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Contents

12.3. Viewers

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12.3.1. Shortcuts

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12.3.2. Chip-8 Emulator

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12.3.3. Frotz

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12.3.4. Image Viewer

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12.3.5. Lua scripting language

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12.3.6. Midiplay

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12.3.7. MPEG Player

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12.3.8. MP3 Encoder

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12.3.9. Rockboy

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12.3.10.Search

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12.3.11.Shopper

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12.3.12.Sort

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12.3.13.Speedread

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12.3.14.Text Viewer

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12.3.15.Theme Remove

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12.3.16.VBRfix

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12.3.17.ZXBox

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12.4. Applications

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12.4.1. Alarm Clock

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12.4.2. Battery Benchmark

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12.4.3. Calculator

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12.4.4. Calendar

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12.4.5. Chess Clock

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12.4.6. Clock

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12.4.7. Dict

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12.4.8. Disk Tidy

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12.4.9. Keybox

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12.4.10.Lamp

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12.4.11.Lrcplayer

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12.4.12.Main Menu Configuration

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12.4.13.md5sum

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12.4.14.Metronome

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12.4.15.One-Time Password Client

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12.4.16.Advanced Settings

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12.4.17.Periodic Table

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12.4.18.Pitch Detector

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12.4.19.Random Folder Advance Configuration

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12.4.20.Resistor Calculator

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12.4.21.Stats

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12.4.22.Stopwatch

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12.4.23.Text Editor

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The Rockbox manual

(version 3.14)

Samsung YH-920

Summary of Contents for YEPP YH-920

Page 1: ...The Rockbox Manual for Samsung YH 920 rockbox org April 30 2017 ...

Page 2: ...3 José 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 Documentation License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sec tions no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in th...

Page 3: ... Rockbox 18 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation 18 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation 18 2 6 Troubleshooting 18 3 Quick Start 20 3 1 Basic Overview 20 3 1 1 The player s controls 20 3 1 2 Turning the player on and off 21 3 1 3 Starting the original firmware 21 3 1 4 Putting music on your player 21 3 1 5 The first contact 22 3 1 6 Basic controls 22 3 1 7 Basic concepts 22 3 2 Customising Rockbox 23 3 3 USB Cha...

Page 4: ...Loading saved playlists 40 4 5 Hotkeys 40 5 The Main Menu 41 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu 41 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 41 5 3 Recent Bookmarks 42 5 4 Files 42 5 5 Database 43 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback 43 5 7 Settings 43 5 7 1 Sound Settings 43 5 7 2 Playback Settings 43 5 7 3 General Settings 43 5 7 4 Theme Settings 43 5 7 5 Recording Settings 43 5 7 6 Manage Settings 44 5 8 Recording 44...

Page 5: ...t Forward Rewind 59 7 5 Anti Skip Buffer 59 7 6 Fade on Stop Pause 59 7 7 Party Mode 59 7 8 Crossfade 59 7 9 Replaygain 61 7 10 Track Skip Beep 62 7 11 Auto Change Directory 62 7 12 Constrain Auto Change 62 7 13 Last fm Log 62 7 14 Cuesheet Support 63 7 15 Skip Length 63 7 16 Prevent Track Skipping 63 7 17 Rewind Before Resume 63 7 18 Rewind on Pause 64 7 19 Frequency 64 8 General Settings 65 8 1 ...

Page 6: ...s 81 10 Recording Settings 83 10 1 Format 83 10 2 Encoder Settings MP3 only 83 10 3 Frequency 83 10 4 Source 84 10 5 Channels 84 10 6 Mono Mode 84 10 7 File Split Options 84 10 8 Prerecord Time 84 10 9 Clear Recording Directory 85 10 10 Clipping Light 85 10 11 Trigger 85 11 Time and Date 87 12 Plugins 88 12 1 Games 88 12 1 1 2048 88 12 1 2 Blackjack 89 12 1 3 Boomshine 90 12 1 4 BrickMania 90 12 1...

Page 7: ... 1 28 Sokoban 109 12 1 29 Solitaire 110 12 1 30 Spacerocks 111 12 1 31 Star 112 12 1 32 Sudoku 113 12 1 33 Superdom 114 12 1 34 Wormlet 115 12 1 35 Xobox 118 12 1 36 XWorld 118 12 2 Demos 119 12 2 1 Bounce 119 12 2 2 Credits 120 12 2 3 Cube 120 12 2 4 Demystify 121 12 2 5 FFT 121 12 2 6 Fire 121 12 2 7 Fractals 122 12 2 8 Logo 122 12 2 9 Matrix 123 12 2 10 Mosaique 123 12 2 11 Oscilloscope 123 12 ...

Page 8: ...146 12 4 1 Alarm Clock 146 12 4 2 Battery Benchmark 146 12 4 3 Calculator 148 12 4 4 Calendar 149 12 4 5 Chess Clock 149 12 4 6 Clock 151 12 4 7 Dict 153 12 4 8 Disk Tidy 153 12 4 9 Keybox 154 12 4 10 Lamp 154 12 4 11 Lrcplayer 155 12 4 12 Main Menu Configuration 157 12 4 13 md5sum 158 12 4 14 Metronome 158 12 4 15 One Time Password Client 161 12 4 16 Advanced Settings 162 12 4 17 Periodic Table 1...

Page 9: ... Firmware Loading 177 13 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader 177 13 5 Optimising battery runtime 177 13 5 1 Display backlight 177 13 5 2 Anti Skip Buffer 178 13 5 3 Replaygain 178 13 5 4 Peak Meter 178 13 5 5 Audio format and bitrate 178 13 5 6 Sound settings 178 A File formats 179 A 1 Supported file formats 180 B Audio and metadata formats 181 B 1 Supported audio formats 181 B 1 1 Lossy Codecs 181 B 1 ...

Page 10: ...rrent Screen 195 D 18 List Title sbs only 196 D 19 Changing Volume 197 D 20 Settings 197 D 21 Images 198 D 21 1 How to display the album art 199 D 22 FM Radio 200 D 23 Alignment and language direction 201 D 24 Conditional Tags 201 D 25 Subline Tags 202 D 26 Time and Date 202 D 27 Text Translation 203 D 28 Bar Tags 203 D 28 1 Options 203 D 29 Other Tags 204 E Config file options 206 F Menu Overview...

Page 11: ...Contents 11 H Credits 215 I Licenses 219 I 1 GNU Free Documentation License 219 I 2 The GNU General Public License 227 The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 12: ...n 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 You can load different configurations quickly for different purposes e g a large font for in your car different sound settings for at home Rockbox features a very wide range of languages and all supporte...

Page 13: ...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 finding notes easier each one is accompanied by an icon in the margin as here Notes are used to mark useful information that may help you to get the most out of Rockbox Warning This is a warning In contr...

