WPS Help

[iggygrey]

Hello All,

I'm not a Code Monkey (don't like cheetos, tab or mountain dew but I do have a warm, fuzzy secret heart). Here's my challenge: I want to create a field guide to birds on my Sansa e260. I have bird songs, bird photos/graphics and small bits of information I think important in the field. When I play a bird's song I want to be able to see the photo or other graphics while it plays.

For example, when I play a Kentucky warbler (KYWA.mp3), its photo (KYWA.jpg) and a few line of text about the birds habitat (KYWA.txt) are displayed.

How does I do it?

Iggy

[audio-i]

What you want know is here: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/CustomWPS you really need to give a good look at that.

For example, when I play a Kentucky warbler (KYWA.mp3), its photo (KYWA.jpg)

One way is to treat pictures as album art covers, so convert KYWA.jpg to KYWA.bmp (or the other various ways for showing covers (naming & placing) in Rockbox http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=AlbumArt), use the %C cover tag to display it

and a few line of text about the birds habitat (KYWA.txt) are displayed.

One way I can think of is to place that text in the comment tag within each song, and then display it using the %iC comment tag

[iggygrey]

Thanks.

After gathering the bird songs into mp3's I tweaked the ID3v1 tags with TagScanner (i.e. song title "Kentucky," artists "Warbler"). I tried the album art trick using TagScanner and adding the photo with the tag. However, fotos displayed so small as to be unusable. A friend he suggested rockbox because of its WPS flexibility.

[audio-i]

What you want to do is quite possible with Rockbox, as I told you, and fairly uncomplicated. You just need to convert the images to BMP's of the desired size (separate files, not embedded), put the text in the comment ID3 tag, follow the couple guidelines I mentioned, and definitely give yourself some time to go to the links I posted before, to learn about the few WPS instructions needed

[Chronon]

BruceHP, I split your post into its own topic so as not to threadjack iggygrey's inquiry about how to get his fieldguide theme working.

There's a new topic with your name in the title that has your post in it.