Apple Ipod 1G Manual 

Rockbox and this manual is the collaborative effort of the Rockbox team and its contributors. See the appendix for a complete list of contributors. c⃝ 2003-2013 The Rockbox Team and its contributors, c⃝ 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough, c⃝ 2003 José Maria Garcia-Valdecasas Bernal & Peter Schlenker. Version 3.14. Built using pdfLATEX. 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 Sec- tions, 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 (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

11 1.2. Getting more help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.3. Naming conventions and marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2. Installation 13 2.1. Before Starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.2. Installing Rockbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.2.1. Automated Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.2.2. Manual Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.2.3. Finishing the install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.2.4. Enabling Speech Support (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.3. Running Rockbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.4. Updating Rockbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.5. Uninstalling Rockbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.5.1. Automatic Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.5.2. Manual Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.6. Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3. Quick Start 20 3.1. Basic Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.1.1. The player’s controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.1.2. Turning the player on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.1.3. Starting the original firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.1.4. Putting music on your player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.1.5. The first contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.1.6. Basic controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.1.7. Basic concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.2. Customising Rockbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4. Browsing and playing 24 4.1. File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4.1.1. File Browser Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4.1.2. Context Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4.1.3. Virtual Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2. Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.2.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

28 4.2.3. The Database Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.2.4. Using the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4.3. While Playing Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4.3.1. WPS Key Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.3.2. Peak Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.3.3. The WPS Context Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.4. Working with Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.4.1. Playlist terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.4.2. Creating playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.4.3. Adding music to playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 4.4.4. Modifying playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4.4.5. Saving playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4.4.6. Loading saved playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4.5. Hotkeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 5. The Main Menu 41 5.1. Introducing the Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 5.2. Navigating the Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 5.3. Recent Bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5.4. Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5.5. Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.6. Now Playing/Resume Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.7. Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.7.1. Sound Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.7.2. Playback Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.7.3. General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.7.4. Theme Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.7.5. Manage Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.8. Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 5.9. Plugins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 5.10. System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 5.11. Quick Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 5.12. Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 6. Sound Settings 47 6.1. Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 6.2. Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 6.3. Volume Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 6.4. Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 6.5. Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 6.6. Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 6.7. Stereo Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 6.8. Crossfeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

50 6.10. Dithering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 6.11. Timestretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 6.12. Haas Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 6.13. Perceptual Bass Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 6.14. Auditory Fatigue Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 6.15. Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 7. Playback Settings 55 7.1. Shuffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 7.2. Repeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 7.3. Play Selected First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 7.4. Fast-Forward/Rewind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 7.5. Anti-Skip Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 7.6. Fade on Stop/Pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 7.7. Party Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 7.8. Crossfade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 7.9. Replaygain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 7.10. Track Skip Beep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 7.11. Auto-Change Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 7.12. Constrain Auto-Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 7.13. Pause on Headphone Unplug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 7.14. Last.fm Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 7.15. Cuesheet Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 7.16. Skip Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 7.17. Prevent Track Skipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 7.18. Rewind Before Resume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 7.19. Rewind on Pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 7.20. Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 8. General Settings 62 8.1. Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 8.2. File View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 8.3. Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 8.4. Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 8.5. System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 8.5.1. Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 8.5.2. Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 8.5.3. Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 8.5.4. Use Shortcuts Menu Instead of Quick Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 8.5.5. Keyclick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 8.5.6. Advanced Key Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 8.6. Startup/Shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 8.6.1. Start Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

69 8.6.3. Sleep Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 8.7. Bookmarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 8.8. Automatic resume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 8.9. Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 8.10. Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 8.11. Hotkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 9. Theme Settings 75 10.Plugins 77 10.1. Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 10.1.1. 2048 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 10.1.2. Blackjack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 10.1.3. Boomshine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 10.1.4. BrickMania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 10.1.5. Bubbles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 10.1.6. Chessbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 10.1.7. Chopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 10.1.8. Dice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 10.1.9. Doom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 10.1.10.Flipit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 10.1.11.Goban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 10.1.12.Invadrox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 10.1.13.Jackpot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 10.1.14.Jewels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 10.1.15.Maze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 10.1.16.MazezaM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 10.1.17.Minesweeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 10.1.18.Pegbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 10.1.19.Pong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 10.1.20.Puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 10.1.21.Reversi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 10.1.22.Robotfindskitten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 10.1.23.Rockblox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 10.1.24.Rockblox1d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 10.1.25.Sliding Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 10.1.26.Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 10.1.27.Snake 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 10.1.28.Sokoban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 10.1.29.Solitaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 10.1.30.Spacerocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 10.1.31.Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 10.1.32.Sudoku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

10.1.34.Wormlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 10.1.35.Xobox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 10.1.36.XWorld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 10.2. Demos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 10.2.1. Bounce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 10.2.2. Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 10.2.3. Cube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 10.2.4. Demystify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 10.2.5. FFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 10.2.6. Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 10.2.7. Fractals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 10.2.8. Logo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 10.2.9. Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 10.2.10.Mosaique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 10.2.11.Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 10.2.12.PictureFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 10.2.13.Plasma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 10.2.14.Rocklife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 10.2.15.Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 10.2.16.Starfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 10.2.17.VU meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 10.3. Viewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 10.3.1. Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 10.3.2. Chip-8 Emulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 10.3.3. Frotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 10.3.4. Image Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 10.3.5. Lua scripting language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 10.3.6. Midiplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 10.3.7. MPEG Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 10.3.8. MP3 Encoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 10.3.9. PDBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 10.3.10.Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 10.3.11.Shopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 10.3.12.Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 10.3.13.Speedread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 10.3.14.Text Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 10.3.15.Theme Remove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 10.3.16.VBRfix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 10.3.17.ZXBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 10.4. Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 10.4.1. Battery Benchmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 10.4.2. Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 10.4.3. Chess Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

10.4.5. Disk Tidy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 10.4.6. Keybox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 10.4.7. Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 10.4.8. Lrcplayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 10.4.9. Main Menu Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 10.4.10.md5sum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 10.4.11.Metronome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 10.4.12.One-Time Password Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 10.4.13.Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 10.4.14.Random Folder Advance Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 10.4.15.Resistor Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 10.4.16.Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10.4.17.Stopwatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 10.4.18.Text Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 11.Advanced Topics 154 11.1. Customising the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 11.1.1. Customising The Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 11.1.2. Getting Extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 11.1.3. Loading Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 11.1.4. Loading Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 11.1.5. Loading Backdrops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 11.1.6. UI Viewport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 11.2. Configuring the Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 11.2.1. Themeing – General Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 11.2.2. Themes – Create Your Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 11.2.3. Info Viewport (SBS only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 11.2.4. Additional Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 11.3. Managing Rockbox Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 11.3.1. Introduction to .cfg Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 11.3.2. Specifications for .cfg Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 11.3.3. The Manage Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 11.4. Firmware Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 11.4.1. Using ROLO (Rockbox Loader) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 11.5. Optimising battery runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 11.5.1. Display backlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 11.5.2. Anti-Skip Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 11.5.3. Replaygain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 11.5.4. Peak Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 11.5.5. Audio format and bitrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 11.5.6. Sound settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

166 A.1. Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 B. Audio and metadata formats 167 B.1. Supported audio formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 B.1.1. Lossy Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 B.1.2. Lossless Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 B.1.3. Other Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 B.1.4. Codec featureset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 B.2. Supported metadata tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 B.2.1. Featureset for generic metadata tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 B.2.2. Featureset for codec specific metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 B.2.3. Limitations of metadata handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 C. Album Art 173 C.1. Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 C.2. Where to put album art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 D. Theme Tags 175 D.1. Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 D.2. Hardware Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 D.3. Information from the track tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 D.4. Viewports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 D.5. Additional Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 D.6. Misc Coloring Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 D.7. Power Related Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 D.8. Information about the file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 D.9. Playlist/Song Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 D.10.Playlist Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 D.11.Runtime Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 D.12.Sound (DSP) settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 D.13.Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 D.14.Virtual LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 D.15.Repeat Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 D.16.Playback Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 D.17.Current Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 D.18.List Title (.sbs only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 D.19.Changing Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 D.20.Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 D.21.Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 D.21.1.How to display the album art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 D.22.Alignment and language direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 D.23.Conditional Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 D.24.Subline Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

D.26.Bar Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 D.26.1.Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 D.27.Other Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 E. Config file options 191 F. Menu Overview 196 G. User feedback 197 G.1. Bug reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 G.1.1. Rules for submitting new bug reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 G.2. Feature ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 G.2.1. Rules for submitting a new feature idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 G.2.2. Features we will not implement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 H. Credits 199 I. Licenses 203 I.1. GNU Free Documentation License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 I.2. The GNU General Public License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

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 General Public License (GPL), 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 the 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. 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/. The mailing lists are another option, and can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/mail/. From that page you can subscribe to the lists and browse the archives. To search the list archives simply use the search field that is located on the left side of the website. Furthermore, you can ask on IRC. The The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

and users are usually around. Just join and ask your question (don’t ask to 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 so that you can join the Rockbox IRC channel without needing to install additional software onto your computer. 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. Refer to section G (page 197) for details on how to use the tracker. 1.3. Naming conventions and marks We have some conventions (especially for 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. “Ipod 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”. In order to � make finding notes easier each one is accompanied by an icon in the margin as here. Notes are used to mark useful information that may help you to get the most out of Rockbox. Warning: This is a warning. In contrast to notes mentioned above, a warning should � be taken more seriously. Whereas ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage, ignoring warnings could cause serious damage to your player. You really should read the warnings, especially if you are new to Rockbox. This icon marks a section that is intended especially for the blind and visually im- � paired. As they cannot read the manual in the same way sighted people do we have added some additional descriptions. If you are not blind or visually impaired you can probably 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 � in front of the page name. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

there are a few important things to know. 2.1. Before Starting Firewire 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. On Windows this means you need to know the drive letter associated with the player. On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player. On Mac OS X you need to know the volume name of your player. If you have Itunes installed and it is configured to open automatically when your player is attached (the default behaviour), then wait for it to open and then quit it. You also need to ensure the “Enable use as disk” option is enabled for your player in Itunes. Your player should then enter disk mode automatically when connected to a computer via Firewire. If your computer does not recognise your player, you may need to enter disk mode manually. Disconnect your player from the computer. Hard reset the player by pressing and holding the Menu and Play buttons simultaneously. As soon as the player resets, press and hold the Prev and Next buttons simultaneously. Your player should enter disk mode and you can try reconnecting to the computer. Administrator/Root rights. Installing the bootloader portion of Rockbox requires you to have administrative (Windows) or root (Linux) rights. Consequently when doing either the automatic or manual bootloader install, please ensure that you are logged in with an administrator account or have root rights. File system format. Rockbox only works on Ipods formatted with the FAT32 filesys- tem (i.e. Ipods initialised by Itunes for Windows). It does not work with the HFS+ filesystem (i.e. Ipods initialised by Itunes for the Mac). More infor- mation and instructions for converting an Ipod to FAT32 can be found on the �IpodConversionToFAT32 wiki page on the Rockbox website. Note that after conversion, you can still use a FAT32 Ipod with a Mac. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

There are two ways to install Rockbox: automated and manual. The automated way is the preferred method of installing Rockbox for the majority of people. Rockbox Utility is a graphical application that does almost everything for you. However, should you encounter a problem, then the manual way is still available to you. There are three separate components, two of which need to be installed in order to run Rockbox: The Ipod bootloader. The Ipod bootloader is the program that tells your player how to load and start the original firmware. It is also responsible for any emergency, recovery, or disk modes on your player. This bootloader is stored in special flash memory in your Ipod and comes factory-installed. It is not necessary to modify this in order to install Rockbox. The Rockbox bootloader. The Rockbox bootloader is loaded from disk by the Ipod bootloader. It is responsible for loading the Rockbox firmware and for providing the dual boot function. It directly replaces the Ipod firmware in the player’s boot sequence. The Rockbox firmware. Similar to the Ipod 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 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. Fonts. Rockbox can load custom fonts. The fonts are distributed as a separate package and thus need to be installed separately. They are not required to run Rockbox itself but a lot of themes require the fonts package to be installed. Themes. The appearance of Rockbox can be customised by themes. Depending on your taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox. 2.2.1. Automated Installation 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 (“Minimal Instal- lation”). • Automatically install all suggested components (“Complete Installation”). • Selectively install optional components. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

