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Chapter 12. Plugins

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12.2.7. Logo

Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen.

Key

Action

Right

Left

Increase / decrease speed on the x-axis

Play

Submenu

Increase / decrease speed on the y-axis

Power

or Long

Power

Quit

12.2.8. Mosaique

Figure 12.36.: Mosaique

This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player.

Key

Action

Play

Change the gap between the drawing
lines.

Select

Restart the drawing process.

Power

or Long

Power

Exits Mosaique demo

The Rockbox manual

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Sansa e200 and e200R Series

Summary of Contents for Sansa e200

Page 1: ...The Rockbox Manual for Sansa e200 and e200R Series rockbox org February 20 2015...

Page 2: ...casas Bernal Peter Schlenker Version rUnversioned 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 Vers...

Page 3: ...tomatic 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 Start...

Page 4: ...sts 40 4 5 Hotkeys 40 5 The Main Menu 41 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu 41 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 42 5 3 Recent Bookmarks 42 5 4 Files 43 5 5 Database 43 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback 43 5 7 Se...

Page 5: ...ause 61 7 6 Party Mode 61 7 7 Crossfade 61 7 8 Replaygain 62 7 9 Track Skip Beep 63 7 10 Auto Change Directory 63 7 11 Constrain Auto Change 64 7 12 Last fm Log 64 7 13 Cuesheet Support 64 7 14 Skip L...

Page 6: ...3 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...

Page 7: ...Solitaire 115 12 1 30 Spacerocks 116 12 1 31 Star 117 12 1 32 Sudoku 118 12 1 33 Wormlet 120 12 1 34 Xobox 122 12 1 35 XWorld 123 12 2 Demos 124 12 2 1 Bounce 124 12 2 2 Credits 124 12 2 3 Cube 125 1...

Page 8: ...12 4 7 Disk Tidy 160 12 4 8 Keybox 161 12 4 9 Lamp 162 12 4 10 Lrcplayer 162 12 4 11 md5sum 165 12 4 12 Metronome 165 12 4 13 Periodic Table 168 12 4 14 Pitch Detector 169 12 4 15 Random Folder Advanc...

Page 9: ...5 5 Audio format and bitrate 188 13 5 6 Sound settings 189 A File formats 190 A 1 Supported file formats 191 B Audio and metadata formats 192 B 1 Supported audio formats 192 B 1 1 Lossy Codecs 192 B...

Page 10: ...2 FM Radio 211 D 23 Alignment and language direction 212 D 24 Conditional Tags 212 D 25 Subline Tags 213 D 26 Time and Date 213 D 27 Text Translation 214 D 28 Bar Tags 214 D 28 1 Options 214 D 29 Othe...

Page 11: ...ckbox 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...

Page 12: ...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 eac...

Page 13: ...nstallation you need to know where to access the player On Windows this means you need to know the drive letter associated with the player On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player On M...

Page 14: ...consists of a directory called rockbox which contains all of the Rockbox files and is located in the root of your player s drive Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be inter...

Page 15: ...s available at http www rockbox org download Development Build The development build is built at each change to the Rockbox source code repository and represents the current state of Rockbox developme...

Page 16: ...from http download rockbox org bootloader sandisk sansa sansapatcher win32 sansapatcher exe and run it whilst logged in with an administrator account 2 If all has gone well you should see some informa...

Page 17: ...ress i followed by ENTER and sansapatcher will now install the bootloader After a short time you should see the message INFO Bootloader installed successfully Press ENTER again to exit sansapatcher 2...

Page 18: ...tomatic 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 d...

Page 19: ...ng the contents of the zip file to the proper location and should not happen when Rockbox has been installed with Rockbox Utility To fix this either install Rockbox with the Rockbox Utility which will...

Page 20: ...er button Above and to the left of this on the outside of the turning wheel are four buttons These are the Play Submenu Left and Right buttons Inside the wheel is the Select button Turning the wheel t...

Page 21: ...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 like on the play...

Page 22: ...ne 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 playli...

Page 23: ...ox 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...

Page 24: ...yer 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 th...

Page 25: ...without stopping playback Power Stop audio playback Long Select Enter the Context Menu Submenu Enter the Main Menu Long Submenu Switch to the Quick Screen see sec tion 5 13 page 49 Long Rec Switch to...

