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3.1.2. Turning the player on and off
To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys:
Key
Action
On/Off
Start Rockbox
Long
On/Off
Shutdown Rockbox
On shutdown, Rockbox automatically saves its settings.
In the unlikely event of a software failure, hardware poweroff or reset can be per-
formed by holding down
On/Off
until the player shuts off or reboots.
3.1.3. Putting music on your player
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 ’n’ Drop). The default directory
structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (album art searching, WPS missing-
tag fallback) is: /ArtistName/AlbumName/*.ext. 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 M
AIN
M
ENU
. From
this menu you can reach every function of Rockbox, for more information (see sec-
tion
5.1
(page
34
)). To browse the files on you player select F
ILES
(see section
4.1
(page
19
)), and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data
1
of your audio files,
select D
ATABASE
(see section
4.2
(page
22
)).
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
Right
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
4.3
(page
25
). 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 F
ILE
B
ROWSER
stop the playback with the Long
On/Off
button or return to the file
browser while keeping playback running using
Mode
. In list views you can go back
one step with
Left
.
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ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc.
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