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Appendix A. File formats

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The Rockbox manual

(version 3.14)

Archos Ondio

Summary of Contents for Ondio 128 SP

Page 1: ...The Rockbox Manual for Archos Ondio 128 SP rockbox org April 30 2017...

Page 2: ...3 Jos Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal Peter Schlenker Version 3 14 Built using pdfL A TEX Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentat...

Page 3: ...ng Rockbox 15 2 5 1 Automatic Uninstallation 15 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation 15 2 6 Troubleshooting 15 3 Quick Start 16 3 1 Basic Overview 16 3 1 1 The player s controls 16 3 1 2 Turning the player on...

Page 4: ...34 5 The Main Menu 35 5 1 Introducing the Main Menu 35 5 2 Navigating the Main Menu 35 5 3 Recent Bookmarks 36 5 4 Files 36 5 5 Database 37 5 6 Now Playing Resume Playback 37 5 7 Settings 37 5 7 1 So...

Page 5: ...kipping 47 7 13 Rewind on Pause 48 8 General Settings 49 8 1 Playlist 49 8 2 File View 49 8 3 Database 51 8 4 Display 51 8 5 System 53 8 5 1 Battery 53 8 5 2 Limits 53 8 5 3 Advanced Key Lock 54 8 6 S...

Page 6: ...ake 78 10 1 24 Snake 2 79 10 1 25 Sokoban 79 10 1 26 Solitaire 81 10 1 27 Spacerocks 82 10 1 28 Star 82 10 1 29 Sudoku 83 10 1 30 Wormlet 84 10 1 31 Xobox 87 10 1 32 XWorld 87 10 2 Demos 88 10 2 1 Bou...

Page 7: ...5 Disk Tidy 114 10 4 6 Firmware_flash 115 10 4 7 Keybox 115 10 4 8 Lrcplayer 115 10 4 9 Main Menu Configuration 118 10 4 10 md5sum 118 10 4 11 Metronome 119 10 4 12 One Time Password Client 122 10 4 1...

Page 8: ...ckbox Image in Flash 141 11 5 5 Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents 142 11 6 Optimising battery runtime 142 11 6 1 Peak Meter 142 11 6 2 Audio format and bitrate 142 A File formats 143 A 1 Suppo...

Page 9: ...Tags 158 C 25 1 Options 158 C 26 Other Tags 159 D Config file options 161 E Menu Overview 165 F User feedback 166 F 1 Bug reports 166 F 1 1 Rules for submitting new bug reports 166 F 2 Feature ideas...

Page 10: ...n put into making Rockbox sound the best it can and improvements are constantly being made All models have access to a large number of plugins including many games applications and graphical demos You...

Page 11: ...h icons on the margin to help you finding important parts or parts you could skip The following icons are used Note This indicates a note A note starts always with the text Note In order to b make fin...

Page 12: ...s a graphical application that does almost everything for you However should you encounter a problem then the manual way is still available to you Rockbox itself comes as a single package There is no...

Page 13: ...te Installation from the Quick Start tab then Rockbox Utility will automatically install the release version of Rockbox Using the Installation tab will allow you to select which version you wish to in...

Page 14: ...player for the Rockbox files The zip file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs If the contents of the zip file are extracted correctly you will have a file called ajbrec ajz in...

Page 15: ...x Utility for uninstallation but will not be able to do this selectively 2 5 2 Manual Uninstallation If you would like to go back to using the original Archos software connect the player to your compu...

Page 16: ...ight side which is the MMC slot Holding the player with this slot in the described position you ll find the following On the curved top from left to right are the headphone socket the On Off button Ap...

Page 17: ...as the Artist name 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 Ar...

Page 18: ...the context menu vary depending on the situation it gets called The context menu itself presents you with some operations you can perform with the currently highlighted file In the file browser this i...

Page 19: ...our player over USB hold Mode while plugging it in This will prevent it from connecting to your computer and let you continue to use it normally Your player must already be in Rockbox for this to func...

