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New Ports / Re: Fiio M3k
« Last post by amachronic on Today at 10:41:10 AM »@bahus: I did try the play+volume button mapping on a local build, but I found it a bit tricky to use in practice. It also displaces the WPS hotkey mapping (= long press of play) so it'd create inconsistency with the main keymap. (Not that I find the hotkey very useful.)
But, I don't think the hotkey can do anything useful if the screen is locked, so if the Play+Volume buttons act as skip/seek when the screen is locked and keep the current behavior when unlocked, we can have the best of both worlds.
But, I don't think the hotkey can do anything useful if the screen is locked, so if the Play+Volume buttons act as skip/seek when the screen is locked and keep the current behavior when unlocked, we can have the best of both worlds.
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New Ports / Re: Fiio M3k
« Last post by bahus on Today at 07:11:58 AM »amachronic
Original firmware when in locked state allows to change tracks by long pressing volume buttons. That's not very consistent but quite convenient feature.
I wonder how to make rockbox more usable in pocket and/or locked state. How about making shortcuts with play + volume buttons act as prev/next and ff/rw buttons (So play + short press Vol- acts as previous track, play + long press of Vol- acts as rewind, ... ) Looks like convenient one hand shortcuts. Is it feasible?
Original firmware when in locked state allows to change tracks by long pressing volume buttons. That's not very consistent but quite convenient feature.
I wonder how to make rockbox more usable in pocket and/or locked state. How about making shortcuts with play + volume buttons act as prev/next and ff/rw buttons (So play + short press Vol- acts as previous track, play + long press of Vol- acts as rewind, ... ) Looks like convenient one hand shortcuts. Is it feasible?
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User Interface and Voice / Re: iPod nano 2g, hold switch isn't unlocking once locked but only in Rockbox
« Last post by sweetfa on May 13, 2021, 03:47:01 PM »Managed to fix it, just turned off the part of button-clickwheel.c that powers down the buttons when you do hold.
It still holds, just responds to keys straight after unholding.
Not really sure if i've broken anything by doing that but all seems ok.
If anyone wants my fix just send me a PM.
It still holds, just responds to keys straight after unholding.
Not really sure if i've broken anything by doing that but all seems ok.
If anyone wants my fix just send me a PM.
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New Ports / Re: AIGO EROS Q / AIGO EROS K / IRULU Surfans F20 / AGPTek H3 / HIFI WALKER H2
« Last post by dconrad on May 13, 2021, 10:32:36 AM »Got me a surfans f20. Rockbox loaded, it boots and plays fine on everything I plugit into headphones speakers but I have a pair of speakers it just won't work with. Changed the cord several times, each time original firmware plays just fine but rockbox won't. Any ideas I am stumped.
How do the speakers connect? If it is via the headphone or line out, it should work just fine. If it is via USB, rockbox doesn't do any sort of audio over USB to my knowledge.
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New Ports / Re: AIGO EROS Q / AIGO EROS K / IRULU Surfans F20 / AGPTek H3 / HIFI WALKER H2
« Last post by dconrad on May 13, 2021, 10:29:11 AM »I can't find a way to set repeat, shuffle and so on on the fly rather than having to go through the playback menu which is kinda cumbersome. Am I just not understanding Rockbox, or is this something that simply hasn't been implemented for this player yet? It doesn't have that many buttons so I guess it would need to be implemented through some button combination.
EDIT: Some themes seem to specify functionality mapped to a "hold button", does that have a mapping yet?
Oktan, you might be interested in this patch that was merged the other day: Gerrit #3408.
This implements Quickscreen, so to change the quick settings, hold down play on the while playing screen and then scroll left/right with the scrollwheel or up/down with the seek buttons. You can add any option in the settings to the quickscreen from the context menu when you're hovered over them in the settings (if that makes sense). I think by default it has shuffle and repeat on left and right.
Otherwise, Stop was moved to holding the power button, and the hotkey (by default, this shows the playlist) can be brought up by moving the scroll wheel on the while playing screen.
