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Chapter 3. Quick Start
Album names from your filetree. See section
Album Art to work properly. See section
formats.
3.1.4. 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 41)). To browse the files on your player, select Files (see section
and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data
Database (see section
3.1.5. Basic controls
When browsing files and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented.
The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive. In the
tree view use Down and Up to move around the selection. Use Select or Right to
select an item. When browsing the file system selecting an audio file plays it. The view
switches to the "While playing screen", usually abbreviated as "WPS" (see section
(page 31). The dynamic playlist gets replaced with the contents of the current directory.
This way you can easily treat directories as playlists. The created dynamic playlist can
be extended or modified while playing. This is also known as "on-the-fly playlist". To
go back to the File Browser stop the playback with the Power button or return to
the file browser while keeping playback running using Select. In list views you can go
back one step with Left.
3.1.6. Basic concepts
Playlists
Rockbox is playlist oriented. This means that every time you play an audio file, a so-
called "dynamic playlist" is generated, unless you play a saved playlist. You can modify
the dynamic playlist while playing and also save it to a file. If you do not want to use
playlists you can simply play your files directory based. Playlists are covered in detail
in section
4.4
(page 36).
Menu
From the menu you can customise Rockbox. Rockbox itself is very customisable. Also
there are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions.
Context Menu
Some views, especially the file browser and the WPS have a context menu. From the file
browser this can be accessed with Long Select. The contents of the context menu vary,
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ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc.
The Rockbox manual
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(page 28)).
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(page 210) for the requirements for
(page 204) for a list of supported audio
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of your audio files, select
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