Page 20: ...the Show Files setting lets you select what types of files you wish to view See section 8 2 page 50 for more information on the Show Files setting Note The File Browser allows you to manipulate your...

Page 21: ...enu The Context Menu allows you to perform certain operations on files or directories To access the Context Menu position the selector over a file or directory and access the context menu with Long Ri...

Page 22: ...the default action and select a viewer by hand For example this function can be used to view a text file even if the file has a non standard extension i e the file has an extension of something other...

Page 23: ...Morse Code Input setting Note When the cursor is on the input line Mode deletes the preceding character b Key Action Left Right Move the cursor on the virtual keyboard If you move out of the picker a...

Page 24: ...ectories on your player whose contents should not be added to the database Placing a file named database ignore in a directory will exclude the files in that directory and all its subdirectories from...

Page 25: ...ckbox database_changelog txt backup to be conveniently loaded into the database If Auto Update is enabled this is per formed automatically when the database is initialized 4 2 4 Using the Database Onc...

Page 26: ...ric system length numeric system Lm track len min numeric system Ls track len sec numeric system 4 3 While Playing Screen The While Playing Screen WPS displays various pieces of information about the...

Page 27: ...ising your WPS While Playing Screen 4 3 1 WPS Key Controls Key Action Up Down Volume up down Left Go to beginning of track or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track go to the previous track...

Page 28: ...es In linear mode each dot is a 10 mark In dBFS mode the dots represent the following values from right to left 0 dB 3 dB 6 dB 9 dB 12 dB 18 dB 24 dB 30 dB 40 dB 50 dB 60 dB 4 3 3 The WPS Context Menu...

Page 29: ...age 41 for more information Playback Settings This is a shortcut to the Playback Settings Menu where you can configure shuffle repeat party mode skip length and other settings affecting the playback o...

Page 30: ...can be adjusted between 50 and 200 50 means half the normal playback speed and a pitch that is an octave lower than the normal pitch 200 means double playback speed and a pitch that is an octave high...

Page 31: ...chapter Rockbox can Insert into a playlist in several places Queue In Rockbox to Queue a song means to put the song into a playlist and then to remove the song from the playlist once it has been play...

Page 32: ...ated playlist will be named root m3u8 and saved in the root of your player s disk 4 4 3 Adding music to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist Figure 4 5 The Playlist Submenu The Playlist Submen...

Page 33: ...ntire directories to a playlist If the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a single track it will put only that track into the playlist On the other hand if the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a directory R...

Page 34: ...rrent playlist either enter the Playlist submenu in the WPS Context Menu see section 4 3 3 page 28 and select Save Current Playlist or enter the Playlist Options menu in the Main Menu and select Save...

Page 35: ...ox will save settings when it accesses the flash storage the next time for example when refilling the music buffer or navigating through the File Browser Changes to settings may therefore not be saved...

Page 36: ...t bookmark Up Select the previous bookmark Right Resume from the selected bookmark Left or On Off Exit Recent Bookmark menu Long Left Delete the currently selected bookmark Long Right Enter the contex...

Page 37: ...ther value and would like to restore the default value 5 7 1 Sound Settings The Sound Settings menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to customise your listening experience The det...

Page 38: ...playlist excluding queued tracks to the specified file If no path is provided then playlist is saved to the current directory View Catalogue Provides a simple interface to maintain several playlists...

Page 39: ...sking for help 5 11 Shortcuts This menu item is a container for user defined shortcuts to files folders or settings With a shortcut A file can be run i e a music file played plugin started or a cfg lo...

Page 40: ...a needs to be sleep X where X is the number of minutes to run the sleep timer for 0 to disable name is required for this shortcut type shutdown data is ignored name can be used to display text If the...

Page 41: ...volume Values higher than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible These volume levels will ordi narily lead to distorted sound but might work nicel...

