IRiver H320 User manual

The Rockbox Manual
for
Iriver H320 and H340
rockbox.org
September 24, 2008

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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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2003-2008 The Rockbox Team and its contributors, c 2004 Christi Alice
Scarborough, c 2003 Jos´ e Maria Garcia-Valdecasas Bernal & Peter Schlenker.
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Contents
1 Introduction 9
1.1 Welcome ..................................... 9
1.2 Getting more help ................................ 9
1.3 Naming conventions and marks ....................... 10
2 Installation 11
2.1 Overview ..................................... 11
2.2 Prerequisites ................................... 11
2.3 Installing Rockbox ............................... 12
2.3.1 Automated Installation ........................ 12
2.3.2 Manual Installation ........................... 13
2.3.3 Enabling Speech Support (optional) ................. 16
2.4 Running Rockbox ................................ 16
2.5 Updating Rockbox ............................... 16
2.6 Uninstalling Rockbox .............................. 16
2.6.1 Automatic Uninstallation ....................... 17
2.6.2 Manual Uninstallation ......................... 17
3 Quick Start 18
3.1 Basic Overview ................................. 18
3.1.1 The player’s controls .......................... 18
3.1.2 Turning the player on and off ..................... 19
3.1.3 Starting the original firmware ..................... 19
3.1.4 Putting music on your player ..................... 19
3.1.5 The first contact ............................. 19
3.1.6 Basic controls .............................. 19
3.1.7 Basic concepts .............................. 20
3.2 Customising Rockbox ............................. 20
3.3 Charging ..................................... 21
4 Browsing and playing 22
4.1 File Browser ................................... 22
4.1.1 File Browser Controls ......................... 23
4.1.2 Context Menu .............................. 23
4.1.3 Virtual Keyboard ............................ 25
4.2 Database ..................................... 26
4.2.1 Introduction ............................... 26
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4.2.2 Initializing the Database ........................ 26
4.2.3 The Database Menu .......................... 26
4.2.4 Using the Database ........................... 27
4.3 While Playing Screen .............................. 28
4.3.1 WPS Key Controls ........................... 29
4.3.2 Peak Meter ............................... 30
4.3.3 The WPS Context Menu ........................ 30
4.4 Working with Playlists ............................. 33
4.4.1 Playlist terminology .......................... 33
4.4.2 Creating playlists ............................ 33
4.4.3 Adding music to playlists ....................... 35
4.4.4 Modifying playlists ........................... 36
4.4.5 Saving playlists ............................. 36
4.4.6 Loading saved playlists ........................ 37
4.4.7 Helpful Hints .............................. 37
5 The Main Menu 38
5.1 Introducing the Main Menu .......................... 38
5.2 Navigating the Main Menu .......................... 39
5.3 Recent Bookmarks ............................... 39
5.4 Files ........................................ 39
5.5 Database ..................................... 40
5.6 Now Playing/Resume Playback ....................... 40
5.7 Settings ...................................... 40
5.7.1 Sound Settings ............................. 40
5.7.2 General Settings ............................. 40
5.7.3 Manage Settings ............................ 40
5.7.4 Theme Settings ............................. 40
5.7.5 Recording Settings ........................... 41
5.8 Recording .................................... 41
5.8.1 While Recording Screen ........................ 41
5.9 FM Radio ..................................... 42
5.10 Playlist ...................................... 43
5.11 Plugins ...................................... 44
5.12 System ...................................... 44
5.13 Quick Screen ................................... 45
6 Sound Settings 46
6.1 Volume ...................................... 46
6.2 Bass ........................................ 46
6.3 Treble ....................................... 47
6.4 Balance ...................................... 47
6.5 Channels ..................................... 47
6.6 Stereo Width ................................... 47
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6.7 Crossfeed ..................................... 48
6.8 Equalizer ..................................... 49
6.9 Dithering ..................................... 51
7 General Settings 52
7.1 Playback ..................................... 52
7.2 Playlist ...................................... 56
7.3 File View ..................................... 57
7.4 Database ..................................... 58
7.5 Display ...................................... 58
7.6 System ...................................... 61
7.6.1 Start Screen ............................... 61
7.6.2 Battery .................................. 61
7.6.3 Disk ................................... 62
7.6.4 Time and Date .............................. 62
7.6.5 Idle Poweroff .............................. 62
7.6.6 Limits .................................. 62
7.6.7 Car Adapter Mode ........................... 63
