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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: [IPod Mini] Font Conversion
« Last post by aaaaalbb on Today at 07:25:47 AM »I just convert the fonts with conttf64 and copy the .fnt file to the .rockbox\fonts directory. On the iPod and on the simulator I then simply select the font from the theme settings.
I managed to record my screen, so you all can see what I consider is the failsafe font. My fonts are the ones that start with "15" and all the ones below. None of them seem work.
I managed to record my screen, so you all can see what I consider is the failsafe font. My fonts are the ones that start with "15" and all the ones below. None of them seem work.
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: What are ##MUSIC# and ##PORT# listed in Main Menu and Files ?
« Last post by Bilgus on Today at 05:37:00 AM »Yeah the sansa OF creates them since you are seeing them I'd venture a guess that you aren't booting off the sd card I'd highly recommend doing so not using the internal drive on the device as it will wear out and go read only eventually
to do multiboot on a clip zip simply copy a dev version .rockbox install to your sd card root and make a file called
rockbox_main.clipzip either totally empty or with a single '/'
to do multiboot on a clip zip simply copy a dev version .rockbox install to your sd card root and make a file called
rockbox_main.clipzip either totally empty or with a single '/'
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Dealing With Long Database Delays
« Last post by Bilgus on Today at 05:22:20 AM »after another few hours of playing with it..
the reason the other tag items are faster is because they don't do the
formatting over the whole tag corpus instead you drill it down to a specific artist or album
whereas 'Tracks' formats the whole shebang in a single operation
formatting is slow for several reasons:
there is also a memset over a rather large buffer removing that shaves about 20 seconds off my results but i'm a bit wary to remove it
the reason the other tag items are faster is because they don't do the
formatting over the whole tag corpus instead you drill it down to a specific artist or album
whereas 'Tracks' formats the whole shebang in a single operation
formatting is slow for several reasons:
- first it has to go through and find a matching formatter for the data it has that means string comparisons and or parsing
- second it has to parse the formatter it found to get the format items (%s %d etc)
- third it has to open/seek files to retrieve the tags in the format string
there is also a memset over a rather large buffer removing that shaves about 20 seconds off my results but i'm a bit wary to remove it
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Dealing With Long Database Delays
« Last post by Bilgus on Today at 02:25:00 AM »interestingly doing "Title2" -> title ? filename ^ "/" -> title = "fmt_alphanum_title"
is indeed faster than
"Title mm:ss" -> title = "fmt_alphanum_title"
I'll try to figure out why before I commit this
[Edit*]
it appears adding the condition of filename makes the format no longer match so its doing the same thing
on the back end not totally sure why but the tagcache is a complicated opaque beast and it is quite hard to follow
you can observe in your track listing that there is nothing besides the track title
(and indeed in this patch the 'Title' item is the same)
whereas the item 'Title mm:ss' has the track duration and is about 10x slower
I'm guessing the reason formatting makes it slower is that you are
reading multiple tag files and its causing lots of random disk access
but I'm not totally sure if that is the whole story as I'd think the other list types would be affected too
is indeed faster than
"Title mm:ss" -> title = "fmt_alphanum_title"
I'll try to figure out why before I commit this
[Edit*]
it appears adding the condition of filename makes the format no longer match so its doing the same thing
on the back end not totally sure why but the tagcache is a complicated opaque beast and it is quite hard to follow
you can observe in your track listing that there is nothing besides the track title
(and indeed in this patch the 'Title' item is the same)
whereas the item 'Title mm:ss' has the track duration and is about 10x slower
I'm guessing the reason formatting makes it slower is that you are
reading multiple tag files and its causing lots of random disk access
but I'm not totally sure if that is the whole story as I'd think the other list types would be affected too
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Dealing With Long Database Delays
« Last post by Bilgus on Today at 02:11:58 AM »the key here is skipping formatting but I see that you were still using formatting in yours
so there is clearly something still going on that might be worth investigating a bit further
so there is clearly something still going on that might be worth investigating a bit further
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: [IPod Mini] Font Conversion
« Last post by Frankenpod on Today at 01:38:14 AM »How are you installing them once converted?
convttf works for me (with an ipod Classic) - converted a lot of fonts with that, and once converted I just copy them into the rockbox/fonts directory, then select them via RB's settings menu and they work. Can you tell if it is that the simulator isn't finding the fonts, or that they aren't converting properly to a useable form?
convttf works for me (with an ipod Classic) - converted a lot of fonts with that, and once converted I just copy them into the rockbox/fonts directory, then select them via RB's settings menu and they work. Can you tell if it is that the simulator isn't finding the fonts, or that they aren't converting properly to a useable form?
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: What are ##MUSIC# and ##PORT# listed in Main Menu and Files ?
« Last post by Frankenpod on Today at 01:17:09 AM »I don't have that player, but could they be folders created by the original firmware?
That would explain why they appear under 'Files', though I don't see why they would feature on the main menu.
Ah...
https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=51226.0
That would explain why they appear under 'Files', though I don't see why they would feature on the main menu.
Ah...
https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=51226.0
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Dealing With Long Database Delays
« Last post by iPodVT on Today at 12:33:41 AM »I tried it, and the Filename and Title options do indeed produce the list almost instantaneously with my ~3200 db entries, which is most excellent.
I was able to get similar results with my tagnavi_user.config file, as described in my post "Dealing With Long Database Delays - Part Two" [https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,54450.0.html]. My method also produced the list in about one second.
But my solution has the lousy shortcoming that it requires that the track files are all in a known location that is hard coded into my tagnavi_user.config file. That was totally acceptable for my own personal use, but it's obviously not a good generalized solution.
Is there any difference between the list that is produced by the original method vs the list that is produced with the new 'Title' option?
I was able to get similar results with my tagnavi_user.config file, as described in my post "Dealing With Long Database Delays - Part Two" [https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,54450.0.html]. My method also produced the list in about one second.
But my solution has the lousy shortcoming that it requires that the track files are all in a known location that is hard coded into my tagnavi_user.config file. That was totally acceptable for my own personal use, but it's obviously not a good generalized solution.
Is there any difference between the list that is produced by the original method vs the list that is produced with the new 'Title' option?
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Theming and Appearance Customization / What are ##MUSIC# and ##PORT# listed in Main Menu and Files ?
« Last post by islandchris on February 05, 2023, 11:32:06 PM »These are the first two items in my Main Menu list, and in Files.
I dont see them listed/mentioned in the user manual
for my Sansa Clip Zip. Corruption I though, but I deleted all files,
uninstalled RB and reinstalled with the RB Utility and I still see these two listings.
'Music' , not all caps and no hash signs, is also listed in the menu.
What is this about ? Tried to do a screenshot but no go.
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Dealing With Long Database Delays
« Last post by Bilgus on February 05, 2023, 09:50:16 PM »No thats just a link to the patch
here is a iPodVideo Build if you want to try it
http://www.mediafire.com/file/acp38hf0qymwf20/iPodVideo_rockbox-full_TagNavi_tracks_g5118.zip
here is a iPodVideo Build if you want to try it
http://www.mediafire.com/file/acp38hf0qymwf20/iPodVideo_rockbox-full_TagNavi_tracks_g5118.zip