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12.2.5. Fire

Figure 12.29.: Fire

Fire is a demo displaying a fire effect.

Key

Action

Down

Increase / decrease number of flames

Left

Toggle flame type

Right

Toggle moving flames

Quit

12.2.6. Fractals

Figure 12.30.: Fractals: Mandelbrot set

This demonstration draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set using the greyscale
engine.

Key

Action

Direction keys

Move about the image

Play

Zoom in

Zoom out

Decrease iteration depth (less detail)

Increase iteration depth (more detail)

Reset and return to the default image

Off

Quit

The Rockbox manual

(version 3.13)

Archos Recorder V2/FM

Summary of Contents for Archos Recorder FM

Page 1: ...The Rockbox Manual for Archos Recorder V2 and FM rockbox org March 5 2013...

Page 2: ...s Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal Peter Schlenker Version 3 13 Built using pdfL A TEX Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation...

Page 3: ...kbox 16 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation 16 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation 16 2 6 Troubleshooting 16 3 Quick Start 17 3 1 Basic Overview 17 3 1 1 The player s controls 17 3 1 2 Turning the player on and of...

Page 4: ...sts 37 4 6 Hotkeys 37 5 The 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 Se...

Page 5: ...Auto Change 53 7 10 Last fm Log 53 7 11 Cuesheet Support 53 7 12 Skip Length 54 7 13 Prevent Track Skipping 54 7 14 Rewind on Pause 54 8 General Settings 55 8 1 Playlist 55 8 2 File View 55 8 3 Databa...

Page 6: ...4 12 1 2 BrickMania 75 12 1 3 Bubbles 76 12 1 4 Chessbox 76 12 1 5 Chopper 77 12 1 6 Dice 78 12 1 7 Flipit 78 12 1 8 Goban 79 12 1 9 Jackpot 83 12 1 10 Jewels 83 12 1 11 MazezaM 84 12 1 12 Minesweeper...

Page 7: ...3 1 Shortcuts 108 12 3 2 Chip 8 Emulator 109 12 3 3 Frotz 109 12 3 4 Image Viewer 110 12 3 5 Rockboy 111 12 3 6 Search 112 12 3 7 Shopper 112 12 3 8 Sort 113 12 3 9 Text Viewer 113 12 3 10 Theme Remo...

Page 8: ...ettings 142 13 3 1 Introduction to cfg Files 142 13 3 2 Specifications for cfg Files 142 13 3 3 The Manage Settings menu 143 13 4 Firmware Loading 144 13 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader 144 13 5 Rockbox...

Page 9: ...Screen 159 C 17 List Title sbs only 160 C 18 Changing Volume 160 C 19 Settings 160 C 20 Images 161 C 21 FM Radio 162 C 22 Alignment and language direction 163 C 23 Conditional Tags 164 C 24 Subline Ta...

Page 10: ...Contents 10 H Licenses 181 H 1 GNU Free Documentation License 181 H 2 The GNU General Public License 189 The Rockbox manual version 3 13 Archos Recorder V2 FM...

Page 11: ...t 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 You can...

Page 12: ...ns 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 finding...

Page 13: ...raphical 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 There is no need...

Page 14: ...stallation from the Quick Start tab 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...

Page 15: ...yer for the Rockbox files The zip file 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...

Page 16: ...lity 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 Archos software connect the player to your computer a...

Page 17: ...dle of the unit and below this centred on the middle button there are four radial arc shaped buttons placed in a cross formation with the circular play button as the centre of the cross These are the...

Page 18: ...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 name W...

Page 19: ...ently 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 Long Play The contents of the context menu vary...

Page 20: ...any button while plugging it in This will prevent it from connecting to your computer and let you continue to use it normally Your player must already be in Rockbox for this to function Note Be aware...

Page 21: ...usic 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 Menu...

Page 22: ...r the Main Menu F2 Switch to the Quick Screen see sec tion 5 13 page 45 F3 Switch to the Quick Screen F2 Activate the Hotkey function see sec tion 4 6 page 37 The functions of the F keys are also summ...

Page 23: ...ry and all of the files and subdi rectories it may contain Deleted directories cannot be recovered Use this feature with caution Open with Runs a viewer plugin on the file Normally when a file is sele...

