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when you are in the car, and a regular LCD setting when you are using headphones.
You could create configuration files that control only the volume and LCD settings.
Create a few different files with different settings, give each file a different name (such
as
car.cfg
,
headphones.cfg
, etc.), and you can then use the B
ROWSE
.
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
.
11.3.3. The M
ANAGE
S
ETTINGS
menu
The M
ANAGE
S
ETTINGS
menu can be found in the M
AIN
M
ENU
. The M
ANAGE
S
ET
-
TINGS
menu allows you to save and load
.cfg
files. The M
ANAGE
S
ETTINGS
menu
also allows you to load or save different firmware versions.
Browse .cfg Files
Opens the file browser in the
/.rockbox
directory and displays
all
.cfg
(configuration) files. Selecting a
.cfg
file will cause Rockbox to load
the settings contained in that file. Pressing
Left
will exit back to the M
ANAGE
S
ETTINGS
menu. See the W
RITE
.
CFG FILES
option on the M
ANAGE
S
ETTINGS
menu for details of how to save and edit a configuration file.
Reset Settings
This wipes the saved settings in the player and resets all settings to
their default values.
Save .cfg File
This option writes a
.cfg
file to your player’s disk. The configuration
file has the
.cfg
extension and is used to store all of the user settings that are
described throughout this manual.
Hint: Use the S
AVE
.
CFG
F
ILE
feature (M
AIN
M
ENU
→
G
ENERAL
S
ETTINGS
) to
save the current settings, then use a text editor to customize the settings file. See
Appendix section
C
(page
121
) for the full reference of available options.
Save Sound Settings
This option writes a
.cfg
file to your player’s disk. The con-
figuration file has the
.cfg
extension and is used to store all of the sound related
settings.
Save Theme Settings
This option writes a
.cfg
file to your player’s disk. The con-
figuration file has the
.cfg
extension and is used to store all of the theme related
settings.
11.4. Firmware Loading
When your player powers on, it loads the Archos firmware in ROM, which automat-
ically checks your player’s root directory for a file named
ajbrec.ajz
. Note that
Archos firmware can only read the first ten characters of each filename in this process,
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