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track, if one exists (see section

(page

183

)). You can also use the sliding puzzle plugin

as a viewer for supported image types, to turn your own pictures into a puzzle.

Key controls:

Key

Action

Rewind

Forward

Scroll

Scroll Down

Move Tile

Enter

Shuffle

Play

Switch between pictures (default puz-
zle, album art, and your own image if
launched via Open With), and numbered
tiles

Long

Menu

Stop the game

12.1.26. Snake

Figure 12.22.: Snake

This is the popular snake game. The aim is to grow your snake as large as possible by
eating the dots that appear on the screen. The game will end when the snake touches
either the borders of the screen or itself.

Key

Action

Rewind

Forward

Scroll

Scroll Down

Move snake

Play

Toggle Play/Pause
Go to the plugin’s menu

The Rockbox manual

(version 3.14)

MPIO HD300

Summary of Contents for HD 300

Page 1: ...The Rockbox Manual for MPIO HD300 rockbox org April 30 2017...

Page 2: ...03 Jos Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal Peter Schlenker Version 3 14 Built using pdfL A TEX Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documenta...

Page 3: ...17 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation 17 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation 17 2 6 Troubleshooting 17 3 Quick Start 19 3 1 Basic Overview 19 3 1 1 The player s controls 19 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off 19...

Page 4: ...Main Menu 38 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu 38 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 38 5 3 Recent Bookmarks 39 5 4 Files 39 5 5 Database 40 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback 40 5 7 Settings 40 5 7 1 Sound Settin...

Page 5: ...6 Fade on Stop Pause 56 7 7 Party Mode 56 7 8 Crossfade 56 7 9 Replaygain 58 7 10 Track Skip Beep 59 7 11 Auto Change Directory 59 7 12 Constrain Auto Change 59 7 13 Last fm Log 59 7 14 Cuesheet Suppo...

Page 6: ...6 Mono Mode 79 10 7 File Split Options 79 10 8 Prerecord Time 79 10 9 Clear Recording Directory 80 10 10 Clipping Light 80 10 11 Trigger 80 11 Time and Date 82 12 Plugins 83 12 1 Games 83 12 1 1 2048...

Page 7: ...Wormlet 110 12 1 35 Xobox 113 12 1 36 XWorld 113 12 2 Demos 114 12 2 1 Bounce 114 12 2 2 Credits 115 12 2 3 Cube 115 12 2 4 Demystify 116 12 2 5 FFT 116 12 2 6 Fire 116 12 2 7 Fractals 117 12 2 8 Logo...

Page 8: ...12 4 9 Keybox 150 12 4 10 Lamp 150 12 4 11 Lrcplayer 151 12 4 12 Main Menu Configuration 154 12 4 13 md5sum 154 12 4 14 Metronome 154 12 4 15 One Time Password Client 158 12 4 16 Advanced Settings 15...

Page 9: ...4 Peak Meter 175 13 5 5 Audio format and bitrate 175 13 5 6 Sound settings 175 A File formats 176 A 1 Supported file formats 176 B Audio and metadata formats 177 B 1 Supported audio formats 177 B 1 1...

Page 10: ...the album art 195 D 22 FM Radio 196 D 23 Alignment and language direction 197 D 24 Conditional Tags 197 D 25 Subline Tags 198 D 26 Time and Date 198 D 27 Text Translation 199 D 28 Bar Tags 199 D 28 1...

Page 11: ...en put into making Rockbox sound the best it can and improvements are constantly being made All models have access to a large number of plugins including many games applications and graphical demos Yo...

Page 12: ...h icons on the margin to help you finding important parts or parts you could skip The following icons are used Note This indicates a note A note starts always with the text Note In order to b make fin...

Page 13: ...problem then the manual way is still available to you There are two separate components which need to be installed in order to run Rockbox The Rockbox bootloader The bootloader is the program that te...

Page 14: ...ates the location of the player in your filesystem On Windows this is the drive letter the player gets assigned on other systems this is a path in the filesystem Rockbox Utility will ask you for a com...

Page 15: ...code in the repository For a manual install you can download archived builds from http www rockbox org daily shtml Note Because current and archived builds are development versions that change fre b q...

Page 16: ...bugging and are irrelevant for end user 2 Download mkmpioboot utility from http download rockbox org bootloader mpio mkmpioboot 3 Process previously downloaded official firmware to include rockbox boo...

Page 17: ...updated Note If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed b components 2 5 Uninstalling Rockbox Note The Rockbox bootloader allows you to choose between Rockbox and th...

Page 18: ...should not happen when Rockbox has been installed with Rockbox Utility To fix this either install Rockbox with the Rockbox Utility which will take care of this for you or recheck the Manual Install s...

Page 19: ...prefixed by Long a long press of approx imately one second should be performed on that button The buttons are described in detail in the following paragraph Additional information for blind users is a...

Page 20: ...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 you...

Page 21: ...s can be accessed with Long Enter The contents of the context menu vary depending on the situation it gets called The context menu itself presents you with some operations you can perform with the cur...

