Chapter 5. The Main Menu
player back to initial configuration. The details of this menu are covered in section
(page 79).
5.8. Playlists
This menu allows you to work with playlists. Playlists can be created in three ways.
Playing a file in a directory causes all the files in it to be placed in a playlist. Playlists can
be created manually by either using the Context Menu (see section
or using the 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.
View Current Playlist: Displays the contents of the playlist currently stored in memory.
Save Current Playlist: Saves the current dynamic playlist, excluding queued tracks, to
the specified file. If no path is provided then playlist is saved to the current
directory.
View Catalogue: Provides a simple interface to maintain several playlists (see sec-
tion
4.4
(page 26)).
5.9. Plugins
With this option you can load and run various plugins that have been written for Rock-
box. There are a wide variety of these supplied with Rockbox, including several games,
some impressive demos and a number of utilities. A detailed description of the different
plugins is to be found in section
5.10. System
Use the MINUS and PLUS keys to step through several pages of information.
Rockbox Info: Displays some basic system information. This is, from top to bottom,
the amount of memory Rockbox has available for storing music (the buffer). The
battery status. Hard disk size and the amount of free space on the disk.
Credits: Display the list of contributors.
Running Time: Shows the runtime of your player in hours, minutes and seconds.
Running Time: This item shows the cumulative overall runtime of your player
since you either disconnected it from charging (in Rockbox) or manually reset
this item. A manual reset is done through pressing any button, followed by
pressing Play.
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