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Page 1 The Rockbox Manual Archos Recorder 6, 10, 15 and 20 June 18, 2009...
Page 2 Open Source Jukebox Firmware Rockbox and this manual is the collaborative eﬀort of the Rockbox team and its contributors. See the appendix for a complete list of contributors. c 2003-2009 The Rockbox Team and its contributors, c 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough, c 2003 Jos´...
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..... . . 128 12.5.4 Updating the Rockbox Image in Flash ....129 12.5.5 Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents...
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..... . 158 The GNU General Public License ..... . . 166 The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 10: Introduction
ﬁrmware while remaining easy to use and customisable. Rockbox is written by users, for users. Not only is it free to use, it is also released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which means that it will always remain free both to use and to change.
Page 11: Naming Conventions And Marks
If you think you have found a bug please make sure it actually is a bug and is still present in the most recent version of Rockbox. You should try to conﬁrm that by using the above mentioned support channels ﬁrst. After that you can submit that issue to our tracker.
Page 12: Installation
2.1 Before Starting USB connection. To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your computer. For manual installation/uninstallation, or should autodetection fail during automatic installation, you need to know where to access the player. On Windows this means you need to know the drive letter associated with the player.
Page 13 //www.rockbox.org/download/. Current Build. The current build is built at each source code change to the Rockbox SVN repository and represents the current state of Rockbox development. This means that the build could contain bugs but most of the time is safe to use. For a manual install, you can download the current build from http://build.rockbox.org/.
Page 14: Manual Installation
Safely eject / unmount the USB drive, unplug the cable and restart. 2.2.4 Enabling Speech Support (optional) If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice ﬁle. Voice ﬁles allow Rockbox to speak the user interface to you. Rockbox Utility can install an English voice ﬁle, or you can download it from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml...
Page 15: Running Rockbox
ﬁle. If you wish to clean up your disk, you may also wish to delete the .rockbox directory and its contents. Turn the Archos oﬀ. Turn the player back on and the original Archos software will load.
Page 16: Quick Start
¸ Additional information for blind users is available on the Rockbox website at ZBlindFAQ. Holding the Jukebox in front of you, there should be three rectangular buttons in a horizontal line towards the middle of the unit, and below this to the left there is a circular four button array with the circular Play button as a ﬁfth button in the centre.
Page 17: Turning The Player On And Oﬀ
ﬁles between drives (e.g. Drag ’n’ Drop). 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.
Page 18: Basic Concepts
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.
Page 19 Chapter 3. Quick Start from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts installed as otherwise the theme may get displayed garbled. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 20: Browsing And Playing
4.1 File Browser Figure 4.1: The ﬁle browser Rockbox lets you browse your music in either of two ways. The File Browser lets you navigate through the ﬁles and directories on your player, entering directories and executing the default action on each ﬁle. To help diﬀerentiate ﬁles, each ﬁle format is displayed with an icon.
Page 21: File Browser Controls
ﬁle, it will display options available for ﬁles. If the Context Menu is invoked on a directory, it will display options for directories. The Context Menu contains the following options (unless otherwise noted, each option pertains both to ﬁles and directories): The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 22 ﬁle does not already exist it will be created in the root directory. Note that if you create a shortcut to a ﬁle, Rockbox will not open it upon selecting, but simply bring you to it’s location in the File Browser.
Page 23: Virtual Keyboard
4.1.3 Virtual Keyboard Figure 4.3: The virtual keyboard This is the virtual keyboard that is used when entering text in Rockbox, for example when renaming a ﬁle or creating a new directory. The virtual keyboard can be easily changed by making a text ﬁle with the required layout. More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at ZLoadableKeyboardLayouts.
Page 24: Initializing The Database
Rockbox website at ZDataBase. 4.2.2 Initializing the Database The ﬁrst time you use the database, Rockbox will scan your disk for audio ﬁles. This can take quite a while depending on the number of ﬁles on your player. This scan happens in the background, so you can choose to return to the Main Menu and continue to listen to music.
Page 25: Using The Database
But, all modiﬁcations exported to ASCII format should be readable by all database versions. Import Modiﬁcations. Allows the /.rockbox/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.
