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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 2003-2013 The Rockbox Team and its contributors, c 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough, c 2003 José...
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Page 11: 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 12: 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 13: Installation
ﬁrmware begins with 03. Make sure that you are following the instructions from the correct manual. 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.
Page 14: Automated Installation
Rockbox. The build consists of a directory called .rockbox which contains all of the Rockbox ﬁles, and is located in the root of your player’s drive. Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in installing.
Page 15: Manual Installation
ﬁlesystem. Choosing a Rockbox version There are three diﬀerent versions of Rockbox available from the Rockbox website: Re- lease version, current build and archived daily build. You need to decide which one you want to install and get the appropriate version for your player.
Page 16 Rockbox ﬁles! The .zip ﬁle already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs. If the contents of the .zip ﬁle are extracted correctly, you will have a directory called .rockbox, which contains all the ﬁles needed by Rockbox, in the main directory of your player’s drive.
Page 17: Finishing The Install
Your e200 will automatically reboot and Rockbox should load. 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 18: Running Rockbox
ﬁrst put your player into MSC mode. If you wish to clean up your disk, you may also wish to delete the .rockbox directory and its contents. Turn the Sansa oﬀ. Turn the player back on and the original Sansa software will load.
Page 19 Rockbox has been installed with Rockbox Utility. To ﬁx this, either install Rockbox with the Rockbox Utility which will take care of this for you, or recheck the Manual Install section to see where the ﬁles need to be located.
Page 20: Quick Start
Just to the left of the Hold switch is a small hole which contains the internal microphone. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 21: Turning The Player On And Oﬀ
Power until the player shuts oﬀ or reboots. 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. 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 USB HID feature is disabled.
Page 22: Basic Controls
3.1.7. 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 23: Customising Rockbox
Rockbox distribution comes with some themes that should look nice on your player. Note: Some of the themes shipped with Rockbox need additional fonts from the fonts package, so make sure you installed them. Also, if you downloaded additional themes from the Internet make sure you have the needed fonts installed as otherwise the theme may not display properly.
Page 24: 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 25: File Browser Controls
The Context Menu allows you to perform certain operations on ﬁles or directories. To access the Context Menu, position the selector over a ﬁle or directory and access the context menu with Long Select. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 26 Delete. Deletes the currently selected ﬁle. This option applies only to ﬁles, and not to directories. Rockbox will ask for conﬁrmation before deleting a ﬁle. Press Select to conﬁrm deletion or any other key to cancel.
Page 27: Virtual Keyboard
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 its location in the File Browser.
Page 28: Database
DataBase. 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 29: The Database Menu
Auto Update If Auto update is set to on, each time the player boots, the database will automatically be updated. Initialize Now You can force Rockbox to rescan your disk for tagged ﬁles by using the Initialize Now function in the Database Menu.
Page 30: Using The Database
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Page 31: While Playing Screen
Elapsed and total time. A slidebar progress meter representing where in the song you are. Peak meter. See section 13.2 (page 179) for details of customising your WPS (While Playing Screen). The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 32: Wps Key Controls
The bar: This is the wide horizontal bar. It represents the current volume value. The peak indicator: This is a little vertical line at the right end of the bar. It indicates the peak volume value that occurred recently. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 33: The Wps Context Menu
Add to new playlist. Similar to the previous entry this will add the currently playing track to a playlist. You need to enter a name for the new playlist ﬁrst. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 34 This info is known as meta data and is stored in audio ﬁle formats to keep information on artist, album etc. To access this screen, press Select + Submenu. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 35 100%. However, the rate, pitch and speed information will be stored in any bookmarks you may create (see section (page 76)) and will be restored upon playing back those bookmarks. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 36: Working With 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 37 Chapter 4. Browsing and playing By selecting (“playing”) a song from the File Browser Whenever a song is selected from the File Browser with Select or Right, Rockbox will automatically create a playlist containing all of the songs in that directory and start playback with the selected song.
Page 38: 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 39: 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 playlist.
Page 40: Loading Saved Playlists
The default assignment for the File Browser hotkey is Off, while the default for the WPS hotkey is View Playlist. The hotkey assignments are changed in the Hotkey menu (see section 8.11 (page 80)) under General Settings. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 41: 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 Submenu button.
Page 42: Navigating The Main Menu
Note: Bookmarking only works when tracks are launched from the ﬁle browser, and does not currently work for tracks launched via the database. In addition, they do not currently work with dynamic playlists. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 43: Files
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 76) for more details on conﬁguring bookmarking in Rockbox. 5.4. Files Browse the ﬁles on your player (see section (page 24)).
Page 44: Sound Settings
The details of this menu are covered in section (page 60). 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 66).
Page 45: Recording
The counter is reset to zero when starting a new recording. The frequency and channels settings are shown in the status bar. The controls for this screen are: The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 46: Fm Radio
5.9. FM Radio Note: Not all Sansas have a radio receiver. Generally all American models do, but European models might not. Rockbox will display the radio menu only if it can ﬁnd a radio receiver in your Sansa. Figure 5.4.: The FM radio screen This menu option switches to the radio screen.
Page 47 Chapter 5. The Main Menu “play” it from the ﬁle browser. Rockbox will “remember” and use it in PRESET mode until another ﬁle has been selected. Some preset ﬁles are available here: FmPresets. It is also possible to record the FM radio while listening. To start recording, enter the FM radio settings menu with Long Select and then select Recording.
