Chapter 3.
Quick Start
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docking station and finally on the right hand side of the bottom of the unit is a mini
USB socket for connecting directly to USB.
Finally on the right hand side of the unit are some control buttons. Going from the
bottom of the unit to the top there is a small round
A
buttton then a rocker volume
switch with of the
Volume down
button below the
Volume up
button. Above that is
are two more small round buttons, the
Menu
button and nearest to the top of the unit
the
Power
button, which is held down to turn the player on or off.
3.1.2 Turning the player on and off
To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys:
Key
Action
Power
Start Rockbox
Long
Power
Shutdown Rockbox
On shutdown, Rockbox automatically saves its settings.
If you have problems with your settings, such as accidentally having set the colours to
black on black, they can be reset at boot time. See the Reset Settings in section
11.3.3
(page
139
) for details.
In the unlikely event of a software failure, hardware poweroff or reset can be performed
by holding down the battery switch 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, 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. While files may be organized however you
like, the
Z
AlbumArt
wiki page explains the requirement for Album Art to work properly,
and 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
A.2
(page
141
) 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
5.1
(page
37
)). To browse the files on you player select
Files
(see section
4.1
(page
21
)), and
The Rockbox manual
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