Page 22: ...the music on your player using categories like album artist genre etc You can select whether to browse using the File Browser or the Database Browser by selecting either Files or Database in the Main...

Page 23: ...in Menu 4 1 2 Context Menu Figure 4 2 The Context Menu The Context Menu allows you to perform certain operations on files or directories To access the Context Menu position the selector over a file or...

Page 24: ...13 1 5 page 165 Open with Runs a viewer plugin on the file Normally when a file is selected in Rock box Rockbox automatically detects the file type and runs the appropriate plugin The Open With funct...

Page 25: ...ed layout More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at ZLoadableKeyboardLayouts Note When the cursor is on the input line Enter deletes the preceding character b Key...

Page 26: ...se Initialization You may have directories on your player whose contents should not be added to the database Placing a file named database ignore in a directory will exclude the files in that director...

Page 27: ...Export Modifications This allows for the runtime data to be exported to the file rockbox database_changelog txt which backs up the runtime data in ASCII format This is needed when database structures...

Page 28: ...ystem length numeric system Lm track len min numeric system Ls track len sec numeric system 4 3 While Playing Screen The While Playing Screen WPS displays various pieces of information about the cur r...

Page 29: ...track Long Rewind Rewind in track Forward Go to the next track Long Forward Fast forward in track Play Toggle play pause Long Play Stop playback Enter Return to the File Browser Database Long Enter En...

Page 30: ...enu Like the context menu for the File Browser the WPS Context Menu allows you quick access to some often used functions Playlist The Playlist submenu allows you to view save search and reshuffle the...

Page 31: ...back of your music Rating The menu entry is only shown if Gather Runtime Information is enabled It allows the assignment of a personal rating value 0 10 to a track which can be displayed in the WPS an...

Page 32: ...gher than the normal pitch The rate can be changed in two modes procentual and semitone Initially procentual mode is active If you ve enabled the Timestretch option in Sound Settings and have since re...

Page 33: ...e contents of a directory Rockbox will automatically create a playlist containing all songs in it This means that just about anything that is described in this chapter with respect to playlists also a...

Page 34: ...ist By using the Playlist catalogue The Playlist catalogue makes it possible to modify and create playlists that are not currently playing To do this select Playlist catalogue in the Context Menu Ther...

Page 35: ...nsert new tracks will be added immediately after the current playing track If playback is stopped a new dynamic playlist will get created with the selected tracks Insert Next Add track s immediately a...

Page 36: ...sub b menu in the WPS context menu or in the Main Menu 4 4 4 Modifying playlists Reshuffling Reshuffling the current playlist is easily done from the Playlist sub menu in the WPS just select Reshuffl...

Page 37: ...n be selected through the File Browser When loading a playlist from disk it will replace the current dynamic playlist Through the Playlist catalogue The Playlist catalogue offers a shortcut to all pla...

Page 38: ...kbox will save settings when it accesses the hard disk the next time for example when refilling the music buffer or navigating through the File Browser Changes to settings may therefore not be saved u...

Page 39: ...he next bookmark Scroll Up Select the previous bookmark Enter Resume from the selected bookmark Menu Exit Recent Bookmark menu Long Rec Delete the currently selected bookmark Long Enter Enter the cont...

Page 40: ...some other value and would like to restore the default value 5 7 1 Sound Settings The Sound Settings menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to customise your listening experience...

Page 41: ...psed and the size of the file being recorded A peak meter is present to allow you set gain correctly There is also a volume setting this will only affect the output level of the player and does not af...

Page 42: ...tion it is possible to load these settings from a file Such files should have the filename extension fmr and reside in the directory rockbox fmpresets note that this directory does not exist after the...

Page 43: ...aracters is 32 Press Play to save Selecting a preset Enter to go to the presets list Use Scroll Up and Scroll Down to move the cursor and then press Enter to select Use Menu to leave the preset list w...

Page 44: ...is is from top to bottom the amount of memory Rockbox has available for storing music the buffer The battery status Hard disk size and the amount of free space on the disk Credits Display the list of...

Page 45: ...ockbox shortcuts txt which lists each item to be displayed Each shortcut looks like the following Example shortcut type shortcut type data what the shortcut actually links to name what the shortcut sh...

Page 46: ...sensible default will be used Note For the browse type if you want the file browser to start inside a folder make b sure the data has the trailing slash i e Music instead of Music Without the trailing...

Page 47: ...volume Values higher than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible These volume levels will ordi narily lead to distorted sound but might work nicel...

Page 48: ...ually specify a stereo width with the Stereo Width setting described later in this chapter Mono Left Plays the left channel in both stereo channels Mono Right Plays the right channel in both stereo ch...

Page 49: ...isteners The crossfeed function uses an algorithm to feed a delayed and filtered portion of the signal from the right channel into the left channel and vice versa in order to simulate the spatial cues...

Page 50: ...2 The graphical equalizer Rockbox features a parametric equalizer EQ In contrast to non parametric equalizers a parametric EQ enables adjusting the center frequency gain and width of EQ bands separat...