Page 26: While Playing Screen
In contrast to all other items, the status bar is always at the top of the screen. (Scrolling) path and ﬁlename of the current song. The ID3 track name. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 27 The peak meter is only visible if you turn oﬀ the status bar or if using a small font that gives 8 or more display lines. See section 12.2 (page 121) for details of customising your WPS (While Playing Screen). The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 28: Wps Key Controls
The clip indicator: This is a little black block that is displayed at the very right of the scale when an overﬂow occurs. It usually does not show up during normal playback The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 29: The Wps Context Menu
You need to enter a name for the new playlist ﬁrst. Sound Settings This is a shortcut to the Sound Settings Menu, where you can conﬁgure volume, bass, treble, and other settings aﬀecting the sound of your music. See section (page 43) for more information. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 30 The Pitch Screen allows you to change the pitch and (at the same time) the playback speed of your player. The pitch value can be adjusted between 50% and 200%. 50% means half the normal playback speed and the pitch that is an octave lower than the The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 31: Quick Screens
2.0% Reset pitch to 100% Oﬀ Leave the Pitch Screen Warning: Changing the pitch can cause audible ’Artifacts’ or ’Dropouts’. 4.4 Quick Screens Figure 4.5: The F2 quick screen Figure 4.6: The F3 quick screen The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 32: Working With Playlists
Chapter 4. Browsing and playing Rockbox handles function buttons in a diﬀerent way to the Archos software. F1 is always bound to the menu function, while F2 and F3 enable two quick screens. F2 displays some browse and play settings which are likely to be changed frequently.
Page 33: Creating Playlists
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 played. The only diﬀerence between Insert and Queue is that the Queue option removes the song from the playlist once it has been played, and the Insert option does not.
Page 34: Adding Music To Playlists
“dynamic playlist”. If there is no music currently play- ing, Rockbox will create a new dynamic playlist and put the selected track(s) into it. If there is music currently playing, Rockbox will put the selected track(s) into the cur- rent playlist.
Page 35: Modifying Playlists
On the other hand, if the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a directory, Rockbox adds all of the tracks in that directory to the playlist. Note: You can control whether or not Rockbox includes the contents of subdirectories when adding an entire directory to a playlists.
Page 36: Saving Playlists
It can be used like the File Browser. 4.5.7 Helpful Hints Including subdirectories in playlists You can control whether or not Rockbox includes the contents of subdirectories when adding an entire directory to a playlists. Set the Main Menu Settings...
Page 37: The Main Menu
5.1 Introducing the Main Menu Figure 5.1: The main menu The Main Menu is the screen from which all of the Rockbox functions can be accessed. This is the ﬁrst screen you will see when starting Rockbox. To return to the Main Menu, press the F1 button.
Page 38: Recent Bookmarks
Delete will remove the currently selected bookmark entry from the list. This entry is not shown in the Main Menu when the option is oﬀ (the default setting). See section (page 56) for more details on conﬁguring bookmarking in Rockbox. 5.4 Files Browse the ﬁles on your player (see section (page 20)).
Page 39: Now Playing/Resume Playback
The details of this menu are covered in section (page 47). 5.7.3 General Settings The General Settings menu allows you to customise the way Rockbox looks and the way it plays music. The details of this menu are covered in section (page 50).
Page 40: Recording
Chapter 5. The Main Menu back to initial conﬁguration. This menu also allows the user to load diﬀerent versions of the Rockbox ﬁrmware. The details of this menu are covered in section 12.3 (page 125). 5.8 Recording 5.8.1 While Recording Screen Figure 5.3: The while recording screen...
Page 41: Playlist
Playlist menu. Both automatically and manually created playlists can be edited using this menu. Create Playlist: Rockbox will create a playlist with all tracks in the current directory and all sub-directories. The playlist will be created one directory level “up” from where you currently are.
Page 42: Plugins
Warning: It is not recommended that users access this menu unless instructed to do so in the course of ﬁxing a problem with Rockbox. If you think you have messed up your settings by use of this menu please try to reset all settings before asking for help.
Page 43: Sound Settings
This setting adjusts the volume of your music. Like most professional audio gear and many consumer audio products, Rockbox uses a decibel scale where 0 dB is a refer- ence that indicates the maximum volume that the player can produce without possible distortion (clipping).
Page 44: Balance
