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Plugins/Viewers / Re: ChessBox: Possible to replace the IMPOSSIBLE engine with another (Linux Based)?
« Last post by bigpilot on April 28, 2025, 09:39:10 AM »Can it really have an ELO of 2500 with such little memory?
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Who the hell is "Solomon Peachy"?
« Last post by iPodVT on April 28, 2025, 09:33:50 AM »How does one donate hardware? There seems to be a need for an ipod6g.
Generally, reach out directly to the interested party and work out shipping details.
FWIW, assuming it makes financial sense, sending known-working hardware is better than sending funds to buy hardware. This is especially true for used (and/or modded) ipods.
Very good - thanks for the info. Will do.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Who the hell is "Solomon Peachy"?
« Last post by speachy on April 28, 2025, 09:28:04 AM »How does one donate hardware? There seems to be a need for an ipod6g.
Generally, reach out directly to the interested party and work out shipping details.
FWIW, assuming it makes financial sense, sending known-working hardware is better than sending funds to buy hardware. This is especially true for used (and/or modded) ipods.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Who the hell is "Solomon Peachy"?
« Last post by speachy on April 28, 2025, 09:10:48 AM »I just donated to Rockbox via PayPal but it says my gift was donated to "Solomon Peachy".
Is that a nickname or a real name?
Unfortunately, it's a very real name.
The short version -- There never has been a "Rockobox" legal entity, and given the near-complete lack of assets and cashflow it's not worth the paperwork (and ongoing expense) to create one. So it goes to my personal paypal acccount.
On the donation front, since I took over administrative duties, on average donations have covered about half of operating expenses (mostly hosting fees), So far in 2025, we're slightly cashflow positive. I maintain records of every transaction, in or out.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Who the hell is "Solomon Peachy"?
« Last post by iPodVT on April 28, 2025, 08:43:33 AM »How does one donate hardware? There seems to be a need for an ipod6g.
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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Recommendation for Digital Output?
« Last post by speachy on April 28, 2025, 08:42:47 AM »I've purchased this player
Yikes. I hope you threw away the bundled SD card.
I'm noticing that DAP's for which a Rockbox port is available are quite a bit more expensive than ones for which there isn't.
The short answer is that these cheap DAPs are built on SoCs/platforms that have far too few resources (mostly RAM) for a recognizable-as-rockbox port. Approximately all of them are based on SoCs whose only available documentation is in Chinese -- if any documentation can be found at all. They also rely on hardware decoding, and it is rare that the UI isn't just a slight reskin of the very limited (due to a lack of hardware resources) reference software that the original designers came up with.
The longer answer is that the middle tier of the DAP market is almost non-existent now, having been repladed by the smartphone that most folks already have. You're left with (1) folks for whom price is the primary consideration, leading to that shovelware crap that dominates the market, and (2) "audiophiles" that prioritize that have far more money than sense. I don't know how well the ErosQ family sells, but we're grateful they're still in production and not afflicted with expensive and power hungry gimmicks like dual DACs and the usability nightmare that is a touchscreen.
In fact I'm wondering why all these Chinese companies making crappy MP3 players with crappy software aren't simply porting Rockbox to their hardware. It would save them money in software engineering costs and result in a lot more happy customers!!
To be honest, I'm quite glad these letter salad Chinese manufacturers ignore Rockbox. If they did a port themselves it would be a horrible janky mangled mess, they would not provide any source code at all (GPL? What GPL?) and accomplish nothing beyond tarnishing our reputuation.
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Wrapping a long title
« Last post by iPodVT on April 28, 2025, 08:40:22 AM »I've made a way recently to achieve this, but it's not foolproof since it relies on Bilgus' new file reading tag. There's no way within the theme spec to obtain a whitespace character for comparisons to make a conditional algorithm for breaking on space.
Thanks. And what if the second line of text doesn't fit within the horizontal space - does it scroll or wrap again or just get clipped/truncated? The Title, Artist, Album, etc ID3 tags for Classical Music can sometimes be extremely verbose.
Do you ever notice any processing time lags in your WPS?
I will have to try out these various themes and also look at their code.
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Wrapping a long title
« Last post by iPodVT on April 28, 2025, 08:30:37 AM »From the CustomWPS page
%?if(%ss(0, 20, %it), =, %it)<track title length is 20 characters or less|track title length is over 20 characters>
I've attempted it, but the issue is there's no way to guarantee a break on a space unless there's some additional conditional wizardry we can do.
Thanks. So you are hardcoding a specific mono spaced font which allows you to pre know exactly how many chars you can fit in the horizontal space?
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User Interface and Voice / Re: Setting volume precisely and quickly
« Last post by iPodVT on April 28, 2025, 08:23:41 AM »I believe you can have any number of shortcuts for setting various specific volumes. A single example is:
[shortcut]
type: apply
data: volume: -10
name:
icon:
talkclip:
A shortcut to the general Volumes setting selector would be:
[shortcut]
type: setting
data: volume
name:
icon:
talkclip:
In both examples you could specify your own custom names and icons that would appear for each shortcut in the list of shortcuts.
[shortcut]
type: apply
data: volume: -10
name:
icon:
talkclip:
A shortcut to the general Volumes setting selector would be:
[shortcut]
type: setting
data: volume
name:
icon:
talkclip:
In both examples you could specify your own custom names and icons that would appear for each shortcut in the list of shortcuts.
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Theming and Appearance Customization / Re: Wrapping a long title
« Last post by Dook on April 28, 2025, 06:17:56 AM »From the CustomWPS pageWith a monospaced font I could calculate the number of characters on a line...
How would you do that?
%?if(%ss(0, 20, %it), =, %it)<track title length is 20 characters or less|track title length is over 20 characters>
I've attempted it, but the issue is there's no way to guarantee a break on a space unless there's some additional conditional wizardry we can do.
I've made a way recently to achieve this, but it's not foolproof since it relies on Bilgus' new file reading tag. There's no way within the theme spec to obtain a whitespace character for comparisons to make a conditional algorithm for breaking on space.