User manual TOSHIBA GIGABEAT X - THE ROCKBOX MANUAL

D RA rockbox.org June 6, 2008 FT V ER The Rockbox Manual for Toshiba Gigabeat F Series SI O N 2 Rockbox http://www.rockbox.org/ Open Source Jukebox Firmware c 2003-2008 The Rockbox Team and its contributors, c 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough, c 2003 Jos´ Maria Garcia-Valdecasas Bernal & Peter Schlenker. e RA D Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT Rockbox and this manual is the collaborative effort of the Rockbox team and its contributors. See the appendix for a complete list of contributors. A Version r17694-080606. Built using pdfL TEX. V ER SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CONTENTS 3 Contents RA 3 Quick Start 3.1 Basic overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.1 The player's controls . . . . . 3.1.2 Turning the player on and off 3.1.3 The first contact . . . . . . . . 3.1.4 Basic controls . . . . . . . . . 3.1.5 Basic concepts . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Customising Rockbox . . . . . . . . 3.3 Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4 Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V ER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Installation 2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Installing Rockbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Automated Installation . . . . . . . 2.3.2 Manual Installation . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.3 Enabling Speech Support (optional) 2.4 Running Rockbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 Updating Rockbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 Uninstalling Rockbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6.1 Automatic Uninstallation . . . . . . 2.6.2 Manual Uninstallation . . . . . . . . 4 Browsing and playing 4.1 File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1.1 File Browser Controls . 4.1.2 Context Menu . . . . . . 4.1.3 Virtual Keyboard . . . . 4.2 Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . 4.2.2 Initializing the database FT D THE ROCKBOX MANUAL SI O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11 12 12 12 13 15 15 15 16 16 16 17 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 19 20 21 21 22 22 24 25 25 25 TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES 1 Getting started 1.1 Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Getting more help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Naming conventions and marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 9 10 CONTENTS 4.2.3 The Database Menu . . . 4.2.4 Using the database . . . . While Playing Screen . . . . . . . 4.3.1 WPS Key Controls . . . . 4.3.2 Peak Meter . . . . . . . . 4.3.3 The WPS Context Menu . Working with Playlists . . . . . . 4.4.1 Playlist terminology . . . 4.4.2 Creating playlists . . . . . 4.4.3 Adding music to playlists 4.4.4 Modifying playlists . . . . 4.4.5 Saving playlists . . . . . . 4.4.6 Loading saved playlists . 4.4.7 Helpful Hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 25 26 27 28 28 29 31 31 32 33 34 35 35 35 4.3 4.4 6 Sound Settings 6.1 Volume . . . 6.2 Bass . . . . . 6.3 Treble . . . . 6.4 Balance . . . 6.5 Channels . . 6.6 Stereo Width 6.7 Crossfeed . . 6.8 Equalizer . . 6.9 Dithering . . 7 General Settings FT 5 The Main Menu 5.1 Introducing the Main Menu . . . 5.2 Navigating the Main Menu . . . 5.3 Recent Bookmarks . . . . . . . . 5.4 Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.6 Now Playing/Resume Playback 5.7 Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7.1 Sound Settings . . . . . . 5.7.2 General Settings . . . . . . 5.7.3 Manage Settings . . . . . 5.7.4 Theme Settings . . . . . . 5.8 Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9 Plugins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.10 System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.11 Quick Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . V ER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D THE ROCKBOX MANUAL SI O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 36 37 37 37 37 38 38 38 38 38 38 38 39 39 40 41 41 42 42 42 42 42 43 44 46 47 TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CONTENTS 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . File View . . . . . . . . . . . . . Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6.1 Start Screen . . . . . . . 7.6.2 Battery . . . . . . . . . . 7.6.3 Disk . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6.4 Time and Date . . . . . . 7.6.5 Idle Poweroff . . . . . . 7.6.6 Limits . . . . . . . . . . 7.6.7 Car Adapter Mode . . . 7.6.8 Button Light Timeout . 7.6.9 Button Light Brightness Bookmarking . . . . . . . . . . Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 47 51 51 52 52 55 55 55 55 56 56 56 56 57 57 57 58 58 7.7 7.8 7.9 8 Theme Settings V ER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Plugins 9.1 Games . . . . . . . . . . 9.1.1 Blackjack . . . . . 9.1.2 BrickMania . . . 9.1.3 Bubbles . . . . . 9.1.4 Chessbox . . . . . 9.1.5 Doom . . . . . . . 9.1.6 Flipit . . . . . . . 9.1.7 Jewels . . . . . . 9.1.8 MazezaM . . . . 9.1.9 Minesweeper . . 9.1.10 Pacbox . . . . . . 9.1.11 Pegbox . . . . . . 9.1.12 Pong . . . . . . . 9.1.13 Robotfindskitten 9.1.14 Rockblox . . . . . 9.1.15 Sliding Puzzle . . 9.1.16 Snake . . . . . . . 9.1.17 Snake 2 . . . . . . 9.1.18 Sokoban . . . . . 9.1.19 Solitaire . . . . . 9.1.20 Spacerocks . . . . 9.1.21 Star . . . . . . . . D RA THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT SI O N 60 62 62 63 64 66 67 68 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 85 86 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CONTENTS 9.1.22 Sudoku . . . . . . . 9.1.23 Wormlet . . . . . . 9.1.24 Xobox . . . . . . . Demos . . . . . . . . . . . 