• Install voice files and generate talk clips. • Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility. Prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X are available at the �RockboxUtility wiki page. When first starting Rockbox Utility run “Autodetect”, found in the configuration dialog (File → Configure). Autodetection can detect most player types. If autodetection fails or is 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. 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. If you select either “Min- imal Installation” or “Complete Installation” from the “Quick Start” tab, then Rockbox Utility will automatically install the release version of Rockbox. Using the “Installation” tab will allow you to select which version you wish to install. Release. The release version is the latest stable release, free of known critical bugs. For a manual install, the current stable release of Rockbox is available at http: //www.rockbox.org/download/. Development Build. The development build is built at each change to the Rockbox source code repository and represents the current state of Rockbox development. This means that the build could contain bugs but most of the time is safe to use. For a manual install, 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 repository. For a manual install, you can download archived builds from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml. Note: Because current and archived builds are development versions that change fre- � quently, they may behave differently than described in this manual, or they may in- troduce new (and potentially annoying) bugs. Unless you wish to try the latest and greatest features at the price of possibly greater instability, or you wish to help with development, you should stick with the release. Please now go to section 2.2.3 (page 18) to complete the installation procedure. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

The manual installation method is still available to you, should you need or desire it by following the instructions below. If you have used Rockbox Utility to install Rockbox, then you do not need to follow the next section and can skip straight to section 2.2.3 (page 18) Installing the firmware 1. Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section. 2. Connect your player to the computer via USB as described in the manual that came with your player. 3. Take the .zip file that you downloaded and use the “Extract all” command of your unzip program to extract the files onto your player. Note: 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. 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. Installing the bootloader Bootloader installation from Windows 1. Download ipodpatcher.exe from http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ipod/ ipodpatcher/win32/ipodpatcher.exe and run it whilst logged in with an adminis- trator account. 2. If all has gone well, you should see some information displayed about your player and a message asking you if you wish to install the Rockbox bootloader. Press i followed by ENTER, and ipodpatcher will now install the bootloader. After a short time you should see the message “[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.” Press ENTER again to exit ipodpatcher. 3. Note: If ipodpatcher fails to install the bootloader for you, please be certain that � you do indeed have a supported iPod model and are logged in as an administrator. If you do, run ipodpatcher once more and try again. If you don’t, then do not attempt to install again. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

1. Attach your player to your Mac and wait for its icon to appear in Finder. 2. Download and open ipodpatcher.dmg from http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ ipod/ipodpatcher/macosx/ipodpatcher.dmg and then double-click on the ipodpatcher icon inside. You can also drag the ipodpatcher icon to a location on your hard drive and launch it from the Terminal. 3. If all has gone well, you should see some information displayed about your player and a message asking you if you wish to install the Rockbox bootloader. Press i followed by ENTER, and ipodpatcher will now install the bootloader. After a short time you should see the message “[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.” Press ENTER again to exit ipodpatcher and then quit the Terminal application. 4. Note: If ipodpatcher fails to install the bootloader for you, please be certain that � you do indeed have a supported iPod model. If you do, run ipodpatcher once more and try again. If you don’t, then do not attempt to install again. 5. Your player will now automatically reconnect itself to your Mac. Wait for it to connect, and then eject and unplug it in the normal way. Note: You should unplug your ipod immediately after ejecting it to prevent Rock- � box immediately rebooting your player into disk mode when it detects that your player is attached to a computer. Bootloader installation from Linux 1. Download ipodpatcher from http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ipod/ipodpatcher/ linux32x86/ipodpatcher (32-bit x86 binary) or http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/ ipod/ipodpatcher/linux64amd64/ipodpatcher (64-bit amd64 binary). You can save this anywhere you wish, but the next steps will assume you have saved it in your home directory. 2. Attach your player to your computer. 3. Open up a terminal window and type the following commands: Code cd $HOME chmod +x ipodpatcher ./ipodpatcher Note: You need to be the root user in order for ipodpatcher to have sufficient � permission to perform raw disk access to your player. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

and a message asking you if you wish to install the Rockbox bootloader. Press i followed by ENTER, and ipodpatcher will now install the bootloader. After a short time you should see the message “[INFO] Bootloader installed successfully.” Press ENTER again to exit ipodpatcher. 2.2.3. Finishing the install Safely eject / unmount the USB drive, unplug the cable and restart. 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 and unzip it to the root of your player. Rockbox Utility can also aid you in the creation of voice files with different voices or in other languages if you have a suitable speech engine installed on your computer. Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into effect after a reboot. See section 8.10 (page 73) for details on voice settings. Rockbox Utility can also aid in the production of talk files, which allow Rockbox to speak file and folder names. 2.3. Running Rockbox Hard reset the Ipod by holding Menu and Play simultaneously for a couple of seconds until the player resets. Now Rockbox should load. Note: If you have loaded music onto your player using Itunes, you will not be able to � see your music properly in the File Browser. This is because Itunes changes your files’ names and hides them in directories in the Ipod_Control directory. Files placed on your player using Itunes can be viewed by initialising and using Rockbox’s database. See section 4.2 (page 28) for more information. 2.4. Updating Rockbox Rockbox can be easily updated with Rockbox Utility. You can also update Rockbox manually – download a Rockbox build as detailed above, and unzip the build to the root directory of your player as in the manual installation stage. 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. The bootloader only changes rarely, and should not normally need to be updated. Note: If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed � components. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Note: The Rockbox bootloader allows you to choose between Rockbox and the original � firmware. (See section 3.1.3 (page 21) for more information.) 2.5.1. 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. 2.5.2. Manual Uninstallation To uninstall Rockbox and go back to using just the original Ipod software, connect the player to your computer and follow the instructions to install the bootloader but, when prompted by ipodpatcher, enter u for uninstall instead of i for install. If you wish to clean up your disk, you may also wish to delete the .rockbox directory and its contents. Turn the Ipod off. Turn the player back on and the original Ipod software will load. 2.6. Troubleshooting Bootloader install problems If you have trouble installing the bootloader, please ensure that you are either logged in as an administrator (Windows), or you have root rights (Linux) “File Not Found” If you receive a “File Not Found” from the bootloader, then the bootloader cannot find the Rockbox firmware. This is usually a result of not extracting the contents of the .zip file to the proper location, and should not happen when 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. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

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. Whenever a button name is prefixed by “Long”, a long press of approx- imately one second should be performed on that button. The buttons are described in detail in the following paragraph. Additional information for blind users is available on � the Rockbox website at �BlindFAQ. The main controls on the player are a slightly indented wheel with a flat round button in the center, and four buttons surrounding it. On the 1st generation iPod, this wheel physically turns. On the 2nd generation iPod, this wheel is touch-sensitive. Hold the player with these controls facing you. The top of the player will have the following, from left to right: FireWire port, head- phone socket, Hold switch. The FireWire port is used to connect your player to the computer and to charge its battery via a wall charger. The button in the middle of the wheel is called Select. You can operate the wheel by turning it, or sliding your finger around it. The top is Menu, the bottom is Play, The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

it means to slide your finger clockwise around the wheel. Scroll Backward means to slide your finger counterclockwise. Note that the wheel is sensitive, so you will need to move slowly at first and get a feel for how it works. Note that when the Hold switch is pushed toward the center of the player, hold is on, and none of the other controls do anything. Be sure Hold is off before trying to use your player. 3.1.2. Turning the player on and off To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys: Key Action Menu / Play Start Rockbox Long Play Shutdown Rockbox On shutdown, Rockbox automatically saves its settings. In the unlikely event of a software failure, hardware poweroff or reset can be performed by holding down Menu and Play simultaneously 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, shut down the device as described above. Turn on the Hold switch immediately after turning the player on. The Apple logo will display for a few seconds as Rockbox loads the original firmware. You can also load the original firmware by shutting down the device, then clicking the Hold switch on and connecting the iPod to your computer. Regardless of which method you use to boot to the original firmware, you can return to Rockbox by pressing and holding Menu and Play simultaneously until the player hard resets. 3.1.4. Putting music on your player With the player connected to the computer as an MSC/UMS device (like a USB Drive), music files can be put on the player via any standard file transfer method that you would use to copy files between drives (e.g. Drag-and-Drop). Files may be placed wherever you like on the player, but it is strongly suggested NOT to put them in the /.rockbox folder and instead put them in any other folder, e.g. /, /music or /audio. The default directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (album art searching, and missing-tag fallback in some WPSes) uses the parent directory of a song as the Album name, and the parent directory of that folder as the Artist name. WPSes may display information incorrectly if your files are not properly tagged, and you have your music The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Album names from your filetree. See section C (page 173) for the requirements for Album Art to work properly. See section B.1 (page 167) for a list of supported audio formats. 3.1.5. 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 41)). To browse the files on your player, select Files (see section 4.1 (page 24)), and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data1 of your audio files, select Database (see section 4.2 (page 28)). 3.1.6. Basic controls 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 Scroll Forward and Scroll Backward to move around the selection. Use Select or Next to select an item. Note that the scroll speed is accelerating the faster you rotate the wheel. 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 31). 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 Long Play button or return to the file browser while keeping playback running using Select. In list views you can go back one step with Prev. 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. Playlists are covered in detail in section 4.4 (page 36). 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. 1ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

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. 3.2. Customising Rockbox 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 11.3 (page 162). 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 not display properly. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

24 4. 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. 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 8.2 (page 63) 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 28). The remainder of this section deals with the File Browser. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

25 4.1.1. File Browser Controls Key Action Scroll Backward/Scroll Forward Go to previous/next item in list. If you are on the first/last entry, the cursor will wrap to the last/first entry. Prev Go to the parent directory. Select or Next Execute the default action on the selected file or enter a directory. Play If there is an audio file playing, return to the While Playing Screen (WPS) without stopping playback. Long Play Stop audio playback. Long Select Enter the Context Menu. Menu Enter the Main Menu. Long Menu Switch to the Quick Screen (see sec- tion 5.11 (page 45)). Select+ Play Activate the Hotkey function (see sec- tion 4.5 (page 40)). 4.1.2. Context Menu 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. 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 Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

26 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 38)). Playlist Catalogue. Enters the Playlist Catalogue Submenu (see section 4.4.2 (page 37)). 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 Play to confirm deletion or any other key to cancel. Delete Directory. Deletes the currently selected directory and all of the files and subdi- rectories it may contain. Deleted directories cannot be recovered. Use this feature with caution! Set As Backdrop. Set the selected bmp file as background image. The bitmaps need to meet the conditions explained in section 11.1.5 (page 155). Open with. Runs a viewer plugin on the file. Normally, when a file is selected in Rock- box, 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 10.3 (page 119) for more details on viewers. 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. Start File Browser Here. This option allows users to set the currently selected directory as the default start directory for the file browser. This option is not available for files. Note: If you have Auto-Change Directory and Constrain Auto-Change � enabled, the directories returned will be constrained to the directory you have chosen here and those below it. See section 7.12 (page 59) The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

27 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 its location in the File Browser. 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. The virtual keyboard can be easily changed by making a text file with the required layout. More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at �LoadableKeyboardLayouts. Also you can switch to Morse code input mode by changing the Use Morse Code Input setting or by pressing Long Menu in the virtual keyboard. Note: When the cursor is on the input line, Select deletes the preceding character � The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

28 Key Action Prev / Next Move the cursor on the virtual keyboard. If you move out of the picker area, you get the previous/next page of characters (if there is more than one). Scroll Backward / Scroll Forward Move the cursor on the virtual keyboard. If you move out of the picker area you get to the line edit mode. Select Insert the selected keyboard letter at the current line cursor position. Play Exit the virtual keyboard and save any changes. Menu Exit the virtual keyboard without saving any changes. Long Menu Toggle keyboard input mode and Morse code input mode. Select Tap to select a character in Morse code input mode. 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, Genre, Song Name, etc. The criteria the database uses to sort the songs can be completely customised. More information on how to achieve this can be found on the Rockbox website at �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. 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. Ignoring Directories During Database Initialization 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 The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

29 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. 4.2.3. The Database Menu Load To RAM The database can either be kept on hard 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 hard 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

30 Import Modifications. Allows the /.rockbox/database_changelog.txt backup to be conveniently loaded into the database. If Auto Update is enabled this is per- formed automatically when the database is initialized. 4.2.4. Using the Database Once the database has been initialized, you can browse your music by Artist, Al- bum, Genre, Song Name, etc. To use the database, go to the Main Menu and select Database. Note: You may need to increase the value of the Max Entries in File 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. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