Page 24: ...ocation in the File Browser 4 1 3 Virtual Keyboard Figure 4 3 The virtual keyboard This is the virtual keyboard that is used when entering text in Rockbox for example when renaming a file or creating...

Page 25: ...apter describes the Rockbox music database system Using the information contained in the tags ID3v1 ID3v2 in your audio files Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music files on your player...

Page 26: ...Unlike Initialize Now the Update Now 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 w...

Page 27: ...um numeric id tag filename autoscore numeric runtime db lastplayed numeric runtime db playcount numeric runtime db Pm play time min numeric runtime db Ps play time sec numeric runtime db rating numeri...

Page 28: ...um 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 Note b The number of l...

Page 29: ...1 Play Mute on off On Up Down Show Pitch Screen see section 4 3 3 page 32 F1 On Enter ID3 Viewer F2 Activate the Hotkey function see sec tion 4 6 page 37 On Left or Short Right Long Right Skip to the...

Page 30: ...o view save search and reshuffle the current playlist To change settings for the Playlist Viewer press Long Play while viewing the current playlist to bring up the Playlist Viewer Menu In this menu yo...

Page 31: ...al rating value 0 10 to a track which can be displayed in the WPS and used in the Database browser The value wraps at 10 Bookmarks This allows you to create a bookmark in the currently playing track S...

Page 32: ...s double playback speed and a pitch that is an octave higher than the normal pitch The rate can be changed in two modes procentual and semitone Initially procentual mode is active The value of the rat...

Page 33: ...lists any files that Rockbox supports Supported or all files on the disk All See section page for more information about these settings Key Action Left Control Shuffle mode setting Right Control Repea...

Page 34: ...pter Rockbox can Insert into a playlist in several places Queue In Rockbox to Queue a song means to put the song into a playlist and then to remove the song from the playlist once it has been played T...

Page 35: ...playlist will be named root m3u8 and saved in the root of your player s disk 4 5 3 Adding music to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist Figure 4 7 The Playlist Submenu The Playlist Submenu is...

Page 36: ...e directories to a playlist If the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a single track it will put only that track into the playlist On the other hand if the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a directory Rockb...

Page 37: ...1 3 page 24 enter a filename for your playlist and accept it and you are done 4 5 6 Loading saved playlists Through the File Browser Playlist files like regular music tracks can be selected through th...

Page 38: ...l 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 unless th...

Page 39: ...kmark Up Select the previous bookmark Right or On Resume from the selected bookmark Left or Off Exit Recent Bookmark menu On Play Delete the currently selected bookmark Long Play Enter the context men...

Page 40: ...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 The de...

Page 41: ...Play enters the Recording Settings see section 10 page 69 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 T...

Page 42: ...s were in fact FM Recorders in disguise so they had the FM b radio still mounted Rockbox enables it if present in case this menu does not show on your unit you can skip this chapter Figure 5 4 The FM...

Page 43: ...io settings menu Saving a preset Up to 64 of your favourite stations can be saved as presets Press F2 to go to the presets list press F1 to add a preset Enter the name maximum number of characters is...

Page 44: ...11 Plugins With this option you can load and run various plugins that have been written for Rock box There are a wide variety of these supplied with Rockbox including several games some impressive de...

Page 45: ...appears you will be given options to place the setting on the Quick Screen Press F2 to access it and Play to exit The direction buttons will modify the individual setting values as indicated by the a...

Page 46: ...settings debug data is the name of the debug menu item to display separator data is ignored name can be used to display text or left blank to make the list more accessible with visual gaps time data...

Page 47: ...r 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 nicely for music that ha...

Page 48: ...ves 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 but not always has th...

Page 49: ...e 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 reproducing Ever...

Page 50: ...f 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 proportional...

Page 51: ...t 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 finished All The...

Page 52: ...ffer can be set to a value between 0 and 7 seconds 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 lowest possible s...

Page 53: ...log file is called scrobbler log and is to be found in the root directory of your player Note See ZLastFMLog for a further description and for tools you can use to submit b your Last fm log 7 11 Cuesh...

Page 54: ...ack so that the last few seconds are played before the next track 7 13 Prevent Track Skipping If this option is enabled the ability to manually skip tracks is disabled in order to avoid accidental tra...

Page 55: ...th 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 that...

Page 56: ...hown No files or directories are hidden Supported The File Browser displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 150 Files and directories starting with dot or with the...