Page 14: ...ppear as a regular disk on your computer 2 2 Installing Rockbox There are two ways to install Rockbox automated and manual The automated way is the preferred method of installing Rockbox for the majority of people Rockbox Utility 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 There are three separa...

Page 15: ...mes to change the look of Rockbox 2 2 1 Automated Installation To automatically install Rockbox download the official installer and housekeeping tool Rockbox Utility It allows you to Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox Minimal Instal lation Automatically install all suggested components Complete Installation Selectively install optional components Install additional fonts...

Page 16: ...o the release version and the current build there is also an archive of daily builds available for download These are built once a day from the latest source 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 quently they may behave differently than de...

Page 17: ...h b back to the Samsung firmware Note If you cannot see the System directory you will need to make sure your b operating system is configured to show hidden files and directories 4 Copy the PP5020 mi4 file you downloaded to the System directory on your player 2 2 3 Finishing the install Safely eject unmount the USB drive unplug the cable and restart 2 2 4 Enabling Speech Support optional If you wi...

Page 18: ... 1 3 page 21 for more information 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation You can uninstall Rockbox automatically by using Rockbox Utility If you installed 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 Samsung software connect the player to your computer and del...

Page 19: ...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 section to see where the files need to be located The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 20: ...facing towards you Below the LCD is a four way pad with the Down Up Left and Right buttons There are three buttons at the top of the right hand side of the player Forward on the top Play in the middle and Rewind underneath Below these buttons is the Rec switch Rockbox doesn t take note of the actual position of the switch but reacts to a switching movement like pressing a regular button On the top...

Page 21: ... a bug in some OS X versions the player can not be mounted unless the b USB HID feature is disabled See section 8 5 7 page 72 for more information With the player connected to the computer as an MSC UMS device like a USB Drive music files can be put on the player via any standard file transfer method that you would use to copy files between drives e g Drag and Drop Files may be placed wherever you...

Page 22: ...ly playlist To go back to the File Browser stop the playback with the Long Play button or return to the file browser while keeping playback running using Right In list views you can go back one step with Left 3 1 7 Basic concepts Playlists Rockbox is playlist oriented This means that every time you play an audio file a so called dynamic playlist is generated unless you play a saved playlist You ca...

Page 23: ...ction 13 3 page 175 The Rockbox distribution comes with some themes that should look nice on your player Note Some of the themes shipped with Rockbox need additional fonts from the fonts b package so make sure you installed them Also if you downloaded additional themes from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts installed as otherwise the theme may not display properly 3 3 USB Charging T...

Page 24: ...he 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 Menu If you choose the File Browser the Show Files setting lets you select what types of files you wish to view See section 8 2 page 66 for more information on the Show Files setting Note The File Brow...

Page 25: ...he Context Menu Long Left Long Up Enter the Main Menu Long Left Long Down Switch to the Quick Screen see sec tion 5 13 page 47 Long Right Long Down Activate the Hotkey function see sec tion 4 5 page 40 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 direc...

Page 26: ...cel Delete Directory Deletes the currently selected directory and all of the files and subdi rectories it may contain Deleted directories cannot be recovered Use this feature with caution Set As Backdrop Set the selected bmp file as background image The bitmaps need to meet the conditions explained in section 13 1 5 page 168 Open with Runs a viewer plugin on the file Normally when a file is select...

Page 27: ...ou create a shortcut to a file Rockbox will not open it upon selecting but simply bring you to its location 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 a new directory The virtual keyboard can be easily changed by making a text file with the required l...

Page 28: ...uilds and maintains a database of the music files on your player and allows you to browse them by Artist Album Genre Song Name etc The criteria the database uses to sort the songs can be completely customised More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at ZDataBase 4 2 2 Initializing the Database The first time you use the database Rockbox will scan your disk for au...

Page 29: ...ou can force Rockbox to rescan your disk for tagged files by using the Initialize Now function in the Database Menu Warning Initialize Now removes all database files removing runtimedb data also and rebuilds the database from scratch Update Now Update now causes the database to detect new and deleted files Note Unlike the Auto Update function Update Now will update the database b regardless of whe...

Page 30: ...an 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 to increase the value of the Max Entries in File Browser b setting Settings General Settings System Limits in order to view long lists of tracks in the ID3 database browser There is no option to turn off database completely If you do not want to use it just do not...

Page 31: ...stem 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 rently playing audio file The appearance of the WPS can be configured using WPS configuration files The items shown depend on your configuration all items can be turned on or off independently Refer to ...

Page 32: ... of a track go to the previous 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 Right Return to the File Browser Database Long Right Enter WPS Context Menu Left Enter Main Menu Long Left Long Down Switch to the Quick Screen see sec tion 5 13 page 47 Long Left Show current Playlist Long Right Long Down A...

Page 33: ...tors of the right and left channel there are little dots These dots represent important volume values In linear mode each dot is a 10 mark In dBFS mode the dots represent the following values from right to left 0 dB 3 dB 6 dB 9 dB 12 dB 18 dB 24 dB 30 dB 40 dB 50 dB 60 dB 4 3 3 The WPS Context Menu Like the context menu for the File Browser the WPS Context Menu allows you quick access to some ofte...

Page 34: ...ing the sound of your music See section 6 page 50 for more information Playback Settings This is a shortcut to the Playback Settings Menu where you can configure shuffle repeat party mode skip length and other settings affecting the playback 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...

Page 35: ...an the normal pitch 200 means 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 If you ve enabled the Timestretch option in Sound Settings and have since re booted you can also use timestretch mode This allows you to change the playback speed without affecting the pitch a...

Page 36: ... 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 applies to directories Dynamic playlist A dynamic playlist is a playlist that is created On the fly Any time you insert or queue tracks using the Playlist submenu see section 4 4 3 page 38 you are creating or adding ...

Page 37: ...st 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 There you will have two choices Add to playlist adds the selected track or directory to an existing playlist and Add to a new playlist creates a new playlist containing the selected track or directory Note...

Page 38: ...sert 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 after current playing track no matter what else has been inserted Insert Last Add track s to end of playlist Insert Shuffled Add track s to the playlist in a random order Insert Last Shuffled Add tracks...

Page 39: ...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 Reshuffle Moving and removing tracks To move or remove a track from the current playlist enter the Playlist Viewer by selecting View Current Playlist in the Playlist submenu in the WPS context menu or the Main...

Page 40: ...Hotkeys are shortcut keys for use in the File Browser and WPS screen To use one press Long Right Long Down within the File Browser or Long Right Long Down within the WPS screen The assigned function will launch with reference to the current file or directory if applicable Each screen has its own assignment If there is no assignment for a given screen the hotkey is ignored The default assignment fo...

