Chapter 3. Quick Start
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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.
3.1.3. Starting the original firmware
Rockbox has a dual-boot feature. To boot into the original firmware, press and hold the
Left
button while turning on the player.
Note:
Rockbox does not boot into the original firmware when powered by a USB con-
b
nection. Older versions of Rockbox do not provide USB support. If you have such a
version installed you need to manually boot into the original firmware for data transfer
via USB.
3.1.4. Putting music on your player
Note:
Due to a bug in some OS X versions, the player can not be mounted, unless the
b
USB HID feature is disabled. See section
(page
) for more information.
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-and-Drop). Files may be placed
wherever you like on the player, but it is strongly suggested
NOT
to put them in the
/.rockbox
folder and instead put them in any other folder, e.g.
/
,
/music
or
/audio
.
The default directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (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. 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
(page
) for a list of supported audio formats.
3.1.5. 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
(page
)). To browse the files on your player, select
Files
(see section
(page
and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data
of your audio files, select
1
ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc.
The Rockbox manual
(version 3.14)
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