Page 48: Playlists
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 49: Quick Screen
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 50 Chapter 5. The Main Menu The player can be turned oﬀ Note: Shortcuts into the database are not possible Shortcuts are loaded from the ﬁle /.rockbox/shortcuts.txt which lists each item to be displayed. Each shortcut looks like the following: Example [shortcut] type: <shortcut type>...
Page 51: 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 52: Volume Limit
(but not always) has the eﬀect of removing the voice track from a song. This setting also very often has other undesirable eﬀects on the sound. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 53: Stereo Width
High-Frequency Attenuation. How much the upper frequencies of the cross path audio will be dampened. Note that the total level of the higher frequencies will be a combination of both this setting and the Cross Gain setting. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 54: Equalizer
6.9. Equalizer Figure 6.2.: The graphical equalizer Rockbox features a parametric equalizer (EQ). In contrast to non-parametric equalizers, a parametric EQ enables adjusting the center frequency, gain, and width of EQ bands separately. The ability to adjust the frequency and width of bands enables more precise control of the EQ frequency response while avoiding the use of a large number of bands (often 12+) needed in a non-parametric EQ.
Page 55 Bands 1-8: Peaking ﬁlters. Peaking EQ ﬁlters boost or lower a frequency range cen- tered at the centre frequency chosen. Graphic equalizers in home stereos are usually peaking ﬁlters. The peaking ﬁlters in Rockbox’s EQ lets you adjust three diﬀerent parameters for EQ bands 1 through 8. The “centre” parameter controls the centre frequency of the frequency range that is aﬀected as described above.
Page 56 Simple EQ. This option provides an easier alternative for those who are daunted by all of the parameters that can be adjusted using the graphical EQ. With the Simple EQ, the only parameter that can be adjusted is the gain. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 57: Dithering
This setting controls the dithering and noise shaping functionality of Rockbox. Most of Rockbox’ audio ﬁle decoders work at a higher bit depth than the 16 bits used for output on the player’s audio connectors. The simplest way to convert from one bit depth to another is simply discarding all the surplus bits.
Page 58: Perceptual Bass Enhancement
Makeup Gain in Auto restores the signal to the maximum possible level and brings the quieter audio up with it. This is what makes it possible to hear the quieter audio in noisy environments. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 59 “pumping.” Instead, the gain is allowed to return to normal at the chosen rate. Release Time is the time for the gain to recover by 10 dB. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 60: 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 36).
Page 61: Play Selected First
Manual Track Skip then crossfade will be active either when shuﬄe is set to Yes or the track is manually skipped. If set to Always, tracks will always crossfade into one another. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 62: Replaygain
This allows you to control the replaygain function. The purpose of replaygain is to adjust the volume of the music played so that all songs (or albums, depending on your The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 63: Track Skip Beep
The beep is disabled when set to Off. 7.10. Auto-Change Directory Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a directory. If Auto-Change Di- rectory is set to Yes, Rockbox will continue to the next directory. If Auto-Change Directory is set to No, playback will stop at the end of the current playlist.
Page 64: Constrain Auto-Change
.cue. This ﬁle can either reside in the same directory as the audio ﬁle (checked ﬁrst), or within the .rockbox/cue directory. The contents of a cuesheet ﬁle can also be embedded within the metadata of an audio ﬁle.
Page 65: Prevent Track Skipping
The amount to rewind can be set between 0 and 15 seconds. 7.18. Frequency This is the sampling frequency used for the rockbox playback engine. Audio at a diﬀerent sampling rate will be converted to this sampling rate prior to mixing using a cubic Hermite polynomial resampler.
Page 66: General Settings
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 67 Chapter 8. General Settings Sort Files. This option controls how Rockbox sorts ﬁles. All of the options for Sort Directories are available in this option. In addition, there is a By type option which sorts ﬁles alphabetically by their type (such as .mp3) then alphabetically within each type.
Page 68: Database
The amount of time is determined by the value of the backlight timeout setting, but is no less than 5 seconds. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 69 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 70 Default Codepage. A codepage describes the way extended characters that are not available within the ASCII character set are encoded. ID3v1 tags do not have a codepage encoding contained so Rockbox needs to know what encoding has been used when generating these tags. This should be “ISO-8859-1” but to support lan- guages outside Western Europe most applications use the setting of your operating system instead.
Page 71: System
8.5.1. Disk Options relating to the hard disk. Directory Cache. Rockbox has the ability to cache the contents of your drive in RAM. The Directory Cache takes a small amount of memory away from Rockbox that would otherwise be used to buﬀer music, but it speeds up navigation in the ﬁle browser by eliminating the slight pause between the time a navigation button...
Page 72: 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 section 8.6.2...
Page 73 Browser. This mode lets you control a web browser (e.g. Firefox). It uses the player’s keys to navigate through the web page and diﬀerent tabs, navigate through history, and to control zoom. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 74: Usb Hide Internal Drive
USB devices with multiple drives, such as some car audio systems. 8.6. Startup/Shutdown The Startup/Shutdown sub menu allows you to conﬁgure items which are run at startup, or initiate a shutdown when conditions are met. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 75: Start Screen
Chapter 8. General Settings 8.6.1. Start Screen Set the screen that Rockbox will start in. The default is the main menu but the following options are available: Previous Screen. Start Rockbox in the same screen as when it was shut oﬀ.
