX 1001 Korean BIG5 Traditional Chinese UTF 8 Unicode This setting only applies to the plugin and is independent from the DEFAULT CODEPAGE setting see section 8 4 page 65 Word Wrap Toggle word wrap mode On Break lines at the maximum column limit Off Chop Words Break lines at white space or hyphen Line Mode Change how lines are displayed Normal Break lines at newline characters Join Join lines together Expand Add a blank line at newlines Useful for making paragraphs clearer in some book style text files Reflow Lines Justify the text Screens Per Page Set the number of screens per page Available options are 1 to 5 screens per page Alignment Set the text alignment Right Set the text alignment to the right Useful for displaying right to left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew Left Set the text alignment to the left Show Header Select whether to show the header The header displays the file path No Do not display the header
87. Rockdoom options you will need to quit your current game and restart the plugin Main Menu The Doom plugin has a main menu which is brought up before a game is started It has the following entries Game Select which official wad to launch Addon Select which unofficial addon wad to launch From rockbox doom addons directory Demos Select which demo file to play on game start Options Configure low level Doom options Play Game Launch the wad addon Demo chosen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 87 Options Menu This menu has the following options Sound Enable or Disable sound in Doom Set Keys Change the game key configuration Time Demo Run a timed demo to test game speed on a player Only runs on Doom Shareware Player Bobbing Enable or Disable player up Down movement Translucency Enable or Disable sprite translucency Fireballs Plasma Fake Contrast Enable or Disable modified game lighting Always Run Make the player always run Headsup Display Show the player status when in fullscreen Statusbar Always Red Disable colour response statusbar InGame Main Menu This menu can only be accessed from within a running game and is displayed by New Game Start a new game Options In game options Load Game Load a saved game Save Game Save the current game Quit Quit the game InGame Options Menu This menu has the following options Keys End Game Ends the curren
88. TER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 155 Note Keep in mind that your player s 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 Viewports By default a viewport filling the whole screen contains all the elements defined in each theme file The elements in this viewport are displayed with the same background foreground shades and the text is rendered in the same font as in the main menu To change this behaviour a custom viewport can be defined A viewport is a rectangular window on the screen with its own foreground background shades This window also has variable dimensions To define a viewport a line starting 7 has to be present in the theme file The full syntax will be explained later in this section All elements placed before the line defining a viewport are displayed in the default viewport Elements defined after a viewport declaration are drawn within that viewport Loading images see Appendix section D 21 page 182 should be done within the default viewport A viewport ends either with the end of the file or with the next viewport declaration line Viewports sharing the same coordinates and dimensions cannot be displayed at the same time Viewports cannot be layered transparently over one another Subsequent viewports will be drawn over any other viewports already drawn onto that area of the screen Viewport Declaration Syntax
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90. 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 Enter 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 144 Selecting RESET KEYBOX from the main menu will delete the current list of passwords and a new empty list will be created the next time you select ENTER KEYBOX after prompting for a new master password Entries are automatically saved when the plugin is exited 12 4 9 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 Scroll Up Change the brightness Scroll Down Menu or Long Exit to menu Menu 12 4 10 Lrcplayer This plugin displays lyrics in 1rc files and some other formats synchronized with the song being played Supported file types alre 2 1rc8 3 snc 4 txt 5 id3v2 SYLT or USLT tags in mp3 files 1rc8 files are the same as 1rc files except that they are UT F8 encoded The Lyrics3 tag is not supported Supported tags and formats for 1rc files The fol
91. 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 34 By selecting playing a song from the File Browser Whenever a song is selected from the FILE BROWSER with Enter Rockbox will auto matically create a playlist containing all of the songs in that directory and start playback with the selected song Note If you already have created a dynamic playlist playing a new song will erase the current dynamic playlist and create a new one If you want to add a song to the current playlist rather than erasing the current playlist see the section below on how to add music to a playlist By using Insert and Queue functions If playback is stopped the INSERT and QUEUE functions can be used as described in 4 4 3 to create a new playlist instead of adding to an existing one This will erase any dynamic playlist By using the Playlist catalog
92. ad When you play Sudoku on paper most people like to mark numbers in cells that are possible candidates for the cells This can be done with the scratchpad shown as separate column Change the number under the cursor to the number you want to put on the scratchpad and press the scratchpad button the number will then be added If the number was already on the scratchpad it will get removed again The column is stored separately for every cell on the board The stored values can be displayed inline as small dots by enabling the SHOW MARKINGS settings Note The scratchpad is not saved when saving the game THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 106 Key Action Scroll Up Scroll Down Rewind Forward Enter Long Enter Menu Play Move the cursor Change number under the cursor Constantly changing the number under the cursor Open Menu Add Remove number to scratchpad Quit Long Menu 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 12 1 29 Wormlet Figure 12 26 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
93. 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 fre quency range is Higher Q values will affect a narrower band of frequencies while lower Q values will affect a wider band of frequencies Band 9 High shelf filter A high shelf filter boosts or lowers all frequencies above a certain frequency limit much as the treble control found on ordinary stereo systems does The high shelf filter is adjusted the same way as the low shelf filter THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 51 except that it works on the high end of the frequency spectrum rather than the low end As a general guide EQ band 0 should be used for low frequencies EQ bands 1 through 8 should be used for mids and EQ band 9 should be used for highs Enable EQ This option controls whether the EQ is on or off Graphical EQ This option brings up a graphic EQ screen which allows adjustment of each of the three parameters described above gain centre frequency and Q for each of the five EQ bands Key Action Scroll Up Raises the highlighted parameter Scroll Down Lowers the highlighted parameter Rewind Moves to the previous EQ band Forward Moves to the next EQ band Enter Toggles the cursor among the three pa rameters gain centre frequency Q for the selecte
94. all the rights that you have You must make sure that they too receive or can get the source code And you must show them these terms so they know their rights We protect your rights with two steps 1 copyright the software and 2 offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy distribute and or modify the software Also for each author s protection and ours we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software If the software is modified by someone else and passed on we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors reputations Finally any free program is threatened constantly by software patents We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses in effect making the program proprietary To prevent this we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone s free use or not licensed at all The precise terms and conditions for copying distribution and modification follow GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 211 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0 This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the term
95. around the keypad Forward Scroll Up Scroll Down Enter Select a button Menu Delete last entered digit or clear after cal culation Play Calculate Long Menu Quit 12 4 4 Calendar Figure 12 46 Calendar THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 139 This is a small and simple calendar application with memo saving function Dots indicate dates with memos The available memo types are one off yearly monthly and weekly memos You can select what day is first day of week by the setting FIRST DAY OF WEEK in the menu Key Action Scroll Up Move the selector Scroll Down Enter Show memos for the selected day Rewind Previous Next week Forward Rec Play Previous Next month Long Menu Quit 12 4 5 Chess Clock Player 1 00 16 09 56 Figure 12 47 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 Scroll Up Scroll Increase decrease displayed Value Down Enter Move to next screen Rec Move to previous screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 140 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 e Done Player 1 st
96. arts in paused mode While playing The number of the current player is displayed on the top line The time below is the time remaining for that round and possibly also the total time left if different Keys are as follows Key Action Long Menu Exit plugin Restart round for the current player Play Pause the time press again to continue Switch to next player Scroll Down Switch to previous player Menu Open menu 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 12 4 6 Clock Figure 12 48 Clock This is a fully featured analogue and digital clock plugin THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 141 Key configuration Key Action Rewind Cycle through modes Forward Scroll Up Cycle through skins Scroll Down Menu Main Menu Enter Start Stop Counter Long Enter Reset Counter Clock Menu View Clock Exits the menu and returns to the current clock mode display Mode Selector Opens a menu from which you can select a clock mode to view Counter Settings Opens a menu from which you can adjust settings pertaining to the counter Mode Settings Opens a menu from which you can adjust s
97. as already been buffered i e read into the player s memory will be played This may even be the whole track Pitch The PITCH SCREEN allows you to change the rate of playback i e the playback speed and at the same time the pitch of your player The rate value can be adjusted between 50 and 200 50 means half the normal playback speed and a pitch that is an octave lower than the normal pitch 200 means double playback speed and a pitch that is an octave higher than the normal pitch The rate can be changed in two modes procentual and semitone Initially procentual mode is active If you ve enabled the TIMESTRETCH option in SOUND SETTINGS and have since re booted you can also use timestretch mode This allows you to change the playback speed without affecting the pitch and vice versa In timestretch mode there are separate displays for pitch and speed and each can be altered independently Due to the limitations of the algorithm speed is limited to be between 35 and 250 of the current pitch value Pitch must maintain the same ratio as well as remain between 50 and 200 The value of the rate pitch and speed is not persistent i e after the player is turned on it will always be set to 100 However the rate pitch and speed information will be stored in any bookmarks you may create see section 8 7 page 69 and will be restored upon playing back those bookmarks THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER
98. as elapsed What to do when Splitting This controls what will happen when the splitting condi tion is fulfilled 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 10 8 Prerecord Time This setting buffers a small amount of audio so that when the record button is pressed the recording will begin from that number of seconds earlier This is useful for ensuring that recording begins before a cue that is being waited for THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 78 10 9 Clear Recording Directory Resets the location where the recorded files are saved to the root of your player s drive 10 10 Clipping Light Causes the backlight to flash on when clipping has been detected Options OFF MAIN UNIT ONLY MAIN AND REMOTE UNIT REMOTE UNIT ONLY 10 11 Trigger When you record a source you often are only interested in the sound and not the silence in between The recording trigger provides you with a tool to automatically distinguish between sound and silence and record the sound only Unfortunately it is not very easy
99. ase every N seconds For example selecting SPEED UP EVERY 35 will increase the scroll speed every 3 seconds while Scroll Up or Scroll Down is held THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 65 Peak Meter The peak meter can be configured with a number of parameters Peak Release This determines how fast the bar shrinks when the music becomes softer Lower values make the peak meter look smoother Expressed in scale units per 10 ms Peak Hold Time Specifies the time after which the peak indicator will reset For example if you set this value to 5 s the peak indicator displays the loudest volume value that occurred within the last 5 seconds Larger values are useful if you want to find the peak level of a song which might be of interest when copying music from the player via the analogue output to some other recording device Clip Hold Time The number of seconds that the clipping indicator will be visible after clipping is detected Clip Counter Show the number of times the clip indicator went active during recording in front of the peak meters Scale Select whether the peak meter displays linear or logarithmic values The human ear perceives loudness on a logarithmic scale If the Scale setting is set to LOGARITHMIC dB scale the volume values are scaled logarithmically The volume meters of digital audio devices usually are scaled this way On the other hand if you are interested in the po
100. asible with the current list implementation if you really want this you can get similar effects using the database see section 4 2 page 26 e Add support for non standard tag formats APE tags in MP3 files has been rejected a few times already Its not something we want e Implementing the ability to playback DRM files Firstly this would be extremely difficult to implement legally Rockbox is not legal entity as such and therefore is unable to enter into license agreements with providers of DRM technology Secondly Rockbox is open source which would mean that any DRM technology we incorporated into our codebase would sud denly become visible to the whole world completely defeating its purpose Re member DRM achieves part of its security through obscurity and publishing the keys necessary to decrypt DRM d media would essentially render it useless THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX CREDITS 198 H Credits People that have contributed to the project one way or another Friends gt BJORN STENBERG LINUS NIELSEN FELTZ ING gt ANDY CHOI gt ANDREW JAMIESON gt PAUL SUADE b JOACHIM SCHIFFER gt DANIEL STENBERG gt ALAN KORR GARY CZVITKOVICZ STUART MARTIN gt FE LIX ARENDS gt ULF RALBERG P DAVID HARDEMAN THOMAS SAEYS GRANT WIER gt JULIEN LABRUYERE b NICOLAS SAUZEDE gt ROBERT DAVE CHAP MAN b STEFAN MEYER ERIC LINENBERG gt CVITAN gt MAG
101. atting rules 1 Each setting must be on a separate line 2 Each line has the format setting value 3 Values must be within the ranges specified in this manual for each setting THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 161 4 Lines starting with are ignored This lets you write comments into your config uration files Example of a configuration file EXAMPLE volume 70 bass 11 treble 12 balance 0 time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans 1ng Note As you can see from the example configuration files do not need to contain all of the Rockbox options You can create configuration files that change only certain set tings So for example suppose you typically use the player at one volume in the car and another when using headphones Further suppose you like to use an inverse LCD when you are in the car and a regular LCD setting when you are using headphones You could create configuration files that control only the volume and LCD settings Create a few different files with different settings give each file a different name such as car cfg headphones cfg etc and you can then use the BROWSE CFG FILES option to quickly change settings A special case configuration file can be used to force a particular setting or settings every time Rockbox starts up e g to set the volume to a saf
102. atus Bar D 2 Hardware Capabilities D 3 Information from the track tags D 4 Viewports D 5 Additional Fonts D 6 Misc Coloring Tags D 7 Power Related Information D 8 Information about the file D 9 Playlist Song Info D 10 Playlist Viewer D 11 Runtime Database D 12 Sound DSP settings DAG ee we botes D 14 Virtual LED D 15 Repeat Mode D 16 Playback Mode D 17 Current Screen D 18 List Title sbs only D 19 Changing Volume D 20 Settings D 21 Images D 21 1 How to display the album art D 22 FM Radio D 23 Alignment and language direction D 24 Conditional Tags THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CONTENTS 10 Der Buble PABS O 244m ek e demde a a D Rede ae a 186 1120 Tuus gnd Dae us oak ee ee NUR eek 186 1127 heey uos uoc wer cue ee Eee oe 187 LLZR Bar Tags ea eS RS 187 DL OOS desee LR a ae echa Rod 187 Dee Other Tage T 188 Config file options 190 F Menu Overview 195 G User feedback 196 id s A R Eae d 196 G 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 196 x2 Feature ideas 2 1 dee Po os ee eos qox voy dus 196 G 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 196 G 2 2 Features we will not implement ln 197 H Credits 198 1 Licenses 2
103. ave pictures specific to the file or the album or use a generic picture You can place the picture in the same directory as the file in the parent directory or in a fixed directory named rockbox albumart The order Rockbox uses when looking for a picture is as follows a list in braces means that those file extensions are tried in that order 1 embedded JPEG images in ID3v2 or MP4 tags only 2 filename jpeg jpg bmp 3 albumtitle jpeg jpg bmp 4 cover jpeg jpg bmp 5 folder jpg 6 rockbox albumart albumartist albumtitle jpeg jpg bmp 7 albumtitle jpeg jpg bmp 8 cover jpeg jpg bmp THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX ALBUM ART 172 The following characters will be replaced with an underscore _ when looking for albumtitle bmp or albumartist albumtitle bmp V lt gt Doublequotes will be replaced by single quotes If no album artist is set artist will be used instead See AlbumArt in the wiki for programs that will help you automate the process of putting album art on your player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 173 D Theme Tags Themeing is discussed in detail in section section 13 2 page 154 what follows is a list of the available tags Note The bar type tags such as pv etc can be further themed see section D 28 page 187 D 1 Status Bar Tag Description
104. ave the file ex tension rock Most of them can be started from BROWSE PLUGINS in the MAIN MENU Viewer plugins get started automatically by opening an associated file i e text files chip8 games or from the OPEN WITH option on the CONTEXT MENU 12 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 12 3 2 page 120 12 1 1 Blackjack Dealer Money 990 Bet CE Player Total Figure 12 1 Blackjack Blackjack a game played in casinos around the world is now available in the palm of your hand The rules are simple try to get as close to 21 without going over or simply beat out the dealer for the best hand Although this may not seem difficult blackjack is a game renowned for the strategy involved This version includes the ability to split buy insurance and double down For the full set of rules to the game and other fascinating information visit http www blackjackinfo com blackjack rules php THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 82 Key Action Rewind Enter betting amount Forward Scroll Up Scroll Down Enter Hit Draw new card Select Play Stay End hand Rec Double down Menu Pause game and go to menu Cancel 12 1 2 BrickMania Life 1 184 Level 1 4 E m Figure 12 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
105. bel scale where 0 dB is a refer ence that indicates the maximum volume that the player can produce without possible distortion clipping All values lower than this reference will be negative and yield a progressively softer volume Values higher than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible These volume levels will ordi narily lead to distorted sound but might work nicely for music that has an otherwise low volume level The volume can be adjusted from a 6 2 Bass This setting emphasises or suppresses the lower bass frequencies in the sound A value of 0 dB means that bass sounds are unaltered flat response 6 3 Treble This setting emphasises or suppresses the higher treble frequencies in the sound A value of 0 dB means that treble sounds are unaltered flat response THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 48 6 4 Balance This setting controls the balance between the left and right channels The default 0 means that the left and right outputs are equal in volume Negative numbers increase the volume of the left channel relative to the right positive numbers increase the volume of the right channel relative to the left 6 5 Channels A stereo audio signal consists of two channels left and right The CHANNELS setting determines if these channels are to be combined in any way and if so in what manner they will be combined Avai
106. big worm for as long as possible Game controls Key Action Rewind Forward Scroll Up Scroll Down Turn left Turn right Turn Up Turn Down THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 107 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 Walls are not edible Crashin
107. bing the mapping from the Chip8 keyboard to the default key mapping that way several Chip8 keys can be pressed using only one Rockbox key For example a file containing the single line CODE 0122458469ABCDEF would correspond to the following non default mappings 3 gt 2 6 gt 8 7 4 8 gt 6 The default keymappings are Of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 AB CD EF Key Long Menu Rewind Forward Menu Enter Rec Play Scroll Up Scroll Down Some places where can you can find ch8 files e The PluginChip8 page on www rockbox org has several attached sPluginChip8 e Check out the HP48 chip games section http www hpcalc org hp48 games chip e PC emulator by the guy who wrote the HP48 emulator http www pdc kth se Afo chip8 CHIP8 htm e Links to other chip8 emulators http www zophar net chip8 html 12 3 3 Frotz Frotz is a Z Machine interpreter for playing Infocom s interactive fiction games and newer games using the same format To start a game open a z1 z8 file in the FILE BROWSER Most modern games are in the z5 or z8 format but the older formats used by Infocom are supported THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 122 Z Machine games are text based and most depend heavily on typed commands The virtual keyboard is used for text entry both for typing entire lines and for typing single characters when the game requires single character input
