Archos Ondio 128 SP User manual

The Rockbox Manual
for
Archos Ondio 128 SP
rockbox.org
April 30, 2017

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Rockbox
http://www.rockbox.org/
Open Source Jukebox Firmware
Rockbox and this manual is the collaborative effort of the Rockbox team and
its contributors. See the appendix for a complete list of contributors.
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2003-2013 The Rockbox Team and its contributors, c 2004 Christi Alice
Scarborough, c 2003 José Maria Garcia-Valdecasas Bernal & Peter Schlenker.
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Contents
1. Introduction 10
1.1. Welcome ..................................... 10
1.2. Getting more help ............................... 10
1.3. Naming conventions and marks ........................ 11
2. Installation 12
2.1. Before Starting ................................. 12
2.2. Installing Rockbox ............................... 12
2.2.1. Automated Installation ........................ 12
2.2.2. Manual Installation .......................... 14
2.2.3. Finishing the install .......................... 14
2.2.4. Enabling Speech Support (optional) ................. 14
2.3. Running Rockbox ................................ 15
2.4. Updating Rockbox ............................... 15
2.5. Uninstalling Rockbox ............................. 15
2.5.1. Automatic Uninstallation ....................... 15
2.5.2. Manual Uninstallation ......................... 15
2.6. Troubleshooting ................................. 15
3. Quick Start 16
3.1. Basic Overview ................................. 16
3.1.1. The player’s controls .......................... 16
3.1.2. Turning the player on and off ..................... 17
3.1.3. Putting music on your player ..................... 17
3.1.4. The first contact ............................ 17
3.1.5. Basic controls .............................. 17
3.1.6. Basic concepts ............................. 18
3.2. Customising Rockbox ............................. 18
3.3. USB Power ................................... 19
4. Browsing and playing 20
4.1. File Browser ................................... 20
4.1.1. File Browser Controls ......................... 21
4.1.2. Context Menu ............................. 21
4.1.3. Virtual Keyboard ............................ 23
4.2. Database .................................... 24
4.2.1. Introduction .............................. 24
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4.2.2. Initializing the Database ........................ 24
4.2.3. The Database Menu .......................... 24
4.2.4. Using the Database .......................... 25
4.3. While Playing Screen .............................. 26
4.3.1. WPS Key Controls ........................... 27
4.3.2. Peak Meter ............................... 28
4.3.3. The WPS Context Menu ....................... 28
4.4. Working with Playlists ............................. 31
4.4.1. Playlist terminology .......................... 31
4.4.2. Creating playlists ............................ 31
4.4.3. Adding music to playlists ....................... 32
4.4.4. Modifying playlists ........................... 33
4.4.5. Saving playlists ............................. 34
4.4.6. Loading saved playlists ........................ 34
5. The Main Menu 35
5.1. Introducing the Main Menu .......................... 35
5.2. Navigating the Main Menu .......................... 35
5.3. Recent Bookmarks ............................... 36
5.4. Files ....................................... 36
5.5. Database .................................... 37
5.6. Now Playing/Resume Playback ........................ 37
5.7. Settings ..................................... 37
5.7.1. Sound Settings ............................. 37
5.7.2. Playback Settings ........................... 37
5.7.3. General Settings ............................ 37
5.7.4. Theme Settings ............................. 37
5.7.5. Manage Settings ............................ 37
5.8. Playlists ..................................... 38
5.9. Plugins ..................................... 38
5.10. System ...................................... 38
5.11. Shortcuts .................................... 39
6. Sound Settings 41
6.1. Volume ..................................... 41
6.2. Bass ....................................... 41
6.3. Volume Limit .................................. 41
6.4. Treble ...................................... 42
6.5. Balance ..................................... 42
6.6. Channels .................................... 42
6.7. Stereo Width .................................. 42
6.8. Loudness .................................... 43
6.9. Auto Volume .................................. 43
6.10. Super Bass ................................... 43
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6.11. MDB – Micronas Dynamic Bass ....................... 43
7. Playback Settings 45
7.1. Shuffle ...................................... 45
7.2. Repeat ...................................... 45
7.3. Play Selected First ............................... 46
7.4. Fast-Forward/Rewind ............................. 46
7.5. Fade on Stop/Pause .............................. 46
7.6. Party Mode ................................... 46