Page 57: ...at amount 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 T...

Page 58: ...the left This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is expressed in percentage of the line length Screen Scrolls Out of View Screens can be manually scrolled horizontally by pressing On Righ...

Page 59: ...hat is applied to your headphones you should choose Linear display This setting cannot be displayed in units like volts or watts because such units depend on your headphones Minimum and maximum range...

Page 60: ...rowser This setting controls the limit on the number of files that you can see in any particular directory in the file browser You can configure the size to be between 50 and 10 000 files in steps of...

Page 61: ...th the Idle Poweroff function it must be powered up manually to resume playback 8 6 Startup Shutdown The Startup Shutdown sub menu allows you to configure items which are run at startup or initiate a...

Page 62: ...t to the newly entered value The value set is persistent see section D page 168 Start Sleep Timer On Boot If set a Sleep Timer will be initiated when the device starts Restart Sleep Timer On Keypress...

Page 63: ...e bookmarks but only want to add them to already existing bookmark files In this case you should set the setting Bookmark on Stop to No and the setting Update on Stop to Yes Load Last Bookmark This op...

Page 64: ...n order for this to work a voice file must be present in the rockbox langs directory on the player Voice files are large and are not shipped with Rockbox by default The voice file is the name of the l...

Page 65: ...enerated talk clips to have filenames spoken properly but you must enable this explicitly see below Use File talk Clips This option turns on the use of talk clips for files On Use special pre recorded...

Page 66: ...Browser Hotkey These options set the hotkey function for their respective screens see section 4 6 page 37 The default for the WPS is View Playlist The File Browser default is Off The Rockbox manual v...

Page 67: ...talled fonts on your player Selecting one will activate it See section 13 1 3 page 135 for further details about fonts While Playing Screen Opens the File Browser in the rockbox wps directory and disp...

Page 68: ...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 option all...

Page 69: ...result in larger MP3 files The quality 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 m...

Page 70: ...ons This sub menu contains options for file splitting which 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 Th...

Page 71: ...ncert the murmur of the audience might be considered background noise which is much louder compared to rustling paper Also the duration of the signal matters When you record speech you want to record...

Page 72: ...nd 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 the settings...

Page 73: ...up at the specified time Use Up and Down to adjust the minutes setting Left and Right to adjust the hours Play confirms the alarm and Off cancels setting an alarm If the player is turned on again bef...

Page 74: ...ically by opening an associated file i e text files chip8 games or from the Open with option on the Context Menu 12 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 12 3 2 page 109 12 1 1 Blackjack Fig...

Page 75: ...hem with the ball once 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...

Page 76: ...uster of three of more of the same type is formed 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...

Page 77: ...uter 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 are playing from the other side If you want you c...

Page 78: ...the total of the rolled dice Key Action Play Roll dice again On Quit 12 1 7 Flipit Figure 12 6 Flipit Flipping the colour of the token under the cursor also flips the tokens above below left and right...

Page 79: ...e order of a minute or two on particularly slow devices Large SGF files may stop audio playback for the duration of the plugin s run in order to free up more memory and some very large SGF files will...

Page 80: ...enu On Go to the next variation when at the first node in a branch Menus Main Menu The main menu for game setup and access to other menus New Create a new game with your choice of board size and handi...

Page 81: ...NZ and GOE rulesets include suicide as a legal move for multi stone suicide only the rest do not Black Player The name of the black player Black Rank Black s rank in dan or kyu Black Team The name of...

Page 82: ...orm captures or count as ko threats Erase Stone Mode Remove stones from the board as desired These removed stones are not counted as captured they are simply removed Pass Play a single pass move This...

Page 83: ...ch 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 available m...

Page 84: ...hich can be shifted left or right You can move the rows only by pushing them and if you move the rows carelessly you will get stuck You can have another go by selecting retry level from the menu but t...

Page 85: ...ally stepping on it Key Action Up Down Left Right Move the cursor across the minefield F1 On Toggle flag on off F2 Play Reveal the contents of the current square F3 Display the current game status Off...

Page 86: ...side you want to play For a two player game both players should just press the appropriate buttons for their side Key Action F1 Left player up Left Left player down F3 Right player up Right Right play...