When listening at low volumes, the ear will tend to make bass and treble frequencies sound quieter than they really are. To compensate for this, Loudness is an eﬀect which emphasises bass and treble in a fashion suited to the human ear. Frequencies in the The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 45: Auto Volume
The MDB parameters are as follows: MDB enable: This turns the MDB feature on or oﬀ. For many users this will be the only setting they need, since Rockbox picks sensible defaults for the other parameters. MDB is turned oﬀ by default.
Page 46 ‘loudness’ of these notes. For most users, the defaults should provide an improvement in sound quality and can be safely left as they are. For reference, the defaults Rockbox uses are: Setting Value...
Page 47: Playback Settings
7.1 Shuﬄe Turning shuﬄe on will cause Rockbox to randomly re-order the playlist. Thus, to shuﬄe all of the audio ﬁles on the player, you ﬁrst need to create a playlist containing all of them. For more information on creating playlists refer to section (page 32).
Page 48: Play Selected First
A longer Anti-Skip Buﬀer helps prevent skips in music playback if Rockbox has trouble reading from the disk. This can happen if the player is knocked, shaken or jogged heavily while Rockbox is trying to read the hard drive.
Page 49: Last.fm Log
If this option is enabled, the ability to manually skip tracks is disabled in order to avoid accidental track skips. It does not prevent changing tracks if a track ends, which can be achieved by combining this option with Repeat set to One The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 50: General Settings
Ask, Rockbox will prompt the user about whether to include sub-directories. Warn When Erasing Dynamic Playlist. If set to Yes, Rockbox will provide a warning if the user attempts to take an action that will cause Rockbox to erase the current dynamic playlist.
Page 51 All: The File Browser displays all ﬁles and directories. Extensions are shown. No ﬁles or directories are hidden. Supported: The File Browser displays all directories and ﬁles supported by Rockbox (see section (page 131)). Files and directories starting with . (dot) or with the hidden ﬂag set are hidden.
Page 52: Database
Contrast: Changes the contrast of your LCD display. Warning: Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to ﬁnd this menu option again! LCD Mode: This setting lets you invert the colours of the display. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 53 Rockbox chooses which method it should use depending of how much it has to scroll to the left. This setting lets you tell Rockbox where that limit is, expressed in percentage of the line length.
Page 54: System
“ISO-8859-1” would be suﬃcient. 8.5 System 8.5.1 Start Screen Set the screen that Rockbox will start in. Selecting Resume Playback will resume playback where it was when the player was shut oﬀ if there is a playlist to resume and The Rockbox manual...
Page 55: Battery
8.5.3 Disk Options relating to the hard disk. Disk Spindown: Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it is idle for a certain amount of time. This setting controls the amount of time between the last user activity and the time that the disk spins down.
Page 56: Car Adapter Mode
DC in jack is turned oﬀ. If the Car Adapter Mode is set to On, Rockbox will pause playback when the external power oﬀ condition is detected. Rockbox will then shutdown the player after the length of time set in the Idle Poweroff setting (see above).
Page 57: Language
ﬁle when that ﬁle is played. When the Load Last Bookmark option is set to Ask, Rockbox will give the user the option of starting from the beginning of the track of or from the bookmark.
Page 58: Voice
/.rockbox/langs/ directory on the player. Voice ﬁles are large and are not shipped with Rockbox by default. The voice ﬁle is the name of the language for which it is made, followed by the extension .voice. So for English, the ﬁle name would be english.voice.
Page 59 Announce Battery Level. When this option is enabled the battery level is announced when it falls under 50%, 30% and 15%. ZVoiceHowto for more details on conﬁguring speech support in Rockbox. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 60: Theme Settings
.wps ﬁle see section 12.2 (page 121). Show Icons. Rockbox has the ability to display an icon to the left of the ﬁle in the File Browser. For details of these icons, see section (page 131). These icons can...
Page 61: Recording Settings
Choose the recording frequency (sample rate). 48kHz, 44.1kHz, 32kHz, 24kHz, 22.05kHz, 16kHz are available. Higher sample rates use up more disk space, but give better sound quality. The frequency setting also determines which version of the MPEG standard The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 62: Source
Options (hours:minutes between splits): Oﬀ, 00:05, 00:10, 00:15, 00:30, 1:00, 1:14 (74 minute CD), 1:20 (80 minute CD), 2:00, 4:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 18:00, 24:00. Split Filesize: Set the ﬁlesize to record between each split, if ﬁlesize is used as Split Measure. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 63: Prerecord Time