Page 42: ...o in what manner they will be combined Available options are Stereo Leave the audio signal unmodified Mono Combine both channels and send the resulting signal to both stereo channels resulting in a mo...

Page 43: ...ring a constant volume for in car use and other applications where background noise makes a constant loudness desirable A longer timeout means that the change in volume back to the previous level will...

Page 44: ...your headphones or speakers This is usually given in the specification for the headphones speakers MDB shape It is recommended that this parameter be set to 1 5 times the centre frequency This is the...

Page 45: ...et to Yes Rockbox b will move on to the next directory on your hard drive If the Auto Change Directory option is set to No playback will stop when the current directory or playlist is finished All The...

Page 46: ...rty Mode Enables unstoppable music playback When new songs are selected they are queued at the end of the current dynamic playlist instead of being played immediately Pausing and stopping playback is...

Page 47: ...formation from the ID3 tags When you enable this option you ll have to reboot for it to come into effect Cuesheet files should have the same file name as the audio file they reference except with the...

Page 48: ...ng this option with Repeat set to One 7 13 Rewind on Pause This option rewinds the current track by a small amount whenever it is paused not stopped The amount to rewind can be set between 0 and 15 se...

Page 49: ...s with options relating to how the File Browser displays files Sort Case Sensitive If this option is set to Yes all files that start with upper case letters will be listed first followed by all files...

Page 50: ...re shown No files or directories are hidden Supported The File Browser displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox see section A 1 page 144 Files and directories starting with dot or with...

Page 51: ...d to find this menu option again LCD Mode This setting lets you invert the colours of the display Upside Down Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest the buttons This is sometime...

Page 52: ...ery 3s will increase the scroll speed every 3 seconds while Up or Down is held Peak Meter The peak meter can be configured with a number of parameters Peak Release This determines how fast the bar shr...

Page 53: ...Battery Capacity This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity in mAh the battery being used has The default is 1000 mAh which is the capacity value for the standard batteries shipped with th...

Page 54: ...olume up down Play Toggling Play Pause Seek Seeking in a track Skip Skipping of a track Disable Notify Suppresses the notification Buttons Locked still will if power button is pressed Note This is a p...

Page 55: ...nitiate a Sleep Timer with the duration shown in brackets Cancel Sleep Timer remaining Shown when the Sleep Timer is active this option will cancel the current Sleep Timer The time remaining before co...

Page 56: ...cent Only or Ask Recent Only is selected bookmarks are only created if the Maintain a List of Recent Bookmarks is enabled Note The Resume function remembers your position in the most recently ac b ces...

Page 57: ...or On Off Exits Recent Bookmark menu Long Left Deletes the currently selected bookmark Long Right Enters the context menu for the selected bookmark There are two options in the context menu Resume wi...

Page 58: ...ically produced synthetically using a text to speech engine on a PC Off No checking is made for directory talk clips they are not used even if present This can reduce disk activity Use of a talk clip...

Page 59: ...s When Voice Directories is set to Spell Directory will be voiced after each spelled out directory Announce Battery Level When this option is enabled the battery level is announced when it falls under...

Page 60: ...section 11 1 3 page 130 for further details about fonts While Playing Screen Opens the File Browser in the rockbox wps directory and displays all wps files Selecting one will activate it Left or On Of...

Page 61: ...graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar Line Selector Type This option allows you to select which type of line selector to use Pointer A small arrow to the left of the menu text Bar i...

Page 62: ...e Chip 8 emulator in section 10 3 2 page 98 Frotz in section 10 3 3 page 99 and ZXBox in section 10 3 14 page 108 10 1 1 2048 Figure 10 1 2048 2048 is a simple addictive puzzle game played by moving t...

Page 63: ...1 without going over or simply beat out the dealer for the best hand Although this may not seem difficult blackjack is a game renowned for the strategy involved This version includes the ability to sp...