9.2.1 Bounce . . . . . . . 9.2.2 Credits . . . . . . . 9.2.3 Cube . . . . . . . . 9.2.4 Demystify . . . . . 9.2.5 Fire . . . . . . . . . 9.2.6 Logo . . . . . . . . 9.2.7 Mandelbrot . . . . 9.2.8 Mosaique . . . . . 9.2.9 Oscilloscope . . . . 9.2.10 Plasma . . . . . . . 9.2.11 Snow . . . . . . . . 9.2.12 Starfield . . . . . . 9.2.13 VU meter . . . . . Viewers . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3.1 Shortcuts . . . . . . 9.3.2 Chip-8 Emulator . 9.3.3 JPEG viewer . . . . 9.3.4 MPEG Player . . . 9.3.5 Rockboy . . . . . . 9.3.6 Search . . . . . . . 9.3.7 Sort . . . . . . . . . 9.3.8 Text Viewer . . . . 9.3.9 VBRfix . . . . . . . 9.3.10 ZXBox . . . . . . . Applications . . . . . . . . 9.4.1 Battery Benchmark 9.4.2 Calculator . . . . . 9.4.3 Chess Clock . . . . 9.4.4 Clock . . . . . . . . 9.4.5 Dice . . . . . . . . . 9.4.6 Disk Tidy . . . . . 9.4.7 Lamp . . . . . . . . 9.4.8 Metronome . . . . 9.4.9 Stats . . . . . . . . 9.4.10 Stopwatch . . . . . 9.4.11 Text Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 88 90 93 94 94 95 95 96 97 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 104 105 106 107 107 109 110 110 110 111 112 114 114 116 117 118 120 121 121 121 122 123 123 9.2 9.3 9.4 D RA 10 Advanced Topics 125 10.1 Customising the userinterface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 10.1.1 Getting Extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT V ER SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CONTENTS 10.1.2 Loading Fonts . . . . . . . . . . 10.1.3 Loading Languages . . . . . . 10.1.4 Changing Colours . . . . . . . 10.1.5 Loading Backdrops . . . . . . . 10.2 Configuring the WPS . . . . . . . . . . 10.2.1 WPS ­ General Info . . . . . . . 10.2.2 WPS ­ Build Your Own . . . . 10.3 Managing Rockbox settings . . . . . . 10.3.1 Introduction to .cfg files. . . . 10.3.2 Specifications for .cfg files. . 10.3.3 The MANAGE SETTINGS menu 10.4 Firmware Loading . . . . . . . . . . . 10.4.1 Using ROLO (Rockbox loader) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 125 125 125 126 126 126 126 129 129 130 130 131 131 A File formats 132 A.1 Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 B WPS Tags B.1 Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . B.2 ID3 Info . . . . . . . . . . . . B.3 Power Related Information B.4 File Info . . . . . . . . . . . . B.5 Playlist/Song Info . . . . . . B.6 Runtime Database . . . . . . B.7 Sound (DSP) settings . . . . B.8 Virtual LED . . . . . . . . . B.9 Repeat Mode . . . . . . . . . B.10 Playback Mode Tags . . . . B.11 Images . . . . . . . . . . . . B.12 Alignment . . . . . . . . . . B.13 Conditional Tags . . . . . . B.14 Real Time Clock . . . . . . . B.15 Other Tags . . . . . . . . . . C Config file options D User feedback D.1 Bug reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D.1.1 Rules for submitting new bug reports . . . D.2 Feature requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D.2.1 Rules for submitting a new feature request D.2.2 Features we will not implement . . . . . . E Changelog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RA FT V ER D THE ROCKBOX MANUAL SI O N 133 133 133 134 134 135 135 135 136 136 136 137 138 138 139 139 140 143 143 143 143 143 144 145 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CONTENTS 8 E.1 What is new since v2.5? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 F Credits 146 G Licenses 149 G.1 GNU Free Documentation License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 G.2 The GNU General Public License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 D RA THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES FT V ER SI O N CHAPTER 1. GETTING STARTED 9 1 Getting started 1.1 Welcome This is the manual for Rockbox. Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players. Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and efficient than your device's stock 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 public license, which means that it will always remain free both to use and to change. Rockbox has been in development since 2001, and receives new features, tweaks and fixes each day to provide you with the best possible experience on your digital audio player. A major goal of Rockbox is to be simple and easy to use, yet remain very customisable and configurable. We believe that you should never need to go through a series of menus for an action you perform frequently. We also believe that you should be able to configure almost anything about Rockbox you could want, pertaining to functionality. Another top priority of Rockbox is audio playback quality ­ Rockbox, for most models, includes a wider range of sound settings than that device's original firmware. A lot of work has been put into making Rockbox sound the best it can, and improvements are constantly being made. All models have access to a large number of plugins, including many games, applications, and graphical "demos". You can load different configurations quickly for different purposes (e.g. a large font for in your car, different sound settings for at home). Rockbox features a very wide range of languages, and all supported models also have the ability to talk to you ­ menus can be voiced and filenames spelled out or spoken. D RA 1.2 Getting more help This manual is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the Rockbox firmware. There is, however, more help available. The Rockbox website at http://www.rockbox.org/ contains very extensive documentation and guides written by members of the Rockbox community and this should be your first port of call when looking for further help. If you cannot find the information you are searching for on the Rockbox website there are a number of support channels you should have a look at. You