Page 51: ...almost always undesirable Bands 1 8 Peaking filters Peaking EQ filters boost or lower a frequency range cen tered at the centre frequency chosen Graphic equalizers in home stereos are usually peaking...

Page 52: ...eter that can be adjusted is the gain Advanced EQ This sub menu provides options for adjusting the same parameters as the Graphical EQ The only difference is that the parameters are adjusted through t...

Page 53: ...with more complex audio See section 4 3 3 page 32 for more details about how to use the feature 6 13 Haas Surround This setting implements the Haas effect with adjustable delay time to enhance the ste...

Page 54: ...ng limit This is desirable because the compressed signal without makeup gain is quieter than the input signal Makeup Gain in Auto restores the signal to the maximum possible level and brings the quiet...

Page 55: ...when it is finished Note If you have the Auto Change Directory option set to Yes Rockbox b will move on to the next directory on your hard drive If the Auto Change Directory option is set to No playba...

Page 56: ...buffer can be set to various values between 5 seconds and 10 minutes Note Having a large anti skip buffer tends to use more power and may reduce your b battery life It is recommended to always use the...

Page 57: ...f time between when the crossfade process begins and when the new track begins to fade in Fade In Duration The length of time in seconds that it takes your music to fade in once the Fade In Delay has...

Page 58: ...n to apply Album Gain Maintain a constant volume level between albums but keep any intentional volume variations between songs in an album If album gain value is not available uses track gain informat...

Page 59: ...e requires you to first generate a folder list via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin see section 12 4 19 page 159 Note You must have the Repeat option set to No for Auto Change Directory...

Page 60: ...ges the behaviour of the Rewind and Forward buttons so that they skip by a given time instead of skipping to a new track The Skip to Outro option changes the behaviour so that the buttons skip to just...

Page 61: ...ttings 61 7 18 Rewind on Pause This option rewinds the current track by a small amount whenever it is paused not stopped The amount to rewind can be set between 0 and 15 seconds The Rockbox manual ver...

Page 62: ...ls with options relating to how the File Browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this option is set to Yes all files that start with upper case letters will be listed first followed by all files...

Page 63: ...are shown No files or directories are hidden Supported The File Browser displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 176 Files and directories starting with dot or with...

Page 64: ...nt of time after a button press Backlight While Plugged In This setting is equivalent to the Backlight set ting except it applies when the player is plugged into the charger Backlight on Hold This set...

Page 65: ...scroll in Rockbox You can configure the following parameters Scroll Speed Sets how many times per second the automatic horizontal scrolling text will move a step Scroll Start Delay Controls how many...

Page 66: ...s value to 5 s the peak indicator displays the loudest volume value that occurred within the last 5 seconds Larger values are useful if you want to find the peak level of a song which might be of inte...

Page 67: ...this setting has no effect whatsoever on actual battery life This setting only affects the accuracy of the runtime estimation as shown on screen 8 5 2 Disk Options relating to the hard disk Disk Spin...

Page 68: ...to Max Entries in File b Browser or Max Playlist Size to take effect while Glyphs To Cache will affect the next font load 8 5 4 Car Adapter Mode This option turns On and Off the car ignition auto stop...

Page 69: ...le active it then disables autolock Lock Button Pressed 1 Auto Lock On device still unlocked till backlight timeout Lock Button Pressed 2 Auto Lock Off device locked Lock Button Pressed 3 device unloc...

Page 70: ...Off or 1 to 10 minutes in 1 minute steps Then 15 30 45 or 60 minutes are available 8 6 3 Sleep Timer The Sleep Timer powers off your player after a given time whether playing or not Start Sleep Timer...

Page 71: ...No Do not create bookmarks Yes Always create bookmarks Ask Ask if a bookmark should be created Yes Recent Only Always create a bookmark but only in the recent bookmarks list Ask Recent Only Ask if a b...

Page 72: ...ys can be used to navigate in any bookmark list Key Action Scroll Down Selects the next bookmark Scroll Up Selects the previous bookmark Enter Resumes from the selected bookmark Menu Exits Recent Book...

Page 73: ...automatic resume globally When Rockbox detects that the database which is needed for this feature has not been initialized yet it asks whether it should be initialized right away Resume on automatic...

Page 74: ...see below Use Directory talk Clips This option turns on the use of talk clips for directories On Use special pre recorded files _dirname talk in each directory These must be generated in advance and...

Page 75: ...option turns on voicing of file types when Voice Filenames is set to Spell or Numbers When Voice Directories is set to Spell Directory will be voiced after each spelled out directory Announce Battery...

Page 76: ...ection 13 1 3 page 164 for further details about fonts While Playing Screen Opens the File Browser in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it Menu will exit...

Page 77: ...ge 47 for more on the volume set ting Battery Display Controls whether the battery charge status is displayed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Line Selector Type This optio...

