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Fraoch:
Hello:

I'm a first-time user of Rockbox and I installed 3.9.1 on my wife's old disused iPod Nano 2G.

I filled it up with music using Banshee on Ubuntu Linux 11.10.  My early experiments with a few select tracks worked well.  This time I loaded it up completely and now I want to update the database.

Seeing as it's close to 4 GB, it's obviously going to take a long time (any idea how long?)  I think I see an icon that's indicating that it's updating the database, but I'm not quite sure what that icon is.  For that matter, I have looked and looked and I can't find a description of any of the icons across the top of the screen.  Some of them are self-evident, some of them aren't.

On the right of the screen is an icon that looks like a lightning bolt.  I assume this is the "updating database" icon because I didn't notice it before I started updating the database.

Does anyone have a listing of the icons and what they mean?  Sorry if this seems like an obvious question but I have read the manual and searched the site and I didn't find anything.

This is the default (?) cabbiev2 theme.

Thank you.

JdGordon:
That lightning bolt means "flash access".. i.e something is accessing the flash drive inside the player

gbl08ma:
Also, keep in mind that when changing themes, the icons and their position might change, so it takes a bit of adaptation. I think the only thing that can be shown by a theme when something is loading, is the disk/flash access icon - at this moment, this is valid for cabbiev2 and any other theme. That icon changes with the theme, and I'm sure that if some theme designer wanted so, it could be made to e.g. change an huge rectangle on the screen whenever the disk is loading. The way the disk access/shuffle/repeat/[any setting] is represented is pretty much up to the theme designer - and they don't need to be represented if the theme doesn't have code to.

Since, like I said, Rockbox has huge UI customization options, the Rockbox Manual doesn't go into much details about the meaning of icons and such. In my opinion, the best way to learn what each icon in cabbiev2 represents is by playing around with the settings.

Fraoch:
Thanks for the responses - I think it's safe to say this is the database builder doing its thing then.

I'm not sure triggering database building on all 4 GB of files at once is a good thing though, that icon has been on almost 24 hours straight now and still no sign of any new files.  I even had to recharge the player while it was doing this.

gbl08ma:
Strange... I have around 400 music files (3,1GB), all with metadata, on my 4GB Nano 2G, and a full database update (after initialization, that is your case) takes no longer than 10-15 minutes.

However, if you're using lower quality files, then there will be more music files in less space, and it might take a longer time. But 24 hours, is simply too much. See if you can start over.

(unless the flash activity icon is because of something else, like buffering, but in that case, it shouldn't be continuous)

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