Cowon X5 Specifications

The Rockbox ManualforIaudio X5rockbox.orgMay 16, 2015

Contents 10D.13.Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192D.14.Virtual LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 12. Plugins 100Pacbox is an emulator of the Pacman arcade machine hardware. It is a port of PIE –Pacman Instructional Emulator (http://www.asc

Chapter 12. Plugins 10112.1.19. PegboxFigure 12.17.: pegboxTo beat each level, you must destroy all of the pegs. If two like pegs are pushed intoeach

Chapter 12. Plugins 102As soon as a button to control one of the paddles is pressed, control of that paddlepasses to the player, so for a single playe

Chapter 12. Plugins 103Key Remote Key ActionUp, Down,Left, RightForward,Rewind,Volume Down,Volume UpMove robotRec Rec Quit12.1.23. RockbloxFigure 12.2

Chapter 12. Plugins 10412.1.24. Rockblox1dRockblox1d is a game for people who find rockblox too hard. In this version the seconddimension is missing so

Chapter 12. Plugins 10512.1.26. SnakeFigure 12.22.: SnakeThis is the popular snake game. The aim is to grow your snake as large as possible byeating t

Chapter 12. Plugins 106Key Remote Key ActionUp / Down /Left / RightSteer the snakeSelect Pause and resume the gamePower QuitIn game A, the maze stays

Chapter 12. Plugins 107Key Remote Key ActionIn gameUp, Down,Left, RightMove the “sokoban” up, down, left, orrightPower MenuRec Restart levelSelect Und

Chapter 12. Plugins 108Key Remote Key ActionUp / Down /Left / RightMove Cursor around.Select Select cards, move cards, reveal hiddencards...Play If a

Chapter 12. Plugins 10912.1.31. StarFigure 12.27.: Star gameThis is a puzzle game. It is actually a rewrite of Star, a game written by CDK designedfor

Chapter 1. Introduction 111. Introduction1.1. WelcomeThis is the manual for Rockbox. Rockbox is an open source firmware replacementfor a growing number

Chapter 12. Plugins 11012.1.32. SudokuFigure 12.28.: SudokuSudoku in Rockbox can act as both a plugin and a viewer. When starting Sudoku fromthe Brows

Chapter 12. Plugins 111Key Remote Key ActionUp / Down /Left / RightMove the cursorSelect Change number under the cursorLong Select Constantly changing

Chapter 12. Plugins 112The gameUse the control keys of your worm to navigate around obstacles and find food. Wormsdo not stop moving except when dead.

Chapter 12. Plugins 113Hungry: That’s the normal state of a worm. Worms are always hungry and want to eat.It is good to have a hungry worm since it me

Chapter 12. Plugins 11412.1.34. XoboxFigure 12.30.: XoboxXobox is a simple clone of the well known arcade game Qix. The aim of the game is tosection o

Chapter 12. Plugins 115Key Remote Key ActionUp Up and JumpDown Down and CrouchLeft / Right Move Left and RightAction and FireMenu12.2. Demos12.2.1. Bo

Chapter 12. Plugins 11612.2.2. CreditsThe credits plugin scrolls the entire list of the names of all the Rockbox contributors afterdisplaying the Rock

Chapter 12. Plugins 11712.2.4. DemystifyFigure 12.33.: DemystifyDemystify is a screen saver like demo.Key Remote Key ActionLeft / Right Volume Down/ V

Chapter 12. Plugins 118Key Remote Key ActionUp / Down Forward /RewindIncrease / decrease number of flamesLeft Volume Down Toggle flame typeRight Volume

Chapter 12. Plugins 11912.2.8. MosaiqueFigure 12.36.: MosaiqueThis simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player.Key Remote

Chapter 1. Introduction 12main channel for Rockbox is #rockbox on irc://irc.freenode.net. Many helpful developersand users are usually around. Just jo