Page 26: ...file Press Select to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel Delete Directory Deletes the currently selected directory and all of the files and subdi rectories it may contain Deleted directories c...

Page 27: ...ortcut 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 th...

Page 28: ...describes the Rockbox music database system Using the information contained in the tags ID3v1 ID3v2 Vorbis Comments Apev2 etc in your audio files Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music f...

Page 29: ...etect new and deleted files Note Unlike the Auto Update function Update Now will update the database b regardless of whether the Directory Cache is enabled Thus an update using Update now may take a l...

Page 30: ...nd do not load it to RAM Tag Type Origin filename string system album string id tag albumartist string id tag artist string id tag comment string id tag composer string id tag genre string id tag grou...

Page 31: ...atus bar The Status bar shows Battery level charger status volume play mode repeat mode shuffle mode and clock In contrast to all other items the status bar is always at the top of the screen Scrollin...

Page 32: ...35 Select Submenu Enter ID3 Viewer Rec Activate the Hotkey function see sec tion 4 5 page 40 Power Right or Short Right Long Right Skip to the next directory Power Left or Short Left Long Left Skip to...

Page 33: ...w save search and reshuffle the current playlist These and other operations are detailed in section 4 4 page 36 To change settings for the Playlist Viewer press Long Select while viewing the current p...

Page 34: ...Information is enabled It allows the assignment of a personal 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 allow...

Page 35: ...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...

Page 36: ...s of a directory Rockbox will automatically create a playlist containing all songs in it This means that just about anything that is described in this chapter with respect to playlists also applies to...

Page 37: ...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 t...

Page 38: ...If no tracks have yet been added via an Insert 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 tr...

Page 39: ...ent dynamic playlist use the Playlist 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...

Page 40: ...keys are shortcut keys for use in the File Browser and WPS screen To use one press Rec within the File Browser or Rec within the WPS screen The assigned function will launch with reference to the curr...

Page 41: ...n All settings are stored on the unit However Rockbox does not access the flash storage solely for the purpose of saving settings Instead Rockbox will save settings when it accesses the flash storage...

Page 42: ...ing or move to parent menu 5 3 Recent Bookmarks Figure 5 2 The list bookmarks screen If the Save a list of recently created bookmarks option is enabled then you can view a list of several recent bookm...

Page 43: ...e 24 5 5 Database Browse by the meta data in your audio files see section 4 2 page 28 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback Go to the While Playing Screen and resume if music playback is stopped or paused a...

Page 44: ...covered in section 8 page 66 5 7 4 Theme Settings The Theme Settings menu contains options that control the visual appearance of Rockbox The details of this menu are covered in section 9 page 81 5 7 5...

Page 45: ...r 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 set...

Page 46: ...Rockbox will display the radio menu only if it can find a radio receiver in your Sansa Figure 5 4 The FM radio screen This menu option switches to the radio screen The FM radio has the ability to reme...

Page 47: ...e radio playback Long Play Switch between SCAN and PRESET mode Select Open a list of radio presets You can view all the presets that you have and switch to the station Long Select Display the FM radio...

Page 48: ...lists see sec tion 4 4 page 36 5 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...

Page 49: ...igate through the menus to the setting you want to add and press Long Select In the menu which appears you will be given options to place the setting on the Quick Screen Press Long Submenu to access i...

Page 50: ...ettings 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 ne...

Page 51: ...wer than this reference will be negative and yield a progressively softer volume Values higher than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible These v...

Page 52: ...eft 6 6 Channels A stereo audio signal consists of two channels left and right The Channels setting determines if these channels are to be combined in any way and if so in what manner they will be com...

Page 53: ...el and the right ear hears only the right channel The result is that sound from headphones does not provide the same spatial cues to your ear and brain as speakers and might for that reason sound unna...

Page 54: ...result in a too high output level 6 9 Equalizer Figure 6 2 The graphical equalizer Rockbox features a parametric equalizer EQ In contrast to non parametric equalizers a parametric EQ enables adjustin...

Page 55: ...cies A cutoff frequency of 200 Hz on the other hand will adjust a much wider range of bass frequencies The gain parameter controls how much the loudness of the band is adjusted Positive numbers make t...

