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

« Last post by Bilgus on Today at 01:58:30 AM »

the pitch plugin pitch_screen.rock takes arguments

first go to settings>General Settings>Startup/Shutdown>Start Screen>Open Plugin

choose Viewers/pitch_screen.rock

now go to Apps/Open Plugins
under Start Screen you should see [pitch_screen.rock]
long press on the entry and choose 'Edit' from the context menu (choose No to browse)

EDIT After today:
choose Yes when asked to set parameter and No when asked to browse for a plugin

under parameter you can use these options

Code: [Select]

/* pitch_screen
 *  accepts args -q, -g, -p=, -s=, -k=; (= sign is optional)
 * -q silences output splash
 * -g runs the gui (DEFAULT)
 * -p100 would set pitch to 100%
 * -s=90 sets speed to 90% if timestrech is enabled
 * -k=true -k1 enables time stretch -k0 -kf-kn disables
so  '-q -p70 -s90' would hide the splash set pitch to 70% and speed to 90'

after saving it you can select the entry again and run it to see if it does what you want

now on startup the pitch will be set

PS. working on a patch to allow you to add a parameter for viewers without going to the plugin
 

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Feature Ideas / Re: Exclude a directory from bookmarking

« Last post by Bilgus on January 14, 2025, 11:20:36 PM »

I think this is a pretty good take on it..

https://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/c/rockbox/+/6333

The manual reads:

You can also configure what directories will save bookmarks by creating a file named
’bookmark.ignore’ in a directory you would like to never create a bookmark when files
are played from it.

Note: You can still manually create a bookmark but ignored directories will not update
existing bookmarks nor auto create them for files located in ignored directories.

The file ’bookmark.unignore’ provides the opposite functionality. For instance in the
root of the drive you could create ’/bookmark.ignore’ and no files played from this drive
would get bookmarks. If you then created ’/podcasts/bookmark.unignore’ tracks played
from the podcast directory would get bookmarks.

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Hardware / Re: IPod Photo (4th gen) iusses- errors when using plugins or playing music [SOLVED]

« Last post by iPodVT on January 14, 2025, 10:30:24 PM »

That's great news - I'm so happy for you - thanks for letting us know.  I hope you get tons of enjoyment out of listening to music on your iPod, and using it with Rockbox.

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Hardware / Re: IPod Photo (4th gen) problems -- errors when trying to use plugins or play music

« Last post by Dodo on January 14, 2025, 08:35:18 PM »

Great news!

It now works perfectly fine with no issues that I could find. All because I used a 256GB Samsung Pro Plus sd card, and not a Sandisc card. Didn't need to use a different adapter or anything. Thank you iPodVT and others for the help.

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Feature Ideas / Re: Exclude a directory from bookmarking

« Last post by Bilgus on January 14, 2025, 06:57:39 PM »

actually maybe a better mechanism is having a file 'bookmark.ignore' then you can easily exclude a directory
let me throw something together

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Feature Ideas / Re: Exclude a directory from bookmarking

« Last post by rockbox_dev123 on January 14, 2025, 06:44:08 PM »

I used splashf to print all of the relevant strings in the simulator and sanity check myself.

get_wps_state()->id3->path does indeed return the path to the file being played and not the playlist file.

I think I fixed the issues I was seeing by explicitly checking the return code from strncmp and also by changing the default exclude dir to include a trailing slash.

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Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players / Re: Audio Capacitor Bypass (the DiyMod)

« Last post by saratoga on January 14, 2025, 08:57:17 AM »

The older ipods had small dc blocking caps, so if you used low impedance headphones you'd lose some of the bass. If you're in that situation, upgrading the caps will improve the low frequency output. If you're using high impedance it won't make much difference.

A lot of the other mods out there are nonsense though. Not sure which one you're asking about.

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Feature Ideas / Re: Exclude a directory from bookmarking

« Last post by rockbox_dev123 on January 14, 2025, 08:42:35 AM »

Not completely sure what you are trying for here

is it that you want to block auto bookmarks for a particular directory or all bookmarks if its in that dir?

I find bookmarks invaluable when listening to audio books. However I never want to bookmark a play through of music.

Another reason is that a close friend who uses a rockbox player I built reported to me that they were selecting tracks in albums and the wrong tracks kept getting played. I realised this was because there were auto bookmark files in the directories from previous listens that were always being started instead of the chosen track. As they also use rockbox for audio books I wanted to disable bookmarking entirely for music.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll take another look when I finish work.

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Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players / Audio Capacitor Bypass (the DiyMod)

« Last post by graemehh on January 14, 2025, 08:39:05 AM »

Does anyone have experience of the Audio Capacitor Bypass mod for a 5th gen. iPod (sometime referred to as the DiyMod)?

Does it make any difference to the audio output quality via the 30-pin connector and is it worth doing?

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

« Last post by graemehh on January 14, 2025, 08:31:05 AM »

Thanks rockbox_dev123, Frankenpod and also a post by cereal_killer.

I found this ZIF SSD on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGF77YVK/?coliid=IFPSWMJVHNTF4&colid=LW308H51O0EB&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it

It looks like it might work and is cheaper than the equivalent CF card but still a bit pricey.

On balance (and budget), I'm going for an iFlash adapter and single 256G SD card.