Chapter 12. Plugins 120KeysKey Remote Key ActionSelect Toggle filled / curve / plotRec Toggle whether to scroll or notLong Select Toggle drawing orient

Chapter 12. Plugins 121KeysKey Remote Key ActionLeft / Right Scroll through albumsUp / Down Scroll through track listSelect Enter track list / Play al

Chapter 12. Plugins 122Rebuild cache. Rebuild the PictureFlow cache. This is needed in order for PictureFlowto pick up new albums, and may occasionall

Chapter 12. Plugins 12312.2.13. SnowFigure 12.40.: Have you ever seen snow falling?This demo replicates snow falling on your screen. If you love winte

Chapter 12. Plugins 12412.2.15. VU meterFigure 12.42.: VU-MeterThis is a VU meter, which displays the volume of the left and right audio channels.Ther

Chapter 12. Plugins 125Viewer Plu-ginAssociated filetype(s) Context Menu onlyShortcuts .linkChip-8 Emula-tor.ch8Frotz .z1 - .z8Image Viewer .bmp, .jpg,

Chapter 12. Plugins 126the directory selected, or with the file selected in the file browser. You can then playthe file or do with it whatever you want.

Chapter 12. Plugins 127Chip8 Off 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E FKeyPowerUpLeftSelectRightDownSome places where can you can find .ch8 files:• The PluginCh

Chapter 12. Plugins 128Key Remote Key ActionUp Forward Display keyboard to enter textSelect Mode Press enterRec Rec Open Frotz menu (not available atM

Chapter 12. Plugins 129Show Playback Menu. From the playback menu you can control the playback of thecurrently loaded playlist and change the volume o

Chapter 2. Installation 132. InstallationInstalling Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure. However before beginningthere are a few important

Chapter 12. Plugins 130directory containing several .pat files and two .cfg files. Just select a MIDI file witheither the .mid or .midi extension in the

Chapter 12. Plugins 131Quit mpegplayer Exit the plugin.Main MenuSettings Open Settings submenu – see below.Resume playback Return to playback screen.Q

Chapter 12. Plugins 132Channel Modes (default: force off) Use the channel configuration setting or force Stereomode.Crossfeed (default: force off) Use th

Chapter 12. Plugins 133Rockboy is a Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for Rockbox based onthe gnuboy emulator. To start a game, open a ROM

Chapter 12. Plugins 13412.3.11. ShopperShopper is a shopping list plugin which allows you to maintain reusable shopping lists.12.3.12. SortThis plugin

Chapter 12. Plugins 135MenuReturn Return to the file being viewed.Viewer Options Change settings for the current file.Encoding Set the codepage in the t

Chapter 12. Plugins 136Show Statusbar Select whether to show the status bar. If you select a themesettings that the status bar does not display (see s

Chapter 12. Plugins 137Indent Spaces Set the number of spaces to indent the text when line mode is setto Reflow Lines. Available options are 0 to 5 sp

Chapter 12. Plugins 138files are not removed regardless of the Remove Options such as rockbox_default.wpsand the font file currently in use.Theme Remove

Chapter 12. Plugins 139Remote Viewers Iconset. Specifies how the remote viewers iconset .bmp file be-longing to a theme .cfg file is handled.Filetype Col

Chapter 2. Installation 14Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested ininstalling.Fonts. Rockbox can load custom font

Chapter 12. Plugins 140used like a “Kempston” joystick. Per default the buttons, including an additional butfixed menu button, are assigned as follows:

Chapter 12. Plugins 141Hacking graphicsDue to ZXBox’s simple (but fast) scaling to the screen by dropping lines and columnssome games can become unpla

Chapter 12. Plugins 142to disk anyway. This is done so that the data are not biased by excessive additionaldisk accesses. The file is written to the ro

Chapter 12. Plugins 143LimitationsAs Battery Benchmark needs to write the data held in memory to disk in order tosave them, it is possible that should