Page 56: ...r Scroll Backward Lowers the highlighted parameter Play Moves to the previous EQ band Submenu Moves to the next EQ band Select Toggles the cursor among the three pa rameters gain centre frequency Q fo...

Page 57: ...hich is independent of the sig nal Most people find this noise preferable to the time varying noise heard when not performing dithering After dithering noise shaping is performed This basically just p...

Page 58: ...f the audio signal This makes the quieter and louder sections closer to the same volume level by progressively reducing the gain of louder signals When subsequently amplified this has the effect of ma...

Page 59: ...e means that the transition occurs precisely at the threshold The Soft Knee setting smoothes the transition from plus or minus three decibels around the threshold The Attack Time setting sets the dela...

Page 60: ...ill 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 wil...

Page 61: ...ins 7 7 Crossfade This section controls the behavior of the crossfader The crossfader when enabled smoothly fades one track into the next This can occur in two situations an automatic track change or...

Page 62: ...will simultaneously fade in If set to Mix the ending song will not fade out at all and will continue to play as normal until its end with the starting song fading in from under it Mix mode is not use...

Page 63: ...back the volume is lowered for that song Replaygain information is needed for this to work Pre amp This allows you to adjust the volume when replaygain is applied Replaygain often lowers the volume so...

Page 64: ...the progressbar and it is possible to skip between the tracks within the cuesheet Also the information found in the cuesheet file will replace the information from the ID3 tags When you enable this o...

Page 65: ...This option does not apply to resuming a paused track Use the next option for b rewinding on pause Note The actual rewind distance may differ a little from the requested value depending b on the file...

Page 66: ...an action that will cause Rockbox to erase the current dynamic playlist 8 2 File View The File View menu deals with options relating to how the File Browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this...

Page 67: ...led Love mp3 2 I Walk The Line mp3 Episode 1 ogg Episode 1 ogg Episode 57 ogg Episode 233 ogg Episode 233 ogg Episode 57 ogg Show Files This option controls which files are displayed in the File Brows...

Page 68: ...LCD Settings This sub menu contains settings that relate to the display of the player Backlight The amount of time the backlight shines after a key press If set to Off the backlight will not light wh...

Page 69: ...sy access to the headphone socket Scrolling This feature controls how text will scroll in Rockbox You can configure the following parameters Scroll Speed Sets how many times per second the automatic h...

Page 70: ...ogarithmically The volume meters of digital audio devices usually are scaled this way On the other hand if you are interested in the power level that is applied to your headphones you should choose Li...

Page 71: ...ctory in the file browser You can configure the size to be between 50 and 10 000 files in steps of 50 The default is 400 Higher values will shorten the music buffer so you should increase this setting...

Page 72: ...wheel turn If set to Off the LEDs will not light when a button is pressed If set to On the lights will never shut off If set to a time 1 to 120 seconds the wheel will stay lit for that amount of time...

Page 73: ...e Impress and some other popular application making the player a wired remote control device This mode is can be useful for lecturers who does not have a wireless remote control for this purpose Key A...

Page 74: ...bmenu Left Right Cursor move up down left right re spectively Select Left mouse button click Power Right mouse button click Scroll Backward Scroll Forward Mouse wheel scroll up down respec tively 8 5...

Page 75: ...he unit has been idle for a defined number of minutes The player is idle when playback is stopped or paused It is not idle while the USB or charger is connected or while recording Settings are either...

Page 76: ...ched from the file browser and b does not work for tracks launched via the database In addition they do not work with dynamic playlists Bookmark on Stop This option controls whether Rockbox creates a...

Page 77: ...ntly used bookmarks This also removes the Recent Bookmarks from the Main Menu Yes Keep a list of recently used bookmarks Each new bookmark is added to the list of recent bookmarks Unique Only Add each...

Page 78: ...k to its beginning When pressing Left again in the first few seconds of a track to go to the previous track the previously on first button press saved resume position is retained Therefore you can als...

Page 79: ...s assigned a number based upon its position in the file list They are then announced as Directory 1 Directory 2 etc Off No attempt will be made to speak directory names You can use pre generated talk...

Page 80: ...the method set under Voice Filenames above Say File Type This option turns on voicing of file types when Voice Filenames is set to Spell or Numbers When Voice Directories is set to Spell Directory wi...

Page 81: ...er Selecting one will activate it See section 13 1 3 page 176 for further details about fonts While Playing Screen Opens the File Browser in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Select...

