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ipsilonv:
Well, this is my first post, but It has more than a year of rockboxing behind it. I'm not going to lie... the reason for why I really enjoy rockbox are the miscelaneous gadgets like the txt reader and gameboy. The music player is pretty good, but it has certain flaws that if it werent for the add perks, would lead me to use the normal firmware. This being said I will say ask a couple of things and make certain comments.

1. I'm kinda sad that those "Gadgets" are not being developed further, they need minor tweaks in order to be great. I'm not complaining, since I'm not going to do it myself because of lack of knowledge and time to learn.

2. Are there any prospects of fixing the scroll issues of the Ipod? I've used the search function to read about this, but I only see explainations to why the scrolling is laggy and makes the music skip, but no solutions or anything. Are there any possible fixes? This is really weird to me, since a little pice of hardware like the sansa clip can scroll smoothly. It doesn't make sense to me, but I'm sure there is a technical explanation. Also, if anyone has a good setting to minimize this problem, please tell me.

3. Does using a theme waste a lot more battery than having the raw, skinless interface? I use the latter and would like to know if this makes a difference.

4. This one connects to the second one, why does changing a song sometimes takes 3 seconds? I know technically why, but when comparing again to the sansa clip, I just can't help and ask.

5. Is there an easy way to change the function keys for the text viewer, and the emulator for that matter? I can manage some small code changes and stuff if needer, if the functions themselves need to be coded then no (Unless maybe if it's coded in C :P). Heh, sory if I'm being lazy here.

I hope to see some cool developments in the future, you can be sure that as long as I have an ipod I shall use rockbox. Althought that might only last until this ipod dies, since i hate ipods.
Thanks for everything you've done guys, I really love Rockbox, even if it is for the wrong reaons (Text reader, gameboy, etc). Hope i put this in the right section :$.

Llorean:
1. Volunteer effort, etc, etc. I'm sure you've seen this answer if you searched at all first - if people want them improved they're welcome to improve them.

2. What build are you using? Music skipping should be much, much, much less likely now than in the past.

3. Current builds come with a builtin theme. Again it sounds like maybe you're using a quite outdated version. As it stands though, yes, themes can alter battery life. There's no hard numbers on it, just experiment. Pick a theme, and see if it lasts between times you can charge. No theme should shorten it to unusable time periods, at least.

4. The Clip doesn't have a disk to spin up. This should be somewhat obvious - we can't read from the disk until it spins up, so if the data you need is off-buffer it takes time. The Clip doesn't have to wait.

5. There is no easy way. But Rockbox is in C.

ipsilonv:
1. Yeah, I knew that, that's why it was a comment and not a question or request.

2. I'm using 3.2, and music skips when i scroll, not if i'm going really slow, but maybe it's because of my scroll settings?

3. Ok

4. Yeah, it's pretty obvious until you compare it to the Ipod firmware, and see that this didn't happen. Which is something that i should have mentioned in the original post, both the scrolling and the song chaning worked fine with the ipod firmare. I'm quite sure you guys are not stupid, and there is a reasonable explanation, but as an observer, it's hard to understand.

5. Alright, given that i couldn't even handle theme modification, i'll stay away from this though.

Llorean:
2) What format music, what options do you have set, etc? Does it skip immediately, or after you've been scrolling for several seconds, or what?

4) The Apple firmware still has to wait on spin up if you try to skip to a song that's off buffer. It  may be that they choose to buffer a few extra "beginnings" of songs so that it appears more songs are in the buffer, instead of optimizing for better battery life for continued listening, but they can't magically avoid the need to spin the disk.

cool_walking_:
5. Rockboy already lets you change key mappings from it's menu, though it says "(buggy)" next to the setting, and I don't know how well it works on iPod (never had a problem with it on Gigabeat S).

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