can try the Rockbox forums located at http://forums.rockbox.org/. Another option are the mailing lists which can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/mail/. From that page you can subscribe to the lists and browse the archives. For searching the list archives simply use the search field that is located on the left side of the website. Also you can ask on IRC. The main channel THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT V ER SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CHAPTER 1. GETTING STARTED 10 1.3 Naming conventions and marks D We have some conventions especially on naming that are intended to be consistent throughout this manual. Manufacturer and product names are formatted in accordance with the standard rules of English grammar, e.g. "Toshiba playback is currently unsupported". Manufacturer and model names are proper nouns, and thus are written beginning with a capital letter. This manual has some parts that are marked with icons on the margin to help you finding important parts or parts you could skip. The following icons are used: Note: This indicates a note. A note starts always with the text "Note". For easier finding of notes we have put this an icon in the margin like here. Notes are used to mark information that could help you or indicate a possible "weirdness" in rockbox that would be explained. Warning: This is a warning. In contrast to notes mentioned above, a warning should be taken more seriously. While ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage ignoring warnings could cause serious damage. If you are new to rockbox you should really read the warnings before doing anything that is warned about. This icon marks a section that are intended especially for the blind and visually impaired. As they cannot read the manual in the same way sighted people can do we have added some additional descriptions. If you are not blind or visually impaired you most likely can completely skip these blocks. To make this easier, there is an icon shown in the margin on the right. Links to the wiki are abbreviated by the name of the wiki page. Those names are still linked so you can simply follow them like any other link in this manual. If you want to access a wiki page manually go to http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ and type the page name in the "Go" box at the top of the page. Links to wiki pages are also indicated by the symbol Zin front of the page name. V ER SI O N b ! ¸ TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES for Rockbox is #rockbox on irc://irc.freenode.net. A bunch of helpful developers and users are usually around. Just join and ask ­ if someone knows the answer you'll usually get an answer pretty quickly. More information including IRC logs can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/irc/. We also have a web client for joining the rockbox IRC channel so there is no need for you to install additional software to your computer. If you think you found a bug please make sure it actually is a bug and is still present in the most recent version of rockbox. You should try to confirm that by using the above mentioned support channels first. After that you can submit that issue to our tracker. Refer to section D (page 143) for details on how to use the tracker. RA THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION 11 2 Installation 2.1 Overview There are two ways of installing Rockbox: automated and manual. While the manual way is older, more tested and proven to work correctly, the automated installation is based on a nice graphical application that does almost everything that is needed for you. It is still important that you have an overview of the installation process to be able to select the correct installation options. There are three separate components, two of which need to be installed in order to run Rockbox. This bootloader is stored in special flash memory in your Toshiba. It is already installed on your player, so it is never necessary to modify this in order to install Rockbox. The Rockbox bootloader. The Rockbox bootloader is loaded from disk by the Toshiba bootloader. It is responsible for loading the Rockbox firmware and for providing the dual boot function. It directly replaces the Toshiba firmware on the player's disk. FT V ER The Toshiba bootloader. The Toshiba bootloader is the program that tells your player how to boot and load the remaining firmware from disk. It is also responsible for the disk mode on your player. SI O N b TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES Note: Dual boot does not currently work on the gigabeat. The Rockbox firmware. Similar to the Toshiba firmware, most of the Rockbox code is contained in a "build" that resides on your player's drive. This makes it easy to update Rockbox. The build consists of a directory called .rockbox containing all of Rockbox' files, which is located in the root of your player's drive. D RA Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in installing too. Fonts. Rockbox can load custom fonts. The fonts itself are distributed as separate package and thus needs to be installed separately. The fonts are not required to run Rockbox itself but a lot of themes require the fonts package to be installed. Themes. The view of Rockbox can be customized by themes. Depending on your taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION 12 2.2 Prerequisites Before installing Rockbox you should make sure you meet the prerequisites. Also you may need some tools for installation. In most cases these will be already available on your computer but if not you need to get some additional software. USB connection. To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your computer. To proceed you need to know where to access the player. On Windows this means you need to figure out the drive letter associated with the device. On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player. Warning: During installation, do not connect your player using the cradle but plug the USB cable directly to the player. For manual installation and customization additional software is required. SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES ! Text editor. As you will see in the following chapters, Rockbox is highly configurable. In addition to saving configurations within Rockbox, Rockbox also allows you to create customised configuration files. If you would like to edit custom configuration files on your computer, you will need a text editor like Windows' "Wordpad". 