Car adapter mode.

[Jeezus]

Is there a better car adapter mode plugin for an iPod 5.5?
I installed an iPod adapter into my car stereo that connects through the serial port on the bottom of my ipod, so that it keeps it continuously charged, which is great for me, because my ipod effectively is my car stereo... which is why this bugs me so much.

I set Rockbox to car adapter mode, when I turn off my car, it pauses for about 3 seconds... and then starts playing again, so that I have to wait for it to start playing again and then manually pause it. I also have to wait for it to start up again when I turn the car back on. it does that idle power down thingy

With the default ipod OS, when I turn off my car, it pauses my ipod, and then puts it into sleep mode, and continues to charge it for 20 minutes. Then when I start up my car, it wakes up my ipod and all I have to do is press play and I'm jamming again in less than 5 seconds.
Has anyone found a way to duplicate this functionality with Rockbox?

[MarcGuay]

I just perused the manual entry for this feature and it sounds like there might be a bug.  When you turn off the engine, it should pause for the length of time set in the Idle Poweroff setting, and then shut down.

[Llorean]

Does it actually "Pause" (show the Pause icon, etc)? Or does it perhaps shutdown, then immediately turn back on (and resume playback on startup)?

[Jeezus]

The thing is, I would be fine with it pausing for the length of the idle shut down before shutting down, but it only pauses for about 3 seconds, and then it starts playing again... I probably could have made that point clearer now that I think about it... :p
That's the actual problem I'm having with the car adapter mode... it pauses for a few seconds, and then starts playing again. it doesn't even get to the shutdown. because it doesn't stay paused long enough.
I'm using the BlitzSafe iPod adapter if that helps any.

[JdGordon]

With the default ipod OS, when I turn off my car, it pauses my ipod, and then puts it into sleep mode, and continues to charge it for 20 minutes. Then when I start up my car, it wakes up my ipod and all I have to do is press play and I'm jamming again in less than 5 seconds.
Has anyone found a way to duplicate this functionality with Rockbox?

rockbox cant put it into the same sleep mode just yet, so the best that it can do is turn off and then turn back on when the car starts up again (which shouldnt take mroe than a few seconds depending on the target...)

[Jeezus]

I've found a happy medium, I boot into the original OS when it's in my car, and then back into rockbox when when it's not... that way I get the best of both. =)

I still can't figure out what the deal with the id3 tags is though... is there a way to edit the tag info through rockbox? I think it would be a neat feature, you've already got a keyboard programmed in.

[JdGordon]

no, you cant edit the tags in rockbox

[AlexP]

I still can't figure out what the deal with the id3 tags is though... is there a way to edit the tag info through rockbox? I think it would be a neat feature, you've already got a keyboard programmed in.

It "just" needs someone to code it...

[Jeezus]

yeah... if I knew how to program in even the slightest, I'd probably try and figure that one out.