Chapter 12. Plugins 14412.4.4. CalendarFigure 12.49.: CalendarThis is a small and simple calendar application with memo saving function. Dots indicate

Chapter 12. Plugins 145SetupKey Remote Key ActionRight / Left Increase / decrease displayed ValueSelect Move to next screenRec Move to previous screen

Chapter 12. Plugins 14612.4.6. ClockFigure 12.51.: ClockThis is a fully featured analogue and digital clock plugin.Key configurationKey Remote Key Acti

Chapter 12. Plugins 147Backlight Choose whether to disable the backlight, use the user’s timeout setting,or keep the backlight on.Idle Poweroff Toggle

Chapter 12. Plugins 148Binary modeThis mode shows a Binary clock. The hour is displayed on the top line, the minuteis displayed on the middle line, an

Chapter 12. Plugins 14912.4.8. KeyboxKeybox is an encrypted password storage using the “Tiny Encryption Algorithm” witha key derived using md5.Using K

Chapter 2. Installation 15Release. The release version is the latest stable release, free of known critical bugs.For a manual install, the current sta

Chapter 12. Plugins 150.lrc8 files are the same as .lrc files except that they are UTF8 encoded. The Lyrics3tag is not supported.Supported tags and form

Chapter 12. Plugins 151ControlsKey Remote Key ActionUp / Down Volume Up /Volume DownVolume up/down.Left Rewind Go to beginning of track, or if pressed

Chapter 12. Plugins 152Playback Control. Show the playback control menu.Time Offset. Set an offset for the time tags for the lyrics currently in use.Tim

Chapter 12. Plugins 153Key Remote Key ActionPower Exit pluginRec Rec StopLong Select Rec StartSelect Mode Tap tempoLeft / Right Volume Down/ Volume Up

Chapter 12. Plugins 154Navigation The display indicates the part properties and position in track as such:Metronome Track---------------"Interlud

Chapter 12. Plugins 155Symbol MeaningX emphasized beat (Tick)x normal beat (Tock). silent beatSome examples:default: 0 4/4 120 Xxxxrockon2: 0 4/4 120

Chapter 12. Plugins 15612.4.14. Pitch DetectorWith the Pitch Detector, you can play a note on a musical instrument, and the pluginwill tell you what n

Chapter 12. Plugins 157Folder List Editor KeysKey Remote Key ActionSelect, Right orPlayForward Delete selected folderLong Select Long Mode Bring up th

Chapter 12. Plugins 158with the first option). Then, use the onscreen keyboard to type in the supply voltageand, if selected, the custom forward curren

Chapter 12. Plugins 159Selection tool Allows you to select a rectangular region; once you do, you will be showna menu of options (including “cancel” i

Chapter 2. Installation 16If the contents of the .zip file are extracted correctly, you will have a directory called.rockbox, which contains all the fil

Chapter 12. Plugins 160Brush speed Changes the speed at which the selection cursor moves when you holddown a movement button.Brush size Allows you to

Chapter 12. Plugins 16112.4.19. StopwatchFigure 12.55.: StopwatchA simple stopwatch program with support for saving times.Key Remote Key ActionPower Q

Chapter 12. Plugins 162Key Remote Key ActionSelect, Right orPlayForward Edit Line / Select CharacterLeft or Power Left Exit / Abort EditingRec Menu Sh

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 16313. Advanced Topics13.1. Customising the User Interface13.1.1. Customising The Main MenuIt is possible to customise the

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 164Note: Advanced Users Only: Any BDF font should be usable with Rockbox. To convertbfrom .bdf to .fnt, use the convbdf to

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 165mp1, mp2, mp3, ogg, oga, wma, wmv, asf, wav, flac, ac3, a52, mpc, wv, m4a,m4b, mp4, mod, shn, aif, aiff, spx, sid, adx,

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 16613.1.7. UI ViewportBy default, the UI is drawn on the whole screen. This can be changed so that the UI isconfined to a s

