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Appendix G. Changelog

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2006-08-07: Initial version of mpegplayer plugin

2006-07-19: Rockpaint plugin

2006-07-18: SID codec

2006-07-18: Playlist catalog

2006-04-19: Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 1G

2006-03-30: Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 2G

2006-03-28: DOOM

2006-03-28: Sound on the iAudio X5 , X5L and X5V

2006-03-26: Experimental WAV playback plugin for Archos Recorder/Ondio

2006-03-26: Initial version of Tag Cache

2006-03-20: Bubbles, a bubble game

2006-03-19: Tetrox, a Tetris clone

2006-03-12: Xobox, a Xonix/Qix clone

2006-03-11: Pacbox, a pacman arcade machine emulator

2006-02-22: ”Chessbox” chess game plugin

2006-02-13: iPod 5G audio playback

2006-02-01: AIFF codec support added

2006-01-28: Color bitmap support in the WPS (for color models)

2006-01-23: Brickmania game plugin

2005-12-06: Unicode support

2005-11-05: Jewels game plugin - a Bejeweled clone.

G.2.2 Enhancements

2008-08-06: Redesigned recording screen

2008-02-23: New default theme: cabbie 2.0

2008-01-04: All new greyscale library with improved performance

2007-08-08: Added support for grouping tags

2007-08-06: Organise the plugins into categories

2007-08-05: Voice file changes. Older voices no longer work, now all voice files are
target-specific.

2007-08-03: Added support for the disc number tag

2007-04-04: WPS tokenizer: Rewritten WPS code

2007-03-20: rockbox.* file moved inside /.rockbox directory

2007-01-23: Settings are now saved to /.rockbox/config.cfg and the hidden config
sector is not used anymore

2006-11-29: Playlists are saved with the extension .m3u8, extension .m3u is now
read using the chosen codepage

2006-09-16: New scheduler. Audio playback is now prioritised over other tasks

2006-09-02: Enhanced statusbar in recording screen

2006-08-15: Support for displaying the path in the file browser

2006-02-07: Equalizer configuration for software codec platforms

2006-02-06: The Rockbox manual is available in L

TEXformat

2005-12-05: New wps’ added. Engineeer2, marquee, and DancePuffDuo

The Rockbox manual

Archos Recorder

Summary of Contents for Archos Recorder 10

Page 1: ...The Rockbox Manual for Archos Recorder 6 10 15 and 20 rockbox org June 18 2009...

Page 2: ...c 2003 Jose Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal Peter Schlenker Version 3 3 Built using pdfL A TEX Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Docum...

Page 3: ...ockbox 15 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation 15 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation 15 2 6 Troubleshooting 15 3 Quick Start 16 3 1 Basic Overview 16 3 1 1 The player s controls 16 3 1 2 Turning the player on and...

Page 4: ...Hints 36 5 The Main Menu 37 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu 37 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 37 5 3 Recent Bookmarks 38 5 4 Files 38 5 5 Database 38 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback 39 5 7 Settings 39 5...

Page 5: ...et Support 49 7 11 Skip Length 49 7 12 Prevent Track Skipping 49 8 General Settings 50 8 1 Playlist 50 8 2 File View 50 8 3 Database 52 8 4 Display 52 8 5 System 54 8 5 1 Start Screen 54 8 5 2 Battery...

Page 6: ...sweeper 75 11 1 12Pegbox 76 11 1 13Pong 76 11 1 14Robotfindskitten 77 11 1 15Rockblox 77 11 1 16Rockblox1d 78 11 1 17Rocklife 78 11 1 18Sliding Puzzle 79 11 1 19Snake 79 11 1 20Snake 2 80 11 1 21Sokob...

Page 7: ...emulator 105 11 4 2 Battery Benchmark 106 11 4 3 Calculator 108 11 4 4 Calendar 108 11 4 5 Chess Clock 109 11 4 6 Clock 110 11 4 7 Disk Tidy 112 11 4 8 Firmware flash 113 11 4 9 Keybox 113 11 4 10Lam...