¿= start duration. That ensures that you record the entire sound. Strictly speaking the prerecord time is not a special parameter of the trigger. It is available during normal recordings too. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 64 By specifying a short presplit gap you still can split the recording into seperate tracks whenever the trigger start condition is met. More information can be found at ZVolumeTriggeredRecording. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 65: Plugins
Chapter 11. Plugins 11 Plugins Plugins are programs that Rockbox can load and run. Only one plugin can be loaded at a time. Plugins have exclusive control over the user interface. This means you cannot switch back and forth between a plugin and Rockbox. When a plugin is loaded, you need to exit it to return to the Rockbox interface.
Page 66: Brickmania
Sometimes a special item falls down when you destroy a brick. For a special item to take eﬀect, you must catch it with the paddle. Look out for the bad ones. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 67: Bubbles
To make things more diﬃcult, the entire board is shifted down every time a certain number of shots have been ﬁred. Points are awarded depending on how quickly the level was completed. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 68: Chessbox
The menu also allows the user to reload the last game saved, save the current position and start a new game without having to quit the game. Note: This plugin will stop playback. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 69: Chopper
Dice is a simple dice rolling simulator. Select number and type of dice to roll in a menu and start by choosing “Roll Dice”. The result is shown as individual numbers as well as the total of the rolled dice. Action Roll dice again Oﬀ Quit The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 70: Flipit
Baduk, Igo and Goe). It uses standard Smart Game Format (SGF) ﬁles for saving and loading games. You can ﬁnd a short introduction to Go at http://senseis.xmp.net/?WhatIsGo and more information about SGF ﬁles can be read at http://senseis.xmp.net/?SmartGameFormat or the SGF speciﬁcation at http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 71 Play a move (or use a tool if play-mode has been changed). Retreat one node in the game tree Advance one node in the game tree Main Menu Go to the next variation when at the ﬁrst node in a branch The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 72 The date that this game took place. This text must follow the format speciﬁed at http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/properties.html#DT to be read by other SGF readers. Event. The name of the event which this game was a part of, if any. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 73 Disable Idle Poweroﬀ ? Enable this if you do not want the player to turn oﬀ after a certain period of inactivity (depends on your global Rockbox settings). Idle Autosave Time. Set the amount of idle time to wait before automatically saving any unsaved changes.
Page 74: Jewels
Action Left/Right/ Up/Down Move the cursor around the jewels Play Select a jewel Long Play Show the in-game menu Oﬀ Exit 11.1.10 MazezaM Figure 11.9: MazezaM The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 75: Minesweeper
Up / Down / Move the cursor across the mineﬁeld Left / Right F1/On Toggle ﬂag on / oﬀ F2/Play Reveal the contents of the current square Display the current game status Oﬀ Exit the game The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 76: Pegbox
Oﬀ to quit 11.1.13 Pong Figure 11.12: Pong Pong is a simple two player “tennis game”. Whenever a player misses the ball the other scores. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 77: Robotﬁndskitten
Quit 11.1.15 Rockblox Figure 11.14: Rockblox Rockblox is a Rockbox version of the classic falling blocks game from Russia. The aim of the game is to make the falling blocks of diﬀerent shapes form full rows. Whenever The Rockbox manual...
Page 78: Rockblox1D
Game of Life for a detailed description). Rockbox can open ﬁles with a conﬁguration description (.cells ﬁles). Just “play” such ﬁle and the game conﬁguration stored in it will be loaded into 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.
Page 79: Sliding Puzzle
This is the popular snake game. The aim is to grow your snake as large as possible by eating the dots that appear on the screen. The game will end when the snake touches either the borders of the screen or itself. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 80: Snake 2
Left / Right Play Pause and resume the game Oﬀ Quit In game A, the maze stays the same, in game B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 81: Sokoban
Quit Some places where can you can ﬁnd level sets: http://www.sourcecode.se/sokoban/levels.php http://sokobano.de/en/levels.php Note that some level sets may contain levels that are too large for this version of Sokoban and are unplayable as a result. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 82: Solitaire
11.1.22 Solitaire Figure 11.19: Klondike solitaire This is the classic Klondike solitaire game for Rockbox. This is probably the best-known solitaire in the world. Many people do not even realize that other games exist. Though the name may not be familiar, the game itself certainly is. This is due in no small part to Microsoft’s inclusion of the the game in every version of Windows.