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 16713.2.2. Themes – Create Your OwnThe theme files are simple text files, and can be created (or edited) in your favouritete

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 168Viewport Declaration Syntax%V(x,y,[width],[height],[font]) %Vf([fgcolour]) %Vb([bgcolour]) %Vg(start,end [,text])• %Vf

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 169Mode Descriptionclear Restore the default styleinvert Draw lines invertedcolor Draw the text coloured by the value give

Chapter 2. Installation 172.4. Updating RockboxRockbox can be easily updated with Rockbox Utility. You can also update Rockboxmanually – download a Ro

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 17013.2.3. Info Viewport (SBS only)As mentioned above, it is possible to set a UI viewport via the theme .cfg file. It is a

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 171Example%?mp<Stop|Play|Pause|Ffwd|Rew>The last else part is optional, and will be displayed if the tag has no valu

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 172Conditionals can be used with sublines to display a different set and/or number ofsublines on the line depending on the

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 173Example FileExample%s%?in<%in - >%?it<%it|%fn> %?ia<[%ia%?id<, %id>]>%pb%pc/%ptThat is, “trackn

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 174show files: supportedwps: /.rockbox/car.wpslang: /.rockbox/afrikaans.lngNote: As you can see from the example, configura

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 175Save Sound Settings This option writes a .cfg file to your player’s disk. The config-uration file has the .cfg extension a

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 17613.5.4. ReplaygainReplaygain is a post processing that equalises the playback volume of audio files tothe same perceived

Appendix A. File formats 177The Rockbox manual (version rUnversioned directory-150516) Iaudio X5

Appendix A. File formats 178A. File formatsA.1. Supported file formatsIcon File Type Extension Action when selectedDirectory none Enter the directoryAu

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 179B. Audio and metadata formatsB.1. Supported audio formatsB.1.1. Lossy CodecsFormat Extension NotesATSC A/52

Chapter 3. Quick Start 183. Quick Start3.1. Basic Overview3.1.1. The player’s controlsThroughout this manual, the buttons on the player are labelled a

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 180mance requirements.B.1.2. Lossless CodecsFormat Extension NotesAudio Interchange File Format .aif, .aiff Lin

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 181B.1.3. Other CodecsFormat Extension NotesAtari Sound Format .cmc, .cm3,.cmr, .cms,.dmc, .dlt,.mpt, .mpdSynth

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 182B.1.4. Codec featuresetFormat Seek Resume GaplessATSC A/52 (AC3) x xADX xAdvanced Audio Coding x x xMPEG aud

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 183B.2. Supported metadata tagsRockbox supports different metadata formats. In general those tag formats are ID3

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 184B.2.2. Featureset for codec specific metadataFeature Codec specific metadata (file extension)Embedded .bmp None

Appendix C. Album Art 185C. Album ArtRockbox allows you to put the album art, or another image related to the music on yourplayer to display it in the

Appendix C. Album Art 186The following characters will be replaced with an underscore (_) when looking foralbumtitle.bmp or albumartist-albumtitle.bmp

Appendix D. Theme Tags 187D. Theme TagsThemeing is discussed in detail in section section 13.2 (page 166), what follows is a listof the available tags

Appendix D. Theme Tags 188D.3. Information from the track tagsTag Description%ia Artist%ic Composer%iA Album Artist%id Album Name%iG Grouping%ig Genre

Appendix D. Theme Tags 189D.5. Additional FontsTag Description%Fl(’id’,filename) See section 13.2.4.D.6. Misc Coloring TagsTag Description%dr(x,y,widt

Chapter 3. Quick Start 19detail in the following paragraph. Additional information for blind users is available on¸the Rockbox website at ZBlindFAQ.Th

Appendix D. Theme Tags 190D.8. Information about the fileTag Description%fb File Bitrate (in kbps)%fc File Codec (e.g. “MP3” or “FLAC”). This tag can a