108. bookmark There are two options in the context menu e RESUME will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry e DELETE will remove the currently selected bookmark entry from the list 8 8 Automatic resume The automatic resume feature stores and recalls resume positions for all tracks without user intervention These resume points are stored in the database and thus automatic resume only works when the database has been initialized When automatic resume is enabled manually selected tracks resume playback at their last playback position It does not matter in which way you start the track tracks are resumed whether they are navigated to through the database browser or file browser THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 71 by starting a playlist or by skipping through tracks in the current playlist As an exception when a track is resumed by loading a bookmark the playback position saved in the bookmark takes precedence Optionally you can also enable automatic resume for automatic track transitions In this case the next track will be resumed as well instead of starting playback at its beginning This is most useful for podcasts and can be enabled on a per directory basis A track s resume position is updated whenever playback of that track stops including when explicitly stopping the track powering off the player or starting playback of another track If you in
109. c freenode net Many helpful developers and users are usually around Just join and ask your question don t ask to ask if someone knows the answer you ll usually get an answer pretty quickly More information including IRC logs can be found at http www rockbox org irc We also have a web client so that you can join the Rockbox IRC channel without needing to install additional software onto your computer If you think you have found a bug please make sure it actually is a bug and is still present in the most recent version of Rockbox You should try to confirm that by using the above mentioned support channels first After that you can submit that issue to our tracker Refer to section G page 196 for details on how to use the tracker 1 3 Naming conventions and marks We have some conventions especially for naming that are intended to be consistent throughout this manual Manufacturer and product names are formatted in accordance with the standard rules of English grammar e g MPIO playback is currently unsupported Manufacturer and model names are proper nouns and thus are written beginning with a capital letter This manual has some parts that are marked with icons on the margin to help you finding important parts or parts you could skip The following icons are used Note This indicates a note A note starts always with the text Note In order to make finding notes easier each one is accompanied by an icon in the ma
110. cs Title ext Music Lyrics Title ext Lyrics Title ext Lyrics Musics Artist Album Title ext Lyrics Musics Artist Title ext Lyrics Musics Title ext Lyrics Title ext THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 146 Controls Key Action Scroll Up Volume up down Scroll Down Rewind Go to beginning of track or if pressed Long Rewind Forward Long Forward Play Long Play or Enter Long Enter Menu Lrcplayer Menu while in the first seconds of a track go to the previous track Rewind in track Go to the next track Fast forward in track Toggle play pause Exit the plugin Enter timetag editor Enter LRCPLAYER MENU Theme settings Change theme related settings Show Statusbar Show hide the statusbar Display Title Show hide the track title Display Time Show hide the current time Backlight Force On Do not turn off the backlight while displaying the lyrics Display Settings Change how the lyrics are displayed Wrap Breaks lines at white space Wipe Wipes the text Alignment Align text to the left centre or right Activate Only Current Line Activate only the current line or the current and previous lines Lyrics Settings Change how the lyrics files are loaded Encoding Sets the codepage used in the plugin Read ID3 tag Read lyrics from id3 tags in mp3 files Lrc Directory Set the directory where lyrics files are stored must be a maximu
111. ct in the context menu and then move the blinking cursor to the place where you want the track to be moved and confirm with Enter To remove a track simply select REMOVE in the context menu 4 4 5 Saving playlists 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 A A CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 37 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists Through the File Browser Playlist files like regular music tracks can be selected through the FILE BROWSER When loading a playlist from disk it will replace the current dynamic playlist Through the Playlist catalogue The PLAYLIST CATALOGUE offers a shortcut to all playlists in your player s specified playlist directory It can be used like the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 38 5 The Main Menu 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu END X Rockbox Files Jd Database gt Resume Playback X Settings Recording SFM Radio Playlists i2 Plugins e System Figure 5 1 The main menu The MAIN MENU is the screen from which all of th
112. d EQ band Menu Exits the graphic EQ screen Pre cut If too much positive gain is added through the graphical EQ your music may distort The PRECUT setting allows you to apply a global negative gain to decoded audio cancelling out positive gain from the EQ This will prevent distortion when boosting certain frequency ranges at the expense of making audio quieter Alternatively precut can be used with a flat EQ curve to implement a volume cap For example on a player that allows overdriving the headphone output to 6dB maximum volume can be capped to 0dB by applying 6dB of precut Note that precut is not applied if EQ is disabled 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 in a cfg file Browse EQ Presets This menu displays a list of EQ presets as well as any EQ con figurations saved using the SAVE EQ PRESET option Users unfamiliar with the operation of a parametric EQ may wish to use the presets instead of trying to configure the EQ or use the presets for designing their own cust
113. de outs are recorded completely By specifying a short presplit gap you still can split the recording into separate tracks whenever the trigger start condition is met More information can be found at mVolumeTriggeredRecording THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 11 TIME AND DATE 80 11 Time and Date Time related menu options Pressing Long Enter will voice the current time if voice support is enabled Set Time Date Set current time and date Wake Up Alarm This option will make the player start up at the specified time Use Scroll Up and Scroll Down to adjust the minutes setting Scroll Down and Scroll Up to adjust the hours Enter confirms the alarm and Menu cancels setting an alarm If the player is turned on again before the alarm occurs the alarm will be cancelled Alarm Wake Up Screen This option controls what the player does when it is woken up by the alarm Time Format Choose 12 or 24 hour clock THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 81 12 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 h
114. ded in the example Which image to display is determined by the mm tag the repeat mode Example File EXAMPLE Ash in lt hin A4 it Ait 4fn 4 ia ia id 1 gt gt ApbApc Apt That is tracknum title artist album where most fields are only displayed if avail able Could also be rendered as filename or tracknum title artist 13 3 Managing Rockbox Settings 13 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files Rockbox allows users to store and load multiple settings through the use of configuration files A configuration file is simply a text file with the extension cfg 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 13 3 2 page 160 below for an explanation of the format for configuration files See section 13 3 3 page 161 for an explanation of how to create edit and load configuration files 13 3 2 Specifications for cfg Files The Rockbox configuration file is a plain text file so once you use the SAVE CFG FILE option to create the file you can edit the file on your computer using any text editor program See Appendix section E page 190 for available settings Configuration files use the following form
115. disk for tagged files by using the INITIALIZE Now function in the DATABASE MENU Warning INITIALIZE NOW removes all database files removing runtimedb data also and rebuilds the database from scratch Update Now UPDATE NOW causes the database to detect new and deleted files Note Unlike the AUTO UPDATE function UPDATE 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 rockbox database changelog txt which backs up the runtime data in ASCII format This is needed when database structures change because new code cannot read old database code But all modifications exported to ASCII format should be readable by all database versions Import Modifications Allows the rockbox database changelog txt backup to be conveniently loaded into the database If AUTO UPDATE is enabled this is per formed automatically when the database is initialized 4 2 4 Using the Database Once
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117. e When using the player in a car CAR ADAPTER MODE automat ically stops playback on the player when power i e from cigarette lighter power adapter to the external DC in jack is turned off If the CAR ADAPTER MODE is set to ON Rockbox will pause playback when the external power off condition is detected Rockbox will then shutdown the player after the length of time set in the IDLE POWEROFF setting see section 8 6 2 page 68 If power to the DC in jack is turned back on before the Idle Poweroff function has shut the player off playback will be resumed 5 seconds after the power is applied This delay is to allow for the time while the car engine is being started Once the player is shut off either manually or automatically with the IDLE POWEROFF function it must be powered up manually to resume playback 8 5 5 Keyclick This menu controls key clicks on button presses Keyclick This setting controls how strong the keyclicks are If set to OFF the keyclicks will be disabled Keyclick repeats This setting turns keyclick repeats ON and OFF If set to ON the keyclicks will be repeated when you hold down a button If set to OFF you will hear only one click 8 6 Startup Shutdown The STARTUP SHUTDOWN sub menu allows you to configure items which are run at startup or initiate a shutdown when conditions are met 8 6 1 Start Screen Set the screen that Rockbox will start in The default is the main menu but the following options ar
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119. e Rockbox functions can be accessed This is the first screen you will see when starting Rockbox To return to the MAIN MENU press the Long Menu button All settings are stored on the unit However Rockbox does not access the hard disk solely for the purpose of saving settings Instead Rockbox will save settings when it accesses the hard disk the next time for example when refilling the music buffer or navigating through the FILE BROWSER Changes to settings may therefore not be saved unless the player is shut down safely see section 3 1 2 page 19 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu Key Action Scroll Down Select the next option in the menu Inside a setting increase the value or choose next option Scroll Up Select the previous option in the menu Inside setting decrease the value or choose previous option Enter Select option Menu Exit menu or setting or move to parent menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 39 5 3 Recent Bookmarks 21 08 END a 5 R Select Bookmark Stones 03 Under My 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 Note Bookmarking only works when tracks are launched from the file browser and does not currently work for tracks launched via
120. e available THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 68 Previous Screen Start Rockbox in the same screen as when it was shut off Main Menu Show the main menu Files Display the file browser starting in the root directory of your player Database Show the default database view Resume Playback Go to the WPS and and resume playback from where it was before turning off if there is a playlist to resume Settings Display the main settings menu Recording Start the player in the recording screen recording does not start automati cally FM Radio Go to the radio screen and start playing Recent Bookmarks Show the list of recent bookmarks as described in section 8 7 page 69 Bookmarking needs to be enabled 8 6 2 Idle Poweroff Rockbox can be configured to turn off power after the unit has been idle for a defined number of minutes 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 or 60 minutes are available 8 6 3 Sleep Timer The SLEEP TIMER powers off your player after a given time whether playing or not Start Sleep Timer duration Shown when the SLEEP TIMER is inactive this option will initiate a SLEEP TIMER with the duration shown in brackets Cancel Sleep Timer remaining Shown when the SLEEP TIMER is acti
121. e information Playback Settings This is a shortcut to the PLAYBACK SETTINGS MENU where you can configure shuffle repeat party mode skip length and other settings affecting the playback of your music Rating The menu entry is only shown if GATHER RUNTIME INFORMATION is enabled It allows the assignment of a personal rating value 0 10 to a track which can be displayed in the WPS and used in the Database browser The value wraps at 10 Bookmarks This allows you to create a bookmark in the currently playing track Show Track Info otreet Fig Artist London Symphonic Orchestra Album Symphonic Of The Rolling St Album Artist London Symphonic Orchestr Work No Info Figure 4 4 The track info viewer This screen is accessible from the WPS screen and provides a detailed view of all the identity information about the current track This info is known as meta data and is stored in audio file formats to keep information on artist album etc access this screen press Long Enter to access the WPS CONTEXT MENU and select SHOW TRACK INFO THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 32 Open With This OPEN WITH function is the same as the OPEN WITH function in the file browser s CONTEXT MENU Delete Delete the currently playing file The file will be deleted but the playback of the file will not stop immediately Instead the part of the file that h
122. e 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 13 3 3 The Manage Settings menu The MANAGE SETTINGS menu can be found in the MAIN MENU The MANAGE SET TINGS menu allows you to save and load cfg files Browse cfg Files Opens the FILE BROWSER in the rockbox directory and displays all cfg configuration files Selecting a cfg file will cause Rockbox to load the settings contained in that file Pressing Menu will exit back to the MANAGE SETTINGS menu See the WRITE CFG FILES option on the MANAGE SETTINGS menu for details of how to save and edit a configuration file Reset Settings This wipes the saved settings in the player and resets all settings to their default values Save cfg File This option writes 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 162 Hint Use the SAVE CFG FILE feature MAIN MENU MANAGE SETTINGS to save the current settings then use a text editor to customize the settings file See Appendix section E page 190 for the full reference of available options Save Sound Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The config uration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all
123. e lossy format to another based upon the above mentioned This will reduce the audio quality If you have the choice select the best suiting codec when encoding the original source material 13 5 6 Sound settings In general all kinds of sound processing will need more CPU time and therefore consume more power The less sound processing you use the better it is for the battery runtime for options see section 6 page 47 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX FILE FORMATS 164 A File formats A 1 Supported file formats Icon File Type Extension Action when selected Directory none Enter the directory Audio file various Start playing the file and show the see B 1 WPS Bookmark bmark Display all bookmarks for an audio file Game of Life cells Show the configuration with the Rocklife plugin Configuration File cfg Load the settings file ET Chip8 game ch8 Play the Chip8 game B Cuesheet cue View the cuesheet file FM Presets fmr Load the FM Presets previous are discarded A Font fnt Change the user interface font to this one T Image jpg View the JPEG image Link link Display list of target files and di rectories selecting one jumps to the target See section 12 3 1 page 119 E Language File lng Load the language file Playlist m3u m3u8 Load the playlist and start playing the first file Video mpg mpeg Play the MPEG1 2 video mpv m2v Plugin rock Start the plug
124. e o sos ba aves ade a Re a ee a xo ee c8 26 47 Droduch ne kk y a a dexe Aa da oes RUE dea 26 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CONTENTS 4 42 2 Initializing the Database o soe poa uca RR RR 26 42 5 The Database uou soo eo ee Ee Re RO ER 26 124 Using the Database GE 27 43 While Playing 2222s pozo ee ee a 28 431 WPS Key Controls s 2 44468 ee ee 29 4 3 2 Peak Meter oc ooe e A ee ee ee ws 29 4 3 3 The WPS Context Men o ca 25440483 30 44 Working with Playlists se saa peaa aa ooo de RE RE 33 44l Playlist terminology lt a 5 5 045 RE RR 33 442 Creating playliste zu ux ow He eR eR om Rx A ea d 33 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists o so cys caa poa llle 35 4 4 4 Modifying playlists s eewge a o e e 36 445 Saving playlists o uo Losses om eom Rok ee 36 4 4 6 Loading saved playlists 37 5 The Main Menu 38 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu iaoa serp mrs 38 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 38 5 8 Recent Bookmarks s s 66 roa a aok o RR E 39 T o ae e fe RARER c RR Ge Pee be aan be 39 5 5 Database os o opea cossa ond Loos Lae Rew 40 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback 40 De 5 222 5463 bn aara xbox Rom Ro TO
125. e paddles is pressed control of that paddle passes to the player so for a single player game just press the appropriate buttons to control the side you want to play For a two player game both players should just press the appropriate buttons for their side Key Action Rewind Left player up Rec Left player down Forward Right player up Play Right player down Long Menu Quit 12 1 17 Reversi This is a simple implementation of the Reversi game The objective of the game is to have a majority of own coloured pieces showing at the end of the game The game rules can be found in the internet You can choose to play manually you place both the white and dark pieces or to play against a not very smart robot THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 98 12 1 18 Robotfindskitten robotfindskitten v1 4142135 nd kitten No just kidding 5 9 B Figure 12 16 Robotfindskitten In this game you are robot 42 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 Scroll Up Scroll Move robot Down Rewind Forward Menu Quit 12 1 19 Rockblox Figure 12 17 Rockblox Rockblox is a Rockbox version of the classic falling blocks game from Russia The aim of the game is to make the falling blocks of different shapes form
126. early the whole LCD 12 4 7 Disk Tidy Disk Tidy deletes junk files commonly left behind by Windows Linux and OS X after connecting your player over USB Select the files you want to delete in the Files to Clean menu and select Start Cleaning to begin the process The settings are stored THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 143 in the plain text file rockbox rocks apps disktidy config that is user modifiable to allow custom entries to be added The asterisk character can be used as a wild card which will match any string however only the first asterisk will be recognised as a wild card with any additional uses being taken as literal Warning Be careful when you use custom entries as you could accidentally delete important files Available Options All selects all Linux OS X and Windows files None deselects all file options Linux selects Linux files Default files are dolphinview d3lphinview and Trash Windows selects Windows files Default files are Thumbs db RECYCLE BIN Desktop ini Recycled and System Volume Information Mac selects OS X files Default files are _ DS_Store Spotlight V100 and Trashes Other selects additional files added to the configuration file by the user Key Action Menu Exit Abort 12 4 8 Keybox Keybox is an encrypted password storage using the Tiny Encryption Algorithm with a key derived using md5
127. econds MSX Konami Sound System kss Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds SMS GG CV Sound Format Sgc Supports Sega Mas ter System and Game Gear Sound Format Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds Video Game Music Format vgm Gzipped Video Game Music Format Vgz MOD mod NES Sound Format nsf nsfe Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds Atari SAP Sound Interface Device sid Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds SPC700 Spc Note NSF and VGM might not play in realtime on all devices due to CPU performance requirements THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX AUDIO AND METADATA FORMATS 168 B 1 4 Codec featureset o rs Format ATSC A 52 AC3 ADX Advanced Audio Coding MPEG audio Musepack OGG Vorbis Sony Audio RealAudio Dialogic telephony type Windows Media Audio Standard Windows Media Audio Professional Audio Interchange File Format Monkey s Audio Sun Audio Free Lossless Audio Apple Lossless Shorten True Audio Wave64 Waveform audio format Wavpack Atari Sound Format Synthetic music Mobile Application Format Game Boy Sound Format AY Sound Chip Music Hudson Entertainment System Sound Format MSX Konami Sound System SMS GG CV Sound Format Video Game Music Format Gzipped Video Game Music Format MOD NES Sound Format Atari SAP Sound Interface Device SPC
128. ecs Format Extension Notes Audio Interchange File Format aif aiff Linear PCM 8 16 24 32 bit IEEE float 32 64 bit ITU T G 711 a law p law QuickTime IMA AD PCM Monkey s Audio mac Sun Audio au snd Linear PCM 8 16 24 32 bit IEEE float 32 64 bit ITU T G 711 a law u law Free Lossless Audio BT Supports multichannel playback in cluding downmixing to stereo Apple Lossless m4a mp4 Shorten shn Seeking not supported True Audio tta Wave64 w64 Supports same formats as Wave form audio format Waveform audio format Linear PCM 8 16 24 32 bit IEEE float 32 64 bit ITU T G 711 a law p law Microsoft ADPCM In tel DVI ADPCM IMA ADPCM 2 3 4 5 bit Dialogic OKI AD PCM YAMAHA ADPCM Adobe SWF ADPCM Wavpack Note Free Lossless Audio multichannel tracks may not play in realtime on all devices due to CPU performance requirements THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX AUDIO AND METADATA FORMATS 167 B 1 3 Other Codecs Format Extension Notes Atari Sound Format cmc cm3 cmr cms dmc dlt mpt mpd Synthetic music Mobile Application Format mmf PCM ADPCM only Game Boy Sound Format gbs Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds AY Sound Chip Music ay Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds for multitrack files Hudson Entertainment System Sound Format hes Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of s