Page 83: Spacerocks
ﬁlled circle, which can take “o”s, and the ﬁlled square, which is used as a mobile wall to allow your ﬁlled circle to get to places on the screen it could not otherwise reach. The block cannot take “o”s. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 84: Sudoku
11.1.25 Sudoku Figure 11.22: Sudoku Sudoku in Rockbox can act as both a plugin and a viewer. When starting Sudoku from the Browse Plugins menu, a random game will be generated automatically, and an estimate of its diﬃculty (very easy, easy, medium, hard or ﬁendish) will be displayed on the screen.
Page 85: Wormlet
11.1.26 Wormlet Figure 11.23: Wormlet game Wormlet is a multi-user multi-worm game on a multi-threaded multi-functional Rockbox console. You navigate a hungry little worm. Help your worm to ﬁnd food and to avoid poisoned argh-tiles. The goal is to turn your tiny worm into a big worm for as long as possible.
Page 86 Dead worms are no fun. Be careful as your worm will try to eat anything that you steer it across. It won’t distinguish whether it is edible or not. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 87 One piece of food lasts for 7 steps. After your worm has moved 7 steps the food is used up. If another piece of food is eaten while growing it will increase the size of the worm for another 7 steps. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 88: Xobox
Xobox is a simple clone of the well known arcade game Qix. The aim of the game is to section oﬀ parts of the arena with your trail in order to remove that section from the The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 89: Demos
11.2.1 Bounce Figure 11.25: Bounce This demo is of the word “Rockbox” bouncing across the screen. There is also an analogue clock in the background. In Scroll mode the bouncing text is replaced by a diﬀerent one scrolling from right to left.
Page 90: Credits
Chapter 11. Plugins 11.2.2 Credits The credits plugin scrolls the entire list of the names of all the Rockbox contributors after displaying the Rockbox logo and version. This plugin is called when selecting Version from the System section of the Rockbox main menu. Exit at any time by pressing Left or Oﬀ.
Page 91: Fire
Toggle ﬂame type Play Toggle moving ﬂames Oﬀ Quit 11.2.6 Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen. Action Right / Left Increase / decrease speed on the x-axis Up / Down Increase / decrease speed on the y-axis Oﬀ...
Page 92: Mandelbrot
Increase iteration depth (more detail) Reset and return to the default image Oﬀ Quit 11.2.8 Mosaique Figure 11.30: Mosaique This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player. Press Oﬀ to quit. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 93: Oscilloscope
Increase / decrease speed Oﬀ Exit demo 11.2.10 PictureFlow Figure 11.32: PictureFlow PictureFlow is a plugin that provides a visualisation of your albums with their associated cover art. Note: This plugin will cause playback to stop. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 94 PictureFlow uses both the album art (see section (page 141)) and database (see section (page 23)) features of Rockbox. It is therefore 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 dimensions of the screen, but the larger the dimensions, the longer they will take to scale.
Page 95: Plasma
Quit 11.2.12 Snow Figure 11.34: Have you ever seen snow falling? This demo replicates snow falling on your screen. If you love winter, you will love this demo. Or maybe not. Press Oﬀ to quit. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 96: Starﬁeld
(as above). From the settings menu the decay time for the meter (its memory), the meter type and the meter scale can be changed. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 97: Viewers
“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 by pressing F1. Deleting entries from other .link ﬁles is not possible. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 98: Chip-8 Emulator
.c8k ﬁle contains 16 characters describing the mapping from the Chip8 keyboard to the default key mapping (that way, several Chip8 keys can be pressed using only one Rockbox key). For example, a ﬁle containing the single line: Code 0122458469ABCDEF...
Page 99: Jpeg Viewer
Links to other chip8 emulators: http://www.zophar.net/chip8.html 11.3.3 JPEG viewer Open a JPEG ﬁle in the File Browser to view it using Rockbox’s greyscale library. Note: This plugin will cause playback to stop. Action Up / Down / Move around in zoomed in image...
Page 100: Rockbox Flash
11.3.6 Rockboy Figure 11.37: Rockboy Rockboy is a Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for Rockbox based on the gnuboy emulator. To start a game, open a ROM ﬁle saved as .gb or .gbc in the ﬁle browser.
Page 101: Search
(Wide mode) On+Up One line up On+Down One line down On+Left One column left On+Right One column right Play Toggle autoscroll Enter menu Oﬀ Exit text viewer The Viewer’s Menu Quit Exits the plugin. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 102 Return to the text view. Note: The text viewer automatically saves its settings and also stores the current posi- tion in the viewed text ﬁles (up to the last 46 ﬁles). The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 103: Vbrﬁx