Page 41: ... Rockbox 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 unless the player is shut down safely see section 3 1 2 page 21 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu Key Action Down Select the next option in the menu Inside a setting increase the value or choose next op...

Page 42: ...bookmark Up Select the previous bookmark Right Resume from the selected bookmark Left or Long Left Exit Recent Bookmark menu Long Play Delete the currently selected bookmark Long Right Enter the context menu for the selected bookmark There are two options in the context menu Resume will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry Delete will remove the currently selected bookmark en...

Page 43: ...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 The details of this menu are covered in section 6 page 50 5 7 2 Playback Settings The Playback Settings menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play back The details of this menu are cov...

Page 44: ...sed 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 affect the recorded sound If enabled in the peak meter settings a counter in front of the peak meters shows the number of times the clip indicator was activated during recording The counter is reset to z...

Page 45: ...ion 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 initial Rockbox installation you should create it manually To load the settings i e a set of FM stations from a preset file just play it from the file browser Rockbox will remember and use it in PRESE...

Page 46: ...Down to move the cursor and then press Right to select Use Left or Long Left to leave the preset list without selecting anything Removing a preset Right to go to the presets list Use Up and Down to move the cursor and then press Long Right on the preset that you wish to remove then select Remove Preset Note The radio will turn off when starting playback of an audio file b 5 10 Playlists This menu ...

Page 47: ... list of contributors Running Time Shows the runtime of your player in hours minutes and seconds Running Time This item shows the cumulative overall runtime of your player since you either disconnected it from charging in Rockbox or manually reset this item A manual reset is done through pressing any button followed by pressing Right Top Time This item shows the cumulative overall runtime of your ...

Page 48: ...tions 5 14 Shortcuts This menu item is a container for user defined shortcuts to files folders or settings With a shortcut A file can be run i e a music file played plugin started or a cfg loaded The file browser can be opened with the cursor positioned at a specified file or folder A file s or folder s Current Playlist context menu item can be displayed A setting can be configured any which can b...

Page 49: ...ther talk to talk the time or sleep X where X is the number of minutes to run the sleep timer for 0 to disable name is required for this shortcut type shutdown data is ignored name can be used to display text If the name icon items are not specified a 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 s...

Page 50: ...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 nicely for music that has an otherwise low volume level The volume can be adjusted from a minimum of 128 dB to a maximum of 0 dB 6 2 Bass This setting emphasises or suppresses the lower bass frequencies in...

Page 51: ...o in what manner they will be combined Available options are Stereo Leave the audio signal unmodified Mono Combine both channels and send the resulting signal to both stereo channels resulting in a monophonic output Custom Allows you to manually 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 P...

Page 52: ...s speakers and might for that reason sound unnatural to some listeners 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 that the ear and brain receive when listening to a set of loudspeakers placed in front of the listener The result is a more natural stere...

Page 53: ...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 separately The ability to adjust the frequency and width of bands enables more precise control of the EQ frequency response while avoiding the use of a large number of bands often 12 needed in a non parametri...

Page 54: ...lmost 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 filters The peaking filters in Rockbox s EQ lets you adjust three different parameters for EQ bands 1 through 8 The centre parameter controls the centre frequency of the frequency range that is affecte...

Page 55: ... 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 textual menus rather than through a graphic interface Save EQ Preset This option saves the current EQ configuration in a cfg file Browse EQ Presets This menu displays a list of EQ presets as well as any EQ con ...

Page 56: ...ith more complex audio See section 4 3 3 page 35 for more details about how to use the feature 6 12 Haas Surround This setting implements the Haas effect with adjustable delay time to enhance the stereo effect of the sound A full range Haas effect creates the impression that sound starts from one channel and ends in the other Therefore four additional functions are provided to move the stage back ...

Page 57: ...g 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 quieter audio up with it This is what makes it possible to hear the quieter audio in noisy environments The Ratio setting determines how aggressively the compressor reduces gain above the threshold For exam...

Page 58: ... 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 current playlist will repeat when it is finished One Repeat one track over and over Shuffle When the current playlist has finished playing it will be shuffled and then repeated A B Repeats between two use...

Page 59: ...uffer 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 lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback 7 6 Fade on Stop Pause Enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop playing a song If the Fade on Stop Pause option is ...

Page 60: ... 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 ended Fade Out Delay The fade out delay is the length of time between when the crossfade process begins and when the old track begins to fade out Fade Out Duration The length of time in seconds that it...

Page 61: ... 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 information Track Gain Maintain a constant volume level between tracks If track gain value is not available no replaygain is applied Track Gain If Shuffling Maintains a constant volume between tracks if Shuffl...

Page 62: ... requires you to first generate a folder list via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin see section 12 4 19 page 163 Note You must have the Repeat option set to No for Auto Change Directory to b function properly Note This feature only works when songs have been played from the file browser Using b it with the database may cause unexpected behaviour 7 12 Constrain Auto Change If enabled a...

Page 63: ...es 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 before the end of the track so that the last few seconds are played before the next track 7 16 Prevent Track Skipping If this option is enabled the ability to manually skip tracks is disabled in order...

Page 64: ... Frequency This is the sampling frequency used for the rockbox playback engine Audio at a different sampling rate will be converted to this sampling rate prior to mixing using a cubic Hermite polynomial resampler Note For best quality and battery life select the sampling rate used by your audio b This is typically 44 1kHz Note Opus files are always 48kHz b The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung Y...

Page 65: ...s 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 that begin with lower case letters If this option is set to NO then case will be ignored when sorting files Sort Directories This option controls how Rockbox sorts directories The default is to sort t...

Page 66: ...re shown No files or directories are hidden Supported The File Browser displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 180 Files and directories starting with dot or with the hidden flag set are hidden Music The File Browser displays only directories playlists and the supported audio file formats Extensions are stripped Files and directories starting with or with the h...

Page 67: ...t 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 setting controls the behavior of the backlight when the Hold switch is toggled If set to Normal the backlight will behave as usual If set to Off the backlight will be turned off immediately when the Hold ...

Page 68: ... 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 milliseconds Rockbox should wait before a new text begins automatically scrolling Scroll Step Size Defines the number of pixels the text should move for each step as used by the Scroll Speed setting Bidirectional Scroll Limit Rockbox ha...

Page 69: ...k 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 interest when copying music from the player via the analogue output to some other recording device Clip Hold Time The number of seconds that the clipping indicator will be visible after clipping is detected Clip Counter Show t...

Page 70: ...ing 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 Spindown Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it is idle for a certain amount of time This setting controls the amount of time between the last user activity and the time tha...

Page 71: ...the number of unique language glyphs and punctu ation marks that are frequently displayed The default is 250 Note You will need to restart your player for changes 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 Use Shortcuts Menu Instead of Quick Screen This option activates the shortcuts menu instead of opening the qu...

