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Vortex:
Hi everyone,

I'm thinking about buying a Sandisk Sansa e280 mainly because it is an affordable small portable player with lots of (expandable) flash-memory.

Since I want to use Rockbox on my Sansa I decided to try it out a bit, before actually buying the player. I'm aware that support for the Sansa is still in it's early stages but nevertheless I wanted to try out some of the general features of Rockbox.

I checked out an svn-version of rockbox and then proceeded to compile and set up the UiSimulator, according to the instructions in the wiki.

The UiSimulator starts up fine, but every time I try to play a song the WPS-Screen is displayed for a split-second, then the UiSimulator segfaults.
This is what it prints out before crashing:

--- Code: ---We open the real file 'archos/Music/Soilwork/Soilwork - Figure Number Five.mp3'
ID3V2 Length: 0x5000
framelen = 13
id3v2 frame: COMM
framelen = 19
id3v2 frame: TIT2
framelen = 5
id3v2 frame: TYER
framelen = 7
id3v2 frame: TPUB
framelen = 5
id3v2 frame: TCON
framelen = 19
id3v2 frame: TALB
framelen = 2
id3v2 frame: TRCK
framelen = 39
id3v2 frame: PRIV
framelen = 41
id3v2 frame: PRIV
framelen = 31
id3v2 frame: PRIV
framelen = 138
id3v2 frame: PRIV
framelen = 9
id3v2 frame: TPE2
framelen = 34
id3v2 frame: PRIV
framelen = 39
id3v2 frame: PRIV
framelen = 20
id3v2 frame: PRIV
framelen = 14
id3v2 frame: PRIV
framelen = 17
id3v2 frame: PRIV
framelen = 26
id3v2 frame: TCOM
framelen = 9
id3v2 frame: TPE1
framelen = 19212
id3v2 frame: NCON
framelen = 2
id3v2 frame: TLEN
framelen = 0
Header: fffbb004, Ver 0, lay 3, bitr 192, freq 44100, chmode 0, mode_ext 0, emph 0, bytes: 626 time: 1280/49
Space between ID3V2 tag and first audio frame: 0x0 bytes
First frame is at 5000
Segmentation fault

--- End code ---

My System is:

--- Code: ---$ uname -a
Linux kellerkind 2.6.20-viper10 #1 PREEMPT Fri Apr 27 20:50:58 CEST 2007 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
--- End code ---
Running 64bit Gentoo-Linux.

Is this a known issue with the Simulator?


Another thing I noticed while using the Simulator, was that the font used in the menus and in the file-browser was almost unreadably small (even on my computer's monitor). Is there a way to increase the font size in the menus (especially on the real Sansa)?


EDIT: Just tried playing a FLAC-File and it played nicely. However it crashed again upon finishing playback of the file.  ???
I will try some other formats and files...

EDIT2: It plays OGG and FLAC files nicely but crashes on track change. It doesn't play mp3 files at all.

amiconn:
This is a known issue with a rockbox specific optimisation in libmad which hits 64 bit simulators. Other formats than mpeg audio will work fine.

Vortex:
Thanks for pointing that out. :)

However, I came across some more problems with Rockbox and would like to know, whether these also exist on the real Sansa.

Rockbox doesn't seem to be able to read tags from ogg files. Can Rockbox only read ID3 tags from mp3 files?

Only a few of the supplied fonts work, others crash the simulator. Is there a way to freely change the font size to something larger?


--- Quote ---Other formats than mpeg audio will work fine.
--- End quote ---
Indeed, but it still crashes on track change, even when the next file is not an mpeg file. It even crashes when I play only one file but set the playback mode to "repeat one".

Bagder:

--- Quote from: Vortex on May 05, 2007, 10:31:46 AM ---Rockbox doesn't seem to be able to read tags from ogg files. Can Rockbox only read ID3 tags from mp3 files?

--- End quote ---

Id3 tags are for mp3 files. Rockbox read regular ogg tags from ogg files. I don't think Rockbox accepts id3 for other formats, no.


--- Quote ---Only a few of the supplied fonts work, others crash the simulator. Is there a way to freely change the font size to something larger?

--- End quote ---

The fonts are bitmapped so you need to pick the font you like. It sounds like you have found more (64bit?) simulatior-related bugs.

Vortex:

--- Quote ---Id3 tags are for mp3 files. Rockbox read regular ogg tags from ogg files. I don't think Rockbox accepts id3 for other formats, no.
--- End quote ---
However, the tags of my ogg files are not recognized by Rockbox (at least in the emulator). It just displays the filename in the WPS screen. When I select "Show ID3 Info" from the context menu while playing, it says "no info" for every property.

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