Page 8: ...ROM Contents 129 A File formats 130 A 1 Supported file formats 131 B WPS Tags 132 B 1 Status Bar 132 B 2 Information from the track tags 132 B 3 Power Related Information 133 B 4 Information about the...

Page 9: ...2 2 Features we will not implement 149 G Changelog 151 G 1 What is new since v3 0 151 G 1 1 New features 151 G 1 2 Enhancements 151 G 2 What is new since v2 5 151 G 2 1 New features 151 G 2 2 Enhance...

Page 10: ...s been 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 demo...

Page 11: ...d with icons on the margin to help you finding important parts or parts you could skip The following icons are used Note This indicates a note A note starts always with the text Note In order to b mak...

Page 12: ...tility is a graphical application that does almost everything for you However should you encounter a problem then the manual way is still available to you Rockbox itself comes as a single package Ther...

Page 13: ...b then Rockbox Utility will automatically install the release version of Rockbox Using the Installation tab will allow you to select which version you wish to install Release The release version is th...

Page 14: ...ile already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs If the contents of the zip file are extracted correctly you will have a file called ajbrec ajz in the main directory of your player s dri...

Page 15: ...ed Rockbox manually you can still use Rockbox Utility for uninstallation but will not be able to do this selectively 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation If you would like to go back to using the original Arch...

Page 16: ...the left there is a circular four button array with the circular Play button as a fifth button in the centre These are the navigation controls Below the rectangular buttons and to the right of the cir...

Page 17: ...ry structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox 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 nam...

Page 18: ...are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions Context Menu Some views especially the file browser and the WPS have a context menu From the file browser this can be accessed with...

Page 19: ...Chapter 3 Quick Start 19 from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts installed as otherwise the theme may get displayed garbled The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...

Page 20: ...ugh 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 M...

Page 21: ...on 5 12 page 42 F3 Switches to the Display Quick Screen The functions of the F keys are also summarised on the button bar at the bottom of the screen 4 1 2 Context Menu Figure 4 2 The Context Menu The...

Page 22: ...eature with caution 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 fu...

Page 23: ...one On Leftor On Right Move the line cursor within the text line Play Inserts the selected keyboard letter at the current cursor position Off Exits the virtual keyboard without saving any changes F1...

Page 24: ...es in that directory and its subdirectories will be scanned and added to the database 4 2 3 The Database Menu Auto Update If Auto update is set to on each time the player boots the database will autom...

Page 25: ...Using the Database Once the database has been initialized you can browse your music by Artist Al bum Genre Song Name etc To use the database go to the Main Menu and select Database Note You may need...

Page 26: ...ic system 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 c...

Page 27: ...meter representing where in the song you are Peak meter Note b The number of lines shown depends on the size of the font used The peak meter is only visible if you turn off the status bar or if using...

Page 28: ...ge 30 F1 On Enter ID3 Viewer On Left or Short Right Long Right Skip to the next directory On Right or Short Left Long Left Skip to the previous directory 4 3 2 Peak Meter The peak meter can be display...

Page 29: ...p the Playlist Viewer Menu Playlist Viewer Menu Show Icons This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entry and the icon for moving a playlist entry Show Indicies This toggle...

Page 30: ...ure 4 4 The track info viewer This screen is accessible from the WPS screen and provides a detailed view of all the identity information about the current track This info is known as meta data and is...

Page 31: ...procentual mode is active Key Action F1 Toggle pitch changing mode Up Down Increase Decrease pitch by 0 1 in pro centual mode or a semitone in semitone mode Long Up Long Down Increase Decrease pitch b...

Page 32: ...uffle 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 scre...

Page 33: ...played The only difference between Insert and Queue is that the Queue option removes the song from the playlist once it has been played and the Insert option does not 4 5 2 Creating playlists Rockbox...

Page 34: ...st Submenu is a submenu in the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 21 it allows you to put tracks into a dynamic playlist If there is no music currently play ing Rockbox will create a new dynamic play...

Page 35: ...ylists Set the Settings General Settings Playlist Recursively Insert Directories setting to Yes if you would like Rockbox to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently selecte...