The only action that can be performed is to stop by pressing Oﬀ, and Wavplay will be exited and you are returned to the ﬁlebrowser. If the end of the ﬁle has been reached, you will also be returned to the ﬁlebrowser. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 104: Zxbox
ZXBox menu Vkeyboard. This is a virtual keyboard representing the Spectrum keyboard. Controls are the same as in standard Rockbox, but you just press one key instead of entering a phrase. Play/Pause Tape. Toggles playing of the tape (if it is loaded).
Page 105: Applications
(As well as all other protocols, please do not ask for such!) The cable Hookup to Archos works by connecting the headphone output including the remote pin (you need a 4-ring 3.5 mm plug for that) to the changer jack of the radio. M-Bus radios The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 106: Battery Benchmark
The player is shut down. The battery is empty. Benchmarks can be resumed if you accidentally load a plugin, or turn oﬀ your player, so long as the log ﬁle battery bench.txt is not deleted. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 107 As Battery Benchmark needs to write the data held in memory to disk in order to save them, it is possible that should Rockbox shut down due to low battery then there will not be enough power remaining to write the data to disk. Therefore all measurements since the previous save will be lost.
Page 108: Calculator
Quit 11.4.4 Calendar Figure 11.41: Calendar This is a small and simple calendar application with memo saving function. Dots indicate dates with memos. The available memo types are: one oﬀ, yearly, monthly, and weekly memos. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 109: Chess Clock
Then the maximum round time is entered. For example, this could be used to play Scrabble for a maximum of 15 minutes each, with each round taking no longer than one minute. Done. Player 1 starts in paused mode. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 110: Clock
“ROUND UP!” is shown (press NEXT to continue). When the total time is up for a player the message “TIME UP!”is shown. The player will then be removed from the timer. 11.4.6 Clock Figure 11.43: Clock This is a fully featured analogue and digital clock plugin. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 111 The Counter, if enabled, is displayed at the lower right. The second hand, if enabled, is displayed along with the hour and minute hands. Digit display, if enabled, places “12”, “3”, “6”, and “9” around the face of the clock in their respective positions. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 112: Disk Tidy
Select the OS’s ﬁles you want to delete in the ’Files to Clean’ menu and select ’Start Cleaning’ to begin to process. The settings are stored in .rockbox/rocks/apps/disktidy.config, in a plain text ﬁle that is user-modiﬁable to allow more entries to be added.
Page 113: Firmware Flash
[Warning: Image ignored] Firmware ﬂash Use when ﬂashing Rockbox (see section ?? (page ??). In the ideal case, you’ll need this tool only once. For safety reasons you may wish to delete ﬁrmware ﬂash.rock from /.rockbox/rocks once ﬂashing is complete.
Page 114: Md5Sum
Generate Folder List Generates a list of all folders found on the player. You can ﬁlter the directories which are scanned by creating a ﬁle called /.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 them in the list (i.e.
Page 115: Split Editor
Chapter 11. Plugins Import List From Textﬁle Imports the list from /.rockbox/folder advance list.txt Quit Folder List Editor Keys Action Right or On Delete selected folder Long Play Bring up the context menu which allows you to remove the selected folder or it’s entire folder tree Left or Oﬀ...
Page 116 Playback loops from the split point indicator to the end of the visible area. This mode is best used when ﬁne tuning the split indicator position at the beginning of a recording. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 117 ﬁlenames that do not exist yet must be chosen. If unsure whether the ﬁle already exists simply try to save it. If another ﬁle with this name exists the dialogue will return and you can choose another ﬁlename Figure 11.45: The Split Editor’s Save Dialogue The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 118: Stats
Figure 11.46: The stats-plugin The stats-plugin simply counts the number of ﬁles, music ﬁles and directories on your player. Press Oﬀ to abort counting and exit the plugin. Press it again to quit after counting has ﬁnished. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 119: Stopwatch
Edit the highlighted text line or insert a new one using the Item Menu. When ﬁnished editing exit the Text Editor. You’ll be shown a list of save options. Note: When you have not changed the ﬁle the Text Editor will quit immediately. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 120 Chapter 11. Plugins Action Right or On Edit Line / Select Character Left or Oﬀ Exit / Abort Editing Show Item Menu Long Play Delete Line The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 121: Advanced Topics
Note: Advanced Users Only: Any BDF font ﬁle up to 16 pixels high should be usable with Rockbox. To convert from .bdf to .fnt, use the convbdf tool. This tool can be found in the tools directory of the Rockbox source code.
Page 122: Wps - Build Your Own
