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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic
« Last post by iPodVT on March 10, 2025, 08:03:22 PM »Okay, I created the new directory "/Rockbox Playlists2", started playing an album via the Database Browser, went to Save Current Directory, and edited the supplied path from "/Rockbox Playlists/Playlist 1" to "/Rockbox Playlists2/Playlist 1". The playlist was successfully saved in "/Rockbox Playlists2". I also checked to make sure that Rockbox hadn't changed my previously selected Playlists Directory from "/Rockbox Playlists" to "/Rockbox Playlists2", and that was unchanged. So it seems that the panic I'm reporting is dependent on specifying a directory that doesn't exist. Of course, since the full path is editable the user could specify a chain of non existent directories (possibly opening a doorway into another dimension...).
BTW - this afternoon I also got a panic doing the same things on an ipodvideo running a dev build from January.
BTW - this afternoon I also got a panic doing the same things on an ipodvideo running a dev build from January.
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic
« Last post by iPodVT on March 10, 2025, 07:36:31 PM »So ARe you saying you get a panic if you atttempt to create a playlist in a directory that doesn't exist in both cases or is it irrespective of the prior existence as well?
Hang on - I think I now understand what you are asking. I'll try it again, editing the directory name to a directory that exists but is not my specified Playlists directory.
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic
« Last post by iPodVT on March 10, 2025, 07:16:44 PM »So ARe you saying you get a panic if you atttempt to create a playlist in a directory that doesn't exist in both cases or is it irrespective of the prior existence as well?
I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but the only difference between the two scenarios is that in the first I accessed Save Current Directory via the WPS's context menus and in the second I accessed Save Current Directory via the context menu attached to the main menu's Playlists item. Every other aspect was exactly the same between both attempts: The current playlist was dynamic - derived from playing an album via the Database Browser and not associated with a previously saved playlist. In both cases I edited the directory segment of the pathname exactly the same way to specify a directory that did not exist. My Playlists directory is at "/Rockbox Playlists", Rockbox supplied the default path "/Rockbox Playlists/Playlist 1" in the virtual keyboard screen, and both times I edited the pathname to be "/Rockbox Playlists2/Playlist 1". And both attempts caused a Panic.
Please let me know if I still haven't answered your question satisfactorily or if you have any other questions.
Thanks.
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Save Current Playlist Panic
« Last post by Bilgus on March 10, 2025, 06:26:10 PM »So ARe you saying you get a panic if you atttempt to create a playlist in a directory that doesn't exist in both cases or is it irrespective of the prior existence as well?
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Save Current Playlist Panic
« Last post by iPodVT on March 10, 2025, 01:40:06 PM »Target: ipod6g
Version: ae3b34734a-250310
I was listening to an album that I had started playing via the Database Browser. While it was playing I entered the WPS's context menu and selected Save Current Playlist. Then while in the virtual keyboard screen I edited the directory name segment of the file pathname to a directory that doesn't exist, expecting that Rockbox would create the directory and place the new playlist file in it. But that caused a Panic. I retried the same thing, except that I accessed Save Current Playlist via a long click on the Playlists item in the main menu, and again got a Panic.
Version: ae3b34734a-250310
I was listening to an album that I had started playing via the Database Browser. While it was playing I entered the WPS's context menu and selected Save Current Playlist. Then while in the virtual keyboard screen I edited the directory name segment of the file pathname to a directory that doesn't exist, expecting that Rockbox would create the directory and place the new playlist file in it. But that caused a Panic. I retried the same thing, except that I accessed Save Current Playlist via a long click on the Playlists item in the main menu, and again got a Panic.
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Set a setting and lost skip
« Last post by Braverman on March 10, 2025, 09:24:01 AM »******* deleted **************
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Subline timing.
« Last post by chuck_lardo on March 10, 2025, 03:27:39 AM »Ok, cool.
This should do nicely.
Thanks guys
This should do nicely.