Page 87: ...ction Up Down Left Right Move robot On Quit 12 1 17 Rockblox Figure 12 15 Rockblox Rockblox is a Rockbox version of the classic falling blocks game from Russia The aim of the game is to make the falli...

Page 88: ...wn No horizontal moving anymore and no need to rotate the brick Key Action Down Move down faster On or Off Quit 12 1 19 Sliding Puzzle Figure 12 16 Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game Rearr...

Page 89: ...e 12 17 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...

Page 90: ...eplaced by a new one 12 1 22 Sokoban Figure 12 19 Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowded warehouse with a minimal number of pushes and moves The boxes...

Page 91: ...s that are too large for this version of Sokoban and are unplayable as a result 12 1 23 Solitaire Figure 12 20 Klondike solitaire This is the classic Klondike solitaire game for Rockbox This is probab...

Page 92: ...ne of the 4 final colour stacks F3 Put the card on top of the remains stack on one of the final colour stacks Off Show menu 12 1 24 Spacerocks Figure 12 21 Spacerocks Spacerocks is a clone of the old...

Page 93: ...all to allow your filled circle to get to places on the screen it could not otherwise reach The block cannot take o s Key Action Left Move Left Right Move Right Up Move Up Down Move Down On Switch bet...

Page 94: ...ates for the cells This can be done with the scratchpad shown as separate column Change the number under the cursor to the number you want to put on the scratchpad and press the scratchpad button the...

Page 95: ...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...

Page 96: ...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...

Page 97: ...m 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 its entry on the score board turns black Len Here the cu...

Page 98: ...od to food and make sure you keep between your opponent and the food So you can always reach it before your opponent While playing the game the player can still play music For single player game use a...

Page 99: ...Scroll mode On or 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 C...

Page 100: ...Pause F3 Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Up Down Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused Off Quit 12 2 4 Demystify Figure 12 28 Demystify Demystify is a screen saver...

Page 101: ...it 12 2 6 Fractals Figure 12 30 Fractals Mandelbrot set This demonstration draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set using the greyscale engine Key Action Direction keys Move about the image Play Z...

Page 102: ...2 2 8 Mosaique Figure 12 31 Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player Key Action Up Change the gap between the drawing lines Play Restart the drawing proces...

Page 103: ...lisation only It cannot be used to select and play music b Also using this plugin will cause playback to stop Requirements PictureFlow uses both the album art see section B page 151 and database see s...

Page 104: ...om Centre margin The distance in screen pixels with zoom at 100 between the centre and side slides Scales with zoom Number of slides Sets the number of slides at each side including the centre slide T...

Page 105: ...ox can open files with a configuration description cells files Just play such file and the game configuration stored in it will be loaded into this plugin A cells file is a text file A capital O marks...

Page 106: ...you will love this demo Or maybe not Press On or Off to quit 12 2 14 Starfield Figure 12 36 Starfield Starfield simulation like the classic screensaver Key Action Right Left Increase decrease number...

Page 107: ...e Volume Down Lower Volume 12 3 Viewers Viewers are plugins which are associated with specific file extensions They cannot be run directly but are started by playing the associated file Viewers are st...

Page 108: ...list with the entries in the file Selecting one of them will then exit the plugin and leave you within the directory selected or with the file selected in the file browser You can then play the file o...

Page 109: ...16 characters describing the mapping from the Chip8 keyboard to the default key mapping that way several Chip8 keys can be pressed using only one Rockbox key For example a file containing the single...

Page 110: ...formation about interactive fiction The Interactive Fiction Archive where many free modern works can be down loaded http www ifarchive org The specific folder on the if archive containing Z Machine ga...

Page 111: ...ou to the image Toggle Slideshow Mode Enables or disables the slideshow mode Change Slideshow Timeout You can set the timeout for the slideshow between 1 sec ond and 20 seconds Quit Quits the viewer a...

Page 112: ...skip setting to improve speed Sound Toggle sound on or off Stats Toggle showing fps and current frameskip Set Keys BUGGY Select this option to set a new keymapping Reset Resets the Emulator Quit RockB...

Page 113: ...styles of text formatting and has top of file and bottom of file buttons You can view files without a txt or nfo extension by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 22 You can a...

Page 114: ...ne Mode Change how lines are displayed Normal Break lines at newline characters Join Join lines together Expand Add a blank line at newlines Useful for making paragraphs clearer in some book style tex...