Page 78: ...hich format to save your recording in The available choices are the two un compressed formats PCM Wave and AIFF the losslessly compressed WavPack and the lossy MPEG Layer 3 10 2 Encoder Settings MP3 o...

Page 79: ...the time required to stop and restart the recording on the order of 2 4 seconds Split Measure This option controls whether to split the recording when the Split Filesize is reached or when the Split T...

Page 80: ...trigger features numerous parameters to adapt its behaviour to the desired situation Trigger This parameter specifies the trigger mode When set to Off the recording must be started manually and apart...

Page 81: ...triangular marker in the peak meter at the bottom of the screen In contrast to the start threshold marker it points to the left The value Off turns the stop condition off With this setting you have to...

Page 82: ...the specified time Use Scroll Up and Scroll Down to adjust the minutes setting Scroll Down and Scroll Up to adjust the hours Enter confirms the alarm and Menu cancels setting an alarm If the player is...

Page 83: ...n on the Context Menu 12 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 12 3 2 page 125 Frotz in section 12 3 3 page 126 and ZXBox in section 12 3 17 page 140 12 1 1 2048 Figure 12 1 2048 2048 is a s...

Page 84: ...The rules are simple try to get as close to 21 without going over or simply beat out the dealer for the best hand Although this may not seem difficult blackjack is a game renowned for the strategy inv...

Page 85: ...ce or more Sometimes a special item falls down when you destroy a brick For a special item to take effect you must catch it with the paddle Look out for the bad ones Special items Displayed Name Descr...

Page 86: ...d The game is over when any bubbles on the board extend below the bottom line To make things more difficult the entire board is shifted down every time a certain number of shots have been fired Points...

Page 87: ...file or quit the game Force play while the computer is thinking will cause it to make its move immediately If done while it s your turn the computer will move for you and flip the board so that you a...

Page 88: ...he result is shown as individual numbers as well as the total of the rolled dice Key Action Enter Roll dice again Menu Quit 12 1 9 Doom Figure 12 7 Doom This is the famous Doom game Getting started Fo...

Page 89: ...rectory Demos Select which demo file to play on game start Options Configure low level Doom options Play Game Launch the wad addon Demo chosen Options Menu This menu has the following options Sound En...

Page 90: ...n Rewind Turn Left Forward Turn Right Enter Shoot Menu Open Rec InGame Menu Long Play Enter Play Change Weapon Playing the game After installation of the wad files is complete you can start the game m...

Page 91: ...n load all modern SGF files file format 3 or 4 with few problems It attempts to preserve SGF properties which it doesn t understand and most common SGF properties are handled fully It is possible to v...

Page 92: ...ling variations which can be navigated to using the Next Vari ation menu option of the Context Menu C There is a comment at the current node It can be viewed edited using the Add Edit Comment menu opt...

Page 93: ...result of the current game This text must follow the format specified at http www red bean com sgf properties html RE to be read by other SGF readers Some examples are B R Black wins by resignation B...

Page 94: ...low variations by simply playing the first move in the sequence Unless it is following a variation this mode will not allow you to play illegal moves This is the default mode before another is set aft...

Page 95: ...bel click on it until it cycles through the allowed letters and disappears Add Edit Comment Add or edit a comment at the current node Done Go back to the previous screen 12 1 12 Invadrox Figure 12 10...

Page 96: ...ame which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible before running out of avai...

Page 97: ...tion toggle 12 1 16 MazezaM Figure 12 13 MazezaM The goal of this puzzle game is to escape a dungeon consisting of ten mazezams These are rooms containing rows of blocks which can be shifted left or r...

Page 98: ...er of mines adjacent to the current square is revealed The aim is to use the information you are given to work out where the mines are and avoid them When the player is certain that they know the loca...

Page 99: ...disappear except for triangles which form a solid block and crosses which allow you to choose a replacement block Key Action Scroll Up Scroll Down Rewind Forward to move around Enter to choose peg Me...

Page 100: ...down Forward Right player up Play Right player down Long Menu Quit 12 1 20 Puzzles WARNING Image not found Figure 12 17 Cube from Puzzles WARNING Image not found Figure 12 18 Map from Puzzles Puzzles...

Page 101: ...n Scroll Up Scroll Down Rewind Forward Move robot Menu Quit 12 1 23 Rockblox Figure 12 20 Rockblox Rockblox is a Rockbox version of the classic falling blocks game from Russia The aim of the game is t...

Page 102: ...g so the user only has to move the bricks down No horizontal moving anymore and no need to rotate the brick Key Action Scroll Down Move down faster Menu or Long Menu Quit 12 1 25 Sliding Puzzle Figure...

Page 103: ...ault puz zle album art and your own image if launched via Open With and numbered tiles Long Menu Stop the game 12 1 26 Snake Figure 12 22 Snake This is the popular snake game The aim is to grow your s...

Page 104: ...ind Forward Scroll Up Scroll Down Steer the snake Play Pause and resume the game Long Menu Quit In game A the maze stays the same in game B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is repla...