31 Tag Type Origin filename string system album string id tag albumartist string id tag artist string id tag comment string id tag composer string id tag genre string id tag grouping string id tag title string id tag bitrate numeric id tag discnum numeric id tag year numeric id tag tracknum numeric id tag/filename autoscore numeric runtime db lastplayed numeric runtime db playcount numeric runtime db Pm (play time - min) numeric runtime db Ps (play time - sec) numeric runtime db rating numeric runtime db commitid numeric system entryage numeric system length numeric system Lm (track len - min) numeric system Ls (track len - sec) numeric system 4.3. While Playing Screen The While Playing Screen (WPS) displays various pieces of information about the cur- rently playing audio file. The appearance of the WPS can be configured using WPS configuration files. The items shown depend on your configuration – all items can be turned on or off independently. Refer to section D (page 175) 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. 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 (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

32 • 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. See section 11.2 (page 156) for details of customising your WPS (While Playing Screen). 4.3.1. WPS Key Controls Key Action Scroll Forward / Scroll Backward Volume up/down. Prev Go to beginning of track, or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track, go to the previous track. Long Prev Rewind in track. Next Go to the next track. Long Next Fast forward in track. Play Toggle play/pause. Long Play Stop playback. Select Return to the File Browser / Database. Long Select Enter WPS Context Menu. Menu Enter Main Menu. Long Menu Switch to the Quick Screen (see sec- tion 5.11 (page 45)). Select+ Play Activate the Hotkey function (see sec- tion 4.5 (page 40)). Short Next + Long Next Skip to the next directory. Short Prev + Long Prev Skip to the previous directory. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

33 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 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): 0 dB, -3 dB, -6 dB, -9 dB, -12 dB, -18 dB, -24 dB, -30 dB, -40 dB, -50 dB, -60 dB. 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 The Playlist submenu allows you to view, save, search and reshuffle the current playlist. These and other operations are detailed in section 4.4 (page 36). To change settings for the Playlist Viewer press Long Select while viewing the current playlist to bring up the Playlist Viewer Menu. In this menu, you can find the Playlist Viewer Settings. Playlist Viewer Settings Show Icons. This toggles display of the icon for the currently selected playlist entry and the icon for moving a playlist entry Show Indices. This toggles display of the line numbering for the playlist Track Display. This toggles between filename only and full path for playlist entries The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

34 Playlist catalogue View catalogue. This lists all playlists that are part of the Playlist catalogue. You can load a new playlist directly from this list. Add to playlist. Adds the currently playing file to a playlist. Select the playlist you want the file to be added to and it will get appended to that playlist. 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. 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 47) for more information. Playback Settings This is a shortcut to the Playback Settings Menu, where you can configure shuffle, repeat, party mode, skip length and other settings affecting the playback of your music. Rating The menu entry is only shown if Gather Runtime Information is enabled. It allows the assignment of a personal rating value (0 – 10) to a track which can be displayed in the WPS and used in the Database browser. The value wraps at 10. Bookmarks This allows you to create a bookmark in the currently-playing track. Show Track Info Figure 4.4.: The track info viewer This screen is accessible from the WPS screen, and provides a detailed view of all the identity information about the current track. This info is known as meta data and The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

35 is stored in audio file formats to keep information on artist, album etc. To access this screen, press Long Select to access the WPS Context Menu and select Show Track Info. Open With... This Open With function is the same as the Open With function in the file browser’s Context Menu. Delete Delete the currently playing file. The file will be deleted but the playback of the file will not stop immediately. Instead, the part of the file that has already been buffered (i.e. read into the player’s memory) will be played. This may even be the whole track. Pitch The Pitch Screen allows you to change the rate of playback (i.e. the playback speed and at the same time the pitch) of your player. The rate value can be adjusted between 50% and 200%. 50% means half the normal playback speed and a pitch that is an octave lower than the normal pitch. 200% means double playback speed and a pitch that is an octave higher than the normal pitch. The rate can be changed in two modes: procentual and semitone. Initially, procentual mode is active. If you’ve enabled the Timestretch option in Sound Settings and have since re- booted, you can also use timestretch mode. This allows you to change the playback speed without affecting the pitch, and vice versa. In timestretch mode there are separate displays for pitch and speed, and each can be altered independently. Due to the limitations of the algorithm, speed is limited to be between 35% and 250% of the current pitch value. Pitch must maintain the same ratio as well as remain between 50% and 200%. The value of the rate, pitch and speed is not persistent, i.e. after the player is turned on it will always be set to 100%. However, the rate, pitch and speed information will be stored in any bookmarks you may create (see section 8.7 (page 70)) and will be restored upon playing back those bookmarks. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

36 Key Action Play Toggle pitch changing mode (cycle through all available modes). Scroll Forward / Scroll Backward Increase / Decrease pitch by 0.1% (in pro- centual mode) or 0.1 semitone (in semi- tone mode). Long Scroll Forward / Long Scroll Backward Increase / Decrease pitch by 1% (in pro- centual mode) or a semitone (in semitone mode). Prev / Next Temporarily change pitch by 2% (beat- match), or modify speed (in timestretch mode). Menu Reset pitch and speed to 100%. Select Leave the Pitch Screen. 4.4. Working with Playlists 4.4.1. Playlist terminology Some common terms that are used in Rockbox when referring to playlists: Directory. A playlist! One of the keys to getting the most out of Rockbox is under- standing that Rockbox always considers the song that it is playing to be part of a playlist, and in some situations, Rockbox will create a playlist automatically. For example, if you are playing the contents of a directory, Rockbox will automatically create a playlist containing all songs in it. This means that just about anything that is described in this chapter with respect to playlists also applies to directories. Dynamic playlist. A dynamic playlist is a playlist that is created “On the fly.” Any time you insert or queue tracks using the Playlist submenu (see section 4.4.3 (page 38)), you are creating (or adding to) a dynamic playlist. Insert. In Rockbox, to Insert an item into a playlist means putting an item into a playlist and leaving it there, even after it is played. As you will see later in this chapter, 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. 4.4.2. Creating playlists Rockbox can create playlists in four different ways. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

37 By selecting (“playing”) a song from the File Browser Whenever a song is selected from the File Browser with Select or Next, Rockbox will automatically create a playlist containing all of the songs in that directory and start playback with the selected song. Note: If you already have created a dynamic playlist, playing a new song will erase the � current dynamic playlist and create a new one. If you want to add a song to the current playlist rather than erasing the current playlist, see the section below on how to add music to a playlist. By using Insert and Queue functions If playback is stopped, the Insert and Queue functions can be used as described in 4.4.3 to create a new playlist instead of adding to an existing one. This will erase any dynamic playlist. By using the Playlist catalogue The Playlist catalogue makes it possible to modify and create playlists that are not currently playing. To do this select Playlist catalogue in the Context Menu. There you will have two choices, Add to playlist adds the selected track or directory to an existing playlist and Add to a new playlist creates a new playlist containing the selected track or directory. Note: All playlists in the Playlist catalogue are stored by default in the /Playlists � directory in the root of your player’s disk and playlists stored in other locations are not included in the catalogue. It is however possible to move existing playlists there (see section 4.1.2 (page 25)). By using the Main Menu To create a playlist containing all music on your player, you can use the Create Playlist command in the Playlists menu found in the Main Menu. The created playlist will be named root.m3u8 and saved in the root of your player’s disk. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

38 4.4.3. Adding music to playlists Adding music to a dynamic playlist Figure 4.5.: The Playlist Submenu The Playlist Submenu is a submenu in the Context Menu (see section 4.1.2 (page 25)), it allows you to put tracks into a “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. The place in which the newly selected tracks are added to the playlist is determined by the following options: Insert. Add track(s) immediately after any tracks added via the most recent Insert operation. If no tracks have yet been added via an Insert, new tracks will be added immediately after the current playing track. If playback is stopped a new dynamic playlist will get created with the selected tracks. Insert Next. Add track(s) immediately after current playing track, no matter what else has been inserted. Insert Last. Add track(s) to end of playlist. Insert Shuffled. Add track(s) to the playlist in a random order. Insert Last Shuffled. Add tracks in a random order to the end of the playlist. Queue. Queue is the same as Insert except queued tracks are deleted immediately from the playlist after they have been played. Also, queued tracks are not saved to the playlist file (see section 5.8 (page 44)). Queue Next. Queue track(s) immediately after current playing track. Queue Last. Queue track(s) at end of playlist. Queue Shuffled. Queue track(s) in a random order. Queue Last Shuffled. Queue tracks in a random order at the end of the playlist. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

39 Play Next. Replaces all but the current playing track with track(s). Current playing track is queued. The Playlist Submenu can be used to add either single tracks or entire directories to a playlist. If the Playlist Submenu is invoked on a single track, it will put only that track into the playlist. 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. Set the Settings → General Settings → Playlist → Recursively Insert Directories setting to Yes if you would like Rockbox to include tracks in subdirectories as well as tracks in the currently-selected directory. Dynamic playlists are saved so resume will restore them exactly as they were before shutdown. Note: To view, save or reshuffle the current dynamic playlist use the Playlist sub � menu in the WPS context menu or in the Main Menu. 4.4.4. Modifying playlists Reshuffling Reshuffling the current playlist is easily done from the Playlist sub menu in the WPS, just select Reshuffle. Moving and removing tracks To move or remove a track from the current playlist enter the Playlist Viewer by selecting View Current Playlist in the Playlist submenu in the WPS context menu or the Main Menu. Once in the Playlist Viewer open the context menu on the track you want to move or remove. If you want to move the track, select Move in the context menu and then move the blinking cursor to the place where you want the track to be moved and confirm with Select or Next. To remove a track, simply select Remove in the context menu. 4.4.5. Saving playlists To save the current playlist either enter the Playlist submenu in the WPS Context Menu (see section 4.3.3 (page 33)) and select Save Current Playlist or enter the Playlist Options menu in the Main Menu and select Save Current Playlist. Either method will bring you to the Virtual Keyboard (see section 4.1.3 (page 27)), enter a filename for your playlist and accept it and you are done. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

40 4.4.6. Loading saved playlists Through the File Browser Playlist files, like regular music tracks, can be selected through the File Browser. When loading a playlist from disk it will replace the current dynamic playlist. Through the Playlist catalogue The Playlist catalogue offers a shortcut to all playlists in your player’s specified playlist directory. It can be used like the File Browser. 4.5. Hotkeys Hotkeys are shortcut keys for use in the File Browser and WPS screen. To use one, press Select+ Play within the File Browser or Select+ Play within the WPS screen. The assigned function will launch with reference to the current file or directory, if applicable. Each screen has its own assignment. If there is no assignment for a given screen, the hotkey is ignored. 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 74)) under General Settings. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

41 5. 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 Menu button. All settings are stored on the unit. However, Rockbox does not access the hard disk solely for the purpose of saving settings. Instead, Rockbox will save settings when it accesses the hard disk the next time, for example when refilling the music buffer or navigating through the File Browser. Changes to settings may therefore not be saved unless the player is shut down safely (see section 3.1.2 (page 21)). 5.2. Navigating the Main Menu Key Action Scroll Forward Select the next option in the menu. Inside a setting, increase the value or choose next option. Scroll Backward Select the previous option in the menu. Inside a setting,decrease the value or choose previous option. Select or Next Select option. Prev or Long Play Exit menu or setting, or move to parent menu. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

42 5.3. Recent Bookmarks Figure 5.2.: The list bookmarks screen If the Save a list of recently created bookmarks option is enabled then you can view a list of several recent bookmarks here and select one to jump straight to that track. 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. Key Action Scroll Forward Select the next bookmark. Scroll Backward Select the previous bookmark. Select or Next Resume from the selected bookmark. Prev or Long Play Exit Recent Bookmark menu. Long Menu Delete the currently selected bookmark. Long Select Enter the context menu for the selected bookmark. There are two options in the context menu: Resume will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry. 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 8.7 (page 70) for more details on configuring bookmarking in Rockbox. 5.4. Files Browse the files on your player (see section 4.1 (page 24)). The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

