ok, I've made some progress. At my speed that is. I've read as much as possible and have everything loaded correctly and I'm having problems getting that patch to work. It seems like this feature
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/9114 was tested on a previous build. I'm not having any luck trying to use the patch command. I dropped the .diff file in the rockbox directory. i used the dry run switch. the patch command outputs a message:
can't find file to patch at input line 5
perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
the text leading up to this was:
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diff --git a/apps/SOURCES b/apps/SOURCES
index 313e5e0..cbf0487 100644
--- a/apps/SOURCES
+++ b/apps/SOURCES
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File to patch:
It just asked me to terminate a batch job... no idea... i was following the steps from how_toCompile
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ok the -p switch worked for the patch command...continuing
I started with the patch in the .rockbox dir and patched from there.
$ patch -p 1 < pause_between_tracks_latest.diff
I noticed that there was a leading /a/ folder in all the file pointers.
the patch command message led to the solution. !nice work on that!
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compiling took forever on my 3200+ 20-25mins. need an upgrade...
then followed the rest of the HowToCompile instructions
No errors besides hunk this and that moved lines, etc.
First, I tried it in the simulator. I could not get it to work. I dumped the contents of the compiled zip on the sim .rockbox directory but did not see pause between tracks show up in the playback menu. ?? I thought I read some notes about only certain directories are used in the sim?? not sure what I read.
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I was like - what, did it compile the patch or not? Just to try it out, I took a shot at it on the e250 player, I connected and dumped in the .rockbox on the player and disconnected cable - boots to sansa firmware - poweroff - poweron - booted rockbox 24315m - main menu - selected settings - playback settings - and there it was!- pause between tracks. selected yes. tested tracks and it works. each track stops at the end, hit play to play the next - shuffle still works, etc.!
The only problem i'm seeing is at the end of the track is shows stopped but starts to play the first 1/4 of a sec of the next track. I went through the settings and tried to find anything that might buffer up the next tune or have a fix for that. I didnt find anything that would change it. I guess a quick workaround is to add a blank 1/4 sec before each track. All of the tracks I'm using have the leading silience trimmed off so the tracks starts immediatly with no silence.
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Ok, that worked. I used Audacity and I added a second of silence to the beginning and the end of each track. exported to mp3 again. Made 4 copies of all the tracks in the album. It does what I need. Project complete!
Thanks a super bunch for the work and responses. where do i paypal some cash to show my gratitude!!!
Rich
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Here is the complied project for the sansa e250 v2.
http://yourprojectman.com/Documents/rockbox%20Track%20pause.zip