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in the background, so you can choose to return to the Main Menu and continue to listen
to music. If you shut down your player, the scan will continue next time you turn it on.
After the scan is finished you may be prompted to restart your player before you can
use the database.
Ignoring Directories During Database Initialization
You may have directories on your player whose contents should not be added to the
database. Placing a file named
database.ignore
in a directory will exclude the files
in that directory and all its subdirectories from scanning their tags and adding them to
the database. This will speed up the database initialization.
If a subdirectory of an ’ignored’ directory should still be scanned, place a file named
database.unignore
in it. The files in that directory and its subdirectories will be
scanned and added to the database.
4.2.3. The Database Menu
Auto Update
If A
UTO UPDATE
is set to
ON
, each time the player boots, the database
will automatically be updated. A
UTO
U
PDATE
does not detect deleted files. To
remove deleted files from the database you need to run U
PDATE
N
OW
.
Initialize Now
You can force Rockbox to rescan your disk for tagged files by using the
I
NITIALIZE
N
OW
function in the D
ATABASE
M
ENU
.
Warning:
I
NITIALIZE
N
OW
removes all database files (removing runtimedb data
!
also) and rebuilds the database from scratch.
Update Now
U
PDATE NOW
causes the database to detect new and deleted files Unlike
I
NITIALIZE
N
OW
, the U
PDATE
N
OW
function does not remove runtime database
information.
Gather Runtime Data
When enabled, rockbox will record how often and how long a
track is being played, when it was last played and its rating. This information
can be displayed in the WPS and is used in the database browser to, for example,
show the most played, unplayed and most recently played tracks.
Export Modifications
This allows for the runtime data to be exported to the file
/.rockbox/database changelog.txt
, which backs up the runtime data in
ASCII format. This is needed when database structures change, because new code
cannot read old database code. But, all modifications exported to ASCII format
should be readable by all database versions.
Import Modifications.
Allows the
/.rockbox/database changelog.txt
backup
to be conveniently loaded into the database. If A
UTO
U
PDATE
is enabled this is
performed automatically when the database is initialized.
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