7.7 Bookmarking .................................. 63
7.8 Language ..................................... 64
7.9 Voice ....................................... 64
8 Theme Settings 67
9 Recording Settings 69
9.1 Format ...................................... 69
9.2 Encoder Settings ................................. 69
9.3 Frequency .................................... 69
9.4 Source ...................................... 70
9.5 Channels ..................................... 70
9.6 File Split Options ................................ 70
9.7 Prerecord Time ................................. 70
9.8 Clear Recording Directory ........................... 70
9.9 Clipping Light .................................. 71
9.10 Trigger ...................................... 71
9.11 Automatic Gain Control ............................ 72
9.12 AGC clip time .................................. 73
10 Plugins 74
10.1 Games ...................................... 74
10.1.1 Blackjack ................................. 74
10.1.2 BrickMania ............................... 75
10.1.3 Bubbles ................................. 76
10.1.4 Chessbox ................................. 77
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10.1.5 Chopper ................................. 78
10.1.6 Dice .................................... 78
10.1.7 Doom ................................... 79
10.1.8 Flipit ................................... 81
10.1.9 Jewels .................................. 82
10.1.10 MazezaM ................................ 83
10.1.11 Minesweeper .............................. 84
10.1.12 Pacbox .................................. 85
10.1.13 Pegbox .................................. 86
10.1.14 Pong ................................... 87
10.1.15 Robotfindskitten ............................ 88
10.1.16 Rockblox ................................. 88
10.1.17 Rockblox1d ............................... 89
10.1.18 Sliding Puzzle .............................. 90
10.1.19 Snake ................................... 91
10.1.20 Snake 2 .................................. 91
10.1.21 Sokoban ................................. 92
10.1.22 Solitaire ................................. 93
10.1.23 Spacerocks ................................ 94
10.1.24 Star .................................... 95
10.1.25 Sudoku .................................. 96
10.1.26 Wormlet ................................. 97
10.1.27 Xobox .................................. 100
10.2 Demos ...................................... 101
10.2.1 Bounce .................................. 101
10.2.2 Credits .................................. 101
10.2.3 Cube ................................... 102
10.2.4 Demystify ................................ 103
10.2.5 Fire .................................... 103
10.2.6 Logo ................................... 104
10.2.7 Mandelbrot ............................... 104
10.2.8 Mosaique ................................ 105
10.2.9 Oscilloscope ............................... 106
10.2.10 Plasma .................................. 107
10.2.11 Snow ................................... 107
10.2.12 Starfield ................................. 108
10.2.13 VU meter ................................ 108
10.3 Viewers ...................................... 109
10.3.1 Shortcuts ................................. 109
10.3.2 Chip-8 Emulator ............................ 110
10.3.3 JPEG viewer ............................... 111
10.3.4 Midiplay ................................. 112
10.3.5 MPEG Player .............................. 112
10.3.6 PPM viewer ............................... 114
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10.3.7 Rockboy ................................. 114
10.3.8 Search .................................. 115
10.3.9 Sort .................................... 115
10.3.10 Text Viewer ............................... 115
10.3.11 VBRfix .................................. 117
10.3.12 ZXBox .................................. 118
10.4 Applications ................................... 119
10.4.1 Battery Benchmark ........................... 119
10.4.2 Calculator ................................ 121
10.4.3 Chess Clock ............................... 122
10.4.4 Clock ................................... 123
10.4.5 Disk Tidy ................................ 125
10.4.6 Keybox .................................. 126
10.4.7 Lamp ................................... 127
10.4.8 Metronome ............................... 127
10.4.9 Random Folder Advance Configuration ............... 127
10.4.10 Stats ................................... 128
10.4.11 Stopwatch ................................ 129
10.4.12 Text Editor ................................ 129
11 Advanced Topics 131
11.1 Customising the User Interface ........................ 131
11.1.1 Getting Extras .............................. 131
11.1.2 Loading Fonts .............................. 131
11.1.3 Loading Languages .......................... 131
11.1.4 Changing Colours ........................... 131
11.1.5 Changing Filetype Colours ...................... 132
11.1.6 Loading Backdrops ........................... 132
11.2 Configuring the WPS .............................. 132
11.2.1 WPS – General Info ........................... 132
11.2.2 WPS – Build Your Own ........................ 132
11.3 Managing Rockbox Settings .......................... 135
11.3.1 Introduction to .cfg Files. ...................... 135
11.3.2 Specifications for .cfg Files. ..................... 136
