Recording Enhancements Pack

[fed]

Has anyone made a build with this patch for the Sansa e200?

[pixelma]

While the Sansa can record, its recording capabilities are not nearly as powerful as those of the H1x0/H3x0s that this patch was made for (far away would be the better word). I don't know all the details but I even doubt you could get it to run at all or would have much fun with it.

[jhMikeS]

I do intend to see how far things can be pushed in order to make it at least acceptable but even the original firmware only outputs effectively 24kHz. The files are 48khz but each sample value shows up twice and that's just how the hardware operates. Even getting true 32khz - ideal for fm recording - will require checking out overclocking the audio codec to 64khz so I make no promises that it will work well or even at all.  

[Rincewind]

Hey Mmmm,

A few months ago, i installed your build with the REP on my H120, and it works great, but today, i just bought a refurbished H115, and i was wondering if i will be able to just install this same build on it.

From what i understand there are some few minor differences in the ram (smaller buffer) but besides that, not much difference, should it be okay?

If not, what will i need to change in your build to make it so it works the same as my H120. I would like them to have the same build and what not so when i am recording with both at shows, i can get my levels to match and stuff like that.

thanks a bunch!

Josh

If you want to use Mmmm's compiled build, then it won't work, because the binary is made specifically for H120/140
You can downoad the source, apply the REP patch and compile a build for yourself. This should work without any changes to the code of the REP.
Then you can make a second folder and make you own builds for the H115 and H120 from the same source. You can find more info in the wiki under SimpleGuideToCompiling.

[fed]

Actually, the Sansa e200 records quite well.  I use it mainly for recording.  

I need to change the button assignment for stopping the recording from the power button to the select button.  Do you know how I could do that?

[fed]

Does anyone happen to know if prerecoding writes to disk or only to RAM.  What I am really interested in is if constantly prerecording will wear out the flash drive faster.

[petur]

prerecording just constantly wraps around data in the recording buffer in RAM. So no Flash involved.

[fed]

Thanks for the information.

I have successfully reassigned the select button.  

Now I would like to make the rec button start a recording from any menu.  I cannot figure out how to do this.  Can anyone help?

Thanks.

[jhMikeS]

fed,

I think that's a bit off topic here and also isn't really that trivial to do. Personally I think having assignable shortcut keys would be good thing though. There's a UI forum around here somewhere.

[Rincewind]

Now I would like to make the rec button start a recording from any menu.  I cannot figure out how to do this.  Can anyone help?

You could try to get my Rec button patch working on the Sansa (Flyspray #5555). With this you can start a recording from WPS and file browser (among other things). The only thing that you need add is the keymap for the sansa and a few #defines.

If I find time I'll do it myself, but that's not happening very soon

[fed]

I've tried to adapt your patch no sansa.

I substituted BUTTON_POWER for BUTTON_ON and BUTTON_OFF
I remeved the line
{ ACTION_WPS_ID3SCREEN,     BUTTON_POWER|BUTTON_MODE,          BUTTON_NONE },
because I don't know the equivalent of BUTTON_MODE for sansa.

I inserted the your ketmap to where I thought it should go in keymap200

I applied the patch.

But it does not work.

I'm sorry, but I can't figure out which #defines to add.

Could you let me know which to add?

Thanks!

[fed]

I am sorry to keep bothering, but I have been racking my brain for a week now
trying to do something that I think is probably easy to do.

I would like to make a button do something.  I can make the changes in the
keymap.  I want to run GO_TO_RECSCREEN.  I don't know how to link these two
things.  I think I have to set up something in action.c, but I am not sure
what.

In the end, I want to go to the recording screen when I press the rec button
on the sansa.

Can you please help me?

[Rincewind]

@fed: you have to add the action to the button handlers, too. Every screen has it's own button handler, which is a big 'switch case' statement, e.g. in tree.c for the file browser, gwps.c for wps. I don't know exactly where the buttons in the menus are handled (look in every file that has 'menu' in the name and you should find it).

[fed]

Thanks.  That helps a lot!

Do you know which menu is for the main menu.  I tried main_menu.c, but it seems to be for something else.

[Peter200lx]

The Current REP patch has some problems when applying it. I was wondering if it was a simple changing of some lines to get it working, and if it was if someone could post a changed REP.patch. My programing skills are in the infant stage, so I'm not at all sure what to do myself. If someone could post an update, I'd greatly appreciate it. If needed, I can post a copy of the errors that I'm getting.