7.7. Auto-Change Directory ............................ 46
7.8. Constrain Auto-Change ............................ 47
7.9. Last.fm Log ................................... 47
7.10. Cuesheet Support ................................ 47
7.11. Skip Length ................................... 47
7.12. Prevent Track Skipping ............................ 47
7.13. Rewind on Pause ................................ 48
8. General Settings 49
8.1. Playlist ..................................... 49
8.2. File View .................................... 49
8.3. Database .................................... 51
8.4. Display ..................................... 51
8.5. System ...................................... 53
8.5.1. Battery ................................. 53
8.5.2. Limits .................................. 53
8.5.3. Advanced Key Lock .......................... 54
8.6. Startup/Shutdown ............................... 54
8.6.1. Start Screen ............................... 54
8.6.2. Idle Poweroff .............................. 55
8.6.3. Sleep Timer ............................... 55
8.7. Bookmarking .................................. 55
8.8. Language .................................... 57
8.9. Voice ....................................... 57
9. Theme Settings 60
10.Plugins 62
10.1. Games ...................................... 62
10.1.1. 2048 ................................... 62
10.1.2. Blackjack ................................ 63
10.1.3. BrickMania ............................... 64
10.1.4. Bubbles ................................. 65
10.1.5. Chessbox ................................ 65
10.1.6. Chopper ................................. 66
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10.1.7. Dice ................................... 67
10.1.8. Flipit .................................. 67
10.1.9. Goban .................................. 68
10.1.10.Jackpot ................................. 72
10.1.11.Jewels .................................. 72
10.1.12.Maze ................................... 73
10.1.13.MazezaM ................................ 73
10.1.14.Minesweeper .............................. 74
10.1.15.Pegbox ................................. 74
10.1.16.Pong ................................... 75
10.1.17.Puzzles ................................. 76
10.1.18.Reversi ................................. 76
10.1.19.Robotfindskitten ............................ 76
10.1.20.Rockblox ................................ 77
10.1.21.Rockblox1d ............................... 77
10.1.22.Sliding Puzzle .............................. 78
10.1.23.Snake .................................. 78
10.1.24.Snake 2 ................................. 79
10.1.25.Sokoban ................................. 79
10.1.26.Solitaire ................................. 81
10.1.27.Spacerocks ............................... 82
10.1.28.Star ................................... 82
10.1.29.Sudoku ................................. 83
10.1.30.Wormlet ................................. 84
10.1.31.Xobox .................................. 87
10.1.32.XWorld ................................. 87
10.2. Demos ...................................... 88
10.2.1. Bounce ................................. 88
10.2.2. Credits ................................. 88
10.2.3. Cube ................................... 89
10.2.4. Demystify ................................ 89
10.2.5. Fire ................................... 90
10.2.6. Fractals ................................. 90
10.2.7. Logo ................................... 91
10.2.8. Matrix .................................. 91
10.2.9. Mosaique ................................ 91
10.2.10.Oscilloscope ............................... 92
10.2.11.PictureFlow ............................... 93
10.2.12.Plasma ................................. 94
10.2.13.Rocklife ................................. 95
10.2.14.Snow ................................... 95
10.2.15.Starfield ................................. 96
10.2.16.VU meter ................................ 96
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10.3. Viewers ..................................... 97
10.3.1. Shortcuts ................................ 97
10.3.2. Chip-8 Emulator ............................ 98
10.3.3. Frotz ................................... 99
10.3.4. Image Viewer ..............................100
10.3.5. Movie Player ..............................101
10.3.6. Rockbox_flash .............................101
10.3.7. Search ..................................101
10.3.8. Shopper .................................102
10.3.9. Sort ...................................102
10.3.10.Text Viewer ...............................103
10.3.11.Theme Remove .............................106
10.3.12.VBRfix .................................107
10.3.13.Wavplay .................................108
10.3.14.ZXBox ..................................108
10.4. Applications ...................................110
10.4.1. Battery Benchmark ..........................110
10.4.2. Calculator ................................112
10.4.3. Chess Clock ...............................112
10.4.4. Dict ...................................113
10.4.5. Disk Tidy ................................114
10.4.6. Firmware_flash .............................115
10.4.7. Keybox .................................115