Page 76: Bookmarking
Note: Bookmarking only works when tracks are launched from the ﬁle browser, and does not work for tracks launched via the database. In addition, they do not work with dynamic playlists. Bookmark on Stop. This option controls whether Rockbox creates a bookmark when playback is stopped manually. No. Do not create bookmarks.
Page 77 ﬁles. In this case you should set the setting Bookmark on Stop to “No” and the setting Update on Stop to “Yes”. Load Last Bookmark. This option controls if Rockbox should automatically load a bookmark for a ﬁle, when that ﬁle is played.
Page 78: Automatic Resume
Right to skip across tracks in a playlist without losing their resume position. Automatic resume. This option enables or disables automatic resume globally. When Rockbox detects that the database (which is needed for this feature) has not been initialized yet, it asks whether it should be initialized right away.
Page 79: 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 80: Hotkey
Announce Battery Level. When this option is enabled the battery level is announced when it falls under 50%, 30% and 15%. VoiceHowto for more details on conﬁguring speech support in Rockbox. 8.11. Hotkey WPS Hotkey. File Browser Hotkey.
Page 81: Theme Settings
.wps ﬁle see section 13.2 (page 179). 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 191). These icons can also be customised.
Page 82 Bar (Gradient Colour). A bar with a colour gradient, the colours are set in the Colours submenu. Colours. The options in this menu sets the colours for visual elements in Rockbox. Line Selector Colours. These options sets the colours for the line selector bars.
Page 83: Recording Settings
Choose the recording frequency (sample rate). 24 kHz, 22.05 kHz and 16 kHz available. Higher sample rates use up more disk space, but give better sound quality. Note: The 11.025 kHz setting is not available when using MPEG Layer 3 format. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 84: Source
This setting buﬀers a small amount of audio so that when the record button is pressed, the recording will begin from that number of seconds earlier. This is useful for ensuring that a recording begins before a cue that is being waited for. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 85: Clear Recording Directory
In the peak meter at the bottom of the screen the start threshold is displayed graphically by a little triangle The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 86 By specifying a short presplit gap you still can split the recording into separate tracks whenever the trigger start condition is met. More information can be found at VolumeTriggeredRecording. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 87: Time And Date
Time related menu options. Pressing Long Select will voice the current time if voice support is enabled. Set Time/Date: Set current time and date. Time Format: Choose 12 or 24 hour clock. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 88: Plugins
Chapter 12. Plugins 12. 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 89: Blackjack
Enter betting amount Scroll Forward / Scroll Backward Select Hit (Draw new card) / Select Right Stay (End hand) Left Double down Power Pause game and go to menu / Cancel The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 90: Brickmania
Flip Flip left / right movement. Action Left / Right Moves the paddle Scroll Backward / Scroll Forward Select Release the ball / Fire Power Open menu / Quit The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 91: Bubbles
ﬁred. Points are awarded depending on how quickly the level was completed. Action Play Pause game Scroll Forward / Aim the bubble Scroll Backward Select Fire bubble Power or Long Exit to menu Power The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 92: Chessbox
Keys Action Direction keys Move the cursor Select Pick up / Drop piece Change level Select+Right Force play Power Show the menu The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 93: Clix
The more blocks you remove per turn, the more points you get. Action Left/Right/ Move the cursor around the blocks Play/Submenu Select Remove a block Power Exit The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 94: Chopper
Navigate a cavernous maze without banging into walls, the ceiling, or the ﬂoor. How long can you ﬂy your chopper? Action Select Make chopper ﬂy Power Enter menu 12.1.8. Codebuster Figure 12.7.: Codebuster The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 95: Dice
“Roll Dice”. The result is shown as individual numbers as well as the total of the rolled dice. Action Select Roll dice again Power Quit 12.1.10. Doom Figure 12.8.: Doom The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 96 This is the famous Doom game. Getting started For the game to run you need .wad game ﬁles located in /.rockbox/doom/ on your player. Create the directory and save the following ﬁles there: rockdoom.wad. The Rockbox .wad, based on prboom.wad from prboom-2.2.6 Your wad ﬁles.
Page 97 Power InGame Menu Select Enter Scroll Forward Change Weapon Playing the game more description After installation of the wad ﬁles is complete you can start the game. is needed The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 98: Flipit
The aim is to end up with a screen containing tokens of only one colour. Action Play / Submenu Move the cursor / Left / Right Select Flip Rec+Left Shuﬄe Rec+Right Solve Rec+Select Solve step by step Power Quit the game The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 99: Goban
ﬁle ﬁrst then your changes will be lost permanently. The /sgf/gbn_def.sgf ﬁle is also the ﬁle loaded if another is not selected. The information panel which displays the current move number may also contain these The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 100 Zoom Level. Zoom in or out on the board. If you set the zoom level, it will be saved and used again the next time you open this plugin. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 101 Place. The place that this game took place. Round. If part of a tournament, the round number for this game. Done. Return to the previous menu. Options. Customize the behavior of the plugin in certain ways. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 102 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 103: Invadrox
Invadrox is a clone of the classic arcade game Space Invaders. Kill those pesky aliens before they get to you. Remember, they increase speed, drop down and reverse direction after every pass! Action Left Move left Right Move right Select Fire Power Quit The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 104: Jackpot
This is a jackpot slot machine game. At the beginning of the game you have 20$. Payouts are given when three matching symbols come up. Action Select Play Power Exit the game 12.1.15. Jewels Figure 12.13.: Jewels The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 105: Mazezam
You can have another go by selecting “retry level” from the menu, but this will cost you a life. You start the game with three lives. Luckily, there are checkpoints at levels four and eight. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 106: Minesweeper
Scroll through the entire mineﬁeld Scroll Backward Toggle ﬂag on / oﬀ Select Reveal the contents of the current square Long Rec Display the current game status Power Exit the game The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 107: Pacbox
33c0e197be4c787142af6c3be0d8f6b0 These need to be stored in the /.rockbox/pacman/ directory on your player. In the MAME ROMs collection the necessary ﬁles can be found in pacman.zip and puckman.zip. The MAME project itself can be found at http://www.mame.net. The Rockbox manual...