11.3.3 The MANAGE SETTINGS menu .................... 137
11.4 Firmware Loading ............................... 137
11.4.1 Using ROLO (Rockbox Loader) .................... 137
A File formats 138
A.1 Supported file formats ............................. 138
A.2 Supported audio formats ............................ 139
B WPS Tags 140
B.1 Status Bar .................................... 140
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B.2 ID3 Info ...................................... 140
B.3 Power Related Information .......................... 141
B.4 File Info ...................................... 141
B.5 Playlist/Song Info ................................ 142
B.6 Runtime Database ................................ 142
B.7 Sound (DSP) settings .............................. 142
B.8 Hold Switches .................................. 143
B.9 Virtual LED ................................... 143
B.10 Repeat Mode ................................... 143
B.11 Playback Mode Tags .............................. 143
B.12 Images ...................................... 144
B.13 Alignment .................................... 145
B.14 Conditional Tags ................................ 145
B.15 Real Time Clock ................................. 146
B.16 Other Tags .................................... 146
C Config file options 147
D User feedback 152
D.1 Bug reports .................................... 152
D.1.1 Rules for submitting new bug reports ................ 152
D.2 Feature ideas ................................... 152
D.2.1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea ............... 152
D.2.2 Features we will not implement ................... 153
E Changelog 154
E.1 What is new since v2.5? ............................ 154
E.1.1 New features .............................. 154
E.1.2 Enhancements .............................. 155
E.1.3 New codecs supported ......................... 156
F Credits 157
G Licenses 160
G.1 GNU Free Documentation License ...................... 160
G.2 The GNU General Public License ....................... 168
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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 cus-
tomisable 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/. Another option are the mailing lists which
can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/mail/. From that page you can subscribe to the
lists and browse the archives. For searching the list archives simply use the search field
that is located on the left side of the website. Also you can ask on IRC. The main channel
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for Rockbox is #rockbox on irc://irc.freenode.net. A bunch of helpful developers and
users are usually around. Just join and ask – if someone knows the answer you’ll usu-
ally get an answer pretty quickly. More information including IRC logs can be found
at http://www.rockbox.org/irc/. We also have a web client for joining the rockbox IRC
channel so there is no need for you to install additional software to your computer.
If you think you 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 D(page 152) for details on how to use the tracker.
1.3 Naming conventions and marks
We have some conventions especially on naming that are intended to be consistent
throughout this manual.
Manufacturer and product names are formatted in accordance with the standard
rules of English grammar, e.g. “Iriver playback is currently unsupported”. Manufac-
turer and model names are proper nouns, and thus are written beginning with a capital
letter.
This manual has some parts that are marked with icons on the margin to help you
finding important parts or parts you could skip. The following icons are used:
Note: This indicates a note. A note starts always with the text “Note”. For easier finding b
of notes we have put this an icon in the margin like here. Notes are used to mark infor-
mation that could help you or indicate a possible “weirdness” in rockbox that would
be explained.
Warning: This is a warning. In contrast to notes mentioned above, a warning should be !
taken more seriously. While ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage ignoring
warnings could cause serious damage. If you are new to rockbox you should really read
the warnings before doing anything that is warned about.
This icon marks a section that 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 most
likely can completely skip these blocks. To make this easier, there is an icon shown in
the margin on the right.
Links to the wiki are abbreviated by the name of the wiki page. Those names are still
linked so you can simply follow them like any other link in this manual. If you want
to access a wiki page manually go to Zhttp://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ and type the
page name in the “Go” box at the top of the page. Links to wiki pages are also indicated
by the symbol Zin front of the page name.
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2 Installation
2.1 Overview
There are two ways of installing Rockbox: automated and manual. While the manual
way is older, more tested and proven to work correctly, the automated installation is
based on a nice graphical application that does almost everything for you. It is still
important that you have an overview of the installation process to be able to select the
correct installation options.
There are two separate components of Rockbox that need to be installed in order to
run Rockbox.