43 5.5. Database Browse by the meta-data in your audio files (see section 4.2 (page 28)). 5.6. Now Playing/Resume Playback Go to the While Playing Screen and resume if music playback is stopped or paused and there is something to resume (see section 4.3 (page 31)). 5.7. Settings The Settings menu allows you to set or adjust many parameters that affect the way your player works. There are many submenus for different parameter areas. Every time you are setting a value of a parameter, and that value is selected from a list of some predefined available values, you can press Long Select, and the selection cursor will jump to the default value for the parameter. You can then confirm or cancel the value. This is useful if you have changed the value of the parameter from the default to some other value and would like to restore the default value. 5.7.1. Sound Settings The Sound Settings menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to customise your listening experience. The details of this menu are covered in section 6 (page 47). 5.7.2. Playback Settings The Playback Settings menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play- back. The details of this menu are covered in section 7 (page 55). 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 8 (page 62). 5.7.4. Theme Settings The Theme Settings menu contains options that control the visual appearance of Rockbox. The details of this menu are covered in section 9 (page 75). 5.7.5. Manage Settings The Manage Settings option allows the saving and re-loading of user configuration settings, browsing the hard drive for alternate firmwares, and finally resetting your The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

44 player back to initial configuration. The details of this menu are covered in section 11.3 (page 162). 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 4.1.2 (page 25)) 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 36)). 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 10 (page 77). 5.10. System 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 Select or Next. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

45 Top Time: This item shows the cumulative overall runtime of your player since you last manually reset this item. A manual reset is done through pressing any button, followed by pressing Select or Next. Debug (Keep Out!): This sub menu is intended to be used only by Rockbox developers. It shows hardware, disk, battery status and other technical information. 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. 5.11. Quick Screen Although the Quick Screen is accessible from nearly everywhere, not just the Main Menu, it is worth mentioning here. It allows rapid access to your four favourite settings. The default settings are Shuffle (section 7 (page 55)), Repeat (section 7 (page 55)) and the Show Files (section 8.2 (page 63)) options, but almost all configurable options in Rockbox can be placed on this screen. To change the options, navigate through the menus to the setting you want to add and press Long Select. In the menu which appears you will be given options to place the setting on the Quick Screen. Press Long Menu to access it and Select to exit. The direction buttons will modify the individual setting values as indicated by the arrow icons. Please note that the settings at opposite sides of the screen cycle through the available options in opposite directions. Therefore if you select the same setting at e.g. the top and bottom of the quickscreen, then pressing up and down will cycle through this setting in opposite directions. 5.12. Shortcuts This menu item is a container for user defined shortcuts to files, folders or settings. With a shortcut, • A file can be “run” (i.e. a music file played, plugin started or a .cfg loaded) • The file browser can be opened with the cursor positioned at a specified file or folder • A file’s or folder’s “Current Playlist” context menu item can be displayed • A setting can be configured (any which can be added to the Quick Screen) • A debug menu item can be displayed (useful for developers mostly) • The sleep timer can be configured • The player can be turned off The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

46 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: data: name: icon: talkclip: Only “type” and “data” are required (except if type is “separator” in which case “data” is also not required). Available types are: file data is the name of the file to “run” browse data is the file or the folder to open the file browser at playlist menu data is the file or the folder to open the “Current Playlist” context menu item on setting data is the config name of the setting you want to change (see section E (page 191) for the list of the possible settings) debug data is the name of the debug menu item to display separator data is ignored; name can be used to display text, or left blank to make the list more accessible with visual gaps time data needs to be “sleep X” where X is the number of minutes to run the sleep timer for (0 to disable). name is required for this shortcut type. shutdown data is ignored; name can be used to display text If the name/icon items are not specified, a sensible default will be used. Note: For the “browse” type, if you want the file browser to start inside a folder, make � sure the data has the trailing slash (i.e /Music/ instead of /Music). Without the trailing slash, it will cause the file browser to open with /Music selected instead. The file shortcuts.txt can be edited with any text editor. Most items can also be added to it through their context menu item “Add to shortcuts”. A reboot is needed for manual changes to shortcuts.txt to be applied. Shortcuts can be manually removed by selecting the one you wish to remove and pressing Long Select. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Figure 6.1.: The sound settings screen The sound settings menu offers a selection of sound settings you may change to customise your listening experience. 6.1. Volume 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). All values lower than this reference will be negative and yield a progressively softer volume. Values higher than 0 dB are available and can be used to raise the volume more than would otherwise be possible. These volume levels will ordi- narily lead to distorted sound, but might work nicely for music that has an otherwise low volume level. The volume can be adjusted from a minimum of -74 dB to a maximum of +6 dB. 6.2. Bass This setting emphasises or suppresses the lower (bass) frequencies in the sound. A value of 0 dB means that bass sounds are unaltered (flat response). 6.3. Volume Limit This setting adjusts the maximum volume of your music. The setting is by default set to the maximum volume which equals to no limit. To set a volume limit, select a volume The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

system. 6.4. Treble This setting emphasises or suppresses the higher (treble) frequencies in the sound. A value of 0 dB means that treble sounds are unaltered (flat response). 6.5. Balance This setting controls the balance between the left and right channels. The default, 0, means that the left and right outputs are equal in volume. Negative numbers increase the volume of the left channel relative to the right, positive numbers increase the volume of the right channel relative to the left. 6.6. Channels A stereo audio signal consists of two channels, left and right. The Channels setting determines if these channels are to be combined in any way, and if so, in what manner they will be combined. Available options are: Stereo. Leave the audio signal unmodified. Mono. Combine both channels and send the resulting signal to both stereo channels, resulting in a monophonic output. Custom. Allows you to manually specify a stereo width with the Stereo Width setting described later in this chapter. Mono Left. Plays the left channel in both stereo channels. Mono Right. Plays the right channel in both stereo channels. Karaoke. Removes all sound that is common to both channels. Since most music is recorded with vocals being equally present in both channels to make the singer sound centrally placed, this often (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. 6.7. Stereo Width Stereo width allows you to manually specify the effect that is applied when the Chan- nels setting is set to “custom”. All values below 100% will progressively mix the contents of one channel into the other. This has the effect of gradually centering the stereo im- age, until you have monophonic sound at 0%. Values above 100% will progressively The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

of widening the stereo field. A value of 100% will leave the stereo field unaltered. 6.8. Crossfeed Crossfeed attempts to make the experience of listening to music on headphones more similar to listening to music with stereo speakers. When you listen to music through speakers, each ear will hear sound originating from both speakers. However, the sound from the left speaker reaches your right ear slightly later than it does your left ear, and vice versa. The human ear and brain together are very good at interpreting the time differences between direct sounds and reflected sounds and using that information to identify the direction that the sound is coming from. On the other hand, when listening to head- phones, each ear hears only the stereo channel corresponding to it. The left ear hears only the left channel and the right ear hears only the right channel. The result is that sound from headphones does not provide the same spatial cues to your ear and brain as speakers, and might for that reason sound unnatural to some listeners. The crossfeed function uses an algorithm to feed a delayed and filtered portion of the signal from the right channel into the left channel and vice versa in order to simulate the spatial cues that the ear and brain receive when listening to a set of loudspeakers placed in front of the listener. The result is a more natural stereo image that can be especially appreciated in older rock and jazz records, where one instrument is often hard-panned to just one of the speakers. Many people will find such records tiring to listen to using earphones and no crossfeed effect. Crossfeed has the following settings: Crossfeed. Selects whether the crossfeed effect is to be enabled or not. Direct Gain. How much the level of the audio that travels the direct path from a speaker to the corresponding ear is supposed to be decreased. Cross Gain. How much the level of the audio that travels the cross path from a speaker to the opposite ear is to be decreased. 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. High-Frequency Cutoff. Decides at which frequency the cross path audio will start to be cut by the amount described by the High-Frequency Attenuation setting. Most users will find the default settings to yield satisfactory results, but for the more adventurous user the settings can be fine-tuned to provide a virtual speaker placement The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

audio distort if you choose settings which result in a too high output level. 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. The graphic below illustrates how the width of 10kHz band can be adjusted to cover a wider (lower Q) or narrower (higher Q) range of frequencies. In some ways the EQ is similar to the Bass and Treble settings described earlier, but the EQ allows you to control the sound much more carefully. Note that the parameteric The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Note: A maximum of 10 EQ bands are possible on most devices, but using more than � are required will waste battery and introduce additional rounding noise. For best results, use the fewest number of bands required. Rockbox’s parametric EQ is composed of up to ten different bands: Band 0: Low shelf filter. The low shelf filter boosts or lowers all frequencies below a certain frequency limit, much as the “bass” control found on ordinary stereo sys- tems does. Adjust the “cutoff” frequency parameter to decide where the shelving starts to take effect. For example, a cutoff frequency of 50 Hz will adjust only very low frequencies. A cutoff frequency of 200 Hz, on the other hand, will adjust a much wider range of bass frequencies. The “gain” parameter controls how much the loudness of the band is adjusted. Positive numbers make the EQ band louder, while negative numbers make that EQ band quieter. The “Q” parameter should always be set to 0.7 for the shelving filters. Higher values will add a small boost around the cutoff frequency that is almost always undesirable. 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. The “gain” parameter controls how much each band is adjusted, and works as for the low shelf filter. Finally, the “Q” parameter controls how wide or narrow the affected fre- quency range is. Higher Q values will affect a narrower band of frequencies, while lower Q values will affect a wider band of frequencies. Band 9: High shelf filter. A high shelf filter boosts or lowers all frequencies above a certain frequency limit, much as the “treble” control found on ordinary stereo systems does. The high shelf filter is adjusted the same way as the low shelf filter, except that it works on the high end of the frequency spectrum rather than the low end. As a general guide, EQ band 0 should be used for low frequencies, EQ bands 1 through 8 should be used for mids, and EQ band 9 should be used for highs. Enable EQ. This option controls whether the EQ is on or off. Graphical EQ. This option brings up a graphic EQ screen, which allows adjustment of each of the three parameters described above (gain, centre frequency, and Q) for each of the five EQ bands. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Scroll Backward Lowers the highlighted parameter. Prev Moves to the previous EQ band. Next Moves to the next EQ band. Select Toggles the cursor among the three pa- rameters (gain, centre frequency, Q) for the selected EQ band Menu Exits the graphic EQ screen. Pre-cut. If too much positive gain is added through the graphical EQ, your music may distort. The Precut setting allows you to apply a global negative gain to decoded audio, cancelling out positive gain from the EQ. This will prevent distortion when boosting certain frequency ranges, at the expense of making audio quieter. Alternatively, precut can be used with a flat EQ curve to implement a volume cap. For example, on a player that allows overdriving the headphone output to +6dB, maximum volume can be capped to +0dB by applying 6dB of precut. Note that precut is not applied if EQ is disabled. 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. Advanced EQ. This sub menu provides options for adjusting the same parameters as the Graphical EQ. The only difference is that the parameters are adjusted through textual menus rather than through a graphic interface. Save EQ Preset. This option saves the current EQ configuration in a .cfg file. Browse EQ Presets. This menu displays a list of EQ presets, as well as any EQ con- figurations saved using the Save EQ Preset option. Users unfamiliar with the operation of a parametric EQ may wish to use the presets instead of trying to configure the EQ, or use the presets for designing their own custom EQ settings. 6.10. 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. This is the default behaviour, and adds distortion to the signal that will vary in character along with the desired sound. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

