patches confusion

[shrimants]

Hi, i just switched to rockbox. i've got it working perfectly with a WPS and everything. one thing that i noticed was that it took a beastly long time to scroll through my music, and after some research i found the 4 step acceleration patch.

the only problem is, that i dont know any cygwin commands. i have the patch file, and i can obtain the rockbox source to patch. but i dont understand what the "workingwithpatches" page is telling me.

actually, im confused about the whole thing. am i even right in thinking that patching the latest source code will enable the new code?

[saratoga]

Yes.  You download the source code, apply the patch (which adds new source code) and then compile it.  You might want to search and see if anyone has posted a ready made version with your patch though.

[shrimants]

thank you. i have now conducted the search and i found that the patch is still rather buggy. apparently, it starts skipping around too much. i could probably modify the patch so the acceleration is not as large, but i will wait until it is made official and included in the release.