Page 64: ...ke effect you must catch it with the paddle Look out for the bad ones Special items Displayed Name Description N Normal Returns paddle to normal D Die Ball dies lose a life L Life Gain a life F Fire A...

Page 65: ...Points are awarded depending on how quickly the level was completed Key Action Mode Pause game Left Right Aim the bubble Up Fire bubble On Off or Long On Off Exit to menu 10 1 5 Chessbox Figure 10 5...

Page 66: ...ficial intelligence fight against itself When you quit the game the current state will be saved and restored when you resume the game The menu also allows the user to reload the last game saved save t...

Page 67: ...Action Mode Roll dice again On Off Quit 10 1 8 Flipit Figure 10 7 Flipit Flipping the colour of the token under the cursor also flips the tokens above below left and right of the cursor The aim is to...

Page 68: ...on the order of a minute or two on particularly slow devices Large SGF files may stop audio playback for the duration of the plugin s run in order to free up more memory and some very large SGF files...

Page 69: ...in tree navigation mode On Off Toggle between board and tree navigation modes Mode Play a move or use a tool if play mode has been changed Long Mode Main Menu Menus Main Menu The main menu for game s...

Page 70: ...me compensation to the white player for black having the first move Ruleset The name of the ruleset in use for this game The NZ and GOE rulesets include suicide as a legal move for multi stone suicide...

Page 71: ...ptures or count as ko threats Add White Mode Add white stones to the board as desired These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats Erase Stone Mode Remove stones from...

Page 72: ...10 10 Jewels Jewels is a simple yet addicting game which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type The goal of the game is to score as man...

Page 73: ...0 11 MazezaM The goal of this puzzle game is to escape a dungeon consisting of ten mazezams These are rooms containing rows of blocks which can be shifted left or right You can move the rows only by p...

Page 74: ...void them When the player is certain that they know the location of a mine it can be tagged to avoid accidentally stepping on it Key Action Up Down Left Right Move the cursor across the minefield Mode...

Page 75: ...ball the other scores The game starts in demo mode with the CPU controlling both sides As soon as a button to control one of the paddles is pressed control of that paddle passes to the player so for...

Page 76: ...ave a majority of own coloured pieces showing at the end of the game The game rules can be found in the internet You can choose to play manually you place both the white and dark pieces or to play aga...

Page 77: ...ks fall faster If the pile of blocks reaches the ceiling the game is over Key Action Mode On Off Restart game Left Move left Right Move right Down Move down Mode Up Rotate anticlockwise Up Rotate cloc...

Page 78: ...o turn your own pictures into a puzzle Key controls Key Action Left Right Up and Down Move Tile Long Mode Shuffle Mode Switch between pictures default puzzle and your own image if launched via Open Wi...

Page 79: ...apples that pop up on the screen Each time an apple is eaten the snake gets longer The game ends when the snake hits a wall or runs into itself Key Action Up Down Left Right Steer the snake Mode Paus...

Page 80: ...o de wiki index php title Level_format Key Action In game Up Down Left Right Move the sokoban up down left or right On Off Menu Mode Left Back to previous level Mode Up Restart level Mode Right Go to...

Page 81: ...low perhaps one in thirty hands For the full set of rules to the game and other interesting information visit http www solitairecentral com rules Klondike html Key Action Up Down Left Right Move Curso...

Page 82: ...n Teleport Mode On Off Pause game On Off Quit 10 1 28 Star Figure 10 25 Star game This is a puzzle game It is actually a rewrite of Star a game written by CDK designed for the hp48 calculator Rules Ta...

Page 83: ...viewer The selected Sudoku will get loaded and you can start solving it The sudoku games need to be stored as text files with the extension ss as single file per game You can create and save your own...

Page 84: ...number to scratchpad On Off Quit Some places where can you can find ss files Simple Sudoku Advanced Puzzle Packs 1 and 2 located near the bottom of that page http www angusj com sudoku Kjell s Sudoku...