Page 82: ...e colour is set in the Colours submenu Bar Gradient Colour A bar with a colour gradient the colours are set in the Colours submenu Colours The options in this menu sets the colours for visual elements...

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 usin...

Page 84: ...rdings is only the time required to stop and restart the recording on the order of 2 4 seconds Split Measure This option controls whether to split the recording when the Split Filesize is reached or w...

Page 85: ...rous 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 ti...

Page 86: ...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 m...

Page 87: ...d menu options Pressing Long Select 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 rU...

Page 88: ...ames See also the Chip 8 emulator in section 12 3 2 page 137 and Rockboy in section 12 3 9 page 144 12 1 1 2048 2048 is a simple addictive puzzle game played by moving tiles in around on a 4x4 grid Ti...

Page 89: ...ck 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 h...

Page 90: ...e 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 padd...

Page 91: ...is over when any bubbles on the board extend below the bottom line To make things more difficult the entire board is shifted down every time a certain number of shots have been fired Points are award...

Page 92: ...w match from the same file or quit the game Force play while the computer is thinking will cause it to make its move immediately If done while it s your turn the computer will move for you and flip th...

Page 93: ...ocks if at least two blocks with the same color have a direct connection The more blocks you remove per turn the more points you get Key Action Left Right Play Submenu Move the cursor around the block...

Page 94: ...nous maze without banging into walls the ceiling or the floor How long can you fly your chopper Key Action Select Make chopper fly Power Enter menu 12 1 8 Codebuster Figure 12 7 Codebuster The Rockbox...

Page 95: ...a white peg signifies a correct peg in the wrong position Key Action Power Show menu Select Check suggestion and move to next line Left Right Select a peg Scroll Forward Scroll Backward Change current...

Page 96: ...ust Rockdoom options you will need to quit your current game and restart the plugin Main Menu The Doom plugin has a main menu which is brought up before a game is started It has the following entries...

Page 97: ...messages Screen Size Shrink or Enlarge the displayed portion of the game Gamma Change the brightness Gamma of the game Sound Volume Change the sound music and system volume Note In game music is not...

Page 98: ...low left and right of the cursor The aim is to end up with a screen containing tokens of only one colour Key Action Play Submenu Left Right Move the cursor Select Flip Rec Left Shuffle Rec Right Solve...

Page 99: ...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 not even l...

Page 100: ...rward Advance one node in the game tree Power Main Menu Long Select Context Menu Rec Go to the next variation when at the first node in a branch Menus Main Menu The main menu for game setup and access...

Page 101: ...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 The name of the ruleset in use for this ga...

Page 102: ...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 cou...

Page 103: ...Edit Comment Add or edit a comment at the current node Done Go back to the previous screen 12 1 13 Invadrox Figure 12 11 Invadrox Invadrox is a clone of the classic arcade game Space Invaders Kill tho...

Page 104: ...slot machine game At the beginning of the game you have 20 Payouts are given when three matching symbols come up Key Action Select Play Power Exit the game 12 1 15 Jewels Figure 12 13 Jewels The Rock...

Page 105: ...swapping pairs of jewels Key Action Left Right Play Submenu Move the cursor around the jewels Select Select a jewel Power Menu 12 1 16 MazezaM Figure 12 14 MazezaM The goal of this puzzle game is to e...

Page 106: ...d 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...

Page 107: ...6e0b396c78d2b45f8f6 pacman 5f 9240f35d1d2beee0ff17195653b5e405 pacman 6e 290aa5eae9e2f63587b5dd5a7da932da pacman 6f 19a886fcd8b5e88b0ed1b97f9d8659c0 pacman 6h d7cce8bffd9563b133ec17ebbb6373d4 pacman 6...

Page 108: ...layer Start Power Menu 12 1 19 Pegbox Figure 12 17 pegbox To beat each level you must destroy all of the pegs If two like pegs are pushed into each other they disappear except for triangles which form...

Page 109: ...layer misses the ball the other scores The game starts in demo mode with the CPU controlling both sides As soon as a button to control one of the paddles is pressed control of that paddle passes to th...

Page 110: ...t You can choose to play manually you place both the white and dark pieces or to play against a not very smart robot 12 1 22 Robotfindskitten Figure 12 19 Robotfindskitten In this game you are robot Y...

