Rockbox tips and tweaks.....anyone

[Dunno]

If you're like me an like to have your screen inverted when its clipped to your belt, or if you have different settings for classical music, or you plug it into your home hifi via optical out, create a config file for the different configurations, sure its a bit of a hassle initially, but once done it makes life so much easier.

when you create the cfg files save them to root i.e. /abcdefg.cfg instead of the default directory that cfg's are saved to.

my config files which are listed in the root/main screen are

Normal_cfg
Inverted_cfg
CLassical_cfg
Optical_On_cfg

The use of a text editor which does unicode (Ultraedit-32 text editor), whilst not a neccessity, makes life easier to edit wps, cfg files.

p.s.
I have show files set to 'supported'.

[Mike]

And an easy way to create cfg files, without much hassle, is simply to create a cfg file when you are listening to music and the settings already are the way you want them, by going to the menu, Manage Settings, Write .cfg file -- 1, 2, 3 and you're done!

[belly917]

.cfg files don't have to contain an entry for every setting. They can simply contain 2 or 3 settings for something as like changing a few settings per how you use the player. For instance, I have 3 .cfg files that I put in the themes folder (because that's the quickest way to get at them) that toggle between (1) Headphones, (2) Optical Out & (3) Analog Line Out. It also changes my WPS's and font size so that when it's connected to my stereo, I can see it from a distance.. but with headphones, there's smaller font so that I can see more info.

Here's my 3 .cfg files

# config for using headphones
wps: /.rockbox/WPS/simply-rxbx.wps
rwps: /.rockbox/WPS/simply-small.rwps
font: /.rockbox/fonts/snap.fnt
spdif enable: off
volume: -40
bass: 22

# config for using analog stereo connection
wps: /.rockbox/WPS/simply-large.wps
font: /.rockbox/fonts/nimbus-12.fnt
spdif enable: off
volume: 0
bass: 6

# config for using optical connection to stereo
wps: /.rockbox/WPS/simply-large.wps
font: /.rockbox/fonts/nimbus-12.fnt
spdif enable: on
volume: -84
bass: 22

[Dunno]

you can browse your music collection by 'page', 'fast scroll', and normal scroll.

For scrolling by page:
1) select joystick down/up in directory and press and hold down play button (this is normal fast scrolling), then release joystick, if you now 'single click/select' joystick up/down it will scroll through the directory a page at a time, (remember to hold down the play button continuously whilst you page).

[Mike]

Gads, how I wish that some kind developer would adopt short press up/down + long press up/down and hold for one-handed page scrolling . . .

[belly917]

Originally Posted by Mike

Gads, how I wish that some kind developer would adopt short press up/down + long press up/down and hold for one-handed page scrolling . . .

IIRC, Long press/Hold up/down currently accellerates the scanning speed.

[Judge]

Originally Posted by belly917

IIRC, Long press/Hold up/down currently accellerates the scanning speed.

I think he means double tapping up or down and holding it. (tap -> hold).

[belly917]

Originally Posted by Judge

I think he means double tapping up or down and holding it. (tap -> hold).

* maybe I shouldn't read things so quickly

That being cleared up, I think the double tap would be a great idea. It would allow you not to have to use a second hand to hold the play button. (depending on dexterity & player button layouts)