Rockbox Sansa c200v2 Series User manual

The Rockbox Manual
for
Sansa c200v2 Series
rockbox.org
March 5, 2013

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Contents
1. Introduction 11
1.1. Welcome ..................................... 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 ............................... 13
2.2.1. Automated Installation ........................ 14
2.2.2. Manual Installation .......................... 15
2.2.3. Bootloader installation from Windows ................ 16
2.2.4. Bootloader installation from Mac OS X and Linux ......... 17
2.2.5. Finishing the install .......................... 17
2.2.6. Enabling Speech Support (optional) ................. 17
2.3. Running Rockbox ................................ 17
2.4. Updating Rockbox ............................... 17
2.5. Uninstalling Rockbox ............................. 18
2.5.1. Automatic Uninstallation ....................... 18
2.5.2. Manual Uninstallation ......................... 18
2.6. Troubleshooting ................................. 18
3. Quick Start 19
3.1. Basic Overview ................................. 19
3.1.1. The player’s controls .......................... 19
3.1.2. Turning the player on and off ..................... 20
3.1.3. Starting the original firmware ..................... 20
3.1.4. Putting music on your player ..................... 20
3.1.5. The first contact ............................ 20
3.1.6. Basic controls .............................. 21
3.1.7. Basic concepts ............................. 21
3.2. Customising Rockbox ............................. 22
3.3. USB Charging ................................. 22
4. Browsing and playing 23
4.1. File Browser ................................... 23
4.1.1. File Browser Controls ......................... 24
4.1.2. Context Menu ............................. 24
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4.1.3. Virtual Keyboard ............................ 26
4.2. Database .................................... 27
4.2.1. Introduction .............................. 27
4.2.2. Initializing the Database ........................ 27
4.2.3. The Database Menu .......................... 27
4.2.4. Using the Database .......................... 28
4.3. While Playing Screen .............................. 29
4.3.1. WPS Key Controls ........................... 31
4.3.2. Peak Meter ............................... 31
4.3.3. The WPS Context Menu ....................... 32
4.4. Working with Playlists ............................. 35
4.4.1. Playlist terminology .......................... 35
4.4.2. Creating playlists ............................ 35
4.4.3. Adding music to playlists ....................... 36
4.4.4. Modifying playlists ........................... 37
4.4.5. Saving playlists ............................. 38
4.4.6. Loading saved playlists ........................ 38
4.5. Hotkeys ..................................... 38
5. The Main Menu 39
5.1. Introducing the Main Menu .......................... 39
5.2. Navigating the Main Menu .......................... 39
5.3. Recent Bookmarks ............................... 40
5.4. Files ....................................... 40
5.5. Database .................................... 41
5.6. Now Playing/Resume Playback ........................ 41
5.7. Settings ..................................... 41
5.7.1. Sound Settings ............................. 41
5.7.2. Playback Settings ........................... 41
5.7.3. General Settings ............................ 41
5.7.4. Theme Settings ............................. 41
5.7.5. Recording Settings ........................... 41
5.7.6. Manage Settings ............................ 42
5.8. Recording .................................... 42
5.8.1. While Recording Screen ........................ 42
5.9. FM Radio .................................... 43
5.10. Playlists ..................................... 44
5.11. Plugins ..................................... 45
5.12. System ...................................... 45
5.13. Quick Screen .................................. 46
5.14. Shortcuts .................................... 46
6. Sound Settings 48
6.1. Volume ..................................... 48
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6.2. Bass ....................................... 48
6.3. Treble ...................................... 48
6.4. Balance ..................................... 49
6.5. Channels .................................... 49
6.6. Stereo Width .................................. 49
6.7. Crossfeed .................................... 49
6.8. Equalizer .................................... 51
6.9. Dithering .................................... 53
6.10. Timestretch ................................... 53
6.11. Compressor ................................... 53
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. Fade on Stop/Pause .............................. 56
7.6. Party Mode ................................... 56
7.7. Replaygain ................................... 56
7.8. Track Skip Beep ................................ 57
7.9. Auto-Change Directory ............................ 57
7.10. Constrain Auto-Change ............................ 57
7.11. Last.fm Log ................................... 58
7.12. Cuesheet Support ................................ 58
7.13. Skip Length ................................... 58
7.14. Prevent Track Skipping ............................ 58
7.15. Rewind Before Resume ............................. 58
7.16. Rewind on Pause ................................ 59
8. General Settings 60
