Toshiba Gigabeat F Series User manual

The Rockbox Manual
for
Toshiba Gigabeat F and X Series
rockbox.org
October 30, 2010

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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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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 ........................ 13
2.2.2. Manual Installation ........................... 14
2.2.3. Finishing the install .......................... 15
2.2.4. Enabling Speech Support (optional) ................. 16
2.3. Running Rockbox ................................ 16
2.4. Updating Rockbox ............................... 16
2.5. Uninstalling Rockbox .............................. 16
2.5.1. Automatic Uninstallation ....................... 16
2.5.2. Manual Uninstallation ......................... 16
2.6. Troubleshooting ................................. 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. Putting music on your player ..................... 19
3.1.4. The first contact ............................ 20
3.1.5. Basic controls .............................. 20
3.1.6. Basic concepts ............................. 20
3.2. Customising Rockbox ............................. 21
3.3. USB Charging .................................. 21
4. Browsing and playing 22
4.1. File Browser ................................... 22
4.1.1. File Browser Controls ......................... 23
4.1.2. Context Menu ............................. 24
4.1.3. Virtual Keyboard ............................ 26
4.2. Database .................................... 27
4.2.1. Introduction ............................... 27
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4.2.2. Initializing the Database ........................ 27
4.2.3. The Database Menu .......................... 28
4.2.4. Using the Database ........................... 29
4.3. While Playing Screen .............................. 30
4.3.1. WPS Key Controls ........................... 31
4.3.2. Peak Meter ............................... 32
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 ............................ 36
4.4.3. Adding music to playlists ....................... 37
4.4.4. Modifying playlists ........................... 39
4.4.5. Saving playlists ............................. 39
4.4.6. Loading saved playlists ......................... 39
4.4.7. Helpful Hints .............................. 39
4.5. Hotkeys ..................................... 40
5. The Main Menu 41
5.1. Introducing the Main Menu .......................... 41
5.2. Navigating the Main Menu .......................... 42
5.3. Recent Bookmarks ............................... 42
5.4. Files ....................................... 43
5.5. Database .................................... 43
5.6. Now Playing/Resume Playback ........................ 43
5.7. Settings ..................................... 43
5.7.1. Sound Settings ............................. 44
5.7.2. Playback Settings ............................ 44
5.7.3. General Settings ............................ 44
5.7.4. Theme Settings ............................. 44
5.7.5. Manage Settings ............................ 44
5.8. Playlist ..................................... 44
5.9. Plugins ..................................... 45
5.10. System ...................................... 45
5.11. Quick Screen .................................. 45
6. Sound Settings 47
6.1. Volume ..................................... 47
6.2. Bass ....................................... 48
6.3. Treble ...................................... 48
6.4. Balance ..................................... 48
6.5. Channels ..................................... 48
6.6. Stereo Width .................................. 48
6.7. Crossfeed .................................... 49
6.8. Equalizer .................................... 50
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6.9. Dithering .................................... 52
6.10. Timestretch ................................... 52
6.11. Compressor ................................... 53
7. Playback Settings 54
7.1. Shuffle ...................................... 54
7.2. Repeat ...................................... 54
7.3. Play Selected First ............................... 55
7.4. Fast-Forward/Rewind ............................. 55
7.5. Anti-Skip Buffer ................................ 55
7.6. Fade on Stop/Pause .............................. 55
7.7. Party Mode ................................... 55
7.8. Crossfade .................................... 55
7.9. Replaygain ................................... 57
7.10. Track Skip Beep ................................ 58
7.11. Auto-Change Directory ............................ 58
7.12. Pause on Headphone Unplug ......................... 58
7.13. Last.fm Log ................................... 59
7.14. Cuesheet Support ................................ 59
7.15. Skip Length ................................... 59
7.16. Prevent Track Skipping ............................ 59
7.17. Rewind Before Resume ............................. 59
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. Start Screen ............................... 66
8.5.2. Battery ................................. 66
8.5.3. Disk ................................... 66
8.5.4. Idle Poweroff .............................. 67
8.5.5. Limits .................................. 67
8.5.6. Car Adapter Mode ........................... 67
