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1. 70 3 Making your own settings marak 74 4 Differences between 22 2 2 2 2 4 78 5 Firmware EO ACG ee pn 79 6 Getting Extras Fonts 79 7 Using ROLO Rockbox loader eee 79 8 Rockbox in flash Recorder 22 79 Aa 80 82 eh Cte ai decals ates 80 0 9 RISKS banana ENG soca aan KORAN SAR RN AR 81 Regu Me peak ang va En Mn Nines Da mums 81 5 5 Flashing Procedu e 82 8 6 Known Issues LimitatlOns or rhon nuce Wong 84 8 7 ROMDOX sana tas 84 Ap pend ea aa duka asa 85 Feature Comparison Chart eee tine 86 Supported File Format ERE An 87 Bug Rep aa EE un 87 Feat re Reg ES ka en en aan 88 Features we will not 222 222 4 88 Part 1 Getting Started Welcome This is the manual for Rockbox Rockbox is a replacement firmware for the Jukebox Studio Recorder and Ondio players made by Archos It is a complete rewrite of the software used to make the Jukeboxes play
2. FILE TYPE ACTION Hl Directory The browser enters that directory fl mp3 Rockbox takes you to the WPS and starts playing the file m3u Rockbox loads the playlist and starts playing the first file ajz mod ROLO will load the new firmware E Wps The new WPS display configuration will be loaded ing That language will replace current one B txt This will display the text file using Rockbox text browser plugin CE cfg The settings file will be loaded 3 fnt This font will replace the current one Recorder only Fock Starts a Rockbox plugin This Rockbox image will be flashed into the ROM d Play a Chip8 game jpg View a JPEG image Bf View a movie Rockbox format 3 Bug Reports If you experience inappropriate performance from any supported feature please file a bug report on our web page Do not report missing features as bugs instead file them as feature reguests see below For open bug reports refer to http www rockbox org bugs shtml Rules for submitting new bug reports 1 Check that the bug hasn t already been reported 2 Always include the following information in your bug report Which exact model Jukebox you have as printed on the unit Which exact ROM firmware version you have Which exact Rockbox version you are using Menu gt Info Version A step by step description of what you did and what happened Whether the problem is repeatable one time occurrence
3. 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 2 9 VU meter Recorder Ondio VU meter This is a VU meter which displays the volume of the left and right audio channels There are 3 types of meter selectable The analogue meter is a classic needle style The digital meter is modelled after LED volume displays and the mini meter option allows for the display of small meters in addition to the main display as above From the settings menu the decay time for the meter its memory the meter type and the meter scale can be changed ONOFF Save settings and quit MODE ON HOLD MODE DOWN DOWN Lower Volume 56 Rockbox User Manual 3 Viewers Viewers are plugins which are associated with specific file extensions So you can t execute the plugin directly but play the associated file 3 1 Chip 8 Emulator Recorder Ondio The Chip 8 Emulator allows you to play many old chip8 games found on the Net It modifies Rockbox so file extensions ch8 will be recognised as chip8 games Just press PLAY on a ch8 file to start a game There are lots of tiny Chip8 games usually only about 256 bytes to a couple of KB which were made popular by the HP48 calculator s emulator for them The original Chip8 had 64x32 pixel graphics and the new superchip emulator supports 128x64 graphics which could almost fit on the Jukebox recorder s disp
4. WPS file see page 70 LCD Settings This submenu contains settings that relate to the display of the Jukebox Backlight How long the backlight shines after a key press Set to OFF to never light it set to ON to never shut it off or set a preferred timeout period Backlight on When Plugged This option turns the backlight on constantly while the charger cable is connected Caption Backlight This option turns the backlight on briefly for 25 seconds either side of the start of a new track so that the display can be read to see what the next song is 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 Recorder only This setting lets you invert the whole screen SO now you get a black background and green text graphics Upside Down Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest the buttons This is sometimes useful when carrying the Recorder in a pocket for easy access to the headphone socket Line Selector Select this option to have a bar of inverted text Bar option mark the current line in the File Browser rather than the default arrow to the left Pointer option This gives slightly more room for filenames Scrolling This feature controls how text will scroll in Rockbox You can configure the following parameters Scroll Speed Controls how many times per second the s
5. description of the peak meter see page 20 Peak Release This determines how fast the bar shrinks when the music becomes softer Lower values make the peak meter look smoother Peak Hold Time Specifies the time after which the peak indicator will reset If you set this value e g to 5s then the peak indicator displays the loudest volume value that occurred within the last 5 seconds Big values are good if you want to find the maximum value of a song That might be an interesting value for copying music from the jukebox via the analogue output to some other recording device Clip Hold Time How long should the clipping indicator be visible after clipping was detected Performance In high performance mode the peak meter is updated as often as possible That reduces the chance of missing a peak value making the peak meter more precise In energy save mode the peak meter is updated just often enough to look fluid This reduces the load on the CPU and thus saves a little bit of energy If you crave for every second of runtime of your jukebox or simply use the peak meter as a screen effect the use of energy save mode is recommended If you want to use the peak meter as a measuring instrument you ll want to use high performance mode Rockbox User Manual Scale Select whether the peak meter displays linear or logarithmic values In dB decibel scale the volume values are scaled logarithmically This very similar to the percepti
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7. be loaded at a time Plugins run in the GUI thread and have exclusive control over the user interface This means you cannot switch back and forth between a plugin and Rockbox A plugin is loaded ran and then exited which returns control to Rockbox Music will carry on playing whilst plugins are being run 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator on page 57 1 1 Flipit Recorder Ondio Flipit plugin 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 RECORDER ONDIO ACTION UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT Changes the cursor PLAY MODE Toggle F1 MODE LEFT Shuffle F2 MODE RIGHT Solution F3 MODE ON OFF Step by step OFF ON OFF Stop the game 1 2 Jackpot Player Jackpot Part 5 Plugins 45 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 PLAY Play STOP Exit the game 1 3 Minesweeper Recorder Ondio Minesweeper plugin The classic game of minesweeper Use the UP and DOWN keys to select the reguired percentage of mines to set the difficulty then press the MENU key to begin The aim of the game is to uncover all of the squares on the board If a mine is uncovered then the game is over If a mine is not uncovered then the number o
8. by step instructions on how to flash and update to a current daily build with the voice feature It is assumed that you can install and operate Rockbox the usual way The flashing procedure is not really dangerous and will check for correct model file etc if something is incompatible it just won t flash that s all Now here are the steps Preparation Install with all the files not just the ajz and use the current daily build you d like to have Enable any voice features that are helpful throughout the process such as menus and filename spelling Set the file view to show all files with F1 gt General Settings gt File View gt Show Files set to all Have the Jukebox nicely charged to avoid running out of power during the flash write Keep the Jukebox plugged into the charger until flashing is complete Backup Backup the existing flash content You will need these files if you wish to reverse the flashing procedure or if you need to update the bootloader as opposed to the firmware in the future Keep them safe Access the main menu by pressing F1 then select Info gt Debug Select the first entry View ROM contents by pressing Play one more time The disk should start to spin Wait for it to settle down then plug in the USB cable to copy the dump file this has just been created to your PC The main folder of your Jukebox now should contain two strange bin files Copy the larger one named internal_rom_2000000 203FFF
9. co Wo oo Wo 46 154 Nite Player ODIO pcs UU 46 1 5 Pong Recorder Ondio kaan taka bukaan an kalang anak terns 47 1 6 Rockblox Recorder sarat ISBN Ran 47 1 7 Sliding Puzzle Recorder Ondio ooo oo co oo coco Woo c W rene 48 1 8 Snake Recorder bumn 18 1 9 Snake 2 Recorder 22 22 22 2 2 4 48 1 10 Sokoban Recorder Ondio oo o oom Woo 49 1 11 Solitaire Recorder 49 112 Star C Recorder Odio 33 accueil done 49 1 13 CRecordel s rebana Eo tabanan 50 2 Dee aa AN na 53 2 1 Bounce Recorder Ondlo iii 53 2 2 Cube Recorder sivas eod ba es 54 2 3 Greyscale Recorder Ondio oocc o co coco 54 an uud 54 2 5 Mandelbrot Recorder Ondio o oo coco om Wo mom 55 2 6 Mosaic Recorder Dasa Na uas 55 2 7 Oseillograph Recorder 5 5 9 uc eos maen 55 2 8 Snow Recorder Odio 56 2 9 VU meter Recorder OmGIQ sana deb besote ban deabus Da 56 RING KAA 57 3 1 Chip 8 Emulator Recorder Ondio eese 57 3 2 JPEG viewer Recorder Ondio eee nnn
10. features You can partition your Jukebox fine just make sure the first one is FAT32 and then make the other ones whatever file system you want Just don t expect Rockbox to understand them Add scandisk like features It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to a host computer CBR recording The MP3 encoding hardware does not allow this Appendices 89 Change tempo of a song without changing pitch The MP3 decoding hardware does not allow this Graphic frequency spectrum analyser We can t access the audio waveform from the MP3 decoder so we can t analyse it Even if we had access to it the CPU would probably be too slow to perform the analysis anyway Cool sound effects Adding new sound effects requires reprogramming the MAS chip and we can t do that The MAS chip is programmable but we have no access to the chip documentation 6 What s new since 2 0 Changes in version 2 3 General changes since 2 2 Spoken menus filenames and directories Support for Archos Ondio File type associations and open with plugin bindings Added ability to delete directories even recursively New WPS tags for information about next song in playlist ON PLAY menu can now also be accessed with a long press on PLAY New directory sort options date and file type Clean shutdown w
11. filled circle to get to places on the screen it could not otherwise reach The block cannot take o s Keys ON Toggle control Fi Previous level F2 Reset level F3 Next level OFF Exit the game 1 13 Wormlet Recorder Wormlet game Wormlet is a multi user multi worm game on a multi threaded multi functional Rockbox console You navigate a hungry little worm Help your worm to find food and to avoid poisoned argh tiles The goal is to turn your tiny worm into a big worm for as long as possible For 2 player games a remote control is not necessary but recommended If you try to hold the Jukebox in the four hands of two players you ll find out why Games with three players are only possible using a remote control Wormlet main menu controls UP DOWN Selects number of players LEFT RIGHT Controls number of worms on the game F1 Selects game mode 50 Rockbox User Manual Game controls PLAYERS MODES PLAYER 1 PLAYER 2 PLAYER 3 0 Out of With no player taking part in the game all worms are out of control control and steered by artificial stupidity 2 key on Jukebox coniro LEFT turn left RIGHT turn right 1 on Jukebox LEFT turn left 4 key onto UP turn up RIGHT turn right DOWN turn down on Jukebox on remote control puis LEFT turn left VOL DOWN turn left 2 RIGHT turn right VOL UP turn right No on Jukebox o
12. for the most common letters and punctuation Numbers Each directory is assigned a number based upon its position in the file list They are then announced as Directory 1 Directory 2 etc Off No attempt will be made to speak directory names Voice Filenames This option turns on the speaking of directory names The options provided are Spell Numbers and Off which function the same as for Voice Directories and talk mp3 clip which functions as above except that the files are named with the same name as the music file e g Punkadiddle mp3 would require a file called Punkadiddle talk See http www rockbox org twiki bin view Main VoiceHowto for more details on configuring speech support in Rockbox Part 4 Configuring Rockbox 43 Part 5 Plugins Plugins are little programs that Rockbox can load and run Plugins have the file extension rock Most of them can be started from the main menu if you put them in the rockbox rocks directory Press PLAY on them to start them Viewer plugins get started automatically by playing an associated file i e text files chip8 games or from the Open with option on the File menu Plugins listed here have the platforms they run under Player for Jukebox players Recorder for Jukebox recorders including Jukebox FM and Ondio for the Ondio SP and FM If no platforms are listed then the plugin runs on all Rockbox platforms The plugin loader Only one plugin can
13. 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 Before installation Before you install Rockbox you will need to know what model of Archos Jukebox you own Rockbox comes in different versions depending on the model of your Jukebox There are four different versions of the software The table below will help you to identify which version of the software you need 8 Rockbox User Manual The model name is printed on the case The hard drive size is listed on the serial number sticker on the back of the unit Jukebox 5000 J ukebox 6000 5GB 6GB 10GB 20GB Jukebox Studio 10 player Jukebox Studio 20 Jukebox Recorder 6 Jukebox Recorder 10 6GB 10GB 15GB 20GB Jukebox Recorder 15 recorder Jukebox Recorder 20 20GB Jukebox Recorder v2 20GB Jukebox Recorder FM 128MB flash Ondio 128 SP ondiosp J 120M5 Ondio 128 FM ondiofm flash Please note that Rockbox does not run on the Archos Jukebox Multimedia or any other Archos MP3 player products other than those mentioned here Part 1 Getting Started 9 Downloading Rockbox The latest release of the Rockbox software will always be available from http www rockbox org download Windows users may wish to download the self extracting Windows installer which works for all Jukebox models