Page 72: ...ed 8 5 7 USB HID This option turns the USB HID feature On and Off When this feature is enabled the player enumerates as a Human Interface Device HID composed of several HID sub devices Since the player also enumerates as a Mass Storage Device it becomes a USB Composite Device which contains both these devices 8 5 8 USB Keypad Mode This setting control the keypad mode when the player is attached to...

Page 73: ...t have a wireless remote control for this purpose Key Action Play Slideshow start Rec Slideshow leave Rewind Slide previous Forward Slide next Long Rewind Slide first Long Forward Slide last Left Black screen Long Left White screen Up Down Previous next link in slide respectively Right Perform a mouse click over a link Long Right Perform a mouse over over a link Browser This mode lets you control ...

Page 74: ...p down left right re spectively Rewind Left mouse button click Forward Right mouse button click Rec Up Rec Down Mouse wheel scroll up down respec tively 8 6 Startup Shutdown The Startup Shutdown sub menu allows you to configure items which are run at startup or initiate a shutdown when conditions are met 8 6 1 Start Screen Set the screen that Rockbox will start in The default is the main menu but ...

Page 75: ...available 8 6 3 Sleep Timer The Sleep Timer powers off your player after a given time whether playing or not Start Sleep Timer duration Shown when the Sleep Timer is inactive this option will initiate a Sleep Timer with the duration shown in brackets Cancel Sleep Timer remaining Shown when the Sleep Timer is active this option will cancel the current Sleep Timer The time remaining before completio...

Page 76: ...o 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 bookmark should be created but only add it to the recent bookmarks list When either Yes Recent Only or Ask Recent Only is selected bookmarks are only created if the Maintain a List of Recent Bookmarks i...

Page 77: ...s can be used to navigate in any bookmark list Key Action Down Selects the next bookmark Up Selects the previous bookmark Right Resumes from the selected bookmark Left or Long Left Exits Recent Bookmark menu Long Play Deletes the currently selected bookmark Long Right Enters the context menu for the selected bookmark There are two options in the context menu Resume will commence playback of the cu...

Page 78: ...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 track change Controls whether the next track in an automatic track transition should be resumed at its last playback position as well No Automatic resume works only for manual track selection Yes Alway...

Page 79: ...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 are typically produced synthetically using a text to speech engine on a PC Off No checking is made for directory talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce disk activity Use of a talk...

Page 80: ...ries is set to Spell Directory will be voiced after each spelled out directory Announce Battery Level When this option is enabled the battery level is announced when it falls under 50 30 and 15 See ZVoiceHowto for more details on configuring speech support in Rockbox 8 11 Hotkey WPS Hotkey File Browser Hotkey These options set the hotkey function for their respective screens see section 4 5 page 4...

Page 81: ...on your player Selecting one will activate it See section 13 1 3 page 167 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 Left or Long Left will exit back to the menu For further information about the WPS see section 4 3 page 31 For information about editing a wps file see section 13 ...

Page 82: ... in decibels See section 6 1 page 50 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 allows you to select which type of line selector to use Pointer A small arrow to the left of the menu text Bar inverse A bar with inverted foreground and background co...

Page 83: ...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 only This sets the bitrate when using the MPEG Layer 3 format 10 3 Frequency Choose the recording frequency sample rate 48 kHz 44 1 kHz 32 kHz 24 kHz 22 05 kHz 16 kHz 11 025 kHz and 8 kHz are available Higher sample rates use up more di...

Page 84: ...he 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 Time has elapsed What to do when Splitting This controls what will happen when the splitting condi tion is fulfilled the two available options here are Start a new file or Stop recording Split Time Set ...

Page 85: ...rigger 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 from the Prerecord time no other parameter has any effect Once will have the trigger start one recording only after the recording has finished the input signal will not start another recording Repeat w...

Page 86: ...riangular 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 stop the recording manually for at least This time specifies the duration the signal must drop below the stop thresh old to stop the recording By selecting high values you can ensure that for example ...

Page 87: ... and Date Time related menu options Pressing Long Right will voice the current time if voice support is enabled Set Time Date Set current time and date Time Format Choose 12 or 24 hour clock The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 88: ... on the Context Menu 12 1 Games See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 12 3 2 page 130 Frotz in section 12 3 3 page 131 and ZXBox in section 12 3 17 page 144 12 1 1 2048 Figure 12 1 2048 2048 is a simple addictive puzzle game played by moving tiles in around on a 4x4 grid Tiles slide as far as possible in the direction chosen by the player each turn until they are stopped by either another tile o...

Page 89: ...les 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 involved This version includes the ability to split buy insurance and double down For the full set of rules to the game and other fascinating information visit http www blackjackinfo com blackjack rules php Ke...

Page 90: ...e 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 Description N Normal Returns paddle to normal D Die Ball dies lose a life L Life Gain a life F Fire Allows you to shoot bricks with paddle G Glue Ball sticks to paddle each time it hits B Ball Immediately f...

Page 91: ...e bottom line To make things more difficult the entire board is shifted down every time a certain number of shots have been fired Points are awarded depending on how quickly the level was completed Key Action Play Pause game Left Right Aim the bubble Up Fire bubble Rewind or Long Rewind Exit to menu 12 1 6 Chessbox Figure 12 5 Chessbox Chessbox is a one person chess game with computer artificial i...

Page 92: ... 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 can force play an entire game and watch the artificial intelligence fight against itself When you quit the game the current state will be saved and restored when you resume the game The menu also allows the user to reload the last game saved save the current position and st...

Page 93: ... the famous Doom game Getting started For the game to run you need wad game files located in rockbox doom on your player Create the directory and save the following files there rockdoom wad The Rockbox wad based on prboom wad from prboom 2 2 6 Your wad files Copy all Doom wads you wish to play into that directory The needed files can be found at ZPluginDoom To play addon wads create the addons dir...

Page 94: ... menu has the following options Sound Enable or Disable sound in Doom Set Keys Change the game key configuration Time Demo Run a timed demo to test game speed on a player Only runs on Doom Shareware Player Bobbing Enable or Disable player up Down movement Translucency Enable or Disable sprite translucency Fireballs Plasma Fake Contrast Enable or Disable modified game lighting Always Run Make the p...

Page 95: ...oot Rewind Open Hold switch InGame Menu Play Enter Forward Change Weapon Playing the game After installation of the wad files is complete you can start the game more description is needed 12 1 10 Flipit Figure 12 8 Flipit Flipping the colour of the token under the cursor also flips the tokens above below left and right of the cursor The aim is to end up with a screen containing tokens of only one ...