8.5.7. Button Light Timeout ......................... 68
8.5.8. Button Light Brightness ........................ 68
8.6. Bookmarking .................................. 68
8.7. Language .................................... 70
8.8. Voice ....................................... 70
8.9. Hotkey ...................................... 71
9. Theme Settings 72
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10.Plugins 74
10.1. Games ...................................... 74
10.1.1. Blackjack ................................ 75
10.1.2. BrickMania ............................... 76
10.1.3. Bubbles ................................. 77
10.1.4. Chessbox ................................ 78
10.1.5. Clix ................................... 79
10.1.6. Chopper ................................. 80
10.1.7. Codebuster ............................... 81
10.1.8. Dice ................................... 81
10.1.9. Doom .................................. 82
10.1.10.Flipit .................................. 84
10.1.11.Goban .................................. 85
10.1.12.Invadrox ................................. 90
10.1.13.Jackpot ................................. 91
10.1.14.Jewels .................................. 92
10.1.15.MazezaM ................................ 93
10.1.16.Minesweeper .............................. 94
10.1.17.Pacbox ................................. 95
10.1.18.Pegbox ................................. 96
10.1.19.Pong ................................... 97
10.1.20.Reversi ................................. 98
10.1.21.Robotfindskitten ............................ 98
10.1.22.Rockblox ................................ 99
10.1.23.Rockblox1d ...............................100
10.1.24.Rocklife .................................100
10.1.25.Sliding Puzzle ..............................101
10.1.26.Snake ..................................102
10.1.27.Snake 2 .................................103
10.1.28.Sokoban .................................104
10.1.29.Solitaire .................................106
10.1.30.Spacerocks ...............................107
10.1.31.Star ...................................108
10.1.32.Sudoku .................................109
10.1.33.Wormlet .................................111
10.1.34.Xobox ..................................114
10.2. Demos ......................................115
10.2.1. Bounce .................................115
10.2.2. Credits .................................116
10.2.3. Cube ...................................116
10.2.4. Demystify ................................117
10.2.5. Fire ...................................118
10.2.6. Fractals .................................119
10.2.7. Logo ...................................119
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10.2.8. Mosaique ................................120
10.2.9. Oscilloscope ...............................121
10.2.10.PictureFlow ...............................122
10.2.11.Plasma .................................124
10.2.12.Snow ...................................125
10.2.13.Starfield .................................126
10.2.14.VU meter ................................127
10.3. Viewers .....................................127
10.3.1. Shortcuts ................................128
10.3.2. BMP viewer ...............................129
10.3.3. Chip-8 Emulator ............................130
10.3.4. Frotz ...................................131
10.3.5. JPEG viewer ..............................132
10.3.6. Lua scripting language .........................132
10.3.7. Midiplay .................................133
10.3.8. MPEG Player ..............................133
10.3.9. PNG viewer ...............................135
10.3.10.PPM viewer ...............................136
10.3.11.Rockboy .................................136
10.3.12.Search ..................................137
10.3.13.Shopper .................................137
10.3.14.Sort ...................................138
10.3.15.Text Viewer ...............................138
10.3.16.Theme Remove .............................143
10.3.17.VBRfix .................................144
10.3.18.ZXBox ..................................145
10.4. Applications ...................................147
10.4.1. Alarm Clock ..............................147
10.4.2. Battery Benchmark ...........................147
10.4.3. Calculator ................................149
10.4.4. Calendar ................................150
10.4.5. Chess Clock ...............................151
10.4.6. Clock ..................................152
10.4.7. Disk Tidy ................................155
10.4.8. Keybox .................................155
10.4.9. Lamp ..................................156
10.4.10.Lrcplayer ................................156
10.4.11.md5sum .................................159
10.4.12.Metronome ...............................159
10.4.13.Random Folder Advance Configuration ................159
10.4.14.Resistor Calculator ...........................160
10.4.15.Rockpaint ................................161
10.4.16.Stats ...................................164
10.4.17.Stopwatch ................................165
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10.4.18.Text Editor ...............................165
11.Advanced Topics 167
11.1. Customising the User Interface ........................167
11.1.1. Getting Extras .............................167
11.1.2. Loading Fonts ..............................167