Thanks guys
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / View Current Playlist
« Last post by iPodVT on March 10, 2025, 12:42:40 AM »Thanks chris_s for making the below change in the current dev build. I use that a lot, so it's a great convenience to now have it at the top of the menu and automatically selected.
2e91a67c3f: Deprioritize 'Create Playlist' option
Make "View Current Playlist" option more accessible by moving it into the spot of the 'Create Playlist' option, which currently appears first in the context menu, and is thus automatically selected
2e91a67c3f: Deprioritize 'Create Playlist' option
Make "View Current Playlist" option more accessible by moving it into the spot of the 'Create Playlist' option, which currently appears first in the context menu, and is thus automatically selected
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Subline timing.
« Last post by Bilgus on March 09, 2025, 11:55:48 AM »The long form of %t(show, hide) goes up to about ~100 minutes
%t(3, 360000) would show for 3 seconds then not again for 100 minutes
and Dook remembers correctly that the overhead is higher for this form
as it has extra space required and extra processing too
but as long as you don't go crazy with it you probably won't notice the difference
%t(3, 360000) would show for 3 seconds then not again for 100 minutes
and Dook remembers correctly that the overhead is higher for this form
as it has extra space required and extra processing too
but as long as you don't go crazy with it you probably won't notice the difference
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Apple - Installation/Removal / Re: No DFU devices found
« Last post by makeprop on March 09, 2025, 07:57:13 AM »Hi,
Please refer to this guide - https://www.ott.net/mach/rockbox-on-ipod-video-without-itunes/
or the pinned post on the Apple Installation thread.
A much quicker way of just testing out a manual restore on the iPod is this guide: https://blog.kimiblock.top/2024/09/05/ipod-on-linux/
Let me know how you get on - i struggled a lot until I came across those two - the guide on the RB page is a bit dated. The only way to restore an iPod using windows is via iTunes and HxD live- involving a writing of the first two bits of the MBR. Do not waste your time restortingn to reddit solutions of this or that partition manager - all of these are bloatwares masquerading as partition managers.
PS: If you're not using the original HDD i.e some kind of CF/adaptor solution - one thing which might not be entirely clear is that if the adaptor is malfunctioning or the ribbon cable isn't properly inserted the device won't be able to communicate properly. One of the easiest ways to test this is to see if you can actually speak with the device's storage using any standard disk partition software. If you're able to get fdisk to work and comms properly with the iPod then you're good to go.
As for DFU/non DFU mode - don't take my word for it but I honestly think they're meaningless as far as manual restoration is concerned. I've done hunreds of restorations so far when experimenting in different use caseas and not once have i ever needed to explicitally put it in a specific moe. I've played with 1G mini, 4G, 5G and 6G iPods and never have i bricked an iPod.
Please refer to this guide - https://www.ott.net/mach/rockbox-on-ipod-video-without-itunes/
or the pinned post on the Apple Installation thread.
A much quicker way of just testing out a manual restore on the iPod is this guide: https://blog.kimiblock.top/2024/09/05/ipod-on-linux/
Let me know how you get on - i struggled a lot until I came across those two - the guide on the RB page is a bit dated. The only way to restore an iPod using windows is via iTunes and HxD live- involving a writing of the first two bits of the MBR. Do not waste your time restortingn to reddit solutions of this or that partition manager - all of these are bloatwares masquerading as partition managers.
PS: If you're not using the original HDD i.e some kind of CF/adaptor solution - one thing which might not be entirely clear is that if the adaptor is malfunctioning or the ribbon cable isn't properly inserted the device won't be able to communicate properly. One of the easiest ways to test this is to see if you can actually speak with the device's storage using any standard disk partition software. If you're able to get fdisk to work and comms properly with the iPod then you're good to go.
As for DFU/non DFU mode - don't take my word for it but I honestly think they're meaningless as far as manual restoration is concerned. I've done hunreds of restorations so far when experimenting in different use caseas and not once have i ever needed to explicitally put it in a specific moe. I've played with 1G mini, 4G, 5G and 6G iPods and never have i bricked an iPod.