which gives the resulting signal a uniform noise floor which is independent of the sig- nal. Most people find this noise preferable to the time-varying noise heard when not performing dithering. After dithering, noise shaping is performed. This basically just pushes the dithering noise to the parts of the frequency spectrum humans cannot hear so easily. In Rockbox’ case, some of the noise is pushed up to above 10 kHz. This setting will be put to its best use when listening to dynamic music with frequently occuring quiet parts, classical music being a typical example. It is worth noting that the effects of dithering and noise shaping are very subtle, and not easily noticable. Rockbox uses highpass triangular distribution noise as the dithering noise source, and a third order noise shaper. 6.11. Timestretch Enabling Timestretch allows you to change the playback speed without it affecting the pitch of the recording. After enabling this feature and rebooting, you can access this via the Pitch Screen. This function is intended for speech playback and may significantly dilute your listening experience with more complex audio. See section 4.3.3 (page 35) for more details about how to use the feature. 6.12. Haas Surround This setting implements the Haas effect with adjustable delay time to enhance the stereo effect of the sound. A full range Haas effect creates the impression that sound starts from one channel and ends in the other. Therefore, four additional functions are provided to move the stage back to the center: Balance to change the left-right channel output ratio. A bypass band for frequencies that mostly contain vocals, using f(x1), and f(x2) to set frequencies which are not affected. The SIDE ONLY setting uses mid-side processing to determine and apply effect to the side channel only. Finally, the Dry/Wet Mix setting adjusts the proportion mixed from the original (dry) and ’effected’ (wet) signals. 6.13. Perceptual Bass Enhancement This setting implements a group delay correction and an additional biophonic EQ to emphasize to boost bass perception. The precut setting provides negative overall gain to prevent possible audio distortion due to the EQ gain. The defult precut value is set to -2.5 dB and can be adjust from 0 dB to -4.5 dB. Note that this effect will stack with any other EQ applied. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Human hearing is more senstive to some frequency bands. This setting applies additional equalization and bi-shelf filtering to reduce signals in these bands to minimize the chance that temporary threshold shift (auditory fatigue) occurs. 6.15. Compressor The Compressor reduces, or compresses, the dynamic range of the audio signal. This makes the quieter and louder sections closer to the same volume level by progressively reducing the gain of louder signals. When subsequently amplified, this has the effect of making the quieter sections louder while keeping the louder sections from clipping. This allows listening to the quiet sections of dynamic material in noisy environments while preventing sudden loud sections from being overbearing. There are several settings associated with the compressor. The first, and most impor- tant, is the Threshold. The threshold is the audio input level at which the compressor begins to act. Any level louder than the threshold will be compressed to some extent. The maximum amount of compression, or the quietest level at which the compressor will operate, is -24 dB. The default of Off disables the compressor. The Makeup Gain setting has two options: Off and Auto. Off means that the compressed audio will not be amplified after compression. The default of Auto will amplify the signal so that the loudest possible signal after compression will be just under the clipping limit. This is desirable because the compressed signal without makeup gain is quieter than the input signal. 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 Ratio setting determines how aggressively the compressor reduces gain above the threshold. For example, the 2:1 setting means that for each two decibels of input signal above the threshold, the compressor will only allow the output to appear as one decibel. The higher the ratio, the harder the signal is compressed. The ratio setting of Limit means essentially a ratio of infinity to one. In this case, the output signal is not allowed to exceed the threshold at all. The Knee setting determines how abrupt the transition is from a non-compressed signal to a compressed signal. Hard Knee means that the transition occurs precisely at the threshold. The Soft Knee setting smoothes the transition from plus or minus three decibels around the threshold. The Attack Time setting sets the delay in milliseconds between the input signal exceeding the activation threshold and acting upon it. The Release Time setting sets the recovery time after the signal is compressed. Once the compressor determines that compression is necessary, the input signal is reduced appropriately, but the gain isn’t allowed to immediately return to normal levels. This is necessary to reduce artifacts such as “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 (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

The Playback Settings menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play- back. 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 4.4 (page 36). Options: Yes/No. 7.2. Repeat Configures settings related to repeating of directories or playlists. Options: Off / All / One / Shuffle / A-B: Off. The current playlist will not repeat when it is finished. Note: If you have the Auto-Change Directory option set to Yes, Rockbox � will move on to the next directory on your hard drive. If the Auto-Change Directory option is set to No, playback will stop when the current directory or playlist is finished. All. The current playlist will repeat when it is finished. One. Repeat one track over and over. Shuffle. When the current playlist has finished playing, it will be shuffled and then repeated. A-B. Repeats between two user defined points within a track, typically used by musi- cians when attempting to learn a piece of music. This option is more complicated to use than the others as the player must first be placed into A-B repeat mode and then the start and end points defined. To set the Start Point (A) press Select. The following press of Select will set the End Point (B), and a third successive Select will reset the markers. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

This setting controls what happens when you select a file for playback while shuffle mode is on. If the Play Selected First setting is Yes, the file you selected will be played first. If this setting is No, a random file in the directory will be played first. 7.4. Fast-Forward/Rewind These settings control the speed and acceleration during fast forward and rewind. The setting FF/RW Min Step controls the initial speed and FF/RW Accel controls the acceleration. 7.5. Anti-Skip Buffer This setting controls how early Rockbox starts refilling the music buffer from the hard drive when playing. A longer Anti-Skip Buffer helps prevent skips in music playback if Rockbox has trouble reading from the disk. This can happen if the player is knocked, shaken or jogged heavily while Rockbox is trying to read the hard drive. The anti-skip buffer can be set to various values between 5 seconds and 10 minutes. Note: Having a large anti-skip buffer tends to use more power, and may reduce your � battery life. It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback. 7.6. Fade on Stop/Pause Enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop playing a song. If the Fade on Stop/Pause option is set to Yes, your music will fade out when you stop or pause playback, and fade in when you resume playback. 7.7. Party Mode Enables unstoppable music playback. When new songs are selected, they are queued at the end of the current dynamic playlist instead of being played immediately. Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins. 7.8. Crossfade This section controls the behavior of the crossfader. The crossfader, when enabled, smoothly fades one track into the next. This can occur in two situations: an automatic track change or a manual track skip. An automatic track change occurs at the end of The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

ual track skip goes to the next track immediately when the appropriate button is pressed. Options for crossfade settings are: Enable Crossfade. If set to Off, crossfade is disabled and all track changes are gapless. If set to Automatic Track Change Only, crossfade occurs for automatic track changes, but not for manual track skips. The next setting, Manual Track Skip Only, is the opposite: tracks will only crossfade when manually skipped. If set to Shuffle, crossfade is enabled for all track changes, automatic or manual, when the shuffle feature is set to Yes, but disabled otherwise. If set to Shuffle or 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. Fade In Delay. The “fade in delay” is the length of time between when the crossfade process begins and when the new track begins to fade in. Fade In Duration. The length of time, in seconds, that it takes your music to fade in once the Fade In Delay has ended. Fade Out Delay. The “fade out delay” is the length of time between when the crossfade process begins and when the old track begins to fade out. Fade Out Duration. The length of time, in seconds, that it takes your music to fade out once the Fade Out Delay has ended. Fade Out Mode. If set to Crossfade, one song will fade out and the next song will simultaneously fade in. If set to Mix, the ending song will not fade out at all, and will continue to play as normal until its end with the starting song fading in from under it. Mix mode is not used for manual track skips, even if it is selected here. Note: The rules above apply except in the instance where Fade Out Delay plus Fade � Out Duration is less then Fade In Delay (which would create a gap in the audio). In this case, the Fade In Delay is reduced to eliminate the gap. The graphic below illustrates how the different settings work in practice. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

The purpose of replaygain is to adjust the volume of the music played so that all songs (or albums, depending on your settings) have the same apparent volume. This prevents sudden changes in volume when changing between songs recorded at different volume levels. For replaygain to work, the songs must have been processed by a program that adds replaygain information to the ID3 tags (or Vorbis tags). Options for replaygain are: Replaygain Type. Choose the type of replaygain to apply: Album Gain. Maintain a constant volume level between albums, but keep any intentional volume variations between songs in an album. (If album gain value is not available, uses track gain information). Track Gain. Maintain a constant volume level between tracks. If track gain value is not available, no replaygain is applied. Track Gain If Shuffling. Maintains a constant volume between tracks if Shuffle is set to Yes. Reverts to album mode if Shuffle is set to No. Off. Do not process replaygain information, i.e. turn off the replaygain function. Prevent Clipping. Avoid clipping of a song’s waveform. If a song would clip during playback, the volume is lowered for that song. Replaygain information is needed for this to work. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

often lowers the volume, sometimes quite much, so here you can compensate for that. Please note that a (large) positive pre-amp setting can cause clipping, unless prevent clipping is enabled. The pre-amp can be set to any decibel (dB) value between -12 dB and +12 dB, in increments of 0.5 dB. 7.10. Track Skip Beep Controls the volume of the beep that is heard when skipping forward or backward be- tween tracks. The beep is disabled when set to Off. 7.11. 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. Using the Random feature requires you to first generate a folder list via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin (see section 10.4.14 (page 150)). Note: You must have the Repeat option set to No for Auto-Change Directory to � function properly. Note: This feature only works when songs have been played from the file browser. Using � it with the database may cause unexpected behaviour. 7.12. Constrain Auto-Change If enabled and you have set Start File Browser Here to a directory other than root, Auto-Change Directory will be constrained to the directory you have chosen and those below it. See section 4.1.2 (page 26). 7.13. Pause on Headphone Unplug Enables and disables automatic pausing of playback when the headphones are discon- nected from the player’s headphone socket. Pause on Headphone Unplug. Options for automatic pause: Off. Disables automatic pause. Pause. Pauses the player when the headphones are removed. Pause and Resume. Pauses when the headphones are removed, and resumes play- back when they are reconnected. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

resumption of playback at startup if the headphones are not connected to the player. Note: This requires Resume on Startup to be enabled. � 7.14. Last.fm Log Enables logging of your played tracks for submission to http://www.last.fm. This service was formerly known as Audioscrobbler. When you enable this option, you’ll have to reboot to start the logging. The log-file is called .scrobbler-timeless.log,and is to be found in the root directory of your player. Note: See �LastFMLog for a further description, and for tools you can use to submit � your Last.fm log. 7.15. Cuesheet Support Enables reading of cuesheet files for played tracks. If a cuesheet is found for a track, track markers are displayed on the progressbar and it is possible to skip between the tracks within the cuesheet. Also the information found in the cuesheet file will replace the information from the ID3 tags. When you enable this option, you’ll have to reboot for it to come into effect. Cuesheet files should have the same file name as the audio file they reference, except with the extension .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. There is currently support for the FLAC tag/ Vorbis comment CUESHEET or the ID3v2 TXXX CUESHEET tag. 7.16. Skip Length Designed to speed up navigation when listening to long audio tracks, Skip Length changes the behaviour of the Prev and Next buttons so that they skip by a given time instead of skipping to a new track. The Skip to Outro option changes the behaviour so that the buttons skip to just before the end of the track, so that the last few seconds are played before the next track. 7.17. Prevent Track Skipping If this option is enabled, the ability to manually skip tracks is disabled in order to avoid accidental track skips. It does not prevent changing tracks if a track ends, which can be The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

7.18. Rewind Before Resume When restarting a track or a bookmark, a short rewind can be done before the playback is started. This can be useful when listening to speech material, to help remember what was being said just before playback was stopped. The size of the rewind can be set to various values between 0 (off) and 60 seconds. Note: This option does not apply to resuming a paused track. Use the next option for � rewinding on pause. Note: The actual rewind distance may differ a little from the requested value, depending � on the file in question. 7.19. Rewind on Pause This option rewinds the current track by a small amount whenever it is paused (not stopped). The amount to rewind can be set between 0 and 15 seconds. 7.20. 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. Note: For best quality and battery life, select the sampling rate used by your audio. � This is typically 44.1kHz. Note: Opus files are always 48kHz. � The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Figure 8.1.: The general settings screen 8.1. Playlist The Playlist sub menu allows you to configure settings related to playlists. Recursively Insert Directories. If set to On, then when a directory is inserted or queued into a dynamic playlist, all subdirectories will also be inserted. If set to Ask, 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. 8.2. File View The File View menu deals with options relating to how the File Browser displays files. Sort Case Sensitive. If this option is set to Yes, all files that start with upper case letters will be listed first, followed by all files that begin with lower case letters. If this option is set to NO, then case will be ignored when sorting files. Sort Directories. This option controls how Rockbox sorts directories. The default is to sort them alphabetically. By date sorts them with the oldest directory first. By newest date sorts them with the newest directory first. 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. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

is similar to the default sorting of, for example, Windows Explorer, Mac OS X’s Finder or Nautilus, with regards to numbers at the beginning or within filenames. It combines consecutive digits to a number used for sorting, taking leading zeros into account. As digits disables this algorithm, and causes every digit to be compared sepa- rately. The following table demonstrates the two sorting methods. As whole numbers As digits 03 Jackson.mp3 03 Jackson.mp3 1 Ring Of Fire.mp3 1 Ring Of Fire.mp3 2 I Walk The Line.mp3 10 A Thing Called Love.mp3 10 A Thing Called Love.mp3 2 I Walk The Line.mp3 Episode 1.ogg Episode 1.ogg Episode 57.ogg Episode 233.ogg Episode 233.ogg Episode 57.ogg Show Files. This option controls which files are displayed in the File Browser. All. The File Browser displays all files and directories. Extensions are shown. No files or directories are hidden. Supported. The File Browser displays all directories and files supported by Rockbox (see section A.1 (page 166)). Files and directories starting with . (dot) or with the hidden flag set are hidden. Music. The File Browser displays only directories, playlists and the supported audio file formats. Extensions are stripped. Files and directories starting with . or with the “hidden” flag set are hidden. Playlists. The File Browser displays only directories and playlists, for simplified navigation. Show Filename Extensions. This option controls how file extensions are shown in the File Browser. Off. The file extensions are never shown. On. The file extensions are always shown. Only unknown types. Only the extensions of unknown filetypes are shown. Only when viewing all types. Only show file extensions when Show Files is set to All. Follow Playlist. This option determines what directory the File Browser displays first. If Follow Playlist is set to Yes, when you enter the File Browser from the WPS, you will find yourself in the same directory as the currently playing file. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

