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- Page 1 The Rockbox Manual Archos Jukebox Studio 5000, 6000, Player 10 and 20 rockbox.org August 22, 2006...
- Page 2 Open Source Jukebox Firmware Copyright c 2006 The Rockbox Team. 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, 2004, 2005, 2006 The Rockbox Team and its contributors, c 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough, c 2003 Jos´...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
2.6. Uninstalling Rockbox ......3. The Rockbox interface 3.1. Your player . -
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ONTENTS 4.3. Recent Bookmarks ....... 4.4. Sound Settings ........4.5. -
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ONTENTS B. WPS Tags B.1. Status Bar ........B.2. -
Page 7: Getting Started
firmware while remaining easy to use and customiz- able. Rockbox is written by users, for users. Not only is it free to use, it’s also released under the GNU public license, which means that it will always remain free both to use and to change. -
Page 8: Naming Conventions And Marks
If you think you 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 9: Installation
Utility. Rockbox is distributed as an archive using the “zip” format. Thus you need a tool to handle that compressed format. Usually your computer should have a tool installed that can handle the zip file format. -
Page 10: Enabling Speech Support (Optional)
The current version includes everything meaning you won’t need to download the fonts package separately. Daily Build. The Daily Build is a development version of Rockbox. It supports all new features and patches developed since last stable version. It may also contain bugs! This version is generated automatically every day and can be found at http://www. -
Page 11: Running Rockbox
Rockbox to its default settings. Be aware, however, that from time to time, a change is made to the Rockbox source code that does cause settings to be reset to their defaults when a Rockbox build is updated. Thus it is recommended to... -
Page 12: The Rockbox Interface
3. T HAPTER OCKBOX INTERFACE 3. The Rockbox interface 3.1. Your player Throughout this manual, the buttons on the player are labelled according to the pic- ture above. 3.1.1. The player’s controls Write a section describing the player for blind users. -
Page 13: File Browser
3. T HAPTER OCKBOX INTERFACE On shutdown, Rockbox automatically saves its settings. In the unlikely event of a software failure, a hardware power off can be performed by holding down Stop until the player power light goes off. 3.2. File Browser Figure 3.1.: The file browser... -
Page 14: File Browser Controls
3. T HAPTER OCKBOX INTERFACE 3.2.1. File Browser Controls Action Minus/Plus Go to previous/next item in list. If you are on the first/last entry, the cursor will wrap to the last/first entry. Move one page up/down on the list. Stop Go to the parent directory. -
Page 15: Playlist Submenu
LAYLIST UBMENU is no music currently playing, Rockbox will create a new dynamic playlist and put the selected track(s) into the playlist. If there is music currently playing, Rockbox will put the selected track(s) into the current playlist. The place in which the newly selected tracks are added to the playlist is determined by the following options: Insert: Add track(s) to playlist. -
Page 16: Virtual Keyboard
IRECTORIES to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently-selected directory. If you want to have Rockbox create a playlist of a whole folder (to play an entire album, for example), use the F to select the song. When a single song is... -
Page 17: Tag Cache
3.3. Tag Cache 3.3.1. Introduction Tag Cache is the Rockbox music database system. Using the information contained in the tags (ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis Comments, Apev2, etc.) in your audio files, Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music files on your player and allows you to browse them by Artist, Album and Genre. -
Page 18: The Tag Cache Menu
Export modifications: This allows for the runtime data to be exported into /.rockbox/tagcache changelog.txt, which backs up the runtime data in ASCII format. This is needed when Tag Cache structures change, because new code cannot read old Tag Cache database code. -
Page 19: While Playing Screen
3. T HAPTER OCKBOX INTERFACE the information in the Tag Cache database. Note: You may need to increase the value of the M setting AX FILES IN DIR BROWSER ) in order to view long lists of tracks in the ENERAL ETTINGS YSTEM... -
Page 20: Wps Key Controls
3. T HAPTER OCKBOX INTERFACE 3.4.1. WPS Key Controls Action Menu+Plus/Minus Volume up/down Minus Go to beginning of track, or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track, go to previous track. Hold Minus Rewind in track Plus Go to next track. - Page 21 3. T HAPTER OCKBOX INTERFACE ID3 Viewer Figure 3.5.: The ID3 viewer This screen is accessible from the WPS screen, and provides a detailed view of all the identity information about the current track. This info is known as meta data and is stored in audio file formats to keep information on artist, album etc.
