Ideas wanted for major Rockbox plugin...

[gorcorps]

Originally Posted by Mike

Here's an entirely do-able project for you that no one seems to be tackling, in part, I think, because of the complexity involved:

Playback FF and REW under Rockbox with sound (just like under the iRiver firmware, and that of many other players), plus with a user set-able accelleration option (just like the current soundless Rockbox FF and REW).

This would meet the needs of many of us who use our players to review music or for language learning (not having sound makes it hit-or-miss in "rewinding" to re-listen to a selection), as well as address the concern that some have expressed, that they wouldn't want to lose the very nice current FF/REW accelleration option. And, of course, the FF and REW with sound should be an option that can be turned off as well, for those who don't need/want it.

This is the only major feature advantage I can see at this point that iRiver's firmware has.

I bet that would take you the entire semester . . . .

Good call I like this one.

[Mike]

And as part of it, we hold a sweepstakes guessing as to the number of hours needed to complete this.

[gorcorps]

Originally Posted by Mike

And as part of it, we hold a sweepstakes guessing as to the number of hours needed to complete this.

Who would count it? O.o

Still would give me another chance to win something on here

[shadesbass]

Thanks for all the ideas.

The meeting with my supervisor went very well, but unfortunately I probably won't be undertaking a Rockbox project as it turns out that some of my other ideas are more suitable for a final year project.

I will still try and do some programming for RB, but I am no longer looking for major plugin ideas, and am therefore closing this thread. Any further plugin/feature requests should be posted in the appropriate forum.

If I decide to undertake the FF/RW playback project in the future, I'll start another thread for people to post their estimated number of hours in!