WPS, you will find yourself in the directory you were in when you last left the File Browser. Show Path. If this setting is set to Full Path the full path to the current directory will be displayed on the first line in the File Browser. If set to Current Directory Only only the name of the current directory will be displayed. This has a similar effect on the Database browser. If set to Current Directory Only or Full Path, then the title of each menu will be displayed on the first line in the Database Browser. 8.3. Database This sub menu allows you to configure the database. See section 4.2 (page 28) for more information about using the database. 8.4. Display LCD Settings. This sub menu contains settings that relate to the display of the player. Backlight. The amount of time the backlight shines after a key press. If set to Off, the backlight will not light when a button is pressed. If set to On, the backlight will never shut off. If set to a time (1 to 90 seconds), the backlight will stay lit for that amount of time after a button press. Backlight (While Plugged In). This setting is equivalent to the Backlight set- ting except it applies when the player is plugged into the charger. Backlight on Hold. This setting controls the behavior of the backlight when the Hold switch is toggled. If set to Normal the backlight will behave as usual. If set to Off the backlight will be turned off immediately when the Hold switch is engaged and if set to On the backlight will be turned on and stay on while the Hold switch is engaged. Caption Backlight. This option turns on the backlight a number of seconds before the start of a new track, and keeps it on for the same number of seconds after the beginning so that the display can be read to see song information. The amount of time is determined by the value of the backlight timeout setting, but is no less than 5 seconds. First Keypress Enables Backlight Only. With this option enabled the first key- press while the backlight is turned off will only turn the backlight on without having any other effect. When disabled the first keypress will also perform its appropriate action. Selective Backlight This option allows some selected actions in While Playing Screen and FM screen to not turn on the backlight in order to save power. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Settings. Allows to select actions that will not activate backlight. Volume. Volume up/down. Play. Toggling Play/Pause. Seek. Seeking in a track. Skip. Skipping of a track. Disable Unmapped Keys. Buttons that have no action assigned and accidental button combi- nations don’t turn on backlight. Disable on External Power. When plugged goes back to regular behavior. Selected actions are indicated by a leading +. Note: If all options get de-selected, the entire feature is disabled. Contrast. Changes the contrast of your LCD display. Warning: Setting the contrast too dark or too light can make it hard to find � this menu option again! LCD Mode. This setting lets you invert the colours of the display. Upside Down. Displays the screen so that the top of the display is nearest the buttons. This is sometimes useful when carrying the player in a pocket for easy access to the headphone socket. Scrolling. This feature controls how text will scroll in Rockbox. You can configure the following parameters: Scroll Speed. Sets how many times per second the automatic horizontal scrolling text will move a step. Scroll Start Delay. Controls how many milliseconds Rockbox should wait before a new text begins automatically scrolling. Scroll Step Size. Defines the number of pixels the text should move for each step, as used by the Scroll Speed setting. Bidirectional Scroll Limit. Rockbox has two different automatic horizontal scrolling methods: 1) always scrolling the text to the left until the line has ended and then beginning again at the start, and 2) moving to the left until you can read the end of the line and then scrolling right until you see the beginning again. 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. Screen Scrolls Out of View. Screens can be manually scrolled horizontally by pressing Long Next/Prev. Setting this option to Yes will keep the list entries at their fixed positions and allow them to be scrolled out of view, whereas No will only scroll those entries which surpass the right margin. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

scroll should move for each step. Paged Scrolling. When set to Yes scrolling vertically on pages that surpass the screen size will page up/down instead of simply changing lines. This can be useful on slow displays. Peak Meter. The peak meter can be configured with a number of parameters. Peak Release. This determines how fast the bar shrinks when the music becomes softer. Lower values make the peak meter look smoother. Expressed in scale units per 10 ms. Peak Hold Time. Specifies the time after which the peak indicator will reset. For example, if you set this value to 5 s, the peak indicator displays the loudest volume value that occurred within the last 5 seconds. Larger values are useful if you want to find the peak level of a song, which might be of interest when copying music from the player via the analogue output to some other recording device. Clip Hold Time. The number of seconds that the clipping indicator will be visible after clipping is detected. Scale. Select whether the peak meter displays linear or logarithmic values. The human ear perceives loudness on a logarithmic scale. If the Scale setting is set to Logarithmic (dB) scale, the volume values are scaled logarithmically. The volume meters of digital audio devices usually are scaled this way. On the other hand, if you are interested in the power level that is applied to your headphones you should choose Linear display. This setting cannot be displayed in units like volts or watts because such units depend on your headphones. Minimum and maximum range. These two options define the full value range that the peak meter displays. Recommended values for the Logarithmic (dB) setting are -40 dB for minimum and 0 dB for maximum. Recommended values for Linear display are 0 and 100%. Note that -40 dB is approxi- mately 1% in linear value, but if you change the minimum setting in linear mode slightly and then change to the dB scale, there will be a large change. You can use these values for ‘zooming’ into the peak meter. 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. If your operating system uses a different codepage and you are getting garbled extended characters you should adjust this settings. In most cases sticking to “ISO-8859-1” would be sufficient. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Battery Capacity. This setting can be used to tell Rockbox what capacity (in mAh) the battery being used has. The default is 1200 mAh, which is the capacity value for the standard battery shipped with the player. Rockbox uses this value for runtime estimation, not battery percentage calculation. Changing this setting has no effect whatsoever on actual battery life. This setting only affects the accuracy of the runtime estimation as shown on screen. This value is fairly meaningless in the Ipod family at present, and work is on-going into finding a better way to determine battery life. 8.5.2. Disk Options relating to the hard disk. Disk Spindown. Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it is idle for a certain amount of time. This setting controls the amount of time between the last user activity and the time that the disk spins down. This idle time is only affected by user activity, like navigating through the File Browser. When the hard disk spins up to fill the audio buffer, it automatically spins down afterwards. 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 is pressed and the time Rockbox responds. Turning this setting on activates the directory cache, and turning it off deactivates the directory cache. Note: The first time you enable the directory cache, Rockbox will request a reboot � of the player and upon restarting take a few minutes to scan the drive. After this, the directory cache will work in the background. 8.5.3. Limits This sub menu relates to limits in the Rockbox operating system. Max Entries in File Browser. This setting controls the limit on the number of files that you can see in any particular directory in the file browser. You can configure the size to be between 50 and 10,000 files in steps of 50. The default is 400. Higher values will shorten the music buffer, so you should increase this setting only if you have directories with a large number of files. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

size can be between 1,000 and 32,000 files, in steps of 1,000 (default is 10,000). Higher values will shorten the music buffer, so you should increase this setting only if you have very large playlists. Glyphs To Cache. This sets the default memory allocation size for fonts in unique glyphs. This should be set to the number of unique language glyphs and punctu- ation marks that are frequently displayed. The default is 250. Note: You will need to restart your player for changes to Max Entries in File � Browser or Max Playlist Size to take effect while Glyphs To Cache will affect the next font load. 8.5.4. Use Shortcuts Menu Instead of Quick Screen This option activates the shortcuts menu instead of opening the quick screen when enabled. 8.5.5. Keyclick This menu controls key clicks on button presses. Keyclick. This setting controls how strong the keyclicks are. If set to Off, the keyclicks will be disabled. Keyclick repeats. This setting turns keyclick repeats On and Off. If set to On, the keyclicks will be repeated when you hold down a button. If set to Off, you will hear only one click. 8.5.6. Advanced Key Lock This option allows users to select actions that when within WPS or FMS will not be blocked by the key lock (software hold switch). Enabled. Enables/disables the feature. Settings. Allows to select actions that will not be blocked by the key lock. Volume. Volume up/down. Play. Toggling Play/Pause. Seek. Seeking in a track. Skip. Skipping of a track. Autolock On. When the backlight turns off, softlock will lock the screen, activates when you press the lock key and if you manually lock again, while active it then disables autolock. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

backlight timeout). – (Lock Button Pressed #2) >Auto Lock Off (device locked). – (Lock Button Pressed #3) >(device unlocked). Disable Notify. Suppresses the notification ’Buttons Locked’ (still will if power button is pressed). Note: This is a pre-requisite for selectivebacklight section 8.4 (page 64) � to work also during key lock. Selected actions are indicated by a leading +. Note: If all options get de-selected, the entire feature is disabled. 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. 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. Main Menu. Show the main menu. Files. Display the file browser, starting in the root directory of your player. Database. Show the default database view. Resume Playback. Go to the WPS and and resume playback from where it was before turning off (if there is a playlist to resume). Settings. Display the main settings menu. Recent Bookmarks. Show the list of recent bookmarks as described in section 8.7 (page 70). Bookmarking needs to be enabled. 8.6.2. Idle Poweroff Rockbox can be configured to turn off power after the unit has been idle for a defined number of minutes. The player is idle when playback is stopped or paused. It is not idle while the USB or charger is connected . Settings are either Off or 1 to 10 minutes in 1 minute steps. Then 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes are available. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

The Sleep Timer powers off your player after a given time, whether playing or not. Start Sleep Timer (duration): Shown when the Sleep Timer is inactive, this option will initiate a Sleep Timer with the duration shown in brackets. Cancel Sleep Timer (remaining): Shown when the Sleep Timer is active, this option will cancel the current Sleep Timer. The time remaining before completion is shown in brackets. Default Sleep Timer Duration: The default number of minutes a new Sleep Timer will run for. The values range from 5 minutes to 5 hours in 5 minute steps. If a timer is currently active, the timer’s duration will be set to the newly entered value. The value set is persistent, see section E (page 191). Start Sleep Timer On Boot: If set, a Sleep Timer will be initiated when the device starts. Restart Sleep Timer On Keypress: If set, when a Sleep Timer is active and a key is pressed, the Sleep Timer will be restarted with the initial duration. 8.7. Bookmarking Bookmarks allow you to save your current position within a track so that you can return to it at a later time. Bookmarks also store rate, pitch and speed information from the Pitch Screen (see section 4.3.3 (page 35)). Bookmarks are saved on a per directory basis or for individual (saved) playlists. You can store multiple bookmarks, even for the same track. When there’s already a bookmark for a directory or playlist, new bookmarks are added before existing ones. Bookmarks are stored next to the directory or playlist they reference, in a file with the same name as the directory or playlist and a “.bmark” extension. To load a bookmark, select the bookmark file and then select the bookmark to load. There are other ways to load a bookmarks mentioned below. 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. Yes. Always create bookmarks. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Yes – Recent Only. Always create a bookmark, but only in the recent bookmarks list. Ask – Recent Only. Ask if a bookmark should be created, but only add it to the recent bookmarks list. When either Yes – Recent Only or Ask – Recent Only is selected, bookmarks are only created if the Maintain a List of Recent Bookmarks is enabled. Note: The Resume function remembers your position in the most recently ac- � cessed track regardless of how the Bookmark on Stop option is set. Update on Stop. If set to “No”, this setting has no effect and does not affect any other settings. If set to “Yes”, and the file to which a new bookmark would be added already exists, this option overrides the previous setting (Bookmark on Stop) and unconditionally creates a bookmark. This is useful if you don’t generally want to create bookmarks but only want to add them to already existing bookmark 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. No Always start from the beginning of the track or playlist. Yes Automatically return to the position of the last bookmark. Start from the beginning if there are no bookmarks. Ask Ask if playback should start from the beginning of the track or from one of the bookmarks. Maintain a list of Recent Bookmarks. If this option is enabled, a list of the most re- cently created bookmarks may be accessed through the Recent Bookmarks option in the Main Menu. This list contains up to ten entries. No Do not keep a list of recently used bookmarks. This also removes the Recent Bookmarks from the Main Menu. Yes Keep a list of recently used bookmarks. Each new bookmark is added to the list of recent bookmarks. Unique Only Add each new bookmark to the list of recently used bookmarks, but only keep one bookmark from the current directory or playlist; any previous entries are removed. The following keys can be used to navigate in any bookmark list. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Scroll Backward Selects the previous bookmark. Select or Next Resumes from the selected bookmark. Prev or Long Play Exits Recent Bookmark menu Long Menu Deletes the currently selected bookmark Long Select Enters the context menu for the selected bookmark. There are two options in the context menu: • Resume will commence playback of the currently selected bookmark entry. • Delete will remove the currently selected bookmark entry from the list. 8.8. Automatic resume The automatic resume feature stores and recalls resume positions for all tracks without user intervention. These resume points are stored in the database, and thus automatic resume only works when the database has been initialized. When automatic resume is enabled, manually selected tracks resume playback at their last playback position. It does not matter in which way you start the track; tracks are resumed whether they are navigated to through the database browser or file browser, by starting a playlist, or by skipping through tracks in the current playlist. (As an exception, when a track is resumed by loading a bookmark, the playback position saved in the bookmark takes precedence.) Optionally, you can also enable automatic resume for automatic track transitions. In this case, the next track will be resumed as well instead of starting playback at its beginning. This is most useful for podcasts, and can be enabled on a per-directory basis. A track’s resume position is updated whenever playback of that track stops, including when explicitly stopping the track, powering off the player, or starting playback of another track. If you intend to start a track from its beginning but notice that it was resumed, you can press Prev in the WPS to skip back to its beginning. When pressing Prev again in the first few seconds of a track to go to the previous track, the previously (on first button press) saved resume position is retained. Therefore, you can also use Prev and Next 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. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