11.1.3. Loading Languages ...........................167
11.1.4. Changing Filetype Colours ......................167
11.1.5. Loading Backdrops ...........................169
11.1.6. UI Viewport ..............................169
11.2. Configuring the Theme .............................170
11.2.1. Themeing – General Info ........................170
11.2.2. Themes – Create Your Own ......................170
11.2.3. Info Viewport (SBS only) .......................172
11.2.4. Additional Fonts ............................173
11.3. Managing Rockbox Settings ..........................175
11.3.1. Introduction to .cfg Files .......................175
11.3.2. Specifications for .cfg Files ......................176
11.3.3. The Manage Settings menu ....................177
11.4. Firmware Loading ...............................177
11.4.1. Using ROLO (Rockbox Loader) ....................177
11.5. Optimising battery runtime ..........................177
11.5.1. Display backlight ............................178
11.5.2. Display power-off ............................178
11.5.3. Anti-Skip Buffer ............................178
11.5.4. Replaygain ...............................178
11.5.5. Audio format and bitrate .......................178
11.5.6. Sound settings .............................179
A. File formats 180
A.1. Supported file formats .............................181
A.2. Supported audio formats ............................182
A.2.1. Lossy Codecs ..............................182
A.2.2. Lossless Codecs .............................183
A.2.3. Other Codecs ..............................184
B. Theme Tags 185
B.1. Status Bar ....................................185
B.2. Information from the track tags ........................185
B.3. Viewports ....................................186
B.4. Additional Fonts ................................186
B.5. Power Related Information ..........................186
B.6. Information about the file ...........................187
B.7. Playlist/Song Info ...............................188
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B.8. Playlist Viewer .................................188
B.9. Runtime Database ...............................189
B.10.Sound (DSP) settings .............................189
B.11.Hold .......................................189
B.12.Virtual LED ...................................189
B.13.Repeat Mode ..................................190
B.14.Playback Mode .................................190
B.15.Current Screen .................................190
B.16.List Title (.sbs only) .............................190
B.17.Changing Volume ................................191
B.18.Settings .....................................191
B.19.Images ......................................192
B.20.Album Art ...................................193
B.20.1. Limitations ...............................193
B.20.2. Where to put album art ........................193
B.20.3. How to display the album art .....................194
B.21.Alignment and language direction .......................195
B.22.Conditional Tags ................................195
B.23.Subline Tags ..................................196
B.24.Time and Date .................................196
B.25.Text Translation ................................197
B.26.Bar Tags .....................................197
B.26.1. Options .................................197
B.27.Other Tags ...................................198
C. Config file options 199
D. Menu Overview 204
E. User feedback 205
E.1. Bug reports ...................................205
E.1.1. Rules for submitting new bug reports .................205
E.2. Feature ideas ..................................205
E.2.1. Rules for submitting a new feature idea ...............205
E.2.2. Features we will not implement ....................206
F. Credits 207
G. Licenses 211
G.1. GNU Free Documentation License ......................211
G.2. The GNU General Public License .......................219
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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 func-
tional 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/. 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 main
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channel for Rockbox is #rockbox on irc://irc.freenode.net. Many helpful developers and
users are usually around. Just join and ask your question (don’t ask to ask!) – if someone
knows the answer you’ll usually get an answer pretty quickly. More information including
IRC logs can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/irc/. We also have a web client so that
you can join the Rockbox IRC channel without needing to install additional software
onto your computer.
If you think you have found a bug please make sure it actually is a bug and is still
present in the most recent version of Rockbox. You should try to confirm that by using
the above mentioned support channels first. After that you can submit that issue to our
tracker. Refer to section E(page 205) for details on how to use the tracker.
1.3. Naming conventions and marks
We have some conventions (especially for naming) that are intended to be consistent
throughout this manual.
Manufacturer and product names are formatted in accordance with the standard rules
of English grammar, e.g. “Toshiba playback is currently unsupported”. Manufacturer
and model names are proper nouns, and thus are written beginning with a capital letter.