Appendix D. Theme Tags 191D.9. Playlist/Song InfoTag Description%pb Progress Bar. This will replace the entire line with aprogress bar. You can set th

Appendix D. Theme Tags 192• ‘start’ is the offset relative to the currently playing track for the playlist to displayfrom (0 the current track, 1 is th

Appendix D. Theme Tags 193D.14. Virtual LEDTag Description%lh “h” if the hard disk is accessedD.15. Repeat ModeTag Description%mm Repeat mode, 0-4, in

Appendix D. Theme Tags 194Number Screen1 Menus2 WPS3 Recording screen4 FM Radio screen5 Current Playlist screen6 Settings menus7 File browser8 Databas

Appendix D. Theme Tags 195D.19. Changing VolumeTag Description%mv(t) “v” if the volume is being changedThe tag produces the letter “v” while the volum

Appendix D. Theme Tags 196D.21. ImagesTag Description%X(filename.bmp) Load and set a backdrop image for the WPS. This image mustbe exactly the same si

Appendix D. Theme Tags 1971. 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

Appendix D. Theme Tags 1982. Load albumart at position 0,20 and resize it to be at most 100×100 pixels. If theimage isn’t square, align it to the bott

Appendix D. Theme Tags 199D.23. Alignment and language directionTag Description%al Align the text left%aL Align the text left, or to the right if RTL

2Rockboxhttp://www.rockbox.org/Open Source Jukebox FirmwareRockbox and this manual is the collaborative effort of the Rockbox team andits contributors.

Chapter 3. Quick Start 20directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (album art searching, andmissing-tag fallback in some WPSes) use

Appendix D. Theme Tags 200%?if(%pv, >=, 0)<Clipping possible|Volume OK> will display “Clipping possible”if the volume is higher than or equal

Appendix D. Theme Tags 201D.27. Text TranslationTag Description%Sx(English) Display the translation of “English” in the current language• “English” mu

Appendix D. Theme Tags 202nofill – don’t draw the bar, only its frame (for use with the “slider” option).noborder – don’t draw the border for image-les

Appendix D. Theme Tags 203Tag Description%( The character ‘(’%) The character ‘)’%, The character ‘,’%% The character ‘%’%< The character ‘<’%|

Appendix E. Config file options 204E. Config file optionsSetting Allowed Values Unitvolume -73 to +6 dBbass -24 to +24 dBtreble -24 to +24 dBbalance -10

Appendix E. Config file options 205Setting Allowed Values Unitbidir limit 0 to 200 % screenscroll paginated on, off N/Ahold_lr_for_scroll_in_list on, o

Appendix E. Config file options 206Setting Allowed Values Unitdisable autoresume ifphones not presentoff, on N/ALast.fm Logging off, on N/Atalk dir off,

Appendix E. Config file options 207Setting Allowed Values Unitcrossfeed on, off N/Acrossfeed direct gain 0 to 60 0.1 dBcrossfeed cross gain 30 to 120 0

Appendix E. Config file options 208Setting Allowed Values Unitpeak meter dbfs on, off on: dbfs, off: lin-earpeak meter min 0 to 89 (dB) or 0 to 100 (%)

Appendix E. Config file options 209Setting Allowed Values Unitbacklight filters firstremote keypresson, off N/Aremote iconset /path/filename.bmp N/Aremote

Chapter 3. Quick Start 21MenuFrom the menu you can customise Rockbox. Rockbox itself is very customisable. Alsothere are some special menus for quick

Appendix F. Menu Overview 210F. Menu Overviewinclude an overview of the menu structure hereThe Rockbox manual (version rUnversioned directory-150516)

Appendix G. User feedback 211G. User feedbackG.1. Bug reportsIf you experience inappropriate performance from any supported feature, please file abug r

Appendix G. User feedback 212G.2.2. Features we will not implementThis is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do. View