Page 111: ...l faster If the pile of blocks reaches the ceiling the game is over Key Action Rec Restart game Left Move left Right Move right Submenu Move down Scroll Backward Rotate anticlockwise Scroll Forward Ro...

Page 112: ...e puzzle picture to be the album art of the currently playing music track if one exists see section C page 198 You can also use the sliding puzzle plugin as a viewer for supported image types to turn...

Page 113: ...appear on the screen The game will end when the snake touches either the borders of the screen or itself Key Action Play Submenu Change levels 1 is slowest 9 is fastest Select Toggle Play Pause Go to...

Page 114: ...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 b...

Page 115: ...ward while paused Power Quit Some places where can you can find level sets http www sourcecode se sokoban levels php http sokobano de en levels php Note that some level sets may contain levels that ar...

Page 116: ...e cards reveal hidden cards Rec If a card was selected unselect it else Draw 3 new cards from the remains stack Left Put the card from the top of the remains stack on top of the cursor Rec Right Put t...

Page 117: ...of Star a game written by CDK designed for the hp48 calculator Rules Take all of the o s to go to the next level You can switch control between the filled circle which can take o s and the filled squa...

Page 118: ...ium hard or fiendish will be displayed on the screen New games can be generated from the Generate menu option When playing an existing Sudoku game file from Rockbox file browser the plugin is invoked...

Page 119: ...ed values can be displayed inline as small dots by enabling the Show Markings settings Note The scratchpad is not saved when saving the game b Key Action Play Submenu Left Right Move the cursor Scroll...

Page 120: ...o not stop moving except when dead Dead worms are no fun Be careful as your worm will try to eat anything that you steer it across It won t distinguish whether it is edible or not Food The small squar...

Page 121: ...hit Power A stopped game can not be resumed The scoreboard On the right side of the game field is the score board For each worm it displays its status and its length The top most entry displays the s...

Page 122: ...ave its next piece of food and head for the food it would probably want next Try to put yourself between the opponent and that food From now on you can control the other worm by blocking it You could...

Page 123: ...nother world XWorld requires the data files BANK and MEMLIST BIN from the original Another World PC game to be copied into the rockbox xworld directory before the game can be played Additionally extra...

Page 124: ...roll mode Power or Long Power 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...

Page 125: ...y Action Select Display at maximum frame rate Play Pause Submenu Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Scroll Forward Scroll Backward Change speed angle speed can not be changed while pause...

Page 126: ...Demystify is a screen saver like demo Key Action Scroll Backward Scroll Forward Increase decrease speed Play Submenu Add remove polygon Power Quit 12 2 5 Fire Figure 12 34 Fire The Rockbox manual ver...

Page 127: ...2 35 Fractals Mandelbrot set This demonstration draws fractal images from the Mandelbrot set Key Action Direction keys Move about the image Scroll Forward Zoom in Scroll Backward Zoom out Select Left...

Page 128: ...se speed on the y axis Power or Long Power Quit 12 2 8 Mosaique Figure 12 36 Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player Key Action Play Change the gap betwee...

Page 129: ...less responsive to user input and music may start to skip Keys Key Action Select Toggle filled curve plot Submenu Toggle whether to scroll or not Play Toggle drawing orientation Rec Pause the demo Scr...

Page 130: ...see section 4 2 page 28 features of Rockbox It is therefore important that these are working correctly before attempting to use PictureFlow In addition there are some other points of which to be awar...

Page 131: ...tre and side slides Scales with zoom Number of slides Sets the number of slides at each side including the centre slide Therefore if set to 4 there will be 3 slides on the left the centre slide and th...

Page 132: ...kipedia 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...

Page 133: ...s only when paused Power Exit 12 2 13 Snow Figure 12 40 Have you ever seen snow falling This demo replicates snow falling on your screen If you love winter you will love this demo Or maybe not Press P...

Page 134: ...the classic screensaver Key Action Right Left Increase decrease number of stars Play Submenu Increase decrease speed Select Change colours Power or Long Power Quit 12 2 15 VU meter Figure 12 42 VU Me...

Page 135: ...memory the meter type and the meter scale can be changed Key Action Power Save settings and quit Rec Help Select Settings Scroll Forward Raise Volume Scroll Backward Lower Volume 12 3 Viewers Viewers...

