custom config loading by directory

[MisterScoundrel]

I was looking through the patches and found this old one:

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/2235

It sounds like a really useful idea to me, but it's really old and I suspect it wouldn't merge successfully with the current codebase. I'd love this functionality because I use my player for both podcasts and music, and would like slightly different settings for each situation. (For instance, equalizer settings, shuffle/repeat, track ordering, bookmarking settings.) Does anyone have any experience with this or a similar patch, or maybe another suggestion to offer?

[bascule]

Certainly an interesting concept, but it would definitely be hard work getting it to work. Plus, it would not be good for battery life if it kept loading different confgs as you flicked through the file browser ...and it probably wouldn't work if you used the Database browsing functionality.

Your best workaround at the moment is to create separate, appropriately named, config files, store them in .rockbox/themes and load them using

Menu > Browse Themes

That's not many keypresses to get the config you want

[pabouk]

I like this idea too. The configurations should be probably cached in the RAM either for the whole disk (like dircache) or just for the directories which contain  the  currently buffered files. The second option would not be much slower because the new configurations would get loaded when filling the buffer (no extra spin up).

I use even more types of files which require different settings: podcasts, music, recorded files, language lessons, audio books etc.

[Llorean]

It's actually *exactly* as many keypresses to get to the load screen for config files as the load themes (last I checked) and that way you can actually keep them separated and in a proper place.

[bascule]

Llorean, you are correct (as always), but it's a preference thing and my menu path is cleaner than

Menu > Manage Settings > Browse .cfg files

Fake edit: If you let the key-repeat work its magic, my option is *technically* only 3 keypresses vs 4 for yours.... [/pedantry]

[Rincewind]

It's actually *exactly* as many keypresses to get to the load screen for config files as the load themes (last I checked) and that way you can actually keep them separated and in a proper place.

If you have an iriver you can install my recording button config patch and have different configs with just 2 button presses (in the optimal case when you select the first setting)

patch is #5555 on  flyspray