Building database

[ayedlin]

Hey, I just added rockbox to my sansa e200 and when I go to my database it says building database, which I know is normal when you first start it, but it never finishes, I even left it over night for like 8 hours and it still said the same thing. Am I doing something wrong?

[AlexP]

It shouldn't take anywhere near that time.

What format of music files do you have?
What tag format do thy have?
Do you have any album art or other big things in tags?
What version of rockbox?

It sounds to me like a tag on one or more of your files is choking it.  You could check this by doing a binary search - i.e. remove half your music, try again, if there is still a problem, remove another half etc. until you discover the problem file.

[ayedlin]

I got everything to work, the reason it wasn't working is because when I copied all the Rockbox files I put them into the main directory of the player, instead of the .rockbox folder. The only problem I am having now is getting the WPS I downloaded to work, but I would have to do some coding and I'm not smart enough to figure that out.

[karashata]

There's a very nice guide to WPS coding here.  You may also want to get a simulator for your mp3 player from here and extract the theme into it to do some testing and get the theme working again. (Make sure you extract the theme into the archos folder wherever you extract the simulator to that way the theme files are put where they need to be.)

What you may consider doing is looking through the WPS file for the theme while comparing to the guide to make sure the code isn't buggy somewhere, then using a # character at the beginning of any lines that look like they might have a problem and saving the file (you can leave it open, just make sure to save between tests so Rockbox can see the changes!) and test the changes in the simulator until the WPS shows up mostly properly (minus the lines you commented out).  Once you've isolated the problem line(s), you can look at the guide to see how the code should be to do what the line is supposed to, and fix it, then copy the fixed WPS to your player.

[ayedlin]

Unfortunately I can't do as much as I would like to do on these computers because they are government computers. They really don't let me do much. Aside from that, I am currently deployed and don't have much time to do all that anyway.

[AlexP]

A WPS file is just a text file.  If you have a text editor you can create/correct/whatever a WPS.

The simulator is an executable - I guess you might have more trouble running that, although nothing installs.  However, you can test a WPS on the player, even though it is more tedious.

[ayedlin]

Like I said before, I am not smart enough to do coding, if it was a hardware issue I would be all over it, but I just can't wrap my head around code. Can't  you just make a magic program that makes everything work? Maybe if we all wish hard enough?

[Llorean]

Try spending a few days reading it before you simply say "I can't do it." It's really far simpler than I think you expect it to be, not coding at all.