Page 136: ...uld also end with a How to create link files You can use your favourite text editor to create a link file on the PC an then copy the file to the player Or you can use the context menu on either a file...

Page 137: ...om name That name will then be used for showing the entry For example Example MyMusic collection song mp3 TAB My favourite song 12 3 2 Chip 8 Emulator Chip8 is a kind of assembly language for a long g...

Page 138: ...sed and most depend heavily on typed commands The virtual keyboard is used for text entry both for typing entire lines and for typing single characters when the game requires single character input So...

Page 139: ...ormats are as follows Format File extension s BMP bmp JPEG jpg jpe jpeg PNG png GIF gif PPM ppm Note When an audio file is playing the size of the image is limited as the decoding b process needs to s...

Page 140: ...ee http netpbm sourceforge net doc ppm html 12 3 5 Lua scripting language To quote from the Lua website http www lua org Lua is a powerful fast lightweight embeddable scripting language Select a lua f...

Page 141: ...own Right Left Skip 3 seconds forward backward Play Pause Resume playback Power Stop playback and quit 12 3 7 MPEG Player The Mpeg Player is a video player plugin capable of playing back MPEG 1 and MP...

Page 142: ...u see below Resume Options default Start menu Enable disable the start menu Play Mode default Single Set to All to play multiple mpg files in the directory continuously Clear all resumes x Discard all...

Page 143: ...gin encodes a wav file to MP3 format The supported input format is uncom pressed linear PCM with 16 bit per sample and a maximum of 2 channels Allowed sample rates are 16 22 05 24 32 44 1 and 48 kHz T...

Page 144: ...the file browser Default keys Key Action Play Submenu Left Right Direction keys Select A button Rec B button Scroll Backward Start Scroll Forward Select Power Open Rockboy menu Rockboy menu Load Game...

Page 145: ...Resets the Emulator Quit RockBoy Quits the Rockboy plugin 12 3 10 Search This plugin can be used on playlists It searches through the playlist that it opened on looking for any occurrences of the stri...

Page 146: ...o extension by using Open with from the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 25 You can also bookmark pages Default keys Key Action Play Scroll up Submenu Scroll down Left Top of file Narrow mode One s...

Page 147: ...ow 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 text files Reflow L...

Page 148: ...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 the vertical scrol...

Page 149: ...e current page Figure 12 45 The select bookmark menu Global Settings Set the default settings for the text viewer The setting items are the same as Viewer Options The global settings are stored in roc...

Page 150: ...tions 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...

Page 151: ...eing created Quit Exits this plugin 12 3 15 VBRfix This function scans a VBR Variable Bitrate MP3 file and updates creates the Xing VBR header The Xing header contains information about the VBR stream...

Page 152: ...same as in standard Rockbox but you just press one key instead of entering a phrase Play Pause Tape Toggles playing of the tape if it is loaded Save Quick Snapshot Saves snapshot into rockbox zxboxq...

Page 153: ...l keyboard to each one of the buttons Quit Quits the emulator Hacking graphics Due to ZXBox s simple but fast scaling to the screen by dropping lines and columns some games can become unplayable It is...

Page 154: ...ive additional disk accesses The file is written to the root directory of your player and is called battery_bench txt The plugin will continue to log info until Another plugin is loaded The player is...

Page 155: ...el and time remaining The battery log battery_bench txt is in CSV format comma separated variables and thus can be easily imported into a spreadsheet or similar program Limitations As Battery Benchmar...

Page 156: ...alculate Power Quit 12 4 4 Calendar Figure 12 49 Calendar This is a small and simple calendar application with memo saving function Dots indicate dates with memos The available memo types are one off...

Page 157: ...ss 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 Setup Key Action Right Left Increase decrease displayed Value Select...

Page 158: ...und for the current player Select Pause the time press again to continue Right Switch to next player Left Switch to previous player Play Open menu Select to select From the menu it is possible to dele...

Page 159: ...saving saving to disk on exit or saving to disk every settings change Backlight Choose whether to disable the backlight use the user s timeout setting or keep the backlight on Idle Poweroff Toggle Idl...

Page 160: ...sive Invert Seconds if enabled will invert the LCD as the seconds pass Second Hand if enabled will draw a second hand among the hour and minute hands Binary mode This mode shows a Binary clock The hou...

