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

« Last post by RetiredTeacherGuy on Today at 11:03:23 AM »

@millim

Hey, I found a glitch with the theme - but to be honest, it's the exact same glitch I've been having with my own icon-using themes.  If you go into the files menu, and there are long file names that need to scroll, it causes a problem when you come back out again - see the screenshots.

Either there's something we both get wrong about the logic of viewports, or there's a bug to do with scrolling text that only comes up when one does things with custom %vi statements to use icons.  The fact that there's already a bug with scrolling text, relating to the backgrounds of the SBS and WPS, makes me think it's the latter.

Hello all. I found this post after about a week of struggling with tiles. But that’s fine, as I read through the posts, I feel like I lived the experience with you haha.

My challenge was (and is) to get the Settings submenu to revert to the stock UI for the lists under Sound Settings etc. I tried many things, but at this point I took over the list for those items by laying a viewport over the Settings tiles. As you know, they all come under %cs 6 so I think that’s the issue. If anyone has solved, please let me know.

Glad to have found the forums.

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: SPAZZ theme

« Last post by chuck_lardo on Today at 05:35:57 AM »

Just had a play, and I like it. I had a couple of issues, though. The right channel peak value disappears on the right side, presumably because my play list was large, see pic.

Thanks for picking this up. I have a solution which I will add to the update I am working on. Hopefull done by the end of the week.

If you can't wait here is the code to replace in the WPS

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#__Track Time / Playlist position / Counter
%V(43,211,257,17,3)
%al%pc_%pr%ac%?if(%pt, >, 35999)<|%pp_%pe>%ar%?if(%pe, >, 999)<%pR|%pL_%pR>

If your playlist is bigger than four digits (1000 or above) you will only see one peak counter. I tried removing the counter all together but it looked weird with nothing there.

Your bug also appears when the track time is in the double hour digits or greater. I made it so if your track is 10h+ the playlist count is hidden.

Hopefully this leaves room for everything to fit without it glitching out.

If you test it, let me know how it goes.

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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: SPAZZ theme

« Last post by philden on January 12, 2025, 07:33:35 PM »

Just had a play, and I like it. I had a couple of issues, though. The right channel peak value disappears on the right side, presumably because my play list was large, see pic.

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Feature Ideas / Re: First button press enables backlight only (when docked)

« Last post by Bilgus on January 12, 2025, 09:29:56 AM »

'Backlight (While Plugged In).'

and under exemptions 'Disable on External Power'

I think this is probably the reverse of what you are asking for..

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New Ports / Re: Surfans F28

« Last post by schatteneis on January 11, 2025, 10:11:55 AM »

sadly no

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Hardware / Re: Changed settings sometimes not saved when relaunching via rockbox.ipod

« Last post by iPodVT on January 09, 2025, 07:00:19 PM »

I doubt ROLO goes through the shutdown procedure and I don't see any reason it should if you want your settings saved shut the device down..

Got it - thanks.

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Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players / Re: SSD sold by iPod Parts UK

« Last post by Frankenpod on January 09, 2025, 02:00:09 PM »

You aren't wrong that iFlash adaptors can be troublesome.  I get the impression that RB devs have learned more about that than they would have liked to.  And I've heard, but not from personal experience, that SSDs with a native ZIF interferface work more reliably.  SSDs do seem to have a surprisingly high power draw, compared to the original 1.4" hard drives, though.

If you only need 256GB there's also the 240GB Toshiba 1.4" double-platter hard drive, but that now seems to be vanishingly-rare (have a couple and I'm hanging on to them!).

Main thing with the iFlash seems to be that the work to get round their limitations (failure to properly implement the cache flushing commands?) has the knock-on effect of increasing their power consumption, so I'm not sure the data  in that linked 2016 article would still apply.

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Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players / Re: SSD sold by iPod Parts UK

« Last post by graemehh on January 09, 2025, 12:38:05 PM »

Thanks again.

That article was well worth reading.

CF cards, ouch, very expensive.

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Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players / Re: SSD sold by iPod Parts UK

« Last post by rockbox_dev123 on January 09, 2025, 07:46:36 AM »

If money is no object and you can bear a thick case back then I would get a 256GB Compact Flash card and a 3000mAh battery. Compact Flash uses the same interface (PATA) as the original ZIF hard drives. They have good performance, low heat and low power draw. There are no larger cards available than this so if you want more storage then it's either SD or SSD (mSATA/NVMe).

Recommended reading:
https://www.iflash.xyz/runtime-shootout-2016-quad-dual-solo-msata-vs-original-hard-drive/

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Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players / Re: SSD sold by iPod Parts UK

« Last post by graemehh on January 09, 2025, 06:58:34 AM »

Thank you for the advice.

I've read a lot of negative comments about iFlash adapters and SD cards on these forums so I was wondering if there is a better alternative?


Initially I just want 256GB. All my digital music is in FLAC, WAV and AIFF files, that is why I want to use Rockbox. If 256GB works OK I might expand up to 1TB.