Chapter 8. General Settings
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mode slightly and then change to the dB scale, there will be a large change.
You can use these values for ‘zooming’ into the peak meter.
Default Codepage.
A codepage describes the way extended characters that are not
available within the ASCII character set are encoded. ID3v1 tags do not have a
codepage encoding contained so Rockbox needs to know what encoding has been
used when generating these tags. This should be “ISO-8859-1” but to support lan-
guages outside Western Europe most applications use the setting of your operating
system instead. If your operating system uses a different codepage and you are
getting garbled extended characters you should adjust this settings. In most cases
sticking to “ISO-8859-1” would be sufficient.
8.5. System
8.5.1. Disk
Options relating to the hard disk.
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.
8.5.2. 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 see 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.
Max Playlist Size.
This setting controls the maximum size of a playlist. The playlist
size can be between 1,000 and 32,000 files, in steps of 1,000 (default is 10,000).
Higher values will shorten the music buffer, so you should increase this setting
only
if you have very large playlists.
Glyphs To Cache.
This sets the default memory allocation size for fonts in unique
glyphs. This should be set to the number of unique language glyphs and punctu-
ation marks that are frequently displayed. The default is 250.
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