Page 161: ...Encryption Algorithm with a key derived using md5 Using Keybox To get started start up the plugin and select Enter Keybox The first time you enter Keybox you will be prompted for a master password an...

Page 162: ...USLT tags in mp3 files lrc8 files are the same as lrc files except that they are UTF8 encoded The Lyrics3 tag is not supported Supported tags and formats for lrc files The following tags are supporte...

Page 163: ...this directory can be customized see below If the audio file currently playing is Music Artist Album Title mp3 then the fol lowing files will be searched for in this order ext is one of the supported...

Page 164: ...e Show hide the current time Inactive Colour Set the colour of the inactive part of the lyrics Backlight Force On Do not turn off the backlight while displaying the lyrics Display Settings Change how...

Page 165: ...will check the md5 sums in the file instead If the file s extension is md5list it will compute md5 sums for all the files listed 12 4 12 Metronome This plugin can be used as a metronome to keep time d...

Page 166: ...nite or infinite duration in bars navigation only jumps to the beginning of infinite parts differing meters 4 4 3 4 6 8 etc default 4 4 differing tempo always in quarter beats per minute default 120 w...

Page 167: ...h a tempo of 133 quarter beats per minute Tempo changes are indicated by specifying a tempo range and the acceleration in one of these ways 0 4 4 90 150 0 25 0 4 4 150 90 4 16 4 4 100 200 The first on...

Page 168: ...le track exercising the programmable Rockbox metronome or also http das nasophon de klick lead in 1 4 4 120 XXXX 0 5 4 emphasized but less loud ticks intro 4 4 4 120 standard beat tearing down 4 120 9...

Page 169: ...advance_dir txt Only the directories in this file and any contained directories will be scanned You can have up to 10 directories ignored by the scan by placing a minus sign before them in the list i...

Page 170: ...esistance In Colour to Resistance mode use the menus to select the colours of the bands of a resistor which you would like to know the resistance of Resistance to Colour In Resistance to Colour mode u...

Page 171: ...bitmap bmp editor for Rockbox It can open any bmp file whose di mensions are the same size as your device s screen or smaller it can also create empty bitmaps for you to work with Opening A File To o...

Page 172: ...fill To use this tool click at the starting and ending points Starting with the background and going to the foreground colour Rockpaint will fill the region with a gradual colour change Bucket fill F...

Page 173: ...selection cursor moves when you hold down a movement button Brush size Allows you to adjust the drawing size of the pencil tool Choose colour Allows you to manually edit the foreground colour You can...

Page 174: ...r of audio playlist image and video files on your player Press Power or Long Power to abort counting and exit the plugin Press it again to quit after counting has finished 12 4 19 Stopwatch Figure 12...

Page 175: ...em your file should be shown on the screen You 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...

Page 176: ...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 add...

Page 177: ...d you want to write your own language file find the instructions on the Rockbox website ZLangFiles 13 1 5 Changing Filetype Colours Rockbox has the capability to modify the File Browser to show files...

Page 178: ...tomatically understands the colours file format but an external text editor can also be used To edit the colours file using Rockbox play it in the File Browser The file will open in the Text Editor Up...

Page 179: ...Rockbox interface that can be themed the WPS or While Playing Screen the FMS or FM Screen if the player has a tuner and the SBS or Base Skin The WPS is the name used to describe the information displa...

Page 180: ...ains all the elements defined in each theme file The elements in this viewport are displayed with the same background foreground colours and the text is rendered in the same font as in the main menu T...

Page 181: ...the rest of the screen from sthat point The lines will scroll if this text does not fit in the viewport sThe user font is used and the foreground and background are set to black sand white respective...

Page 182: ...viewport a if it is found Otherwise a red flashing warning will be displayed in viewport b Note The tag to display conditional viewports must come before the tag to preload the b viewport in the wps...

Page 183: ...o be specified if no else part is desired The conditionals nest so the text in the if and else part can contain all commands including conditionals Enumerations Syntax xx alt1 alt2 alt3 else For tags...

Page 184: ...onally scrolled while it is being displayed and scrollable formats can be displayed on the same line with non scrollable formats such as track elapsed time as long as they are separated into different...