8.1. Playlist ..................................... 60
8.2. File View .................................... 60
8.3. Database .................................... 62
8.4. Display ..................................... 62
8.5. System ...................................... 65
8.5.1. Limits .................................. 65
8.5.2. Use Shortcuts Menu Instead of Quick Screen ............ 65
8.5.3. Car Adapter Mode ........................... 65
8.5.4. Button Light Timeout ......................... 66
8.5.5. Keyclick ................................. 66
8.5.6. USB HID ................................ 66
8.5.7. USB Keypad Mode ........................... 66
8.5.8. USB Hide Internal Drive ........................ 68
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8.6. Startup/Shutdown ............................... 68
8.6.1. Start Screen ............................... 69
8.6.2. Idle Poweroff .............................. 69
8.6.3. Sleep Timer ............................... 69
8.7. Bookmarking .................................. 70
8.8. Automatic resume ............................... 72
8.9. Language .................................... 72
8.10. Voice ....................................... 73
8.11. Hotkey ...................................... 74
9. Theme Settings 75
10.Recording Settings 77
10.1. Format ...................................... 77
10.2. Encoder Settings (MP3 only) ......................... 77
10.3. Frequency .................................... 77
10.4. Source ...................................... 77
10.5. Channels .................................... 78
10.6. Mono Mode ................................... 78
10.7. File Split Options ................................ 78
10.8. Prerecord Time ................................. 78
10.9. Clear Recording Directory ........................... 78
10.10.Clipping Light ................................. 79
10.11.Trigger ...................................... 79
11.Time and Date 81
12.Plugins 82
12.1. Games ...................................... 82
12.1.1. Blackjack ................................ 82
12.1.2. BrickMania ............................... 83
12.1.3. Bubbles ................................. 84
12.1.4. Chessbox ................................ 85
12.1.5. Clix ................................... 86
12.1.6. Chopper ................................. 86
12.1.7. Codebuster ............................... 87
12.1.8. Dice ................................... 87
12.1.9. Flipit .................................. 88
12.1.10.Goban .................................. 88
12.1.11.Jackpot ................................. 93
12.1.12.Jewels .................................. 93
12.1.13.MazezaM ................................ 94
12.1.14.Minesweeper .............................. 95
12.1.15.Pegbox ................................. 95
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12.1.16.Pong ................................... 96
12.1.17.Reversi ................................. 97
12.1.18.Robotfindskitten ............................ 97
12.1.19.Rockblox ................................ 97
12.1.20.Rockblox1d ............................... 98
12.1.21.Sliding Puzzle .............................. 98
12.1.22.Snake .................................. 99
12.1.23.Snake 2 .................................100
12.1.24.Sokoban .................................100
12.1.25.Solitaire .................................101
12.1.26.Spacerocks ...............................102
12.1.27.Star ...................................103
12.1.28.Sudoku .................................103
12.1.29.Wormlet .................................105
12.1.30.Xobox ..................................107
12.2. Demos ......................................108
12.2.1. Bounce .................................108
12.2.2. Credits .................................108
12.2.3. Cube ...................................109
12.2.4. Demystify ................................109
12.2.5. Fire ...................................110
12.2.6. Fractals .................................110
12.2.7. Logo ...................................111
12.2.8. Mosaique ................................111
12.2.9. Oscilloscope ...............................112
12.2.10.PictureFlow ...............................113
12.2.11.Plasma .................................114
12.2.12.Rocklife .................................115
12.2.13.Snow ...................................115
12.2.14.Starfield .................................116
12.2.15.VU meter ................................116
12.3. Viewers .....................................117
12.3.1. Shortcuts ................................117
12.3.2. Chip-8 Emulator ............................118
12.3.3. Frotz ...................................119
12.3.4. Image Viewer ..............................120
12.3.5. MP3 Encoder ..............................121
12.3.6. Rockboy .................................122
12.3.7. Search ..................................123
12.3.8. Shopper .................................123
12.3.9. Sort ...................................123
12.3.10.Text Viewer ...............................124
12.3.11.Theme Remove .............................127
12.3.12.VBRfix .................................128
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12.3.13.ZXBox ..................................129
12.4. Applications ...................................130
12.4.1. Alarm Clock ..............................130
12.4.2. Battery Benchmark ..........................131
12.4.3. Calculator ................................133
12.4.4. Calendar ................................133
12.4.5. Chess Clock ...............................134
12.4.6. Clock ..................................135
12.4.7. Disk Tidy ................................137
12.4.8. Keybox .................................138
12.4.9. Lamp ..................................138
12.4.10.Lrcplayer ................................139
12.4.11.md5sum .................................141
12.4.12.Metronome ...............................141
12.4.13.Pitch Detector .............................142
12.4.14.Random Folder Advance Configuration ...............142
12.4.15.Resistor Calculator ...........................143
12.4.16.Rockpaint ................................144
12.4.17.Stats ...................................146
12.4.18.Stopwatch ................................147
12.4.19.Text Editor ...............................147
13.Advanced Topics 149
13.1. Customising the User Interface ........................149
13.1.1. Customising The Main Menu .....................149
13.1.2. Getting Extras .............................149
13.1.3. Loading Fonts .............................149
13.1.4. Loading Languages ...........................150
13.1.5. Changing Filetype Colours ......................150
13.1.6. Loading Backdrops ...........................151
13.1.7. UI Viewport ..............................152
13.2. Configuring the Theme .............................152
13.2.1. Themeing – General Info .......................152
13.2.2. Themes – Create Your Own ......................152
13.2.3. Info Viewport (SBS only) .......................155
13.2.4. Additional Fonts ............................156
13.3. Managing Rockbox Settings ..........................158
13.3.1. Introduction to .cfg Files .......................158
13.3.2. Specifications for .cfg Files ......................159
13.3.3. The Manage Settings menu ....................160
13.4. Firmware Loading ...............................160
13.4.1. Using ROLO (Rockbox Loader) ....................160
13.5. Optimising battery runtime ..........................160
13.5.1. Display backlight ............................161
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13.5.2. Replaygain ...............................161
13.5.3. Peak Meter ...............................161
13.5.4. Audio format and bitrate .......................161
13.5.5. Sound settings .............................161
A. File formats 162
A.1. Supported file formats .............................163
B. Audio and metadata formats 164
B.1. Supported audio formats ............................164
B.1.1. Lossy Codecs ..............................164
B.1.2. Lossless Codecs .............................165
B.1.3. Other Codecs ..............................166
B.1.4. Codec featureset ............................167
B.2. Supported metadata tags ...........................168
B.2.1. Featureset for generic metadata tags .................168
B.2.2. Featureset for codec specific metadata ................169
B.2.3. Limitations of metadata handling ...................169
C. Album Art 170
C.1. Limitations ...................................170
C.2. Where to put album art ............................170
D. Theme Tags 172
D.1. Status Bar ....................................172
D.2. Hardware Capabilities .............................172
D.3. Information from the track tags ........................173
D.4. Viewports ....................................173
D.5. Additional Fonts ................................174
D.6. Misc Coloring Tags ...............................174
D.7. Power Related Information ..........................174
D.8. Information about the file ...........................175
D.9. Playlist/Song Info ...............................176
D.10.Playlist Viewer .................................176
D.11.Runtime Database ...............................177
D.12.Sound (DSP) settings .............................177
D.13.Hold .......................................177
D.14.Virtual LED ..................................178
D.15.Repeat Mode ..................................178
D.16.Playback Mode .................................178
D.17.Current Screen .................................178
D.18.List Title (.sbs only) .............................179
D.19.Changing Volume ................................180
D.20.Settings .....................................180
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D.21.Images ......................................181
D.21.1.How to display the album art .....................182
D.22.FM Radio ....................................183
D.23.Alignment and language direction .......................184
D.24.Conditional Tags ................................184
D.25.Subline Tags ..................................185
D.26.Time and Date .................................185
D.27.Text Translation ................................186
D.28.Bar Tags .....................................186
D.28.1.Options .................................186
D.29.Other Tags ...................................187
E. Config file options 189
F. Menu Overview 195
G. User feedback 196
G.1. Bug reports ...................................196
G.1.1. Rules for submitting new bug reports ................196
G.2. Feature ideas ..................................196
G.2.1. Rules for submitting a new feature idea ...............196
G.2.2. Features we will not implement ....................197
H. Credits 198
I. Licenses 202
I.1. GNU Free Documentation License ......................202
I.2. The GNU General Public License .......................210
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