Page 108: Pegbox
To beat each level, you must destroy all of the pegs. If two like pegs are pushed into each other they disappear except for triangles which form a solid block and crosses which allow you to choose a replacement block. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 109: Pong
For a two player game, both players should just press the appropriate buttons for their side. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 110: Reversi
Robot must touch items to determine if they are kitten or not. The game ends when robotﬁndskitten. Action Play, Submenu, Move robot Left, Right Power Quit The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 111: Rockblox
12.1.23. Rockblox Figure 12.20.: 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 a row is completed, it will be cleared away, and you gain points. For every ten lines completed, the game level increases, making the blocks fall faster.
Page 112: Sliding Puzzle
Move Tile and Submenu Shuﬄe Select Switch between pictures (default puz- zle, album art, and your own image if launched via Open With), and numbered tiles Power Stop the game The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 113: Snake
Play/Submenu Change levels (1 is slowest, 9 is fastest) Select Toggle Play/Pause Go to the plugin’s menu 12.1.27. Snake 2 Figure 12.23.: Snake 2 – The Snake Strikes Back The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 114: Sokoban
.sok extension. Level sets should be in the standard Sokoban text format or RLE (Run Length Encoded). For more information about the level format, http://sokobano.de/wiki/index.php?title=Level_format The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 115: Solitaire
12.1.29. Solitaire Figure 12.25.: 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 Rockbox manual...
Page 116: Spacerocks
Spacerocks is a clone of the old arcade game Asteroids. The goal of the game is to blow up the asteroids and avoid being hit by them. Once in a while, a UFO will appear – shoot this for extra points. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 117: Star
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 Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 118: Sudoku
12.1.32. Sudoku Figure 12.28.: 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 119 Some places where can you can ﬁnd .ss ﬁles: Simple Sudoku (Advanced Puzzle Packs 1 and 2 located near the bottom of that page): http://www.angusj.com/sudoku/ Kjell’s Sudoku generator/solver: http://kjell.haxx.se/sudoku/ The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 120: Wormlet
12.1.33. Wormlet Figure 12.29.: Wormlet game Wormlet is a 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 121 Argh: If the score board entry displays “Argh!” it means the worm is dead because it tried to eat an “argh”. Until we can make the worm say “Argh!” it is your job to say “Argh!” aloud. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 122: Xobox
Be careful not to get in the way of enemy balls because, if they hit you or your trail, you lose a life. To ﬁnish a level you have to section oﬀ more than 75%. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 123: Xworld
XWorld requires the data ﬁles, BANK* and MEMLIST.BIN, from the original “Another World” PC game to be copied into the .rockbox/xworld/ directory before the game can be played.
Page 124: Demos
12.2.1. Bounce Figure 12.31.: 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 125: Cube
Play Pause Submenu Cycle draw mode Right / Left Select axis to adjust Scroll Forward / Change speed/angle (speed can not be Scroll Backward changed while paused) Power Quit The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 126: Demystify
Demystify is a screen saver like demo. Action Scroll Backward Increase / decrease speed / Scroll Forward Play / Submenu Add / remove polygon Power Quit 12.2.5. Fire Figure 12.34.: Fire The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 127: Fractals
Scroll Forward Zoom in Scroll Backward Zoom out Select+Left Decrease iteration depth (less detail) Select+Right Increase iteration depth (more detail) Reset and return to the default image Power Quit The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 128: Logo
Chapter 12. Plugins 12.2.7. Logo Demo showing the Rockbox logo bouncing around the screen. Action Right / Left Increase / decrease speed on the x-axis Play / Submenu Increase / decrease speed on the y-axis Power or Long Quit Power 12.2.8.