2.3 Installing Rockbox 2.3.1 Automated Installation D RA To automatically install Rockbox download the official installer and housekeeping tool ROCKBOX UTILITY. It allows you to · Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox ("Small Installation") · Automatically install all suggested components ("Full Installation") · Selectively install any of all available parts of Rockbox · Install additional themes interactively · Install voice files and generate talk clips THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT V ER ZIP utility. Rockbox is distributed as an archive using the .zip format. Thus you need a tool to handle that compressed format. Usually your computer should have a tool installed that can handle the .zip file format. Windows XP has built-in support for .zip files and presents them to you as directories unless you have installed a third party program that handles compressed files. For other operating systems this may vary. If the .zip file format is not recognised on your computer you can find a program to handle them at http://www.info-zip.org/ or http://sevenzip.sf.net/ which can be downloaded and used free of charge. CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION · Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility 13 SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES Prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux and MacOS X are available from http://download. rockbox.org/rbutil/. As Rockbox Utility is still under development more information including up-to-date download links can be found at ZRockboxUtility. Warning: Upon the first start of Rockbox Utility you need to set at least the correct player and mountpoint in the configuration dialog. Autodetection can detect most player types. If autodetection failed or was unable to detect the mountpoint make sure to enter the correct values. The mountpoint indicates the location of the player in your filesystem. On Windows, this is the drive letter the player gets assigned, on other systems this is a path in the filesystem. Note: Rockbox Utility currently lacks some guiding messages. Please have a look at the manual installation instructions if you are stuck during installation. ! b 2.3.2 Manual Installation Choosing a Rockbox version Release. There has not yet been a stable release for the Toshiba Gigabeat F Series. Until there is a stable release for Toshiba Gigabeat F Series, use a current build. Current Build. The current build is built at each source code change to the Rockbox SVN repository, and represent the current state of Rockbox development. This means that the build could contain bugs, but is most of the time safe to use. You can download the current build from http://build.rockbox.org/. Archived Build. In addition to the release version and the current build, there is also an archive of daily builds available for download. These are built once a day from the latest source code in the SVN repository. You can download archived builds from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml. D RA Because current builds and daily builds are development versions which change frequently, they may behave differently than described in this manual, or they may introduce new (and maybe annoying) bugs. If you do not want to get undefined behaviour from your player you should really stick to the current stable release, if there is one for your player. If you want to help the project development, you can try development builds and help by reporting bugs. Just be aware that these are development builds that are highly functional, but not perfect! Installing the firmware 1. Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT V ER There are three different types of firmware binaries from the Rockbox website: Release version, current build and daily build. You need to decide which one you want to install and get the version for your player. CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION 14 2. Connect your player to the computer via USB as described in the manual that came with your player. 3. Take the file that you downloaded above, and use the "Extract all" command of your unzip program to extract the files in the .zip file onto your player. Note that the entire contents of the .zip file should be extracted directly to the root of your player's drive. Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the Rockbox files! The .zip file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs. SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES Note: 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. If you receive a "-1" error when you start Rockbox, you have not extracted the contents of the .zip file to the proper location. Installing the fonts package b 1. Download the fonts package from the link above. D RA Installing the bootloader Installing the bootloader is only needed once. It simply requires you to replace a file on your player with the Rockbox bootloader. To be able booting the original firmware please make sure to rename the original file properly. If you ever wish to uninstall Rockbox you should keep a backup copy of the original file. · Download the Rockbox bootloader from http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ gigabeat/ · Starting at the root directory of your player browse into the directory GBSYSTEM and from that into the subdirectory FWIMG. These directories are hidden. Make sure that you have configured your browser to show hidden files or you may be unable to see FWIMG. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT 2. Take the file that you downloaded above, and use the "Extract all" command of your unzip program to extract the files in the .zip file onto your player. As with the firmware installation, the entire contents of the fonts .zip should be extracted directly to the root of your player's drive. Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the fonts! The .zip already contains the correct internal structure. V ER Rockbox has a fonts package that is available at http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml or from the extras link in the menu on the Rockbox website. While the current builds and daily builds change frequently, the fonts package rarely changes. Thus, the fonts package is not included in these builds. (The release version, on the other hand, does not change, so fonts are included when you download a release). When installing Rockbox for the first time, you should install the fonts package. CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION 15 · In that directory you'll find a file called FWIMG01.DAT. This too may be hidden. Rename the file to FWIMG01.DAT.ORIG. Make sure you spelled that name correctly as it is needed for booting the Toshiba firmware. · Now copy the file FWIMG01.DAT you downloaded to that directory. Make sure the spelling is correct. Warning: After installing the bootloader you need to power-cycle the player by doing the following steps. Failure to do so may result in problems. · Eject / unmount USB drive and unplug the USB cable. · Unplug any power adapter. · Hold the Power button to turn off the player. ! · Slide the battery switch located on the bottom of the player from `on' to `off' · Slide the battery switch back from `off' to `on' 2.3.3 Enabling Speech Support (optional) If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice file, english ones are available from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml. Download the "voice" package for your player and unzip it directly to the root of your player. You should now find an english.voice in the /.rockbox/langs directory on your player. Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into effect after a reboot. See section 7.9 (page 58) for details on voice settings. 2.4 Running Rockbox D RA Remove your player from the computer's USB port. Unplug any connected power supply and turn the unit off. When you next turn the unit on, Rockbox should load. When you see the Rockbox splash screen, Rockbox is loaded and ready for use. 2.5 Updating Rockbox Updating Rockbox is easy even if you do not use the Rockbox Utility. Download a Rockbox build. (The latest release of the Rockbox software will always be available from http://www.rockbox.org/download/). Unzip the build to the root directory of your player like you did in the installation step before. If your unzip program asks you whether to overwrite files, choose the "Yes to all" option. The new build will be installed over your current build. Note: If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it can not detect manually installed components. FT V ER SI O N b TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES THE ROCKBOX MANUAL CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION 16 2.6 Uninstalling Rockbox 2.6.1 Automatic Uninstallation You can uninstall Rockbox automatically by using Rockbox Utility. If you installed Rockbox manually you can still use Rockbox Utility for uninstallation but will not be able to do this selectively. If you wish to clean up your disk, you may also wish to delete the .rockbox directory and its contents. Turn the Toshiba off. Turn the player back on and the original Toshiba software will load. D RA THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES FT V ER SI O N 2.6.2 Manual Uninstallation CHAPTER 3. QUICK START 17 3 Quick Start 3.1 Basic overview 3.1.1 The player's controls Throughout this manual, the buttons on the player are labelled according to the picture above. When a table of button actions says "Long" before the button it means that you should make a long press on that button, in other words, press it for approximately 1 second. In detail the buttons are described in the following paragraph. Additional information is available for blind users on the Rockbox website at ZBlindFAQ. Hold the player with the screen on top and the controls on the right hand side. Below the screen is a cross-shaped touch sensitive pad which contains the Up, Down, Left and Right controls. On the top of the unit from left to right are the power socket, the Hold switch, and the headphone socket. The Hold switch puts the player into hold mode when it is switched to the right of the unit. The buttons will have no effect when this is the case. Starting from the left hand side on the bottom of the unit, nearer to the front than the back, is a recessed switch which controls whether the battery is on or off. When this switch is to the left, the battery is disconnected. This can be used for a hard reset of the unit, or if the player is being placed in storage. Next to that is a connector for the RA FT V ER ¸ D THE ROCKBOX MANUAL SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CHAPTER 3. QUICK START 18 docking station and finally on the right hand side of