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Rockbox General Discussion / not all albums under artist appear in database
« Last post by micrometer on February 06, 2025, 10:17:54 PM »I copied artist, album, title... into rockbox (ipod 6) just fine. I "initialize now" the DB after the copy. When I open database > artist and see the albums, many are not showing. I went to Foobar 2000 to quickly see the DB by artist, album... and I can see all of the albums by artist on my ipod. On the ipod, I can even select by database > album and they are there and can be played.
My question is how can I get all albums by artist to show in database > artist?
Thanks,
Mike
My question is how can I get all albums by artist to show in database > artist?
Thanks,
Mike
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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: Rockbox erasing itself after reboot. (iPod 7G Classic)
« Last post by Bilgus on February 06, 2025, 10:11:12 AM »I too have had good luck with evo cards in DAPS and RasPis
sample size like 5
sample size like 5
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Feature Ideas / Get 10 or 20 random albums to choose from
« Last post by jecaro on February 06, 2025, 07:46:55 AM »I've been talking about this feature some time ago:
https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55004.0.html
As a developer, I started looking at the code to find out how that can be implemented. The workflow I'd like to have ideally would be:
- get to the database menu
- choose the entry "20 random albums"
- get a list of 20 random albums formatted as "artist name-album title"
- choose one
- start playing it
The tagnavi feature looks well suited for this. However, it misses a few things:
- it is not possible to format intermediate menus -> only tracks menu can be formatted
- there are no random/count options for the intermediate menus -> could be implemented at the condition level
Sure, it's not impossible to implement. But it seems still a bit more involved than I thought initially. So before I dive in, I'm asking about any thought ideas I'm missing. I'm especially wondering if it would be simpler to implement this as a plugin?
Any thought feedback is welcome
https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55004.0.html
As a developer, I started looking at the code to find out how that can be implemented. The workflow I'd like to have ideally would be:
- get to the database menu
- choose the entry "20 random albums"
- get a list of 20 random albums formatted as "artist name-album title"
- choose one
- start playing it
The tagnavi feature looks well suited for this. However, it misses a few things:
- it is not possible to format intermediate menus -> only tracks menu can be formatted
- there are no random/count options for the intermediate menus -> could be implemented at the condition level
Sure, it's not impossible to implement. But it seems still a bit more involved than I thought initially. So before I dive in, I'm asking about any thought ideas I'm missing. I'm especially wondering if it would be simpler to implement this as a plugin?
Any thought feedback is welcome

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Any possibility for conditional %Cl?
« Last post by RetiredTeacherGuy on February 06, 2025, 04:07:41 AM »Understood, thanks for your efforts Bilgus I really appreciate it
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Any possibility for conditional %Cl?
« Last post by Bilgus on February 06, 2025, 12:33:00 AM »Yeah thats pretty much what I've got in the file to test with too
I'll probably mull on this a while there are a few things playing against us here
one is the way album art is displayed and its due to the all or nothing nature
of the skin engine, it doesn't have garbage collection it has free it all and start over.
So you can't really allocate anything ahead of time (and why would you every track skip could be different)
thats why it gets farmed out and works different I think.
Next part is the background drawing, I really want that because of themes that draw text over the bg would get wiped out
but that is another can of worms because it doesn't take into account viewports and therefore its drawn all or nothing
and you need to do a full refresh (well a fuller refresh I guess I had to force it by changing flags)
because it reallytires TRIES to never redraw the background layer
So IDK give me a while I'll post something if and when I get something that seems promising
otherwise I may just give it up and come back to it later (like after next release)
I'll probably mull on this a while there are a few things playing against us here
one is the way album art is displayed and its due to the all or nothing nature
of the skin engine, it doesn't have garbage collection it has free it all and start over.
So you can't really allocate anything ahead of time (and why would you every track skip could be different)
thats why it gets farmed out and works different I think.
Next part is the background drawing, I really want that because of themes that draw text over the bg would get wiped out
but that is another can of worms because it doesn't take into account viewports and therefore its drawn all or nothing
and you need to do a full refresh (well a fuller refresh I guess I had to force it by changing flags)
because it really
So IDK give me a while I'll post something if and when I get something that seems promising
otherwise I may just give it up and come back to it later (like after next release)
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Any possibility for conditional %Cl?
