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General Settings
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effect whatsoever on actual battery life. This setting only affects the accuracy of
the battery life estimation as shown on screen.
Charge During USB Connection:
This option lets you control whether the player should
charge during the USB connection and hence draw the full 500mA. Turning it
Off
is recommended if the dap is connected through an unpowered USB hub or a laptop
port.
8.5.3 Disk
Options relating to the hard disk.
Disk Spindown:
Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it is
idle for a certain amount of time. This setting controls the amount of time between
the last user activity and the time that the disk spins down. This idle time is only
affected by user activity, like navigating through the
File Browser
. When the
hard disk spins up to fill the audio buffer, it automatically spins down afterwards.
Directory Cache:
Rockbox has the ability to cache the contents of your drive in RAM.
The
Directory Cache
takes a small amount of memory away from Rockbox
that would otherwise be used to buffer music, but it speeds up navigation in the
file browser by eliminating the slight pause between the time a navigation button
is pressed and the time Rockbox responds. Turning this setting on activates the
directory cache, and turning it off deactivates the directory cache.
Note:
The first time you enable the directory cache, Rockbox will request a reboot
b
of the player and upon restarting take a few minutes to scan the drive. After this,
the directory cache will work in the background.
8.5.4 Idle Poweroff
Rockbox can be configured to turn off power after the unit has been idle for a defined
number of minutes. The player is idle when playback is stopped or paused. It is not idle
while the USB or charger is connected . Settings are either
Off
or
1
to
10
minutes in
1 minute steps. Then
15,30,45
and
60
minutes are available.
8.5.5 Limits
This sub menu relates to limits in the Rockbox operating system.
Max Entries in File Browser:
This setting controls the limit on the number of files
that you can put in any particular directory in the file browser. You can configure
the size to be between 50 and 10,000 files in steps of 50. The default is 400. Higher
values will shorten the music buffer, so you should increase this setting
only
if you
have directories with a large number of files.
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