Chapter 3.
Quick Start
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Starting from the left hand side on the bottom of the unit, nearer to the front than
the back, is a recessed switch which controls whether the battery is on or off. When this
switch is to the left, the battery is disconnected. This can be used for a hard reset of
the unit, or if the player is being placed in storage. Next to that is a connector for the
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. If you have a
Gigabeat X, these buttons are small metallic buttons that are place further up on the
right hand side, and closer together. The layout is still the same, however.
3.1.2. Turning the player on and off
To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys:
Key
Remote 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
177
) 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-and-Drop). Files may be placed wherever
you like on the player, but it is strongly suggested not to place them in the
/.rockbox
folder. 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.
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
B.20
(page
193
) for
the requirements for Album Art to work properly.
See section
A.2
(page
182
) for a list
of supported audio formats.
The Rockbox manual
Toshiba Gigabeat F and X Series