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User Interface and Voice / Re: Setting volume precisely and quickly

« Last post by Bilgus on April 28, 2025, 06:15:55 AM »

We have a way to set the value of a setting as of 4.0
But I'm not sure that you can have multiple values per setting

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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Who the hell is "Solomon Peachy"?

« Last post by Bilgus on April 28, 2025, 06:10:20 AM »

He's indeed a real person and likely has spent more cash of his own than we've received in donations in at least a few years

Not to mention the time spent

Oh, bigpilot
Thanks for the donation too.

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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Who the hell is "Solomon Peachy"?

« Last post by gevaerts on April 28, 2025, 05:00:32 AM »

He's the current person in charge of our infrastructure hosting, and to be fair, most development. When around ten years ago rockbox was seriously slowing down with the old guard (myself included) dropping out, he was one of the volunteers stepping in, and I'd say without him the project would probably not be very alive today.

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User Interface and Voice / Setting volume precisely and quickly

« Last post by joebar on April 28, 2025, 04:26:16 AM »

I vary the volume on my MP3 player roughly between -50 and -30 when listening through headphones. Then I set it to 0 by rotating the click wheel several revolutions when I connect it to external speakers. I just discovered the Perceptual Volume Adjustment Mode which helps, but then I lose the fine grain adjustment at low volumes. Would the Number of Volume Steps option help? I couldn't find any documentation on how to set it.
Is there another way to keep single-digit steps at low volumes and have a quick way to jump to max volume? Something like the acceleration with rewind and fast-forward would be nice. Or Shortcuts? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: T*H*A*N*K*S to Rockbox developers!

« