SanDisk Sansa Clip v2 User manual

The Rockbox Manual
for
Sansa Clip v2
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 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 .................................... 26
4.2.1. Introduction .............................. 26
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 ........................... 30
4.3.2. Peak Meter ............................... 31
4.3.3. The WPS Context Menu ....................... 31
4.4. Working with Playlists ............................. 34
4.4.1. Playlist terminology .......................... 34
4.4.2. Creating playlists ............................ 34
4.4.3. Adding music to playlists ....................... 35
4.4.4. Modifying playlists ........................... 37
4.4.5. Saving playlists ............................. 37
4.4.6. Loading saved playlists ........................ 37
5. The Main Menu 38
5.1. Introducing the Main Menu .......................... 38
5.2. Navigating the Main Menu .......................... 38
5.3. Recent Bookmarks ............................... 39
5.4. Files ....................................... 39
5.5. Database .................................... 39
5.6. Now Playing/Resume Playback ........................ 40
5.7. Settings ..................................... 40
5.7.1. Sound Settings ............................. 40
5.7.2. Playback Settings ........................... 40
5.7.3. General Settings ............................ 40
5.7.4. Theme Settings ............................. 40
5.7.5. Recording Settings ........................... 40
5.7.6. Manage Settings ............................ 40
5.8. Recording .................................... 41
5.8.1. While Recording Screen ........................ 41
5.9. FM Radio .................................... 42
5.10. Playlists ..................................... 43
5.11. Plugins ..................................... 43
5.12. System ...................................... 44
5.13. Quick Screen .................................. 44
5.14. Shortcuts .................................... 44
6. Sound Settings 47
6.1. Volume ..................................... 47
6.2. Bass ....................................... 47
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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
6.9. Equalizer .................................... 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 .......................... 53
6.15. 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. Crossfade .................................... 56
7.8. Replaygain ................................... 57
7.9. Track Skip Beep ................................ 58
7.10. Auto-Change Directory ............................ 58
7.11. Constrain Auto-Change ............................ 59
7.12. Last.fm Log ................................... 59
7.13. Cuesheet Support ................................ 59
7.14. Skip Length ................................... 59
7.15. Prevent Track Skipping ............................ 60
7.16. Rewind Before Resume ............................. 60
7.17. Rewind on Pause ................................ 60
7.18. Frequency .................................... 60
8. General Settings 61
8.1. Playlist ..................................... 61
8.2. File View .................................... 61
8.3. Database .................................... 63
8.4. Display ..................................... 63
8.5. System ...................................... 66
8.5.1. Disk ................................... 66
8.5.2. Limits .................................. 66
8.5.3. Use Shortcuts Menu Instead of Quick Screen ............ 67
8.5.4. Car Adapter Mode ........................... 67
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8.5.5. Button Light Timeout ......................... 67
8.5.6. Keyclick ................................. 67
8.5.7. Advanced Key Lock .......................... 68
8.5.8. USB HID ................................ 68
8.5.9. USB Keypad Mode ........................... 68
8.6. Startup/Shutdown ............................... 70
8.6.1. Start Screen ............................... 70
8.6.2. Idle Poweroff .............................. 71
8.6.3. Sleep Timer ............................... 71
8.7. Bookmarking .................................. 71
8.8. Automatic resume ............................... 73
8.9. Language .................................... 74
8.10. Voice ....................................... 74
9. Theme Settings 76
10.Recording Settings 78
10.1. Format ...................................... 78
10.2. Encoder Settings (MP3 only) ......................... 78
10.3. Frequency .................................... 78
10.4. Source ...................................... 78
10.5. Channels .................................... 79
10.6. Mono Mode ................................... 79
10.7. File Split Options ................................ 79
10.8. Prerecord Time ................................. 79
10.9. Clear Recording Directory ........................... 79
10.10.Clipping Light ................................. 80
10.11.Trigger ...................................... 80
11.Time and Date 82
12.Plugins 83
12.1. Games ...................................... 83
12.1.1. 2048 ................................... 83
12.1.2. Blackjack ................................ 84
12.1.3. Boomshine ............................... 84
12.1.4. BrickMania ............................... 85
12.1.5. Bubbles ................................. 86
12.1.6. Chessbox ................................ 86
12.1.7. Chopper ................................. 87
12.1.8. Dice ................................... 87
12.1.9. Doom .................................. 88
12.1.10.Flipit .................................. 90
12.1.11.Goban .................................. 91
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12.1.12.Jackpot ................................. 95
12.1.13.Jewels .................................. 95
12.1.14.Maze ................................... 96
12.1.15.MazezaM ................................ 96
12.1.16.Minesweeper .............................. 96
12.1.17.Pegbox ................................. 97
12.1.18.Pong ................................... 98
12.1.19.Puzzles ................................. 98
12.1.20.Reversi ................................. 99
12.1.21.Robotfindskitten ............................ 99
12.1.22.Rockblox ................................ 99
12.1.23.Rockblox1d ...............................100
12.1.24.Sliding Puzzle ..............................100
12.1.25.Snake ..................................101
12.1.26.Snake 2 .................................101
12.1.27.Sokoban .................................102
12.1.28.Solitaire .................................103
12.1.29.Spacerocks ...............................104
12.1.30.Star ...................................105
12.1.31.Sudoku .................................105
12.1.32.Wormlet .................................107
12.1.33.Xobox ..................................109
12.1.34.XWorld .................................109
12.2. Demos ......................................110
12.2.1. Bounce .................................110
12.2.2. Credits .................................111
12.2.3. Cube ...................................111
12.2.4. Demystify ................................111
12.2.5. FFT ...................................112
12.2.6. Fire ...................................112
