Have you read the Rockbox Manual?

[scharkalvin]

Well maybe a command summary, which would do little more than be a road map of the menu system.  Something like those cpu instruction set cards the computer makers used to hand out.  (anybody ever collect those?)

[GodEater]

..and again - feel free to write one.

[John]

Firstly the manual for a Sansa c240 does not exist but I have tried to find answers in the Sansa e200 manual.
I would appreciate a section on file management probably between Installation and quick start. I am trying to delete old playlists but cannot. I have deleted the .3mu8 files but the old playlists and music are still there. Any suggestions how to delete unwanted junk?

[pixelma]

Firstly the manual for a Sansa c240 does not exist but I have tried to find answers in the Sansa e200 manual.

I wonder how you managed to find the e200 manual and to overlook the c200 one right next to it? It is to the right of the Sansa e200 one on the manual page (even if it's not that complete but the port is quite new too).

About your question: do you mean the music that was on it before you installed Rockbox or things you copied over later? But I'd check with a filebrowser on a computer (especially looking for hidden folders, depends a bit on your operating system) or maybe there is still something in a recycle bin on your player then you could either wipe that with your computer too or try to run the disktidy plugin in Rockbox.

[cc]

Well maybe a command summary, which would do little more than be a road map of the menu system.  Something like those cpu instruction set cards the computer makers used to hand out.  (anybody ever collect those?)

I have written one of these. A patch for the manual is in flyspray ( http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7816 ).

Or there is an online version here (until I find somewhere better for it). You have to select a player at the top to get just the menus for that player.

[duney50]

I've read the manual - I've referred to it often with problems, and usually end up searching the forums for advice (to at least point me to the right place in the manual) as I find the manual rather confusing at times (vague and obtuse?)

[Llorean]

We do ask that if you find portions of the manual insufficient that you contribute by suggesting improvements by way of the tracker.

[HWjock]

old Archos owner, new Rockbox user, hardware & software jock since God was in diapers.

The PDF version of the User's Manual for the JBFM is screwy: the screen caps are all unreadable, but the other photos & graphics are fine.  Here's an example:


http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-fmrecorder.pdf

The PNGs in the HTML version look OK, so either the PDF distiller is insane, or it's putting in PS bitmap code that makes Foxit (free PDF reader that's faster than Adobe) display garbled junk.  Both of my machines have Foxit, neither has Adobe's AcrobatReader bloatware so I don't have a point for comparison.  Out of several hundreds of PDFs I've viewed, only 1 or 2 ever gave Foxit any grief so I doubt that's the problem.

Additionally, I just looked at the PDF manual for the Player/Studio and about 80% of the screen cap graphics in that one are all crazy, as well.
http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-player.pdf
As slow as the downloads are for the manuals, I don't want to sit here all day checking 'em out.

My best guess is that the PDF distiller (pdfTeX) has grief with monochrome PNGs, as those are the only ones effected.

[Llorean]

Your link to the fmrecorder manual looks perfect to me. Are you sure your downloads aren't corrupted somehow, or perhaps you have a buggy viewer?

[ZincAlloy]

Foxit is pretty buggy, indeed.

[Llorean]

And as a note, I wasn't using Adobe reader, just whatever PDF viewer comes stock with Ubuntu, so it really does sound like Foxit may be the problem.

[ZincAlloy]

I'm using OSX "Preview". No problems with the manuals.

[edpatterson]

I initially read only enough to get it installed. Then I got lost in all the menus so I read the whole thing. Understood about 70% of it but now know where to find the answers.

Ed

[wintermute23]

I read the installation and getting started chapters very carefully before I even downloaded Rockbox. Since then, I've scanned though it, once or twice, looking for stuff that looks interesting, and I've looked up specific things, when I've not been able to work out how something works.

But mostly, I've found that (despite its slight learning curve) Rockbox is pretty intuitive, and I can often figure out what I need to without referring to the doco.

[peter122]

Yes, Ive read the entire manual and refer to it often (Ipod 5G).  It could be a little more complete but I'm assuming it is still a work in progress. For example, how do you delete a bookmark?  A nice developer provided the answer.