Page 115: ...crollbar Toggle the vertical scrollbar for the current mode If the file fits on one screen there is no scrollbar and this setting has no effect No Do not display the vertical scroll bar Yes Display th...

Page 116: ...the same as Viewer Options The global settings are stored in rockbox rocks viewers viewer dat Quit Exits the plugin The text viewer automatically stores its settings the current position and bookmarks...

Page 117: ...le belonging to a theme cfg file is handled If this option is set to Remove if not Used the fonts came from rockbox fonts zip will not be removed as themes may depend on those fonts WPS Specifies how...

Page 118: ...nd Jump Fire Each one of these can be mapped to one key of the Spectrum Keyboard or they can be used like a Kempston joystick Per default the buttons including an additional but fixed menu button are...

Page 119: ...e displaying one With zero frameskip ZXBox tries to display 50 frames per second Sound Turns sound on or off Volume Controls volume of sound output Predefined Keymap Select one of the predefined keyma...

Page 120: ...ording various informa tion about your battery to memory A new point is written to memory every minute Every time the disk is accessed for any reason such as refilling the audio buffer open ing a dire...

Page 121: ...rger 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 using the...

Page 122: ...d 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 12 4 4 Calendar Figure 12 44 Calendar This is a small and s...

Page 123: ...nd 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 set the to...

Page 124: ...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 NE...

Page 125: ...mall round analog clock is displayed in the middle of the LCD Time readout if enabled is displayed at the upper left If Time readout is in 12 hour 12h mode AM or PM will be displayed at the upper righ...

Page 126: ...lease visit http en wikipedia org wiki Binary_numeral_system Plain mode This mode shows a plain clock in large text that takes up nearly the whole LCD 12 4 7 Disk Tidy Disk Tidy deletes junk files com...

Page 127: ...d and for confirmation of the master password The master password is the password that you must use to access your stored passwords Once inside enter the context menu by pressing Long Play From the co...

Page 128: ...me tag time tag line time tag word time tag word word time tag word time tag The time tag must be in the form mm ss mm ss xx or mm ss xxx where mm is minutes ss is seconds xx is tenth of milliseconds...

Page 129: ...rtist Title ext Lyrics Musics Title ext Lyrics Title ext Controls Key Action Up Down Volume up down Left Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track go to the previous...

Page 130: ...r each line can be changed with the timetag editor Selecting a line changes its time to the current position of the track To set a specific time or to adjust the time press Long Play to bring up a scr...

Page 131: ...before them in the list i e CDs will cause everything in the CDs directory to be ignored If you just want CDs to be ignored but want to include the folders within it you need to have both CDs and CDs...

Page 132: ...know the colour code of The colour codes are presented textually LED resistance LED resistance calculator is used to determine the resistor necessary to light an LED safely at a given voltage First s...

Page 133: ...allows you to view and edit simple text documents on your DAP You can view files by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 22 Usage If you start the Text Editor from the plugin b...

Page 134: ...ve not changed the file the Text Editor will quit immediately b 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 man...

Page 135: ...last 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 lat...

Page 136: ...the Rockbox website ZLangFiles 13 1 5 UI Viewport By default the UI is drawn on the whole screen This can be changed so that the UI is confined to a specific area of the screen by use of a UI viewpor...

Page 137: ...e the extension sbs The main theme file has the extension cfg All files should have the same name The theme cfg file should be placed in the rockbox themes directory while the wps fms and sbs files sh...

Page 138: ...y the coordinates have to be specified Leaving the other definitions blank will set them to their default values Note The correct number of commas with hyphens in blank fields are still needed b Examp...

Page 139: ...port set in the theme cfg file Having this is strongly recommended since it makes you able to use the SBS with other themes If label is set this viewport can be selectivly used as the Info Viewport us...

Page 140: ...he song that is about to play after the one currently playing unless you change the plan If you use the upper case versions of the three tags F I and D they will instead refer to the next song instead...

Page 141: ...the line depending on the evaluation of the conditional Example subline with conditionals Example it t 8 s it s fn ia t 3 s ia t 0 The format above will do two different things depending if ID3 tags a...

Page 142: ...isk 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 store the...

Page 143: ...ly 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 configuration...