14. 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 52 Rockbox User Manual 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 s your job to say Argh aloud Wormed The worm tried to eat another worm or even itself That s why it s dead now Making traps for other players with a worm is a good way to get them out of the game Hints Initially you will be busy with controlling your worm Try to avoid other worms and crawl far away from them Wait until they curl up themselves and collect the food afterwards Don t worry if the other worms grow longer than yours you can catch up after they ve died When you are more experienced watch the tactics of other worms Those worms controlled by 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
15. memory that would normally be used for storing the Rockbox code can be used for buffering MP3s instead resulting in less disk spin ups and therefore longer battery life Unfortunately being uncompressed ROMbox requires more space in flash than Rockbox and will therefore not fit in the space that is left on an FM recorder ROMbox therefore runs on the V1 and V2 recorder models only The procedure for flashing ROMbox is identical to the procedure for flashing Rockbox as laid out on page 83 The only difference is that the file to install is called rombox ucl ROMbox is included automatically with rockbox 2 3 and all the current daily build so the procedure is identical otherwise 84 Rockbox User Manual Appendices 1 Feature Comparison Chart FEATURE ROCKBOX ARCHOS ID3v1 and ID3v2 support Yes ID3v1 Background noise during playback No Yes Mid track resume Yes No Mid playlist resume Yes No Resumed playlist order Yes No Battery lifetime Longer Long Battery time indicator Yes No Customizable font Recorder Yes No Customizable screen info when playing songs Yes No USB attach detach without reboot Yes No Can load another firmware without rebooting Yes No Playlist load speed songs sec 3000 4000 15 20 Max number of songs in a playlist 20 000 999 Supports bad path prefixes in playlists Yes Y
16. menu Change starting maze F3 in menu Select game type A or B UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT Steer the snake PLAY Pause the game STOP Exit the game 48 Rockbox User Manual 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 1 10 Sokoban Recorder Ondio Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position 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 controls are UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT Move the sokoban up down left or right F1 Back to previous level F2 Restart level F3 Go to next level ON Undo last movement OFF Exit sokoban 1 11 Solitaire Recorder Ondio Klondike solitaire This is the classic Klondike solitaire game for Rockbox Select help from the game menu to get an explanation of what the keys do Rules for Klondike solitaire are available from http www solitairecentral com rules klondike html 1 12 Star Recorder Ondio Star game This is a puzzle game It is actually a rewrite of Star a game written by designed for the hp48 calculator Part 5 Plugins 49 Rules Take all of the o s to go to the next level The on key allows you to switch between the filled circle which can take o s and the filled square which is used as a mobile wall to allow your
17. paranoid about making sure that the correct flash version is being installed If the wrong file is used it will simply refuse to flash the Jukebox About the safety of operation Since the Rockbox boo code gives dual boot capability the Archos firmware is still there when you hold F1 during startup So even if you have problems with Rockbox from flash you can still use the Jukebox reflash the second image with an updated Rockbox copy etc The flash chip being used by Archos is specified for 100 000 cycles so it s very unlikely that flashing it will wear it out 8 4 Reguirements You need two things The first is Recorder or FM model or an Ondio SP or FM Be sure you re using the correct package they differ depending on your precise hardware The technology works for the Player models too Players can also be flashed but Rockbox does not run cold started on those yet Part 6 Advanced Topics Reference 81 Second you need an in circuit programmable flash Chances are about 85 that you have but Archos also used an older flash chip which can t do the trick You can find out via Rockbox debug menu entry Hardware Info If the flash info gives you guestion marks you re out of luck The only option for flashing if this is the case is to solder in the right chip SST39VFO20 preferably with the firmware already in If the chip is blank you ll need the UART boot mod as well 8 5 Flashing Procedure Here are step
18. represent the following values from right to left Odb 3db 6db 9db 12db 18db 24db 30db 40db 50db 60db 3 3 ID3 Viewer The ID3 viewer This screen is accessible from the WPS screen by pressing F1 ON recorder or MENU ON player It provides a detailed view of all the identity information about the current track that is stored in an MP3 file Use the LEFT and RIGHT recorder or PLUS and MINUS player keys to move through the information and the STOP key to exit the viewer 4 Quick Screen Menus Recorder only F2 Quick Screen Menu F3 Quick Screen Menu 20 Rockbox User Manual Rockbox handles function buttons in a different way to the Archos software F1 is always bound to the menu function while F2 and enable two quick menus F2 displays some browse and play settings which are likely to be changed freguently This settings are Shuffle mode Repeat mode and the Show files options Shuffle mode plays each track in the currently playing list in a random order rather than in the order shown in the browser Repeat mode repeats either a single track One or the entire playlist All Show files determines what type files can be seen in the browser This can be just MP3 files and directories Music Playlists MP3 files and directories Playlists any files that Rockbox supports Supported or all files on the disk All See page 34 for more information about these settings KEY ACTION LEFT
19. stereo channels Mono Right Plays the right channel in both stereo channels Mono Mix both channels down to mono and send the mixed signal back to both Stereo Do not mix the signal 9 Stereo Narrow Mixes small amounts of the opposite channel into the left and right channels thus making the sound seem closer together Stereo Wide Elements of one channel that are present in the opposite channel are removed from the latter This results in the sound seeming further apart Part 4 Configuring Rockbox 31 Karaoke Removes all sound that is the same in both channels Since most vocals are recorded in this way to make the artist sound central this often but not always has the effect of removing the voice track from a song Loudness Recorder only Loudness is an effect which emphasises bass and treble This makes the track seem louder by amplifying the freguencies that the human ear finds hard to hear Freguencies in the vocal range are unaffected since the human ear picks these up very easily Auto Volume Recorder only Auto volume is a feature that automatically lowers the volume on loud parts and then slowly restores the volume to the previous level over a time interval That time interval is configurable here Short values like 20ms are useful for ensuring a constant volume for in car use and other applications where background noise makes a constant loudness desirable A longer timeout means that the change i
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21. your opponent and the food So you can always reach it before your opponent While playing the game the Jukebox can still play music For single player game use any music you like For berserk games with 2 players use hard rock and for 3 player games use heavy metal or X Phobie http www x phobie de Play fair and don t kick your opponent in the toe or poke him in the eye That s would be bad manners 2 Demos 2 1 Bounce Recorder Ondio The bounce Demo This demo is an analogue clock screen saver with Rockbox bouncing across the screen Key controls for this demo are Part 5 Plugins 53 F1 F2 F3 Enters Bounce configuration options UP DOWN Moves to next previous option LEFT RIGHT Increases decreases option value ON Changes to Scroll mode OFF Exits bounce demo Available options are Xdist Ydist The distance to X axis and Y axis respectively Xadd Yadd how fast the code moves on the sine curve on each axis Xsane Ysane Changes the appearance of the bouncing 2 2 Cube Recorder Ondio Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D To see it at full speed press PLAY and it will run at maximum frame rate Also you can change the size of the x y and z axis using LEFT RIGHT UP DOWN F1 and F2 2 3 Greyscale Recorder Ondio Greyscale This is a demonstration of the Rockbox greyscale engine which supports graphics on the Jukebox Press OFF to quit the de
22. All Off means no repeat One means repeat one track over and over All means repeat playlist directory Play Selected First This setting controls what happens when you press PLAY on a file in a directory and shuffle mode is on If this 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 34 Rockbox User Manual e e e 2 Resume Sets whether Rockbox will resume playing at the point where you shut off Options are Ask Yes No Ask once Ask means it will ask at boot time Yes means it will unconditionally try to resume No means it will not resume Ask once will erase the resume info if you answer no and thus not ask you again FFwd Rewind Two options are available at this point FF RW Min Step The smallest step in seconds you want to fast forward or rewind in a track FF RW Accel How fast you want search ffwd rew to accelerate when you hold down the button Off means no acceleration 2x 1s means double the search speed once every second the button is held 2x 5s means double the search speed once every 5 seconds the button is held Anti skip Buffer This setting is really extra anti skip It lets you set a timer for how many seconds earlier than normally necessary the disk should spin up and start reading data You don t need this unless you shake and bump the unit a lot Spinning up the disk e
23. Appendices 87 All relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists MP3 files etc IMPORTANT 3 If you have a Sourceforge account log in before you file the report 4 If you don t have a SF account sign the report with your email 4 Feature Requests For open feature requests refer to http www rockbox org requests shtml Rules for submitting a new feature request 1 Check that the feature hasn t already been requested Duplicates are really boring 2 Check that the feature hasn t already been implemented Download the latest daily build and or search the mail list archive 3 Check that the feature is possible to implement see page 88 4 You must be logged in with your Sourceforge account to submit a request If you don t have an account get one 5 Features we will not implement This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do View it as the opposite of a TODO Record to WAV uncompressed or MP3pro format The recording hardware the MAS does not allow us to do this Crossfade between tracks Crossfading would require two mp3 decoders and we only have one This is not possible 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 Jukebox can only serve as a slave as most other USB devices such as cameras can Thus without a master no communication between the
24. Controls Shuffle mode setting RIGHT Controls Repeat mode setting DOWN Controls Show file setting F3 controls frequently used display options Scroll bar turns the display of the Scroll bar on the left of the screen on or off Status bar turns the status display at the top of the screen on or off Upside down inverts the screen so that the top of the display appears nearest to the buttons This is sometimes useful when storing the Jukebox in a pocket Key assignments swap over with the display orientation where it is logical for them to do so See page 36 for more information about these settings KEY ACTION LEFT Controls scroll bar display RIGHT Controls status bar display DOWN Controls inverted setting Part 2 The Rockbox Interface 21 Part 3 The Main Menu 1 Introducing the Main Menu Recorder main menu Player main menu This is the screen from which the rest of the Rockbox functions can be accessed It is used for a variety of functions which are detailed below You can access the Rockbox main menu by pressing MENU player studio version or F1 recorder version key All options in Rockbox can be controlled via this menu Some of them can also be found in the Quick Menus recorder version only All settings are persistently stored on the unit However Rockbox does not spin up the disk solely for the purpose of saving settings but instead will save them when it spins up the dis
25. F bin to a safe place then delete them both from the box Copy the new flash content file to your box Depending on your model recorder FM V2 recorder download one of the 3 packages http joerg hohensohn bei t online de archos flash flash rec zi http joerg hohensohn bei t online de archos flash flash fm zi http joerg hohensohn bei t online de archos flash flash v2 zi 82 Rockbox User Manual The zip archives contain two bin files each Those firmware bin files are all we want copy them to the root directory of your box The names differ depending on the model the flash plugin will pick the right one no way of doing this wrong Install the Rockbox Bootloader formatting the flash This procedure is only necessary the first time you flash Rockbox Unplug the USB cable again then select Browse Plugins from the main menu F1 Locate firmware_flash rock and start it with PLAY Rockbox now displays an info screen press F1 to acknowledge it and start a file check Again wait for the disk to settle then press F2 to proceed to a warning message if the plugin has exited you don t have the proper file and F3 to actually program the file This takes maybe 15 seconds wait for the disk to settle again Then press a key to exit the plugin Flashing boot loader in 3 easy steps Install the Rockbox binary in flash All the above was necessary only once although there will not be any obvious difference other than