Page 129: Oscilloscope
Toggle whether to scroll or not Play Toggle drawing orientation Pause the demo Scroll Forward / Increase / decrease volume Scroll Backward Right / Left Increase / decrease speed Power Exit demo The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 130: Pictureflow
PictureFlow uses both the album art (see section (page 198)) and database (see section (page 28)) 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 131 Rebuild cache. Rebuild the PictureFlow cache. This is needed in order for PictureFlow to pick up new albums, and may occasionally be needed if albums are removed. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 132: Plasma
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 133: Snow
Figure 12.40.: 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 Power or Long Power to quit. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 134: Starﬁeld
Right / Left Increase / decrease number of stars Play / Submenu Increase / decrease speed Select Change colours Power or Long Quit Power 12.2.15. VU meter Figure 12.42.: VU-Meter The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 135: Viewers
“playing” the associated ﬁle. Viewers are stored in the /.rockbox/rocks/viewers/ directory. Note: Some viewer plugins can only be used by selecting the Open With... option from the Context Menu (see section 4.1.2 (page 25)). The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 136: Shortcuts
To use a .link ﬁle just “play” it from the ﬁle browser. This will show you a list with the entries in the ﬁle. Selecting one of them will then exit the plugin and leave you within The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 137: 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 138: Frotz
Chapter 12. Plugins Chip8 Oﬀ Some places where can you can ﬁnd .ch8 ﬁles: The PluginChip8 page on www.rockbox.org has several attached: PluginChip8 http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/games/chip/ Check out the HP48 chip games section: PC emulator by the guy who wrote the HP48 emulator: http://www.pdc.kth.se/...
Page 139: Image Viewer
/ Left / Right Select Zoom in Long Select Zoom out Scroll Forward Next image in directory Scroll Backward Previous image in directory Toggle slide show mode Power Show menu / Abort The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 140: Lua Scripting Language
Lua, please see http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/ and http://www.lua.org/pil/. There are a few exceptions/additions to the Lua support in Rockbox: No ﬂoating point support. The number type in Lua is usually ﬂoat, however in the Rockbox implementation it is integer.
Page 141: Midiplay
MPEG audio multiplexed into .mpg ﬁles. To play a video ﬁle, you just select it in the Rockbox File Browser. If your ﬁle does not have the .mpg extension but is encoded in the supported format, you will need to use the Open With...
Page 142 Display Options Menu Dithering (default: oﬀ) Prevent banding eﬀects in gradients by blending of colours. (only available on Sansa e200, Sansa c200 and Gigabeat F/X) Display FPS (default: oﬀ) This option displays (once a second - if your video is full- screen this means it will get overwritten by the video and appear to ﬂash once...
Page 143: Mp3 Encoder
Equalizer (default: force oﬀ) Use the Equalizer setting or force the equalizer oﬀ. Dithering (default: force oﬀ) Use the Dithering setting or force audio dithering oﬀ. See this page in the Rockbox wiki for information on how to encode your videos to the supported format.
Page 144: Rockboy
12.3.9. Rockboy Figure 12.43.: 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 145: Search
This plugin takes a ﬁle and sorts it in ascending alphabetical order. Case is ignored. This is useful for ordering playlists generated by the Create Playlist menu option (see section 5.10 (page 48)). The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 146: Text Viewer
Bottom of ﬁle (Narrow mode) / One screen right (Wide mode) Scroll Backward One line up Scroll Forward One line down Toggle autoscroll Submenu+Select Set/Reset bookmarks Select Enter menu Power Exit text viewer The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 147 Show Footer Select whether to show the footer. The footer dispays the page number. No Do not display the footer. Yes Display the footer. Font Select the font to be used by the Text Viewer. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 148 “Right” buttons when the screen is in narrow mode (i.e. one screen per page). Previous/Next Page Scroll up or down one full screen. Top/Bottom Page Move to the top or bottom page. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 149 Figure 12.45.: The select bookmark menu Global Settings Set the default settings for the text viewer. The setting items are the same as Viewer Options. The global settings are stored in .rockbox/rocks/viewers/viewer.dat. Quit Exits the plugin. The text viewer automatically stores its settings, the current position and bookmarks in .rockbox/rocks/viewers/viewer_file.dat.
Page 150: Theme Remove
Font. Speciﬁes how the .fnt ﬁle belonging to a theme .cfg ﬁle is handled. If this option is set to Remove if not Used, the fonts came from rockbox-fonts.zip will not be removed as themes may depend on those fonts.
Page 151: Vbrﬁx
Note: VBRﬁx can only run when music is turned oﬀ (since it uses the same memory as the player) and can take a while to complete if run on big ﬁles. 12.3.16. ZXBox Figure 12.47.: ZXBox The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 152 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 153: Applications
This plugin is an alarm clock, which resumes a paused song at a given time. Key conﬁguration Action Left / Right Switch between hours/minutes selection Scroll Backward Increase/Decrease hours/minutes / Scroll Forward or Play / Submenu Select Set the alarm Power Exit The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 154: Battery Benchmark
5 minutes. Seconds The same as Time, except measured in seconds. Level The percent level of the battery estimated by Rockbox, and not the actual battery level. The actual battery level can be seen from the Voltage column Time Left This shows the time remaining until the battery is empty, again as estimated by Rockbox.
Page 155: Calculator
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 156: Calendar
The available memo types are: one oﬀ, yearly, monthly, and weekly memos. You can select what day is ﬁrst day of week by the setting First Day of Week in the menu. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 157: Chess Clock
Increase / decrease displayed Value Select Move to next screen Power Move to previous screen First enter the number of players (1–10) Then set the total game time in mm:ss The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 158: Clock
“TIME UP!”is shown. The player will then be removed from the timer. 12.4.6. Clock Figure 12.51.: Clock This is a fully featured analogue and digital clock plugin. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 159 Digit display, if enabled, places “12”, “3”, “6”, and “9” around the face of the clock in their respective positions. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 160: Disk Tidy
USB. Select the ﬁles you want to delete in the “Files to Clean” menu and select “Start Cleaning” to begin the process. The settings are stored in the plain text ﬁle .rockbox/rocks/apps/disktidy.config that is user-modiﬁable to allow custom entries to be added.