Sidenote, I wonder if themes which do something when the hold switch is activated generally do the same action when the softlock (press power) is activated?
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Rockbox Utility / iPod Class 6G - Boot loader USB mode error?
« Last post by MM on May 12, 2021, 10:42:16 PM »I was installing Rockbox on iPod 6Generation and the attached message popped up. I did what it said and then it said something about formatting it. I hit that and now all it says is:
Rockbox bootloader
Version: 1.0
Battery status: ok 3860 MV
Loading Rockbox...
Error!
Can't load Rockbox.iPod:
file not found
Entering USB mode...
bootloader usb mode
Can someone help me to fix this. I can't seem to move forward from here. I'm not very tech savvy, so please use simple terms I can understand. I haven't unplugged it because I was afraid I might lose something. I've tried turning it on and off again but the screen with the above message stays the same.
Thanks.
Rockbox bootloader
Version: 1.0
Battery status: ok 3860 MV
Loading Rockbox...
Error!
Can't load Rockbox.iPod:
file not found
Entering USB mode...
bootloader usb mode
Can someone help me to fix this. I can't seem to move forward from here. I'm not very tech savvy, so please use simple terms I can understand. I haven't unplugged it because I was afraid I might lose something. I've tried turning it on and off again but the screen with the above message stays the same.
Thanks.
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New Ports / Re: Fiio M3k
« Last post by amachronic on May 12, 2021, 05:09:35 PM »I know you wrote that you are not looking to do other ports but I am holding out hope that all this work for the FiiO M3K will open doors for a port to the Shanling Q1 (and perhaps even M0).
IIRC the Q1 and M0 are nearly identical, except for the buttons and screen I think they have the exact same hardware. Once one is done I think porting to the other should be trivial.
Come to think of it I should create a wiki page for the Q1... I did unpack the firmware at one point and found out you can execute scripts on the stock FW.
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New Ports / Re: Fiio M3k
« Last post by 7o9 on May 12, 2021, 02:40:08 PM »Nice job on the new bootloader, amachronic.
Took me two attempts to realize I had to actually install the bootloader from the menu after running jztool.
The boot menu looks very good and it works very well.
Thanks for all your work on this port, it is great to have RockBox on this device.
I know you wrote that you are not looking to do other ports but I am holding out hope that all this work for the FiiO M3K will open doors for a port to the Shanling Q1 (and perhaps even M0).
Took me two attempts to realize I had to actually install the bootloader from the menu after running jztool.
The boot menu looks very good and it works very well.
Thanks for all your work on this port, it is great to have RockBox on this device.
I know you wrote that you are not looking to do other ports but I am holding out hope that all this work for the FiiO M3K will open doors for a port to the Shanling Q1 (and perhaps even M0).
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New Ports / Re: Apple TV (1st generation)
« Last post by saratoga on May 11, 2021, 06:20:41 PM »If you can install Linux on it then you can already run the SDL application. Probably would need to map remote control buttons but otherwise I would expect it to mostly work.
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New Ports / Apple TV (1st generation)
« Last post by failsandwich on May 11, 2021, 11:04:31 AM »The 1st-gen Apple TV has been pretty much left for dead by Apple. iTunes' update servers don't connect to it anymore, and it doesn't support logging in/syncing music with modern iTunes either. To use it, you have to either sync it with an old computer or install CFW such as aTV Flash or OSMC.
So, all in all I think RockBox would be a pretty good fit for it. It is basically a glorified iPod, after all. It wouldn't be that difficult to port Rockbox to it, especially considering it runs on an x86 Pentium M CPU and doesn't have any particularly unusual or specialized hardware, unlike most MP3 players.
So, all in all I think RockBox would be a pretty good fit for it. It is basically a glorified iPod, after all. It wouldn't be that difficult to port Rockbox to it, especially considering it runs on an x86 Pentium M CPU and doesn't have any particularly unusual or specialized hardware, unlike most MP3 players.