26. GHT Increases Gain PLAY Starts recording While recording button closes the current file and opens a new one STOP Exits Recording Screen If Recording a file stop recording F1 Opens Recording Settings screen see below Quick menu for recording settings A quick press will leave the screen up F2 press F2 again to exit while holding it will close the screen when you release it F3 Quick menu for source setting Quick hold works as for F2 2 2 Recording Settings Quality Choose the quality here 0 to 7 Default is 5 best quality is 7 smallest file size is 0 This setting effects how much your sound sample will be compressed Higher quality settings result in higher bit rate MP3 files Frequency Choose the recording frequency sample rate 48kHz 44 1kHz 32kHz 24kHz 22 05kHz 16kHz are available Higher sample rates use up more disk space but give better sound quality 24 Rockbox User Manual Source Choose the source of the recording This can be microphone line in or SPDIF digital For recording from the radio on the FM recorder see page 25 below Note you cannot change the sample rate for digital recordings Channels This allows you to select mono or stereo recording Please note that for mono recording only the left channel is recorded Independent Frames The independent frames option tells the Jukebox to encode with the bit reservoir disabled so the fram
27. Playing a firmware file loads it into memory Thus it is possible to run the original Archos firmware or a different version of Rockbox from here assuming that you have the right files installed on your disk Reset Settings This wipes the saved settings in the Jukebox and resets all settings to their default values Write cfg file Saves the current settings into a cfg file for later use with Browse cfg Files above Part 4 Configuring Rockbox 41 2 5 Bookmarking Bookmark on Stop Write a bookmark to the disk whenever the stop key is pressed If playback is stopped it can be resumed easily at a later time Load Last Bookmark When this is on Rockbox automatically returns to the position of the last bookmark within a file when it is played If set to Ask Rockbox will ask the user whether they want to start from the beginning or the bookmark When set to no playback always starts from the beginning and the Bookmark file must be played or Load Bookmark selected from the Bookmarks submenu of the Main Menu while the file is playing Maintain list of Recently Used Bookmarks If this option is turned on Rockbox will store a list of Bookmarks that have been accessed recently This is then accessible from the Recent Bookmarks option of the Bookmarks submenu of the Main Menu 2 6 Language See all the different languages your Rockbox can speak Selecting one will activate it Note the language files must reside
28. Quick Screen Menus Recorder 4 4 44 1 4 20 Part 3 The Main Menu aa 22 1 Introducing the Main MENU ein me 23 2 Recording Recorder Ondio FM coco coco Wo mo Wo 24 2 1 While Recording 5 2 2 22 224 2 24 2 2 Recording 24 3 FM Radio FM Recorder Ondio FM o amp c oco o oo oW om Wc m Wo 25 BOOKMARKS 2 esai Den tanaman tan aman RN 26 5 Playlist OP NON La techno seio tux a 27 b Browse PILOTS i ads non 28 Z ma ERA 28 8 Shutdown Player BEN aan 29 Part 4 Configuring Rockbox mo 30 L SOUNC DEEST 31 2 General Seting Atase heehee ai ba en sec ceed on esa EPE aa anda 34 2 1 Playback Options iro ana rro aic menetes nan 3i R3 340 34 0 I A PM n 35 273 Display Opt ON Her Mm 36 2 4 System 39 2 5 BOOKITIGERITIQ mena Ah tono kena 42 26 Language REK IRR AANG a AR AERA 42 aZ MN EN INN ASK 42 Part 5 PIUgI NS ha ea iba 44 iL ee an FCR Ban TA 45 1 1 Flipit Recorder csv nu lea an cease ana 45 12 Jackpot Playen nana i istum ena IN RR BEAN 46 1 3 Minesweeper Recorder OndiO ooocoocco
29. Walls are not edible Crashing a worm against a wall causes ita 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 the PLAY key to pause the game Hit PLAY again to resume the game Stop the game There are two ways to stop a running game If you want to guit Wormlet entirely simply hit the OFF button The game will stop immediately and you will return to the game menu If you want to stop the game and still see the screen hit the ON button This freezes the game If you hit the ON button again a new game starts with the same configuration To return to the games menu you can hit the OFF button 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 it s entry on the score board turns black Len Here the current length of the worm is displayed When a worm is eating food it grows by one pixel for each step it moves Hungry That s the normal state of a worm Worms are always hungry and want to eat It s good to have a hungry worm since it means that your worm is alive But it s better to get your worm growing Growing When a worm has eaten a piece of food it starts growing For each step it moves over food
30. age 79 for details 3 5 Search This plugin can be used on playlists It searches through the playlist that it is 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 3 6 Sort This plugin takes a file and sorts it in forward alphabetical order Case is ignored This is useful for ordering playlists generated by the Create Playlist menu option see page 27 3 7 Text Viewer This is a Viewer for text files with word wrap Just press PLAY on a TXT file to display it Has controls to handle various styles of text formatting Has top of file and bottom of file buttons You can view files without a TXT extension by using Open with from the Play Screen menu Controls F1 recorder ON MINUS player toggles Word mode between Wrap and Chop Wrap breaks lines at white space or hyphen Chop breaks lines at the maximum column limit F2 recorder ON MENU PLUS player cycles Line mode through Normal Join and Expand Normal breaks lines at newline characters Join ignores unpaired newline characters i e joins lines Useful for adopting the orphans that occur with e mail style i e pre wrapped text files Expand doubles unpaired newlines i e adds a blank line Useful for making the paragraphs clearer in some book style text files 58 R
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32. and it will add the current song to a special playlist of all songs you selected in favorites m3u Part 5 Plugins 63 4 8 Firmware flash Recorder Ondio Firmware flash Use when flashing Rockbox see page In the ideal case you ll need this tool only once For security reasons you may wish to delete firmware flash rock once flashing is complete 4 9 Metronome This plugin can be used as a metronome to keep time during music practice Adjust the tempo though the interface or by tapping it out on the appropriate button PLAYER RECORDER aa STOP ONOFF Exit plugin PLAY PLAY Start Stop ON ON Taptempo MODE Start Tap tempo NI HOLD MODE MINUS PLUS LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT Adjust tempo ON MINUS s 4 10 Split Editor Recorder Ondio When recording an mp3 file it is common practice to start the recording a little bit early and stop it a little bit late to ensure all the desired sound is recorded This results in recordings that contain extra snippets of sound and the beginning and end Unfortunately these snippets can not be deleted easily because they are stored in the same file as the desired recording The purpose of the split editor is to split a mp3 file the input file at a point in time split point Two new files can be generated from the input file The first file contains the part before the split point and the second file contains the part after the split point Onc
33. and record music and contains many features and enhancements not available in the original firmware supplied by the manufacturer Among the things that Rockbox has to offer are the following Faster loading than the Archos firmware Uninterrupted playing of MP3 files skipping is very rare More control over how your music is played Built in viewers for several common file types Sophisticated plugin system that allows the Jukebox to run games calendar a clock and many other applications Totally removable Removal of Rockbox before returning the Jukebox for repair under warranty is advised Optional voice user interface for complete control without looking at the screen Rockbox is a complete from scratch rewrite of the Jukebox software and uses no fragments of the original firmware Not only is it free to use it s also released under the GNU public license which means that it will always remain free to both use and to change Although Rockbox also runs on the Archos Ondio series of flash based MP3 players this is a recent development which is not covered fully in this manual Most of this manual will however apply equally to Rockbox on the Ondio Jukeboxes For more details on the Ondio port please see the web page http www rockbox org twiki bin view Main ArchosOndio Getting more help This manual is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the Rockbox software There is however more
34. arlier than necessary naturally drains the batteries a little extra Most users will not need this setting Fade on Stop Pause This setting enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop playing a song Fade is a progressive increase or reduction of volume from your set volume to 0 and inverse ID3 tag priority ID3 tags in an MP3 file contain information about the artist title album etc of the track This option controls whether Rockbox uses the information from ID3v2 tags in preference to that from ID3v1 tags when both types of tag are present 2 File View This menu deals with options relating to how the file browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this option is enabled files that start with a lower case letter will appear after the files that start with an upper case letter have all been listed If disabled then case will be ignored when sorting files Part 4 Configuring Rockbox 35 Sort Directories This option controls how Rockbox sorts folders The default is to sort them alphabetically By date sorts them with the oldest folder first By newest date sorts them with the newest folder first Sort Files This option controls how Rockbox sorts files In addition to the options for directory sorting above there is By type option which sorts files alphabetically by their type such as mp3 then alphabetically within each type Show Files Controls which files are di
35. ation freguency settings presets Saving preset You can save your favourite stations in the 32 presets Press F1 to go to the menu then select Save preset Enter the name maximum number of characters is 32 Selecting preset Press F2 to go to the preset list Use UP and DOWN to move the cursor and then press PLAY to select Use LEFT to leave the preset without selecting anything Removing a preset Press F1 to go to the menu then select Remove preset Recording Press F3 to start recording the currently playing station Press OFF to stop recording Press PLAY again to seamlessly start recording to a new file The settings for the recording can be changed in the F1 menu before starting the recording Note The radio will turn off when playing an MP3 4 Bookmarks The bookmarks menu allows you to create and manage bookmark files Create Bookmark While playing a track use this option to save your current position within the track so that you can return to it at a later time Bookmarks are saved on a per folder basis i e all of the files in the same folder have their bookmarks stored together You can store multiple bookmarks for the same track 26 Rockbox User Manual List Bookmarks recorder bookmark browser player bookmark browser While playing a track use this option to return to any bookmark in the current folder The bookmark browser screen shown above is now displayed Use th
36. blicly available DTD and standard conforming simple HTML PostScript or PDF designed for human modification Examples of transparent image formats include PNG XCF and JPG Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word processors SGML or XML for which the DTD and or processing tools are not generally available and the machine generated HTML PostScript or PDF produced by some word processors for output purposes only 94 Rockbox User Manual The Title Page means for printed book the title page itself plus such following pages as are needed to hold legibly the material this License reguires to appear in the title page For works in formats which do not have any title page as such Title Page means the text near the most prominent appearance of the work s title preceding the beginning of the body of the text A section Entitled XYZ means a named subunit of the Document whose title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following text that translates XYZ in another language Here XYZ stands for a specific section name mentioned below such as Acknowledgements Dedications Endorsements or History To Preserve the Title of such a section when you modify the Document means that it remains a section Entitled XYZ according to this definition The Document may include Warranty Disclaimers next to the notice which states that this License applies to the Document These Warranty Dis
37. but those wishing to install manually or using a different operating system should choose the ZIP archive containing the firmware for their model of the Jukebox Installing Rockbox Using the Windows self installing executable to install Rockbox is the easiest method of installing the software on your Jukebox Simply follow the on screen instructions and select the appropriate drive letter and Jukebox model when prompted You can use Add Remove Programs to uninstall the software at a later date For non Windows users and those wishing to install manually from the archive the procedure is still fairly simple Connect your Jukebox to the computer via USB as described in the manual that came with your Jukebox On Windows the Jukebox drive will appear as a drive letter in your My Computer folder Take the file that you downloaded above and unpack its contents to your Jukebox drive You can do this using a program such as InfoZip http www info zip org or WinZip http www winzip or You will need to unpack all of the files in the archive onto your hard disk If this has been done correctly you will have a file called archos mod for the player or ajbrec ajz for all other models in the main folder of your Jukebox drive and also a folder called rockbox which contains a number of system files used by the software Enabling Speech Support optional If you wish to use speech support you will also need a language file a