Page 85: ...nnoying tendency to accumulate Worms Thou shall not eat worms Neither other worms nor thyself Eating worms is blasphemous cannibalism not healthy and causes instant death And it doesn t help anyway th...

Page 86: ...score board entry displays Argh it means the worm is dead because it tried to eat an argh Until we can make the worm say Argh it is your job to say Argh aloud Wormed The worm tried to eat another worm...

Page 87: ...nning platform game by ric Chahi you must evade capture and do your best to escape an alien planet After an experiment goes awry the hero must team up with an unlikely ally when they both become fugit...

Page 88: ...On Off Exits bounce demo Available options are Xdist Ydist The distance to X axis and Y axis respectively Xadd Yadd How fast the code moves on the sine curve on each axis Xsane Ysane Changes the appea...

Page 89: ...Left Pause Mode Cycle draw mode Right Left Select axis to adjust Up Down Change speed angle speed can not be changed while paused On Off Quit 10 2 4 Demystify Figure 10 31 Demystify Demystify is a sc...

Page 90: ...tion Up Down Increase decrease number of flames Left Toggle flame type Right Toggle moving flames On Off Quit 10 2 6 Fractals Figure 10 33 Fractals Mandelbrot set This demonstration draws fractal imag...

Page 91: ...default image On Off Quit 10 2 7 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen Key Action Right Left Increase decrease speed on the x axis Up Down Increase decrease speed on the y axi...

Page 92: ...ue demo 10 2 10 Oscilloscope Figure 10 35 Oscilloscope This demo shows the shape of the sound samples that make up the music being played Keys Key Action Mode Toggle filled curve plot Mode Right Toggl...

Page 93: ...re important that these are working correctly before attempting to use PictureFlow In addition there are some other points of which to be aware PictureFlow will accept album art larger than the dimens...

Page 94: ...uding the centre slide Therefore if set to 4 there will be 3 slides on the left the centre slide and then 3 slides on the right Zoom Changes the distance at which slides are rendered from the camera S...

Page 95: ...nto this plugin A cells file is a text file A capital O marks a live cell a dot marks a dead cell all other characters are ignored Everything on a line starting with an exclamation sign and including...

Page 96: ...VU meter which displays the volume of the left and right audio channels There are 3 types of meter selectable The analogue meter is a classic needle style The digital meter is modelled after LED volu...

Page 97: ...e s Context Menu only Shortcuts link Chip 8 Emulator ch8 Frotz z1 z8 Image Viewer bmp jpg jpeg png Lua scripting language lua Movie Player rvf Search m3u m3u8 x Sort x Text Viewer txt nfo VBRfix mp3 x...

Page 98: ...an exception After playing it the list will be shown even if the file contains just one entry If the list you are seeing is from shortcuts link in the root directory you can delete the selected entry...

Page 99: ...ZPluginChip8 Check out the HP48 chip games section http www hpcalc org hp48 games chip Links to other chip8 emulators http www zophar net chip8 html 10 3 3 Frotz Frotz is a Z Machine interpreter for p...

Page 100: ...page for the original Unix port http frotz sourceforge net A Beginner s Guide to Playing Interactive Fiction http www microheaven com IFGuide Key Action Up Display keyboard to enter text Mode Press en...

Page 101: ...ges Processing could also fail if the image is too big to decode which will be explained by a respective message 10 3 5 Movie Player Play movies on your player In order to do this movies must be in AV...

Page 102: ...all the items and it allows you to select which of the items you want to buy When you have finished selecting the items use the menu to go to the view mode and you will see only the items you wish to...

Page 103: ...l down Left Top of file Narrow mode One screen left Wide mode Right Bottom of file Narrow mode One screen right Wide mode Mode Toggle autoscroll Mode On Off Set Reset bookmarks Long Mode Enter menu On...