12.2.7. Fractals .................................112
12.2.8. Logo ...................................113
12.2.9. Matrix ..................................113
12.2.10.Mosaique ................................113
12.2.11.Oscilloscope ...............................114
12.2.12.PictureFlow ...............................115
12.2.13.Plasma .................................116
12.2.14.Rocklife .................................117
12.2.15.Snow ...................................117
12.2.16.Starfield .................................117
12.2.17.VU meter ................................118
12.3. Viewers .....................................118
12.3.1. Shortcuts ................................119
12.3.2. Chip-8 Emulator ............................120
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12.3.3. Frotz ...................................121
12.3.4. Image Viewer ..............................122
12.3.5. Lua scripting language .........................123
12.3.6. Midiplay .................................123
12.3.7. MPEG Player ..............................124
12.3.8. MP3 Encoder ..............................126
12.3.9. Rockboy .................................126
12.3.10.Search ..................................127
12.3.11.Shopper .................................127
12.3.12.Sort ...................................128
12.3.13.Text Viewer ...............................129
12.3.14.Theme Remove .............................132
12.3.15.VBRfix .................................133
12.3.16.ZXBox ..................................133
12.4. Applications ...................................135
12.4.1. Alarm Clock ..............................135
12.4.2. Battery Benchmark ..........................136
12.4.3. Calculator ................................137
12.4.4. Calendar ................................138
12.4.5. Chess Clock ...............................138
12.4.6. Clock ..................................140
12.4.7. Dict ...................................142
12.4.8. Disk Tidy ................................142
12.4.9. Keybox .................................143
12.4.10.Lamp ..................................143
12.4.11.Lrcplayer ................................144
12.4.12.Main Menu Configuration .......................146
12.4.13.md5sum .................................147
12.4.14.Metronome ...............................147
12.4.15.One-Time Password Client ......................150
12.4.16.Advanced Settings ...........................151
12.4.17.Periodic Table .............................151
12.4.18.Pitch Detector .............................151
12.4.19.Random Folder Advance Configuration ...............152
12.4.20.Resistor Calculator ...........................153
12.4.21.Stats ...................................153
12.4.22.Stopwatch ................................154
12.4.23.Text Editor ...............................154
13.Advanced Topics 156
13.1. Customising the User Interface ........................156
13.1.1. Customising The Main Menu .....................156
13.1.2. Getting Extras .............................156
13.1.3. Loading Fonts .............................156
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13.1.4. Loading Languages ...........................157
13.1.5. UI Viewport ..............................157
13.2. Configuring the Theme .............................158
13.2.1. Themeing – General Info .......................158
13.2.2. Themes – Create Your Own ......................158
13.2.3. Info Viewport (SBS only) .......................160
13.2.4. Additional Fonts ............................160
13.3. Managing Rockbox Settings ..........................163
13.3.1. Introduction to .cfg Files .......................163
13.3.2. Specifications for .cfg Files ......................164
13.3.3. The Manage Settings menu ....................164
13.4. Firmware Loading ...............................165
13.4.1. Using ROLO (Rockbox Loader) ....................165
13.5. Optimising battery runtime ..........................165
13.5.1. Display backlight ............................165
13.5.2. Replaygain ...............................166
13.5.3. Peak Meter ...............................166
13.5.4. Audio format and bitrate .......................166
13.5.5. Sound settings .............................166
A. File formats 167
A.1. Supported file formats .............................168
B. Audio and metadata formats 169
B.1. Supported audio formats ............................169
B.1.1. Lossy Codecs ..............................169
B.1.2. Lossless Codecs .............................170
B.1.3. Other Codecs ..............................171
B.1.4. Codec featureset ............................172
B.2. Supported metadata tags ...........................173
B.2.1. Featureset for generic metadata tags .................173
B.2.2. Featureset for codec specific metadata ................174
B.2.3. Limitations of metadata handling ...................174
C. Album Art 175
C.1. Limitations ...................................175
C.2. Where to put album art ............................175
D. Theme Tags 177
D.1. Status Bar ....................................177
D.2. Hardware Capabilities .............................177
D.3. Information from the track tags ........................178
D.4. Viewports ....................................178
D.5. Additional Fonts ................................178
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D.6. Misc Coloring Tags ...............................179
D.7. Power Related Information ..........................179
D.8. Information about the file ...........................180
D.9. Playlist/Song Info ...............................181
D.10.Playlist Viewer .................................181
D.11.Runtime Database ...............................182
D.12.Sound (DSP) settings .............................182
D.13.Hold .......................................182
D.14.Virtual LED ..................................183
D.15.Repeat Mode ..................................183
D.16.Playback Mode .................................183
D.17.Current Screen .................................183
D.18.List Title (.sbs only) .............................184
D.19.Changing Volume ................................185
D.20.Settings .....................................185
D.21.Images ......................................186
D.22.FM Radio ....................................187
D.23.Alignment and language direction .......................188
D.24.Conditional Tags ................................188
D.25.Subline Tags ..................................189
D.26.Time and Date .................................189
D.27.Text Translation ................................190
D.28.Bar Tags .....................................190
D.28.1.Options .................................190
D.29.Other Tags ...................................191
E. Config file options 193
F. Menu Overview 198
G. User feedback 199
G.1. Bug reports ...................................199
G.1.1. Rules for submitting new bug reports ................199
G.2. Feature ideas ..................................199
G.2.1. Rules for submitting a new feature idea ...............199
G.2.2. Features we will not implement ....................200
H. Credits 201
I. Licenses 205
I.1. GNU Free Documentation License ......................205
I.2. The GNU General Public License .......................213
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