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39. cfg file feature Main Menu gt General Settings to save the current settings then use a text editor to customize the settings file Format Rules Format setting value Each setting must be on a separate line Lines starting with are ignored Settings allowed values unit volume 0 100 bass 15 15 treble 15 15 balance 100 100 channels stereo stereo narrow stereo wide mono mono left mono right karaoke shuffle on off repeat off all one play selected on off resume off ask ask once on scan min step 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 25 30 45 60 secs 74 Rockbox User Manual scan accel antiskip volume fade sort case show files follow playlist playlist viewer icons 0 15 double scan speed every X seconds 0 7 seconds on off on off all supported music playlists on off on off playlist viewer track display on off recursive directory insert scroll speed scroll delay scroll step bidir limit contrast backlight timeout backlight when plugged disk spindown battery capacity idle poweroff lang wps on off 1 15 0 250 1 10s 1 112 pixels 0 200 of screen width 0 63 off on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 seconds on off 3 254 seconds 1500 2400 mAh off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 30 45 60 m
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41. created then they will be found at http www rockbox org fonts and http www rockbox org lang 7 Using ROLO Rockbox loader Rockbox is able to load and start another firmware file without rebooting You just press PLAY on an AJZ Recorders or MOD Players file This can be used to test new firmware versions without deleting your current version or to load the original Archos firmware you have to download the appropriate file from Archos website 8 Rockbox in flash Recorder Ondio FLASHING ROCKBOX IS OPTIONAL It is not required for using Rockbox on your Jukebox Recorder Please read the whole section thoroughly before flashing Part 6 Advanced Topics Reference 79 8 1 Introduction Flashing in the sense used here and elsewhere in regard to Rockbox means reprogramming the flash memory of the Jukebox unit Flash memory sometimes called Flash ROM is a type of non volatile memory that can be erased and reprogrammed in circuit It is a variation of electrically erasable programmable read only memory EEPROM A from the factory Jukebox comes with the Archos firmware flashed It is possible to replace the built in software with Rockbox Terminology used in the following Firmware means the flash ROM content as a whole Image means one operating software started from there By reprogramming the firmware the Jukebox will boot much faster The Archos boot loader seems to take forever compared to the Rockbox versi
42. crolling text moves a step Scroll Start Delay Controls how many milliseconds Rockbox should wait before a new text begins scrolling Scroll Step Size Controls how many pixels the text scroll should move for each step Recorder only Part 4 Configuring Rockbox 37 38 Bidirectional Scroll Limit Rockbox has two different scroll methods scrolling the text always to the left and when the line has ended begin again with the Start of the text or move to the left until you can read the end of the line and scroll right until you see the beginning of the text Rockbox chooses which method it should use depending of how much it has to scroll left This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of line length Status Scrollbar Recorder only Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar Scroll Bar Enables or disables the scroll bar at the left Status Bar Enables or disables the status bar at the upper side Button Bar Enables or disables the button bar prompts for the F keys at the bottom of the screen Volume Display Controls whether the volume is displayed as a graphic or a numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Battery Display Controls whether the battery charge status is displayed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Peak Meter Recorder only The peak meter can be configured with a number of parameters Fora
43. e 57 3 3 Movie Player Recorder OndioO oooco c coco oo mo 57 3 4 Rockbox flash Recorder 22 2 1 58 na TP 58 3 O MEM TEES 58 3Su ea ba menang enn 58 erent teres tp rears Gia Bea AN dea 60 4 APPIICAUONS sc sen kn benalu ia bined ic alah 60 4 1 Battery test ba eee 60 4 2 Calculator Recorder 22222 22 2 61 4 3 Calendar Recorder Ondio o oo o W om o m c W Wo 61 AA Sae NE 61 45b Clock Recorder tm UE 62 4 6 Euro Convertor Player o asinan Ha mana anna Han 63 4 V FAVORITES usa EPI DC TIRAS PUR SETS RAGA 64 4 8 Firmware flash Recorder Ondio Woo 64 MetFODOITIG oes oue abal Waka ina bak aan banana haha Waka e tina sins 64 4 10 Split Editor Recorder Ondio oooococ coco Woo Wo mo mom 65 4 11 STOP sekte xx ng ab aa em ka 68 Part 6 Advanced Topics Reference oo mo 69 1 Customising the user 2 2 2 2 2 2 70 1 1 Loading Fonts Recorder 70 Loading LANGUAGES ns 70 2 Configuring the WPS
44. e UP and DOWN keys recorder or MINUS and PLUS keys player to navigate between bookmarks Press PLAY to jump to a bookmark ON PLAY to delete a bookmark or STOP OFF to exit the browser Recent bookmarks 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 This option is off by default See page 42 for more details on configuring bookmarking in Rockbox 5 Playlist Options This menu allows you to work with playlists Playlists can either be created automatically by playing a file in a directory directly which will cause all of the files in that directory to be placed in the playlist or they can be created by hand using the File Menu see page 15 or using the Playlist Options menu Both automatic and manually created playlists can be edited using this menu Create Playlist Rockbox will create a playlist with all tracks in the current directory and all subdirectories 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 current directory see page Recursively Insert Directories Part 3 The Main Menu 27 If set to ON th
45. e this process has been successful the original file can be deleted or kept as a backup The whole process of splitting a mp3 file consists of two steps 1 defining the split point 2 generating the result files 3 if desired delete the input file with the browser not the split editor A paragraph of text 64 Rockbox User Manual How to use the Split Editor Pause near the split point When the device plays the song just hit the pause button when playback has roughly reached the split point This need not be very precise as the split point can be fine tuned later Open the split editor Open the plugin A screen similar to the one below will appear The Split Editor Here is an explanation of the areas marked in red on the screenshot 1 The waveform The waveform displays the volume of the song over time It will appear as the song plays and help to visually identify the point in time where the split is desired 2 The split point indicator The split point indicator is a vertical line with a small triangle at the top end It is the most important control element of the split editor It can be moved with the LEFT and RIGHT buttons Later when you have fine tuned the split point the song will be split at this position 3 The split time At the top of the window a time value is displayed This is the point in time within the song at which the split point indicator is positioned 4 The locator Another vertical bar repr
46. e to write to the disk The power usage data is saved to a file in the root directory of the Jukebox This plugin can sometimes be useful for diagnosing problems with battery charging 4 2 Calculator Recorder Ondio Calculator 60 Rockbox User Manual This is a simple scientific calculator for use on the Jukebox It works like a standard calculator Move using the arrow keys and press PLAY to press a button Pressing the 1st button will toggle between other available functions on the right hand side 4 3 Calendar Recorder Ondio Calendar This is a small and simple calendar application with memo saving function Dots indicate dates with memos To add a new memo press PLAY on the date Includes one off annual monthly and weekly memos PLAY monthly LEFT weekly RIGHT annually ON one off STOP exit 4 4 Chess Clock 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 First enter the number of players 1 10 press PLAY to continue Then set the total game time in mm ss press PLAY to continue STOP to go back 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 press PLAY to continue Part 5 Plugins 61 Done Player 1 starts paused mode So pres
47. en when you insert queue a directory in Dynamic Playlist all subdirectories will also be inserted If set to ASK then you are prompted about recursive insertion when inserting a directory 6 Browse Plugins With this option you can load and run various plugins that have been written for Rockbox A detailed description of the different plugins begins on page 44 7 Info This option shows MP3 ram buffer size battery voltage level and estimated time remaining disk total space and disk free space On players use the MINUS and PLUS keys to step through several pages of information Show ID3 info This is an alternative way to access the ID3 viewer See page 20 for details on the ID3 viewer 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 battery status hard disk size and the amount of free space on the disk Version Software version and credits display Debug Keep Out This submenu is intended to be used only by Rockbox developers It shows hardware disk battery and a lot of other information It is not recommended that users access this menu unless instructed to do so in the course of fixing a problem with Rockbox In particular the Dump ROM Contents View clear RTC RAM and Screenshot and Sound test functions should be treated with care 28 Rockbox User Manual 8 Shutdown Player This menu
48. ent song The track name The album name The ID3 artist name Bit rate VBR files display average bitrate and avg Elapsed and total time A slidebar progress meter representing where in the song you are Peak meter Notes The number of lines shown depends on the size of the font used 18 Rockbox User Manual The peak meter is only visible if you turn off the status bar or if using a small font that gives 8 or more display lines Player Playlist index Playlist size Artist Title Current time Progress indicator Left See page 70 for details of customising your WPS While Playing Screen 3 1 WPS Key Controls Recorder KEY ACTION UP DOWN Volume up down LEFT quick press Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track go to previous track LEFT HOLD _ Rewind in track RIGHT quick press Go to next track RIGHT HOLD Fast forward in track PLAY Toggle play pause ON quick press Go to file browser ON HOLD Show pitch setting screen STOP Stop playback F1 Go to Main menu F2 Toggles Play browse quick menu F3 Toggles Display quick menu F1 DOWN Key lock on off F1 PLAY Mute on off F1 ON Enter ID3 viewer Player KEY ACTION MENU PLUS Increases volume MENU MINUS Decreases volume MINUS guick press Go to beginning of track or if pressed
49. entage of the low notes that is converted into harmonics If low notes are causing speaker distortion this can be set to 100 to eliminate the fundamental completely and only produce harmonics in the signal If set to 0 this is the same as turning the feature off MDB Centre Frequency The cutoff frequency of your headphones or speakers This is usually given in the specification for the headphones speakers Part 4 Configuring Rockbox 33 shape It is recommended that this parameter be set to 1 5 time the centre freguency This is the freguency up to which harmonics are generated Some of the lower fundamentals near the cut off range will have their lower harmonics cut off since they will be below the range of the speakers Fundamentals between the cut off freguency and the lower freguency will have their harmonics proportionally boosted to compensate and restore the loudness of these notes For most users the defaults should provide an improvement in sound guality and can be safely left as they are For reference the defaults Rockbox uses are SETTING VALUE MDB Harmonics MDB Centre Frequency MDB Shape 2 General Settings Recorder general settings Player general settings 2 1 Playback Options This menu is for configuring settings related to MP3 playback Shuffle Select shuffle ON OFF This alters how Rockbox will select which next song to play Repeat Repeat modes are Off One
50. es Open source development process Yes No Corrects reported bugs Yes No Automatic Volume Control Recorder Yes No Pitch control Recorder Yes No Text File Reader Yes Yes Games Recorder 8 No Games Player 2 No File Delete amp Rename Yes Yes Playlist Building Yes Yes Recording Recorder Yes Yes Generates XING VBR header when recording Yes Yes High Resolution Volume Control Yes No Deep discharge option Recorder Yes No Customizable backlight timeout Yes Yes Backlight on when charging option Yes No Queue function Yes Yes Supports the XING header Yes Yes Supports the VBRI header Partly Yes Max number of files in a dir 10 000 999 Adjustable scroll speed Yes No Screensaver style demos Recorder Yes No Variable step accelerating ffwd and rwd Yes No Visual Progress Bar Yes No Select Load configurations Yes No Sleep timer Yes No Easy User Interface Yes No Remote Control Controllable Yes Yes ISO8859 1 font support Player Yes No Queue songs to play next Yes Yes Bookmark positions in songs Yes No Number of available languages 24 3 Accurate VBR bitrate display Yes No FM Tuner support FM Recorder Yes Yes FF FR with sound No Yes 86 Rockbox User Manual FEATURE ROCKBOX ARCHOS Pre Recording Recorders Yes Yes Video Playback with sound Recorders Yes No Boot Time from Flash in seconds 4 12 Speaking Menus Support Yes No 2 Supported File Formats
51. es are independent of each other This makes a file easier to edit Time Split This option is useful when timing recordings If set to active it stops a recording at a given interval and then starts recording again with a new file This is useful for long term recordings 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 Options hours minutes between splits off 24 00 18 00 12 00 10 00 8 00 6 00 4 00 2 00 1 00 00 30 00 15 00 10 00 05 Prerecord Time This setting buffers a small amount of audio so that when the record button is pressed the recording will begin from that number of seconds earlier This is useful for ensuring that a recording begins before a cue that is being waited for Options Off 1 30 seconds 3 FM Radio FM Recorder Ondio FM FM radio screen This menu option switches to the radio screen Part 3 The Main Menu 25 The keys are BUTTON FUNCTION Change freguency in 0 1 MHz steps For automatic station seek hold LEFT RIGHT for little longer UP DOWN Change volume EXPERIMENTAL freezes all screen updates may enhance radio PLAY Tg reception in some cases ON Leave the radio screen with the radio playing OFF Back to main menu The FM radio has the ability to record and to remember st
