Official Rock Box Lounge For IHP 120/140 ONLY

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by greatkingbowser

Yeah that seems to happen with mine after I updated to todays build.

Hmm. And pause no longer works either (at least on the latest bleeding edge build).

[dapureplaya_04]

Originally Posted by Bionic-Badger

Is it really so hard to type out "see"? You type out every other word. It's a pain to read.

Anyway, you should also mess with the parameters for the songDB.jar by typing:

java -jar ..\songDB.jar

and then appending those --<blah> things. It helps for those mp3s without tags.

I "see".

[Arj]

Originally Posted by Jonny

Hmm. And pause no longer works either (at least on the latest bleeding edge build).

I saw this comment in the CVS change log: "Pausing tracks disabled until crashing issues are resolved."

[Arj]

Originally Posted by DeadMan

Throwing in suggestion. Play button while album folder is selected plays entire folder contents. As long as files are named in sequential order it plays the album. Kinda like a basic method for album playlists. The folder itself becomes the playlist. You can override it by having a playlist in the folder in which case when you hit play on a folder it see the playlist file and goes to that instead. If there is more than 1 playlist in folder it plays the playlists in sequence.

Play folder would reduce a 2 step approach to 1.

Good idea?

I'm confused about this suggestion. Are you saying you are looking at a list of albums (or album folders, depending on if you are in tree mode or DB mode) and, with one selected, you hit play and it would play the entire contents of that album/folder? As it stands now, if you are in file tree mode and you drill into an album folder and hit play on the first song, it already plays the remainging song in order.

[DeadMan]

Which is why I said it's a 1 step approach as opposed to a 2 step (Go into folder, highlight file and press select - not the play button). My suggestion is to highlight the folder and press the play button. It then plays all files in folder in sequence as normal and if there is a playlist in the folder plays that as priority instead. I think it's a more elegant solution.

[thosecoldnails]

While listening to a computerized voice reading a text file through the sound card of a computer, I came up with a weird but cool idea. We know it can be a bit annoying to read large text files on the small screen of these mp3 players... what if there was a text-to-speech plug-in to read the text file in a voice we choose? Might be a cool thing to have, esp. if you have lots of books as text files on your player. Don't know how well this would work with the CPU of these players, or whether there's free source code for such software.

What do ya'll think?

[Bitmastro]

stumbles in...
about open source code...there is festival and it's derivates..
flite is a reduced version of it.
but remember that the cpu isn't so powerful.
it may be able to synthetize the text, but i will take too much time.
ipod linux was working on flite as well, but they ended up ehmmm "copying" rockbox http://www.ipodlinux.org/forums/view...98392c2669#top
btw maybe the processor is powerful enough to make such a thing

yet before working on such a thing i think (i hope, no i beg, please, please o pretty please) they will work on the h300 porting..
well.. i guess i'll have to wait
oh lucky h100 owners..
stumbles out

[stevenz]

Anyone got the settings for the display setup that MisticJeff was using on the main news page, looks like a nice setup. Any idea what font he's using?

Addendum:

Ah righto, should've looked harder, appears to be the one posted by "JeremyDavidson" here: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/vie...ery#Tangleding

Sweet

[Antz]

Originally Posted by DeadMan

Throwing in suggestion. Play button while album folder is selected plays entire folder contents. As long as files are named in sequential order it plays the album. Kinda like a basic method for album playlists. The folder itself becomes the playlist. You can override it by having a playlist in the folder in which case when you hit play on a folder it see the playlist file and goes to that instead. If there is more than 1 playlist in folder it plays the playlists in sequence.

Play folder would reduce a 2 step approach to 1.

Good idea?

If I understand what you're saying, then it does sound like a good idea. One of my pet hates of the standard H140 firmware is its inability to press play on a selected folder and then have the entire contents of the folder (including sub-folders) become the current playlist, particularly for shuffle and repeat modes. This is how Windows and Media Player work.

Allowing saved playlist files to be part of the selection would be a bonus that even WMP doesn't have. Though I'd have to wonder how to treat multiple playlists in shuffle mode. Do you treat the songs in the lists as one huge group and shuffle amongst them, or does the shuffle exhaust each playlist before continuing to shuffle another?

[stevenz]

Wow, just playing some tracks encoded with LAME, the gapless sounds perfect. Nice work guys. I've heavily customised the WPS screen to something more to my liking which is a welcome capability. Still a few hiccups here & there, and the control system is gonna take some getting used to (all perfectly logical really, just "different"), quite amazing stuff, good work team!

Here's my WPS (partially plagiarised from http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/vie...JeremyDavidson)
- behold the ugliest line for status-data just to get a little rotating-thingy effect (You'll have to un-wrap it, and it mucks up the spacing in my rotating-thingy line):

Artist: %s%?ia<%ia|%d2>
Album : %s%?id<%id|%d1>
Track : %s%?it<%it|%fn>
---------------------------
%pc/%pt %?ps<[%ps]| > %?pp<[%pp/%pe]|>
%pb
%t0.4%ffHz %?fv<| > - %?fv<%fbK VBR| %fbKbps>;%t0.4%ffHz %?fv<| > / %?fv<%fbK VBR| %fbKbps>;%t0.4%ffHz %?fv<| > | %?fv<%fbK VBR| %fbKbps>;%t0.4%ffHz %?fv<| > \ %?fv<%fbK VBR| %fbKbps>
Next: %s%?Ia<%Ia|%D2>%t1.5 ;Next: %s%?It<%It|%Fn>%t4
Battery time left: %bt

[markdk25]

Made the leap...installed Rockbox and I am also blown away by how good it is.