The Rockbox bootloader. The bootloader is the program that tells your player how to
load and start other components of Rockbox. This is the component of Rockbox
that is installed to the flash memory of your Iriver.
The Rockbox firmware. Unlike the Iriver firmware, which runs entirely from flash
memory, 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 in-
stalling.
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 view of Rockbox can be customized by themes. Depending on your taste
you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox.
2.2 Prerequisites
Before installing Rockbox you should make sure you meet the prerequisites. You may
need some additional tools for installation. In most cases these will already be available
on your computer, but if not, installing some additional software might be necessary.
USB connection. To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your
computer. For manual installation/uninstallation, or should autodetection fail
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during automatic installation, you need to know where to access the player. On
Windows this means you need to figure out the drive letter associated with the
player. On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player.
For manual installation and customization additional software is required.
ZIP utility. Rockbox is distributed as a compressed archive using the .zip format.
Your computer will normally already have a means of handling such archive
files. Windows XP has built-in support for .zip files and presents them to you
as directories unless you have installed a third party program that handles com-
pressed files. For other operating systems this may vary. If the .zip file for-
mat is not recognised on your computer you can find a program to handle them
at http://www.info-zip.org/ or http://sevenzip.sf.net/, both of which can be down-
loaded and used free of charge.
Text editor. As you will see in the following chapters, Rockbox is highly configurable.
In addition to saving configurations, Rockbox also allows you to create customised
configuration files. If you would like to edit custom configuration files on your
computer, you will need a text editor like Windows’ “Wordpad”.
2.3 Installing Rockbox
2.3.1 Automated Installation
To automatically install Rockbox, download the official installer and housekeeping tool
ROCKBOX UTILITY. It allows you to:
•Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox (“Small Installa-
tion”)
•Automatically install all suggested components (“Full Installation”)
•Selectively install optional components
•Install additional themes
•Install voice files and generate talk clips
•Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility
Prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux and MacOS X are available at the ZRockboxUtility
wiki page.
Warning: When first starting ROCKBOX UTILITY run “Autodetect”, found in the con- !
figuration 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
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values. The mountpoint indicates the location of the player in your filesystem. On Win-
dows, this is the drive letter the player gets assigned, on other systems this is a path in
the filesystem.
Note: Rockbox Utility currently lacks some guiding messages. Please have a look at the b
manual installation instructions if you are stuck during installation.
2.3.2 Manual Installation
Choosing a Rockbox version
There are three different types of firmware binaries available from the Rockbox website:
Release version, current build and daily build. You need to decide which one you want
to install and get the appropriate version for your player.
Release. The release version is the latest stable release, free of known critical bugs. The
current stable release of Rockbox, version 3.0, is available at http://www.rockbox.
org/download/.
Current Build. The current build is built at each source code change to the Rockbox
SVN 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. You
can download the current build from http://build.rockbox.org/.
Archived Build. In addition to the release version and the current build, there is also
an archive of daily builds available for download. These are built once a day from
the latest source code in the SVN repository. You can download archived builds
from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml.
Warning: Because current builds and daily builds are development versions which !
change frequently, they may behave differently than described in this manual, or they
may introduce new (and maybe annoying) bugs. If you do not want to get undefined
behaviour from your player, you should stick to the current stable release if there is
one for your player. If you want to help with project development, you can try devel-
opment builds and help by reporting bugs. Just be aware that these are development
builds that are highly functional but not perfect!
Installing the firmware
1. Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section.
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 b
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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.
Note: If the contents of the .zip file are extracted correctly, you will have a directory b
called .rockbox, which contains all the files needed by Rockbox, in the main directory
of your player’s drive. If you receive a “-1” error when you start Rockbox, you have
not extracted the contents of the .zip file to the proper location.
Installing the fonts package
Rockbox has a fonts package that is available at http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml or
from the extras link in the menu on the Rockbox website. While the current builds and
daily builds change frequently, the fonts package rarely changes and is therefore not
included in these builds. When installing Rockbox for the first time, you should install
the fonts package. The release version, on the other hand, does not change, so fonts are
included with it.
1. Download the fonts package from the link above.
2. Take the file that you downloaded above, and use the “Extract all” command of
your unzip program to extract the files in the .zip file onto your player. As
with the firmware installation, the entire contents of the fonts .zip should be
extracted directly to the root of your player’s drive. Do not try to create a separate
directory on your player for the fonts! The .zip already contains the correct
internal structure.