129. ems on each line into 2 or more groups or sublines Each subline will be displayed in succession on the line for a specified time alternating continuously through each defined subline Items on a line are broken into sublines with the semicolon character The display time for each subline defaults to 2 seconds unless modified by using the t tag to specify an alternate time in seconds and optional tenths of a second for the subline to be displayed Subline related special characters and tags Split items on a line into separate sublines t Set the subline display time The 4t is followed by either integer seconds 7 5 or seconds and tenths of a second within e g Zt 3 5 Each alternating subline can still be optionally scrolled while it is being displayed and scrollable formats can be displayed on the same line with non scrollable formats such as track elapsed time as long as they are separated into different sublines Example subline definition THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 159 EXAMPLE hsht 4 hia Ashit t 3 pc Apr Display id3 artist for 4 seconds Display id3 title for 2 seconds Display current and remaining track time for 3 seconds repeat Conditionals can be used with sublines to display a different set and or number of sublines on the line depending on the evaluation of the conditional Example subline with conditionals EXA
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131. ers viewer dat Quit Exits the plugin The text viewer automatically stores its settings the current position and bookmarks in rockbox rocks viewers viewer file dat Bookmarks To add a bookmark press The bookmark will be displayed as shown below To delete the bookmark press the same button again No aw text 244 8 txt of the University of London and proceeded to Netley to go through the 33 Figure 12 43 A bookmark 12 3 14 Theme Remove This plugin offers a way to remove a theme Open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 upon a theme cfg file and select OPEN WITH THEME REMOVE Some files are not removed regardless of the REMOVE OPTIONS such as rockbox default wps and the font file currently in use THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 133 Theme Remove menu Remove Theme Selecting this will delete the files specified in the REMOVE OPTIONS After a theme has been successfully removed a log message is displayed listing which items have been deleted and which are being kept Exit this screen by pressing any key A file called theme_remove_log txt is created in the root di rectory of your player listing all the changes Remove Options This menu specifies which items are removed if REMOVE THEME is selected in the menu One of the following options can be chosen for each setting Ask for Removal Selecting this option brings up a dialogue with two optio
132. ettings pertaining to the current clock mode analog digital binary General Settings Reset Settings Reset all settings to their default values Save Settings Save all settings to disk Show Counter Toggle Counter display Save Choose whether to disable automatic saving saving to disk on exit or saving to disk every settings change Backlight Choose whether to disable the backlight use the user s timeout setting or keep the backlight on Idle Poweroff Toggle Idle Poweroff Note This setting is not saved to disk Help Opens a brief help screen with key mappings and functionality Credits Displays a credits roll Analog mode Small round analog clock is displayed in the middle of the LCD Time readout if enabled is displayed at the upper left If Time readout is in 12 hour 12h mode AM or PM will be displayed at the upper right The Date readout if enabled is displayed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 142 at the lower left The Counter if enabled is displayed at the lower right The second hand if enabled is displayed along with the hour and minute hands Digit display if enabled places 12 3 6 and 9 around the face of the clock in their respective positions Digital mode An imitation of an LCD this mode shows a Clock comprised of digital segments The Date readout if enabled is displayed at the bottom center The Second read
133. filename file name relative to rockbox and including bmp x x coordinate defaults to 0 if both x and y are not specified y y coordinate defaults to 0 if both x and y are not speci fied 1 1 x y Preload an image for later display useful for when your im nimages ages are displayed conditionally n image ID for later referencing in 4xd filename file name relative to rockbox and including bmp If the filename is list icons the list icon bitmap will be used instead x x coordinate defaults to 0 if both x and y are not specified y y coordinate defaults to 0 if both x and y are not speci fied nimages optional number of sub images tiled vertically of the same height contained in the bitmap Default is 1 Axd n i tag Display a preloaded image n image ID as it was specified in offset 4x or Axl i optional number of the sub image to display a z for 1 26 and A Z for 27 52 ignored when tag is used Only useable if the ID is a single letter By default the first i e top most sub image will be used tag optional Another tag to calculate the subimage from e g Axd A mh would use the first subimage when mh is on and the second when it is off offset optional Add this number to the value from the tag when chosing the subimage may be negative 9 Display an image 9 patch bitmap covering the entire view port 9 patch images are bitmaps
134. g a worm against a wall causes it a headache it doesn t survive Game over The game is over when all worms are dead The longest worm wins the game Pause the game Press Play to pause the game Press it again to resume the game Stop the game There are two ways to stop a running game e If you want to quit Wormlet entirely simply hit Long Menu 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 Long Play This freezes the game If you hit Long Play button again a new game starts with the same configuration To return to the games menu you can hit Long Menu 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 108 Hungry That s the normal state of a worm Worms are always hungry and want to eat It is good to have a hungry worm since it means that your worm is alive But it is better to get your worm growing Growing When a worm has eaten a piece of food it starts growing For each step it moves over f
135. g menu item can be displayed useful for developers mostly e The current time can be spoken e The sleep timer can be configured e The player can be turned off Note Shortcuts into the database are not possible Shortcuts are loaded from the file rockbox shortcuts txt which lists each item to be displayed Each shortcut looks like the following EXAMPLE shortcut type lt shortcut type gt data lt what the shortcut actually links to gt name lt what the shortcut should be displayed as gt icon number of the theme icon to use see mCustomIcons gt talkclip lt filename of a talk clip to speak when voice menus are enabled gt Only type and data are required except if type is separator in which case data is also not required Available types are file data is the name of the file to run browse data is the file or the folder to open the file browser at playlist menu data is the file or the folder to open the Current Playlist context menu item on setting data is the config name of the setting you want to change see section E page 190 for the list of the possible settings debug data is the name of the debug menu item to display THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 46 separator data is ignored name can be used to display text or left blank to make the list more accessible with visual gaps time data needs to be either
136. he food So you can always reach it before your opponent THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 109 12 1 30 Xobox Figure 12 27 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 Scroll Up Scroll Move around the arena Down Rewind Forward Play Pause Long Menu Open menu 12 2 Demos 12 2 1 Bounce Figure 12 28 Bounce THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 110 This demo is of the word Rockbox bouncing across the screen There is also an analogue clock in the background In SCROLL MODE the bouncing text is replaced by a different one scrolling from right to left Key Action Scroll Up Scroll Moves to next previous option Down Forward Increases decreases option value Rewind Enter Toggles Scroll mode Menu or Long Exits bounce demo Menu 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 12 2 2 Credits The credits plugin scrolls the entire list of the names of
137. he syntax is very similar to WPS viewports see section 13 2 2 page 155 Briefly 67 e fgshade and bgshade are numbers in the range 0 black to 3 white e font is a number 0 is the built in system font 1 is the user selected font THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 154 EXAMPLE ui viewport 15 20 100 150 This displays the menu starting at 15px from the left of the screen and 20px from the top of the screen It is 100px wide and 150px high The font and the foreground background shades are defined in the theme cfg file or in the THEME SETTINGS menu 13 2 Configuring the Theme 13 2 1 Themeing General Info There are various different aspects of the Rockbox interface that can be themed the WPS or WHILE PLAYING SCREEN the FMS or FM SCREEN if the player has a tuner and the SBS or BASE SKIN The WPS is the name used to describe the information displayed on the player s screen whilst an audio track is being played the FMS is the screen shown while listening to the radio and the SBS lets you specify a base skin that is shown in the menus and browsers as well as the WPS and FMS The SBS also allows you to control certain aspects of the appearance of the menus browsers There are a number of themes included in Rockbox and you can load one of these at any time by selecting it in SETTINGS THEME SETTINGS BROWSE THEME FILES It is also p
138. heir associated cover art It is possible to start playback of the selected album from PictureFlow Playback will start from the selected track The PictureFlow plugin will continue to run while your tracks are played Requirements PictureFlow uses both the album art see section C page 171 and database see section 4 2 page 26 features of Rockbox It is therefore important that these are working correctly before attempting to use PictureFlow In addition there are some other points of which to be aware e PictureFlow will accept album art larger than the dimensions of the screen but the larger the dimensions the longer they will take to scale Keys Key Action Scroll Up Scroll through albums track list Scroll Down Enter Enter track list Play album from se lected track Menu Exit track list Long Menu Enter menu Long Menu Exit PictureFlow Main Menu Go to WPS Leave PictureFlow and enter the while playing screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 116 Playback Control Control music playback from within the plugin Settings Enter the settings menu Return Exit menu Quit Exit PictureFlow plugin Settings Menu Show FPS Displays frames per second on screen Spacing The distance between the front edges of the side slides i e changes the degree of overlap of the side slides A larger number means less overlap Scales with zoom Centre margin The distance in screen
139. his mode will let you follow variations by simply playing the first move in the sequence Unless it is following a variation this mode will not allow you to play illegal moves This is the default mode before another is set after loading a game or creating a new one Add Black Mode Add black stones to the board as desired These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats Add White Mode Add white stones to the board as desired These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats Erase Stone Mode Remove stones from the board as desired These removed stones are not counted as captured they are simply removed Pass Play a single pass move This does not change the mode of play Next Variation If the game is at the first move in a variation this will navigate to the next variation after the current one This is the only way to reach variations which start with adding or removing stones as you cannot follow them by playing the same move Force Play Mode The same as Play Mode except that this mode will allow you to play illegal moves such as retaking a ko immediately without a ko threat suicide on rulesets which don t allow it including single stone suicide and playing a move where there is already a stone Mark Mode Add generic marks to the board or remove them Circle Mode Add circle marks to the board or remove them Square Mode Add square marks to the board
140. ied at http www red bean com sgf properties html44DT to be read by other SGF readers Event The name of the event which this game was a part of if any Place The place that this game took place Round If part of a tournament the round number for this game Done Return to the previous menu Options Customize the behavior of the plugin in certain ways Show Child Variations Enable this to mark child variations on he board if there are more than one Note variations which don t start with a move are not visible in this way Disable Idle Poweroff Enable this if you do not want the player to turn off after a certain period of inactivity depends on your global Rockbox settings THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 92 Idle Autosave Time Set the amount of idle time to wait before automatically saving any unsaved changes These autosaves go to the file sgf gbn_def sgf regardless of if you have loaded a game or used SAVE AS to save the game before or not Set to OFF to disable this functionality completely Automatically Show Comments If this is enabled and you navigate to a node containing game comments they will automatically be displayed Context Menu The menu for choosing different play modes and tools adding or edit ing comments adding pass moves or switching between sibling variations Play Mode Play moves normally on the board If there are child moves from the current node t
141. ies of the Program or any portion of it thus forming a work based on the Program and copy and distribute such modifications 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 notices 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 e WN 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 Exception if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 212 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 ind
142. ile recording pause recording press again to continue Menu Exit RECORDING SCREEN While recording Stop recording Long Enter Start recording While recording close the current file and open a new one Long Menu Open RECORDING SETTINGS see sec tion 10 page 76 5 9 FM Radio ED Jo 21 HERRT FM Station 100 7MHz Stereo Mode Preset Figure 5 4 The FM radio screen This menu option switches to the radio screen The FM radio has the ability to remember station frequency settings presets Since stations and their frequencies vary depending on location it is possible to load these settings from a file Such files should have the filename extension fmr and reside in the directory rockbox fmpresets note that this directory does not exist after the initial Rockbox installation you should create it manually To load the settings i e a set of FM stations from a preset file just play it from the file browser Rockbox will remember and use it in PRESET mode until another file has been selected Some preset files are available here FmPresets It is also possible to record the FM radio while listening To start recording enter the FM radio settings menu with Long Enter and then select RECORDING At this point you will be switched to the RECORDING SCREEN Further information on RECORDING can be found in section 5 8 page 41 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 4
143. in Text File txt Display the text file using the text viewer plugin Voice file Voice Allow Rockbox to speak menus While Playing Screen wps Load the new WPS display config uration THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX AUDIO AND METADATA FORMATS 165 B Audio and metadata formats B 1 Supported audio formats B 1 1 Lossy Codecs Format Extension Notes ATSC A 52 AC3 52 ac3 Supports downmixing for play rm back of 5 1 streams in stereo rmvb ADX adx Encrypted ADX is not sup ported Advanced Audio Coding m4a m4b Supports AAC LC HEvl mp4 rm and HEv2 profiles ra rmvb MPEG audio mpa mpi MPEG 1 2 2 5 Layer 1 2 3 mp2 mp3 Musepack mpc Supports SV7 and SV8 in mono stereo OGG Vorbis Ogg oga Playback of some old floor 0 files may fail on low memory targets Files with album art larger than available RAM will be skipped Chained Ogg files are not supported Sony Audio aa3 Supports ATRAC3 rm ra rmvb RealAudio rm ra Supports RealAudio G2 rmvb Cook Speex Spx Dialogic telephony type Windows Media Audio Standard wmv asf Windows Media Audio Professional wma wmv asf Note AAC HE profiles might not play in realtime on all devices due to CPU perfor THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX AUDIO AND METADATA FORMATS 166 mance requirements B 1 2 Lossless Cod
144. 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 7 7 Party Mode Enables unstoppable music playback When new songs are selected they are queued at the end of the current dynamic playlist instead of being played immediately Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins 7 8 Crossfade This section controls the behavior of the crossfader The crossfader when enabled smoothly fades one track into the next This can occur in two situations an automatic track change or a manual track skip An automatic track change occurs at the end of THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 56 the track moving to the next track in the playlist without user intervention A man ual track skip goes to the next track immediately when the appropriate button is pressed Options for crossfade settings are Enable Crossfade If set to OFF crossfade is disabled and all track changes are gapless If set to AUTOMATIC TRACK CHANGE ONLY crossfade occurs for automatic track changes but not for manual track skips The next setting MANUAL TRACK SKIP ONLY is the opposite tracks will only crossfade when manually skipped If set to SHUFFLE crossfade is enabled for all track changes automatic or manual when the shuffle feature is set to YES but disabled otherwise If set t
145. ing the install 2 22 2 mm dus 16 2 24 Enabling Speech Support optional 16 2 0 Running Rockbox se socs e nso damages EGG RUE BUR SU XO WR 17 2 4 Updating Rockbox 2 2 044568 246 e zm bom Ron 17 Zo Rocko lt po a ae ku ko ROSA DU REGE eee 17 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation lens 17 20 2 Uninstallation os spoe are 309 ok Re COR eyed 17 cho Troubles aoc gt QR eee eo OR e Ee e 17 3 Quick Start 19 8 1 Basic Overview c 2 4542 24465 ct aama De ee ee X RUM OR 19 2i Whe player s controls s 2464 5 mo RR xo oe ROR 19 3 1 2 Turning 19 13 Starting the original DIDEWAIG 2 224 2o rc E 20 AL4 Putting musie on your player s cecs c ok ok RR ER 20 Sd Theret ione ro koe ue a OW EUR Re eig o 20 Sl Basie e s gop be depo urn 20 eld e se 2909 9 o9 o XR x 21 a2 Customising Rockbox se ss aats 4 0 o x x9 o9 h 21 4 Browsing and playing 22 dl Eile Brower oc Ae Re ek OS 22 4 1 1 File Browser Controls o lt a soa a e esoe aci lens 23 2 1 2 Contest Menu e lt satma cte a i aa a e rog 23 4 1 3 Virtual Keyboard ss o s saa adm yo o E a 25 42 Databas
146. ion Enter Delete selected folder Long Enter Bring up the context menu which allows you to remove the selected folder or its entire folder tree Menu Exit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 149 12 4 15 Resistor Calculator Brown Black Red Gold Resistance 1 KOhms 5 tolerance Figure 12 49 Resistor calculator The resistor calculator is a plugin that works in 3 modes Colour to Resistance In Colour to Resistance mode use the menus to select the colours of the bands of a resistor which you would like to know the resistance of Resistance to Colour In Resistance to Colour mode use the menus to select the unit that you would like to use choose from Ohms Kiloohms Megaohms and use the on screen keyboard to input the value of the resistor that you would like to know the colour code of The colour codes are presented textually LED resistance LED resistance calculator is used to determine the resistor necessary to light an LED safely at a given voltage First select the voltage that the LED will use the first option is the most common and a safe bet and the current that it will draw likewise with the first option Then use the onscreen keyboard to type in the supply voltage and if selected the custom forward current This function produces safe estimates but use your own judgement when using these output values Power rating and displayed resistance are rounded up to the
147. ions Playlist The PLAYLIST submenu allows you to view save search and reshuffle the current playlist To change settings for the PLAvLIST VIEWER press Long Enter while viewing the current playlist to bring up the PLAvLIST VIEWER MENU In this menu you can find the PLAvLIST VIEWER SETTINGS Playlist Viewer Settings Show Icons This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entry and the icon for moving a playlist entry Show Indices This toggles display of the line numbering for the playlist Track Display This toggles between filename only and full path for playlist entries Save Current Playlist Allows the current playlist to be saved as a m3u8 playlist file Playlist catalogue View catalogue This lists all playlists that are part of the Playlist catalogue You can load a new playlist directly from this list Add to playlist Adds the currently playing file to a playlist Select the playlist you want the file to be added to and it will get appended to that playlist THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 31 Add to new playlist Similar to the previous entry this will add the currently playing track to a playlist You need to enter a name for the new playlist first Sound Settings This is a shortcut to the SOUND SETTINGS MENU where you can configure volume bass treble and other settings affecting the sound of your music See section 6 page 47 for mor