10.4.8. Lrcplayer ................................115
10.4.9. Main Menu Configuration .......................118
10.4.10.md5sum .................................118
10.4.11.Metronome ...............................119
10.4.12.One-Time Password Client ......................122
10.4.13.Periodic Table .............................123
10.4.14.Random Folder Advance Configuration ...............123
10.4.15.Resistor Calculator ...........................124
10.4.16.Split Editor ...............................125
10.4.17.Stats ...................................128
10.4.18.Stopwatch ................................128
10.4.19.Text Editor ...............................129
11.Advanced Topics 130
11.1. Customising the User Interface ........................130
11.1.1. Customising The Main Menu .....................130
11.1.2. Getting Extras .............................130
11.1.3. Loading Fonts .............................130
11.1.4. Loading Languages ...........................131
11.1.5. UI Viewport ..............................131
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11.2. Configuring the Theme .............................132
11.2.1. Themeing – General Info .......................132
11.2.2. Themes – Create Your Own ......................132
11.2.3. Info Viewport (SBS only) .......................134
11.2.4. Additional Fonts ............................134
11.3. Managing Rockbox Settings ..........................137
11.3.1. Introduction to .cfg Files .......................137
11.3.2. Specifications for .cfg Files ......................137
11.3.3. The Manage Settings menu ....................138
11.4. Firmware Loading ...............................139
11.4.1. Using ROLO (Rockbox Loader) ....................139
11.5. Rockbox in Flash ................................139
11.5.1. Introduction ..............................139
11.5.2. Terminology and Basic Operation ..................140
11.5.3. Initial Flashing Procedure .......................140
11.5.4. Updating the Rockbox Image in Flash ................141
11.5.5. Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents ............142
11.6. Optimising battery runtime ..........................142
11.6.1. Peak Meter ...............................142
11.6.2. Audio format and bitrate .......................142
A. File formats 143
A.1. Supported file formats .............................144
B. Album Art 145
B.1. Limitations ...................................145
B.2. Where to put album art ............................145
C. Theme Tags 147
C.1. Status Bar ....................................147
C.2. Hardware Capabilities .............................147
C.3. Information from the track tags ........................148
C.4. Viewports ....................................148
C.5. Additional Fonts ................................148
C.6. Misc Coloring Tags ...............................149
C.7. Power Related Information ..........................149
C.8. Information about the file ...........................150
C.9. Playlist/Song Info ...............................151
C.10.Playlist Viewer .................................151
C.11.Runtime Database ...............................152
C.12.Hold .......................................152
C.13.Virtual LED ..................................152
C.14.Repeat Mode ..................................152
C.15.Playback Mode .................................153
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C.16.Current Screen .................................153
C.17.List Title (.sbs only) .............................154
C.18.Changing Volume ................................154
C.19.Settings .....................................154
C.20.Images ......................................155
C.21.Alignment and language direction .......................156
C.22.Conditional Tags ................................157
C.23.Subline Tags ..................................157
C.24.Text Translation ................................158
C.25.Bar Tags .....................................158
C.25.1.Options .................................158
C.26.Other Tags ...................................159
D. Config file options 161
E. Menu Overview 165
F. User feedback 166
F.1. Bug reports ...................................166
F.1.1. Rules for submitting new bug reports ................166
F.2. Feature ideas ..................................166
F.2.1. Rules for submitting a new feature idea ...............166
F.2.2. Features we will not implement ....................167
G. Credits 169
H. Licenses 173
H.1. GNU Free Documentation License ......................173
H.2. The GNU General Public License .......................181
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1. Introduction
1.1. Welcome
This is the manual for Rockbox. Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement
for a growing number of digital audio players. Rockbox aims to be considerably more
functional and efficient than your device’s stock firmware while remaining easy to use
and customisable. Rockbox is written by users, for users. Not only is it free to use, it
is also released under the GNU 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
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