Chapter 12. Advanced Topics number of WPS ﬁles included in Rockbox, and you can load one of these at any time by selecting it in Settings Theme Settings Browse .wps files. Note: “Playing” a .wps from the File Browser has the same eﬀect.
Page 123 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 evaluation of the conditional. Example subline with conditionals: The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 124 Example File Example %s%?in<%in - >%?it<%it|%fn> %?ia<[%ia%?id<, %id>]> %pb%pc/%pt That is, “tracknum – title [artist, album]”, where most ﬁelds are only displayed if avail- able. Could also be rendered as “ﬁlename” or “tracknum – title [artist]”. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 125: Managing Rockbox Settings
12.3.2 Speciﬁcations for Files. The Rockbox conﬁguration ﬁle is a plain text ﬁle, so once you use the Save .cfg file option to create the ﬁle, you can edit the ﬁle on your computer using any text editor program. See Appendix section (page 143) for available settings.
Page 126: The Manage Settings Menu
A special case conﬁguration ﬁle can be used to force a particular setting or settings every time Rockbox starts up (e.g. to set the volume to a safe level). Format a new conﬁguration ﬁle as above with the required setting(s) and save it into the /.rockbox directory with the ﬁlename fixed.cfg.
Page 127: Using Rolo (Rockbox Loader)
(main) image. In current ﬁrmware ﬁles this ﬁrst image contains Bootbox (see wiki for details). The second image is what is booted by default. The current ﬁrmware ﬁles contain a copy of Rockbox 3.2 in the main image. It can easily be updated/replaced later.
Page 128: Initial Flashing Procedure
ﬁle. If the ﬁle is OK, pressing F2 will give you a big warning. If we still didn’t manage to scare you oﬀ, you need to press F3 to actually program and verify. The programming takes just a few seconds. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 129: Updating The Rockbox Image In Flash
Rockbox, you also need to update the image in the ﬂash. This is a simple and safe procedure: 1. Download (or build) the Rockbox build you want to use, and unzip it to the root of your player. Safely disconnect USB.
Page 130 Appendix A. File formats The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 131: A File Formats
.cfg Font Change the user interface font to .fnt this one Plugin Start the plugin .rock Flash Image Flash the Rockbox image into the .ucl Chip8 game Play the Chip8 game .ch8 Image View the JPEG image .jpg Rockbox Video View the movie (Rockbox format) .rvf...
Page 132: B Wps Tags
Remember that this information is not always available, so use the conditionals to show alternate information in preference to assuming. These tags, when written with a capital “I” (e.g. %Ia or %Ic), produce the information for the next song to be played. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 133: Power Related Information
Example for the %dN commands: If the path is “/Rock/Kent/Isola/11 - 747.mp3”, %d1 is “Isola”, %d2 is “Kent” and %d3 is “Rock”. These tags, when written with the ﬁrst letter capitalized (e.g. %Fn or %D2), produce the information for the next ﬁle to be played. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 134: Playlist/Song Info
Song rating (0-10). This tag can also be used in a conditional tag: %?rr 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 B.7 Virtual LED Description “h” if the hard disk is accessed The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 135: Repeat Mode
Example: %?mv2.5 Volume changing %pv The example above will display the text “Volume changing” if the volume is being changed and 2.5 secs after the volume button has been released. After that, it will display the volume value. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 136: Settings
Appendix B. WPS Tags B.11 Settings Description The value of the Rockbox setting with the speciﬁed name. %St <setting name> See section (page 143) for the list of the available settings. Examples: 1. As a simple tag: %St skip length 2.
Page 137: Images
ﬁrst (i.e. top most) sub-image will be used. Examples: 1. Load and display the image /.rockbox/bg.bmp with ID “a” at 37, 109: %x a bg.bmp 37 109 2. Load a bitmap strip containing 5 volume icon images (all the same size) with image ID “M”, and then reference the individual sub-images in a conditional:...
Page 138: Alignment
Set the subline display cycle time (%t5 or %t3.4 formats) %t time Split items on a line into separate sublines Allows grouping of several items (sublines) onto one line, with the display cycling round the deﬁned sublines. See section 12.2.2 (page 123) for details. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 139: Time And Date
By using this tag as a conditional it is possible to display current date and time on those targets that support this (like the Recorder), or alternate information on those that do not . Example: %?cc %cH:%cM No clock detected The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 140: Other Tags
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. Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as timers, peak meters or progress bars. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 141: C Album Art
