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Rockbox has no Sony cagetory (NWZ-E436F), where is sony_e36x hiding?

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[Saint]:

--- Quote from: mdlueck on April 18, 2014, 06:20:17 PM ---I have the other way around... I already had the device, and was looking for a solution to the song tracks playing out-of-order on the device but not so in Rhythmbox in Linux. Someone suggested Rockbox as a possible solution to the problem.

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Well, it seems that the person that said that seems to have a limited understanding of what they are talking about. This isn't entirely uncommon.

Perhaps they thought that Rockbox was a generic firmware, or that there was already a port available for this device, but unfortunately for you, neither of those things are true.

The fastest way this would happen for you is if you were to do it yourself.

As pointed out by others in this thread, if you are not willing to do, or capable of doing, the work required to produce a functional port for this player your best course of action is to purchase one of the supported devices.


[Saint]

pamaury:
I am the developer of the imx233 port, on which some Sony players are based. There is no port for the  NWZ-E436F. It *might* be similar to the NWZ-E36x series but there will be differences for sure. I must insist that should not attempt anything stupid. As for the E36x, it is not supported by the Rockbox Utility yet (there is some work in progress), it must installed by hand as explained on the wiki and on the forums.
I hope it clarifies things a bit. Also the http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SonyNW page is supposed to be a technical one, it's nothing official and might be wrong.

mdlueck:

--- Quote from: [Saint] on April 19, 2014, 01:07:02 AM ---Perhaps they thought that Rockbox was a generic firmware, or that there was already a port available for this device, but unfortunately for you, neither of those things are true.

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I believe they were merely pointing out / recommending to look at Rockbox in general, and it was up to me to determine if it would work with my specific device or not.


--- Quote from: [Saint] on April 19, 2014, 01:07:02 AM ---As pointed out by others in this thread, if you are not willing to do, or capable of doing

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Or just tooooo busy to bother with the perfection of getting tracks to play in the correct order on the MP3 device!  ;) I need to jump into the bowels of complicated OO PHP code to track down an obscure bug within CiviCRM, develop new Software Distribution to manage deployment of Windows and application packages, and and and... track order on MP3 device is "below the line" on my to do list.

I am thankful,
Michael

mdlueck:
Thank you pamaury for the helpful background.

In the event there is time resources to work on proper support of a NWZ-E436F device in the future, please do not hesitate to ask me to assist with testing.

I am thankful,
Michael

mdlueck:
I ended up finding the solution to the track list play order issue with my Sony NWZ-E436F and the default Sony software.

It is necessary to prefix the track names with a track number in addition to the track number field. Then once I download music to it from Xubuntu Linux via Rhythembox, the music plays in the same track order as it plays in Rhythembox.

For multi-disk CD sets, then I prefix the track names with continuous numbering series... and the track/disk fields I have those accurate to reflect the per-disk track counter.

I am thankful,
Michael

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