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Page 22: The Main Menu
, press the Menu button. All settings are stored on the unit. However, Rockbox does not spin up the disk solely for the purpose of saving settings. Instead, Rockbox will save settings when it spins up the disk the next time, for example when refilling the MP3 buffer or navigating through the file browser. -
Page 23: Recent Bookmarks
firmwares, and finally resetting your player 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 detail in section (page 51). -
Page 24: Playlist Options
WPS , font used and on some platforms additional information such as background image and text colours. There are a number of themes that ship with Rockbox. If none of these suit your needs, many more can be downloaded from . Some of the downloads from this site will actually be standalone WPS files, others will be full-blown themes. -
Page 25: Info
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 26: 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 27: Balance
5. S HAPTER OUND ETTINGS 5.4. Balance This setting controls the balance between the left and right channels. The default, 0, means that the left and right outputs are equal in volume. Negative numbers increase the volume of the left channel relative to the right, positive numbers increase the vol- ume of the right channel relative to the left. -
Page 28: General Settings
finished. All: The current directory or playlist will repeat when it is finished. Note: This option does not shuffle all files on your player. Rockbox is playlist oriented. When you play a song, a directory, or an album, Rockbox creates a playlist and plays it. - Page 29 If the player is knocked, shaken or jogged heavily while Rockbox is trying to read the hard drive, Rockbox might not be able to read the drive. Rockbox will retry over and over again until it succeeds, but may eventually reach the end of the memory buffer.
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Page 30: File View
first. B Y DATE sorts them with the newest folder first. NEWEST DATE Sort Files: This option controls how Rockbox sorts files. All of the options for S are available in this option. In addition, there is a B option IRECTORIES Y TYPE which sorts files alphabetically by their type (such as .mp3) then alphabetically... -
Page 31: Display Options
WPS, you will find yourself in the directory you were in when you last left the ROWSER Show Icons: Rockbox has the ability to display an icon to the left of the file in the F . For details of these icons, please see section (page 60). -
Page 32: System Options
Warning: Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to find this menu option again! Scrolling This feature controls how text will scroll in Rockbox. You can configure the following parameters: Scroll Speed: Controls how many times per second the scrolling text moves a step. -
Page 33: Disk
6.4.2. 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 34: Line In
O , 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 I setting (see above). If power to the DC in jack is turned... -
Page 35: Language
C is rather rusty... 6.6. Language This setting controls the language of the Rockbox user interface. Selecting a language will activate it. The language files must be in the /.rockbox/lang/ directory. See section 8.1.2 (page 48) for further details about languages. - Page 36 , which functions as above except that the files RECTORIES TALK MP CLIP are named with the same name as the music file (e.g. Punkadiddle.mp3 would require a file called Punkadiddle.mp3.talk). http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceHowto for more details on con- figuring speech support in Rockbox. OCKBOX MANUAL RCHOS TUDIO LAYER...
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Page 37: Plugins
LUGINS 7. Plugins Plugins are little 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, a plugin is loaded, run and then exited, which returns control to Rockbox. -
Page 38: Nim
Exit the game 7.2. Demos 7.2.1. 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 from the I section of the Rockbox main menu. -
Page 39: Logo
Increase / decrease y axis Menu+ Plus/Minus Increase / decrease z axis Stop Quit 7.2.3. Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen. Action Plus / Minus Increase / decrease speed on the x- axis On+Plus/ On+Minus Increase / decrease speed on the y-... -
Page 40: Snow
Viewers are plugins which are associated with specific file extensions. They cannot be run directly but are started by “playing” the associated file. Viewers are stored in the /.rockbox/viewers/ directory. 7.3.1. Search This plugin can be used on playlists. It searches through the playlist that it is opened on looking for any occurrences of the string entered by the user. - Page 41 7. P HAPTER LUGINS Chop breaks lines at the maximum column limit. Line mode cycles through Normal, Join and Expand. Normal breaks lines at newline characters. Join ignores unpaired newline characters (i.e., joins lines). Useful for adopting the orphans that occur with e-mail style (i.e.,pre-wrapped) text files. Expand doubles unpaired newlines (i.e., adds a blank line).