Page 96: ...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 view and edit if you like Kogo s Joseki Dictionary http waterfire us joseki htm with this plugin although the load and save times can be on the order of a minute or two on particularly slow devices Large SGF files may stop ...

Page 97: ...option of the Context Menu or the Forward Up button C There is a comment at the current node It can be viewed edited using the Add Edit Comment menu option of the Context Menu Controls Key Action Up Move cursor up Down Move cursor down Left Move cursor left Right Move cursor right Play Play a move or use a tool if play mode has been changed Forward Left Retreat one node in the game tree Forward Ri...

Page 98: ...esult 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 5 5 Black wins by 5 5 points W T White wins on Time Handicap The handicap of the current game Komi The komi of the current game compensation to the white player for black having the first move Ruleset ...

Page 99: ...ow 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 loading a game or creating a new one Add Black Mode Add black stones to the board as desired These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats Add White Mode Add white st...

Page 100: ...l 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 Invadrox Invadrox is a clone of the classic arcade game Space Invaders Kill those pesky aliens before they get to you Remember they increase speed drop down and reverse direction after every pass Key Ac...

Page 101: ...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 available moves Higher points are awarded to larger combos The game advances to the next level after every one hundred points and randomly clears several jewels In puzzle mode the aim of the game is to co...

Page 102: ...ggle 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 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 this will cost you a life You start t...

Page 103: ...f 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 location of a mine it can be tagged to avoid accidentally stepping on it Key Action Up Down Left Right Move the cursor across the minefield Play Toggle flag on off Forward Reveal the contents of the current s...

Page 104: ... solid block and crosses which allow you to choose a replacement block Key Action Up Down Left Right to move around Play to choose peg Forward to restart level Play Up to go up a level Play Down to go down a level Rewind to quit 12 1 19 Pong Figure 12 16 Pong Pong is a simple one or two player tennis game Whenever a player misses the ball the other scores The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH...

Page 105: ...wn Long Play 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 is a port of Simon Tatham s Portable Puzzle Collection For documenta tion on the games included please visit http www chiark greenend org uk sgtatham puzzles 12 1 21 Reversi This is a simple implementation of the Reversi game The objective of the ga...

Page 106: ...y Action Up Down Left Right Move robot Rewind 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 to make the falling blocks of different shapes form full rows Whenever a row is completed it will be cleared away and you gain points For every ten lines completed the game level increases making the blocks fal...

Page 107: ...he brick Key Action Down Move down faster Rewind or Long Rewind Quit 12 1 25 Sliding Puzzle Figure 12 21 Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the whole picture or switch to number tiles if you like it a little easier Includes one picture puzzle but you can switch the puzzle picture to be the album art of the currently playing music track if one ex...

Page 108: ...iles Rewind 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 Up Down Left Right Move snake Play Toggle Play Pause Rewind Go to the plugin s menu The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Sam...

Page 109: ...Action Up Down Left Right Steer the snake Play Pause and resume the game Rewind Quit In game A the maze stays the same in game B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one 12 1 28 Sokoban Figure 12 24 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 can only be pu...

Page 110: ... Down Back to previous level Play Right Restart level Play Up Go to next level Rewind Undo last movement Forward Redo previously undone move Solution playback Play Pause resume Up Down Increase decrease playback speed Left Right Go backward forward while paused Rewind Quit Some places where can you can find level sets http www sourcecode se sokoban levels php http sokobano de en levels php Note th...

Page 111: ...les Klondike html Key Action Up Down Left Right Move Cursor around Play Select cards move cards reveal hidden cards Forward If a card was selected unselect it else Draw 3 new cards from the remains stack Play Down Put the card from the top of the remains stack on top of the cursor Play Up Put the card under the cursor on one of the 4 final colour stacks Play Right Put the card on top of the remain...

Page 112: ...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 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 Play Switch between circle and square Forward Down Previous level Long Forward...

Page 113: ...our 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 scratchpad When you play Sudoku on paper most people like to mark numbers in cells that are possible candidates for the cells This can be done with the scratchpad shown as separate column Change the num...

Page 114: ...gs and 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 one unit no matter how many you move You can change the number of moves you receive by default in the settings and you may purchase additional moves for 100 each You may also launch nuclear weapons...

Page 115: ... 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 towards your strength 12 1 34 Wormlet Figure 12 29 Wormlet game Wormlet is a multi worm game on a multi threaded multi functional Rockbox console You navigate a hungry little worm Help your worm to fi...

Page 116: ...he 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 anyway the other worm isn t hurt by the bite It will go on creeping happily and eat all the food you left on the table Walls Don t crash into the walls Walls are not edible Crashing a worm against a wall c...

Page 117: ... 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 worm or even itself That s why it is dead now Making traps for other players with a worm is a good way to get them out of the game Hints Initially you will be busy with controlling your worm Try to avoid...

Page 118: ...en menu 12 1 36 XWorld In this cinematic award winning platform game by Éric Chahi you must evade capture and do your best to escape an alien planet After an experiment goes awry the hero must team up with an unlikely ally when they both become fugitives on another world XWorld requires the data files BANK and MEMLIST BIN from the original Another World PC game to be copied into the rockbox xworld...

Page 119: ...In Scroll mode the bouncing text is replaced by a different one scrolling from right to left Key Action Up Down Moves to next previous option Right Left Increases decreases option value Play Toggles Scroll mode Rewind or Long Rewind 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 Xsa...

Page 120: ...n from the System section of the Rockbox main menu Exit at any time by pressing Left or Long Left 12 2 3 Cube Figure 12 32 Cube This is a rotating cube screen saver in 3D Key Action Long Forward Display at maximum frame rate Play Pause Forward Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Up Down Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused Rewind Quit The Rockbox manual version 3 1...

Page 121: ...Left Right Increase decrease speed Up Down Add remove polygon Rewind Quit 12 2 5 FFT This plugin is a basic frequency analyzer with 3 different frequency amplitude plots lines bars and spectrogram 12 2 6 Fire Figure 12 34 Fire Fire is a demo displaying a fire effect The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 122: ...Key Action Direction keys Move about the image Forward Zoom in Rewind Zoom out Play Down Decrease iteration depth less detail Play Up Increase iteration depth more detail Play Right Reset and return to the default image Long Rewind Quit 12 2 8 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen Key Action Right Left Increase decrease speed on the x axis Up Down Increase decrease speed on...

Page 123: ...Matrix 12 2 10 Mosaique Figure 12 36 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 process Rewind or Long Rewind Exits Mosaique demo 12 2 11 Oscilloscope Figure 12 37 Oscilloscope The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 124: ...ion of your albums with their associated cover art It is possible to start playback of the selected album from PictureFlow Playback will start from the selected track The PictureFlow plugin will continue to run while your tracks are played Requirements PictureFlow uses both the album art see section C page 187 and database see section 4 2 page 28 features of Rockbox It is therefore important that ...

