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iRiver H320 corrupt recording... And a couple of questions re vs. iHP-120

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petur:

--- Quote from: ben on July 20, 2007, 03:51:54 PM ---When I said rough around the edges I didn't mean specifically the recording code, but in general playing around with rockbox, there was some flakiness, hesitation etc.  And the appearance just not as polished out of the box (out of the build??) as the 120 build was.  I am not complaining at all, not in the least.. I was just speculating as to the source of my problems...

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Well rockbox is rockbox on most devices it supports, just drivers and capabilities differ a bit. So your h320 should look and feel just like the h120 (minus the color screen)
If it doesn't feel as responsive as the h120, your player may be faulty...

and regarding your other question:
To set a recording dir, just highlight one in the browser, long-click navi for the context menu and select the bottom item.

ben:
Hi guys, thanks very much for the responses, and sorry for the long delay in my revisiting this thread...

I decided finally that there was a hard disk problem with the player.  

I had successfully copied a lot of files to the player (including rockbox, themes, fonts, voice prompts, as well as a lot of music files) without error.. so I had considered it unlikely that there was a problem with the hard disk.  BUT.. when I went to copy files from the player back to a PC, I got some CRC errors in the recordings which had cause me trouble before.

I was able to get a new MK2006GAL drive for the player and I put it in today, and so far there have been no errors.. and the operation is smoother.  So I think it that was it.  But I will find out in the next week how it works out with real use.

After looking at it more, I think the main difference between the appearance on the 1xx and 3xx is that on the low resolution monochrome of the 1xx the basic fonts and icons fit better and look polished, but not on the 3xx.  I tried playing with themes and fonts but its not easy to get it to look good on every screen (lots of work done on the playing screen, not so much on the others)...  I'm an experienced (22 years) C programmer.. maybe I can do some work to extend the templating across to the other screens, eg radio, recording, settings and make it look nice "out of the box" on different models...  I need to play with it more on the 320...

AlexP:
Any work is very welcome, but before you start you probably ought to drop into IRC and chat with the other devs about the general direction.  There are quite a few things that are often mentioned that will not get into rockbox.

That said, please do join in, I don't think anyone will object to rockbox looking better if done the 'right' way.

P.S. You do know you can use custom icons and backdrops, and change text colour by file type don't you?

petur:

--- Quote from: ben on August 24, 2007, 03:26:45 PM ---After looking at it more, I think the main difference between the appearance on the 1xx and 3xx is that on the low resolution monochrome of the 1xx the basic fonts and icons fit better and look polished, but not on the 3xx.  I tried playing with themes and fonts but its not easy to get it to look good on every screen (lots of work done on the playing screen, not so much on the others)...  I'm an experienced (22 years) C programmer.. maybe I can do some work to extend the templating across to the other screens, eg radio, recording, settings and make it look nice "out of the box" on different models...  I need to play with it more on the 320...

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Some screens like radio and recording still use a fixed font and layout. They haven't been redesigned because we are waiting for a new GUI interface that we call 'viewports'. There is some stuff about it in the wiki. As it will change the way screens are made, no effort has been made on radio and recording to get them better.

What is wrong with recording _settings_ ? Settings code is common for all settings and should be fairly pollished (beware, that code has lots of macros in it)

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