Page 36: ...tracks can be selected through the File Browser When loading a playlist from disk it will replace the current dynamic playlist Through the Playlist catalog The Playlist catalog offers a shortcut to a...

Page 37: ...kbox will save settings when it spins up the disk 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 t...

Page 38: ...letes the currently selected bookmark Long Play Enters the context menu for the selected bookmark There are two options in the context menu Resume will commence playback of the currently selected book...

Page 39: ...operties you may change to customise your listening experience The details of this menu are covered in section 6 page 43 5 7 2 Playback Settings The Playback Settings menu allows you to configure sett...

Page 40: ...10 page 61 The Recording Screen shows the time elapsed 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 af...

Page 41: ...y causes all the files in it to be placed in a playlist Playlists can be created manually by either using the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 21 or using the Playlist menu Both automatically and m...

Page 42: ...f contributors Debug Keep Out This sub menu is intended to be used only by Rockbox developers It shows hardware disk battery status and other technical information Warning It is not recommended that u...

Page 43: ...ues higher than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible These volume levels will ordinarily lead to distorted sound but might work nicely for music...

Page 44: ...annels Karaoke Removes all sound that is common to both channels Since most music is recorded with vocals being equally present in both channels to make the singer sound centrally placed this often bu...

Page 45: ...est of the parameters in this menu relate to the Micronas Dynamic Bass MDB function MDB is designed to enable the user to hear bass notes that the headphones and or speakers are not capable of reprodu...

Page 46: ...the cut off range will have their lower harmonics cut since they will be below the range of the speakers Fundamentals between the cut off frequency and the lower frequency will have their harmonics p...

Page 47: ...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 playback will stop when the current directory or playlist is finishe...

Page 48: ...a large anti skip buffer tends to use more power and may reduce your b battery life It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback 7 6 Fade on...

Page 49: ...Enables reading of cuesheet files for played tracks If a cuesheet is found for a track track markers are displayed on the progressbar and it is possible to skip between the tracks within the cuesheet...

Page 50: ...deals with options relating to how the File Browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this option is set to Yes all files that start with upper case letters will be listed first followed by all f...

Page 51: ...e hidden Supported The File Browser displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 131 Files and directories starting with dot or with the hidden flag set are hidden Musi...

Page 52: ...setting is equivalent to the Backlight set ting except it applies when the player is plugged into the charger Backlight on Hold This setting controls the behavior of the backlight when the Hold switch...

Page 53: ...ne length Screen Scrolls Out of View Screens can be manually scrolled horizontally by pressing On Right Left Setting this option to Yes will keep the list entries at their fixed positions and allow th...

Page 54: ...near display This setting cannot be displayed in units like volts or watts because such units depend on your headphones Minimum and maximum range These two options define the full value range that the...

Page 55: ...er When the hard disk spins up to fill the audio buffer it automatically spins down afterwards 8 5 4 Idle Poweroff Rockbox can be configured to turn off power after the unit has been idle for a define...

Page 56: ...xt to the directory playlist they reference You can store multiple bookmarks for the same track Bookmark on Stop This option controls whether Rockbox writes a bookmark to the disk when playback is sto...

Page 57: ...list Setting this to No disables the addition of bookmarks to the MRB list Unique Only behaves like the Yes setting but in addition all older entries for the current dynamic playlist will be removed...

Page 58: ...e to speak directory names You can use pre generated talk clips to have directory names spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below Use Directory talk Clips This option turns on the...

Page 59: ...method set under Voice Filenames above Say File Type This option turns on voicing of file types when Voice Filenames is set to Spell or Numbers When Voice Directories is set to Spell Directory will be...

Page 60: ...ons for use in the car with headphones and when connected to an external amplifier See section 12 2 2 page 122 for more details Browse Fonts Browse the installed fonts on your player Selecting one wil...

Page 61: ...ality setting is just a way of selecting an average bit rate or number of bits per second for a recording When this setting is lowered recordings are compressed more meaning worse sound quality and th...