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Page 42: Vbrfix
7. P HAPTER LUGINS 7.3.4. VBRfix This function scans a VBR (Variable Bitrate) MP3 file and updates/creates the Xing VBR header. The Xing header contains information about the VBR stream used to calculate average bit rate, time information and to more accurately fwd/rew in the stream. This function is especially useful when the playback of a file skips, fwd/rew does not work correctly or the time display is incorrect. -
Page 43: Battery Benchmark
Level The percent level of the battery estimated by Rockbox. This is an estimation and not an accurate result. Using the real percentage (current battery voltage / top battery voltage) * 100) we can calculate the difference between the estima- tion. -
Page 44: Chess Clock
HAPTER LUGINS Time Left It shows the estimated (by Rockbox) remaining time until shutdown. Again, as Level, this column can be used to see differences between real time left and estimated time left. This could help make time left more accurate. -
Page 45: Dice
7. P HAPTER LUGINS Setup Action Plus/Minus Increase / decrease displayed Value Play Move to next screen Stop Move to previous screen First enter the number of players (1–10) Then set the total game time in mm:ss 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. -
Page 46: Euro Converter
7. P HAPTER LUGINS Action Minus/Plus Pick between type and number of dice Play/Stop Select number of sides or number of dice Roll dice Menu Quit 7.4.5. Euro Converter [Warning: Image ignored] Euro converter This plugin converts euros back into pre-euro currency. The country for which is does this is selectable by pressing the MENU key. -
Page 47: Stats
7. P HAPTER LUGINS 7.4.8. Stats Figure 7.8.: The stats-plugin The stats-plugin simply counts the number of files and folders on your player. Press Stop to exit the plugin. 7.4.9. Stopwatch WARNING! Image not found Figure 7.9.: Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times. Keys are as follows: Action Menu... -
Page 48: Advanced Topics
Rockbox builds. 8.1.2. Loading Languages Rockbox can load language files at runtime. Simply copy the .lng file (do not use the .lang file) to the player and “play” it in the Rockbox directory browser or select G from the Main Menu. -
Page 49: Wps - Build Your Own
HAPTER DVANCED OPICS /.rockbox folder, it will be remembered and used after reboot. The .wps file- name must be no more than 24 characters long for it to be remembered. 8.2.2. WPS – Build Your Own Quite simply, enter the WPS code in your favourite text editor, Notepad on Windows works fine. - Page 50 8. A HAPTER DVANCED OPICS If you use the upper-case versions of the three tags: F, I and D, they will instead refer to the next song instead of the current one. Example: %Ig is the genre name used in the next song and %Ff is the mp3 frequency.
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Page 51: Managing Rockbox Settings
Could also be rendered as “filename” or “tracknum – title [artist]”. 8.3. Managing Rockbox settings 8.3.1. Introduction to .cfg files. Rockbox allows users to store and load multiple settings through the use of configura- tion files. A configuration file is simply a text file with the extension .cfg. OCKBOX MANUAL... -
Page 52: Specifications For .Cfg Files
(page 53) for an explanation of how to create, edit and load configuration files. 8.3.2. Specifications for .cfg files. The Rockbox configuration file is a plain text file, so once you use the W RITE CFG FILE option to create the file, you can edit the file on your computer using any text editor program. -
Page 53: The Manage Settings Menu
Thus, it is possible to run the original Archos firmware or a different version of Rockbox from here (assuming that you have the right files installed on your disk. There is no need for any other file or directory to be installed to use this option;... -
Page 54: Rockbox In Flash
Note: For now, the binary contained in the brand new player flash package does contain rockbox built from current cvs in the second image slot. This is to lower the risk of flashing (at least one of the images will hopefully work) in case you don’t program a second image yourself in the first step. -
Page 55: Risks
About the safety of operation: Since we have dual boot, you’re not giving up the Ar- chos firmware. It’s still there when you hold Minus during startup. So even if Rockbox OCKBOX MANUAL RCHOS... -
Page 56: Requirements
8.5.5. Requirements You need two things: The first is a Archos Jukebox Studio 5000, 6000, Player 10 and 20. Be sure you’re using the correct package, they are different! Second, you need an in-circuit programmable flash. The older chips are not flash- able. -
Page 57: Bringing In A Rockbox Build
Note: You may delete the .bin files now. 8.5.7. Bringing in a Rockbox build Short version: very easy, just play an .ucl file like rockbox.ucl from a release or build: Make sure you are running the same version that you are trying to flash: play the ajbrec.ajz file. -
Page 58: Restoring The Original Firmware
8.5.9. Known issues and limitations Rockbox has a charging screen, but it is not 100% perfect. You’ll get it when the unit is off and you plug in the charger. The Rockbox charging algorithm is first measuring the battery voltage for about 40 seconds, after that it only starts charging when the capacity is below 85%. -