track transition should be resumed at its last playback position as well. No. Automatic resume works only for manual track selection. Yes. Always attempt to resume – for both manual and automatic track changes. In custom directories only. Configure directories in which to enable resume on automatic track change. Selecting this option starts the text editor, in which you can enter the (absolute, case-insensitive) directory names separated by colons (“:”). A typical value is “/podcast”, which matches all files in directories /PODCAST, /Podcast or /podcast and their subdirectories, but not in directories /podcasts (mind the trailing “s”) or /audio/podcast. 8.9. Language This setting controls the language of the Rockbox user interface. Selecting a language will activate it. The language files must be in the /.rockbox/langs/ directory. See section 11.1.4 (page 155) for further details about languages. 8.10. Voice Voice Menus. This option controls the voicing of menus/settings as they are selected by the cursor. In order for this to work, a voice file must be present in the /.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. This option is on by default, but will do nothing unless the appropriate voice file is installed in the correct place on the player. The Voice Menus have several limitations: • Setting the Sound Option Channels to Karaoke may disable voice menus. • Plugins do not support voice features. Voice Directories. This option controls voicing of directory names. A voice file must be present for this to work. Several options are available. Spell. Speak the directory name by spelling it out letter by letter. Support is provided only for the most common letters, numbers and punctuation. Numbers. Each directory is assigned a number based upon its position in the file list. They are then announced as “Directory 1”, “Directory 2” etc. Off. No attempt will be made to speak directory names. You can use pre-generated .talk clips to have directory names spoken properly, but you must enable this explicitly (see below). The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

On. Use special pre-recorded files (_dirname.talk) in each directory. These must be generated in advance, and are typically produced synthetically using a text-to-speech engine on a PC. Off. No checking is made for directory .talk clips; they are not used even if present. This can reduce disk activity. Use of a .talk clip takes precedence over other directory name voicing. Otherwise (e.g. if a .talk clip is not available), voicing uses the method set under Voice Directories above. Voice Filenames. This option controls voicing of filenames. Again, a voice file must be present for this to work. The options provided are Spell, Numbers, and Off which function the same as for Voice Directories. You can use pre-generated .talk clips to have filenames spoken properly, but you must enable this explicitly (see below). Use File .talk Clips. This option turns on the use of .talk clips for files. On. Use special pre-recorded files for each file. This functions the same as for directories except that the .talk clip file must have the same name as the described file with an extra .talk extension (e.g. Punkadiddle.mp3 would require a file called Punkadiddle.mp3.talk). Off. No checking is made for file .talk clips; they are not used even if present. This can reduce disk activity. Use of a .talk clip takes precedence over other filename voicing. Otherwise (e.g. if a .talk clip is not available), voicing uses the method set under Voice Filenames above. Say File Type. This option turns on voicing of file types when Voice Filenames is set to Spell or Numbers. When Voice Directories is set to Spell, “Directory” will be voiced after each spelled out directory. Announce Battery Level. When this option is enabled the battery level is announced when it falls under 50%, 30% and 15%. See �VoiceHowto for more details on configuring speech support in Rockbox. 8.11. Hotkey WPS Hotkey. File Browser Hotkey. These options set the hotkey function for their respective screens (see section 4.5 (page 40)). The default for the WPS is View Playlist. The File Browser default is Off. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

The Theme Settings menu offers options that you can change to customize the visual appearance of Rockbox. Browse Theme Files. This option will display all the currently installed themes on the player, press Select or Next to load the chosen theme and apply it. A theme is a configuration file, stored in a specific directory, that typically changes the WPS , font used and on some platforms additional information such as back- ground image and text colours. There are a number of themes that ship with Rockbox. If none of these suit your needs, many more can be downloaded from http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php? target=ipod1g2g. Note: Themes do not have to be purely visual. It is quite possible to create a theme � that switches between audio configurations for use in the car, with headphones and when connected to an external amplifier. See section 11.2.2 (page 156) for more details. Font. Browse the installed fonts on your player. Selecting one will activate it. See section 11.1.3 (page 154) for further details about fonts. While Playing Screen. Opens the File Browser in the /.rockbox/wps directory and displays all .wps files. Selecting one will activate it, Prev or Long Play will exit back to the menu. For further information about the WPS see section 4.3 (page 31). For information about editing a .wps file see section 11.2 (page 156). 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 A.1 (page 166). These icons can also be customised. See the �IconSets and �CustomIcons Wiki pages for details. Clear Backdrop. Rockbox allows you to select bitmap pictures to use as backdrops, see section 11.1.5 (page 155) for further information. This option allows you to clear the backdrops that you set. Status/Scrollbar. Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar. Scroll Bar. Allows you to choose where the vertical scroll bar should appear. Scroll Bar Width. Allows you to choose the width of the scroll bar (in pixels). Default value is 6. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Volume Display. Controls whether the volume is displayed as a graphic or a nu- meric value on the Status Bar. If you select a numeric display, volume is displayed in decibels. See section 6.1 (page 47) for more on the volume set- ting. Battery Display. Controls whether the battery charge status is displayed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar. Line Selector Type. This option allows you to select which type of line selector to use. Pointer. A small arrow to the left of the menu text. Bar (inverse). A bar with inverted foreground and background colour. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

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. Most plugins will not interfere with music playback but some of them will stop playback while running. Plugins have the file ex- tension .rock. Most of them can be started from Browse Plugins in the Main Menu. Viewer plugins get started automatically by opening an associated file (i.e. text files, chip8 games), or from the Open with option on the Context Menu. 10.1. Games See also the Chip-8 emulator in section 10.3.2 (page 121), Frotz in section 10.3.3 (page 122), and ZXBox in section 10.3.17 (page 135). 10.1.1. 2048 Figure 10.1.: 2048 2048 is a simple, addictive puzzle game played by moving tiles in around on a 4x4 grid. Tiles slide as far as possible in the direction chosen by the player each turn until they are stopped by either another tile or the edge of the grid. If two tiles of the same number collide while moving, they merge into a tile with the total value of the two tiles that collided. The resulting tile cannot merge with another the same move. After each move, a tile with the value of 2 or 4 is created in an empty spot on the grid. The game is won when a tile with a value of 2048 is created, and the player loses when there are no more possible moves. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

to “1k”, “2k” and so forth (k is the abbreviation of kilo, which – in computer talk – means a multiple of 1024). Key Action Menu, Play, Prev, Next Slide tiles Menu+ Select Go to menu 10.1.2. Blackjack Figure 10.2.: Blackjack Blackjack, a game played in casinos around the world, is now available in the palm of your hand! The rules are simple: try to get as close to 21 without going over or simply beat out the dealer for the best hand. Although this may not seem difficult, blackjack is a game renowned for the strategy involved. This version includes the ability to split, buy insurance, and double down. For the full set of rules to the game, and other fascinating information visit http://www.blackjackinfo.com/blackjack-rules.php Key Action Prev / Next / Scroll Forward / Scroll Backward Enter betting amount Select Hit (Draw new card) / Select Next Stay (End hand) Prev Double down Menu Pause game and go to menu / Cancel The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

is a rather basic game, but probably a good way to show off some of Lua’s features in Rockbox. 10.1.4. BrickMania Figure 10.3.: BrickMania BrickMania is a clone of the classic game Breakout. The aim of the game is to destroy all the bricks by hitting them with the ball once or more. Sometimes a special item falls down when you destroy a brick. For a special item to take effect, you must catch it with the paddle. Look out for the bad ones. Special items Displayed Name Description N Normal Returns paddle to normal. D Die Ball dies; lose a life. L Life Gain a life. F Fire Allows you to shoot bricks with paddle. G Glue Ball sticks to paddle each time it hits. B Ball Immediately fires another ball. FL Flip Flip left / right movement. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Scroll Backward / Scroll Forward Moves the paddle Select Release the ball / Fire Menu Open menu / Quit 10.1.5. Bubbles Figure 10.4.: Bubbles The goal of the game is to beat each level as quickly as possible by clearing the board of all bubbles. Bubbles are removed from the board when a cluster of three of more of the same type is formed. The game is over when any bubbles on the board extend below the bottom line. To make things more difficult, the entire board is shifted down every time a certain number of shots have been fired. Points are awarded depending on how quickly the level was completed. Key Action Menu Pause game Scroll Forward / Scroll Backward Aim the bubble Select Fire bubble Menu+ Select or Play+ Select Exit to menu The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Chessbox is a one-person chess game with computer artificial intelligence. The chess engine is a port of GNU Chess 2 by John Stanback. It also works as a PGN file viewer. Instead of executing the game from the plugin menu, look for any file with .pgn extension in the file browser and execute it. Chessbox will show the list of matches included in the file and allow you to select the one you want to watch. After that, you can scroll back and forth through the moves of the game. If the menu is invoked while in the viewer, the user is allowed to select a new match from the same file or quit the game. “Force play” while the computer is thinking will cause it to make its move immediately. If done while it’s your turn, the computer will move for you and flip the board so that you are playing from the other side. If you want, you can force play an entire game and watch the artificial intelligence fight against itself. When you quit the game the current state will be saved and restored when you resume the game. The menu also allows the user to reload the last game saved, save the current position and start a new game without having to quit the game. Keys Key Action Menu, Play, Prev, Next Move the cursor Select Pick up / Drop piece Select+Next Change level Select+Play Force play Select+Menu Show the menu The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Navigate a cavernous maze without banging into walls, the ceiling, or the floor. How long can you fly your chopper? Key Action Select Make chopper fly Menu Enter menu 10.1.8. Dice Dice is a simple dice rolling simulator. Select number and type of dice to roll in a menu and start by choosing “Roll Dice”. The result is shown as individual numbers as well as the total of the rolled dice. Key Action Select Roll dice again Menu+ Select Quit The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

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. Copy all Doom wads you wish to play into that directory. The needed files can be found at �PluginDoom To play addon wads create the addons directory within the doom directory. Place wad files in this directory. Currently doom only supports a maximum number of 10 addons. A free alternative for Doom 2 is FreeDoom (http://freedoom.sourceforge.net). This can be used in place of doom2.wad, or it may be used as an addon in Doom, by placing it in the addons directory. Menus Rockdoom Menu. The Rockdoom menu is shown when Doom is first launched. This is the only time it can be accessed (before starting the game). To re-adjust Rockdoom options, you will need to quit your current game and restart the plugin. Main Menu. The Doom plugin has a main menu, which is brought up before a game is started. It has the following entries: Game. Select which (official) wad to launch Addon. Select which unofficial addon wad to launch (From /.rockbox/doom/addons directory) Demos. Select which demo file to play on game start Options. Configure low-level Doom options Play Game. Launch the wad/addon/Demo chosen The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Sound. Enable or Disable sound in Doom Set Keys. Change the game key configuration Time Demo. Run a timed demo, to test game speed on a player (Only runs on Doom Shareware) Player Bobbing. Enable or Disable player up/Down movement Translucency. Enable or Disable sprite translucency (Fireballs, Plasma...) Fake Contrast. Enable or Disable modified game lighting Always Run. Make the player always run Headsup Display. Show the player status when in fullscreen Statusbar Always Red. Disable colour response statusbar InGame Main Menu. This menu can only be accessed from within a running game, and is displayed by flipping your Hold switch a couple of times New Game. Start a new game Options. In game options Load Game. Load a saved game Save Game. Save the current game Quit. Quit the game InGame Options Menu. This menu has the following options: End Game. Ends the current game Messages. Enable or Disable in game messages Screen Size. Shrink or Enlarge the displayed portion of the game Gamma. Change the brightness (Gamma) of the game Sound Volume. Change the sound, music and system volume Note: In game music is not currently supported � Keys Key Action Menu Move Forward Prev Turn Left Next Turn Right Play Shoot Menu Open Hold switch InGame Menu Select Enter Select Change Weapon The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