Page 104: ...ages such as Arabic or Hebrew Left Set the text alignment to the left Show Header Select whether to show the header The header displays the file path No Do not display the header Yes Display the heade...

Page 105: ...n is re tained when scrolling pages No Do not retain previous line Yes Retain previous line Auto scroll Speed Control the speed of auto scrolling in number of lines per second Available options are 1...

Page 106: ...in offers a way to remove a theme Open the Context Menu see section 4 1 2 page 21 upon a theme cfg file and select Open With theme_remove Some files are not removed regardless of the Remove Options su...

Page 107: ...in Specifies how the sbs file belonging to a theme cfg file is han dled Iconset Specifies how the iconset bmp file belonging to a theme cfg file is han dled Viewers Iconset Specifies how the viewers i...

Page 108: ...n the wav file or changing the volume once the plugin is running is b not possible Wavplay uses the sound settings that were used before except for pitch The only action that can be performed is to st...

Page 109: ...zxboxq z80 Save Snapshot Saves a snapshot of the current state You would enter the full path and desired name for example games zx snapshots chuckie sna The snapshot format will be chosen after the e...

Page 110: ...to test your battery s performance whilst using your player normally Results can be submitted to the ZBatteryRuntime wiki page How it works Once loaded Battery Benchmark runs in the background recordi...

Page 111: ...Charger An A in that column shows if the power adapter was attached to the unit at the time of the measurement U USB powered Only for targets that support this A U will indicate if the unit was using...

Page 112: ...2nd buttons will toggle between other available math functions Key Action Left Right Up Down Move around the keypad Mode Select a button Long Mode Calculate On Off Quit 10 4 3 Chess Clock Figure 10 4...

Page 113: ...s Key Action On Off Exit plugin Left Restart round for the current player Right Pause the time press again to continue Up Switch to next player Down Switch to previous player Mode Open menu Right to s...

Page 114: ...ter connecting your player over USB Select the files you want to delete in the Files to Clean menu and select Start Cleaning to begin the process The settings are stored in the plain text file rockbox...

Page 115: ...d for confirmation of the master password The master password is the password that you must use to access your stored passwords Once inside enter the context menu by pressing Long Right From the conte...

Page 116: ...cs files The plugin checks the following directories for lyrics files 1 The directory containing the audio file and its parent directories 2 For each of the above directories the plugin searches for a...

Page 117: ...Lrcplayer Menu Lrcplayer Menu Theme settings Change theme related settings Show Statusbar Show hide the statusbar Display Title Show hide the track title Display Time Show hide the current time Backli...

Page 118: ...It changes the appropriate configuration file as described in section 11 1 1 page 130 When you start the plugin the available main menu items will be displayed By pressing Right you open a menu with t...

Page 119: ...Action Long On Off Exit plugin On Off Stop Long Mode Start Mode Tap tempo Left Right Adjust tempo Up Down Adjust volume Programmed Track Mode When starting the plugin as a viewer for tempomap files e...

Page 120: ...art the position is at the second beat of the first bar of five The syntax of programmed tracks in tempomap files follows the format defined by http das nasophon de klick Actually the goal is to keep...

Page 121: ...examples default 0 4 4 120 Xxxx rockon2 0 4 4 120 xXxX solea 0 12 4 180 xxXxxXxXxXxX shuffle 0 12 12 120 x xX xx xX funky 0 16 16 120 x x X X Xx X X The 12 12 for the shuffle create 1 4 triplets Just...

Page 122: ...ur device If necessary rewrite the URI so it is in the format shown above For example GitHub s URI has a slash after the provider In order for this URI to be properly parsed you must rewrite the accou...

Page 123: ...d rockbox folder_advance_dir txt Only the directories in this file and any contained directories will be scanned You can have up to 10 directories ignored by the scan by placing a minus sign before th...

Page 124: ...choose from Ohms Kiloohms Megaohms and use the on screen keyboard to input the value of the resistor that you would like to know the colour code of The colour codes are presented textually LED resist...