« Last post by RetiredTeacherGuy on February 05, 2025, 04:28:38 PM »I wanted to be absolutely sure, so I stripped down the wps file. This is all that it contains:
What I get when I press play is the 80 x 80 but it is a cropped version of the 170 x 170, placed at location 100,100. Pressing pause has no effect.
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#------------ Background Layer ------------#
%wd
%V(0,0,-,-,-)%VB
%?mp<|%Vl(c,0,0,-,-,-)%Cl(0,0,170,170)%Cd|%Cl(100,100,80,80)%Cd||>
%?C<%Vd(c)|>
#------------ Foreground Layer ------------#
%V(0,0,-,-,-)
What I get when I press play is the 80 x 80 but it is a cropped version of the 170 x 170, placed at location 100,100. Pressing pause has no effect.
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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: Rockbox erasing itself after reboot. (iPod 7G Classic)
« Last post by rockbox_dev123 on February 05, 2025, 02:20:21 PM »I'll throw my $0.02 in and say to avoid SanDisk microSD cards with an ipod6g and rockbox.
Get a Samsung card as they're widely known to have fantastic compatibility.
Recently I bought a brand new SanDisk Ultra 512GB microSD from a brick and mortar store and it kept corrupting when used as a single card in an iFlash Quad with an iPod Classic (MB029LL/A*).
I returned it and instead bought a Samsung EVO Plus 512GB microSD which works perfectly.
This was also confirmed by a friend who had the same corruption issues even with genuine SanDisk cards in an iFlash Quad in an iPod Video.
However, I have a standard size (not microSD) SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I Card - 512GB in an iFlash Solo which works perfectly in an iPod Video.
Compatibility varies even with genuine cards and between devices.
Get a Samsung card as they're widely known to have fantastic compatibility.
Recently I bought a brand new SanDisk Ultra 512GB microSD from a brick and mortar store and it kept corrupting when used as a single card in an iFlash Quad with an iPod Classic (MB029LL/A*).
I returned it and instead bought a Samsung EVO Plus 512GB microSD which works perfectly.
This was also confirmed by a friend who had the same corruption issues even with genuine SanDisk cards in an iFlash Quad in an iPod Video.
However, I have a standard size (not microSD) SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I Card - 512GB in an iFlash Solo which works perfectly in an iPod Video.
Compatibility varies even with genuine cards and between devices.
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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: Rockbox erasing itself after reboot. (iPod 7G Classic)
« Last post by jayglo on February 05, 2025, 01:41:33 PM »My god I hope not. I think SD brands should write in the card boxes to do these tests in order to make this madness stop.
Btw thanks for the help man, I was buggin out hours and hours. Glad this forum exists
Btw thanks for the help man, I was buggin out hours and hours. Glad this forum exists
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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: Rockbox erasing itself after reboot. (iPod 7G Classic)
« Last post by Bilgus on February 05, 2025, 01:35:43 PM »I think its a matter of time before we see them local too the counterfeits are getting pretty convincing
but a write/read test doesn't lie
but a write/read test doesn't lie
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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: Rockbox erasing itself after reboot. (iPod 7G Classic)
« Last post by jayglo on February 05, 2025, 01:33:39 PM »Okay I think this is the defintive answer. I've ran a 10gb write verify test with h2testw and it gave error after 3.4gb.
Btw I wasn't aware of how bad the sd market is.
I've already contacted the ebay seller (a clown) and he told me he doesn't accept returns BUT to "ship it back so that he can take it back to his supplier and get a replacement for me".
Lmao he better return my money back quick or get his first very negative feedback with pictures included.
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Warning: Only 10000 of 255999 MByte tested.
The media is likely to be defective.
3.4 GByte OK (7263288 sectors)
6.3 GByte DATA LOST (13216712 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
6.3 GByte corrupted (13216712 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x00000000dcf87000
Expected: 0x00000000dcf87000
Found: 0xb3adcb72e11641ed
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 6.11 MByte/s
Reading speed: 16.9 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
Btw I wasn't aware of how bad the sd market is.
I've already contacted the ebay seller (a clown) and he told me he doesn't accept returns BUT to "ship it back so that he can take it back to his supplier and get a replacement for me".
Lmao he better return my money back quick or get his first very negative feedback with pictures included.