148. k see section 7 5 page 55 13 5 3 Replaygain Replaygain is post processing that equalises the playback volume of audio files to the same perceived loudness This post processing applies a factor to each single PCM THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 163 sample and is therefore consuming additional CPU time If you want to achieve some minor savings in runtime switch this feature off see section 7 9 page 57 13 5 4 Peak Meter The peak meter is a feature of the While Playing Screen and will be updated with a high framerate Depending on your player this might result in a high CPU load To save battery runtime you should switch this feature off see section 4 3 2 page 29 13 5 5 Audio format and bitrate In general the fastest decoding audio format will be the best in terms of battery runtime on your player An overview of different codec s performance on different players can be found at s CodecPerformanceComparison Your target uses a hard disk which consumes a large amount of power while spinning up to several hundred mA The less often the hard disk needs to spin up for buffering and the shorter the buffering duration is the lower is the power consumption Therefore the bitrate of the audio files does have an impact on the battery runtime as well Lower bitrate audio files will result in longer battery runtime Please do not re encode any existing audio files from on
149. k you may also wish to delete the rockbox directory and its contents Turn the MPIO off Turn the player back on and the original MPIO software will load 2 6 Troubleshooting File Not Found If you receive a File Not Found from the bootloader then the bootloader cannot find the Rockbox firmware This is usually a result of not THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 18 extracting the contents of the zip file to the proper location and should not happen when Rockbox has been installed with Rockbox Utility To fix this either install Rockbox with the Rockbox Utility which will take care of this for you or recheck the Manual Install section to see where the files need to be located THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 19 3 Quick Start 3 1 Basic Overview 3 1 1 The player s controls Hold Throughout this manual the buttons on the player are labelled according to the picture above Whenever a button name is prefixed by Long a long press of approx imately one second should be performed on that button The buttons are described in detail in the following paragraph Additional information for blind users is available on gt j the Rockbox website at x amp BlindFAQ 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys Key Action Long Play Start Rockbox Long Play
150. l the battery is empty again as estimated by Rockbox Voltage The battery voltage in mV at the moment the measurement was taken C This stands for Charger An A in that column shows if the power adapter was attached to the unit at the time of the measurement USB powered Only for targets that support this 0 will indicate if the unit was using the USB port for power at the time of the measurement Usage The log file can be used to tell you how long the battery lasted with some limitations see below but it is most useful for graphing discharge curves in order to improve Rockbox s estimation of battery level and time remaining The battery log battery_bench txt is in CSV format comma separated variables and thus can be easily imported into a spreadsheet or similar program Limitations As BATTERY BENCHMARK needs to write the data held in memory to disk in order to save them it is possible that should Rockbox shut down due to low battery then there will not be enough power remaining to write the data to disk Therefore all measurements since the previous save will be lost THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 138 12 4 3 Calculator Figure 12 45 Calculator This is a simple scientific calculator for use on the player It works like a standard calculator Pressing the lst and 2nd buttons will toggle between other available math functions Rewind Move
151. lable options are Stereo Leave the audio signal unmodified Mono Combine both channels and send the resulting signal to both stereo channels resulting in a monophonic output Custom Allows you to manually specify a stereo width with the STEREO WIDTH setting described later in this chapter Mono Left Plays the left channel in both stereo channels Mono Right Plays the right channel in both stereo channels Karaoke Removes all sound that is common to both channels Since most music is recorded with vocals being equally present in both channels to make the singer sound centrally placed this often but not always has the effect of removing the voice track from a song This setting also very often has other undesirable effects on the sound 6 6 Stereo Width Stereo width allows you to manually specify the effect that is applied when the CHAN NELS setting is set to custom All values below 100 will progressively mix the contents of one channel into the other This has the effect of gradually centering the stereo im age until you have monophonic sound at 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 lis
152. lies only to files and not to directories Rockbox will ask for confirmation before deleting a file Press Enteror Play to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel Delete Directory Deletes the currently selected directory and all of the files and subdi rectories it may contain Deleted directories cannot be recovered Use this feature with caution Set As Backdrop Set the selected bmp file as background image The bitmaps need to meet the conditions explained in section 13 1 5 page 153 Open with Runs a viewer plugin on the file Normally when a file is selected in Rock box Rockbox automatically detects the file type and runs the appropriate plugin The OPEN WITH function can be used to override the default action and select a viewer by hand For example this function can be used to view a text file even if the file has a non standard extension i e the file has an extension of something other than txt See section 12 3 page 119 for more details on viewers Create Directory Create a new directory in the current directory on the disk Properties Shows properties such as size and the time and date of the last modification for the selected file If used on a directory the number of files and subdirectories will be shown as well as the total size Set As Recording Directory Save recordings in the selected directory Start File Browser Here This option allows users to set the currently selected directory as the default s
153. lowing tags are supported ti title ar artist offset offset msec Each line should resemble one of the following THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 145 time tag line time tag time tag line time tag lt word time tag gt word lt word time tag gt lt word time tag gt The time tag must be in the form mm ss mm ss xx or mm ss xxx where mm is minutes ss is seconds xx is tenth of milliseconds and xxx is milliseconds Any other tags and lines without time tags are ignored Location of lyrics files The plugin checks the following directories for lyrics files If no lyrics file is found and the audio file is mp3 it also checks for SYLT and USLT tags in the id3v2 tags 1 The directory containing the audio file and its parent directories 2 For each of the above directories the plugin searches for a subdirectory named Lyrics 3 Finally the plugin will search as above but within a directory called Lyrics The name of this directory can be customized see below If the audio file currently playing is Music Artist Album Title mp3 then the fol lowing files will be searched for in this order ext is one of the supported extensions from the list above and will be searched for in the same order as in that list Music Artist Album Title ext Music Artist Title ext Music Title ext Title ext Music Artist Album Lyrics Title ext Music Artist Lyri
154. lues Because sound is not continuous by nature think of percussion negligible 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 example trailing fade outs are recorded entirely Presplit Gap When the signal drops below the stop threshold for the time specified by the presplit gap a new recording may be started when the signal raises above the start threshold Thus the value of the presplit gap should be smaller than the stop hold time Otherwise the recording would stop anyway and the presplit gap has no effect For most uses I recommend to set this parameter equal to the stop hold time Sometimes you may encounter a sound source e g a CD where the songs have fade outs and hardly any gaps between the tracks Here you can set the stop hold time to long values to ensure that all fa
155. m of 63 bytes THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 147 Playback Control Show the playback control menu Time Offset Set an offset for the time tags for the lyrics currently in use Timetag Editor Enter the timetag editor Quit Exit the plugin Editing the time tags The display time for each line can be changed with the timetag editor Selecting a line changes its time to the current position of the track To set a specific time or to adjust the time press Long Enter to bring up a screen to adjust the time Changes will be saved automatically when the song is changed Editing words in lyrics is not supported 12 4 11 md5sum Open a file a directory or just launch it from the plugin menu to create an md5sum of the file the directory s contents or the whole filesystem If the file s extension is md5 or nd5sum it will check the md5 sums in the file instead If the file s extension is mdoblist it will compute md5 sums for all the files listed 12 4 12 Metronome This plugin can be used as a metronome to keep time during music practice Adjust the tempo through the interface or by tapping it out on the appropriate button Key Action Long Menu Exit plugin Menu Stop Long Enter Start Enter Tap tempo Rewind Adjust tempo Forward Scroll Up Adjust volume Scroll Down 12 4 13 Pitch Detector With the Pitch Detector you can play a note on a musical instrument and the
156. mal levels This is necessary to reduce artifacts such as pumping Instead the gain is allowed to return to normal at the chosen rate Release Time is the time for the gain to recover by 10 dB THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 54 7 Playback Settings The PLAYBACK SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play back 7 1 Shuffle Turning shuffle on will cause Rockbox to randomly re order the playlist Thus to shuffle all of the audio files on the player you first need to create a playlist containing all of them For more information on creating playlists refer to section 4 4 page 33 Options YES NO 7 2 Repeat Configures settings related to repeating of directories or playlists Options OFF ALL ONE SHUFFLE Off The current playlist will not repeat when it is finished Note If you have the AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY option set to YES Rockbox will move on to the next directory on your hard drive If the AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY option is set to No playback will stop when the current directory or playlist is finished All The current playlist will repeat when it is finished One Repeat one track over and over Shuffle When the current playlist has finished playing it will be shuffled and then repeated A B Repeats between two user defined points within a track typically used by musi cians when attempting to learn a piece of music
157. ment and put the following copyright and license notices just after the title page THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 209 Copyright OYEAR YOUR NAME Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documenta tion License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts 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 version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 210 1 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 Every
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159. modified while playing This is also known as on the fly playlist To go back to the FILE BROWSER stop the playback with the Long Play button or return to the file browser while keeping playback running using Enter In list views you can go back one step with Menu 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 modify the dynamic playlist while playing and also save it to a file If you do not want to use playlists you can simply play your files directory based Playlists are covered in detail in section 4 4 page 33 Menu From the menu you can customise Rockbox Rockbox itself is very customisable Also there are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions Context Menu Some views especially the file browser and the WPS have a context menu From the file browser this can be accessed with Long Enter 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 exam
160. mple yet addicting game which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible before running out of available moves Higher points are awarded to larger combos The game advances to the next level after every one hundred points and randomly clears several jewels In puzzle mode the aim of the game is to connect the puzzles by skilful swapping pairs of jewels Key Rewind Forward Enter Menu Action Move the cursor around the jewels Select a jewel Menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 95 12 1 13 MazezaM Figure 12 12 MazezaM The goal of this puzzle game is to escape a dungeon consisting of ten mazezams These are rooms containing rows of blocks which can be shifted left or right You can move the rows only by pushing them and if you move the rows carelessly you will get stuck You can have another go by selecting retry level from the menu but this will cost you a life You start the game with three lives Luckily there are checkpoints at levels four and eight Key Action Scroll Up Scroll Move Character Down Rewind Forward Menu Menu 12 1 14 Minesweeper Figure 12 13 Minesweeper plugin The classic game of minesweeper The aim of the game is to uncover all of the squares on the board If a mine is uncovered then the game is over
161. mputer Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into effect after a THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 17 reboot See section 8 10 page 71 for details on voice settings Rockbox Utility can also aid in the production of talk files which allow Rockbox to speak file and folder names 2 3 Running Rockbox When you turn the unit on Rockbox should load 2 4 Updating Rockbox Rockbox can be easily updated with Rockbox Utility You can also update Rockbox manually download a Rockbox build as detailed above and unzip the build to the root directory of your player as in the manual installation stage If your unzip program asks you whether to overwrite files choose the Yes to all option The new build will be installed over your current build The bootloader only changes rarely and should not normally need to be updated Note If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed components 2 5 Uninstalling Rockbox Note The Rockbox bootloader allows you to choose between Rockbox and the original firmware See section 3 1 3 page 20 for more information 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation You can uninstall Rockbox automatically by using Rockbox Utility If you installed Rockbox manually you can still use Rockbox Utility for uninstallation but will not be able to do this selectively 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation If you wish to clean up your dis
162. n Play Rewind Decrease iteration depth less detail Play Forward Increase iteration depth more detail Rec Reset and return to the default image Long Menu Quit 12 2 7 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen Key Action Forward Increase decrease speed on the x axis Rewind Scroll Up Increase decrease speed on the y axis Scroll Down Menu or Long Quit Menu 12 2 8 Mosaique Figure 12 33 Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 114 Key Action Scroll Up Change the gap between the drawing lines Enter Restart the drawing process Menu or Long Menu 12 2 9 Oscilloscope Exits Mosaique demo Figure 12 34 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 Enter Toggle filled curve plot Rec Toggle whether to scroll or not Menu Toggle drawing orientation Play Pause the demo Scroll Up Increase decrease volume Scroll Down Forward Increase decrease speed Rewind Long Menu Exit demo THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 115 12 2 10 PictureFlow Fear of the Dark Figure 12 35 PictureFlow PictureF low provides a visualisation of your albums with t
163. n A 1 page 164 Files and directories starting with dot or with the hidden flag set are hidden Music The FILE BROWSER displays only directories playlists and the supported audio file formats Extensions are stripped Files and directories starting with or with the hidden flag set are hidden Playlists The FILE BROWSER displays only directories and playlists for simplified navigation Show Filename Extensions This option controls how file extensions are shown in the File Browser Off The file extensions are never shown On The file extensions are always shown Only unknown types Only the extensions of unknown filetypes are shown Only when viewing all types Only show file extensions when SHOW FILES is set to ALL Follow Playlist This option determines what directory the FILE BROWSER displays first If FOLLOW PLAYLIST is set to YES when you enter the FILE BROWSER from the WPS you will find yourself in the same directory as the currently playing file THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 63 If FOLLOW PLAYLIST is set to NO when you enter the FILE BROWSER from the WPS you will find yourself in the directory you were in when you last left the FILE BROWSER Show Path If this setting is set to FULL PATH the full path to the current directory will be displayed on the first line in the FILE BROWSER If set to CURRENT DIRECTORY ONLY only the name of the current directory
164. n Lua is usually float however in the Rockbox implementation it is integer THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 A A CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 124 Non supported libraries The coroutine debug and math libraries are not supported Partially supported libraries The os and package libraries are only partially supported Additional libraries The bitlib library is integrated to support bitwise operators See http luaforge net projects bitlib and http lua users org wiki BitwiseOperators Documentation of the API is still a work in progress and the API itself is not finalised For the latest information see PluginLua Note Please note that if a script does not provide a way to exit then the only way to exit will be to reset the player 12 3 6 Midiplay To get MIDI file playback a patchset is required This file contains the instruments required to synthesize the music A sample patchset is available through the wiki at PluginMidiPlay and needs to be extracted to the rockbox directory in the root of your player There should now be a rockbox patchset directory with the patchset directory containing several pat files and two cfg files Just select a MIDI file with either the mid or midi extension in the file browser to start playback Key Action Scroll Up Scroll Volume up Volume down Down Forward Skip 3 seconds forward backward Rewind Play Pause Resume playback Long Menu Stop playback a
165. nate at which to start drawing the bar options y y co ordinate at which to start drawing the bar width width of the bar for the full viewport width height height of the bar to set to the font height for horizontal bars and to the viewport height for vertical bars options any of the options set out below D 28 1 Options image the next option is either the filename or image label to use for the fill image horizontal force the bar to be drawn horizontally vertical force the bar to be drawn vertically invert invert the draw direction i e right to left or top to bottom slider draw a preloaded image over the top of the bar so that the centre of the image matches the current position This must be followed by the label of the desired image backdrop draw a preloaded image under the bar The full image will be displayed and must be the same size as the bar This must be followed by the label of the desired image THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 188 nofill don t draw the bar only its frame for use with the slider option nobar don t draw the bar or its frame for use with the slider option setting Specify the setting name to draw the bar from bar must be St type the next param is the settings config name Example pb 0 0 nofill slider slider image invert draw a hor izontal progressbar which doe
166. nd quit 12 3 7 MPEG Player The Mpeg Player is a video player plugin capable of playing back MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 video streams with MPEG audio multiplexed into mpg files To play a video file you just select it in the Rockbox FILE BROWSER If your file does not have the mpg extension but is encoded in the supported format you will need to use the OPEN WITH context menu option and choose MPEGPLAYER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 125 Key Action Play Pause Resume Long Play Stop Scroll Up Adjust volume up down Scroll Down Rewind Rewind Fast Forward Forward Open the MPEG Player menu When a video file is selected the Start Menu will be displayed unless it is disabled via the RESUME OPTIONS see below In the latter case the video will start playing immediately Start Menu Play from beginning Resume information is discarded and the video plays from the start Resume at mm ss Resume video playback at stored resume time mm ss start of the video if no resume time is found Set start time 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 Settings Open SETTINGS submenu see below Quit mpegplayer Exit the plugin Main Menu Settings Open SETTINGS submenu see below Resume playback Return to
167. nd you have set START FILE BROWSER HERE to a directory other than root AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY will be constrained to the directory you have chosen and those below it See section 4 1 2 page 24 7 13 Last fm Log Enables logging of your played tracks for submittal to http www last fm This service was formerly known as Audioscrobbler When you enable this option you ll have to reboot to start the logging The log file is called scrobbler log and is to be found in the root directory of your player Note See mLastFMLog for a further description and for tools you can use to submit your Last fm log THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 A A CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 59 7 14 Cuesheet Support Enables reading of cuesheet files for played tracks If a cuesheet is found for a track track markers are displayed on the progressbar and it is possible to skip between the tracks within the cuesheet Also the information found in the cuesheet file will replace the information from the ID3 tags When you enable this option you ll have to reboot for it to come into effect Cuesheet files should have the same file name as the audio file they reference except with the extension cue This file can either reside in the same directory as the audio file checked first or within the rockbox cue directory The contents of a cuesheet file can also be embedded within the metadata of an audio file There is currently support f