Page 105: ...ay Rewind Back to previous level Play Enter Restart level Play Forward Go to next level Rec Undo last movement Play Redo previously undone move Solution playback Play Pause resume Scroll Up Scroll Dow...

Page 106: ...ral com rules Klondike html Key Action Rewind Forward Move Cursor around Enter Select cards move cards reveal hidden cards Menu If a card was selected unselect it else Draw 3 new cards from the remain...

Page 107: ...o to the next level You can switch control between the filled circle which can take o s and the filled square which is used as a mobile wall to allow your filled circle to get to places on the screen...

Page 108: ...your own grids under the New menu option Enter the menu as described in the key table below when you have finished and enter the full path to save to including the ss extension e g sudoku new ss The s...

Page 109: ...nd may access the bank During the movement phase you can move your units only to adjacent squares except planes which may move anywhere at a cost of 1 move per unit you move Men are considered to be o...

Page 110: ...3 Generates additional food at start of year Nukes 2000 2 During the movement phase you may lauch a nuke to destroy all units on a given tile Also note that the colour of the adjacent tiles also count...

Page 111: ...ave 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...

Page 112: ...e score board entry displays Argh it means the worm is dead because it tried to eat an argh Until we can make the worm say Argh it is your job to say Argh aloud Wormed The worm tried to eat another wo...

Page 113: ...Long Menu Open menu 12 1 36 XWorld In this cinematic award winning platform game by ric Chahi you must evade capture and do your best to escape an alien planet After an experiment goes awry the hero m...

Page 114: ...ing text is replaced by a different one scrolling from right to left Key Action Scroll Up Scroll Down Moves to next previous option Forward Rewind Increases decreases option value Enter Toggles Scroll...

Page 115: ...ion from the System section of the Rockbox main menu Exit at any time by pressing Menu 12 2 3 Cube Figure 12 32 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D Key Action Enter Display at maximum fram...

Page 116: ...Forward Increase decrease speed Scroll Up Scroll Down Add remove polygon Menu Quit 12 2 5 FFT This plugin is a basic frequency analyzer with 3 different frequency amplitude plots lines bars and spectr...

Page 117: ...mages from the Mandelbrot set using the greyscale engine Key Action Scroll Down Scroll Up Rewind Forward Move about the image Play Scroll Up Zoom in Play Scroll Down Zoom out Play Rewind Decrease iter...

Page 118: ...is a visual demo resembling the scrolling code from The Matrix https en wikipedia org wiki The_Matrix 12 2 10 Mosaique Figure 12 36 Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the sc...

Page 119: ...eed rates the player is less responsive to user input and music may start to skip Keys Key Action Enter Toggle filled curve plot Rec Toggle whether to scroll or not Menu Toggle drawing orientation Pla...

Page 120: ...e 183 and database see section 4 2 page 26 features of Rockbox It is therefore important that these are working correctly before attempting to use PictureFlow In addition there are some other points o...

Page 121: ...centre and side slides Scales with zoom Number of slides Sets the number of slides at each side including the centre slide Therefore if set to 4 there will be 3 slides on the left the centre slide and...

Page 122: ...tion stored in it will be loaded into this plugin A cells file is a text file A capital O marks a live cell a dot marks a dead cell all other characters are ignored Everything on a line starting with...

Page 123: ...ng Menu Quit 12 2 17 VU meter Figure 12 42 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 clas...

Page 124: ...lugins can only be used by selecting the Open With option b from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 23 Viewer Plugin Associated filetype s Context Menu only Shortcuts link Chip 8 Emulator ch8 Fro...

Page 125: ...file or do with it whatever you want The file will not be played automatically If the link file contains only one entry no list will be shown you will directly jump to that location The file shortcut...

Page 126: ...ould correspond to the following non default mappings 3 2 6 8 7 4 8 6 The default keymappings are Chip8 Off 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F Key Long Menu Rewind Forward Menu Enter Rec Play Scroll Up S...

Page 127: ...XgamesXzcode html A copy of the Infocom homepage with information about the classic commercial Infocom games http www vaxdungeon com Infocom The Frotz homepage for the original Unix port http frotz so...

Page 128: ...oaded playlist and change the volume of your player Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the File Browser Note Progressive scan and other unusual JPEG files are not supported and will result b in vari...

Page 129: ...patchset is available through the wiki at ZPluginMidiPlay and needs to be extracted to the rockbox directory in the root of your player There should now be a rockbox patchset directory with the patchs...

Page 130: ...s found Set start time A preview screen is presented consisting of a thumbnail preview and a progress bar where the user can select a start time by seeking through the video The video playback is star...

Page 131: ...this option can cause loss of A V sync Backlight Brightness default Use setting Choose brightness to use during video play back Set to Use setting to use the Brightness setting Audio Options Menu Ton...

Page 132: ...ng the same filename To use this plugin open the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 23 on a wav file and select Open With mp3_encoder Note The encoder will choose the appropriate bitstream format fro...

