How many settings have you changed?

[JdGordon]

Well, I'm a bit curious about how many settings of the ~180 aviablae you currently have chaned from default.

To find out open your /.rockbox/config.cfg file in either of the text editor/view plugins or on your computer.

[Yotto]

Clarification:  I have mutliple config files, mostly because I'm too lazy to use the onscreen keyboard so whenever I make a change and save the config, I let it save "config01.cfg", "config02.cfg" etc.  Do you want the latest one of *those* or is config.cfg "special"?

I ask because config.cfg is not only the smallest (30 lines as opposed to 163 in config09.cfg, my latest) but also the most recent, implying it is in fact "special"

[DefineByte]

Can people with unofficial builds apply? They may have more settings available.

[JdGordon]

config.cfg is a special one.. only settings which are different from default are saved. This is also the one which rockbox reads on startup.

Yeah why not.. I dont think any unsuppporetd patches add more than 1 or 2 settings, so wont affect the results that much

[psycho_maniac]

the main thing i change first is the crossfadding. then ill chage the wps screen and thats usually it till i find something else that needs changing. also i have 2 config files that are
newest.cfg --sort files by newest
alpha.cfg   --sort files by alaphabet

most of the time when im bored i go threw every setting and see what new settings there are and what i can change.

[soap]

Mmmm, I see a bell-shaped curve forming.
 

29 for me.

[markun]

If most people have the same settings, perhaps the defaults could be changed..

[GodEater]

30 here.

[linuxstb]

If most people have the same settings, perhaps the defaults could be changed..

Maybe someone would like to setup a website where users could upload their main config.cfg files (along with a drop-down list indicating which player they are using).  Lots of interesting stats could be produced...

[Rincewind]

Yeah, I'm still leading the crowd with 67 settings (65 official settings)!
I don't know why it is so much, I just use the same config that I have for about a year now and always extended from there.
When I look at a few settings in there now, I don't really know why they are different from the defaults  

[Llorean]

17 Here. Anyone else think "Fade on stop/pause" should be disabled by default? I never understood why something that made the UI feel unresponsive was the default case.

[pixelma]

Anyone else think "Fade on stop/pause" should be disabled by default?

Yes, me! *raises both hands*

I have 42 changed settings (including wps, fmr-files) - but two settings are really important to me: that "fade on stop/pause" and the default volume is too loud for me. I set it at -35dB in a loud surrounding, with a maximum of -32dB maybe... and this is even though I don't use in-ear-plugs, just usual earphones (i.e. quite "open").

[Yotto]

Whenever I "start from scratch" which I do on occasion for no good reason whatsoever, I *always" change several settings right away. The ones I think are possibly universal are (relevant lines copied from my file):

backlight fade in: off
volume fade: off
follow playlist: on
autocreate bookmarks: on
autoload bookmarks: ask
use most-recent-bookmarks: unique only

[michael.conner]

Anyone else think "Fade on stop/pause" should be disabled by default?

I agree, too.  I'd also vote for repeat mode being set off by default, but that may just be me.

[JdGordon]

repeat mode and dircache are my pet hates with the defaults... so both are set in my fixed.cfg so no more a problem.

anyway, I'm a bit disapointed that 260 views and only 30 ppl actually voted.

making a seperate page to track user's settings would be fun, but unless we decide before hand that some setting defaults would be changed to reflect that there isnt much point.

Yotto: where is the volume fade setting? ive never seen it.. unless thats the fade on stop setting?