168. nditions can be treated as verbatim copying in other respects If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit legibly you should put the first ones listed as many as fit reasonably on the actual cover and continue the rest onto adjacent pages If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering more than 100 you must either include a machine readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy or state in or with each Opaque copy a computer network location from which the general network using public has access to download using public standard network protocols a complete Transparent copy of the Document free of added material If you use the latter option you must take reasonably prudent steps when you begin THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 205 distribution of Opaque copies in quantity to ensure that this Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque copy directly or through your agents or retailers of that edition to the public It is requested but not required that you contact the authors of the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies to give them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document 4 MODIFICATIONS You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above
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170. newest type N A sort dirs alpha oldest newest N A sort interpret number digits numbers N A tagcache_autoupdate on off N A warn when erasing on off N A dynamic playlist cuesheet support on off N A folder navigation off on random N A constrain next folder off on N A gather runtime data off on N A skip length outro track 15 2s 3s 5s 7s 10s N A 15s 20s 1min 90s 2min 3min 5min 10min 15min prevent track skip on off N A start in screen previous root files dB wps N A menu recording radio bookmarks playlist catalog directory path to dir N A list__accel_start_delay 0 to 10 ms list accel wait 1 to 10 S replaygain type track album track shuffle off N A replaygain noclip on off N A replaygain preamp 120 to 120 0 1 dB crossfade off auto track change man track N A skip shuffle shuffle or man track skip always crossfade fade in delay 0 to 7 S crossfade fade out delay 0 to 7 S crossfade fade in duration 0 to 15 S crossfade fade out 0 to 15 S duration crossfade fade out mode crossfade mix N A crossfeed on off N A crossfeed direct gain 0 to 60 0 1 dB crossfeed cross gain 30 to 120 0 1 dB crossfeed hf attenuation 60 to 240 0 1 dB crossfeed hf cutoff 500 to 2000 Hz eq enabled on off N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX E CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 193 Setting Allowed Values Unit eq precut eq low shelf filter eq peak filter 2 eq peak filter 4 eq peak fil
171. nfigured using WPS configuration files The items shown depend on your configuration all items can be turned on or off independently Refer to section D page 173 for details on how to change the display of the WPS e Status bar The Status bar shows Battery level charger status volume play mode repeat mode shuffle mode and clock In 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 track name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 29 e The ID3 album name e The artist name e 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 13 2 page 154 for details of customising your WPS While Playing Screen 4 3 1 WPS Key Controls Key Action Scroll Up Volume up down Scroll Down Rewind Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track go to the previous track Long Rewind Rewind in track Forward Go to the next track Long Forward Fast forward in track Play Toggle play pause Long Play Stop playback Enter Return to the FILE BROWSER DATABASE Long Enter Enter WPS CONTEXT MENU Menu Enter MAIN MENU Short Forward Skip to the next directory Long Forward Short Rewind Skip to the previou
172. ng process needs to share memory with audio tracks To be able to view a bigger file you may need to stop playback Key Action Rewind Move around in zoomed in image Forward Play Scroll Up Play Scroll Down Play Zoom in Rec Zoom out Scroll Down Next image in directory Scroll Up Previous image in directory Enter Show menu Abort The menu has the following entries Return Returns you to the image Toggle Slideshow Mode Enables or disables the slideshow mode Change Slideshow Timeout You can set the timeout for the slideshow between 1 sec ond and 20 seconds Show Playback Menu From the playback menu you can control the playback of the currently loaded playlist and change the volume of your player Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the FILE BROWSER Note Progressive scan and other unusual JPEG files are not supported and will result in various unsupported xx messages Processing could also fail if the image is too big to decode which will be explained by a respective message 12 3 5 Lua scripting language To quote from the Lua website http www lua org Lua is a powerful fast lightweight embeddable scripting language Select a 1ua file in the FILE BROWSER to run it For more information on programming in Lua please see http www lua org manual 5 1 and http www lua org pil There are a few exceptions additions to the Lua support in Rockbox No floating point support The number type i
173. ng Enter 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 47 5 7 2 Playback Settings The PLAYBACK SETTINGS menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play back The details of this menu are covered in section 7 page 54 5 7 3 General Settings The GENERAL SETTINGS menu allows you to customise the way Rockbox looks and the way it plays music The details of this menu are covered in section 8 page 61 5 7 4 Theme Settings The THEME SETTINGS menu contains options that control the visual appearance of Rockbox The details of this menu are covered in section 9 page 74 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 10 page 76 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 41 5 7 6 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
174. ng TIMESTRETCH allows you to change the playback speed without it affecting the pitch of the recording After enabling this feature and rebooting you can access this via the PITCH SCREEN This function is intended for speech playback and may significantly dilute your listening experience with more complex audio See section 4 3 3 page 32 for more details about how to use the feature 6 11 Compressor The COMPRESSOR reduces or compresses the dynamic range of the audio signal This makes the quieter and louder sections closer to the same volume level by progressively reducing the gain of louder signals When subsequently amplified this has the effect of making the quieter sections louder while keeping the louder sections from clipping This allows listening to the quiet sections of dynamic material in noisy environments while preventing sudden loud sections from being overbearing There are several settings associated with the compressor The first and most impor tant is the THRESHOLD The threshold is the audio input level at which the compressor begins to act Any level louder than the threshold will be compressed to some extent The maximum amount of compression or the quietest level at which the compressor will operate is 24 dB The default of Off disables the compressor The MAKEUP GAIN setting has two options Off and Auto Off means that the compressed audio will not be amplified after compression The default of Auto will THE RO
175. ng the default action on each file To help differentiate files each file format is displayed with an icon The DATABASE BROWSER on the other hand allows you to navigate through the music on your player using categories like album artist genre etc You can select whether to browse using the FILE BROWSER or the DATABASE BROWSER by selecting either FILES or DATABASE in the MAIN MENU If you choose the FILE BROWSER the SHow FILES setting lets you select what types of files you wish to view See section 8 2 page 62 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 26 The remainder of this section deals with the FILE BROWSER THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 23 4 1 1 File Browser Controls Key Action Scroll Up Scroll Go to previous next item in list If you Down are on the first last entry the cursor will wrap to the last first entry Menu Go to the parent directory Enter Execute the default action on the selected file or enter a directory Play If there is an audio file playing return to the WHILE PLAYING SCREEN WPS without stopping playback Long Play Stop audio playback Long Enter Enter the CONTEXT MENU Long Menu Enter the MAIN MENU 4 1 2 Context Menu ED a 20 48 Context Menu O Tp uz
176. nges are saved to sgf gbn def sgf THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 91 Game Info The menu for modifying game info metadata of the current game This information will be saved to the SGF file and can be viewed in almost all SGF readers Basic Info Shows a quick view of the basic game metadata if any has been set otherwise does nothing This option does not allow editing Time Limit The time limit of the current game Overtime The overtime settings of the current game Result The result of the current game This text must follow the format specified at http www red bean com sgf properties html RE to be read by other SGF readers Some examples are B R Black wins by resignation B 5 5 Black wins by 5 5 points W T White wins on Time Handicap The handicap of the current game Komi The komi of the current game compensation to the white player for black having the first move Ruleset The name of the ruleset in use for this game The NZ and rulesets include suicide as a legal move for multi stone suicide only the rest do not Black Player The name of the black player Black Rank Black s rank in dan or kyu Black Team The name of black s team if any White Player The name of the white player White Rank White s rank in dan or kyu White Team The name of white s team if any Date The date that this game took place This text must follow the format specif
177. ngs the latter will be added automatically EXAMPLE root menu order files wps To reset the menu items to the default use root menu order ie use a hyphen instead of items This configuration entry can only be created and edited with a text editor It is not possible to change this setting via the settings menu 13 1 2 Getting Extras Rockbox supports custom fonts collection of fonts is available for download in the font package at http www rockbox org daily shtml 13 1 3 Loading Fonts Rockbox can load fonts dynamically Simply copy the fnt file to the player and play it in the FILE BROWSER If you want a font to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox fonts directory and the filename must be at most 24 characters long You can browse the fonts in rockbox fonts under SETTINGS THEME SETTINGS FONT in the MAIN MENU THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 13 ADVANCED TOPICS 153 Note Advanced Users Only Any BDF font should be usable with Rockbox To convert from bdf to fnt use the convbdf tool This tool can be found in the tools directory of the Rockbox source code See s CreateFontszz ConvBdf for more details Or just run convbdf without any parameters to see the possible options 13 1 4 Loading Languages Rockbox can load language files at runtime Simply copy the 1ng file do not use the lang file to the player
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179. ns press Enteror Play to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel Remove if not Used Selecting this option will remove the file automatically if it is not used by another theme in the theme directory and not currently used Never Remove Selecting this option will always skip deleting the file Always Remove Selecting this option will remove the file with no regard to whether it s used by another theme or not Font Specifies how the fnt file belonging to a theme cfg file is handled If this option is set to REMOVE IF NOT USED the fonts came from rockbox fonts zip will not be removed as themes may depend on those fonts WPS Specifies how the wps file belonging to a theme cfg file is handled Statusbar Skin Specifies how the sbs file belonging to a theme cfg file is han dled Backdrop Specifies how the backdrop bmp file belonging to a theme cfg file is handled Iconset Specifies how the iconset bmp file belonging to a theme cfg file is han dled Viewers Iconset Specifies how the viewers iconset bmp file belonging to a theme cfg file is handled Create Log File Setting this to No prevents the log file from being created Quit Exits this plugin 12 3 15 VBRfix This function scans a VBR Variable Bitrate MP3 file and updates creates the Xing VBR header The Xing header contains information about the VBR stream used to calculate average bit rate time information and to more accurately fwd rew in the
180. nt whenever it is paused not stopped The amount to rewind can be set between 0 and 15 seconds THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 61 8 General Settings a 22 81 e General Settings eaPlayback Settings Playlists File View Database Display System Y Bookmarking Language Voice Figure 8 1 The general settings screen 8 1 Playlist The PLAYLIST sub menu allows you to configure settings related to playlists Recursively Insert Directories If set to ON then when a directory is inserted or queued into a dynamic playlist all subdirectories will also be inserted If set to ASK Rockbox will prompt the user about whether to include sub directories Warn When Erasing Dynamic Playlist If set to YES Rockbox will provide a warning if the user attempts to take an action that will cause Rockbox to erase the current dynamic playlist 8 2 File View The File View menu deals with options relating to how the File Browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this option is set to YES all files that start with upper case letters will be listed first followed by all files that begin with lower case letters If this option is set to NO then case will be ignored when sorting files Sort Directories This option controls how Rockbox sorts directories The default is to sort them alphabetically By DATE sorts them with the oldest directory first By NEWEST DATE sort
181. ntal scrolling methods 1 always scrolling the text to the left until the line has ended and then beginning again at the start and 2 moving to the left until you can read the end of the line and then scrolling right until you see the beginning again Rockbox chooses which method it should use depending of how much it has to scroll to the left This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of the line length Screen Scrolls Out of View Screens can be manually scrolled horizontally by pressing Setting this option to YES will keep the list entries at their fixed positions and allow them to be scrolled out of view whereas No will only scroll those entries which surpass the right margin Screen Scroll Step Size Defines the number of pixels the horizontal manual screen scroll should move for each step Paged Scrolling When set to YES scrolling vertically on pages that surpass the screen size will page up down instead of simply changing lines This can be useful on slow displays List Acceleration Start Delay This setting enables the acceleration of scroll speed in lists when holding Scroll Up or Scroll Down When set to OFF the acceleration is disabled When any other value is set the acceleration will start to accelerate after holding Scroll Up or Scroll Down for the chosen time in seconds List Acceleration Speed This setting controls how fast the scroll speed acceler ates The scroll speed will incre
182. o SHUFFLE OR MANUAL TRACK SKIP then crossfade will be active either when shuffle is set to YES or the track is manually skipped If set to AUWAYS tracks will always crossfade into one another Fade In Delay The fade in delay is the length of time between when the crossfade process begins and when the new track begins to fade in Fade In Duration The length of time in seconds that it takes your music to fade in once the FADE IN DELAY has ended Fade Out Delay The fade out delay is the length of time between when the crossfade process begins and when the old track begins to fade out Fade Out Duration The length of time in seconds that it takes your music to fade out once the FADE OUT DELAY has ended Fade Out Mode If set to CROSSFADE one song will fade out and the next song will simultaneously fade in If set to the ending song will not fade out at all and will continue to play as normal until its end with the starting song fading in from under it MIX mode is not used for manual track skips even if it is selected here Note The rules above apply except in the instance where FADE OuT DELAY plus FADE OUT DURATION is less then FADE IN DELAY which would create a gap in the audio In this case the FADE IN DELAY is reduced to eliminate the gap The graphic below illustrates how the different settings work in practice THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 57 Cros
183. o be used in a conditional b1 lt 1 0 1 2 N gt where the value 1 is used when the battery level isn t known it usually is The value N is only used when the battery level is ex actly 100 percent An image can also be used the propor tion of the image shown corresponds to the battery level b1 x y width height image bmp hbv The battery level in volts Abt Estimated battery time left Jbp p if the charger is connected only on targets that can charge batteries hbc c if the unit is currently charging the battery only on tar gets that have software charge control or monitoring AOS Remaining time of the sleep timer if it is set THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX D THEME TAGS 176 D 8 Information about the file Tag Description hitb File Bitrate in kbps Afc File Codec e g or FLAC This tag can also be used in a conditional tag 4 c lt mp1 mp2 mp3 aiff wav ogg flac mpcsv a52 wavpacklalaclaac shn sid adx nsf l speex spclapelwmalwmpapro mod sap realaudiocook realaudioaac realaudioac3 realaudioatrac3 ocmc cm3 cmr cms dmc d1t mpt mpd rmt tmc tm8 tm2 omaatrac3 smaf au vox wave64 tta wmavoice mpcsv8 aache aylgbs hes sgc vgm kss unknown gt The codec or der is as shown above Aff File Frequency in Hz Atk File Frequency in kHz Afm File Name yin File Name without extension Afp File Path 5 File Size
184. o display the statusbar THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 9 THEME SETTINGS 75 Volume Display Controls whether the volume is displayed as a graphic or a nu meric value on the Status Bar If you select a numeric display volume is displayed in decibels See section 6 1 page 47 for more on the volume set ting Battery Display Controls whether the battery charge status is displayed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Line Selector Type This option allows you to select which type of line selector to use Pointer A small arrow to the left of the menu text Bar inverse A bar with inverted foreground and background colour THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 10 RECORDING SETTINGS 76 10 Recording Settings 2a 22 09 mS Recording Settings a Eua m Encoder Settings Frequency A Source 4 Channels File Split Options 4 Prerecord Time E3Clear Recording Directory 4 Clipping Light Figure 10 1 The recording settings screen Note To change the location where recordings are stored open the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 on the directory where you want to store them in the FILE BROWSER and select SET As RECORDING DIRECTORY 10 1 Format Choose which format to save your recording in The available choices are the two un compressed formats PCM Wave and AIFF the losslessly compressed WAVPACK and the lossy MPE
185. o load There are other ways to load a bookmarks mentioned below Note Bookmarking only works when tracks are launched from the file browser and does not work for tracks launched via the database In addition they do not work with dynamic playlists Bookmark on Stop This option controls whether Rockbox creates a bookmark when playback is stopped manually No Do not create bookmarks Yes Always create bookmarks Ask Ask if a bookmark should be created Yes Recent Only Always create a bookmark but only in the recent bookmarks list Ask Recent Only Ask if a bookmark should be created but only add it to the recent bookmarks list When either YES RECENT ONLY or ASK RECENT ONLY is selected bookmarks are only created if the MAINTAIN A LIST OF RECENT BOOKMARKS is enabled Note The RESUME function remembers your position in the most recently ac cessed track regardless of how the BOOKMARK ON STOP option is set Update on Stop If set to No this setting has no effect and does not affect any other settings If set to Yes and the file to which a new bookmark would be added already exists this option overrides the previous setting BOOKMARK ON STOP and unconditionally creates a bookmark This is useful if you don t generally want to create bookmarks but only want to add them to already existing bookmark files In this case you should set the setting BOOKMARK ON STOP to No and the setting UPDATE ON
186. ocedure 2 2 2 Manual Installation The manual installation method is still available to you should you need or desire it by following the instructions below If you have used Rockbox Utility to install Rockbox then you do not need to follow the next section and can skip straight to section 2 2 3 page 16 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 16 Note The entire contents of the zip file should be extracted directly to the root of your player s drive Do not try to create separate directory on your player for the Rockbox files The zip file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs If the contents of the zip file are extracted correctly you will have a directory called rockbox which contains all the files needed by Rockbox in the main directory of your player s drive Installing the bootloader Installing the bootloader is the trickiest part of the installation As explained above we cannot distribute the bootloader directly and thus need to patch a compatible version of the MPIO firmware which can be downloaded as
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188. of the sound related settings Save Theme Settings This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The config uration file has the cfg extension and is used to store all of the theme related settings 13 4 Firmware Loading 13 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 This can be used to test new firmware versions without deleting your current version 13 5 Optimising battery runtime Rockbox offers a lot of settings that have high impact on the battery runtime of your player The largest power savings can be achieved through disabling unneeded hardware components for some of those there are settings available Another area of savings is avoiding or reducing CPU boosting through disabling computing intense features e g sound processing or using effective audio codecs The following provides a short overview of the most relevant settings and rules of thumb 13 5 1 Display backlight The active backlight consumes a lot of power Therefore choose a setting that disables the backlight after timeout for setting BACKLIGHT see section 8 4 page 63 Avoid to have the backlight enabled all the time 13 5 2 Anti Skip Buffer 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 playbac