Page 133: ...boy plugin 12 3 10 Search This plugin can be used on playlists It searches through the playlist that it opened on looking for any occurrences of the string entered by the user The results of this sear...

Page 134: ...buy If you select an item in view mode then that item will be removed from the list When you exit Shopper the last view is saved including which items you have se lected so if you re open the shopping...

Page 135: ...saccades when reading 12 3 14 Text Viewer Figure 12 45 Text Viewer This is a Viewer for text files with word wrap Just open a txt or nfo file to display it The text viewer features controls to handle...

Page 136: ...2 Latin Extended CP1250 Central European SJIS Japanese GB 2312 Simple Chinese KSX 1001 Korean BIG5 Traditional Chinese UTF 8 Unicode This setting only applies to the plugin and is independent from the...

Page 137: ...tings The scrolling settings submenu Horizontal Submenu for horizontal scrolling settings Scrollbar Toggle the horizontal scrollbar for the current mode If the file fits on one screen there is no scro...

Page 138: ...e mode is set to Reflow Lines Available options are 0 to 5 spaces If you select 0 a blank line is displayed as an indent Show Playback Menu Display the playback menu to allow control of the currently...

Page 139: ...Theme is selected in the menu One of the following options can be chosen for each setting Ask for Removal Selecting this option brings up a dialogue with two options press Enteror Play to confirm dele...

Page 140: ...mation 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 To use this pl...

Page 141: ...from rockbox zxboxq z80 Save Snapshot Saves a snapshot of the current state You would enter the full path and desired name for example games zx snapshots chuckie sna The snapshot format will be chosen...

Page 142: ...cs Editor Useful tools can be found at the World of Spectrum site http www worldofspectrum org utilities html 12 4 Applications 12 4 1 Alarm Clock This plugin is an alarm clock which resumes a paused...

Page 143: ...is not deleted Information explained At the top of the battery_bench txt file is various information on how to use the plugin followed by the data themselves Time This column reports the total time of...

Page 144: ...disk in order to save them it is possible that should Rockbox shut down due to low battery then there will not be enough power remaining to write the data to disk Therefore all measurements since the...

Page 145: ...s are one off yearly monthly and weekly memos You can select what day is first day of week by the setting First Day of Week in the menu Key Action Scroll Up Scroll Down Move the selector Enter Show me...

Page 146: ...playing The number of the current player is displayed on the top line The time below is the time remaining for that round and possibly also the total time left if different Keys are as follows Key Ac...

Page 147: ...or Opens a menu from which you can select a clock mode to view Counter Settings Opens a menu from which you can adjust settings pertaining to the counter Mode Settings Opens a menu from which you can...

Page 148: ...e Date readout if enabled is displayed at the bottom center The Second readout if in Text mode is displayed at the top center if in Bar mode is displayed as a progress bar at the top of the LCD if in...

Page 149: ...thing you will see is the text input screen Type part of a word or the whole word or anything the dict files have a definition to and accept the text input The plugin will search for matching entries...

Page 150: ...plugin and select Enter Keybox The first time you enter Keybox you will be prompted for a master password and for confirmation of the master password The master password is the password that you must...

Page 151: ...t that they are UTF8 encoded The Lyrics3 tag is not supported Supported tags and formats for lrc files The following tags are supported ti title ar artist offset offset msec Each line should resemble...

Page 152: ...d Lyrics The name of this directory can be customized see below If the audio file currently playing is Music Artist Album Title mp3 then the fol lowing files will be searched for in this order ext is...

Page 153: ...r Display Title Show hide the track title Display Time Show hide the current time Backlight Force On Do not turn off the backlight while displaying the lyrics Display Settings Change how the lyrics ar...

Page 154: ...ve Item Up Swap the selected menu item with the previous one Move Item down Swap the selected menu item with the next one Load Default Configuration Discards all customization Exit Save your changes t...

Page 155: ...mmed metronome track consisting out of multiple parts each with possibly different properties In contrast to the simple mode there exists the notion of meter and bars along with emphasis on certain be...

Page 156: ...s follows the format defined by http das nasophon de klick Actually the goal is to keep compatibility between klick and this Rockbox metronome The parts of a track are specified one line each in this...

Page 157: ...xXxX shuffle 0 12 12 120 x xX xx xX funky 0 16 16 120 x x X X Xx X X The 12 12 for the shuffle create 1 4 triplets Just do a bit of math This is still a metronome not a drum machine but it can act lik...

Page 158: ...ovide a scannable QR code that encodes a OTP URI In order to use those first scan the QR code separately and save the URI to a file on your device If necessary rewrite the URI so it is in the format s...

Page 159: ...the UI simulator use the UTC setting no matter what the clock may read 12 4 17 Periodic Table The periodic table plugin allows easy browsing and viewing of details of elements giving a detailed output...

Page 160: ...hin it you need to have both CDs and CDs as entries Edit Folder List Enter the folder list editor Export List To Textfile Exports the list to rockbox folder_advance_list txt Import List From Textfile...