Appendix H. Credits 213H. CreditsPeople that have contributed to the project, one way or another. Friends!· Björn Stenberg · Linus Nielsen Feltz-ing ·

Appendix H. Credits 214Hand · Nick Lanham · Sebastian Hen-riksen · Martin Scarratt · KarlKurbjun · Tomasz Malesinski · An-drew Pilley · Matt v.d. West

Appendix H. Credits 215· Stepan Moskovchenko · John S.Gwynne · Brian J. Morey · Stijn Hisken· Bertrik Sikken · Karim Boucher· James Espinoza · Franz R

Appendix H. Credits 216· Delyan Kratunov · Purling Nayuki· Marek Salaba · Altay Oz · MarkBorgerding · Tobias Diedrich · AndrewEngelbrecht · Kevin Scho

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Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 224. Browsing and playing4.1. File BrowserFigure 4.1.: The file browserRockbox lets you browse your music in either of

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Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 234.1.1. File Browser ControlsKey Remote Key ActionUp/Down VolumeUp/VolumeDownGo to previous/next item in list. If you

Appendix I. Licenses 230and/or redistribute the program as permitted above, be liable toyou for damages, including any general, special, incidental or

Appendix I. Licenses 231‘show w’.This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certainconditions; type ‘show c’ for details.The

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 24Playlist. Enters the Playlist Submenu (see section 4.4.3 (page 35)).Playlist Catalogue. Enters the Playlist Catalogu

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 25Add to Shortcuts. Adds a link to the selected item in the shortcuts.link file. If thefile does not already exist it wi

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 26Key Remote Key ActionLeft / Right Rewind /ForwardMove the cursor on the virtual keyboard.If you move out of the pick

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 27that directory and all its subdirectories from scanning their tags and adding them to thedatabase. This will speed u

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 28Note: You may need to increase the value of the Max Entries in File Browserbsetting (Settings → General Settings → S

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 29change the display of the WPS.• Status bar: The Status bar shows Battery level, charger status, volume, play mode,re

Contents 3Contents1. Introduction 111.1. Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.2. Getting more help .

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 304.3.1. WPS Key ControlsKey Remote Key ActionUp / Down Volume Up /Volume DownVolume up/down.Left Rewind Go to beginni

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 31without being indicated.The scale: Between the indicators of the right and left channel there are little dots.These

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 32Playback SettingsThis is a shortcut to the Playback Settings Menu, where you can configure shuffle,repeat, party mode,

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 33PitchThe Pitch Screen allows you to change the rate of playback (i.e. the playback speedand at the same time the pit

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 34Directory. A playlist! One of the keys to getting the most out of Rockbox is under-standing that Rockbox always cons

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 35to an existing playlist and Add to a new playlist creates a new playlist containingthe selected track or directory.N

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 36Insert Shuffled. Add track(s) to the playlist in a random order.Insert Last Shuffled. Add tracks in a random order to th

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 37the context menu and then move the blinking cursor to the place where you want thetrack to be moved and confirm with

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 385. The Main Menu5.1. Introducing the Main MenuFigure 5.1.: The main menuThe Main Menu is the screen from which all of the R

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 395.3. Recent BookmarksFigure 5.2.: The list bookmarks screenIf the Save a list of recently created bookmarks option is enabl

Contents 44.2.3. The Database Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.2.4. Using the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 405.5. DatabaseBrowse by the meta-data in your audio files (see section 4.2 (page 26)).5.6. Now Playing/Resume PlaybackGo to t

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 415.7.6. Manage SettingsThe Manage Settings option allows the saving and re-loading of user configurationsettings, browsing th

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 42Key Remote Key ActionUp / Down Volume Up /Volume DownSelect setting.Left / Right Rewind /RightAdjust selected setting.Play

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 43Key Remote Key ActionLeft, Right Rewind,ForwardChange frequency in SCAN mode orjump to next/previous station in PRE-SET mod