52. esents the position locator It moves along as the song plays In contrast to the split point indicator it has no triangles at the ends 5 The time bar The time bar displays the current position within the song relative to the whole song The entire length of the time bar represents the song length The length of the solid part of the time bar represents the position and length of the displayed part of the song Part 5 Plugins 65 6 The scale mode Directly above the F3 button the scale mode is displayed The waveform can be scaled either logarithmically or linearly In logarithmic scale mode the letters dB are displayed in linear mode Yo Use to switch between these modes Linear mode usually gives better optical hints with commercially recorded music For guiet recordings especially of human speech the logarithmic scale often is preferable 7 The loop mode Directly above the F2 button the loop mode icon is displayed There are 4 different loop modes Pressing F2 changes to the next loop mode e Playback loops around the split point indicator This mode is best used when searching and zooming for the desired point at which to split the recording Playback loops from the split point indicator to the end of the visible area This mode is best used when fine tuning the split indicator position at the beginning of a recording e IST Playback loops from the beginning of the visible area to the split point Thi
53. ewer Part 5 Plugins 59 Compatibility Correctly reads plain text files in Unix Win DOS or Macintosh format Latin alphabet Unicode files are almost readable Currently prefers fixed width fonts With proportional fonts pretends all characters are the width of a lower case o Currently messages are in English please help with translations Does not currently support right to left languages 3 8 VBRfix This function scans a VBR Variable Bitrate MP3 file and updates creates the Xing VBR header The Xing header contains information about the VBR stream used to calculate average bit rate time information and to more accurately fwd rew in the stream This function is especially useful when the playback of a file skips fwd rew does not work correctly or the time display is incorrect Run VBRfix on files you record with your Jukebox The header is not present in the recorded files and VBRfix adds this header 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 4 Applications 4 1 Battery test Recorder battery test Player battery test This plugin simulates normal power drain by spinning up the disk and reading a big file once ever 90 seconds or thereabout Each spin up also writes the battery level to a log file The test stops when battery level reaches 4 in order to avoid being unabl
54. f mines adjacent to the current sguare 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 UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT Move the cursor across the minefield PLAY 7 F1 Toggle flag on off MENU F2 Reveal the contents of the current sguare STOP Exit the game 1 4 Nim Player Ondio Nim plugin Rules of Nim There are 21 matches Two players you and the Jukebox alternately pick a certain number of matches and the one who takes the last match loses You can take up to twice as many matches as the Jukebox selected and vice versa 46 Rockbox User Manual MINUS Decrease the number of matches PLUS Increase the number of matches PLAY Remove the number of matches you have selected STOP Exit the game 1 5 Pong Recorder Ondio Pong game The world s first arcade game comes to Rockbox This isa tennis game for two players The left player uses LEFT and F1 to move and the right player uses RIGHT and F3 The aim is to prevent the ball leaving the screen The player that loses the least balls wins Player 1 up Player 1 down F3 Player 2 up RIGHT Player 2 down OFF Quit 1 6 Rockblox Recorder Ondio Rockblox plugin This well known game will probably be familiar The aim of t
55. face has changed since you last flashed Rockbox You re running an old copy of Rockbox but are trying to execute a newer plugin the one you just downloaded The easiest solution is to ROLO into this new version by playing the ajbrec ajz file Then you are consistent and can play rockbox ucl When done you can restart the box and hopefully your new Rockbox image UCLs for the latest Recorder and FM firmware are included in Rockbox 2 3 and also the daily builds 8 6 Known Issues and Limitations There are two variants as to how the Jukebox starts which is why there are normal and _norom firmware files The vast majority of Jukeboxes all have the same boot ROM content differentiation comes Iwith flash content Rockbox identifies this boot ROM with a CRC value of 0x222F in the hardware info screen Some recorders have the boot ROM disabled it might be unprogrammed and start directly from a flash mirror at address zero They need the new _norom firmware it has a slightly different bootloader Without a boot ROM there is no UART boot safety net To compensate for that as much as possible the MiniMon monitor is included and can be started by pressing F3 ON Using this the box be reprogrammed via serial if the first 2000 bytes of the flash are OK 8 7 ROMbox ROMbox is a flashable version of rockbox that is uncompressed and runs directly from the flash chip rather than being copied into memory first The advantage of this is that
56. fnt on off on off on off on off 0 7 O smallest size 7 highest quality 48 44 32 24 22 16 kHz mic line spdif mono stereo 0 to 15 0 to 15 0 to 15 on off off 0 05 0 10 0 20 0 30 1 00 2 00 4 00 6 00 8 00 16 00 24 00 hh mm off 1 30 secs recordings current FM recorder specific settings force fmm mono Example File volume 70 bass 11 on off Part 6 Advanced Topics Reference 77 treble 12 balance 0 time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans Ing 4 Differences between binaries There are 3 different flavors of firmware binaries from Rockbox website Current Version Daily Builds and Bleeding Edge The current version is the latest stable version developed by Rockbox Team It s free of Known critical bugs and works perfectly with Archos Jukebox Player Studio and Recorders Head on over to http www rockbox org download and pull it down Daily Build is a development version of Rockbox It supports all new features and patches developed since last stable version It may also contain bugs This version is made automatically everyday and can be found at http www rockbox org daily shtml Bleeding edge builds are the same as Daily build but built from the latest development code every 20 minutes These builds are for people who want to test the code tha
57. he game is to complete rows with the given pieces blocks Pieces can be rotated to make them fit into the rows Once you complete a row it gets cleared but if you fill your display with rows you lose The controls for this game with the Jukebox turned so that the buttons are to the right of the screen are UP Rotate piece LEFT RIGHT Move piece to the left right DOWN Move faster the piece downwards OFF Exit Rockblox Part 5 Plugins 47 1 7 Sliding Puzzle Recorder Ondio Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the whole picture Key controls UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT Moves Fi Shuffle F2 Change the picture OFF Stop the game 1 8 Snake Recorder Ondio 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 Change levels with UP DOWN keys level 1 is slowest level 9 is fastest Press PLAY to start or pause 1 9 Snake 2 Recorder Ondio Snake 2 The Snake Strikes Back Another version of the Snake game Move the snake around and eat the apples that pop up on the screen Each time an apple is eaten the snake gets longer The game ends when the snake hits a wall or runs into itself The controls are UP DOWN in menu Set game speed F1 in
58. he power fails the chip malfunctions while programming or particularly if the programming software malfunctions your Jukebox may stop functioning The Rockbox team take no responsibility of any kind do this at your own risk However the code has been extensively tested and is known to work well The new firmware file is completely read before it starts programming there are a lot of sanity checks If any fail it will not program There is no reason why such low level code should behave differently on your Jukebox There s one ultimate safety net to bring back Jukeboxes with even completely garbled flash content the UART boot mod which in turn reguires the serial mod This can bring the dead back to life with that it s possible to reflash independently from the outside even if the flash is completely erased It has been used during development else Rockbox in flash wouldn t have been possible Extensive development effort went into the development of the UART boot mod Mechanically adept users with good soldering skills can easily perform these mods Others may feel uncomfortable using the first tool firmware flash rock for reflashing the firmware If you are starting with a known good image you are unlikely to experience problems The flash tools have been stable for guite a while Several users have used them extensively even flashing while playing Although it worked it s not the recommended method The flashing software is very
59. hese can be altered in the menu General Settings gt Display gt Peak Meter If extreme minimum maximum values are set the waveform might be cut off A minimum setting of 60 dB and a maximum setting of 0 dB are recommended These settings should be capable of producing useful waveforms for very soft sounds in logarithmic mode dB When the editor is used on loud sounds such as commercial rock or pop music switching to the linear scale may prove more effective since the logarithmic scale compresses loud noises and makes it more difficult to identify characteristic shapes Note that it is always possible to toggle the scale with F3 4 11 Stopwatch Recorder stopwatch Player stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times Keys are as follows MENU ONOFF Quit Plugin 2 RIGHT Start stop STOP LEFT Part 5 Plugins 67 68 ON ON MODE ake lap time MINUS PLUS DOWN UP DOWN UP Scroll through lap times Rockbox User Manual Part 6 Advanced Topics Reference 1 Customising the user interface 1 1 Loading Fonts Recorder Ondio Rockbox can load fonts dynamically Simply copy the fnt file to the disk and play them in the directory browser or from the Main Menu gt General Settings gt Fonts If you want a font to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox folder and the file name must be at most 24 characters long Any BDF font file up to 16 p
60. hich spins down the disk before cutting power Faster scrolling in file browser Easy to use installation program for windows New language Bulgarian New plugins Sort euroconverter search chess clock vbrfix stopwatch metronome Recorder specific changes since 2 2 During recording disk doesn t spin up until needed allowing undisturbed use of internal mic for short recordings Optional button help bar at bottom of screen 90 Rockbox User Manual More detailed MDB dynamic bass settings ROMbox optionally saving 170KB RAM by running code from flash on Recorder v1 and Ondio SP Recording can pause Recorded files now get v2 3 tags instead of v2 4 since some tools have problems reading v2 4 tags Red LED behaviour changed during recording On during recording and blinking when paused New font format 2 3 requires new fonts 2 2 fonts are not compatible New plugins Minesweeper solitaire mp3 split editor snake2 pong JPEG viewer Mandelbrot Changes in version 2 2 Bookmarking functions added Improved playlist support WPS enhancements New plugins greyscale Mandelbrot metronome Recording enhancements recorder Bug fixes General changes since 2 0 Loadable plugins Dynamic playlist creation and manipulation Configurable max directory size default 400 files Configurable max playlist size default 10000 files Remote control now works wh
61. ight 2000 2001 2002 Free Software Foundation Inc 59 Temple Place Suite 330 Boston MA 02111 1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed PREAMBLE The purpose of this License is to make a manual textbook or other functional and useful document free in the sense of freedom to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it with or without modifying it either commercially or non commercially Secondarily this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others This License is a kind of copyleft which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense It complements the GNU General Public License which is a copyleft license designed for free software We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free software because free software needs free documentation a free program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the software does But this License is not limited to software manuals it can be used for any textual work regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference 17 1 APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS This License applies to any manual or other work
62. ile keys are locked Car mode Pauses and resumes playback with charger power loss and restore Caption backlight Briefly turns on backlight during track change Battery meter is more accurate during the first minutes after boot Automatically detects modified archos mod ajbrec ajz after exiting USB mode and asks if you want to run it Files and configurations in rockbox are now accessible from Menu Stopped playlists can be resumed from File Browser by pressing ON Never turns off reboots while charger is connected Appendices 91 wps files now support comments Improved ID3v2 support Option of hiding icons in File Browser Player specific changes since 2 0 Games Jackpot and NIM Jump scroll Scrolls the entire screen width each step The Line In port is enabled Recorder specific changes since 2 0 Rockbox can now be stored in flash ROM giving much quicker boot up Support for V2 recorders Radio support FM Recorder only Default contrast is now auto detected preventing unreadable display Frame accurate recording file splits set manually or preset by time Improved Xing header generation in recorded files e e e e Option of using an inverted bar instead of cursor in File Browser and Menu e e New games FlipIt Snake Star Sliding Puzzle and Chip8 emulator e A calendar application plugin 92 Rockbox User Manual 7 Credits People that have contributed to