Installing the bootloader
Installing the bootloader is the trickiest part of the installation. The Rockbox bootloader
allows users to boot into either the Rockbox firmware or the Iriver firmware. For legal
reasons, we cannot distribute the bootloader. Instead, we have developed a program
that will patch the Iriver firmware with the Rockbox bootloader. These instructions will
explain how to download and patch the Iriver firmware with the Rockbox bootloader
and install it on your jukebox.
1. Download a supported version of the Iriver firmware for your Iriver H320 and
H340 from the Iriver website, links can be found on ZIriverBoot. Supported
Iriver firmware versions currently include 1.28K, 1.28EU, 1.28J, 1.29K, 1.29J and
1.30EU.
Note: The US Iriver H320 and H340 firmware is not supported and cannot be b
patched to be used with the bootloader. If you wish to install Rockbox on a
US Iriver H320 and H340, you must first install a non-US version of the orig-
inal firmware and then install one of the supported versions patched with the
Rockbox bootloader.
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Warning: Installing non-US firmware on a US Iriver H320 and H340 will perma- !
nently remove DRM support from the player.
If the file that you downloaded is a .zip file, use an unzip utility like mentioned
in the prerequisites section to extract the .hex from the .zip file to your desktop.
Likewise, if the file that you downloaded is an .exe file, double-click on the .exe
file to extract the .hex file to your desktop. When running Linux you should be
able extracting .exe files using unzip.
2. Download the firmware patcher fwpatcher.exe from http://download.rockbox.
org/bootloader/iriver/ and save it to your desktop.
Warning: The firmware patcher contains Unicode support, which is not sup- !
ported by all versions of Windows. If you have difficulty with the firmware
patcher, try downloading the alternate firmware patcher fwpatchernu.exe,
which is built without Unicode support.
3. Go to your desktop and double-click on whichever version of the firmware patcher
you downloaded in the prior step.
4. In the firmware patcher dialog box, click on the BROWSE button and navigate to
the .hex file that you previously downloaded to your desktop.
5. Click PATCH. The firmware patcher will patch the original firmware to include
the Rockbox bootloader. The .hex file on your desktop is now a modified version
of the original .hex file.
6. Turn on your Iriver and connect it to your computer via USB.
7. Copy or move the modified .hex file directly to the root of your player’s drive.
Do not put it inside a directory on your player.
8. Disconnect the jukebox from USB. (Be sure to use Windows’ “safely remove hard-
ware” option.)
Warning: Before proceeding further, make sure that your player has a full charge !
or that it is connected to the power adaptor. Interrupting the next step due to a
power failure most likely will brick your player.
9. Update your player’s firmware with the patched bootloader. To do this, turn
the jukebox on. Press and hold the Navi button to enter the main menu, and
navigate to GENERAL →FIRMWARE UPGRADE. Select YES when asked to confirm
if you want to upgrade the firmware. The Iriver will display a message indicating
that the firmware update is in progress. Do not interrupt this process. When the
firmware update is complete the player will turn itself off. (The update firmware
process usually takes a minute or so.)
You have now installed the Rockbox bootloader.
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Note: If you install the Rockbox bootloader but do not install the Rockbox firmware the b
Rockbox bootloader will load the Iriver firmware when the jukebox is turned on. To
load the Iriver firmware press and hold Rec before powering up the player until the
Iriver logo appears.
Note: The bootloader has a built-in “bootloader USB mode”. This function switches b
to USB mode when the player is connected to a computer upon power-up. This way
you can access the player’s hard disk without the need to boot any firmware (which
is also useful when your hard disk is damaged). The screen will simply display the
text “bootloader USB mode”. After you disconnect the player from USB the bootloader
will continue booting Rockbox. As in bootloader USB mode the firmware itself has not
been loaded this is also a simple way of updating Rockbox. After the disconnect the
bootloader will load the updated version of Rockbox.
2.3.3 Enabling Speech Support (optional)
If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice file, English ones are
available from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml. Download the “voice” package for
your player and unzip it directly to the root of your player. You should now find an
english.voice in the /.rockbox/langs directory on your player. Voice menus
are enabled by default and will come into effect after a reboot. See section 7.9 (page 64)
for details on voice settings.
