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HAPTER
4. B
ROWSING AND PLAYING
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4. Browsing and playing
4.1. File Browser
Figure 4.1.: The file browser
Rockbox lets you browse your music in either of two ways. The F
ILE
B
ROWSER
lets
you navigate through the files and directories on your player, entering directories and
executing the default action on each file. To help differentiate files, each file format is
displayed with an icon.
The D
ATABASE
B
ROWSER
, on the other hand, allows you to navigate through the
music on your player using categories like album, artist, genre, etc.
You can select whether to browse using the F
ILE
B
ROWSER
or the D
ATABASE
B
ROWSER
by selecting either F
ILES
or D
ATABASE
in the M
AIN
M
ENU
. If you choose the F
ILE
B
ROWSER
, the S
HOW
F
ILES
setting lets you select what types of files you wish to view.
See section
7.3
(page
47
) for more information on the S
HOW
F
ILES
setting.
Note:
The F
ILE
B
ROWSER
allows you to manipulate your files in ways that are not
b
available within the D
ATABASE
B
ROWSER
. Read more about D
ATABASE
in section
4.2
(page
22
). The remainder of this section deals with the F
ILE
B
ROWSER
.
Unlike the Archos Firmware, Rockbox provides multivolume support for the Multi-
MediaCard, this means the player can access both data volumes (internal memory and
the MMC), thus being able to for instance, build playlists with files from both volumes.
In the F
ILE
B
ROWSER
a new directory will appear as soon as the device has read the
content after inserting the card. This new directory’s name is generated as
<MMC1>
,
and will behave exactly as any other directory on the player.
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OCKBOX MANUAL
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