63. in your rockbox lang directory See page 70 for further details about languages 2 7 Voice Voice Menus This option turns on the Voice User Interface which will read out menu items and settings as they are selected by the cursor In order for this to work a voice file must be present in the rockbox lang directory on the recorder Voice files are large 1 5MB and are not shipped with Rockbox by default The voice file is the name of the language for which is made followed by the extension voice So for English the file name would be english voice This option is on by default It will do nothing unless the appropriate voice file is installed in the correct place on the Jukebox Limitations Setting the Sound Option Channels to karaoke may disable voice menus Plugins and the wake up alarm and do not support voice features 42 Rockbox User Manual Voice Directories This option turns on the speaking of directory names The Jukebox is not powerful enough to produce these voices in real time so a number of options are available talk mp3 clip Use special pre recorded MP3 files _dirname talk in each directory These must be generated in advance and are typically produced synthetically using a text to speech engine on a PC If no such file exists the output is as for the numbers option below Spell Speak the directory name by spelling it out letter by letter Support is provided only
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65. inutes path filename Ing path filename wps Part 6 Advanced Topics Reference 75 autocreate bookmarks on off autoload bookmarks on off us most recent bookmarks talk dir talk file talk menu on off off number spell hover off number spell hover off on Recorder specific settings loudness super bass auto volume MDB enable MDB strength MDB harmonics MDB center freguency MDB shape peak meter release peak meter hold peak meter clip hold peak meter busy peak meter dbfs peak meter min peak meter max 76 0 17 on off off 2 4 8 seconds on off 0 127 dB 0 100 96 20 300 Hz 50 300 Hz 1 126 off 200ms 300ms 500ms 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 30 1 on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 25 30 45 60 90 2min 3min 5min 10min 20min 45min 90min on off on off on dbfs off linear 0 89 dB or 0 100 0 89 dB or 0 100 96 Rockbox User Manual statusbar scrollbar volume display battery display time format font invert deep discharge trickle charge disk poweroff rec guality rec freguency rec source rec channels rec mic gain rec left gain rec right gain editable recordings rec timesplit pre recording time rec directory on off on off graphic numeric graphic numeric 12hour 24hour path filename
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67. ixels high should be usable with Rockbox To convert from bdf to fnt use the convbdf tool This tool can be found on the Rockbox website Linux http www rockbox org fonts convbdf Windows http www rockbox org fonts convbdf exe It is also present in the tools directory of the Rockbox source 1 2 Loading Languages Rockbox can load language files at runtime Simply copy the Ing file not the lang file to the Jukebox and play it in the Rockbox directory browser or from the Main Menu gt General Settings gt Languages If you want a language to be loaded automatically every time you start up it must be located in the rockbox folder and the file name must be a maximum of 24 characters long Rockbox supports many different languages You can get Ing files at www rockbox org lang Currently all of these languages are included in the Rockbox distribution If your language is not yet supported and you want to write your own language file follow these instructions Copy the http www rockbox org lang english lang file and start filling in the new lines Name your file lt language gt lang where lt language gt is the local name for your language i e svenska lang francais lang etc When you are done submit your lang file to Rockbox patch tracker http sourceforge net tracker group id 44306 amp atid 439120 2 Configuring the WPS Description General Info The Custom While Pla
68. k the next time for example when refilling the MP3 buffer or navigating through the file browser Changes to settings may therefore not be saved unless the Jukebox is shut down safely see page 14 The two settings menus are covered in detail starting on page 30 All the other options on the main menu are explained here Navigating through the menu Recorder UP Moves up in the menu Inside a setting increases the value or chooses next option DOWN Moves down in the menu Inside a setting decreases the value or chooses previous option PLAY RIGHT Selects option OFF LEFT Exits menu setting or moves to parent menu Player Selects previous option in the menu Inside an setting decreases MINUS the value chooses previous option PLUS Selects next option in the menu Inside an setting increases the value or chooses next option PLAY Selects item STOP Exit menu setting or moves to parent menu Part 3 The Main Menu 23 2 Recording Recorder Ondio FM 2 1 While Recording Screen Recording Screen Recording F2 screen Recording F3 screen Entering the Recording option in the Main menu launches the recording application The screen shows the time elapsed and the size of the file being recorded A peak meter is present to allow you set Gain correctly Freguency channels and guality are shown on the last line The controls for this screen are LEFT Decreases Gain RI
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70. lay The only problem is they are based on a 4x4 keyboard but since most games do not use all of the buttons that could easily be worked around Some places where can you can find ch8 files The engine chip8 patch had several attached h f k E t t d 443068atid 439 120 Check out the HP48 chip games section http www hpcalc org hp48 games chip Check out the PC emulator by the guy who wrote the HP48 emulator http www pdc kth se Ifo chip8 CHIP8 htm Links to other chip8 emulators http www zophar net chip8 html 3 2 JPEG viewer Recorder Ondio Press PLAY on a jpg file in order to view the contents using Rockbox s greyscale library Use the arrow keys to move around the image PLAY to zoom in and ON to zoom out Press OFF to exit the viewer Note JPEGs that use progressive scan encoding are not supported and will produce an error 3 3 Movie Player Recorder Ondio Play movies on your Jukebox In order to do this movies must be in AVI format and then converted to RVF Rockbox s own video format For more details on how to use this plugin please see http www rockbox org twiki bin view Main VideoTutorial Part 5 Plugins 57 3 4 Rockbox flash Recorder Ondio Flash size 256 Image at at Sg KB Checked File F2 to prog other t a Rockbox flash For playing UCL files on flashed Jukeboxes Reprograms the flash memory of the Jukebox unit see p
71. lt setting example 15 seconds If RIGHT or LEFT is pressed Clock will set the backlight to ON or OFF respectively When Clock is exited your default Rockbox setting for Backlight will be restored Saving Settings Settings are saved to disk when Clock is exited They are saved to rockbox rocks clock settings To reset your settings back to the defaults simply navigate to this file using Rockbox highlight it and press the ON PLAY keys to get the Delete option This way you can feel free to experiment with the settings and you could even load separate settings say one for your desk at home and one for in the car by keeping two files in your rockbox rocks folder such as h clock settings and c clock settings Simply remove the h for your home settings to go into effect or add the h back and take off the c for your car settings In the future loading different settings will probably be made easier through a built in settings file loader in Clock 4 6 Euro Convertor Player Euro converter This plugin converts euros back into pre euro currency The country for which is does this is selectable by pressing the MENU key The MINUS and PLUS keys move the cursor between the digits and the PLAY and STOP keys increase and decrease the current digit The amount in the old currency is displayed on the second line 4 7 Favorites Favourites When listening to any song you can open it with this plugin
72. mately the same position as on the picture To turn on a player containing Rockbox hold down the ON key for 2 3 seconds Flashed Jukeboxes only require tap of the ON key see page 83 for more information about flashing Rockbox On shutdown Rockbox automatically saves its settings and turns off the hard drive safely To tell Rockbox to shut the Jukebox down do the following V2 FM RECORDER Hold the OFF key for 2 3 seconds Vi RECORDER Double tap the OFF key when playback is stopped PLAYER From the Rockbox Main Menu select Shutdown In the unlikely event of a software failure a hardware power off can be performed by holding down STOP until the Jukebox power light goes off This works for all models of Jukebox For further details about connecting charging and caring for your Jukebox please see the Archos manual that came with it 2 File Browser Player file browser The file browser helps you navigate through the files on your Jukebox entering folders and executing the default action on each file To help us differentiate files each file format is displayed with an icon You can select which file types are displayed see page 36 14 Rockbox User Manual 2 1 Controls Recorder UP DOWN Go to previous next item in list If you are on the first last entry the cursor will wrap to the last first entry ON UP DOWN Move one page up down on the list LEFT Go t
73. mo 2 4 Hello World Hello world This is plugin demo for hackers Every programmer s first program is the hello world program which does nothing except displaying Hello world on the screen 54 Rockbox User Manual 2 5 Mandelbrot Recorder Ondio Mandelbrot This is another demonstration using the greyscale engine It draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set ARROW KEYS Move about the image PLAY Zoom in OFF Quit F1 Increase iteration depth more detail F2 Decrease iteration depth less detail F3 Reset and return to the default image 2 6 Mosaic Recorder Ondio Mosaic This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the Jukebox Press STOP to guit 2 7 Oscillograph Recorder Ondio Oscillograph This demo shows the shape of the sound samples that make up the music being played There are two mechanisms to alter speed Slowing down is achieved by increasing the time waiting for user input This mechanism uses positive values Speeding up is achieved by leaving out the user input check for speed volume samples For this mechanism negative values are used Part 5 Plugins 55 Key controls F1 toggles whether to scroll or not F2 toggles filled curve plot F3 reset speed to 0 UP slow down scrolling DOWN Speeds up scrolling PLAY Pauses the demo OFF Exits demo 2 8 Snow Recorder Ondio
74. 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 Sections no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License If you have Invariant Sections Front Cover Texts and Back Cover Texts replace the with Texts line with this with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES with the Front Cover Texts being LIST and with the Back Cover Texts being LIST If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts or some other combination of the three merge those two alternatives to suit the situation Appendices 97 If your document contains non trivial examples of program code we recommend releasing 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 98 Rockbox User Manual
75. n Jukebox remote LEFT turn left F2 turn left control RIGHT turn right F3 turn right Remote on Jukebox on remote control on Jukebox 3 control LEFT turn left VOL DOWN turn left F2 turn left RIGHT turn right VOL UP turn right F3 turn right 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 s 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 Part 5 Plugins 51 Walls Don t crash into the walls
76. n volume back to the previous level will be smoother so there will be less sharp changes in volume level Super Bass Recorder Only This setting boosts the volume of bass freguencies making the sound of drums and bass guitar louder in comparison to the rest of the track This setting only has an effect if Loudness is set to a value larger than OdB MDB Micronas Dynamic Bass Recorder Only The rest of the parameters on this menu relate to the Micronas Dynamic Bass MDB function This is designed to enable the user to hear bass notes that the headphones and or speakers are not capable of reproducing Every tone has a fundamental freguency the main tone and also several harmonics which are related to that tone The human brain has a mechanism whereby it can actually infer the presence of bass notes from the higher harmonics that they would generate The practical upshot of this is that MDB produces a more authentic sounding bass by tricking the brain in believing it s hearing tones that the headphones or speakers aren t capable of reproducing Try it and see what you think The MDB parameters are as follows MDB enable this turns the MDB feature on or off For many users this will be the only setting they need since Rockbox picks sensible defaults for the other parameters MDB is turned off by default MDB strength How loud the harmonics generated by the MDB will be 32 Rockbox User Manual MDB Harmonics The perc
77. o the parent directory PLAY RIGHT Executes an action Depending on the file type that action may vary See page 15 ON If there is a MP3 playing it returns to the While Playing Screen WPS ON PLAY HOLD PLAY Enters the File Menu F1 Switches to the Main Menu F2 Switches to the Browse play Quick Menu F3 Switches to the Display Quick Menu Player 2 KEY FUNCTION Go to previous next item in list If you are on the first last HINUSIPEUS entry the cursor will wrap to the last first entry STOP Go to the parent directory Executes an action Depending on the file type that action PLAY may vary See page 15 ON If there is a MP3 playing it returns to the While Playing Screen WPS ON PLAY HOLD PLAY Enters the File Menu MENU Switches to the Main Menu The functions of the F keys are also summarised on the button bar at the bottom of the screen 2 2 File Menu Recorder file menu Player file menu This menu operates on the file that was selected in the browser at the time ON PLAY was pressed to enter it It can also be accessed by holding down the PLAY key for a short while It offers the following options Part 2 The Rockbox Interface Open with Runs viewer plugin on the file Normally the filetype of a file is detected and the appropriate plugin is run automatically when you press play on it Use this menu if for some reason you want to override the default action and select a viewer b