189. oint is written to memory every minute Every time the disk is accessed for any reason such as refilling the audio buffer open ing a directory or entering USB mode etc then the information in memory is written to disk Once the memory becomes full after many hours then the data are written to disk anyway This is done so that the data are not biased by excessive additional disk accesses The file is written to the root directory of your player and is called battery_bench txt The plugin will continue to log info until e Another plugin is loaded e The player is shut down e The battery is empty THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 137 Benchmarks can be resumed if you accidentally load a plugin or turn off your player so long as the log file battery_bench txt is not deleted Information explained At the top of the battery_bench txt file is various information on how to use the plugin followed by the data themselves Time This column reports the total time of operation of the player It is not the time that you started the plug in If you have your player on for 5 minutes and then start the plugin it will start measuring from 5 minutes Seconds The same as Time except measured in seconds Level The percent level of the battery estimated by Rockbox and not the actual battery level The actual battery level can be seen from the Voltage column Time Left This shows the time remaining unti
190. om a ee 61 Sc Database i soc ocom osea a a aa Rb a apa PUE Ron be RS TOUR oes 63 EL a eee oh a ee a a 63 Rl c e ee ee i So OP die a a A 66 Preto ona De A RR eek ae UE ede 66 YONG oe ee Eee Re ew E 66 Gate boc PT C 66 8 5 4 Car Adapter Mode cca s oos oso o RR 67 amp 55 Eeyclek 2 2 52 44 504 Dee oe SG Ea 3 9o ood 67 8 6 lt s duo wo xoxo Re x ee 67 8 0 1 Start Berson oo c soo X OE wc Rok ORC RE dc 67 B3 Wille Power A ee 68 BOLA deep Tie go eos kx RUD 68 Sot Bookmark xs cs oo ee RR Be A4 xoxo 69 BE Automatic resume ssa cose koa o ok RO 70 ES Language oco po cee ceana orem ee we Dow eue 71 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CONTENTS 6 BD VOIR A we ee ok coge ew RC RUE RR ee ae hess 71 9 Theme Settings 74 10 Recording Settings 76 IO L Eoimat ee xo ege xor Xa ge oe ee is aide Gh mo e ee oe a 76 10 2 Encoder Settings MPS only ooo RR RE 76 Pere MEM 76 Wa OSS RS EH REE a e e EASES 117192 T 2T TT 105 Ohannes e ie gied a aa e
191. om EQ settings THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 52 6 9 Dithering This setting controls the dithering and noise shaping functionality of Rockbox 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 frequently occuring quiet parts classical music being a typical example It is worth noting that the effects of dithering and noise shaping are very subtle and not easily noticable Rockbox uses highpass triangular distribution noise as the dithering noise source and a third order noise shaper 6 10 Timestretch Enabli
192. on restarting take a few minutes to scan the drive After this the directory cache will work in the background 8 5 3 Limits This sub menu relates to limits in the Rockbox operating system Max Entries in File Browser This setting controls the limit on the number of files that you can see in any particular directory in the file browser You can configure the size to be between 50 and 10 000 files in steps of 50 The default is 400 Higher values will shorten the music buffer so you should increase this setting only if you have directories with a large number of files Max Playlist Size This setting controls the maximum size of a playlist The playlist size can be between 1 000 and 32 000 files in steps of 1 000 default is 10 000 Higher values will shorten the music buffer so you should increase this setting only if you have very large playlists THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 67 Glyphs To Cache This sets the default memory allocation size for fonts in unique glyphs This should be set to the number of unique language glyphs and punctu ation marks that are frequently displayed The default is 250 Note You will need to restart your player for changes to MAX ENTRIES IN FILE BROWSER or MAX PLAYLIST SIZE to take effect while GLYPHS To CACHE will affect the next font load 8 5 4 Car Adapter Mode This option turns ON and OFF the car ignition auto stop function Car Adapter Mod
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195. one of the Spectrum keys acces sible through the plugin s virtual keyboard to each one of the buttons Quit Quits the emulator Hacking graphics Due to ZXBox s simple but fast scaling to the screen by dropping lines and columns some games can become unplayable It is possible to hack graphics to make them better visible with the help of an utility such as the Spectrum Graphics Editor Useful tools can be found at the World of Spectrum site http www worldofspectrum org utilities html THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 136 12 4 Applications 12 4 1 Alarm Clock This plugin is an alarm clock which resumes a paused song at a given time Key configuration Key Action Rewind Switch between hours minutes selection Forward Scroll Up Increase Decrease hours minutes Scroll Down Enter Set the alarm Menu Exit Setting an alarm First select a track and play it then launch the alarmclock plugin The plugin pauses the playback Enter a 24h time e g 13 58 and set the alarm Music playback will resume when the set time is reached 12 4 2 Battery Benchmark The BATTERY BENCHMARK plugin enables you to test your battery s performance whilst using your player normally Results can be submitted to the mBatteryRuntime wiki page How it works Once loaded BATTERY BENCHMARK runs in the background recording various informa tion about your battery to memory A new p
196. ood 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 want next Try to put yourself between the opponent and that food From now on you can control the other worm by blocking it You could trap it by making a 1 pixel wide U turn You also could move from food to food and make sure you keep between your opponent and t
197. or remove them Triangle Mode Add triangle marks to the board or remove them Label Mode Add one character labels to the board Each label starts at the letter a and each subsequent application of a label will increment the letter To remove a label click on it until it cycles through the allowed letters and disappears Add Edit Comment Add or edit a comment at the current node Done Go back to the previous screen THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 93 12 1 10 Invadrox A95 HM Apis gis HN i Ld Rod odd RR Po Be Be Se eee PP PMR RM Figure 12 9 Invadrox Invadrox is a clone of the classic arcade game Space Invaders Kill those pesky aliens before they get to you Remember they increase speed drop down and reverse direction after every pass Key Action Rewind Move left Forward Move right Enter Fire Menu Quit 12 1 11 Jackpot Rae Figure 12 10 Jackpot This is a jackpot slot machine game At the beginning of the game you have 20 Payouts are given when three matching symbols come up THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 94 Key Action Enter Play Menu Exit the game 12 1 12 Jewels ROA VORA Y 00009Q9 X AKBOOOKY AGBOCAGACK SVOBOCOVA oo0x00x do Figure 12 11 Jewels Jewels is a si
198. or the FLAC tag Vorbis comment CUESHEET or the ID3v2 TXXX CUESHEET tag 7 15 Skip Length Designed to speed up navigation when listening to long audio tracks SKIP LENGTH changes the behaviour of the Rewind and Forward buttons so that they skip by a given time instead of skipping to a new track The SKIP TO OUTRO option changes the behaviour so that the buttons skip to just before the end of the track so that the last few seconds are played before the next track 7 16 Prevent Track Skipping If this option is enabled the ability to manually skip tracks is disabled in order to avoid accidental track skips It does not prevent changing tracks if a track ends which can be achieved by combining this option with REPEAT set to ONE 7 17 Rewind Before Resume When restarting a track or a bookmark a short rewind can be done before the playback is started This can be useful when listening to speech material to help remember what was being said just before playback was stopped The size of the rewind can be set to various values between 0 off and 60 seconds Note This option does not apply to resuming a paused track Use the next option for rewinding on pause Note The actual rewind distance may differ a little from the requested value depending on the file in question THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 7 PLAYBACK SETTINGS 60 7 18 Rewind on Pause This option rewinds the current track by a small amou
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200. ory 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 T his option turns on the use of talk clips for directories On Use special pre recorded files dirname talk in each directory These must be generated in advance and are typically produced synthetically using a text to speech engine on a PC Off No checking is made for directory talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce disk activity Use of a talk clip takes precedence over other directory name voicing Otherwise e g if a talk clip is not available voicing uses the method set under VOICE DIRECTORIES above Voice 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 T his option turns on the use of talk clips for files On Use special pre recorded files for each file This functions the same as for directories except that the talk clip file must have the same name as the described file with an extra talk extension e g Punkadiddle mp3 would require a file called Punkadiddle mp3 talk
201. ossible to set individual items of a theme from within the SETTINGS THEME SETTINGS menu 13 2 2 Themes Create Your Own The theme files are simple text files and can be created or edited in your favourite text editor To make sure non English characters display correctly in your theme you must save the theme files with UTF 8 character encoding This can be done in most editors for example Notepad in Windows 2000 or XP but not in 9x ME can do this Files Locations Each different themeable aspect requires its own file WPS files have the extension wps FM screen files have the extension fms and SBS files have the extension sbs The main theme file has the extension cfg files should have the same name The theme cfg file should be placed in the rockbox themes directory while the wps fms and sbs files should be placed in the rockbox wps directory Any images used by the theme should be placed in a subdirectory of rockbox wps with the same name as the theme e g if the theme files are named mytheme wps mytheme sbs etc then the images should be placed in rockbox wps mytheme full list of the available tags are given in appendix section D page 173 some of the more powerful concepts in theme design are discussed below e All characters not preceded by are displayed as typed e Lines beginning with are comments and will be ignored THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAP
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203. ou have your music organized in a way different than they assume when attempting to guess the Artist and Album names from your filetree See section C page 171 for the requirements for Album Art to work properly See section B 1 page 165 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 section 5 1 page 38 To browse the files on your 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 26 3 1 6 Basic controls When browsing files and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive In the tree view use Scroll Down and Scroll Up to move around the selection Use Enter 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 ID3 Tags Vorbis comments etc THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 3 QUICK START 21 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
204. out if in Text mode is displayed at the top center if in Bar mode is displayed as a progress bar at the top of the LCD if in Invert mode will invert the LCD left to right as the seconds pass a fully inverted LCD means the entire minute has passed The Counter if displayed is shown at the upper left The Blinking Colon if enabled blinks the colon once every second 12 hour mode if enabled will display the time in a 12 hour format LCD mode Based on the Digital Mode the LCD mode is another imitation of an LCD The settings available in this mode are exactly the same as Digital Mode but they are independent of Digital Mode For example you can have the Date Readout enabled in Digital Mode and disabled in LCD Mode Fullscreen A Fullscreen clock is displayed Show Border if enabled will draw a small box at every hour position 1 to 12 inclusive Invert Seconds if enabled will invert the LCD as the seconds pass Second Hand if enabled will draw a second hand among the hour and minute hands Binary mode This mode shows a Binary clock The hour is displayed on the top line the minute is displayed on the middle line and the seconds are on the last line Circle mode if enabled draws empty and full circles instead of zeros and ones For help on reading binary please visit http en wikipedia org wiki Binary_numeral_system Plain mode This mode shows a plain clock in large text that takes up n
205. ox Utility will automatically install the release version of Rockbox Using the Installation tab will allow you to select which version you wish to install Release The release version is the latest stable release free of known critical bugs For a manual install the current stable release of Rockbox is available at http www rockbox org download Development Build The development build is built at each change to the Rockbox source code repository and represents the current state of Rockbox development This means that the build could contain bugs but most of the time is safe to use For a manual install you can download the current build from http build rockbox org Archived Build In addition to the release version and the current build there is also an archive of daily builds available for download These are built once a day from the latest source code in the repository For manual install you can download archived builds from http www rockbox org daily shtml Note Because current and archived builds are development versions that change fre quently they may behave differently than described in this manual or they may in troduce new and potentially annoying bugs Unless you wish to try the latest and greatest features at the price of possibly greater instability or you wish to help with development you should stick with the release Please now go to section 2 2 3 page 16 to complete the installation pr
206. pixels with zoom at 100 between the centre and side slides Scales with zoom Number of slides Sets the number of slides at each side including the centre slide Therefore if set to 4 there will be 3 slides on the left the centre slide and then 3 slides on the right Zoom Changes the distance at which slides are rendered from the camera Show album title Allows setting the album title to be shown above or below the cover art or not at all Resize Covers Set whether to automatically resize the covers or to leave them at their original size Rebuild cache Rebuild the PictureFlow cache This is needed in order for PictureFlow to pick up new albums and may occasionally be needed if albums are removed 12 2 11 Plasma Figure 12 36 Plasma Plasma is a demo displaying a 80 s style retro plasma effect THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 117 Key Action Scroll Up Increase decrease Frequency Scroll Down Menu Long Exit Menu 12 2 12 Rocklife This an implementation of J Conway s Game of Life see http en wikipedia org wiki Conway 27s_Game_of_Life for a detailed description Rockbox can open files with a configuration description cells files Just play such file and the game configuration stored in it will be loaded into this plugin A cells file is a text file A capital O marks a live cell a dot marks a dead cell all other charac
207. play back Set to USE SETTING to use the Brightness setting Audio Options Menu Tone Controls default force off Use the bass and treble control settings or force them off Channel Modes default force off Use the channel configuration setting or force Stereo mode Crossfeed default force off Use the Crossfeed setting or force crossfeed off Equalizer default force off Use the Equalizer setting or force the equalizer off Dithering default force off Use the Dithering setting or force audio dithering off See this page in the Rockbox wiki for information on how to encode your videos to the supported format 1 PluginMpegplayer 12 3 8 MP3 Encoder This plugin encodes a wav file to MP3 format The supported input format is uncom pressed linear PCM with 16 bit per sample and a maximum of 2 channels Allowed sample rates are 16 22 05 24 32 44 1 and 48 kHz The user will be asked to select the desired output bitrate of the compressed MP3 file THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 127 Select Bitrate The following bitrates can be selected 64 80 96 112 128 160 192 224 256 320 kbps Remark Bitrates above 160 kbps cannot be used in MPEG 2 Layer 3 bitstreams The encoder plugin automatically limits the output bitrate to 160 kbps for input files with a sample rate of 16 22 05 or 24 kHz The same limitation is valid for mono files The output mp3 file is written to the same
208. ple is the playback menu which can be called using the context menu from within the WPS 3 2 Customising Rockbox Rockbox User Interface can be customised using Themes Themes usually only affect the visual appearance but an advanced user can create a theme that also changes various other settings like file view LCD settings and all other settings that can be modified using cfg files This topic is discussed in more detail in section 13 3 page 160 The Rockbox distribution comes with some themes that should look nice on your player Note Some of the themes shipped with Rockbox need additional fonts from the fonts package so make sure you installed them Also if you downloaded additional themes from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts installed as otherwise the theme may not display properly THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 A CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 22 4 Browsing and playing 4 1 File Browser mS 20 0 Jd D1 Street Fighting Man 3302 Paint It Black 4303 Under My Thumb Ft Mick 41304 As Tears Go By Ft Marie 1305 Sympathy For The Devil I JJ06 Dandelion 3407 Ruby Tuesday Ft Mari J308 Angie Ft Mick Jagge 1309 She s A 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 executi
209. plugin will tell you what note it is e g A A etc The frequency will also be displayed This may be a great assistance when tuning a musical instrument THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 148 Key Action Menu Open menu Long Menu Exit 12 4 14 Random Folder Advance Configuration This plugin is used to configure the folders which will be considered when the Auto Change Directory feature is set to RANDOM Menu Generate Folder List Generates a list of all folders found on the player You can filter the directories which are scanned by creating a file called rockbox folder advance dir txt Only the directories in this file and any contained directories will be scanned You can have up to 10 directories ignored by the scan by placing a minus sign before them in the list i e CDs will cause everything in the CDs directory to be ignored If you just want CDs to be ignored but want to include the folders within it you need to have both CDs and CDs as entries Edit Folder List Enter the folder list editor Export List To Textfile Exports the list to rockbox folder advance list txt Import List From Textfile Imports the list from rockbox folder advance list txt Play Shuffled Starts playback with the selected directories in random order Tracks within a directory will be played in normal order The plugin will exit after starting playback Quit Folder List Editor Keys Key Act
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211. r It is also possible to show Radio Art which can be used to display images associated with presets The tags are exactly the same as for album art described above Images need to be placed in rockbox fmpresets and must have the same name as the preset They need to be in either bmp or jpg format and the radio must be in preset mode and tuned to a preset and not recording in order for them to be shown THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 185 D 23 Alignment and language direction Tag Description hal Align the text left al Align the text left or to the right if RTL language is in use hac Centre the text har Align the text right aR Align the text right or to the left if RTL language is in use hax The next tag should follow the set language direction When prepended to a viewport declaration the viewport will be horizontally mirrored if the user language is set to a RTL language Currently the Cl V and 96Vl tags support this ASr Use as a conditional to define options for left to right or right to left languages Sr lt RTL LTR gt All alignment tags may be present in one line but they need to be in the order left centre right If the aligned texts overlap they are merged Example 4axAV C D 24 Conditional Tags Tag Description A xx true false A xxXalti alt2 alt3 lelse if tag operator operand option count and tagi
212. r 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 44 Create Playlist Rockbox will create a playlist with all tracks in the current directory and all sub directories The playlist will be created one directory level up from where you currently are View Current Playlist Displays the contents of the playlist currently stored in memory Save Current Playlist Saves the current dynamic playlist excluding queued tracks to the specified file If no path is provided then playlist is saved to the current directory View Catalogue Provides a simple interface to maintain several playlists see sec tion 4 4 page 33 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 some impressive demos and a number of utilities A detailed description of the different plugins is to be found in section 12 page 81 5 12 System Rockbox Info Displays some basic system information This is from top to bottom the amount of memory Rockbox has available for storing music the buffer The battery status Hard disk size and the amount of free space on the disk Credits Display the list of contributors Running Time Show
213. r you need to connect it to your computer For manual installation uninstallation or should autodetection fail during automatic installation you need to know where to access the player On Windows this means you need to know the drive letter associated with the player On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player On Mac OS X you need to know the volume name of your player 2 2 Installing Rockbox There are two ways to install Rockbox automated and manual The automated way is the preferred method of installing Rockbox for the majority of people Rockbox Utility is a graphical application that does almost everything for you However should you encounter a problem then the manual way is still available to you There are two separate components which need to be installed in order to run Rockbox The Rockbox bootloader The bootloader is the program that tells your player how to load and start other components of Rockbox and for providing the dual boot function This is the component of Rockbox that is installed to the flash memory of your MPIO The Rockbox firmware Unlike the MPIO 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 part