Page 62: ...ich can be used to split up long recordings into manageable pieces The splits are seamless frame accurate no audio is lost at the split point The break between recordings is only the time required to...

Page 63: ...noise During a rock concert the murmur of the audience might be concidered background noise which is much louder compared to rustling paper Also the duration of the signal matters When you record spe...

Page 64: ...en the sound level drops below the stop threshold the recording is stopped It is displayed numerically in the line Stop Below Just like the start threshold the unit of the stop threshold depends on th...

Page 65: ...opening an associated file i e text files chip8 games or from the Open with option on the Context Menu 11 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 11 3 2 page 98 and Rockboy in section 11 3 6 p...

Page 66: ...lay Save game Off Return to menu or cancel 11 1 2 BrickMania Figure 11 2 BrickMania BrickMania is a clone of the classic game Breakout The aim of the game is to destroy all the bricks by hitting them...

Page 67: ...e the ball Fire Off Open menu Quit 11 1 3 Bubbles Figure 11 3 Bubbles The goal of the game is to beat each level as quickly as possible by clearing the board of all bubbles Bubbles are removed from th...

Page 68: ...back and forth through the moves of the game If the menu is invoked while in the viewer the user is allowed to select a new match from the same file or quit the game Force play while the computer is t...

Page 69: ...nging into walls the ceiling or the floor How long can you fly your chopper Key Action Play Make chopper fly Off Enter menu 11 1 6 Dice Dice is a simple dice rolling simulator Select number and type o...

Page 70: ...2 Solve F3 Solve step by step Off Quit the game 11 1 8 Goban Figure 11 7 Goban Goban is a a plugin for playing viewing and recording games of Go also known as Weiqi Baduk Igo and Goe It uses standard...

Page 71: ...unsaved changes in the most recently loaded game This means that if you forget to save your changes you should load sgf gbn def sgf immediately to offload the changes to another file If you load anoth...

Page 72: ...e does nothing This option does not allow editing Time Limit The time limit of the current game Overtime The overtime settings of the current game Result The result of the current game This text must...

Page 73: ...variations by simply playing the first move in the sequence Unless it is following a variation this mode will not allow you to play illegal moves This is the default mode before another is set after...

Page 74: ...11 1 9 Jewels Figure 11 8 Jewels Jewels is a simple yet addicting game which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type The goal of the gam...

Page 75: ...f minesweeper Use the Up and Down keys to select the required percentage of mines to set the difficulty then press the On key to begin The aim of the game is to uncover all of the squares on the board...

Page 76: ...s which form a solid block and crosses which allow you to choose a replacement block Key Action In game Up Down Left Right to move around On to select save F2 to restart level F1 to go up a level F3 t...

Page 77: ...ated by the existence of various things which are not kitten Robot must touch items to determine if they are kitten or not The game ends when robotfindskitten Key Action Up Down Left Right Move robot...

Page 78: ...y has to move the bricks down No horizontal moving anymore and no need to rotate the brick Key Action Play Move down faster Off Quit 11 1 17 Rocklife This an implementation of J H Conway s Game of Lif...

Page 79: ...asier Key controls Key Action Left Right Up and Down Move Tile F1 Shuffle F2 Change between picture and numbered tiles Off Stop the game 11 1 19 Snake Figure 11 16 Snake This is the popular snake game...

Page 80: ...h time an apple is eaten the snake gets longer The game ends when the snake hits a wall or runs into itself Key Action In menu Up Down Set game speed Right Left Select starting maze F3 Select game typ...

Page 81: ...about the level format see http sokobano de wiki index php title Level format Key Action In game Up Down Left Right Move the sokoban up down left or right Off Menu F1 Back to previous level F2 Restar...

Page 82: ...winning are rather low perhaps one in thirty hands For the full set of rules to the game and other interesting information visit http www solitairecentral com rules klondike html Key Action Up Down L...

Page 83: ...t right Down Teleport On Pause game Off Quit 11 1 24 Star Figure 11 21 Star game This is a puzzle game It is actually a rewrite of Star a game written by CDK designed for the hp48 calculator Rules Tak...