Page 185: ...e rep_shuffle bmp 16 64 mm xd b xd c xd d xd e Four images at the same x and y position are preloaded in the example Which image to display is determined by the mm tag the repeat mode Example File Ex...

Page 186: ...11 treble 12 balance 0 time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported wps rockbox car wps lang rockbox afrikaans lng Note As you can see from the example configuration files do not ne...

Page 187: ...user settings that are described throughout this manual Hint Use the Save cfg File feature Main Menu Manage Settings to save the current settings then use a text editor to customize the settings file...

Page 188: ...n Replaygain is a post processing that equalises the playback volume of audio files to the same perceived loudness This post processing applies a factor to each single PCM sample and is therefore cons...

Page 189: ...choice select the best suiting codec when encoding the original source material 13 5 6 Sound settings In general all kinds of sound processing will need more CPU time and therefore consume more power...

Page 190: ...Appendix A File formats 190 The Rockbox manual version rUnversioned directory 150220 Sansa e200 and e200R Series...

Page 191: ...fmr Load the FM Presets previous are discarded Font fnt Change the user interface font to this one Image jpg View the JPEG image Link link Display list of target files and di rectories selecting one j...

Page 192: ...ack 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...

Page 193: ...ac 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 Wav...

Page 194: ...econds 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 s...

Page 195: ...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 S...

Page 196: ...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 Fea...

Page 197: ...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 G...

Page 198: ...JPEG files JPEG files must consist of a single scan with interleaved components as progessive and multi scan images require much more memory to decode C 2 Where to put album art The pictures can be na...

Page 199: ...bumartist 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 pro...

Page 200: ...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 targ...

Page 201: ...n V x y width height font Vf fgcolour Vb bgcolour Vg start end text 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 lower...

Page 202: ...l 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 t...

Page 203: ...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 i...

Page 204: ...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...

Page 205: ...on 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...

Page 206: ...huffle 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 Paus...

Page 207: ...l 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 conditi...

Page 208: ...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 vol...

Page 209: ...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...

Page 210: ...yer 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 Ma...

Page 211: ...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 R...

Page 212: ...re 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 Evalu...

Page 213: ...line with the display cycling round the defined sublines See section 13 2 4 page 184 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...

Page 214: ...pear 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...

Page 215: ...ion 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 offse...

Page 216: ...he 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 n...

Page 217: ...5s 30s 1min 2min 3min 5min 10min N A volume fade on off N A sort case on off N A show files all supported music playlists N A show filename exts off on unknown view_all N A follow playlist on off N A...

Page 218: ...way to get ranges from config h mAh car adapter mode on off N A usb hid on off N A usb keypad mode multimedia presentation browser mouse N A usb skip first drive on off N A qs top any setting name for...

Page 219: ...insert shuffled N A sort files 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...

Page 220: ...r 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...

Page 221: ...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 bar color bar gradient N A show...

Page 222: ...N A rec right gain 0 to 15 N A editable recordings off on N A rec timesplit off 0 05 0 10 0 15 0 30 1 00 2 00 4 00 6 00 8 00 16 00 24 00 h mm pre recording time off 1 to 30 s rec path path to dir N A...

Page 223: ...Appendix F Menu Overview 223 F Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual version rUnversioned directory 150220 Sansa e200 and e200R Series...

Page 224: ...ed 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...

Page 225: ...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 compute...

Page 226: ...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 Christi Scarbor ough S...

Page 227: ...Robert Kukla David Quesada Jared Stafford Martin Hensel St phane Doyon Austin Appel Andre Smith Travis Hyyppa Ian Webber Pavel Gnelitsa Lutz B hne Will Robertson Robert Carboneau Ye Wei Bryan Childs...

Page 228: ...Fran ois Dinel Francesco Rigoni Jo l Puik Klaas Bosteels Teruaki Kawashima Marcin ukasik Le Jin Alex Ben nee St phane Quertinmont Bartosz Fabianowski Adam Hogan Andrew Mahone Anton Veretenenko Vi cen...

Page 229: ...Goerner Richard Brittain Andrew Ryabinin Maksim Postolati Stanislav Chizhik Desu Rozen Olivier Kaloudoff Kessia Pinheiro Jean Louis Biasini Lorenzo Miori James Hunt Artur Juraszek Wieland Hoffmann Nat...

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