2.4 Running Rockbox
Remove your player from the computer’s USB port. Unplug any connected power
supply and turn the unit off. When you next turn the unit on, Rockbox should load.
When you see the Rockbox splash screen, Rockbox is loaded and ready for use.
2.5 Updating Rockbox
Updating Rockbox is easy even if you do not use the Rockbox Utility. Download a
Rockbox build. (The latest release of the Rockbox software will always be available
from http://www.rockbox.org/download/). Unzip the build to the root directory of your
player like you did in the installation 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.
Note: If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed com- b
ponents.
2.6 Uninstalling Rockbox
Note: The Rockbox bootloader allows you to choose between Rockbox and the original b
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firmware. (See section 3.1.3 (page 19) for more information.)
2.6.1 Automatic Uninstallation
You can uninstall Rockbox automatically by using Rockbox Utility. If you installed
Rockbox manually you can still use Rockbox Utility for uninstallation but will not be
able to do this selectively.
Note: Rockbox Utility cannot uninstall the bootloader due to the fact that it requires a b
flashing procedure. To uninstall the bootloader completely follow the manual uninstal-
lation instructions below.
2.6.2 Manual Uninstallation
Note: If you want to remove the Rockbox bootloader, simply flash an unpatched Iriver b
firmware. Be aware that doing so will also remove the bootloader USB mode. As that
mode can come in quite handy (especially when having disk errors) it is recommended
to keep the bootloader. It also gives you the possibility of trying Rockbox anytime
later by simply installing the distribution files. Although if you retain the Rockbox
bootloader, you will need to hold the Rec button each time you want to start the original
firmware.
If you wish to clean up your disk, you may also wish to delete the .rockbox direc-
tory and its contents. Turn the Iriver off. Turn the player back on and the original Iriver
software will load.
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3 Quick Start
3.1 Basic Overview
3.1.1 The player’s controls
Throughout this manual, the buttons on the player are labelled according to the pic-
ture above. Whenever a button name is prefixed by “Long”, a long press of approxi-
mately 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 ZBlindFAQ.¸
Hold or lay the player so that the side with the button pad and LCD is facing towards
you. The buttons on the button pad are as follows: top left corner: Play, bottom left
corner: Stop, top right corner: Rec, bottom right corner: A-B. In the center of the button
pad is a button labelled Navi. Surrounding the Navi button are four directional buttons
used to navigate up, down, left and right.
On the top panel of the player, from left to right, you can find the following: head-
phone mini jack plug, remote port, Line-in, Line-out.
On the bottom panel of the player, from left to right, you can find the following:
power jack and two USB ports. The USB port on the right is used to connect your
player to your computer. The USB port on the left is not used in Rockbox.
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3.1.2 Turning the player on and off
To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys:
Key Action
Play Start Rockbox
Long Stop Shutdown Rockbox
On shutdown, Rockbox automatically saves its settings.
If you have problems with your settings, such as accidentally having set the colours
to black on black, they can be reset at boot time. See the Reset Settings in section 11.3.3
(page 137) for details.
In the unlikely event of a software failure, a hardware reset can be performed by
inserting a paperclip gently into the Reset hole.
3.1.3 Starting the original firmware
Rockbox has a dual-boot feature. To boot into the original firmware, when the player is
turned off, press and hold the Rec button, and then press the Play button.
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 ’n’ Drop). The default directory
structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (album art searching, WPS missing-
tag fallback) is: /ArtistName/AlbumName/*.ext. See section A.2 (page 139) 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 sec-
tion 5.1 (page 38)). To browse the files on you player select FILES (see section 4.1
(page 22)), and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data1of your audio files,
select DATABASE (see section 4.2 (page 26)).
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
1ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc.
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the tree view use Down and Up to move around the selection. Use Navi or Right to
select an item. When browsing the file system selecting an audio file plays it. The view
switches to the “While playing screen”, usually abbreviated as “WPS” (see section 4.3
(page 28). 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 Stop button or return to the
file browser while keeping playback running using Navi. In list views you can go back
one step with Left.
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 mod-
ify 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 33).
Menu
From the menu you can customise Rockbox. Rockbox itself is very customisable. Also
there are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions.
Context Menu
Some views, especially the file browser and the WPS have a context menu. From the
file browser this can be accessed with Long Navi. 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 vari-
ous 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 135). 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 b
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