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 44Create Playlist: Rockbox will create a playlist with all tracks in the current directoryand all sub-directories. The playli

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 455.13. Quick ScreenAlthough the Quick Screen is accessible from nearly everywhere, not just the MainMenu, it is worth mentio

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 46Only “type” and “data” are required (except if type is “separator” in which case “data”is also not required).Available type

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 476. Sound SettingsFigure 6.1.: The sound settings screenThe sound settings menu offers a selection of sound settings you may

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 48from the list and the maximum volume will be limited to the selected value all over thesystem.6.4. TrebleThis setting emph

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 49of one channel into the other. This has the effect of gradually centering the stereo im-age, until you have monophonic soun

Contents 56.7. Stereo Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486.8. Crossfeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 50Most users will find the default settings to yield satisfactory results, but for the moreadventurous user the settings can

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 51In some ways the EQ is similar to the Bass and Treble settings described earlier, butthe EQ allows you to control the soun

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 52Key Remote Key ActionRight Forward Raises the highlighted parameter.Left Rewind Lowers the highlighted parameter.Up Volume

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 53Dithering adds low-level noise to the signal prior to throwing away the surplus bits,which gives the resulting signal a un

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 546.14. Auditory Fatigue ReductionHuman hearing is more senstive to some frequency bands. This setting applies additionalequ

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 557. Playback SettingsThe Playback Settings menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play-back.7.1. ShuffleTur

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 567.3. Play Selected FirstThis setting controls what happens when you select a file for playback while shuffle modeis on. If

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 57the track, moving to the next track in the playlist without user intervention. A man-ual track skip goes to the next tr

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 587.9. ReplaygainThis allows you to control the replaygain function. The purpose of replaygain is toadjust the volume of

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 59Pre-amp. This allows you to adjust the volume when replaygain is applied. Replaygainoften lowers the volume, sometimes

Contents 68.6.2. Idle Poweroff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708.6.3. Sleep Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 607.14. Cuesheet SupportEnables reading of cuesheet files for played tracks. If a cuesheet is found for a track,track mark

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 617.18. Rewind on PauseThis option rewinds the current track by a small amount whenever it is paused (notstopped). The am

Chapter 8. General Settings 628. General SettingsFigure 8.1.: The general settings screen8.1. PlaylistThe Playlist sub menu allows you to configure set

Chapter 8. General Settings 63Interpret numbers when sorting. As whole numbers enables a sorting algorithm whichis similar to the default sorting of,

Chapter 8. General Settings 64If Follow Playlist is set to No, when you enter the File Browser from theWPS, you will find yourself in the directory you

Chapter 8. General Settings 65First Keypress Enables Backlight Only. With this option enabled the first key-press while the backlight is turned off will

Chapter 8. General Settings 66Upside Down. Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest thebuttons. This is sometimes useful when car

Chapter 8. General Settings 67Peak Release. This determines how fast the bar shrinks when the music becomessofter. Lower values make the peak meter lo

Chapter 8. General Settings 68Battery Capacity. This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity (in mAh)the battery being used has. The default

Chapter 8. General Settings 69Glyphs To Cache. This sets the default memory allocation size for fonts in uniqueglyphs. This should be set to the numbe

Contents 712.1.19.Pegbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10112.1.20.Pong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 8. General Settings 708.6.1. Start ScreenSet the screen that Rockbox will start in. The default is the main menu but the followingoptions are

Chapter 8. General Settings 71Start Sleep Timer On Boot: If set, a Sleep Timer will be initiated when the devicestarts.Restart Sleep Timer On Keypress

Chapter 8. General Settings 72files. In this case you should set the setting Bookmark on Stop to “No” andthe setting Update on Stop to “Yes”.Load Last

Chapter 8. General Settings 738.8. Automatic resumeThe automatic resume feature stores and recalls resume positions for all tracks withoutuser interve

Chapter 8. General Settings 74section 13.1.4 (page 164) for further details about languages.8.10. VoiceVoice Menus. This option controls the voicing o

