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Feature Ideas / Re: Keep custom audio speed setting during shutdown/reboot

« Last post by bahus on January 17, 2025, 01:16:52 PM »

I'd like to get rid of half the current settings due to the massive bin size for them

Move them to plugin?

its not buying you anything except an opaque (non plaintext) way to write numbers to the disk but causes crashes when it gets corrupted or out of sync

I like the idea of "nvram" file that holds frequently changed settings in small file and was thinking of moving volume, shuflle and repeat settings to it. So preventing the main 1.4 KB settings file from being constantly overwritten.

Latest patch blanks the reset setting if pitch is normal

We show/hide Show Cuesheet (not sure about naming)  onplay menu depending on cuesheet availability. So shouldn't be so hard to properly hide it.

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Feature Ideas / Re: Keep custom audio speed setting during shutdown/reboot

« Last post by chris_s on January 17, 2025, 01:16:07 PM »

Blanking it out honestly feels broken to me. I haven't checked, but can't you use the callback and ACTION_EXIT_MENUITEM to not show it if pitch hasn't been adjusted?  As I commented on the patch, personally, I think this should be moved to Sound settings though...

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Feature Ideas / Re: Keep custom audio speed setting during shutdown/reboot

« Last post by Bilgus on January 17, 2025, 01:09:24 PM »

Latest patch blanks the reset setting if pitch is normal, I'm still not completely happy with it but it's not too bad except the icon I wish I could remove it too

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Feature Ideas / Re: Keep custom audio speed setting during shutdown/reboot

« Last post by Bilgus on January 17, 2025, 12:20:10 PM »

In light of that I'll probably be removing NVRAM soon in favor of a .cfg file for the settings in it and use the existing settings method instead
due to the mentioned issues above

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Feature Ideas / Re: Keep custom audio speed setting during shutdown/reboot

« Last post by Bilgus on January 17, 2025, 11:32:04 AM »

the reset is important otherwise you'll get a user stuck in pitch and unable to figure out how to change it
I think I might make it blank if the pitch is normal but I'm not sure I can without trouble

There is an action in Pitch screen for this

plus that reset requires running the plugin

Its either that or you get asked to set next boot or asked at boot to reset, or you have a setting to find in the plugin
or a setting in the playback menus
I'm not doing the latter in fact I'd like to get rid of half the current settings due to the massive bin size for them

All of those have some downside to (someone)

Edit:
Nvram is emulated on most ALL targets so its not buying you anything except an opaque (non plaintext) way to write numbers to the disk but causes crashes when it gets corrupted or out of sync and who knows about the one device that actually has real NVRAM
we now have no devices using real NVRAM (requires HAVE_RTC_RAM) it was one of the SW HW codec targets I'm guessing

Pitch reset is mapped on long select

for you yes but what about the other 30+ devices
and less savvy users?

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: [320x240] Tile based main menu

« Last post by RetiredTeacherGuy on January 17, 2025, 11:02:15 AM »

RetiredTeacherGuy Welcome to the forums!

Thanks for reminding me

Hey, I found a glitch with the theme

this should be fixed as of today

https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/6330

I thought this was related to the issue I’m experiencing, but alas it is not. If I use:

%?and(%if(%cs,=,6),%if(%Lt,=,Settings))

I can route the Settings screen to use tiles. But when you click into any of those menu items (such as Sound Settings, Playback Settings and so on) you will still be expected to use tiles, instead of seeing the text UI. If you click down from there, you can get text output. Is there any way around this?

Thanks

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Feature Ideas / Re: Keep custom audio speed setting during shutdown/reboot

« Last post by bahus on January 17, 2025, 05:12:54 AM »

> and giving the user a option of "Pitch Reset"

There is an action in Pitch screen for this. For me Pitch reset is mapped on long select (don't remember if I mapped it this way or it's default mapping). So separate setting for this looks redundant.

Just curious why you think NVRAM approach is problematic (I personally use custom build with NVRAM setting and I don't see issues with it).

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Feature Ideas / Re: Keep custom audio speed setting during shutdown/reboot

« Last post by Bilgus on January 17, 2025, 03:03:03 AM »

Well what I settled on was making the setting always persist and giving the user a option of "Pitch Reset"
it doesn't re apply the previous speed if you resume a track with different settings but I think that'll be ok
as it'd resume to the previous next boot unless you changed it again


still needs testing

https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/6344

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New Ports / Re: Anbernic RG Nano

« Last post by SM on January 16, 2025, 10:56:36 PM »

Getting Rockbox on the Nano would be such a blessing. It has GMU, but it's the clunkiest media player I've ever used, not to mention the way superior codec support of Rockbox.

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Feature Ideas / Re: Keep custom audio speed setting during shutdown/reboot

« Last post by Frankenpod on January 16, 2025, 09:30:21 PM »

Does the fixed.cfg file not have any use for this?
(I can't remember off-hand what attributes can be defined in that)