Page 161: Keybox
Enter Keybox after prompting for a new master password. Entries are automatically saved when the plugin is exited. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 162: Lamp
The time tag must be in the form [mm:ss], [mm:ss.xx], or [mm:ss.xxx] where mm is minutes, ss is seconds, xx is tenth of milliseconds, and xxx is milliseconds. Any other tags and lines without time tags are ignored. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 163 /Music/Artist/Album/Title.ext /Music/Artist/Title.ext /Music/Title.ext /Title.ext /Music/Artist/Album/Lyrics/Title.ext /Music/Artist/Lyrics/Title.ext /Music/Lyrics/Title.ext /Lyrics/Title.ext /Lyrics/Musics/Artist/Album/Title.ext /Lyrics/Musics/Artist/Title.ext /Lyrics/Musics/Title.ext /Lyrics/Title.ext The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 164 Encoding. Sets the codepage used in the plugin. Read ID3 tag. Read lyrics from id3 tags in mp3 ﬁles. Lrc Directory. Set the directory where lyrics ﬁles are stored, must be a maximum of 63 bytes. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 165: Md5Sum
This is the mode of operation that is active when starting the plugin directly from the menu. It oﬀers a uniform metronome sound at a constant tempo. You can adjust the tempo through the interface or by tapping it out on the appropriate button. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 166 Exit plugin Power Stop (stay at position) Select Start from / Stop at current position Left / Right Seek in track Scroll Forward / Adjust volume Scroll Backward Sync tap The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 167 The syntax of programmed tracks in tempomap ﬁles follows the format deﬁned by http://das.nasophon.de/klick/. Actually, the goal is to keep compatibility between klick and this Rockbox metronome. The parts of a track are speciﬁed one line each in this scheme (pieces in [] optional): [name:] bars [meter ]tempo[-tempo2[*accel|/accel] [pattern] [volume] The bar count and tempo always have to be speciﬁed, the rest is optional.
Page 168: Periodic Table
It seems to work reasonably on some other models in the simulator. At last, a more complete tempomap ﬁle: # An example track exercising the programmable Rockbox metronome # or also http://das.nasophon.de/klick/. lead-in: 1 4/4 120 XXXX 0.5 # 4 emphasized but less loud ticks...
Page 169: Pitch Detector
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 170: Resistor Calculator
(choose from Ohms, Kiloohms, Megaohms), and use the on-screen keyboard to input the value of the resistor that you would like to know the colour code of. The colour codes are presented graphically and textually. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 171: Rockpaint
12.4.17. Rockpaint Figure 12.53.: Rockpaint Rockpaint is a bitmap (.bmp) editor for Rockbox. It can open any .bmp ﬁle whose di- mensions are the same size as your device’s screen or smaller; it can also create empty bitmaps for you to work with.
Page 172 Resume Closes the Main Menu. New Creates a new canvas and discards the current ﬁle. BE CAREFUL. You will lose any unsaved changes in the ﬁle that is currently open. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 173 Quits Rockpaint immediately. Left / Right / Moves the cursor around. Play / Submenu Select+Power Displays the Main Menu. Displays the toolbar. Select Toggles the brush and selects objects. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 174: Stats
Press it again to quit after counting has ﬁnished. 12.4.19. Stopwatch Figure 12.55.: Stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 175: Text Editor
Note: When you have not changed the ﬁle the Text Editor will quit immediately. Action Select or Right Edit Line / Select Character Left Exit / Abort Editing Submenu Show Item Menu Long Select Delete Line The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 176: Advanced Topics
13.1.3. Loading Fonts Rockbox can load fonts dynamically. Simply copy the .fnt ﬁle to the player and “play” it in the File Browser. If you want a font to be loaded automatically every time you start up, it must be located in the /.rockbox/fonts directory and the ﬁlename must be at most 24 characters long.
Page 177: Loading Languages
13.1.4. 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 Set- Language from the Main Menu.
Page 178: Loading Backdrops
.colours ﬁle format, but an external text editor can also be used. To edit the .colours ﬁle using Rockbox, “play” it in the File Browser. The ﬁle will open in the Text Editor. Upon selecting a line, the following choices will appear:...
Page 179: Ui Viewport
WPS and FMS. The SBS also allows you to control certain aspects of the appearance of the menus/browsers. There are a number of themes included in Rockbox, and you can load one of these at any time by selecting it in Settings Browse Theme Files.
Page 180 .sbs. The main theme ﬁle has the extension .cfg. All ﬁles should have the same name. The theme .cfg ﬁle should be placed in the /.rockbox/themes directory, while the .wps, .fms and .sbs ﬁles should be placed in the /.rockbox/wps directory. Any images used by the theme should be placed in a subdirectory of /.rockbox/wps...