the bottom of the unit is a mini USB socket for connecting directly to USB. Finally on the right hand side of the unit are some control buttons. Going from the bottom of the unit to the top there is a small round A buttton then a rocker volume switch with of the Volume down button below the Volume up button. Above that is are two more small round buttons, the Menu button and nearest to the top of the unit the Power button, which is held down to turn the player on or off. 3.1.2 Turning the player on and off To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys: Key Power Long Power Action Start Rockbox Shutdown Rockbox 3.1.3 The first contact After you have first started the player you'll be presented by the MAIN MENU. From this menu you can reach every function of Rockbox, for more information (see section 5.1 (page 36)). To browse the files on you player select FILES (see section 4.1 (page 21)), and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data1 of your audio files, select DATABASE (see section 4.2 (page 25)). 3.1.4 Basic controls D When browsing files and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented. The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive. In the tree view use Down and Up to move around the selection. Use Select or Right to select an item. When browsing the file system selecting an audio file plays it. The view switches to the "While playing screen", usually abbreviated as "WPS" (see section 4.3 (page 27). The dynamic playlist gets replaced with the contents of the current directory. This way you can easily treat directories as playlists. The created dynamic playlist can be extended or modified while playing. This is also known as "on-the-fly playlist". To go back to the FILE BROWSER stop the playback with the Power button or return to the file browser while keeping playback running using Select. In list views you can go back one step with Left. RA 1 ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT V ER On shutdown, Rockbox automatically saves its settings. SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CHAPTER 3. QUICK START 19 3.1.5 Basic concepts Playlists Rockbox is playlist oriented. This means that every time you play an audio file, a socalled "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. Playlists are covered in detail in section 4.4 (page 31). Menu From the menu you can customise Rockbox. Rockbox itself is very customisable. Also there are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions. Context Menu 3.2 Customising Rockbox D RA Rockbox' User Interface can be customised using "Themes". Themes usually only affect the visual appearance, but an advanced user can create a theme that also changes various other settings like file view, LCD settings and all other settings that can be modified using .cfg files. This topic is discussed in more detail in section 10.3 (page 129). The 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 get displayed garbled. FT V ER Some views, especially the file browser and the WPS have a context menu. From the file browser this can be accessed with Long Select. The contents of the context menu vary, depending on the situation it gets called. The context menu itself presents you with some operations you can perform with the currently highlighted file. In the file browser this is the file (or directory) that is highlighted by the cursor. From the WPS this is the currently playing file. Also there are some actions that do not apply to the current file but refer to the screen from which the context menu gets called. One example is the playback menu, which can be called using the context menu from within the WPS. SI O N b TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES 3.3 Menu overview include an overview of the menu structure here THE ROCKBOX MANUAL CHAPTER 3. QUICK START 20 3.4 Charging The player can be powered over USB without connecting to your computer by holding Menu while plugging in. This allows you to continue using the player normally. D RA THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES FT V ER SI O N CHAPTER 4. BROWSING AND PLAYING 21 4 Browsing and playing 4.1 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. The DATABASE BROWSER, on the other hand, allows you to navigate through the music on your player using categories like album, artist, genre, etc. You can select whether to browse using the FILE BROWSER or the DATABASE BROWSER by selecting either FILES or DATABASE in the MAIN MENU. If you choose the FILE BROWSER, the SHOW FILES setting lets you select what types of files you wish to view. See section 7.3 (page 51) for more information on the SHOW FILES setting. Note: The FILE BROWSER allows you to manipulate your files in ways that are not available within the DATABASE BROWSER. Read more about DATABASE in section 4.2 (page 25). The remainder of this section deals with the FILE BROWSER. D RA FT Figure 4.1: The file browser V ER b THE ROCKBOX MANUAL TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES SI O N CHAPTER 4. BROWSING AND PLAYING 22 4.1.1 File Browser Controls Key Up/Down Action Go to previous/next item in list. If you are on the first/last entry, the cursor will wrap to the last/first entry. Go to the parent directory. Executes the default action on the selected file or enters a directory. If there is an audio file playing, returns to the WHILE PLAYING SCREEN (WPS) without stopping playback. Stops audio playback. Enter the CONTEXT MENU Enter the MAIN MENU A Power Long Select Menu 4.1.2 Context Menu D RA Figure 4.2: The Context Menu 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 TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES FT V ER SI O N Left Select or Right CHAPTER 4. BROWSING AND PLAYING 23 Note: The CONTEXT MENU is a context sensitive menu. If the CONTEXT MENU is invoked on a file, it will display options available for files. If the CONTEXT MENU is invoked on a directory, it will display options for directories. The CONTEXT MENU contains the following options (unless otherwise noted, each option pertains both to files and directories): Playlist. Enters the PLAYLIST SUBMENU (see section 4.4.3 (page 33)). b Rename. This function lets the user modify the name of a file or directory. Cut. Copies the name of the currently selected file or directory to the clipboard and marks it to be `cut'. Copy. Copies the name of the currently selected file or directory to the clipboard and marks it to be `copied'. Paste. Only visible if a file or directory name is on the clipboard. When selected it will move or copy the clipboard to the current directory. 