Page 84: ...e sudoku games need to be stored as text files with the extension ss as single file per game You can create and save your own grids under the New menu option Enter the menu as described in the key tab...

Page 85: ...jell s Sudoku generator solver http kjell haxx se sudoku 11 1 26 Wormlet Figure 11 23 Wormlet game Wormlet is a multi user multi worm game on a multi threaded multi functional Rockbox console You navi...

Page 86: ...con trol on player Left turn left Right turn right on remote control VOL DOWN turn left VOL UP turn right No remote control on player Left turn left Right turn right on player F2 turn left F3 turn rig...

Page 87: ...me There are two ways to stop a running game If you want to quit Wormlet entirely simply hit Off The game will stop immediately and you will return to the game menu If you want to stop the game and st...

Page 88: ...ead 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...

Page 89: ...bouncing across the screen There is also an analogue clock in the background In Scroll mode the bouncing text is replaced by a different one scrolling from right to left Key Action Up Down Moves to ne...

Page 90: ...ion of the Rockbox main menu Exit at any time by pressing Left or Off 11 2 3 Cube Figure 11 26 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D Key Action On Display at maximum frame rate Play Pause F3...

Page 91: ...splaying a fire effect Key Action Up Down Increase decrease number of flames On Toggle flame type Play Toggle moving flames Off Quit 11 2 6 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the scree...

Page 92: ...ion Direction keys Move about the image Play Zoom in On Zoom out F1 Decrease iteration depth less detail F2 Increase iteration depth more detail F3 Reset and return to the default image Off Quit 11 2...

Page 93: ...F2 Toggle whether to scroll or not F3 Toggle drawing orientation Play Pause the demo Up Down Increase decrease volume Right Left Increase decrease speed Off Exit demo 11 2 10 PictureFlow Figure 11 32...

Page 94: ...gh albums Up Down Scroll through track list On Enter track list Left Exit track list F1 Enter menu Off Exit PictureFlow Main Menu Settings Enter the settings menu Return Exit menu Quit Exit PictureFlo...

Page 95: ...ache Rebuild the PictureFlow cache This is needed in order for PictureFlow to pick up new albums and may occasionally be needed if albums are removed 11 2 11 Plasma Figure 11 33 Plasma Plasma is a dem...

Page 96: ...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 d...

Page 97: ...l append a line with the full name of the file or the directory to the shortcuts link file in the root directory of the player The file will be created if it does not exist yet You can later rename th...

Page 98: ...ots 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 orig inal Chip8 had 64x32 pixel graphics and the new super...

Page 99: ...peg in directory Off Show menu The menu has the following entries Quit Quits the viewer and returns to the File Browser Toggle Slideshow Mode Enables or disables the slideshow mode Change Slideshow Ti...

Page 100: ...emulator To start a game open a ROM file saved as gb or gbc in the file browser Default keys Key Action Up Down Left Right Direction keys F1 A button F2 B button F3 Start Play Select On Cycle display...

Page 101: ...reate Playlist menu option see section 5 9 page 41 11 3 9 Text Viewer This is a Viewer for text files with word wrap Just open a txt file to display it The text viewer features controls to handle vari...

Page 102: ...s sets maximum column to 114 Useful for navigating large files Cur rently Wide and Join cannot be selected together No Narrow sets maximum column to the screen width Show Scrollbar toggles scrollbar f...

Page 103: ...38 Wavplay This plugin is for demo purposes only It is planned to have Wavplay as part of the normal playback engine later At the moment it is only possible to start playing one wav file at a time Th...

Page 104: ...default the buttons including an additional but fixed menu button are assigned as follows Key Action Up Down Left Right Directional movement Play Jump Fire F1 Open ZXBox menu ZXBox menu Vkeyboard Thi...

Page 105: ...the plugin s virtual keyboard to each one of the buttons Quit Quits the emulator Hacking graphics Due to ZXBox s simple but fast scaling to the screen by dropping lines and columns some games can bec...