214. rgin as here Notes are used to mark useful information that may help you to get the most out of Rockbox Warning This is a warning In contrast to notes mentioned above a warning should be taken more seriously Whereas ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage ignoring warnings could cause serious damage to your player You really should read the warnings especially if you are new to Rockbox This icon marks a section that is intended especially for the blind and visually im paired As they cannot read the manual in the same way sighted people do we have added some additional descriptions If you are not blind or visually impaired you can probably completely skip these blocks To make this easier there is an icon shown in the margin on the right Links to the wiki are abbreviated by the name of the wiki page Those names are still linked so you can simply follow them like any other link in this manual If you want to access a wiki page manually go to http www rockbox org wiki and type the page name in the Go box at the top of the page Links to wiki pages are also indicated by the symbol in front of the page name THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 4 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 13 2 Installation Installing Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure However before beginning there are a few important things to know 2 1 Before Starting USB connection To transfer Rockbox to your playe
215. rience 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 G 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 1 Check that the bug has not already been reported 2 Always include the following information in your bug report e Which exact player you have e Which exact Rockbox version you are using Menu System Rockbox Info Version e A step by step description of what you did and what happened e Whether the problem is repeatable or a one time occurrence e All relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists MP3 files etc IMPORTANT G 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 G 2 1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea 1 Check that the feature has not already been suggested Duplicates are really boring 2 Check that the feature has not already been implemented Download the latest current daily build and or search the mail list archive 3 Check that the feature is possible to implement see section G 2 2 page 197 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 1
216. rrent 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 playlist Set the SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS PLAYLIST RECURSIVELY INSERT DIRECTORIES setting to YES if you would like Rockbox to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently selected directory Dynamic playlists are saved so resume will restore them exactly as they were before shutdown Note To view save or reshuffle the current dynamic playlist use the PLAYLIST sub menu in the WPS context menu or in the MAIN MENU 4 4 4 Modifying playlists Reshuffling Reshuffling the current playlist is easily done from the PLAYLIST sub menu in the WPS just select RESHUFFLE Moving and removing tracks To move or remove a track from the current playlist enter the PLAYLIST VIEWER by selecting VIEW CURRENT PLAYLIST in the PLAYLIST submenu in the WPS context menu or the MAIN MENU Once in the PLAYLIST VIEWER open the context menu on the track you want to move or remove If you want to move the track sele
217. rs peak meters or progress bars THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX E CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 190 E Config file options Setting Allowed Values Unit volume dB bass dB treble dB balance 100 to 100 channels stereo mono custom mono left N A mono right karaoke stereo width 0 to 250 06 shuffle on off N A repeat off all one shuffle ab N A play selected on off N A party mode on off N A scan min step 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 25 5 30 45 60 seek acceleration very fast fast normal slow very N A slow antiskip 5s 15s 30s 1min 2min 3min N A 5min 10min volume fade on off N A sort case on off N A show files all supported music playlists N A show filename exts off on unknown view_all N A follow playlist on off N A playlist viewer icons on off N A playlist viewer indices on off N A playlist viewer track track name full path N A display recursive directory insert off ask N A scroll speed 1 to 25 Hz scroll delay 0 to 2500 ms scroll step devise a way to get ranges pixels from config h screen scroll step devise a way to get ranges pixels from config h Screen Scrolls Out Of on off N A View THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX E CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 191 Setting Allowed Values Unit bidir limit 0 to 200 screen scroll paginated on off N A hold lr for scroll in list on off N A show path in browser off current direc
218. rsion 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX D THEME TAGS 180 Number Screen 1 Menus p WPS 3 Recording screen 4 FM Radio screen 5 Current Playlist screen 6 Settings menus 7 File browser 8 Database browser 9 Plugin browser 10 Quickscreen 11 Pitchscreen 12 Setting chooser 13 Playlist Catalogue Viewer 14 Plugin 15 Context menu 16 System Info screen 17 Time and Date Screen 18 Bookmark browser 19 Shortcuts menu 20 Track Info screen The tag can also be used as the switch in a conditional tag For players without certain capabilities e g no FM radio some values will never be returned Examples You are in the lt menu WPS Recording screen FM Radio screen 4A if cs 2 This is the WPS gt D 18 List Title sbs only Tag Description ALt Title text Should be used in a conditional so that non list screens don t show a title when they shouldn t ALi Title icon This uses the same order as custom icons see se CustomlIcons in the wiki except that here 0 is no icon This tag can be used to give custom formatting to list titles Define a viewport with the font and formatting desired and then use Lt lt Lt gt to display the title within the viewport If 71 is present anywhere in the sbs then the 4Vi viewport will not show the title THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX D THEME TAGS 181 D 19 Changing Volume Tag Description t
219. rson chess game with computer artificial intelligence The chess engine is a port of GNU Chess 2 by John Stanback It also works as a PGN file viewer Instead of executing the game from the plugin menu look for any file with pgn extension in the file browser and execute it Chessbox will show the list of matches included in the file and allow you to select the one you want to watch After that you can scroll back and forth through the moves of the game If the menu is invoked while in the viewer the user is allowed to select a new match from the same file or quit the game Force play while the computer is thinking will cause it to make its move immediately If done while it s your turn the computer will move for you and flip the board so that you are playing from the other side If you want you can force play an entire game and watch the artificial intelligence fight against itself When you quit the game the current state will be saved and restored when you resume the game The menu also allows the user to reload the last game saved save the current position and start a new game without having to quit the game Keys Key Action Rewind Move the cursor Forward Scroll Up Scroll Down Enter Pick up Drop piece Rec Change level Play Force play Menu Show the menu THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 85 12 1 5 Chopper Figure 12 5 Chopper Navigate a
220. s are constantly being made All models have access to a large number of plugins including many games applications and graphical demos You can load different configurations quickly for different purposes e g a large font for in your car different sound settings for at home Rockbox features a very wide range of languages and all supported models also have the ability to talk to you menus can be voiced and filenames spelled out or spoken 1 2 Getting more help This manual is intended to be comprehensive introduction to the Rockbox firmware There is however more help available The Rockbox website at http www rockbox org contains very extensive documentation and guides written by members of the Rockbox community and this should be your first port of call when looking for further help If you cannot find the information you are searching for on the Rockbox website there are a number of support channels you should have a look at You can try the Rockbox forums located at http forums rockbox org The mailing lists are another option and can be found at http www rockbox org mail From that page you can subscribe to the lists and browse the archives To search the list archives simply use the search field that is located on the left side of the website Furthermore you can ask on IRC The THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 12 main channel for Rockbox is rockbox on irc ir
221. s directory Long Rewind 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 41 The bar This is the wide horizontal bar It represents the current volume value THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 30 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 without being indicated The scale Between the indicators of the right and left channel there are little dots These dots represent important volume values In linear mode each dot is a 10 mark In dBFS mode the dots represent the following values from right to left 0 dB 3 dB 6 dB 9 dB 12 dB 18 dB 24 dB 30 dB 40 dB 50 dB 60 dB 4 3 3 The WPS Context Menu Like the context menu for the FILE BROWSER the WPS CONTEXT MENU allows you quick access to some often used funct
222. s of this General Public License The Program below refers to any such program or work and a work based on the Program means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law that is to say a work containing the Program or a portion of it either verbatim or with modifications and or translated into another language Hereinafter translation is included without limitation in the term modification Each licensee is addressed as you Activities other than copying distribution and modification are not covered by this License they are outside its scope The act of running the Program is not restricted and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents consti tute a work based on the Program independent of having been made by running the Program Whether that is true depends on what the Program does 1 You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program s source code as you receive it in any medium provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee 2 You may modify your copy or cop
223. s the runtime of your player in hours minutes and seconds Running Time This item shows the cumulative overall runtime of your player since you either disconnected it from charging in Rockbox or manually reset this item A manual reset is done through pressing any button followed by pressing Enter Top Time This item shows the cumulative overall runtime of your player since you last manually reset this item A manual reset is done through pressing any button followed by pressing Enter Debug Keep Out This sub menu is intended to be used only by Rockbox developers It shows hardware disk battery status and other technical information Warning It is not recommended that users access this menu unless instructed to do so in the course of fixing a problem with Rockbox If you think you have messed up your settings by use of this menu please try to reset all settings before asking for help THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 5 THE MAIN MENU 45 5 13 Shortcuts This menu item is a container for user defined shortcuts to files folders or settings With a shortcut e A file can be run i e a music file played plugin started or a cfg loaded e The file browser can be opened with the cursor positioned at a specified file or folder A file s or folder s Current Playlist context menu item can be displayed A setting can be configured any which can be added to the QUICK SCREEN A debu
224. s them with the newest directory first Sort Files This option controls how Rockbox sorts files All of the options for SORT DIRECTORIES are available in this option In addition there is a By TYPE option which sorts files alphabetically by their type such as mp3 then alphabetically within each type THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 62 Interpret numbers when sorting AS WHOLE NUMBERS enables a sorting algorithm which is similar to the default sorting of for example Windows Explorer Mac OS X s Finder or Nautilus with regards to numbers at the beginning or within filenames It combines consecutive digits to a number used for sorting taking leading zeros into account AS DIGITS disables this algorithm and causes every digit to be compared sepa rately The following table demonstrates the two sorting methods As whole numbers As digits 03 Jackson mp3 03 Jackson mp3 1 Ring Of Fire mp3 1 Ring Of Fire mp3 2 I Walk The Line mp3 10 A Thing Called Love mp3 10 A Thing Called Love mp3 2 I Walk The Line mp3 Episode 1 ogg Episode 1 ogg Episode 57 0gg Episode 233 ogg Episode 233 ogg Episode 57 Show Files This option controls which files are displayed in the File Browser All The FILE BROWSER displays all files and directories Extensions are shown No files or directories are hidden Supported The FILE BROWSER displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see sectio
225. s there are some addons you might be interested in installing Fonts Rockbox can load custom fonts The fonts are distributed as a separate package and thus need to be installed separately They are not required to run Rockbox itself but a lot of themes require the fonts package to be installed THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 14 Themes The appearance of Rockbox can be customised by themes Depending on your taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox 2 2 1 Automated Installation To automatically install Rockbox download the official installer and housekeeping tool ROCKBOX UTILITY It allows you to e Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox Minimal Instal lation e Automatically install all suggested components Complete Installation Selectively install optional components Install additional fonts and themes e Install voice files and generate talk clips e Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility Prebuilt binaries for Windows Linux and Mac OS X are available at the mRockboxUtility wiki page When first starting ROCKBOX UTILITY run Autodetect found in the configuration dialog File Configure Autodetection can detect most player types If autodetection fails or is unable to detect the mountpoint make sure to enter the correct values The mountpoint indicates the loca
226. sfade 1 Fade Out Delay 3s Joep Fade Out Duration 69 Volume dB Start of crossfade i fh Fade In Duration bs n J Fade In Delay 1s Time Track 1 Track 2 7 9 Replaygain This allows you to control the replaygain function The purpose of replaygain is to adjust the volume of the music played so that all songs or albums depending on your settings have the same apparent volume This prevents sudden changes in volume when changing between songs recorded at different volume levels For replaygain to work the songs must have been processed by a program that adds replaygain information to the ID3 tags or Vorbis tags Options for replaygain are 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 value is not available uses track gain information Track Gain Maintain a constant volume level between tracks If track gain value is not available no replaygain is applied Track Gain If Shuffling Maintains a constant volume between tracks if SHUFFLE is set to YES Reverts to album mode if SHUFFLE is set to No Off Do not process replaygain information i e turn off the replaygain function Prevent Clipping Avoid clipping of a song s waveform
227. sn t fill and draws the image slider image which moves right to left Note If the slider option is used the bar will be shrunk so that the slider fits inside the specified width and height Example 100px bar image with a 16px slider image needs the bar to be 116px wide and should be offset 8px left of the backdrop image to align correctly D 29 Other Tags Tag Description 88 start Get a substring from another tag length tag number Use this tag to get a substring from another tag start first character to take 0 being the start of the string negative means from the end of the string length length of the substring to return for the rest of the string tag tag to get number OPTIONAL if this is present it will assume the substring is a number so it can be used with conditionals i e 4cM 0 is the first conditional option THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX D THEME TAGS 189 Tag Description AC The character hh The character hs The character ry The character lt The character lt l The character gt The character gt A5 The character At The character 5 Indicate that the line should scroll Can occur anywhere in a line given that the text is displayed see conditionals above You can specify up to ten scrolling lines Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as time
228. standard Rockbox but you just press one key instead of entering a phrase Play Pause Tape Toggles playing of the tape if it is loaded Save Quick Snapshot Saves snapshot into rockbox zxboxq z80 Load Quick Snapshot Loads snapshot from rockbox zxboxq z80 Save Snapshot Saves a snapshot of the current state You would enter the full path and desired name for example games zx snapshots chuckie sna The snapshot format will be chosen after the extension you specified per default z80 will be taken in case you leave it open Toggle Fast Mode Toggles fastest possible emulation speed no sound maximum frameskip etc This is Useful when loading tapes with some specific loaders Options Map Keys To Kempston Controls whether the player s buttons should sim ulate a Kempston joystick or some assigned keys of the Spectrum keyboard Display Speed Toggle displaying the emulation speed in percent Invert Colours Inverts the Spectrum colour palette sometimes helps visibility Frameskip Sets the number of frames to skip before displaying one With zero frameskip ZXBox tries to display 50 frames per second Sound Turns sound on or off Volume Controls volume of sound output Predefined Keymap Select one of the predefined keymaps For example 2w90z means map ZXBox s Up to 2 Down to w Left to 9 Right to 0 and Jump Fire to 7 This example keymap is used in the Chuckie Egg game Custom Keymap This menu allows you to map
229. start 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 hard 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 hard 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 Ay 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 21 Initialize Now You can force Rockbox to rescan your
230. t Sections and required Cover Texts given in the Document s license notice H Include an unaltered copy of this License I Preserve the section Entitled History Preserve its Title and add to it an item stating at least the title year new authors and publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page If there is no section Entitled History in the Document create one stating the title year authors and publisher of the Document as given THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX I LICENSES 206 on its Title Page then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated in the previous sentence J Preserve the network location if any given in the Document for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document and likewise the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it was based on These may be placed in the History section You may omit a network location for a work that was published at least four years before the Document itself or if the original publisher of the version it refers to gives permission K For any section Entitled Acknowledgements or Dedications Preserve the Title of the section and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and or dedications given therein L Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document unaltered in their text and in their titles Section numbers
231. t different UI viewports e AViClabel This viewport is used as Custom UI Viewport in the case that the theme doesn t have a ui viewport set in the theme cfg file Having this is strongly recommended since it makes you able to use the SBS with other themes If label is set this viewport can be selectivly used as the Info Viewport using the VI tag The parameters use the same logic as the 4V tag explained above e VIC label Set the Info Viewport to use the viewport called label as declared with the previous tag 13 2 4 Additional Fonts Additional fonts can be loaded within each screen file to be used in that screen In this way not only can you have different fonts between e g the menu and the WPS but you can use multiple fonts in each of the individual screens AFl Q id filename glyphs glyp e id is the number you want to use in viewport declarations 0 and 1 are reserved and so can t be used e filename is the font filename to load Fonts should be stored in rockbox fonts e glyphs is an optional specification of how many unique glyphs to store in memory Default is from the system setting GLYPHS To LOAD An example would be F1 2 12 Nimbus fnt 100 Conditional Tags If else Syntax 4 xx lt true false gt If the tag specified by xx has a value the text between the lt and the is displayed the true part else the text between the and the gt
232. t 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 Scroll Up Move Forward Scroll Down Down Rewind Turn Left Forward Turn Right Enter Shoot Menu Open Rec InGame Menu Long Play Enter Play Change Weapon THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 88 Playing the game After installation of the wad files is complete you can start the game more description is needed 12 1 8 Flipit 00000 00000 00000 Figure 12 7 Flipit Flipping the colour of the token under the cursor also flips the tokens above below left and right of the cursor The aim is to end up with a screen containing tokens of only one colour Key Action Scroll Up Scroll Move the cursor Down Rewind Forward Enter Flip Play Shuffle Menu Solve Rec Solve step by step Long Menu Quit the game THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 89 12 1 9 Goban Figure 12 8 Goban Goban is a a plugin for playing viewing and recording games of Go also known as Weiqi Baduk Igo and It uses standard Smart Game Format SGF files for sav ing and loading games You can find a short introduction to Go at http senseis xmp net WhatlsGo and
233. talk to talk the time or sleep X where X is the number of minutes to run the sleep timer for 0 to disable name is required for this shortcut type shutdown data is ignored name can be used to display text If the name icon items are not specified a sensible default will be used Note For the browse type if you want the file browser to start inside a folder make sure the data has the trailing slash i e Music instead of Music Without the trailing slash it will cause the file broser to open with Music selected instead The file shortcuts txt can be edited with any text editor Most items can also be added to it through their context menu item Add to shortcuts A reboot is needed for manual changes to shortcuts txt to be applied Shortcuts can be manually removed by selecting the one you wish to remove and pressing Long Enter THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 6 SOUND SETTINGS 47 6 Sound Settings NS 21 42 Sound Settings ofl ass reble alance EAE OE A mim gt E amp g 3 2 E 5 Crossfeed C Equalizer 4 Dithering gt 2 g 5 Figure 6 1 The sound settings screen The sound settings menu offers a selection of sound settings you may change to customise your listening experience 6 1 Volume This setting adjusts the volume of your music Like most professional audio gear and many consumer audio products Rockbox uses a deci