This manual has some parts that are marked with icons on the margin to help you
finding important parts or parts you could skip. The following icons are used:
Note: This indicates a note. A note starts always with the text “Note”. In order to make b
finding notes easier each one is accompanied by an icon in the margin as here. Notes are
used to mark useful information that may help you to get the most out of Rockbox.
Warning: This is a warning. In contrast to notes mentioned above, a warning should !
be taken more seriously. Whereas ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage,
ignoring warnings could cause serious damage to your player. You really should read the
warnings, especially if you are new to Rockbox.
This icon marks a section that is intended especially for the blind and visually im- ¸
paired. As they cannot read the manual in the same way sighted people do we have
added some additional descriptions. If you are not blind or visually impaired you can
probably completely skip these blocks. To make this easier, there is an icon shown in the
margin on the right.
Links to the wiki are abbreviated by the name of the wiki page. Those names are still
linked so you can simply follow them like any other link in this manual. If you want to
access a wiki page manually go to 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
Installing Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure. However before beginning
there are a few things it is important to know.
2.1. Before Starting
USB connection. To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your com-
puter. For manual installation/uninstallation, or should autodetection fail during
automatic installation, you need to know where to access the player. On Windows
this means you need to know the drive letter associated with the player. On Linux
you need to know the mount point of your player. On Mac OS X you need to know
the volume name of your player.
The installation requires you to change a setting in the original firmware. Make
sure the option under Setup →Connections →PC Connections is set to
gigabeat room. Also, during installation, do not connect your player using the
cradle but plug the USB cable directly to the player.
2.2. Installing Rockbox
There are two ways to install Rockbox: automated and manual. The automated way is
the preferred method of installing Rockbox for the majority of people. Rockbox Utility
is a graphical application that does almost everything for you. However, should you
encounter a problem, then the manual way is still available to you.
There are three separate components, two of which need to be installed in order to run
Rockbox:
The Toshiba bootloader. The Toshiba bootloader is the program that tells your player
how to load and start the original firmware. It is also responsible for any emergency,
recovery, or disk modes on your player. This bootloader is stored in special flash
memory in your Toshiba and comes factory-installed. It is not necessary to modify
this in order to install Rockbox.
The Rockbox bootloader. The Rockbox bootloader is loaded from disk by the Toshiba
bootloader. It is responsible for loading the Rockbox firmware and for providing
the dual boot function. It directly replaces the Toshiba firmware in the player’s
boot sequence.
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Note: Dual boot does not currently work on the Gigabeat. b
The Rockbox firmware. Similar to the Toshiba firmware, most of the Rockbox code is
contained in a “build” that resides on your player’s drive. This makes it easy to
update Rockbox. The build consists of a directory called .rockbox which contains
all of the Rockbox files, and is located in the root of your player’s drive.
Apart from the required parts there are some addons you might be interested in 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 appearance of Rockbox can be customised by themes. Depending on your
taste you might want to install additional themes to change the look of Rockbox.
2.2.1. Automated Installation
To automatically install Rockbox, download the official installer and housekeeping tool
Rockbox Utility. It allows you to:
•Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox (“Minimal Instal-
lation”).
•Automatically install all suggested components (“Complete Installation”).
•Selectively install optional components.
•Install additional fonts and themes.
•Install voice files and generate talk clips.
•Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility.
Prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X are available at the ZRockboxUtility
wiki page.
When first starting Rockbox Utility run “Autodetect”, found in the configuration
dialog (File →Configure). Autodetection can detect most player types. If autodetection
fails or is unable to detect the mountpoint, make sure to enter the correct values. The
mountpoint indicates the location of the player in your filesystem. On Windows, this
is the drive letter the player gets assigned, on other systems this is a path in the filesystem.
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Choosing a Rockbox version
There are three different versions of Rockbox available from the Rockbox website: Release
version, current build and archived daily build. You need to decide which one you want
to install and get the appropriate version for your player. If you select either “Minimal
Installation” or “Complete Installation” from the “Quick Start” tab, then Rockbox Utility
will automatically install the release version of Rockbox. Using the “Installation” tab will
allow you to select which version you wish to install.