Page 106: ...b was opened was internally prepared for it a matter of closing a bridge 11 4 2 Battery Benchmark The Battery Benchmark plugin enables you to test your battery s performance whilst using your player n...

Page 107: ...s for Charger An A in that column shows if the power adapter was attached to the unit at the time of the measurement U USB powered Only for targets that support this A U will indicate if the unit was...

Page 108: ...ons Key Action Left Right Up Down Move around the keypad Play Select a button F1 Delete last entered digit or clear after cal culation F2 Cycle through the 4 basic operators F3 Calculate Off Quit 11 4...

Page 109: ...in any kind of game with up to ten players Setup Key Action Up Down Increase decrease displayed Value Play Move to next screen Off Move to previous screen First enter the number of players 1 10 Then s...

Page 110: ...itch to next player Down Switch to previous player F1 Open menu Play to select From the menu it is possible to delete a player modify the round time for the current player or set the total time for th...

Page 111: ...hoose whether to disable automatic saving saving to disk on exit or saving to disk every settings change Backlight Choose whether to disable the backlight use the user s timeout setting or keep the ba...

Page 112: ...ed Show Border if enabled will draw a small box at every hour position 1 to 12 inclusive Invert Seconds if enabled will invert the LCD as the seconds pass Second Hand if enabled will draw a second han...

Page 113: ...with a key derived using md5 Using Keybox To get started start up the plugin and select Enter Keybox The first time you enter Keybox you will be prompted for a master password and for confirmation of...

Page 114: ...om Folder Advance Configuration This plugin is used to configure the folders which will be considered when the Auto Change Directory feature is set to Random Menu Generate Folder List Generates a list...

Page 115: ...le as the desired recording The purpose of the split editor is to split an 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 cont...

Page 116: ...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 The scale mode On the right side of...

Page 117: ...the split point indicator Up Down Zoom in out Play Play from the split position F1 Enter the save dialogue F2 Toggle loop modes F3 Toggle logarithmic linear scaling On Left Play half speed On Right Pl...

Page 118: ...able 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...

Page 119: ...f you start the Text Editor from the plugin browser you will be greeted with a blank screen When started from the Open with menu item your file should be shown on the screen You can now edit the file...

Page 120: ...Chapter 11 Plugins 120 Key Action Right or On Edit Line Select Character Left or Off Exit Abort Editing F1 Show Item Menu Long Play Delete Line The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...

Page 121: ...in the tools directory of the Rockbox source code 12 1 3 Loading Languages Rockbox can load language files at runtime Simply copy the lng file do not use the lang file to the player and play it in th...

Page 122: ...tors for example Notepad in Windows 2000 or XP but not in 9x ME can do this See appendix section B page 132 for all the tags that are available All characters not preceded by are displayed as typed Li...

Page 123: ...ime 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...

Page 124: ...various ways of displaying images 1 Load and always show the image using the x tag 2 Preload the image with xl and show it with xd This way you can have your images displayed conditionally Example on...

Page 125: ...create the file you can edit the file on your computer using any text editor program See Appendix section D page 143 for available settings Configuration files use the following formatting rules 1 Eac...

Page 126: ...t a configuration file Reset Settings This wipes the saved settings in the player and resets all settings to their default values Save cfg File This option writes a cfg file to your player s disk The...

Page 127: ...breaks while programming or most of all the programming software malfunctions you ll have a dead box We take no responsibility of any kind you do that at your own risk However we tried as carefully a...

Page 128: ...u want to restore it later Select System Debug Keep Out Dump ROM contents You ll notice a few seconds of disk activity When you connect your player to the PC afterwards you ll find two files in the ro...

Page 129: ...afe procedure 1 Download or build the Rockbox build you want to use and unzip it to the root of your player Safely disconnect USB 2 ROLO into the new Rockbox version 3 Go to the file browser and enter...

Page 130: ...Appendix A File formats 130 The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...

Page 131: ...he language file Text File txt Display the text file using the text viewer plugin Configuration File cfg Load the settings file Font fnt Change the user interface font to this one Plugin rock Start th...

