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Rockbox Display Utility?

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Chronon:
The only way I can see this working is by emulating the actual hardware of a given player.  The broad range of hardware supported by Rockbox makes a general utility seem rather intractable.

redblade8:
Aye. This would be hard to deal with considering the amount of hardware, & it would work through hardware virtualization. It's just an idea I had, but VM's could prove to be very useful.

saratoga:

--- Quote from: redblade8 on October 04, 2011, 07:55:23 PM ---Aye. This would be hard to deal with considering the amount of hardware, & it would work through hardware virtualization. It's just an idea I had, but VM's could prove to be very useful.

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You're thinking of emulation, not virtualization.  Running an operating system for an mp3 player on a computer requires an emulator since the hardware is different.   We've discussed emulation a lot before, and theres a fairly advanced (but still incomplete) one on the tracker.  Do a search.  

redblade8:
Oh, cool. Thanks for that.
This one, I take it?
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/11205?string=emulator

redblade8:

--- Quote from: bluebrother on October 01, 2011, 05:04:27 PM ---What are those "many different things" that should be useful for? If you want to try Rockbox on a PC (or debug code that is not hardware dependent) you can already use the simulator.

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Sorry if this is a bit dated, but I am bumping this to see what you guys would think about this now.
Another thing that my initial idea would be very useful for would be if your mp3's screen has gone completely black, or if it's smashed. Then, you could on your computer select what you'd want your mp3 to do/play before you go out.

Or simpler, possibly a command line utility that could send commands to your mp3 that would give you a menu tree to select what options that you'd want.

Another thing could be a file that you'd drag and drop onto your mp3 to tell it what it should be doing/what menu to be on/what music to play etc.

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