Page 144: ...with the extension ajz This can be used to test new firmware versions without deleting your current version 13 5 Rockbox in Flash 13 5 1 Introduction When you bought your Recorder V2 FM it came with t...

Page 145: ...hich will also be booted if you don t press any button The button mapping is only there for completeness F3 selects the built in serial monitor called Minimon You should know this in case you invoke i...

Page 146: ...amming takes just a few seconds 5 In the unlikely event that the programming or verify steps should give you any error do not switch off the box Otherwise you ll have seen it working for the last time...

Page 147: ...for initial flashing starting with step 3 13 6 Optimising battery runtime Rockbox offers a lot of settings that have high impact on the battery runtime of your player The largest power savings can be...

Page 148: ...r is the power consumption Therefore the bitrate of the audio files does have an impact on the battery runtime as well Lower bitrate audio files will result in longer battery runtime Please do not re...

Page 149: ...Appendix A File formats 149 The Rockbox manual version 3 13 Archos Recorder V2 FM...

Page 150: ...e font to this one Image jpg View the JPEG image Link link Display list of target files and di rectories selecting one jumps to the target See section 12 3 1 page 108 Language File lng Load the langua...

Page 151: ...require much more memory to decode B 2 Where to put album art The pictures can be named a number of different ways and placed to a number of different locations You can have pictures specific to the...

Page 152: ...title 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 you a...

Page 153: ...which will not be shown in the WPS C 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 Indicate...

Page 154: ...ts Tag Description V x y width height font See section 13 2 2 Vl identifier Preloads a viewport for later display identifier is a single lowercase letter a z and the parameters use the same logic as t...

Page 155: ...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 be used the propor tion of the image sho...

Page 156: ...sv8 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 in Ki...

Page 157: ...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 This ca...

Page 158: ...ith f pt and s Example Vp 1 pp it pp fn Display 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 C 11...

Page 159: ...dio screen 5 Current Playlist screen 6 Settings menus 7 File browser 8 Database browser 9 Plugin browser 10 Quickscreen 11 Pitchscreen 12 Setting chooser 13 Playlist Catalogue Viewer 14 Plugin 15 Cont...

Page 160: ...and some 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 ca...

Page 161: ...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 n image...

Page 162: ...y coordinates must respect each of the player s limits C 21 FM Radio Tag Description tt Is the tuner tuned tm Scan or preset mode Scan is true preset is false ts Is the station in stereo ta Minimum fr...

Page 163: ...lign the text left or to the right if RTL language is in use ac Centre the text ar Align the text right aR Align the text right or to the left if RTL language is in use ax The next tag should follow t...

Page 164: ...tag parameters are true or tag1 tag2 tagN Logical or operator Will be evaluate to true if any of the tag parameters are true Examples of the if tag if pv 0 Clipping possible Volume OK will display Cl...

Page 165: ...day name cb Month name cu Day of week from 1 to 7 1 is Monday cw Day of week from 0 to 6 0 is Sunday C 26 Text Translation Tag Description Sx English Display the translation of English in the current...

Page 166: ...position This must be followed by the label of the desired image backdrop draw a preloaded image under the bar The full image will be displayed and must be the same size as the bar This must be follow...

Page 167: ...present it will assume the substring is a number so it can be used with conditionals i e cM 0 is the first conditional option Tag Description The character The character The character The character T...

Page 168: ...A antiskip 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 play...

Page 169: ...se a way to get ranges from config h mAh car adapter mode on off N A qs top any setting name for none N A qs bottom any setting name for none N A qs left any setting name for none N A qs right any set...

Page 170: ...gits numbers N A tagcache_autoupdate on off N A warn when erasing dynamic playlist on off N A cuesheet support on off N A folder navigation off on random N A constrain next folder off on N A gather ru...

Page 171: ...isplay graphic numeric N A battery display graphic numeric N A font path filename fnt N A kbd path filename kbd N A invert on off N A flip display on off N A selector type pointer bar inverse N A show...

Page 172: ...Appendix D Config file options 172 The Rockbox manual version 3 13 Archos Recorder V2 FM...

Page 173: ...Appendix E Menu Overview 173 E Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual version 3 13 Archos Recorder V2 FM...

Page 174: ...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 F 2 Feature ideas To suggest an idea for...

Page 175: ...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 complete...

Page 176: ...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...

Page 177: ...ederic 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 Christ...

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