Page 132: ...from the track tags Tag Description ia Artist ic Composer id Album Name ig Genre Name in Track Number it Track Title iv ID3 version 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 or empty if not an ID3 tag iy Year Remember tha...

Page 133: ...condi tional tag fc mp1 mp2 mp3 aiff wav ogg flac mpc a52 wavpack alac aac shn sid adx nsf speex spc ape wma mod sap unknown The codec order is as follows MP1 MP2 MP3 AIFF WAV Ogg Vorbis OGG FLAC MPC...

Page 134: ...used as volume peak meter pn Playlist Name without path or extension pp Playlist Position pr Remaining Time In Song ps s if shuffle mode is enabled pt Total Track Time pv Current volume in dB Can als...

Page 135: ...me amount of time after that i e after the volume button has been released The optional parameter t specifies that amount of time in seconds If it is not specified 1 second is assumed The tag can be u...

Page 136: ...name The value of the Rockbox setting with the specified name See section D page 143 for the list of the available settings Examples 1 As a simple tag St skip length 2 As a conditional St eq enabled...

Page 137: ...ing bmp x x coordinate y y coordinate nimages optional number of sub images tiled vertically of the same height contained in the bitmap Default is 1 xdn i Display a preloaded image n image ID a z and...

Page 138: ...t in one line but they need to be in the order left center right If the aligned texts overlap they are merged B 14 Conditional Tags Tag Description xx true false If Else Evaluate for true or false cas...

Page 139: ...onth name cu Day of week from 1 to 7 1 is Monday cw Day of week from 0 to 6 0 is Sunday cc Check for presence of the clock hardware The cc tag returns c if the necessary hardware is present and can al...

Page 140: ...er 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 Scrolling lines c...

Page 141: ...can with interleaved components as progessive and multi scan images require much more memory to decode C 3 Where to put album art The pictures can be named a number of different ways and placed to a n...

Page 142: ...erscore when looking for albumtitle bmp or artist albumtitle bmp Doublequotes will be replaced by single qutoes See ZAlbumArt in the wiki for more details and programs that will help you automate the...

Page 143: ...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 off N A...

Page 144: ...N A idle poweroff off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 30 45 60 minutes max files in playlist 1000 32000 N A max files in dir 50 10000 N A lang path filename lng N A wps path filename wps N A autocreate bookm...

Page 145: ...b center 20 to 300 Hz mdb shape 50 to 300 Hz peak meter release 1 to 126 peak meter hold off 200ms 300ms 500ms 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 30 1min N A peak meter clip hold on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20...

Page 146: ...4 22 16 kHz rec source mic line spdif N A rec channels mono stereo N A rec mic gain 0 to 15 N A rec left gain 0 to 15 N A rec right gain 0 to 15 N A editable recordings off on N A rec timesplit off 0...

Page 147: ...Appendix E Menu Overview 147 E Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...

Page 148: ...d 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 IMPOR TANT F 2 Feature ideas To suggest an idea f...

Page 149: ...slow for this daunting task Archos Multimedia support The Archos Multimedia is a completely different beast It is an entirely differ ent architecture different CPU and upgrading the software is done a...

Page 150: ...ed for any good communication to work Support other file systems 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...

Page 151: ...ion 1 1 scrobbler log files 2008 10 03 APE playback optimized 2008 09 21 MP3 playback optimized for dual core targets G 2 What is new since v2 5 G 2 1 New features 2008 07 27 SAP codec 2008 07 14 Init...

Page 152: ...runs and plays music on the iAudio M5 2007 03 01 Add the Rockbox Menu 2007 02 16 Chopper game 2007 02 14 Cuesheet support 2007 02 14 Icons in the menus 2007 02 14 SPC codec 2007 02 10 Album Artist and...

Page 153: ...nts 2008 08 06 Redesigned recording screen 2008 02 23 New default theme cabbie 2 0 2008 01 04 All new greyscale library with improved performance 2007 08 08 Added support for grouping tags 2007 08 06...

Page 154: ...Appendix G Changelog 154 G 2 3 Bug fixes The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...

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