Page 125: ...frames per second on screen Spacing The distance between the front edges of the side slides i e changes the degree of overlap of the side slides A larger number means less overlap Scales with zoom 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 Therefo...

Page 126: ...This an implementation of J H Conway s Game of Life see http en wikipedia org wiki Conway 27s_Game_of_Life for a detailed description Rockbox 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 a live cell a dot marks a dead cell all other characters are...

Page 127: ... love winter you will love this demo Or maybe not Press Rewind or Long Rewind to quit 12 2 16 Starfield Figure 12 41 Starfield Starfield simulation like the classic screensaver Key Action Right Left Increase decrease number of stars Up Down Increase decrease speed Rewind or Long Rewind Quit The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 128: ...the settings menu the decay time for the meter its memory the meter type and the meter scale can be changed Key Action Rewind Save settings and quit Play Help Left Settings Up Raise 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 stored in the rockbox ...

Page 129: ...r you can use the context menu on either a file or a directory in the file browser tree and use the Add to shortcuts menu option This will 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 the automatically created shortcuts link file or move it to anoth...

Page 130: ...lator Chip8 is a kind of assembly language for a long gone architecture This plugin runs games written using the chip8 instructions To start a game open a ch8 file in the File Browser There are lots 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 original Chip8 had 64 32 pixel graphics and the new superchip e...

Page 131: ...lines and for typing single characters when the game requires single character input Sounds pictures colour and Unicode are not currently supported but the interpreter informs the game of this and almost all games will adapt so that they are still playable This port of Frotz attempts to be compliant with the Z Machine Specification version 1 0 Some places where you can find Z Machine games and inf...

Page 132: ...hen an audio file is playing the size of the image is limited as the decoding b process needs to share memory with audio tracks To be able to view a bigger file you may need to stop playback Key Action Up Down Left Right Move around in zoomed in image Play Up Zoom in Play Down Zoom out Forward Next image in directory Rewind Previous image in directory Rec switch Toggle slide show mode Play Show me...

Page 133: ...ever in the Rockbox implementation it is integer Non supported libraries The coroutine debug and math libraries are not supported Partially supported libraries The os and package libraries are only partially supported Additional libraries The bitlib library is integrated to support bitwise operators See http luaforge net projects bitlib and http lua users org wiki BitwiseOperators Documentation of...

Page 134: ...ume up down Left Right Rewind Fast Forward Rewind Open the MPEG Player menu When a video file is selected the Start Menu will be displayed unless it is disabled via the Resume Options see below In the latter case the video will start playing immediately Start Menu Play from beginning Resume information is discarded and the video plays from the start Resume at mm ss Resume video playback at stored ...

Page 135: ...s skipped see the Skip Frames option the current time in 100 Hz ticks and the time the current frame is due to be displayed Limit FPS default on With this option disabled mpegplayer will display the video as fast as it can Useful for benchmarking Skip frames default on This option causes mpegplayer to attempt to maintain real time playback by skipping the display of frames but these frames are sti...

Page 136: ...es with a sample rate of 16 22 05 or 24 kHz The same limitation is valid for mono files The output mp3 file is written to the same path as the wav file using the same filename To use this plugin open the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 25 on a wav file and select Open With mp3_encoder Note The encoder will choose the appropriate bitstream format from the sample rate of b the input file The out...

Page 137: ... 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 search are saved to a new playlist search_results m3u within the same directory as the original playlist 12 3 11 Shopper Shopper is a plugin which allows you to maintain reusable shopping lists To create a list use a text editor to write down a list of ite...

Page 138: ...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 list it will be as you left it There are additional menu options for clearing the list selecting all items showing and hiding the categories toggling the categories and displaying the playback menu Shopper Keys Key Action Right ...

Page 139: ...accades 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 various 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 25 You...

Page 140: ...SO 8859 1 Latin 1 ISO 8859 7 Greek ISO 8859 8 Hebrew CP1251 Cyrillic ISO 8859 11 Thai CP1256 Arabic ISO 8859 9 Turkish ISO 8859 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 Default Codepage setting see section 8 4 page 70 Word Wrap Toggle word ...

Page 141: ...es not display see section 9 page 81 the status bar is not displayed even if you select Yes No Do not display the status bar Yes Display the status bar Scroll Settings 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 scrollbar and this setting has no effect N...

Page 142: ...Scroll up or down one full screen Top Bottom Page Move to the top or bottom page Indent Spaces Set the number of spaces to indent the text when line 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 play ing music without leaving the plugin Select Book...

Page 143: ... txt is created in the root di rectory of your player listing all the changes Remove Options This menu specifies which items are removed if Remove 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 Play to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel Remove if not Used Selecting ...

Page 144: ...nformation about the VBR stream used to calculate average bit rate time information 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 plugin open the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 25 upon a mp3 file and select Open With vbrfix Note VBRfix can only run w...

Page 145: ...ckbox 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 after the extension you specified per default z80 will be taken in case you leave it open Toggle Fast Mode Toggles fastest possible emulation speed no sound maximum frameskip etc This is Useful when loading...

Page 146: ...m Graphics 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 song at a given time Key configuration Key Action Left Right Switch between hours minutes selection Up Down Increase Decrease hours minutes Play Set the alarm Rewind Exit Setting an alarm Firs...

Page 147: ...s 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 operation of the player It is not the time that you started the plug in If you have your player on for 5 minutes and then start the plugin it will start measuring from 5 minutes Seconds The same as Ti...

Page 148: ...ry to 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 previous save will be lost 12 4 3 Calculator Figure 12 49 Calculator This is a simple scientific calculator for use on the player It works like a standard calculator Pressing the 1st and 2nd but...

Page 149: ...You can select what day is first day of week by the setting First Day of Week in the menu Key Action Left Right Up Down Move the selector Play Show memos for the selected day Forward Up Down Previous Next month Rewind Quit 12 4 5 Chess Clock Figure 12 51 Chess Clock The chess clock plugin is designed to simulate a chess clock but it can be used in any kind of game with up to ten players The Rockbo...

Page 150: ...e The time below is the time remaining for that round and possibly also the total time left if different Keys are as follows Key Action Rewind Exit plugin Forward Restart round for the current player Play Pause the time press again to continue Up Switch to next player Down Switch to previous player Left Open menu Right to select From the menu it is possible to delete a player modify the round time...

Page 151: ...Counter Settings Opens a menu from which you can adjust settings pertaining to the counter Mode Settings Opens a menu from which you can adjust settings pertaining to the current clock mode analog digital binary General Settings Reset Settings Reset all settings to their default values Save Settings Save all settings to disk Show Counter Toggle Counter display Save Choose whether to disable automa...