Page 161: ...light an LED safely at a given voltage First select the voltage that the LED will use the first option is the most common and a safe bet and the current that it will draw likewise with the first opti...

Page 162: ...3 Usage If you start the Text Editor from the plugin browser you will be greeted with a blank screen When started from the Open with menu item your file should be shown on the screen You can now edit...

Page 163: ...Chapter 12 Plugins 163 Key Action Enter Edit Line Select Character Menu Exit Abort Editing Long Menu Show Item Menu Long Enter Delete Line The Rockbox manual version 3 14 MPIO HD300...

Page 164: ...ast item then The following configuration example will change the main menu so that it will contain only the items for the file browser for resuming the playback and for changing the settings the latt...

Page 165: ...13 1 5 Loading Backdrops Rockbox supports showing an image as a backdrop in the File Browser and the menus The backdrop image must be a bmp file of the exact same dimensions as the display in your pl...

Page 166: ...Theme Files It is also possible to set individual items of a theme from within the Settings Theme Settings menu 13 2 2 Themes Create Your Own The theme files are simple text files and can be created o...

Page 167: ...he default viewport A viewport ends either with the end of the file or with the next viewport declaration line Viewports sharing the same coordinates and dimensions cannot be displayed at the same tim...

Page 168: ...nal Viewports Any viewport can be displayed either permanently or conditionally Defining a viewport as V will display it permanently Vl identifier This tag preloads a viewport for later display identi...

Page 169: ...gic as the V tag explained above VI label Set the Info Viewport to use the viewport called label as declared with the previous tag 13 2 4 Additional Fonts Additional fonts can be loaded within each sc...

Page 170: ...t all times but will most likely b be available at the end of a song We suggest you use the conditional display tag a lot when displaying information about the next song Alternating Sublines It is pos...

Page 171: ...at If the ID3 artist and title are not present Display the filename continuously Note that by using a subline display time of 0 in one branch of a conditional a subline can be skipped not displayed wh...

Page 172: ...the disk Multiple configuration files are permitted So for example you could have a car cfg file for the settings that you use while playing your jukebox in your car and a headphones cfg file to stor...

Page 173: ...to quickly change settings A special case configuration file can be used to force a particular setting or settings every time Rockbox starts up e g to set the volume to a safe level Format a new conf...

Page 174: ...Rockbox offers a lot of settings that have high impact on the battery runtime of your player The largest power savings can be achieved through disabling unneeded hardware components for some of those...

Page 175: ...odec s performance on different players can be found at ZCodecPerformanceComparison Your target uses a hard disk which consumes a large amount of power while spinning up to several hundred mA The less...

Page 176: ...Presets fmr Load the FM Presets previous are discarded Font fnt Change the user interface font to this one Image jpg View the JPEG image Link link Display list of target files and di rectories select...

Page 177: ...2 5 Layer 1 2 3 Musepack mpc Supports SV7 and SV8 in mono stereo OGG Vorbis ogg oga Playback of some old floor 0 files may fail on low memory targets Files with album art larger than available RAM wil...

Page 178: ...Supports multichannel playback in cluding downmixing to stereo Apple Lossless m4a mp4 Shorten shn Seeking not supported True Audio tta Wave64 w64 Supports same formats as Wave form audio format Wavefo...

Page 179: ...ubtracks instead of seconds MSX Konami Sound System kss Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds SMS GG CV Sound Format sgc Supports Sega Mas ter System and Game Gear Sound Format Progre...

Page 180: ...format x x x Wavpack x x x Atari Sound Format x Synthetic music Mobile Application Format x x Game Boy Sound Format x AY Sound Chip Music x Hudson Entertainment System Sound Format x MSX Konami Sound...

Page 181: ...SF wma wmv asf Codec specific mmf mod nsf nsfe sap sid spc gbs ay kss sgc vgm None a52 ac3 adx oma aa3 aif aiff au snd shn vox w64 wav cmc cm3 cmr cms dmc dlt mpt mpd hes vgz B 2 1 Featureset for gene...

Page 182: ...spc sid nsf nsfe gbs ay sgc vgm Genre tta spc sap Disc tta Track tta Year spc sid sap Composer mmf Comment spc rm ra rmvb vgm Albumartist None Grouping None B 2 3 Limitations of metadata handling 1 Mu...

Page 183: ...ve and multi scan JPEG files JPEG files must consist of a single scan with interleaved components as progressive and multi scan images require much more memory to decode C 2 Where to put album art The...

Page 184: ...albumtitle bmp or albumartist albumtitle bmp Doublequotes will be replaced by single quotes If no album artist is set artist will be used instead See ZAlbumArt in the wiki for programs that will help...

Page 185: ...line which will not be shown in the WPS D 2 Hardware Capabilities Tag Description cc Check for presence of a real time clock returns c when used unconditionally tp Does this target have a radio Tp In...

Page 186: ...ed D 4 Viewports Tag Description V x y width height font Vf fgshade Vb bgshade See section 13 2 2 Vs mode param See section 13 2 2 Vl identifier Preloads a viewport for later display identifier is a s...