DeadMan : When you are at directory level you can choose create playlist to make that folder the playlist, also, I *think* one of the options selects recursive folders under the directroy too, is that the sort of thing you're after?

I have one thing that's bugging me...I have set up my WPS (the best feature IMHO) but it always goes back to default when I reboot, even if I save a config file...is the current .wps not included in the config setting? If so can we lobby to have it included?

[stevenz]

Originally Posted by markdk25

I have one thing that's bugging me...I have set up my WPS (the best feature IMHO) but it always goes back to default when I reboot, even if I save a config file...is the current .wps not included in the config setting? If so can we lobby to have it included?

Took me a couple of minutes to work this one out. You need to make sure that the file list displays "All" files, not just "Supported" etc. so that the .rockbox directory is visible. Copy your .wps file(s) into here and then select them. Next time you boot up it'll be remembered and you can return the file-list display to "supported" to reduce clutter.

Only .wps files in the .rockbox directory will be remembered on next boot.

[neff]

Originally Posted by Antz

and then have the entire contents of the folder (including sub-folders) become the current playlist, particularly for shuffle and repeat modes.

Would that be the only way to do random selection from the entire contents of the iRiver?

On the iRiver firmware I use "random" from the whole disc while commuting as I'm not settled long enough for an album and like the "suprise" often getting forgetten "gems". (I'm not a playlist user - just albums or random).

Now you may be able to do this already (I'm still leaning) but what I would like to be able to do is just flip into "random" mode easily, select an option and no matter what the current playlist randomly select the next song after the current one has finished. I guess reverting back to the playlist when you switch off random would be nice, but not an isssue for me.

[markdk25]

Originally Posted by stevenz

Only .wps files in the .rockbox directory will be remembered on next boot.

Brilliant, thanks for that, should make my life easier.

[dmd]

Thought I'd share a few thoughts about Rockbox with you. Like someone said earlier the volume in Rockbox (at least when playing mp3s) is significantly lower than with the original firmware. I had the volume 40/100 in Rockbox and played the same song with the original firmware at sound level 16/40 (which is also 40%) and I'd say it was at least twice as loud. Maybe something to fix here. Would be nice when using external sound device for example to get it loud.

Like stated at the Rockbox site I got my iHP-120 to the mode where it didn't boot up the original firmware anymore. At least for me charging the battery to full did the trick.

Otherwise I'm very impressed about the process so far. All I can hope for now is stable playback and a little better battery life. btw cue sheet support would be nice

[kenshin]

Originally Posted by stevenz

Only .wps files in the .rockbox directory will be remembered on next boot.

stevenz: Thanks for posting this. This had been bugging me, as well, but I hadn't tried to figure it out yet. Once I moved the .wps file and reloaded it, Rockbox remembered it on boot! Sweet!

[DeadMan]

Originally Posted by markdk25

Made the leap...installed Rockbox and I am also blown away by how good it is.

DeadMan : When you are at directory level you can choose create playlist to make that folder the playlist, also, I *think* one of the options selects recursive folders under the directroy too, is that the sort of thing you're after?

I have one thing that's bugging me...I have set up my WPS (the best feature IMHO) but it always goes back to default when I reboot, even if I save a config file...is the current .wps not included in the config setting? If so can we lobby to have it included?

The whole idea is to reduce 2 or more steps to 1. Simply pressing the play button while highlighted on a folder. Adding folder to playlist is several steps. The way sub folders and playlists in folders work is another matter to think about. But first and formost I would like the ability to play a folder just by hitting the play button while a folder is highlighted and for it to play the MP3/Ogg/etc files in sequence.

1 step.

[boobers]

I don't seem to get the clicking noise with the remote when using Rockbox but I did with iRiver. Is this because the WPS is not yet working on the remote (only rockbox logo shows)? Or is the clicking problem solved with Rockbox?

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by DeadMan

The whole idea is to reduce 2 or more steps to 1. Simply pressing the play button while highlighted on a folder. Adding folder to playlist is several steps. The way sub folders and playlists in folders work is another matter to think about. But first and formost I would like the ability to play a folder just by hitting the play button while a folder is highlighted and for it to play the MP3/Ogg/etc files in sequence.

1 step.

Yes but at the moment when browsing folders the play button is used for going straight to the WPS which is an essential function.

[benschi]

i just flashed rockbox on my hp140 unit..
but if a press the play button to shut on.. it always starts the original firmware...

for a very short time it starts with ...
rock....
..
result: -1

whats wrong with it?

bye

[cormie]

Originally Posted by Jonny

Yes but at the moment when browsing folders the play button is used for going straight to the WPS which is an essential function.

In my button function suggestion thread I gave this (WPS screen) task to the stop button, the play button doesn't have any use in browsing on my system but this could be a good use.

[kenshin]

Originally Posted by benschi

i just flashed rockbox on my hp140 unit..
but if a press the play button to shut on.. it always starts the original firmware...

for a very short time it starts with ...
rock....
..
result: -1

whats wrong with it?

bye

Just flashing the firmware is not enough to run Rockbox. The firmware is basically just a bootloader. You need to get the rest at http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml.

If you still have problems, read over the last 20 pages or so of this thread. You may find someone else has already had the same problem and already gotten an answer. There's also a nice manual for Rockbox at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/vie.../RockboxManual (although it has not been updated yet to include the iRiver port).