Release. The release version is the latest stable release, free of known critical bugs.
For a manual install, the current stable release of Rockbox is available at http:
//www.rockbox.org/download/.
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. For a
manual install, you can download the current build from http://build.rockbox.org/.
Archived Build. In addition to the release version and the current build, there is also an
archive of daily builds available for download. These are built once a day from the
latest source code in the SVN repository. For a manual install, you can download
archived builds from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml.
Note: Because current and archived builds are development versions that change fre- b
quently, they may behave differently than described in this manual, or they may intro-
duce new (and potentially annoying) bugs. Unless you wish to try the latest and greatest
features at the price of possibly greater instability, or you wish to help with development,
you should stick with the release.
Please now go to section 2.2.3 (page 15) to complete the installation procedure.
2.2.2. Manual Installation
The manual installation method is still available to you, should you need or desire it by
following the instructions below. If you have used Rockbox Utility to install Rockbox,
then you do not need to follow the next section and can skip straight to section 2.2.3
(page 15)
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.
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3. Take the .zip file that you downloaded and use the “Extract all” command of your
unzip program to extract the files onto your player.
Note: The entire contents of the .zip file should be extracted directly to the root of your b
player’s drive. Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the Rockbox
files! The .zip file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs.
If the contents of the .zip file are extracted correctly, you will have a directory called
.rockbox, which contains all the files needed by Rockbox, in the main directory of your
player’s drive.
Installing the bootloader
•Download the Rockbox bootloader from http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/
gigabeat/
•Starting at the root directory of your player browse into the directory GBSYSTEM
and from that into the subdirectory FWIMG. These directories are hidden. Make
sure that you have configured your browser to show hidden files or you may be
unable to see FWIMG.
•In that directory you’ll find a file called FWIMG01.DAT. This too may be hidden.
Rename the file to FWIMG01.DAT.ORIG. Make sure you spelled that name correctly
as it is needed for booting the Toshiba firmware.
Warning: If you do not complete this step then you will be unable to uninstall !
Rockbox without a copy of the original firmware from the original install CD.
•Now copy the file FWIMG01.DAT you downloaded to that directory. Make sure the
spelling is correct.
2.2.3. Finishing the install
After installing you need to power-cycle the player by doing the following steps. Failure
to do so may result in problems.
•Safely eject / unmount your player and unplug the USB cable.
•Unplug any power adapter.
•Hold the Power button to turn off the player.
•Slide the battery switch located on the bottom of the player from ‘on’ to ‘off’.
•Slide the battery switch back from ‘off’ to ‘on’.
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2.2.4. Enabling Speech Support (optional)
If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice file. Voice files allow Rockbox
to speak the user interface to you. Rockbox Utility can install an English voice file, or
you can download it from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml and unzip it to the root
of your player. Rockbox Utility can also aid you in the creation of voice files with
different voices or in other languages if you have a suitable speech engine installed on
your computer. Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into effect after a
reboot. See section 8.8 (page 70) for details on voice settings. Rockbox Utility can also
aid in the production of talk files, which allow Rockbox to speak file and folder names.
2.3. Running Rockbox
When you turn the unit on, Rockbox should load.
2.4. Updating Rockbox
Rockbox can be easily updated with Rockbox Utility. You can also update Rockbox
manually – download a Rockbox build as detailed above, and unzip the build to the root
directory of your player as in the manual installation stage. If your unzip program asks
you whether to overwrite files, choose the “Yes to all” option. The new build will be
installed over your current build.
The bootloader only changes rarely, and should not normally need to be updated.
Note: If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed b
components.
2.5. Uninstalling Rockbox
2.5.1. Automatic Uninstallation
You can uninstall Rockbox automatically by using Rockbox Utility. If you installed
Rockbox manually you can still use Rockbox Utility for uninstallation but will not be
able to do this selectively.
2.5.2. Manual Uninstallation
If you wish to clean up your disk, you may also wish to delete the .rockbox directory
and its contents. Turn the Toshiba off. Turn the player back on and the original Toshiba
software will load.