78. ockbox User Manual recorder ON PLUS player toggles View mode between Narrow and Wide Narrow sets maximum column to the screen width Wide sets maximum column to 114 Useful for navigating large files Currently Wide and Join cannot be selected together ON F1 recorder only toggles Page mode between Normal and Overlap Normal sets page down page up to one full screen Overlap tells page down page up to retain one line from previous screen ON F3 recorder only toggles Scrollbar mode for the current View mode Narrow mode has no scrollbar by default until toggled Wide mode has a scrollbar by default until toggled If file fits on one screen there is no scrollbar and ON F3 has no effect Settings are not remembered after the viewer has been exited Keys are as follows Recorder KEY ACTION UP Page up one screen up DOWN Page down one screen down LEFT Top of file Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode RIGHT Bottom of file Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode ON UP One line up ON DOWN One line down ON LEFT One column left ON RIGHT One column right OFF Exit text viewer Player KEY ACTION MINUS Page up one screen up PLUS Page down one screen down MENU MINUS Top of file Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode MENU PLUS Bottom of file Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode STOP Exit text vi
79. on In fact the Rockbox boot loader is so fast that it has to wait for the disk spin up The flashing procedure is a bit involved for the first time updates are very simple later on 8 2 Merhod The replaced firmware will host a bootloader and 2 images This is made possible by compression The first is the permanent backup The second is the default one to be started the first is only used when you hold the F1 key during start The first image is the original Archos firmware the second is a current build of Rockbox This second image is meant to be reprogrammed whenever a Rockbox upgrade is performed There are two programming tools supplied The first one is called firmware flash rock and is used to program the whole flash with new content It can also be used to revert back to the original firmware that is backed up as part of this procedure This tool will only be needed once and can be viewed as formatting the flash with the desired image structure The second one is called rockbox flash rock and is used to reprogram only the second image If the resulting programmed firmware image is not operational it is possible to hold down the F1 key while booting to start the Jukebox with the Archos firmware and Rockbox booted from disk to reinstall a working firmware image 80 Rockbox User Manual 8 3 Risks Well is it dangerous Yes certainly like programming a mainboard BIOS CD DVD drive firmware mobile phone etc If t
80. on of loudness The volume meters of digital audio devices usually are scaled this way If you are interested in the power that is applied to your headphones you should choose linear display Unfortunately this value doesn t have real units like volts or watts since that depends on the phones So they can only be displayed as percentage values Minimum and maximum range These two options define the full value range that the peak meter displays Recommended values for dbFs are 40 for min and 0 for maximum For linear display use 0 and 100 Note that 40 dbFs is approximately 1 in linear value but if you change the minimum setting in linear mode slightly and then change to dbFs you notice vast changes You can use these values for zooming into the peak meter 2 4 System Options Battery Options relating to the batteries in the Jukebox unit Battery Capacity which can be used to tell the Jukebox what capacity in mAh of battery is being used inside it The default is 1500mAh for NiMH battery based units and 2300mAh for LiOn battery based units which is the capacity value for the standard batteries shipped with these units This value is used for calculating remaining battery life Deep discharge Non FM recorder only Set this to ON if you intend to keep your charger connected for a long period of time It lets the batteries go down to 10 before starting to charge again Setting this to OFF will cause the charging to
81. on the first line of the display The second line of the display can contain the character selection bar as in the screenshot above or one of a number of other options MINUS PLUS Moves the arrow to from the filename and changes between the character bar and BACKSPACE DELETE ACCEPT and ABORT PLAY STOP Varies see below ON Nothing Shift When the character selection bar is selected this changes MENU between upper case lower case and accented letters Part 2 The Rockbox Interface 17 The function of the play and stop buttons depends on what the arrow is pointing to as follows Moves the cursor left STOP or right PLAY within the filename Moves the character bar to the next PLAY or previous STOP character filename character bar BACKSPACE PLAY deletes the character before the current cursor position DELETE PLAY deletes the character at the current cursor position ACCEPT PLAY exits the virtual keyboard and saves any changes ABORT PLAY exits the virtual keyboard and discards any changes 3 While Playing Screen Recorder s WPS Player s WPS The While Playing Screen WPS displays various pieces of information about the currently playing MP3 file The display contains the following information by default Recorder Status bar Battery level charger status volume play mode repeat mode shuffle mode and clock Scrolling path filename of the curr
82. open source jukebox firmware Rockbox User Manual Make your box rock Open Source jukebox firmware for the Archos Jukebox 5000 6000 Studio Recorder Recorder V2 and FM Recorder MP3 players Website http www rockbox or Rockbox version 2 3 Manual release date 2004 12 12 Copyright 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough 2003 Jose Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal amp Peter Schlenker 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 Sections no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License Contents Part 1 Getting Started aan 7 Part 2 The Rockbox Interface 12 I Your WOKE BOX henna aah an Tan 13 2 File BrOWSQGF nan an nan 14 2 2 cone din tekno mana ea BNN 15 2 2 FILE MENU Pemesanan nakas 15 2 3 Playlist SUDIMNGMU na On aa 16 2 4 Virtual KeybOal EU aa 17 3 While Playing Serena aan meets 18 WPS Key Controls nita nana aves 19 3 2 Peak Meter Recorder Ondio Lesern 20 20 4
83. option saves the Rockbox configuration and turns off the hard drive before shutting down the machine For maximum safety this procedure is recommended when turning off the Jukebox There 1 a very small risk of hard disk corruption otherwise See page 14 for more details Part 3 The Main Menu 29 Part 4 Configuring Rockbox 1 Sound Settings Recorder sound settings Player sound settings This menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to improve your sound experience e Volume The sound volume your music is played at Although settable range is O 10096 many units don t produce audible output below 40 Bass This emphasises or suppresses the lower bass sounds in the track 0 means that bass sounds are unaltered flat response Treble This emphasises or suppresses the higher treble sounds in the track 0 means that treble sounds are unaltered flat response Balance How much of the volume is generated by the left or right channel of the sound 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 Channels This option controls the on board mixing facilities of the Jukebox A stereo audio signal consists of two channels left and right Available options are Mono Left Plays the left channel in both
84. ower i e from cigarette lighter power adapter to the external DC in jack is turned off When the external power off condition is detected the Car Adapter Mode function only pauses the playback In order to shut down the Jukebox completely the Idle Poweroff function see above must be set If power to the DC in jack is turned back on before the Idle Poweroff function has shut the Jukebox 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 Jukebox is shut off either manually or automatically with the Idle Poweroff function it must be powered up manually to resume playback Line In Player only This option activates the line in port on Jukebox Player which is off by default This is useful for such applications as Game boy gt Jukebox gt human laptop gt Jukebox gt human LAN party computer gt Jukebox gt human Manage settings This submenu deals with loading and saving settings Browse cfg Files This displays a list of configuration cfg files stored in the rockbox system directory This is useful if the Jukebox is plugged into more than one different output device e g Headphones computer car stereo hi fi so that a settings file can be maintained for each Browse Firmwares This displays a list of firmware mod for Players ajz for Recorders file in the rockbox system directory
85. pics Reference 71 d2 Second directory from end of file path 9od3 Third directory from end of file path Example for the the dN commands If the path is Rock Kent Isola 11 747 mp3 d1 is Isola d2 is Kent d3 is Playlist Song Info Tags pb Progress Bar Player This will display a 1 character cup that empties as the song progresses Recorder This will replace the entire line with a progress bar pf Player Full line progress bar time display pc Current Time In Song pe Total Number of Playlist Entries Peak Meter Recorder only the entire line is used as volume peak meter pn Playlist Name Without path or extension Yopp Playlist Position pr Remaining Time In Song ps Shuffle Shows s if shuffle mode is enabled Yopt Total Track Time Yopv Current volume Conditional Tags If Else block lt gt Conditional if the tag specified by xx has a value the text between the and the is displayed else the text between the and the gt is displayed The else part is optional so the does not have to be specified if no else part is desired The conditionals nest so the text in the if and else part can contain all commands including conditionals 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 ve
86. r Tags Display lt Display a Display a 9o Display a gt Yos Indicate that the line should scroll Can occur anywhere in a line given that the text is displayed see conditionals above You can specify up to 10 scrolling lines Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as timers peak meters or progress bars Example File 5 it it fn lt 42 gt id id d1 pb pc pt That is tracknum title artist album where most fields are only displayed if available Could also be rendered as filename or tracknum title artist Default If you haven t selected a wps file in the rockbox directory you get the hard coded wps layout The default WPS screen is for player s pp pe it it fn ia ia d2 id id dl pc ps pt oe Part 6 Advanced Topics Reference 73 And for recorder it in in it fn lt 1 2 lt 2 gt gt 1 lt 1 1 lt 1 root gt gt 1 lt 1 gt 5 5 5 9 pp pe SfbkBit fv avg S iv lt id3v iv 1043 gt Spb Spm 3 Making your own settings file A cfg file is used to load settings from a plain text file A cfg file may reside anywhere on the hard disk The only restriction is that the filename must end in cfg Hint Use the Write
87. restart on 95 Trickle Charge Non FM recorder only The jukebox cannot be turned off while the charger is connected Therefore trickle charge is needed to keep the batteries full after charging has completed For more in depth information about charging see Battery FAQ in your rockbox docs directory Disk Options relating to the hard disk Disk Spindown Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after being idle for a certain time You can modify this timeout here This idle time is only affected by user activity like navigating through file browser When the hard disk spins up to fill mp3 buffer it automatically spins down afterwards Part 4 Configuring Rockbox 39 Disk Poweroff non v2 FM recorder only Whether the disk is powered OFF or only set to sleep when spun down Power off uses less power but takes longer to spin up Time and Date Recorder Only Time related menu options Set Time Date Set current time and date Time Format Choose 12 or 24 Hour clock Idle Poweroff Rockbox can be configured to turn off power after the unit has been idle for a defined number of minutes The unit is idle when playback is stopped or paused It is not idle while the USB or charger is connected or while recording Sleep Timer Recorder v1 2 FM only This option lets you power off your jukebox after playing for a given time This setting is reset on boot Using this option disables
88. rom the playlist after they ve been played Also queued tracks are not saved to the playlist see page 27 Queue next Queue track s immediately after current playing track Queue last Queue track s at end of playlist 16 Rockbox User Manual You can insert a track directory or playlist even if nothing is currently playing In this case a new playlist is created with only the selected tracks and then play is started Note The dynamic playlist is saved so resume will restore it exactly as before shutdown Stopped playlists can be resumed from File Browser by pressing ON 2 4 Virtual Keyboard Recorder keyboard Player Keyboard This is the virtual keyboard that is used when entering file names in Rockbox Recorder The recorder keyboard is similar in functionality to the player but the larger screen makes editing a little more flexible ARROW KEYS Move about the virtual keyboard moves the solid cursor ON LEFT RIGHT Move about within the current file name moves the line cursor PLAY Inserts the currently selected keyboard letter at the current filename cursor position STOP Exits the virtual keyboard without saving any changes ON No action F4 SHIFT Shifts between the upper case lower case and accented keyboards F2 OK Exits the virtual keyboard and saves any changer F3 DEL Deletes the character before the current filename cursor Player The current filename is always listed
89. rsions of the three tags F I and D they will instead refer to the next song instead of the current one Example YoIg is the genre name used in the next song and YoFf is the mp3 frequency Take note that 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 72 Rockbox User Manual Alternating sublines It is possible to group items on each line into 2 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 Yot 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 Yot is followed by either integer seconds t5 or seconds and tenths of a second t3 5 Each alternating subline can still be optionally scrolled while it is being displayed and scrollable formats can be displayed on the same line with non scrollable formats such as track elapsed time as long as they are separated into different sublines Othe