Page 152: ...s displayed as a progress bar at the top of the LCD if in Invert mode will invert the LCD left to right as the seconds pass a fully inverted LCD means the entire minute has passed The Counter if displayed is shown at the upper left The Blinking Colon if enabled blinks the colon once every second 12 hour mode if enabled will display the time in a 12 hour format LCD mode Based on the Digital Mode th...

Page 153: ...nition to and accept the text input The plugin will search for matching entries on the dict index file and display according description meaning contained in the dict desc file If no matches are found on the dictionary a Not found message will be displayed and the plugin will exit You can do another search by relaunching the plugin 12 4 8 Disk Tidy Disk Tidy deletes junk files commonly left behind...

Page 154: ... 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 use to access your stored passwords Once inside enter the context menu by pressing Long Right From the context menu you can create new entries delete entries and edit entries Each entry has a title a user name and a password Selecting Reset Keybox f...

Page 155: ...rd 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 and xxx is milliseconds Any other tags and lines without time tags are ignored Location of lyrics files The plugin checks the following directories for lyrics files If no lyrics file is found and the audio file is a mp3 it also checks for SYLT and USL...

Page 156: ...Title ext Lyrics Musics Title ext Lyrics Title ext Controls Key Action Up Down Volume up down Rewind Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track go to the previous track Long Rewind Rewind in track Forward Go to the next track Long Forward Fast forward in track Play Toggle play pause Long Play or Right Exit the plugin Long Right Enter timetag editor Left Enter Lrcp...

Page 157: ...ges its time to the current position of the track To set a specific time or to adjust the time press Long Right to bring up a screen to adjust the time Changes will be saved automatically when the song is changed Editing words in lyrics is not supported 12 4 12 Main Menu Configuration This plugin helps you customizing the main menu i e reorder or hide menu items It changes the appropriate configur...

Page 158: ...instead of wearing headphones at a concert Simple Interactive Mode This is the mode of operation that is active when starting the plugin directly from the menu It offers a uniform metronome sound at a constant tempo You can adjust the tempo through the interface or by tapping it out on the appropriate button Key Action Long Rewind Exit plugin Rewind Stop Long Play Start Play Tap tempo Left Right A...

Page 159: ...bel is Interlude the meter is 3 4 and the tempo 120 quarter beats per minute bpm The volume setting is at 25 and this is the second part of a track with 13 total In that part the position is at the second beat of the first bar of five The syntax of programmed tracks in tempomap files follows the format defined by http das nasophon de klick Actually the goal is to keep compatibility between klick a...

Page 160: ... pattern that controls how the beats are played Symbol Meaning X emphasized beat Tick x normal beat Tock silent beat Some examples default 0 4 4 120 Xxxx rockon2 0 4 4 120 xXxX solea 0 12 4 180 xxXxxXxXxXxX 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 l...

Page 161: ...to be on a line by itself in the following format otpauth hotp OR totp account name secret Base32 secret counter X period X di An example is shown below provisioning a TOTP key for an account called bob otpauth totp bob secret JBSWY3DPEHPK3PXP Any other URI options are not supported and will be ignored Most services will provide a scannable QR code that encodes a OTP URI In order to use those firs...

Page 162: ...hronized with UTC time and second that the plugin knows what time zone the clock is using The plugin will prompt you on its first run for this piece of information However should this setting need changing at a later time possibly due to Daylight Saving Time adjustment it is located under the Advanced submenu NOTE in the UI simulator use the UTC setting no matter what the clock may read 12 4 17 Pe...

Page 163: ...ng 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 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 Imports the list from rockbox folder_advance_list txt Play Shuffled Starts playback with the...

Page 164: ...stor that you would like to 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 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 option Then use the onsc...

Page 165: ...yer Press Rewind or Long Rewind to abort counting and exit the plugin Press it again to quit after counting has finished 12 4 22 Stopwatch Figure 12 55 Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times Key Action Rewind Quit Plugin Play Start stop Left Reset timer only when timer is stopped Right Take lap time Up Down Scroll through lap times The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsun...

Page 166: ...u can now edit the file The Text Editor is line based This means you can edit one line at a time using the Virtual Keyboard see section 4 1 3 page 27 Move the selection bar to the line you want to edit Edit the highlighted text line or insert a new one using the Item Menu When finished editing exit the Text Editor You ll be shown a list of save options Note When you have not changed the file the T...

Page 167: ...st 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 latter will be added automatically Example root menu order files wps To reset the menu items to the default use root menu order i e use a hyphen instead of items This configuration entry can only be create...

Page 168: ...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 player 160 128 2 with the last number giving the colour depth in bits To use an image as a backdrop browse to it in the File Browser and open the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 25 on it and select t...

Page 169: ...heme 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 or edited in your favourite text editor To make sure non English characters display correctly in your theme you must save the theme files with UTF 8 character encoding This can be done in most editors f...

Page 170: ...e 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 time Viewports cannot be layered transparently over one another Subsequent viewports will be drawn over any other viewports already drawn onto that area of the screen Viewport Declaration Syntax V x y wid...

Page 171: ...al 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 identifier is a single lowercase letter a z and the parameters use the same logic as the V tag explained above Vd identifier Display the identifier viewport Viewports can share identifiers so that you can di...

Page 172: ...ic 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 screen file to be used in that screen In this way not only can you have different fonts between e g the menu and the WPS but you can use multiple fonts in each of the individual screens Fl id filename gl...

Page 173: ... 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 possible to group items on each line into 2 or more groups or sublines Each subline will be displayed in succession on the line for a specified time alternating continuously through each defined subline I...

Page 174: ...t 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 when that condition is met Using Images You can have as many as 52 images in your WPS There are various ways of displaying images 1 Load and always show the image using the x tag 2 Preload the image with...

Page 175: ...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 store the settings that you use while listening to your player through headphones See section 13 3 2 page 175 below for an explanation of the format for configuration files See section 13 3 3 page 176 for ...

Page 176: ...tc and you can then use the Browse cfg files option 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 configuration file as above with the required setting s and save it into the rockbox directory with the filename fixed cfg 13 3 3 The Manage Settings men...

Page 177: ...3 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader Rockbox is able to load and start another firmware file without rebooting You just play a file with the extension mi4 This can be used to test new firmware versions without deleting your current version 13 5 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 achieve...

Page 178: ...he fastest decoding audio format will be the best in terms of battery runtime on your player An overview of different codec 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 often the hard disk needs to spin up for buffering and the shorter the buffering...

Page 179: ...Appendix A File formats 179 The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 180: ...sets 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 selecting one jumps to the target See section 12 3 1 page 129 Language File lng Load the language file Playlist m3u m3u8 Load the playlist and start playing the first file Rockbox firmware mi4 Load the new firmware with ROLO Video mpg...

