Chapter 3. Quick Start
19
detail in the following paragraph. Additional information for blind users is available on
¸
the Rockbox website at
Z
BlindFAQ
.
3.1.2. Turning the player on and off
To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys:
Key
Remote Key
Action
Play
Start Rockbox
Long
Play
Shutdown Rockbox
On shutdown, Rockbox automatically saves its settings.
In the unlikely event of a software failure, a hardware reset can be performed by
inserting a paperclip gently into the Reset hole.
3.1.3. Putting music on your player
With the player connected to the computer as an MSC/UMS device (like a USB Drive),
music files can be put on the player via any standard file transfer method that you would
use to copy files between drives (e.g. Drag-and-Drop). Files may be placed wherever
you like on the player, but it is strongly suggested
NOT
to put them in the
/.rockbox
folder and instead put them in any other folder, e.g.
/
,
/music
or
/audio
. The default
directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (album art searching, and
missing-tag fallback in some WPSes) uses the parent directory of a song as the Album
name, and the parent directory of that folder as the Artist name. WPSes may display
information incorrectly if your files are not properly tagged, and you have your music
organized in a way different than they assume when attempting to guess the Artist and
Album names from your filetree. See section
C
(page
165
) for the requirements for
Album Art to work properly.
See section
B.1
(page
159
) for a list of supported audio
formats.
3.1.4. The first contact
After you have first started the player, you’ll be presented by the
Main Menu
. From
this menu you can reach every function of Rockbox, for more information (see section
5.1
(page
38
)). To browse the files on your player, select
Files
(see section
4.1
(page
22
)),
and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data
1
of your audio files, select
Database
(see section
4.2
(page
26
)).
1
ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc.
The Rockbox manual
(version rUnversioned directory-141216)
Iaudio M3