90. s PLAY to start 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 ON OFF Exit plugin STOP LEFT LEFT Restart round for the player RIGHT the time press again to continue RIGHT UP UP Switch to next player LEFT DOWN DOWN Switch to previous player MENU MODE Enter a simple 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 That player will then be removed from the timer 4 5 Clock Recorder Clock This is a fully featured analogue and digital clock program Key configuration F1 Help F2 Start Stop stopwatch F2 HOLD Reset stopwatch F3 Options PLAY Select clock mode UP Enable idle power off DOWN _ Disable idle power off RIGHT Enable backlight LEFT Disable backlight OFF Save settings to disk and exit 62 Rockbox User Manual Backlight configuration If RIGHT or LEFT is not pressed during clock operation with the exception of at the Help Options Mode Selector Credit screens then the backlight timeout will remain your Rockbox defau
91. s mode is best used when fine tuning the split indicator position at the end of a recording Playback doesn t loop the borders of the visible area as well as the split point indicator are ignored This mode is best used when playing the song outside of the borders of the displayed region 8 Perform the split The icon directly above the F1 button indicates its function to execute the split When split positioning is complete open the save dialogue with F1 Controls in the split editor RECORDER FUNCTION MODE Play from the split position MODE LEFT Enter the save dialogue MODE UP oggle loop modes MODE RIGHT Toggle logarithmic linear scaling ON LEFT half speed ON RIGHT Play 150 speed ON PLAY Play normal speed Save the files 66 Rockbox User Manual In the save dialogue it is possible to specify which of the files you want to save and their names When finished select Save and the files will be written to disk Note that files can not be overwritten so filenames that don t exist yet must be chosen If unsure whether the file already exists simply try to save it If another file with this name exists the dialogue will return and you can choose another filename Save dialogue Controls in the save dialogue RECO DE A 37 TT UP DOWN UP DOWN Select item PLAY RIGHT oggle edit item Scale The values in the waveform are scaled according to the settings of the peak meter T
92. slaves can take place 88 Rockbox User Manual e e e If that is not enough we have no ways of actually controlling the communication performed over USB since the USB circuit in the Jukebox is strictly made for disk access and does not allow us to play with it the way we d need for any good communication to work Support MP3pro WMA or other sound format playback The mp3 decoding hardware can only play MP3 We cannot make it play other sound formats Converting OGG gt MP3 The mp3 decoding hardware cannot decode ogg It can be reprogrammed but there is too little memory for OGG and we have no documentation on how to program the MAS DSP Doing the conversion with the CPU is impossible since a 12MHz SH1 is far too slow for this daunting task Archos Multimedia support The Archos Multimedia is a completely different beast It is an entirely different architecture different CPU and upgrading the software is done a completely different way We do not venture into this Others may do so We do not Multi band or graphic equaliser We cannot access information for that kind of visualization from the MP3 decoding hardware Support other filesystems than FAT32 like NTFS or ext2 or whatever No Rockbox needs to support FAT32 since it can only start off a FAT32 partition since that is the only way the ROM can load it and adding support for more file systems will just take away valuable ram for unnecessary
93. splayed in the directory browser Music Only directories mp3 mp2 mpa and m3u files are shown Extensions are stripped Files and directories starting with or has the hidden flag set are hidden Playlists Only shows directories and playlists for simplified navigation Supported All directories and files Rockbox understands see page 87 are shown Files and directories starting with or have the hidden flag set are hidden All files and directories are shown Extensions are shown No files or directories are hidden Follow Playlist If Follow Playlist is set to Yes you will find yourself in the same directory as the currently playing file if you go to the Directory Browser from the WPS If set to No you will stay in the same directory as you last were in Show Icons This indicates whether Rockbox will display an icon representing what type a file is on the left of the file in the browser For details of these icons please see page 87 2 3 Display Options Browse fonts Browse the fonts that reside in your rockbox directory Selecting one will activate it See page for further details about fonts Browse WPS files Opens the file browser in the rockbox directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it stop will exit back to the menu 36 Rockbox User Manual e e For further information about the WPS see page 18 For information about editing a
94. t developers just checked in There are binaries for different Jukebox models The Player version is suitable for Archos Jukebox 5000 6000 and all Studio models If you have a recorder with cylindrically rounded bumpers you need the regular recorder version FM Recorders are models with a FM radio The V2 recorder is a recorder in an FM Recorder form factor but without radio The 8mb version requires a hardware hack where the RAM chips are replaced If in doubt as to which version to use the table on page 9 may be of assistance 78 Rockbox User Manual Note all references in this manual to Recorder apply egually to FM Recorder unless otherwise specified 5 Firmware Loading When your Jukebox powers on it loads the Archos firmware in ROM which automatically checks your Jukebox hard disk s root folder for a file named archos mod on the player version or ajbrec ajz on the recorder version Note that Archos firmware can only read the first ten characters of each file name in this process so don t rename your old firmware files with names like archos mod old and so on because it s possible that the Jukebox will load a file other than the one you intended 6 Getting Extras Fonts Languages Rockbox supports custom fonts for the Recorder version only and a number of different languages Rockbox 2 3 comes with 41 fonts and 24 languages already included If new fonts and language files have been
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97. the Archos firmware loading a bit more quickly after the step above is complete Next install the actual Rockbox firmware that will be used from ROM This is how Rockbox will be updated when installing a new release from now on Unpack the whole build that you are installing onto the Jukebox including plugins and support files This can be done using the Windows setup program to install the new version onto the Jukebox Test the build you are going to flash by playing the ajz file so that ROLO loads it up This puts the firmware in memory without changing your flash so you can check that everything is working If you have just installed the bootloader see above then this will happen automatically as the existing Archos firmware loads the ajz that you have just installed If upgrading ROMbox this step must be carried out since Rockbox cannot overwrite the ROM while it is running from it Play the ucl file which is usually found in the rockbox directory this will kick off the rockbox_flash rock plugin It s a bit similar to the other one but it s made different to make the user aware It will check the file available size etc With F2 it s being programmed no need for warning this time If it goes wrong you ll still have the permanent image Part 6 Advanced Topics Reference 83 Using rockbox flash to update your boot firmware Itis possible that you could get an Incompatible Version error if the plugin inter
98. the Wake up alarm see below Wake up alarm Recorder v2 FM only This option turns the Jukebox off and then starts it up again at the specified time This is most useful when combined with the Resume setting in the Playback options set to Yes so that the Jukebox wakes up and immediately starts playing music Use LEFT and RIGHT to adjust the minutes setting UP and DOWN to adjust the HOURS PLAY confirms the alarm and shuts your Jukebox down and STOP cancels setting an alarm If the Jukebox is turned on again before the alarm occurs the alarm will be canceled Using this option disables the Sleep Timer see above Limits This submenu relates to limits in the Rockbox operating system Max files in dir browser Configurable limit of files in dir browser file buffer size You can configure the dir size to between 50 and 10000 files in steps of 50 files Default is 400 higher values will shorten the mpeg buffer Note the device must be rebooted for the settings to take effect Max playlist size Option to configure the maximum size of a playlist The playlist size can be between 1000 and 20000 files in steps of 1000 By default it s 10000 Note the device must be rebooted for the settings to take effect 40 Rockbox User Manual e e Car Adapter Mode This option turns on and off the car ignition auto stop function When using the Jukebox in a car car adapter mode automatically stops playback on the Jukebox when p
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100. vailable from http www rockbox org twiki bin view Main VoiceFiles For the English language the file is called english voice When it has been downloaded unpack this file and copy it into the lang folder which is inside the rockbox folder on your Jukebox Voice menus are turned on by default See page 30 for details on voice settings Running Rockbox Remove your Jukebox from the computer s USB port Unplug any connected power supply and turn the unit off When you next turn the unit on the Jukebox firmware will start to load and then it will load Rockbox for you When you see the Rockbox splash screen Rockbox is loaded and ready for use 10 Rockbox User Manual Uninstalling Rockbox If you would like to go back to using the original Archos software then connect the Jukebox up to your computer and delete the archos mod players or ajbrec ajz other models file from the main folder of the Jukebox If you wish to clean up your disk you may also wish to delete the rockbox folder and its contents Turn the Jukebox off and on and the normal Archos software will load Part 1 Getting Started 11 Part 2 The Rockbox Interface 1 Your Jukebox Jukebox Player Jukebox Recorder Ondio 128 Part 2 The Rockbox Interface 13 Throughout this manual the buttons on the Jukebox are labelled according to the pictures above There are minor cosmetic differences between Jukebox models but the buttons are in approxi
101. while in the first seconds of a track go to previous track MINUS HOLD Rewind in track PLUS guick press Go to next track PLUS HOLD Fast forward in track PLAY Toggle play pause ON Quick press Go to file browser OFF Stop playback MENU Go to Main menu MENU DOWN Key lock on off MENU PLAY _ Mute on off MENU ON Enter ID3 viewer Part 2 The Rockbox Interface 3 2 Peak Meter Recorder Ondio 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 on page 24 The bar That is the fat horizontal bar It represents the current volume value The peak indicator This is 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 doesn t 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 that the clip detection is not very precise Clipping might occur without being indicated The scale Between the indicators of the right and MINUS 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
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103. y hand See page 57 for more details on viewers For example this is how one would run the VBRfix plugin to recreate the Xing header for an MP3 file which can fix problems such as fast forward and rewind not working correctly on a particular MP3 file or the play time of a track being listed incorrectly Playlist Chang to the Playlist submenu see below Rename This function lets the user modify a file name Delete Only files can be deleted not folders Rockbox will ask for confirmation before deleting a file Press PLAY to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel Create Directory Makes a new folder in the current folder on the disk 2 3 Playlist Submenu If the playlist submenu is invoked on a directory it will act on all the files within that directory If invoked on a playlist it will act on all the files in that playlist Otherwise it acts only on the current file Recorder pla ylist submenu Player playlist submenu This menu provides the following options Insert Add track s to playlist If no other tracks have been inserted then the selected track will be added immediately after current playing track otherwise they will be added to end of insertion list 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 Queue Queue is the same as Insert except queued tracks are deleted immediately f
104. ying Screen WPS display is used on both the Player and Recorder as a means to customize the WPS to the user s likings 70 Rockbox User Manual After editing the wps file play it to make it take effect The file may be 2 lines long for the Player and 13 lines for the Recorder All characters not preceded by Yo are displayed as typed Lines beginning with are comments and will be ignored File Location Custom WPS files may be located anywhere on the drive The only restriction is that they must end in wps When PLAY is pressed on a wps file it will be used for future WPS screens If the played wps file is located in the rockbox folder it will be remembered and used after reboot The wps filename must be no more than 24 characters long for it to be remembered Tags Info Tags Yoia ID3 Artist Yoic ID3 Composer Yoid ID3 Album Name ig ID3 Genre Name Yoin ID3 Track Number Yoit 103 Track Title Yoiy ID3 Year Yoiv ID3 Version 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 or empty if no id3 tag Battery Info Yobl Show numeric battery level in percent Yobt Show estimated battery time left File Info Tags Yofb File Bitrate in kbps Yoff File Frequency in Hz Yofm File Name Yofn File Name without extension Yofp File Path fs File Size In Kilobytes fv vbr if variable bit rate or if constant bit rate Yodl First directory from end of file path Part 6 Advanced To
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