Chapter 8. General Settings
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Clip Counter.
Show the number of times the clip indicator went active during
recording in front of the peak meters.
Scale.
Select whether the peak meter displays linear or logarithmic values. The
human ear perceives loudness on a logarithmic scale. If the Scale setting is
set to
Logarithmic
(dB) scale, the volume values are scaled logarithmically.
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
Linear
display.
This setting cannot
be displayed in units like volts or watts because such units depend on your
headphones.
Minimum and maximum range.
These two options define the full value range
that the peak meter displays. Recommended values for the
Logarithmic
(dB) setting are -40 dB for minimum and 0 dB for maximum. Recommended
values for
Linear
display are 0 and 100%. Note that -40 dB is approxi-
mately 1% in linear value, but if you change the minimum setting in linear
mode slightly and then change to the dB scale, there will be a large change.
You can use these values for ‘zooming’ into the peak meter.
Default Codepage.
A codepage describes the way extended characters that are not
available within the ASCII character set are encoded. ID3v1 tags do not have a
codepage encoding contained so Rockbox needs to know what encoding has been
used when generating these tags. This should be “ISO-8859-1” but to support lan-
guages outside Western Europe most applications use the setting of your operating
system instead. If your operating system uses a different codepage and you are
getting garbled extended characters you should adjust this settings. In most cases
sticking to “ISO-8859-1” would be sufficient.
8.5. System
8.5.1. Disk
Options relating to the hard disk.
Directory Cache.
Rockbox has the ability to cache the contents of your drive in RAM.
The
Directory Cache
takes a small amount of memory away from Rockbox
that would otherwise be used to buffer music, but it speeds up navigation in the
file browser by eliminating the slight pause between the time a navigation button
is pressed and the time Rockbox responds. Turning this setting on activates the
directory cache, and turning it off deactivates the directory cache.
Note:
The first time you enable the directory cache, Rockbox will request a reboot
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of the player and upon restarting take a few minutes to scan the drive. After this,
the directory cache will work in the background.
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