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How can I make the OF the primary boot?(In other words load first)

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Febs:

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--- Quote ---How about when you want to go to your songs list, it shows it form the beggining, the OF automatically highlights the song youre playing.
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Read the section of the manual relating to the "Follow playlist" setting?
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I tried that and all it does is highlights a song that i choose from the FILES, it doesnt highlight the one currently playing.
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Are you starting playback from the Database or from the File Browser?  If you have "Follow playlist" set to "Yes" and you have started playback from the File Browser, when you press the SELECT button while in the While-Playing-Screen, Rockbox will switch to the file browser and highlight the currently playing song.

pixelma:

--- Quote from: Felliph3 on April 10, 2008, 12:08:41 AM ---Also the recording feature on rockbox sucks, on the OF you just press the record button on the side and it records and you can pause or stop and it asks if you want to save. On rockbox you have to go through your files to find the recordings and sometimes you go into record mode by mistake and you dont want it to save it. Rockbox doesnt ask if you want to save.
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I don't want to join your wording, so here's my list why Rockbox has a better recording feature* (within their hardware limitations) - my opinion in no specific order - and even though I haven't used it much yet but it's good to know that I have the possibilities to:
* record in 22.05kHz
* chose recording in mono or stereo myself
* record in wav, wavpack (needs less storage but is lossless) or mp3 (lossy but good if short of storage and the hardware already limits the quality of the recording, no big loss here)
* set the folder I want as recording directory which also makes it possible to use additional storage in form of microSD card(s) for it; you don't need to search for your recordings if you know you can do that (see manual)
* storage is the only limit in the length of the recording (and the FAT file size limit but Rockbox automatically starts a new file seemlessly if it reaches the limit)against the original firmware's
* 16kHz recordings
* hardcoded "record in mono" for voice recordings and stereo only for FM recordings
* only record in wav (needs the most storage)
* hardcoded recording directories make it impossible to use memory cards
* limiting the size of the record (when I experimented with it I only thought they had a big safety margin letting me record 20 minutes of FM (stereo) or 40 minutes of voice (mono) with 80MB of free disk space but from your description I could now imagine something worse: that the OF only records what fits in RAM and writes it away after you've been asked... makes longer recordings impossible even with GBs of free disk space. And as Febs said the ability to delete files from within Rockbox at least equals the ability to chose whether a recording should be saved or not.)Note: this is from my tries with the c200 original firmware but I would be very surprised if there were major differences in the e200 firmware. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. It didn't take me as long to think about these points as to type them out here...

*) you seem to only mean the controls though as I understand now, but these points might still be interesting.

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