Page 181 Draw the next ‘param’ lines using a gradient as de- ﬁned by %Vg. By default the gradient is drawn over 1 line. %Vs(gradient,2) will use 2 lines to fully change from the start colour to the end colour The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 182: Info Viewport (Sbs Only)
%VI tag. The ‘. . . ’ parameters use the same logic as the %V tag explained above. %VI(’label’) Set the Info Viewport to use the viewport called label, as declared with the previous tag. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 183: Additional Fonts
‘id’ is the number you want to use in viewport declarations, 0 and 1 are reserved and so can’t be used. ‘ﬁlename’ is the font ﬁlename to load. Fonts should be stored in /.rockbox/fonts/ ‘glyphs’ is an optional speciﬁcation of how many unique glyphs to store in memory.
Page 184 Display the ﬁlename continuously. Note that by using a subline display time of 0 in one branch of a conditional, a subline can be skipped (not displayed) when that condition is met. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 185: Managing Rockbox Settings
13.3. Managing Rockbox Settings 13.3.1. Introduction to .cfg Files Rockbox allows users to store and load multiple settings through the use of conﬁguration ﬁles. A conﬁguration ﬁle is simply a text ﬁle with the extension .cfg. A conﬁguration ﬁle may reside anywhere on the disk. Multiple conﬁguration ﬁles are permitted.
Page 186: Speciﬁcations For .Cfg Files
ﬁles. 13.3.2. Speciﬁcations for .cfg 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.
Page 187: The Manage Settings Menu
13.5. Optimising battery runtime Rockbox oﬀers a lot of settings that have high impact on the battery runtime of your player. The largest power savings can be achieved through disabling unneeded hardware The Rockbox manual...
Page 188: Display Backlight
Therefore the bitrate of the audio ﬁles does have an impact on the battery runtime as well. Lower bitrate audio ﬁles will result in longer battery runtime. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 189: Sound Settings
In general all kinds of sound processing will need more CPU time and therefore consume more power. The less sound processing you use, the better it is for the battery runtime (for options see section (page 51)). The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 190 Appendix A. File formats The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 191: File Formats
Display the text ﬁle using the text .txt viewer plugin Voice ﬁle Allow Rockbox to speak menus .voice While Playing Screen Load the new WPS display conﬁg- .wps uration The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 192: Audio And Metadata Formats
Windows Media Audio Standard .wma, .wmv, .asf Windows Media Audio Professional .wma, .wmv, .asf Note: AAC-HE proﬁles might not play in realtime on all devices due to CPU perfor- The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 193: Lossless Codecs
2/3/4/5 bit, Dialogic OKI AD- PCM, YAMAHA ADPCM, Adobe SWF ADPCM Wavpack Note: Free Lossless Audio multichannel tracks may not play in realtime on all devices due to CPU performance requirements. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 194: Other Codecs
Sound Interface Device Progress .sid seek use subtracks instead of seconds. SPC700 .spc Note: NSF and VGM might not play in realtime on all devices due to CPU performance requirements. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 195: Codec Featureset
Boy Sound Format, AY Sound Chip Music, Hudson Entertainment System Sound, For- mat, MSX Konami Sound System and SMS/GG/CV Sound Format use subtracks instead of seconds, whereas each subtrack equals a second. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 196: Supported Metadata Tags
The following table gives an overview about what tag types rockbox supports for which audio ﬁle extension. Note: There is always only one tag type supported for each ﬁle extension.
Page 197: Featureset For Codec Speciﬁc Metadata
2. Only one tag type is supported for each audio format. 3. Overall there are 900 bytes available to load metadata strings. 4. The maximum size of each metadata item (e.g. Artists) is limited to 240 bytes. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 198: Album Art
Appendix C. Album Art C. Album Art Rockbox allows you to put the album art, or another image related to the music on your player to display it in the PictureFlow plugin or in the theme. For this feature to work, there are a few requirements.
Page 199 If no album artist is set, artist will be used instead. See AlbumArt in the wiki for programs that will help you automate the process of putting album art on your player. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 200: Theme Tags
When used conditionally, the “true” branch is completely ignored if it does not apply. Example: %?cc<%cH:%cM|No clock detected> The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 201: Information From The Track Tags
%V tag explained above. See section 13.2.2. Set the Info Viewport to use the viewport called label, as %VI(’label’) declared with the previous tag. Draw this viewport on the backdrop layer. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 202: Additional Fonts
“c” if the unit is currently charging the battery (only on tar- gets that have software charge control or monitoring) Remaining time of the sleep timer (if it is set) The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 203: Information About The File
%d(1) is “Isola”, %d(2) is “Kent” and %d(3) is “Rock”. These tags, when written with the ﬁrst letter capitalized (e.g. %Fn or %D(2)), produce the information for the next ﬁle to be played. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 204: Playlist/Song Info
10 seconds if no number is speciﬁed. %?pE(7)<in the last 7 seconds of track|in the rest of the track> Current playback pitch D.10. Playlist Viewer Description Display the playlist viewer in the current viewport. %Vp(start,code to render) The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 205: D.11.Runtime Database
Crossfade setting, in the order: Oﬀ, Auto Skip, Man Skip, Shuﬄe, Shuﬄe and Man Skip, Always ReplayGain value (x.y dB). used conditional, Replaygain type use: %?rg<Off|Track|Album|TrackShuffle|AlbumShuffle|No tag> D.13. Hold Description “h” if the main unit keys are locked The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 206: D.14.Virtual Led
Rewind, Recording, Recording paused, FM Radio play- ing, FM Radio muted Example: %?mp<Stop|Play|Pause|Ffwd|Rew|Rec|Rec pause|FM|FM pause> D.17. Current Screen Description The current screen, 1-20, in the order shown below The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 207: D.18.List Title (.Sbs Only)
%?Lt<%Lt> to display the title within the viewport. If %Lt is present anywhere in the .sbs, then the %Vi viewport will not show the title. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 208: D.19.Changing Volume
2.5 seconds after the volume button has been released. After that, it will display the volume value. D.20. Settings Description The value of the Rockbox setting with the speciﬁed name. See %St(<setting section (page 217) for the list of the available settings.