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. Delete Directory. Deletes the currently selected directory and all of the files and subdirectories it may contain. Deleted directories cannot be recovered. Use this feature with caution! D RA Create Directory. Create a new directory in the current directory on the disk. Properties. Shows properties such as size and the time and date of the last modification for the selected file. If used on a directory, the number of files and subdirectories will be shown, as well as the total size. Add to Shortcuts. Adds a link to the selected item in the shortcuts.link file. If the file does not already exist it will be created in the root directory. Note that if you create a shortcut to a file, Rockbox will not open it upon selecting, but simply bring you to it's location in the FILE BROWSER. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT Open with. Runs a viewer plugin on the file. Normally, when a file is selected in Rockbox, Rockbox automatically detects the file type and runs the appropriate plugin. The OPEN WITH function can be used to override the default action and select a viewer by hand. For example, this function can be used to view a text file even if the file has a non-standard extension (i.e., the file has an extension of something other than .txt). See section 9.3 (page 104) for more details on viewers. V ER SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES Playlist Catalog. Enters the PLAYLIST CATALOG SUBMENU (see section 4.4.2 (page 32)). CHAPTER 4. BROWSING AND PLAYING 24 4.1.3 Virtual Keyboard Figure 4.3: The virtual keyboard This is the virtual keyboard that is used when entering text in Rockbox, for example when renaming a file or creating a new directory. Key Left / Right / Up / Down A + Left or A + Right Select Power A Action Move about the virtual keyboard (moves the solid cursor) Move the line cursor within the text line Inserts the selected keyboard letter at the current cursor position Exits the virtual keyboard without saving any changes Exits the virtual keyboard and saves any changes Deletes the character before the line cursor Enters Morse input mode Tap to select a character in Morse input mode D RA Menu A + Power Select THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT V ER SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CHAPTER 4. BROWSING AND PLAYING 25 4.2 Database 4.2.1 Introduction This chapter describes the Rockbox music database system. Using the information contained in the tags (ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis Comments, Apev2, etc.) in your audio files, Rockbox builds and maintains a database of the music files on your player and allows you to browse them by Artist, Album and Genre. 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. If you shut down your player, the scan will continue next time you turn it on. After the scan is finished you may be prompted to restart your player before you can use the database. You may have directories on your player whose contents should not be added to the database. Placing a file named database.ignore in a directory will exclude the files in that directory and all its subdirectories from scanning their tags and adding them to the database. This will speed up the database initialization. If a subdirectory of an 'ignored' directory should still be scanned, place a file named database.unignore in it. The files in that directory and its subdirectories will be scanned and added to the database. RA Load To Ram. The database can either be kept on disk (to save memory), or loaded into RAM (for fast browsing). Setting this to YES loads the database to RAM, allowing faster browsing and searching. Setting this option to NO keeps the database on the disk, meaning slower browsing but it does not use extra RAM and saves some battery on boot up. Note: If you browse your music frequently using the database, you should load to RAM, as this will reduce the overall battery consumption because the disk will not need to spin on each search. FT 4.2.3 The Database Menu V ER Ignoring directories during database initialization SI O N b b TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES D Auto Update. If AUTO UPDATE is set to ON, each time the player boots, the database will automatically be updated. Note: The AUTO UPDATE will only check for deleted files if the DIRECTORY CACHE (SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS SYSTEM DISK DIRECTORY CACHE) is enabled. UPDATE NOW includes that check whether dircache has been enabled or not. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL CHAPTER 4. BROWSING AND PLAYING 26 Initialize Now. You can force Rockbox to rescan your disk for tagged files by using the INITIALIZE NOW function in the DATABASE MENU. Warning: INITIALIZE NOW removes all database files (removing runtimedb data also) and rebuilds the database from scratch. Update Now. UPDATE NOW causes the database to detect new and deleted files Note: Unlike the AUTO UPDATE function, UPDATE NOW will update the database regardless of whether the DIRECTORY CACHE is enabled. Thus, an update using UPDATE NOW may take a long time. ! b Unlike INITIALIZE NOW, the UPDATE NOW function does not remove runtime database information. Gather Runtime Data. When enabled, rockbox will record how often and how long a track is being played, when it was last played and its rating. This information can be displayed in the WPS and is used in the database browser to, for example, show the most played, unplayed and most recently played tracks. Import Modifications. Allows the /.rockbox/database changelog.txt backup to be conveniently loaded into the database. If AUTO UPDATE is enabled this is performed automatically when the database is initialized. Once the database has been initialized, you can browse your music by Artist, Album, Genre and Song Name. To use the database, go to the MAIN MENU and select DATABASE. FT 4.2.4 Using the database V ER Export Modifications. This allows for the runtime data to be exported to the file /.rockbox/database changelog.txt, which backs up the runtime data in ASCII format. This is needed when database structures change, because new code cannot read old database code. But, all modifications exported to ASCII format should be readable by all database versions. SI O N b TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES D THE ROCKBOX MANUAL RA Note: You may need to increase the value of the MAX FILES IN DIR BROWSER setting (SETTINGS GENERAL SETTINGS SYSTEM LIMITS) in order to view long lists of tracks in the ID3 database browser. There is no option to turn off database completely. If you do not want to use it just do not do the initial build of the database and do not load it to RAM. CHAPTER 4. BROWSING AND PLAYING Tag filename album albumartist artist comment composer genre grouping title bitrate discnum year tracknum autoscore lastplayed playcount Pm (play time min) Ps (play time - sec) rating commitid entryage length Lm (track len min) Ls (track len - sec) Type string string string string string string string string string numeric numeric numeric numeric numeric numeric numeric numeric Origin system id tag id tag id tag id tag id tag id tag id tag id tag id tag id tag id tag id tag/filename runtime db runtime db runtime db runtime db runtime db runtime db system system system system system 27 4.3 While Playing Screen D RA The While Playing Screen (WPS) displays various pieces of information about the currently playing audio file. The appearance of the WPS can be configured using WPS configuration files. The items shown depend on your configuration ­ all item can be turned on or off independently. Refer to section B (page 133) for details on how to change the display of the WPS. · Status bar: The Status bar shows Battery level, charger status, volume, play mode, repeat mode, shuffle mode and clock. In contrast to all other items, the status bar is always at the top of the screen. · (Scrolling) path and filename of the current song. · The ID3 track name. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT V ER numeric numeric numeric numeric numeric numeric numeric SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CHAPTER 4. BROWSING AND PLAYING · The ID3 album name. · The ID3 artist name. · Bit rate. VBR files display average bitrate and "(avg)" · Elapsed and total time. · A slidebar progress meter representing where in the song you are. · Peak meter. 28 See section 10.2 (page 126) for details of customising your WPS (While Playing Screen). 4.3.1 WPS Key Controls Key Up / Down Left Action D RA 4.3.2 Peak Meter The peak meter can be displayed on the While Playing Screen and consists of several indicators. 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 FT Long Left Right Long Right A Power Select Long Select Menu Long Menu A + Right A + Left Volume up/down. Go to beginning of track, or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track, go to previous track. Rewind in track. Go to next track. Fast forward in track. Toggle play/pause. Stop playback. Return to the FILE BROWSER. Enter WPS CONTEXT MENU. Enter MAIN MENU. Enter QUICK SCREEN. Skip to the next directory. Skip to the previous directory. V ER SI O N TOSHIBA GIGABEAT F SERIES CHAPTER 4. BROWSING AND PLAYING 29 The clip indicator: This is a little black block that is displayed at the very right of the scale when an overflow occurs. It usually does not show up during normal playback unless you play an audio file that is distorted heavily. Note: Note that the clip detection is not very precise. Clipping might occur without being indicated. The scale: Between the indicators of the right and left channel there are little dots. These dots represent important volume values. In linear mode each dot is a 10% mark. In dbfs mode the dots represent the following values (from right to left): 0db, -3db, -6db, -9db, -12db, -18db, -24db, -30db, -40db, -50db, -60db. b 4.3.3 The WPS Context Menu Like the context menu for the FILE BROWSER, the WPS CONTEXT MENU allows you quick access to some often used functions: Playlist Playlist catalog View catalog. This lists all playlists that are part of the Playlist catalog. You can load a new playlist directly from this list. 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. D RA Playback Settings Sound Settings This is a shortcut to the SOUND SETTINGS MENU, where you can configure volume, bass, treble, and other settings affecting the sound of your music. See section 6 (page 41) for more information. This is a shortcut to the PLAYBACK SETTINGS MENU, where you can configure shuffle, repeat, party mode, study mode and other settings affecting the playback of your music. THE ROCKBOX MANUAL FT