Page 181: ... 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 will be skipped Chained Ogg files are not supported Sony Audio oma aa3 rm ra rmvb Supports ATRAC3 RealAudio rm ra rmvb Supports RealAudio G2 Cook Speex spx Dialogic telephony type vox Windows Media Audio ...

Page 182: ...ree Lossless Audio flac 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 Waveform audio format wav Linear PCM 8 16 24 32 bit IEEE float 32 64 bit ITU T G 711 a law µ law Microsoft ADPCM In tel DVI ADPCM IMA ADPCM 2 3 4 5 bit Dialogic OKI AD PCM YAMAHA ADP...

Page 183: ...btracks 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 Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds Video Game Music Format vgm Gzipped Video Game Music Format vgz MOD mod NES Sound Format nsf nsfe Progress bar and seek use subtracks instead of seconds...

Page 184: ...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 System x SMS GG CV Sound Format x Video Game Music Format x x Gzipped Video Game Music Format x x MOD x NES Sound Format x Atari SAP x Sound Interface Device x SPC700 x Note The seek implementations o...

Page 185: ...F 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 generic metadata tags Feature ID3 APE Vorbis MP4 ASF Embedded albumart bmp Embedded albumart jpg x x x x Embedded albumart png Embedded cuesheet x x Replaygain information x x x x x Title string x x x x x ...

Page 186: ...pc 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 Multiple tags e g for Genre are not supported The first tag item of a set of multiple tags is used 2 Only one tag type is supported for each audio format 3 Overall there are 900 bytes available to load m...

Page 187: ...e 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 pictures can be named a number of different ways and placed to a number of different locations You can have pictures specific to the file or the album or use a generic picture You can place the pictur...

Page 188: ...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 you automate the process of putting album art on your player The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 189: ...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 Indicates that the target has a touchscreen With the above tags it is possible to find out about the presence of certain hardware and make the theme adapt to it This can be very useful for designing a th...

Page 190: ...d 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 single lowercase letter a z and the parameters use the same logic as the V tag explained above Vd identifier Display the identifier viewport E g C Vd a Vd b will show viewport a if album art is found an...

Page 191: ...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 be used the propor tion of the image shown corresponds to the battery level bl x y width height image bmp bv The battery level in volts bt Estimated battery time left bp p if the charger is connected ...

Page 192: ... 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 in Kilobytes fv avg if variable bit rate or empty string if constant bit rate d N N th segment from the end of the file s directory N can be 1 2 3 Example for the d N commands If the file is Rock Kent ...

Page 193: ...rack 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 can also be used like pb to provide a continuous scale pv x y width height image bmp pS Track is starting An optional number gives how many seconds the tag remains true for after the start of the t...

Page 194: ... 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 playcount rr Song rating 0 10 This tag can also be used in a conditional tag rr 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ra Autoscore for the song D 12 Sound DSP settings Tag Description Sp Current playback pitch xf Crossfad...

Page 195: ...e 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 Example mp Stop Play Pause Ffwd Rew Rec Rec pause FM FM pause D 17 Current Screen Tag Description cs The current screen 1 20 in the order shown below The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 196: ...adio 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 be used in a conditional so that non list screens don t show a title when they shouldn t Li Title icon This uses the same order as custom icons see ZCustomIcons in the wiki except that here 0 is no ic...

Page 197: ...nged 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 seconds after the volume button has been released After that it will display the volume value D 20 Settings Tag Description St setting name The value of the Rockbox setting with the specified name See ...

Page 198: ...ults 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 n image ID as it was specified in x or xl i optional number of the sub image to display a z for 1 26 and A Z for 27 52 ignored when tag is used Only useable if the ID is a single letter By default the...

Page 199: ... 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 Maximum height maxheight Maximum width hor_align Horizontal alignment enter as l c or r for left centre or right Centre is default vert_align Vertical alignment enter as t c or b for top centre or bottom Cen...

Page 200: ... 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 current preset list tx Is RDS available ty RDS name tz RDS text tr Signal strength RSSI Can be used in a conditional or as a bar It is also possible to show Radio Art which can be used to display images asso...

Page 201: ... 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 else Enumerations Evaluate for first second third last condition if tag operator operand option count Allows very simple comparisons with other tags tag the tag to check against operator the comparison t...

Page 202: ...ms sublines onto one line with the display cycling round the defined sublines See section 13 2 4 page 173 for details D 26 Time and Date Tag Description cd Day of month from 01 to 31 ce Zero padded day of month from 1 to 31 cf A conditional for 12 24 hour format cf 24 hour stuff 12 hour stuff cH Zero padded hour from 00 to 23 24 hour format ck Hour from 0 to 23 24 hour format cI Zero padded hour f...

Page 203: ...r 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 to the viewport height for vertical bars options any of the options set out below D 28 1 Options image the next option is either the filename or image label to use for the fill image horizontal force th...

Page 204: ...te 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 wide and should be offset 8px left of the backdrop image to align correctly D 29 Other Tags Tag Description ss start length tag number Get a substring from another tag Use this tag to get a substring from...

Page 205: ...cter 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 Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as timers peak meters or progress bars The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 206: ...ow N 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 playlist on off N A playlist viewer icons on off N A playlist viewer indices on off N A playlist viewer track display track name full path N A recursive directory insert on off ask N A scroll speed 1 ...

Page 207: ...54 s battery capacity devise a way to get ranges from config h mAh usb hid on off N A usb keypad mode multimedia presentation browser mouse 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 setting name for none N A shortcuts instead of quickscreen off on N A idle poweroff off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 30 45 60 min sle...

Page 208: ...s alpha oldest newest type N A sort dirs alpha oldest newest N A sort interpret number digits 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 runtime data off on N A skip length outro track 1s 2s 3s 5s 7s 10s 15s 20s 1min 90s 2min 3min 5min 10min 15min N ...

Page 209: ...to 240 eq peak filter 2 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 3 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 4 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 5 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 6 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 7 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 eq peak filter 8 cutoff in Hz q 0 to 64 gain 240 to 240 e...

Page 210: ...ranges from config h pixels volume display 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 icons on off N A iconset 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 ...

Page 211: ...Appendix E Config file options 211 Setting Allowed Values Unit rec path path to dir N A force fm mono off on N A The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 212: ...Appendix F Menu Overview 212 F Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Samsung YH 920 ...

Page 213: ... 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 idea for a feature or to read those made by others see http forums rockbox org index php board 49 0 Please keep in mind that this forum is for the dis cussion of feature ideas they are not requests and th...

Page 214: ... 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 connected to a host computer Alphabetical list skipping Skipping around the lists by jumping letters i e skip all C s and go straight to the first D This isn t feasible with the current list implementation i...

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