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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Where should I place fonts that only display icons/graphics?
« Last post by iPodVT on Today at 07:17:15 PM »Given their unconventional nature, it seems more logical to me to put those specialized non-text .fnt files in the theme's folder within the WPS directory rather than in the Fonts directory. Also, giving them filenames that are as descriptive as possible, as well as providing an accompanying README file, would help to make their intended purpose and use clear.
Wherever they end up, I'm intrigued and eager to see what they look like.
Wherever they end up, I'm intrigued and eager to see what they look like.
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Where should I place fonts that only display icons/graphics?
« Last post by Dook on Today at 05:13:22 PM »user selecting them from the Font menu would be left with an unreadable menu.Can't it be prevented by using some custom extension for such fonts?
Just checked this, rockbox refuses to load the theme unless fonts end in the .fnt extensions.
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Where should I place fonts that only display icons/graphics?
« Last post by bahus on Today at 05:07:58 PM »user selecting them from the Font menu would be left with an unreadable menu.Can't it be prevented by using some custom extension for such fonts?
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Where should I place fonts that only display icons/graphics?
« Last post by Dook on Today at 04:56:29 PM »I've recently developed a consistant and (relatively) simple method of generating font files that contain vector icons/graphics that can be displayed accurately as intended in themes. (For anyone wondering why, it's the only way of drawing re-colourable graphics with anti-aliasing.)
My question is, where do you think I should place these files? As they are technically a font, precedence would say they should be stored in the Fonts folder but a user selecting them from the Font menu would be left with an unreadable menu. On the other hand, placing them in the theme's folder in the wps directory would make some sense since these folders are used to store graphics, albeit intended for bitmaps. The only downside to this is that calling these using the font preloading tag, one has to point rockbox to the theme's folder from the font folder like "../wps/themefolder/file.fnt". None of this seems to be considered illegal by checkwps or the theme uploader.
My instincts say to place it in the wps directory instead of the font one, but I want to see what some other people's opinions are on this.
My question is, where do you think I should place these files? As they are technically a font, precedence would say they should be stored in the Fonts folder but a user selecting them from the Font menu would be left with an unreadable menu. On the other hand, placing them in the theme's folder in the wps directory would make some sense since these folders are used to store graphics, albeit intended for bitmaps. The only downside to this is that calling these using the font preloading tag, one has to point rockbox to the theme's folder from the font folder like "../wps/themefolder/file.fnt". None of this seems to be considered illegal by checkwps or the theme uploader.
My instincts say to place it in the wps directory instead of the font one, but I want to see what some other people's opinions are on this.
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Ipod Nano Gen 2 wont build database, doesnt write to metadata.log
« Last post by gorgorgorg on Today at 12:02:09 PM »Hey, im having problems with my ipod nano 2nd gen (4gb). Every time i try to build the database, it gets stuck at 0. It also does not write to metadata.log, no matter if i enable it first thing on boot. 
Things I have tried:
The emulator does not show any log when attempting to build the database except for "sdl_audio_callback: No Data." that appears every 20 seconds or so.
Playing songs from the Files tab works, but i want to be able to shuffle songs and use playlists.
Standard itunes OS works perfectly, so i doubt its something hardware related.
Does anyone have any ideas? literally anything i havent tried already would be appreciated. I have been trying to fix this issue for 3 days now. I really dont want to have to use itunes. I hate the itunes app.
Things I have tried:
- enabling metadata.log at boot first
- putting the files on in both Itunes mode and Rockbox mode in both Linux and Windows
- Putting just one file on at a time (The error even appears with no music files)
- Trying different Rockbox versions, including 4.0, 20250515, 20250514
- Trying multiple different audio file types (opus, ogg, mp3 and flac) with and without any metadata
- copying the whole filesystem to a rockbox emulator (same problems mostly, i managed to crash it once when choosing the scan directory) (still wouldnt make metadata.log)
- verifying the scan directory is set right
- replacing the rockbox emulator's simdisk with a symlink directly to the ipod (didnt help)
- windows explorer drive repair (said there were no issues), and a few other tools on both windows and linux
- restoring / reformating in windows, linux and itunes
The emulator does not show any log when attempting to build the database except for "sdl_audio_callback: No Data." that appears every 20 seconds or so.
Playing songs from the Files tab works, but i want to be able to shuffle songs and use playlists.
Standard itunes OS works perfectly, so i doubt its something hardware related.
Does anyone have any ideas? literally anything i havent tried already would be appreciated. I have been trying to fix this issue for 3 days now. I really dont want to have to use itunes. I hate the itunes app.
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Rockbox 4.0 - Album Artist changed behaviour
« Last post by Frankenpod on Today at 08:58:37 AM »Ah, I see. It would be up to the developers then, I suppose, if they wanted to change the way "album artist" category worked, to default to "artist" if there's no album artist tag filled in.
I generally always fill in the album artist when ripping a CD (media monkey seems to fill in the album artist to be the same as the 'artist' field, by default as soon as you click on the 'album artist' entry field)
[Edit] maybe you could use something like mp3tag to do a bulk operation setting the "album artist" to be equal to the "artist" field but only for anything currently with an "unknown" album artist? I can't remember if mp3tag allows conditional operations like that, but it might.
I generally always fill in the album artist when ripping a CD (media monkey seems to fill in the album artist to be the same as the 'artist' field, by default as soon as you click on the 'album artist' entry field)
[Edit] maybe you could use something like mp3tag to do a bulk operation setting the "album artist" to be equal to the "artist" field but only for anything currently with an "unknown" album artist? I can't remember if mp3tag allows conditional operations like that, but it might.
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Looking for the most efficient (easiest to decode) format for iPod 5
« Last post by speachy on Today at 08:32:17 AM »Those opus benchmarks are a reminder that I really need to optimize the non-power-of-2 FFT. Been on my to-do list for 12 years now.
We last resynced our opus snapshot with upstream in April 2019; it would probably be worth doing that again before putting any additional effort into local optimizations, though I can't imagine they've given any thought to any of the CPU architectures we currently care about (ie "Classic" ARM, m68k, and even MIPS..)
(That probably goes for most of our codecs, fwiw...)
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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Looking for the most efficient (easiest to decode) format for iPod 5
« Last post by saratoga on Today at 08:00:51 AM »Those opus benchmarks are a reminder that I really need to optimize the non-power-of-2 FFT. Been on my to-do list for 12 years now.
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Feature Ideas / Re: Settings to handle media with longer durations
« Last post by eugenkss on Today at 05:51:50 AM »I use the Sleep Timer (Settings -> General Settings ->Startup/Shutdown) set to 40 minutes, with Start Sleep Timer On Boot and Restart Sleep Timer On Keypress enabled. This way, if I fall asleep, it's easy to find the last position within a 40-minute range. And when I'm actively listening, I usually press some buttons within that time frame, which resets the timer.Same here. I use it with a 10-minute sleep-timer.
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User Interface and Voice / Re: Disable delete message and progress bar
« Last post by eugenkss on Today at 05:25:30 AM »I find that message useful, because it tells me that the deletion was successful. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any feedback if it failed.
But of course, different users may have different tastes.
But of course, different users may have different tastes.