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Chronon:

--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on October 11, 2007, 03:27:01 PM ---Very kind of you to help fill in the blanks, Chronon. Many thanks!

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Yeh.  I was actually posting my reply as you were doing yours.  I got notified but it wouldn't update me with the content of the reply so I posted mine anyway.  I'm glad there was at least some linear independence!   :D


--- Quote from: matthewsackmann on October 11, 2007, 04:23:10 PM ---Many thanks to both of you!  I looked up more details on chessbox and found that you can't play two players yet, but it seems to have a pretty high ELO rating (1700), which can probably kick my butt (which is good).  So i can load completed games in .pgn and then watch them move by move?    

  Anyone checked out the "Opening Book" in chessbox yet?

So i think i'll dive in , i just need to decide if i want my whole database converted to rockbox or just a few albums to listen to while playing chess...  Is the sound quality better with rockbox?  i know it can play flac and ogg but just on regular mp3s?    Is it possible to manually add songs from the ipod's OS DB to the rockbox DB so i don't have everything?  This would also make it easier for me to listen to my favorite artists instead of scrolling through all 2000 or so artists i have on my OS DB.

thanks again

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Rockbox gives you better control over the sound (e.g customizable EQs [with precut so you don't get distortion as in Apple's firmware], crossfeed, crossfade, and more).  There's not currently any easy way to edit down the Rockbox database (though I will point out that this is also the case for the Apple firmware).  Rockbox builds its database directly from the metadata tags in your media files.  It doesn't care about the iTunesDB at all.

But I think I would just prefer to have access to all of my music as well as plugins in Rockbox anyway.

matthewsackmann:
Well, thanks to your advice i decided to go for it!  Loaded the whole sheband into rockbox, took about fourty minutes (12000+files).  So far, I LOVE IT!!!   wish now i downloaded more themes, because they are super cool!   I had the same problem a lot of other posters had, i had to install my bootloader manually, but that was easy enough.  Still can't find the "Opening Games" thingy for chessbox though...

LambdaCalculus:

--- Quote from: matthewsackmann on October 12, 2007, 09:50:20 AM ---Well, thanks to your advice i decided to go for it!  Loaded the whole sheband into rockbox, took about fourty minutes (12000+files).  So far, I LOVE IT!!!

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Enjoy Rockbox! Your iPod will love you for it later! ;)


--- Quote from: matthewsackmann on October 12, 2007, 09:50:20 AM ---Still can't find the "Opening Games" thingy for chessbox though...

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For opening .pgn files, you mean? Just copy a few .pgn files into a folder on your device (for example, make one called, say, "Chess"), then navigate to that folder in the file view and click on a game you want to play. Chessbox will open it automatically.

matthewsackmann:

--- Quote from: matthewsackmann on October 12, 2007, 09:50:20 AM ---Still can't find the "Opening Games" thingy for chessbox though...

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For opening .pgn files, you mean? Just copy a few .pgn files into a folder on your device (for example, make one called, say, "Chess"), then navigate to that folder in the file view and click on a game you want to play. Chessbox will open it automatically.
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Well, that helps, but no, in the chessbox wiki, the roadmap says it has an opening book that has about 250 opening lines.  This would be a different way to play where it tries to teach you the standard moves across a wide range of different openings, i.e. King's Gambit, English Opening, Four Knights game, etc...    is this possible to access?  anyone?

Chronon:
Sorry, I don't have any special information about that.  It looks like it is eventually intended to be an option that can be toggled on/off.  Maybe the AI automatically uses openings from the opening book at the moment?  I'd have to look at the code to do anything more than guess, however.

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