Page 209: D.21.Images
LCD. %x(n,filename[,x,y])Load and display an image n: image ID for later referencing in %xd filename: ﬁle name relative to /.rockbox/ and including “.bmp” x: x coordinate (defaults to 0 if both x and y are not speciﬁed) y: y coordinate.
Page 210: How To Display The Album Art
Appendix D. Theme Tags 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: %xl(M,volume.bmp,134,153,5)
Page 211: D.22.Fm Radio
The tags are exactly the same as for album art, described above. Images need to be placed in /.rockbox/fmpresets/, and must have the same name as the preset. They need to be in either .bmp or .jpg format, and the radio must be in preset mode and tuned to a preset (and not recording) in order for them to be shown.
Page 212: D.23.Alignment And Language Direction
..., tagN) Logical “or” operator. Will be evaluate to true if any of the %or(tag1, tag2, tag parameters are true.., tagN) Examples of the %if tag: The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 213: D.25.Subline Tags
4-digit year Capital AM/PM Lowercase am/pm Weekday name Month name Day of week from 1 to 7, 1 is Monday Day of week from 0 to 6, 0 is Sunday The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 214: D.27.Text Translation
– draw a preloaded image under the bar. The full image will be displayed and must be the same size as the bar. This must be followed by the label of the desired image. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 215: D.29.Other Tags
– OPTIONAL. if this is present it will assume the substring is a number so it can be used with conditionals. (i.e %cM). 0 is the ﬁrst conditional option The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 216 (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 Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 217: Conﬁg File Options
Screen Scrolls Out Of on, oﬀ View The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 218 ﬁles in playlist 1000 - 32000 max ﬁles in dir 50 - 10000 lang /path/ﬁlename.lng /path/ﬁlename.wps autocreate bookmarks oﬀ, on autoload bookmarks oﬀ, on The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 219 ﬁles, dB, wps, menu, recording, radio, bookmarks playlist catalog directory /path/to/dir replaygain type track, album, track shuﬄe, oﬀ replaygain noclip on, oﬀ replaygain preamp -120 to 120 0.1 dB The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 220 2:1, 4:1, 6:1, 10:1, limit compressor knee hard knee, soft knee compressor release time 100 to 1000 100 ms beep oﬀ, weak, moderate, strong keyclick oﬀ, weak, moderate, strong keyclick repeats on, oﬀ The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 221 12hour, 24hour rec quality 0 to 7 0: small size, 7: high quality rec frequency 48, 44, 32, 24, 22, 16 rec source mic, line, spdif rec channels mono, stereo The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 222 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 rec path /path/to/dir force fm mono oﬀ, on The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 223: Menu Overview
Appendix F. Menu Overview F. Menu Overview include an overview of the menu structure here The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 224: 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 225: Features We Will Not Implement
Implementing the ability to playback DRM ﬁles. Firstly, this would be extremely diﬃcult to implement legally - Rockbox is not legal entity as such, and therefore is unable to enter into license agreements with providers of DRM technology. Secondly, Rockbox is open source, which would mean that any DRM technology we incorporated into our codebase would sud- denly become visible to the whole world, completely defeating its purpose.
Page 226: Credits
Huw Smith Garrett Derner hiko Itoh David J. Song Jeong Taek Barry McIntosh Leslie Donald- Anders Kagerin Peter D’Hoye Lee Pilgrim Zakk Roberts Ben Basha Brandon Low Nathan The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 227 Peter Harley Max Kel- Ginkel Adam Gashlin Robert Kukla Alexander Eickhoff Ken Faz- David Quesada Jared Stafford zone David Bishop Hein-Pieter Martin Hensel Stéphane Doyon van Braam Przemysław Hołubowski The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 228 Laurent Gautier Simon Wallace Eric Lassauge François Zhukovsky Daniel Kluz Phinit- Dinel Francesco Rigoni Joël Puik nun Chanasabaeng Tse-Hsien Chiang Klaas Bosteels Teruaki Kawashima Szymon Dziok Domenico Di Misa The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 229 Mauricio Garrido Nick New RAW team (Piotr Padkowski and Peskett Michael Goerner Richard others) The Fabother World team Brittain Andrew Ryabinin Maksim (Fabien Sanglard and others) Postolati Stanislav Chizhik Desu The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 230: Licenses
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Page 232 Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material. If you use the latter option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when you begin The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 233 Title Page. If there is no section Entitled “History” in the Document, create one stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as given The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
Page 234 The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modiﬁed Version. The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
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Page 239 License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print The Rockbox manual Sansa e200 and e200R Series (version rUnversioned directory-150220)
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SanDisk Sansa e200 Series Manual 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 Time and Date

12 Plugins

13 Advanced Topics

File Formats

Audio and Metadata Formats

Album Art

Theme Tags

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