Page 125: ...rating the result files If desired deleting the input file with the browser not the split editor How To Use The Split Editor When the device plays the song just hit the On Off button to pause when pla...

Page 126: ...e Scale section 10 4 16 page 128 below The loop mode In the middle of the bottom line the loop mode icon is displayed There are 4 different loop modes Pressing Mode Up changes to the next loop mode Pl...

Page 127: ...of the files you want to save and their names When finished select Save and the files will be written to disk Note that files can not be overwritten so filenames that do not exist yet must be chosen I...

Page 128: ...or pop music switching to the linear scale may prove more effective since the logarithmic scale compresses loud noises and makes it more difficult to identify characteristic shapes Note that it is al...

Page 129: ...Open with menu item your file should be shown on the screen You can now edit the file The Text Editor is line based This means you can edit one line at a time using the Virtual Keyboard see section 4...

Page 130: ...then The following configuration example will change the main menu so that it will contain only the items for the file browser for resuming the playback and for changing the settings the latter will b...

Page 131: ...ximum of 24 characters long If your language is not yet supported and you want to write your own language file find the instructions on the Rockbox website ZLangFiles 11 1 5 UI Viewport By default the...

Page 132: ...theme you must save the theme files with UTF 8 character encoding This can be done in most editors for example Notepad in Windows 2000 or XP but not in 9x ME can do this Files Locations Each different...

Page 133: ...viewports will be drawn over any other viewports already drawn onto that area of the screen Viewport Declaration Syntax V x y width height font font is a number 0 is the built in system font 1 is the...

Page 134: ...ort through the SBS file and to conditionally select different UI viewports Vi label This viewport is used as Custom UI Viewport in the case that the theme doesn t have a ui viewport set in the theme...

Page 135: ...f the tag has no value The WPS parser will always display the last part if the tag has no value or if the list of alternatives is too short Next Song Info You can display information about the next so...

Page 136: ...for 2 seconds Display current and remaining track time for 3 seconds repeat Conditionals can be used with sublines to display a different set and or number of sublines on the line depending on the eva...

Page 137: ...configuration files A configuration file is simply a text file with the extension cfg A configuration file may reside anywhere on the disk Multiple configuration files are permitted So for example you...

Page 138: ...ferent files with different settings give each file a different name such as car cfg headphones cfg etc and you can then use the Browse cfg files option to quickly change settings A special case confi...

Page 139: ...iles with names like ajbrec ajz old and so on because it is possible that the player will load a file other than the one you intended 11 4 1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader Rockbox is able to load and start...

Page 140: ...irmware contains a bootloader and two images The first image is the permanent rescue software to be used in case something is wrong with the second main image In current firmware files this first imag...

Page 141: ...takes just a few seconds 5 In the unlikely event that the programming or verify steps should give you any error do not switch off the box Otherwise you ll have seen it working for the last time While...

Page 142: ...Rockbox offers a lot of settings that have high impact on the battery runtime of your player The largest power savings can be achieved through disabling unneeded hardware components for some of those...

Page 143: ...Appendix A File formats 143 The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Archos Ondio...

Page 144: ...jpg View the JPEG image Link link Display list of target files and di rectories selecting one jumps to the target See section 10 3 1 page 97 Language File lng Load the language file Playlist m3u m3u8...

Page 145: ...images require much more memory to decode B 2 Where to put album art The pictures can be named a number of different ways and placed to a number of different locations You can have pictures specific...

Page 146: ...albumtitle bmp or albumartist albumtitle bmp Doublequotes will be replaced by single quotes If no album artist is set artist will be used instead See ZAlbumArt in the wiki for programs that will help...

Page 147: ...line which will not be shown in the WPS C 2 Hardware Capabilities Tag Description cc Check for presence of a real time clock returns c when used unconditionally tp Does this target have a radio Tp Ind...