234. tart directory for the file browser This option is not available for files Note If you have AUTO CHANGE DIRECTORY and CONSTRAIN AUTO CHANGE enabled the directories returned will be constrained to the directory you have chosen here and those below it See section 7 12 page 58 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 25 Add to Shortcuts Adds a link to the selected item in the shortcuts link file If the file does not already exist it will be created in the root directory Note that if you create a shortcut to a file Rockbox will not open it upon selecting but simply bring you to its location in the FILE BROWSER 4 1 3 Virtual Keyboard AAD mu zo y ro i 3 100 D iP ume a B S 000 X iSp oer cab Gad oq readme txt Figure 4 3 The virtual keyboard This is the virtual keyboard that is used when entering text in Rockbox for example when renaming a file or creating a new directory The virtual keyboard can be easily changed by making a text file with the required layout More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at e LoadableKeyboard Layouts Note When the cursor is on the input line Enter deletes the preceding character Key Action Rewind Move the cursor on the virtual keyboard Forward If you move out of the picker area you get the previous next page of characters if there is more
235. ten to music through speakers each ear will hear sound originating from both speakers However the sound THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER SOUND SETTINGS 49 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 filtered portion of the signal from the right channel into the left channel and vice versa in order to simulate the spatial cues that the ear and brain receive when listening to a set of loudspeakers placed in front of the listener The result is a more natural stereo image that can be especially appreciated in older rock and jazz records where one instrument is often hard panned to just one of the speakers Many people will find such records tiring to listen to using earphones and no crossfeed effect Crossfeed has the
236. tend to start a track from its beginning but notice that it was resumed you can press Rewind in the WPS to skip back to its beginning When pressing Rewind again in the first few seconds of a track to go to the previous track the previously on first button press saved resume position is retained Therefore you can also use Rewind and Forward to skip across tracks in a playlist without losing their resume position Automatic resume This option enables or disables automatic resume globally When Rockbox detects that the database which is needed for this feature has not been initialized yet it asks whether it should be initialized right away Resume on automatic track change Controls whether the next track in an automatic track transition should be resumed at its last playback position as well No Automatic resume works only for manual track selection Yes Always attempt to resume for both manual and automatic track changes In custom directories only Configure directories in which to enable resume on automatic track change Selecting this option starts the text editor in which you can enter the absolute case insensitive directory names separated by colons A typical value is podcast which matches all files in directories PODCAST Podcast or podcast and their subdirectories but not in directories podcasts mind the trailing s or audio podcast 8 9 Language This setting controls the language of
237. ter 6 eq peak filter 8 0 to 240 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 1 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 3 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 5 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 7 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq high shelf filter 0 1 dB cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 0 1 dB dithering enabled on off N A timestretch enabled on off N A compressor threshold 0 to 24 3 dB compressor makeup gain off auto N A compressor ratio 2 1 4 1 6 1 10 1 limit N A compressor knee hard knee soft knee N A compressor release time 100 to 1000 100 ms beep off weak moderate strong N A keyclick off weak moderate strong N A keyclick repeats on off N A dircache on off N A tagcache_ram on off N A peak meter release 1 to 126 peak meter hold off 200ms 300ms 500ms 1 2 3 N A 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 30 1min peak meter clip hold on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 N A 20 25 30 45 60 90 2min 3min 5min 10min 20min 45min 90min peak meter busy on off N A peak meter dbfs on off on dbfs off lin ear peak meter min 0 to 89 dB or 0 to 10
238. ters are ignored Everything on a line starting with an exclamation sign and including it is a comment and is ignored Key Action Enter Play pause Scroll Down Change growth mode Forward Next generation Rewind Status only when paused Menu Exit 12 2 13 Snow Hye m LS ag Tony Ad Figure 12 37 Have you ever seen snow falling This demo replicates snow falling on your screen If you love winter you will love this demo Or maybe not Press Menu or Long Menu to quit THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 118 12 2 14 Starfield Figure 12 38 Starfield Starfield simulation like the classic screensaver Forward Increase decrease number of stars Rewind Scroll Up Increase decrease speed Scroll Down Menu or Long Quit Menu 12 2 15 VU meter Figure 12 39 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 119 settings menu the decay time for the meter its memory the meter type and the meter scale can be changed Key Action Long Menu Save settings and quit Pla
239. than one Scroll Up Move the cursor on the virtual keyboard Scroll Down If you move out of the picker area you get to the line edit mode Long Play Flip to the next page of characters if there is more than one Enter Insert the selected keyboard letter at the current line cursor position Play Exit the virtual keyboard and save any changes Menu Exit the virtual keyboard without saving any changes THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 26 4 2 Database 4 2 1 Introduction This chapter describes the Rockbox music database system Using the information contained in the tags ID3v1 ID3v2 Vorbis Comments Apev2 etc in your audio files Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music files on your player and allows you to browse them by Artist Album Genre Song Name etc The criteria the database uses to sort the songs can be completely customised More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at DataBase 4 2 2 Initializing the Database The first time you use the database Rockbox will scan your disk for audio files This can take quite a while depending on the number of files on your player This scan happens in the background so you can choose to return to the Main Menu and continue to listen to music If you shut down your player the scan will continue next time you turn it on After the scan is finished you may be prompted to re
240. the Rockbox user interface Selecting a language will activate it The language files must be in the rockbox langs directory See section 13 1 4 page 153 for further details about languages 8 10 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 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 72 rockbox langs directory on the player Voice files are large and are not shipped with Rockbox by default The voice file is the name of the language for which it is made followed by the extension voice So for English the file name would be english voice This option is on by default but will do nothing unless the appropriate voice file is installed in the correct place on the player The Voice Menus have several limitations e Setting the Sound Option CHANNELS to KARAOKE may disable voice menus e Plugins and the wake up alarm do not support voice features Voice Directories This option controls voicing of directory names A voice file must be present for this to work Several options are available Spell 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 Direct
241. the database has been initialized you can browse your music by Artist AI bum Genre Song Name etc To use the database go to the MAIN MENU and select DATABASE Note You may need to increase the value of the MAX FILES IN DIR BROWSER setting SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS SYSTEM LIMITS in order to view long lists of tracks in the ID3 database browser There is no option to turn off database completely If you do not want to use it just do not do the initial build of the database and do not load it to RAM THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 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 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 co
242. tion The amount of time is determined by the value of the backlight timeout setting but is no less than 5 seconds First Keypress Enables Backlight Only With this option enabled the first key press while the backlight is turned off will only turn the backlight on without having any other effect When disabled the first keypress will also perform its appropriate action Brightness Changes the brightness of your LCD display THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 64 Contrast Changes the contrast of your LCD display Warning Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to find this menu option again LCD Mode This setting lets you invert the colours of the display Upside Down Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest the buttons This is sometimes useful when carrying the player in a pocket for easy access to the headphone socket Scrolling This feature controls how text will scroll in Rockbox You can configure the following parameters Scroll Speed Sets how many times per second the automatic horizontal scrolling text will move a step Scroll Start Delay Controls how many milliseconds Rockbox should wait before a new text begins automatically scrolling Scroll Step Size Defines the number of pixels the text should move for each step as used by the Scroll Speed setting Bidirectional Scroll Limit Rockbox has two different automatic horizo
243. tion of the player in your filesystem On Windows this is the drive letter the player gets assigned on other systems this is a path in the filesystem Rockbox Utility will ask you for a compatible copy of the original firmware This is because for legal reasons we cannot distribute the bootloader directly Instead we have to patch the MPIO firmware with the Rockbox bootloader Download a supported version of the MPIO firmware for your MPIO HD300 from the MPIO website links can be found on mMPIOHD300Port Warning The only tested version of the original firmware is 1 30 06 and as such is the only supported version If the file that you downloaded is a zip file use an unzip utility like mentioned in the prerequisites section to extract the SYS from the zip file to your desktop Likewise if the file that you downloaded is an exe file double click on the exe file to extract the SYS file to your desktop When running Linux you should be able to extract exe files using unzip Choosing a Rockbox version There are three different versions of Rockbox available from the Rockbox website Re lease version current build and archived daily build You need to decide which one you THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION 15 want to install and get the appropriate version for your player If you select either Min imal Installation or Complete Installation from the Quick Start tab then Rockb
244. tory full path N A contrast 0 to 63 N A backlight timeout off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 S 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight timeout plugged off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 S 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 120 backlight filters first on off N A keypress backlight on button hold normal off on N A caption backlight on off N A brightness devise a way to get ranges N A from config h disk spindown 3 to 254 5 battery capacity devise a way to get ranges mAh from config h car adapter mode on off N A idle poweroff oi M 2 min 30 45 60 sleeptimer duration 5 to 300 in steps of 5 min sleeptimer on startup off on N A keypress restarts off on N A sleeptimer max files in playlist 1000 32000 N A max files in dir 50 10000 N A lang path filename Ing N A Wps path filename wps N A autocreate bookmarks off on N A autoload bookmarks off on N A use off on N A most recent bookmarks pause on headphone off pause pause and resume N A unplug rewind duration on pause 0 to 15 5 disable autoresume if off on N A phones not present Last fm Logging off on N A talk dir off number spell N A talk dir clip off on N A talk file off number spell N A THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX E CONFIG FILE OPTIONS 192 Setting Allowed Values Unit talk file clip off on N A talk filetype off on N A talk menu off on N A Announce Battery Level off on N A sort files alpha oldest
245. ue The PLAYLIST CATALOGUE makes it possible to modify and create playlists that are not currently playing To do this select PLAYLIST CATALOGUE in the CONTEXT MENU There you will have two choices ADD TO PLAYLIST adds the selected track or directory to an existing playlist and ADD TO A NEW PLAYLIST creates a new playlist containing the selected track or directory Note All playlists in the PLAYLIST CATALOGUE are stored by default in the Playlists directory in the root of your player s disk and playlists stored in other locations are not included in the catalogue It is however possible to move existing playlists there see section 4 1 2 page 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 PLAYLISTS menu found in the MAIN MENU The created playlist will be named root m3u8 and saved in the root of your player s disk THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 4 BROWSING AND PLAYING 35 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist HO a PS 16 19 i Playlist Insert Next Insert Last Insert Shuffled gt Queue Queue Next Queue Last Queue Shuffled Play Mext Figure 4 5 The Playlist Submenu The PLAvLIST 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
246. ues between Mute and max 0 dB is max volume and Above 0 dB is amplified volume This can also be used like pb to provide a continuous scale x y width height image bmp 5 Track is starting An optional number gives how many seconds the tag remains true for after the start of the track The de fault is 10 seconds if no number is specified 4 pS 7 lt in the first 7 seconds of tracklin the rest of the track ApE Irack is ending optional number gives how many seconds before the end of the track the tag becomes true The default is 10 seconds if no number is specified A pE 7 in the last 7 seconds of track lin the rest of the track 5 Current playback pitch D 10 Playlist Viewer Tag Description 4AVp start code to render Display the playlist viewer in the current viewport THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 APPENDIX THEME TAGS 178 e start is the offset relative to the currently playing track for the playlist to display from 0 the current track 1 is the next track etc e code to render is a line of skin code which will be displayed for each line in the viewer All text tags are supported including conditionals and sublines The entire viewport will be used so don t expect other tags in the same viewport to work well Supported tags are pp all tags starting with i most tags starting with and 96s Example AVp 1 4pp fn
247. ve this option will cancel the current SLEEP TIMER The time remaining before completion is shown in brackets Default Sleep Timer Duration The default number of minutes a new SLEEP TIMER will run for The values range from 5 minutes to 5 hours in 5 minute steps If a timer is currently active the timer s duration will be set to the newly entered value The value set is persistent see section E page 190 Start Sleep Timer On Boot If set SLEEP TIMER will be initiated when the device starts Restart Sleep Timer On Keypress If set when a SLEEP TIMER is active and a key is pressed the SLEEP TIMER will be restarted with the initial duration THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 69 8 7 Bookmarking Bookmarks allow you to save your current position within a track so that you can return to it at a later time Bookmarks also store rate pitch and speed information from the PITCH SCREEN see section 4 3 3 page 32 Bookmarks are saved on a per directory basis or for individual saved playlists You can store multiple bookmarks even for the same track When there s already a bookmark for a directory or playlist new bookmarks are added before existing ones Bookmarks are stored next to the directory or playlist they reference in a file with the same name as the directory or playlist and a bmark extension To load a bookmark select the bookmark file and then select the bookmark t
248. wer level that is applied to your headphones you should choose LINEAR display This setting cannot be displayed in units like volts or watts because such units depend on your headphones Minimum and maximum range These two options define the full value range that the peak meter displays Recommended values for the LOGARITHMIC dB setting are 40 dB for minimum and 0 dB for maximum Recommended values for LINEAR display are 0 and 100 Note that 40 dB is approxi mately 1 in linear value but if you change the minimum setting in linear mode slightly and then change to the dB scale there will be a large change You can use these values for zooming into the peak meter Default Codepage A codepage describes the way extended characters that are not available within the ASCII character set are encoded ID3v1 tags do not have a codepage encoding contained so Rockbox needs to know what encoding has been used when generating these tags This should be ISO 8859 1 but to support lan guages outside Western Europe most applications use the setting of your operating system instead If your operating system uses a different codepage and you are getting garbled extended characters you should adjust this settings In most cases sticking to ISO 8859 1 would be sufficient THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 8 GENERAL SETTINGS 66 8 5 System 8 5 1 Battery Options relating to the battery in the player Batter
249. will be displayed This has a similar effect on the Database browser If set to CURRENT DIRECTORY ONLY or FULL PATH then the title of each menu will be displayed on the first line in the DATABASE BROWSER 8 3 Database This sub menu allows you to configure the database See section 4 2 page 26 for more information about using the database 8 4 Display LCD Settings This sub menu contains settings that relate to the display of the player Backlight The amount of time the backlight shines after a key press If set to OFF the backlight will not light when a button is pressed If set to ON the backlight will never shut off If set to a time 1 to 90 seconds the backlight will stay lit for that amount of time after a button press Backlight While Plugged In This setting is equivalent to the BACKLIGHT set ting except it applies when the player is plugged into the charger Backlight on Hold This setting controls the behavior of the backlight when the Hold switch is toggled If set to NORMAL the backlight will behave as usual If set to OFF the backlight will be turned off immediately when the Hold switch is engaged and if set to ON the backlight will be turned on and stay on while the Hold switch is engaged Caption Backlight This option turns on the backlight a number of seconds before the start of a new track and keeps it on for the same number of seconds after the beginning so that the display can be read to see song informa
250. y 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 1link files i e jump to desired places To use a link file just play it from the file browser This will show you a list with the entries in the file Selecting one of them will then exit the plugin and leave you within the directory selected or with the file selected in the file browser You can then play the file or do with it whatever you want The file will not be played automatically If the 1ink file contains only one entry no list will be shown you will directly jump to that location The file shortcuts link in the root directory is an exception After playing it the list will be shown even if the file contains just one entry If the list you are seeing is from shortcuts link in the root directory you can delete the selected entry by pressing Long Menu Deleting entries from other link files is not possible Advanced Usage Placing the line Display last path segments n where n is a
251. y Capacity This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity in mAh the battery being used has The default is which is the capacity value for the standard battery shipped with the player Rockbox uses this value for runtime estimation not battery percentage calculation Changing this setting has no effect whatsoever on actual battery life This setting only affects the accuracy of the runtime estimation as shown on screen 8 5 2 Disk Options relating to the hard disk Disk Spindown Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it is idle for a certain amount of time This setting controls the amount of time between the last user activity and the time that the disk spins down This idle time is only affected by user activity like navigating through the FILE BROWSER When the hard disk spins up to fill the audio buffer it automatically spins down afterwards 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 that would otherwise be used to buffer music but it speeds up navigation in the file browser by eliminating the slight pause between the time a navigation button is pressed and the time Rockbox responds Turning this setting on activates the directory cache and turning it off deactivates the directory cache Note The first time you enable the directory cache Rockbox will request a reboot of the player and up
252. y Help Menu Settings Scroll Up Raise Volume Scroll Down Lower Volume 12 3 Viewers Viewers are plugins which are associated with specific file extensions They cannot be run directly but are started by playing the associated file Viewers are stored in the rockbox rocks viewers directory Note Some viewer plugins can only be used by selecting the OPEN WITH option from the CONTEXT MENU see section 4 1 2 page 23 Viewer Plugin Associated filetype s Context Menu only Shortcuts link Chip 8 Emulator ch8 Frotz 21 z8 Image Viewer bmp jpg jpeg png Lua scripting language lua Midiplay mid midi MPEG Player mpg mpeg mpv m2v MP3 Encoder Wav x Rockboy gb gbc Search m3u m3u8 x Sort Text Viewer txt nfo VBRfix mp3 x ZXBox tap tax sna z80 Shopping list shopper 12 3 1 Shortcuts The Shortcuts Plugin allows you to jump to places within the file browser without having to navigate there manually The plugin works with link files A link file is just a THE ROCKBOX MANUAL version 3 13 MPIO HD300 CHAPTER 12 PLUGINS 120 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 1link files You can use your favourite text editor to create a link file on the PC an then cop

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