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2.6. Troubleshooting
“File Not Found” If you receive a “File Not Found” from the bootloader, then the boot-
loader cannot find the Rockbox firmware. This is usually a result of not extracting
the contents of the .zip file to the proper location, and should not happen when
Rockbox has been installed with Rockbox Utility.
To fix this, either install Rockbox with the Rockbox Utility which will take care of
this for you, or recheck the Manual Install section to see where the files need to be
located.
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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 picture
above. Whenever a button name is prefixed by “Long”, a long press of approximately 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.
Note: The following description is for the Gigabeat F, but can also apply for the Gigabeat b
X. The Gigabeat F is slightly larger and more rectangular shaped, while the Gigabeat X
is smaller and has a slightly tapered back.
Hold the player with the screen on top and the controls on the right hand side. Below
the screen is a cross-shaped touch sensitive pad which contains the Up,Down,Left and
Right controls. On the Gigabeat X, this pad will feel slightly raised up, while it will feel
slightly sunken in on the Gigabeat F. On the top of the unit, from left to right, are the
power socket, the Hold switch, and the headphone socket. The Hold switch puts the
player into hold mode when it is switched to the right of the unit. The buttons will have
no effect when this is the case.
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Starting from the left hand side on the bottom of the unit, nearer to the front than
the back, is a recessed switch which controls whether the battery is on or off. When this
switch is to the left, the battery is disconnected. This can be used for a hard reset of
the unit, or if the player is being placed in storage. Next to that is a connector for the
docking station and finally on the right hand side of the bottom of the unit is a mini
USB socket for connecting directly to USB.
Finally on the right hand side of the unit are some control buttons. Going from the
bottom of the unit to the top there is a small round Abuttton then a rocker volume
switch with of the Volume down button below the Volume up button. Above that
is are two more small round buttons, the Menu button and nearest to the top of the
unit the Power button, which is held down to turn the player on or off. If you have a
Gigabeat X, these buttons are small metallic buttons that are place further up on the
right hand side, and closer together. The layout is still the same, however.
3.1.2. Turning the player on and off
To turn on and off your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys:
Key Remote Key Action
Power Start Rockbox
Long Power 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 177) for details.
In the unlikely event of a software failure, hardware poweroff or reset can be performed
by holding down the battery switch until the player shuts off or reboots.
3.1.3. Putting music on your player
With the player connected to the computer as an MSC/UMS device (like a USB Drive),
music files can be put on the player via any standard file transfer method that you would
use to copy files between drives (e.g. Drag-and-Drop). Files may be placed wherever
you like on the player, but it is strongly suggested not to place them in the /.rockbox
folder. The default directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (album
art searching, and missing-tag fallback in some WPSes) uses the parent directory of a
song as the Album name, and the parent directory of that folder as the Artist name.
WPSes may display information incorrectly if your files are not properly tagged, and
you have your music organized in a way different than they assume when attempting to
guess the Artist and Album names from your filetree. See section B.20 (page 193) for
the requirements for Album Art to work properly. See section A.2 (page 182) for a list
of supported audio formats.
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3.1.4. The first contact
After you have first started the player, you’ll be presented by the Main Menu. From
this menu you can reach every function of Rockbox, for more information (see section 5.1
(page 41)). To browse the files on your player, select Files (see section 4.1 (page 22)),
and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data1of your audio files, select
Database (see section 4.2 (page 27)).
3.1.5. Basic controls
When browsing files and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented.
The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive. In the
tree view use Down and Up to move around the selection. Use Select 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 30). 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 Power button or return to the
file browser while keeping playback running using Select. In list views you can go back
one step with Left.
3.1.6. Basic concepts
Playlists
Rockbox is playlist oriented. This means that every time you play an audio file, a so-
called “dynamic playlist” is generated, unless you play a saved playlist. You can modify
the dynamic playlist while playing and also save it to a file. If you do not want to use
playlists you can simply play your files directory based. Playlists are covered in detail in
section 4.4 (page 35).
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 Select. The contents of the context menu
vary, depending on the situation it gets called. The context menu itself presents you with
some operations you can perform with the currently highlighted file. In the file browser
this is the file (or directory) that is highlighted by the cursor. From the WPS this is
1ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc.
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