Page 148: ...ewports Tag Description V x y width height font See section 11 2 2 Vl identifier Preloads a viewport for later display identifier is a single lowercase letter a z and the parameters use the same logic...

Page 149: ...here the value 1 is used when the battery level isn t known it usually is The value N is only used when the battery level is ex actly 100 percent An image can also be used the propor tion of the image...

Page 150: ...mpcsv8 aache ay gbs hes sgc vgm kss unknown The codec or der is as shown above ff File Frequency in Hz fk File Frequency in kHz fm File Name fn File Name without extension fp File Path fs File Size i...

Page 151: ...rack time pv Current volume in dB Can also be used in a conditional pv Mute 0 dB Above 0 dB Mute is 0 volume is the values between Mute and max 0 dB is max volume and Above 0 dB is amplified volume Th...

Page 152: ...with f pt and s Example Vp 1 pp it pp fn Display the playlist position then either the track title from the tags or the filename The viewer will display as many tracks as will fit in the viewport C 1...

Page 153: ...FM Radio screen 5 Current Playlist screen 6 Settings menus 7 File browser 8 Database browser 9 Plugin browser 10 Quickscreen 11 Pitchscreen 12 Setting chooser 13 Playlist Catalogue Viewer 14 Plugin 15...

Page 154: ...nged and some amount of time after that i e after the volume button has been released The optional parameter t specifies that amount of time in seconds If it is not specified 1 second is assumed The t...

Page 155: ...s to 0 if both x and y are not speci fied nimages optional number of sub images tiled vertically of the same height contained in the bitmap Default is 1 xd n i tag offset Display a preloaded image n i...

Page 156: ...s limits C 21 Alignment and language direction Tag Description al Align the text left aL Align the text left or to the right if RTL language is in use ac Centre the text ar Align the text right aR Ali...

Page 157: ...the tag parameters are true or tag1 tag2 tagN Logical or operator Will be evaluate to true if any of the tag parameters are true Examples of the if tag if pv 0 Clipping possible Volume OK will displa...

Page 158: ...r to make the bar appear on the line of the tag as if it was a text tag width width of the bar for the full viewport width height height of the bar to set to the font height for horizontal bars and to...

Page 159: ...te If the slider option is used the bar will be shrunk so that the slider fits inside b the specified width and height Example A 100px bar image with a 16px slider image needs the bar to be 116px wide...

Page 160: ...cter The character The character s Indicate that the line should scroll Can occur anywhere in a line given that the text is displayed see conditionals above You can specify up to ten scrolling lines S...

Page 161: ...low N A antiskip 5s 15s 30s 1min 2min 3min 5min 10min N A volume fade on off N A sort case on off N A show files all supported music playlists N A show filename exts off on unknown view_all N A follow...

Page 162: ...attery capacity devise a way to get ranges from config h mAh battery type alkaline nimh N A idle poweroff off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 30 45 60 min sleeptimer duration 5 to 300 in steps of 5 min sleept...

Page 163: ...k skip on off N A start in screen previous root files dB wps menu bookmarks N A playlist catalog directory path to dir N A list_accel_start_delay 0 to 10 ms list_accel_wait 1 to 10 s loudness 0 to 17...

Page 164: ...get ranges from config h pixels volume display graphic numeric N A battery display graphic numeric N A font path filename fnt N A kbd path filename kbd N A invert on off N A flip display on off N A se...

Page 165: ...Appendix E Menu Overview 165 E Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual version 3 14 Archos Ondio...

Page 166: ...did and what happened Whether the problem is repeatable or a one time occurrence All relevant data regarding the problem such as playlists MP3 files etc IMPORTANT F 2 Feature ideas To suggest an idea...

Page 167: ...for this daunting task Archos Multimedia support The Archos Multimedia is a completely different beast It is an entirely differ ent architecture different CPU and upgrading the software is done a comp...

Page 168: ...tand them Add scandisk like features It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to a...

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