After installation of the wad files is complete you can start the game. more description is needed 10.1.10. Flipit Figure 10.8.: Flipit Flipping the colour of the token under the cursor also flips the tokens above, below, left and right of the cursor. The aim is to end up with a screen containing tokens of only one colour. Key Action Menu / Play / Prev / Next Move the cursor Select Flip Select+Prev Shuffle Select+Play Solve Select+Next Solve step by step Select+Menu Quit the game The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Goban is a a plugin for playing, viewing and recording games of Go (also known as Weiqi, Baduk, Igo and Goe). It uses standard Smart Game Format (SGF) files for sav- ing and loading games. You can find a short introduction to Go at http://senseis.xmp. net/?WhatIsGo and more information about SGF files can be read at http://senseis.xmp. net/?SmartGameFormat or the SGF specification at http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/. This plugin can load all modern SGF files (file format 3 or 4) with few problems. It attempts to preserve SGF properties which it doesn’t understand, and most common SGF properties are handled fully. It is possible to view (and edit if you like) Kogo’s Joseki Dictionary (http://waterfire.us/joseki.htm) with this plugin, although the load and save times can be on the order of a minute or two on particularly slow devices. Large SGF files may stop audio playback for the duration of the plugin’s run in order to free up more memory and some very large SGF files will not even load on devices with little available memory. Note: The plugin does NOT support SGF files with multiple games in one file. These � are rare, but if you have one don’t even try it (the file will most likely be corrupted if you save over it). You have been warned. The file /sgf/gbn_def.sgf is used by the plugin to store any unsaved changes in the most recently loaded game. This means that if you forget to save your changes, you should load /sgf/gbn_def.sgf immediately to offload the changes to another file. If you load another 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 markers: The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

* There are sibling variations which can be navigated to using the Next Vari- ation menu option of the Context Menu. C There is a comment at the current node. It can be viewed/edited using the Add/Edit Comment menu option of the Context Menu. Controls Key Action Menu Move cursor up Play Move cursor down Prev Move cursor left Next Move cursor right Select Play a move (or use a tool if play-mode has been changed). Scroll Backward Retreat one node in the game tree Scroll Forward Advance one node in the game tree Long Select Main Menu Menus Main Menu. The main menu for game setup and access to other menus. New. Create a new game with your choice of board size and handicaps. Save. Save the current state of the game. It will be saved to /sgf/gbn_def.sgf unless otherwise set. Save As. Save to a specified file. Game Info. View and modify the metadata of the current game. Playback Control. Control the playback of the current playlist and modify the volume of your player. 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. Options. Open the Options Menu. Context Menu. Open the Context Menu which allows you to set play modes and other tools. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Game Info. The menu for modifying game info (metadata) of the current game. This information will be saved to the SGF file and can be viewed in almost all SGF readers. Basic Info. Shows a quick view of the basic game metadata, if any has been set (otherwise does nothing). This option does not allow editing. Time Limit. The time limit of the current game. Overtime. The overtime settings of the current game. Result. The result of the current game. This text must follow the format specified at http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/properties.html#RE to be read by other SGF readers. Some examples are B+R (Black wins by resignation), B+5.5 (Black wins by 5.5 points), W+T (White wins on Time). Handicap. The handicap of the current game. Komi. The komi of the current game (compensation to the white player for black having the first move). Ruleset. The name of the ruleset in use for this game. The NZ and GOE rulesets include suicide as a legal move (for multi-stone suicide only); the rest do not. Black Player. The name of the black player. Black Rank. Black’s rank, in dan or kyu. Black Team. The name of black’s team, if any. White Player. The name of the white player. White Rank. White’s rank, in dan or kyu. White Team. The name of white’s team, if any. Date. The date that this game took place. This text must follow the format specified at http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/properties.html#DT to be read by other SGF readers. Event. The name of the event which this game was a part of, if any. 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. Show Child Variations? Enable this to mark child variations on he board if there are more than one. Note: variations which don’t start with a move are not visible in this way. 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). The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

saving any unsaved changes. These autosaves go to the file /sgf/gbn_def.sgf regardless of if you have loaded a game or used Save As to save the game before or not. Set to Off to disable this functionality completely. Automatically Show Comments? If this is enabled and you navigate to a node containing game comments, they will automatically be displayed. Context Menu. The menu for choosing different play modes and tools, adding or edit- ing comments, adding pass moves, or switching between sibling variations. Play Mode. Play moves normally on the board. If there are child moves from the current node, this mode will let you follow variations by simply playing the first move in the sequence. Unless it is following a variation, this mode will not allow you to play illegal moves. This is the default mode before another is set after loading a game or creating a new one. Add Black Mode. Add black stones to the board as desired. These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats. Add White Mode. Add white stones to the board as desired. These stones are not moves and do not perform captures or count as ko threats. Erase Stone Mode. Remove stones from the board as desired. These removed stones are not counted as captured, they are simply removed. Pass. Play a single pass move. This does not change the mode of play. Next Variation. If the game is at the first move in a variation, this will navigate to the next variation after the current one. This is the only way to reach variations which start with adding or removing stones, as you cannot follow them by “playing” the same move. Force Play Mode. The same as Play Mode except that this mode will allow you to play illegal moves such as retaking a ko immediately without a ko threat, suicide on rulesets which don’t allow it (including single stone suicide), and playing a move where there is already a stone. Mark Mode. Add generic marks to the board, or remove them. Circle Mode. Add circle marks to the board, or remove them. Square Mode. Add square marks to the board, or remove them. Triangle Mode. Add triangle marks to the board, or remove them. Label Mode. Add one character labels to the board. Each label starts at the letter ‘a’ and each subsequent application of a label will increment the letter. To remove a label, click on it until it cycles through the allowed letters and disappears. Add/Edit Comment. Add or edit a comment at the current node. Done. Go back to the previous screen. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

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! Key Action Prev Move left Next Move right Select Fire Menu Quit 10.1.13. Jackpot Figure 10.11.: 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. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

10.1.14. Jewels Figure 10.12.: Jewels Jewels is a simple yet addicting game which involves swapping pairs of jewels in order to form connected segments of three or more of the same type. The goal of the game is to score as many points as possible before running out of available moves. Higher points are awarded to larger combos. The game advances to the next level after every one hundred points and randomly clears several jewels. In puzzle mode the aim of the game is to connect the puzzles, by skillfully swapping pairs of jewels. Key Action Prev/Next/ Scroll Backward/Scroll Forward Move the cursor around the jewels Select Select a jewel Menu Menu 10.1.15. Maze This is a simple maze generator that creates perfect mazes that have only one solution. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

10.1.16. MazezaM Figure 10.13.: MazezaM The goal of this puzzle game is to escape a dungeon consisting of ten “mazezams”. These are rooms containing rows of blocks which can be shifted left or right. You can move the rows only by pushing them and if you move the rows carelessly, you will get stuck. 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. Key Action Scroll Backward, Scroll Forward, Prev, Next Move Character Menu Menu The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

The classic game of minesweeper. The aim of the game is to uncover all of the squares on the board. If a mine is uncovered then the game is over. If a mine is not uncovered, then the number of mines adjacent to the current square is revealed. The aim is to use the information you are given to work out where the mines are and avoid them. When the player is certain that they know the location of a mine, it can be tagged to avoid accidentally “stepping” on it. Key Action Menu / Play / Prev / Next Move the cursor across the minefield Scroll Forward / Scroll Backward Scroll through the entire minefield Select Toggle flag on / off Long Select Reveal the contents of the current square Select+Play Display the current game status Select+Menu Exit the game The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

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. Key Action Menu, Play, Prev, Next to move around Select + Next to choose peg Select + Prev to restart level Select + Menu to go up a level Select + Play to quit 10.1.19. Pong Figure 10.16.: Pong The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

other scores. The game starts in demo mode, with the CPU controlling both sides. As soon as a button to control one of the paddles is pressed, control of that paddle passes to the player, so for a single player game, just press the appropriate buttons to control the side you want to play. For a two player game, both players should just press the appropriate buttons for their side. Key Action Menu Left player up Prev Left player down Next Right player up Play Right player down Select Quit 10.1.20. Puzzles WARNING! Image not found Figure 10.17.: “Cube” from Puzzles WARNING! Image not found Figure 10.18.: “Map” from Puzzles “Puzzles” is a port of Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. For documenta- tion on the games included, please visit (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ puzzles/). 10.1.21. Reversi This is a simple implementation of the Reversi game. The objective of the game is to have a majority of own coloured pieces showing at the end of the game. The game rules can be found in the internet. You can choose to play manually (you place both the white and dark pieces) or to play against a (not very smart) robot. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

In this game, you are robot (#). Your job is to find kitten. This task is complicated by the existence of various things which are not kitten. Robot must touch items to determine if they are kitten or not. The game ends when robotfindskitten. Key Action Menu, Play, Prev, Next Move robot Menu+ Select Quit 10.1.23. Rockblox Figure 10.20.: 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. If the pile of blocks reaches the ceiling, the game is over. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Menu Rotate clockwise Select Drop Hold switch Pause Menu+Select Quit 10.1.24. Rockblox1d Rockblox1d is a game for people who find rockblox too hard. In this version the second dimension is missing so the user only has to move the bricks down. No horizontal moving anymore and no need to rotate the brick! Key Action Play Move down faster Menu+ Select or Play+ Select Quit 10.1.25. Sliding Puzzle Figure 10.21.: Sliding puzzle The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

picture, or switch to number tiles if you like it a little easier Includes one picture puzzle, but you can switch the puzzle picture to be the album art of the currently playing music track, if one exists (see section C (page 173)). You can also use the sliding puzzle plugin as a viewer for supported image types, to turn your own pictures into a puzzle. Key controls: Key Action Prev / Next / Menu / Play Move Tile Select+Prev Shuffle Select+Next Switch between pictures (default puz- zle, album art, and your own image if launched via Open With), and numbered tiles Select+Menu Stop the game 10.1.26. Snake Figure 10.22.: Snake This is the popular snake game. The aim is to grow your snake as large as possible by eating the dots that appear on the screen. The game will end when the snake touches either the borders of the screen or itself. Key Action Menu / Play / Prev / Next Move snake Select Toggle Play/Pause Go to the plugin’s menu The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

Figure 10.23.: Snake 2 – The Snake Strikes Back Another version of the Snake game. Move the snake around, and eat the apples that pop up on the screen. Each time an apple is eaten, the snake gets longer. The game ends when the snake hits a wall, or runs into itself. Key Action Menu / Play / Prev / Next Steer the snake Select Pause and resume the game Select+Menu Quit In game A, the maze stays the same, in game B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one. 10.1.28. Sokoban Figure 10.24.: Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowded warehouse with a minimal number of pushes and moves. The boxes can only be pushed, never pulled, and only one can be pushed at a time. The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G

level sets with the .sok extension. Level sets should be in the standard Sokoban text format or RLE (Run Length Encoded). For more information about the level format, see http://sokobano.de/wiki/index.php?title=Level_format Key Action In game Menu, Play, Prev, Next Move the “sokoban” up, down, left, or right Select+Menu Menu Select+Prev Back to previous level Select+Next Go to next level Select Undo last movement Select+Play Redo previously undone move Solution playback Select Pause/resume Menu/Play Increase/decrease playback speed Prev/Next Go backward/forward (while paused) Select+Menu Quit Some places where can you can find level sets: • http://www.sourcecode.se/sokoban/levels.php • http://sokobano.de/en/levels.php Note that some level sets may contain levels that are too large for this version of Sokoban and are unplayable as a result. 10.1.29. Solitaire Figure 10.25.: Klondike solitaire The Rockbox manual (version 3.14) Ipod 1G / 2G