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directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (album art searching, and
missing-tag fallback in some WPSes) uses the parent directory of a song as the Album
name, and the parent directory of that folder as the Artist name. WPSes may display
information incorrectly if your files are not properly tagged, and you have your music
organized in a way different than they assume when attempting to guess the Artist and
Album names from your filetree. See section
(page
) for the requirements for
Album Art to work properly.
See section
(page
) for a list of supported audio
formats.
3.1.4. The first contact
After you have first started the player, you’ll be presented by the
Main Menu
. From
this menu you can reach every function of Rockbox, for more information (see section
(page
)). To browse the files on your player, select
Files
(see section
(page
and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data
of your audio files, select
Database
(see section
(page
3.1.5. Basic controls
When browsing files and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented.
The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive. In
the tree view use
Down
and
Up
to move around the selection. Use
Select
,
Right
or
Play
to select an item.
When browsing the file system selecting an audio file plays
it. The view switches to the “While playing screen”, usually abbreviated as “WPS”
(see section
(page
). The dynamic playlist gets replaced with the contents of the
current directory. This way you can easily treat directories as playlists. The created
dynamic playlist can be extended or modified while playing. This is also known as “on-
the-fly 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
Select
.
In list views you can go back one step with
Left
.
3.1.6. 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 can modify
the dynamic playlist while playing and also save it to a file. If you do not want to use
playlists you can simply play your files directory based. Playlists are covered in detail
in section
(page
1
ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc.
The Rockbox manual
(version 3.14)
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