Chapter 8. General Settings 75On. Use special pre-recorded files for each file. This functions the same as fordirectories except that the .talk clip file

Chapter 9. Theme Settings 769. Theme SettingsThe Theme Settings menu offers options that you can change to customize the visualappearance of Rockbox.Br

Chapter 9. Theme Settings 77Status/Scrollbar. Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar.Scroll Bar. Allows you to choose where th

Chapter 10. Recording Settings 7810. Recording SettingsFigure 10.1.: The recording settings screenNote: To change the location where recordings are st

Chapter 10. Recording Settings 7910.4. SourceChoose the source of the recording. The options are: Microphone, Line In andFM Radio. For more informatio

Contents 812.3.11.Shopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13412.3.12.Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 10. Recording Settings 8010.9. Clear Recording DirectoryResets the location where the recorded files are saved to the root of your player’s dri

Chapter 10. Recording Settings 81pointing to the right. There are two special values. The value Off turns the startcondition off. With this setting you

Chapter 11. Time and Date 8211. Time and DateTime related menu options. Pressing Long Select will voice the current time if voicesupport is enabled.Se

Chapter 12. Plugins 8312. PluginsPlugins are programs that Rockbox can load and run. Only one plugin can be loaded ata time. Plugins have exclusive co

Chapter 12. Plugins 8412.1.2. BlackjackFigure 12.1.: BlackjackBlackjack, a game played in casinos around the world, is now available in the palm ofyou

Chapter 12. Plugins 85BrickMania is a clone of the classic game Breakout. The aim of the game is to destroyall the bricks by hitting them with the bal

Chapter 12. Plugins 86the bottom line. To make things more difficult, the entire board is shifted down everytime a certain number of shots have been fire

Chapter 12. Plugins 87KeysKey Remote Key ActionDirection keys Move the cursorSelect Pick up / Drop pieceRec Change levelPlay Force playPower Show the

Chapter 12. Plugins 8812.1.7. ChopperFigure 12.6.: ChopperNavigate a cavernous maze without banging into walls, the ceiling, or the floor. Howlong can

Chapter 12. Plugins 89Key Remote Key ActionRec Rec Show menuSelect Mode Check suggestion and move to next lineLeft / Right Volume Down/ Volume UpSelec

Contents 913.3.2. Specifications for .cfg Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17313.3.3. The Manage Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 12. Plugins 90Your wad files. Copy all Doom wads you wish to play into that directory.The needed files can be found at ZPluginDoomTo play addon

Chapter 12. Plugins 91InGame Options Menu. This menu has the following options:End Game. Ends the current gameMessages. Enable or Disable in game mess

Chapter 12. Plugins 92Flipping the colour of the token under the cursor also flips the tokens above, below, leftand right of the cursor. The aim is to

Chapter 12. Plugins 93little available memory.Note: The plugin does NOT support SGF files with multiple games in one file. Thesebare rare, but if you ha

Chapter 12. Plugins 94New. Create a new game with your choice of board size and handicaps.Save. Save the current state of the game. It will be saved t

Chapter 12. Plugins 95Date. The date that this game took place. This text must follow the formatspecified at http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/properties.htm

Chapter 12. Plugins 96Force Play Mode. The same as Play Mode except that this mode will allow youto play illegal moves such as retaking a ko immediate

Chapter 12. Plugins 9712.1.14. JackpotFigure 12.12.: JackpotThis is a jackpot slot machine game. At the beginning of the game you have 20$. Payoutsare

Chapter 12. Plugins 98Key Remote Key ActionLeft/Right/Up/DownMove the cursor around the jewelsSelect Select a jewelPower Menu12.1.16. MazezaMFigure 12

Chapter 12. Plugins 9912.1.17. MinesweeperFigure 12.15.: Minesweeper pluginThe classic game of minesweeper. The aim of the game is to uncover all of t