Page 187: ...used in a conditional bl 1 0 1 2 N where the value 1 is used when the battery level isn t known it usually is The value N is only used when the battery level is ex actly 100 percent An image can also...

Page 188: ...e mpcsv8 aache ay gbs hes sgc vgm kss unknown The codec or der is as shown above ff File Frequency in Hz fk File Frequency in kHz fm File Name fn File Name without extension fp File Path fs File Size...

Page 189: ...track time pv Current volume in dB Can also be used in a conditional pv Mute 0 dB Above 0 dB Mute is 0 volume is the values between Mute and max 0 dB is max volume and Above 0 dB is amplified volume T...

Page 190: ...y the playlist position then either the track title from the tags or the filename The viewer will display as many tracks as will fit in the viewport D 11 Runtime Database Tag Description rp Song playc...

Page 191: ...le mm Off All One Shuffle A B D 16 Playback Mode Tag Description mp Play status 0 4 in the order Stop Play Pause Fast For ward Rewind Recording Recording paused FM Radio play ing FM Radio muted Exampl...

Page 192: ...radio some values will never be returned Examples You are in the cs Main menu WPS Recording screen FM Radio screen if cs 2 This is the WPS D 18 List Title sbs only Tag Description Lt Title text Should...

Page 193: ...anged It can produce neat effects when used with conditional viewports Example mv 2 5 Volume changing pv The example above will display the text Volume changing if the volume is being changed and 2 5...

Page 194: ...aults to 0 if both x and y are not speci fied nimages optional number of sub images tiled vertically of the same height contained in the bitmap Default is 1 xd n i tag offset Display a preloaded image...

Page 195: ...e present on your player they can be displayed as follows Tag Description Cl x y maxwidth maxheight hor_align vert_align Define the settings for album art x x coordinate y y coordinate maxwidth Maximu...

Page 196: ...e presets list usable in playlist viewer Tn Current preset name usable in playlist viewer Tf Current preset frequency usable in playlist viewer Tc Preset count i e the number of stations in the curren...

Page 197: ...n the order left centre right If the aligned texts overlap they are merged Example ax V D 24 Conditional Tags Tag Description xx true false If Else Evaluate for true or false case xx alt1 alt2 alt3 el...

Page 198: ...ems sublines onto one line with the display cycling round the defined sublines See section 13 2 4 page 170 for details D 26 Time and Date Tag Description cd Day of month from 01 to 31 ce Zero padded d...

Page 199: ...ar to make the bar appear on the line of the tag as if it was a text tag width width of the bar for the full viewport width height height of the bar to set to the font height for horizontal bars and t...

Page 200: ...ote If the slider option is used the bar will be shrunk so that the slider fits inside b the specified width and height Example A 100px bar image with a 16px slider image needs the bar to be 116px wid...

Page 201: ...acter The character The character s Indicate that the line should scroll Can occur anywhere in a line given that the text is displayed see conditionals above You can specify up to ten scrolling lines...

Page 202: ...kip 5s 15s 30s 1min 2min 3min 5min 10min N A volume fade on off N A sort case on off N A show files all supported music playlists N A show filename exts off on unknown view_all N A follow playlist on...

Page 203: ...battery capacity devise a way to get ranges from config h mAh car adapter mode on off N A idle poweroff off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 30 45 60 min sleeptimer duration 5 to 300 in steps of 5 min sleepti...

Page 204: ...start in screen previous root files dB wps menu recording radio bookmarks N A playlist catalog directory path to dir N A list_accel_start_delay 0 to 10 ms list_accel_wait 1 to 10 s replaygain type tra...

Page 205: ...ring enabled on off N A timestretch enabled on off N A compressor threshold 0 to 24 3 dB compressor makeup gain off auto N A compressor ratio 2 1 4 1 6 1 10 1 limit N A compressor knee hard knee soft...

Page 206: ...path filename bmp N A viewers iconset path filename bmp N A backdrop path filename bmp N A time format 12hour 24hour N A rec quality 0 to 7 0 small size 7 high quality rec frequency 48 44 32 24 22 16...

Page 207: ...Appendix F Menu Overview 207 F Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual version 3 14 MPIO HD300...

Page 208: ...u did and what happened Whether the problem is repeatable or a one time occurrence All relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists MP3 files etc IMPORTANT G 2 Feature ideas To suggest an ide...

Page 209: ...o 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 connec...

Page 210: ...er Frederic Dang Ngoc Pierre De lore Huw Smith Garrett Derner Barry McIntosh Leslie Donald son Lee Pilgrim Zakk Roberts Francois Boucher Matthias Wien tapper Brent Coutts Jens Arnold Gerald Vanbaren C...

Page 211: ...r Ginkel Adam Gashlin Robert Kukla David Quesada Jared Stafford Martin Hensel St phane Doyon Austin Appel Andre Smith Travis Hyyppa Ian Webber Pavel Gnelitsa Lutz B hne Will Robertson Robert Carboneau...

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