Page 59: Download The New Flash Content File To Your Box
8.5.10. Download the new flash content file to your box Jens These links are not valid. Refer to the wikipage BootBox for further instructions Arnold hosts flash content for download. Use the following url: http://www.jens-arnold. net/Rockbox/flash player.zip OCKBOX MANUAL RCHOS TUDIO LAYER... -
Page 60: File Formats
File Type Extension Action when selected Directory none The browser enters that directory Audio file Rockbox takes you to the WPS and starts playing the file Wave Audio File Play a WAV file .wav Playlist Rockbox loads the playlist and starts .m3u... -
Page 61: Wps Tags
B. WPS T PPENDIX B. WPS Tags B.1. Status Bar Description Status Bar Enabled Status Bar Disabled These tags override the player setting for the display of the status bar. They must be noted on their own line. B.2. ID3 Info Description ID3 Artist ID3 Composer... -
Page 62: Power Related Information
B. WPS T PPENDIX B.3. Power Related Information Description Show numeric battery level in percent. Can also be used in a conditional: %?bl 0 1 2 3 4 Show the battery level in volts Show estimated battery time left “p” if the charger is connected (only on targets that can charge batteries) “c”... -
Page 63: Playlist/Song Info
B. WPS T PPENDIX B.5. Playlist/Song Info Description Progress Bar This will display a 1 character “cup” that empties as the time progresses. Full-line progress bar & time display Current Time In Song Total Number of Playlist Entries Peak Meter (Recorder only) The entire line is used as volume peak meter. Playlist Name (Without path or extension) Playlist Position Remaining Time In Song... -
Page 64: Playback Mode Tags
Example: image /.rockbox/bg.bmp with ID “a” at 37, 109 would be: %x a bg.bmp 37 109 Note: The images must be in a rockbox compatible format (1 bit per pixel BMP) The image tag must be on its own line The ID is case sensitive, giving 52 different ID’s... -
Page 65: Alignment
B. WPS T PPENDIX The size of the LCD screen for each player varies. See table below for appropriate sizes of each device. The x and y coordinates must repect each of the players’ limits. B.11. Alignment Description Text is left aligned Text is center aligned Text is right aligned All alignment tags may be present in one line, but they need to be in the order left –... -
Page 66: Config File Options
C. C PPENDIX ONFIG FILE OPTIONS C. Config file options C.1. Settings Setting Allowed Values Unit volume -78 to +18 bass -15 to +15 treble -15 to +15 balance -100 to +100 channels stereo, mono, custom mono left, mono right, karaoke shuffle on, off repeat... - Page 67 C. C PPENDIX ONFIG FILE OPTIONS backlight timeout plugged off, on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, seconds 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 45, 60, 90 disk spindown 3 to 254 seconds battery capacity 1500 - 3200 idle poweroff off, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, minutes...
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Page 68: Lcd Screen Sizes
D. LCD S PPENDIX CREEN IZES D. LCD Screen Sizes Player Main LCD Size Remote LCD Size Archos Players 11x2 characters (none) Archos Recorders 112x64 (none) Archos Ondio 112x64 (none) Iaudio X5 160x128 128x96 Ipod 4G Gray 160x128 (none) Ipod 4G Color 220x176 (none) Ipod 5G Video... -
Page 69: User Feedback
Which exact model Jukebox you have (as printed on the unit) Which exact ROM firmware version you have Which exact Rockbox version you are using (Menu- Info - Version) A step-by-step description of what you did and what happened Whether the problem is repeatable or a one-time occurrence All relevant data regarding the problem, such as playlists, MP3 files etc. -
Page 70: Features We Will Not Implement
E. U PPENDIX SER FEEDBACK E.2.2. Features we will not implement This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do. View it as the opposite of a TODO! Record to WAV (uncompressed) or MP3pro format! The recording hardware (the MAS) does not allow us to do this Crossfade between tracks! Crossfading would require two mp3 decoders, and we only have one. - Page 71 Support other filesystems 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.
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Page 72: Changelog
F. C PPENDIX HANGELOG F. Changelog F.1. What’s new since v2.5? Changes in version 2.5 OCKBOX MANUAL RCHOS TUDIO LAYER... -
Page 73: Credits
G. C PPENDIX REDITS G. Credits People that have contributed to the project, one way or another. Friends! ¨ TENBERG INUS IELSEN ELTZ RANCOIS OUCHER ATTHIAS NDREW AMIESON TAPPER RENT OUTTS RNOLD UADE OACHIM CHIFFER ERALD ANBAREN HRISTI CARBOR ANIEL TENBERG OUGH TEVE... - Page 74 G. C PPENDIX REDITS ATHAN ANHAM RIGHT OMINIK IEBELING LEXAN BASTIAN ENRIKSEN ARTIN CARRATT ONDAR ETER AWLEY URBJUN OMASZ ALESINSKI NTON OMANOV NDREW ILLEY ATT V TEVE AVIN HUIZEN RIST TUDER ANNE RNOLD AETANO OCCA VERTON ERCEG EVEN ESLE ERIK ESTRE ENBIN VANS...
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Page 77: Verbatim Copying
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