C Album Art C.1 Introduction Rockbox allows you to put the album art, or another image related to the music on your playerto display it in the PictureFlow plugin. For this feature to work, you must observe a few rules.
Page 142 ? * . Doublequotes will be replaced ZAlbumArt by single qutoes. See in the wiki for more details and programs that will help you automate the process of putting album art on your player. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 143: D Conﬁg File Options
Screen Scrolls Out Of View on, oﬀ bidir limit 0 to 200 % screen scroll paginated on, oﬀ The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 144 ﬁletype oﬀ, on talk menu oﬀ, on Announce Battery Level oﬀ, on sort ﬁles alpha, oldest, newest, type sort dirs alpha, oldest, newest sort interpret number digits, numbers tagcache autoupdate on, oﬀ The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 145 /path/ﬁlename.fnt /path/ﬁlename.kbd invert on, oﬀ ﬂip display on, oﬀ selector type pointer, bar (inverse) show icons on, oﬀ iconset /path/ﬁlename.bmp viewers iconset /path/ﬁlename.bmp The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 146 0 to 15 rec right gain 0 to 15 editable recordings oﬀ,on rec timesplit oﬀ, 0:05, 0:10, 0:15, 0:30, 1:00, h:mm 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 16:00, 24:00 pre-recording time oﬀ, 1 to 30 seconds rec directory /path/to/dir The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 147: E Menu Overview
Appendix E. Menu Overview E Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 148: F User Feedback
To suggest an idea for a feature or to read those made by others, see http://forums. rockbox.org/index.php?board=49.0. Please keep in mind that this forum is for the dis- cussion of feature ideas - they are not requests and there is no guarantee they will be acted upon.
Page 149: Features We Will Not Implement
Even if we had access to it, the CPU would probably be too slow to perform the analysis anyway. Cool sound eﬀects! Adding new sound eﬀects requires reprogramming the MAS chip, and we cannot do that. The MAS chip is programmable, but we have no access to the chip documentation. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 150 Support other ﬁle systems than FAT32 (like NTFS or ext2 or whatever)! No. Rockbox needs to support FAT32 since it can only start oﬀ a FAT32 partition (since that is the only way the ROM can load it), and addingsupport for more ﬁle systems will just take away valuable ram for unnecessary features.
Page 151: G Changelog
2008-04-23: Lamp (originally ”ﬂashlight”) plugin 2008-03-23: New bitmap strips feature in the WPS 2008-03-23: The iAudio M3 is now a supported target 2008-03-21: Viewport tag added for WPS 2008-03-18: The Olympus m:robe 100 is now a supported target The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 152 2007-06-28: Maze game 2007-06-17: Custom ﬁletype colour feature introduced 2007-06-05: Monkey’s Audio support 2007-05-23: The 80GB Ipod Video is now supported by Rockbox 2007-04-09: WAV ﬁle viewer 2007-03-11: Sound on the Sansa e200 2007-03-04: Rockbox runs and plays music on the iAudio M5...
Page 153: Enhancements
2006-07-19: Rockpaint plugin 2006-07-18: SID codec 2006-07-18: Playlist catalog 2006-04-19: Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 1G 2006-03-30: Rockbox is functional and plays audio on the iPod Mini 2G 2006-03-28: DOOM 2006-03-28: Sound on the iAudio X5 , X5L and X5V...
Page 154: Bug Fixes
Appendix G. Changelog G.2.3 Bug ﬁxes The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 155: H Credits
Itoh · David J. Song · Jeong Taek · Barry McIntosh · Leslie Donald- In · Anders Kagerin · Peter D’Hoye son · Lee Pilgrim · Zakk Roberts · Ben Basha · Brandon Low · Nathan The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 156 Ginkel · Adam Gashlin · Robert Kukla · Pinitnun Shanasabang · Ken Faz- · David Quesada · Jared Stafford zone · David Bishop · Hein-Pieter · Martin Hensel · St ´ e phane Doyon van Braam · Przemyslaw Holubowski The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 157 Emulator team · The robotfindskit- Claudel · Jelle Geerts · Tadeusz Py ´ s ten team · The libmtp team · The asap · Rostislav Chekan · Florin Popescu team · Volker Mische · Vitja Makarov The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
Page 158: I Licenses
Any member of the public is a licensee, and is addressed as ”you”. You accept the license if you copy, modify or distribute the work in a way requiring permission under copyright law. The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
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Page 160 Opaque copy a computer-network location from which the general network-using public has access to download using public-standard network protocols a complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material. If The Rockbox manual Archos Recorder...
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Rockbox Archos Recorder 6 User Manual

1 Introduction

2 Installation

3 Quick Start

4 Browsing and Playing

5 The Main Menu

6 Sound Settings

7 Playback Settings

8 General Settings

9 Theme Settings

10 Recording Settings

11 Plugins

12 Advanced Topics

A File Formats

B WPS Tags

C Album Art

D Conﬁg File Options

E Menu Overview

F User Feedback

G Changelog

H Credits

I Licenses

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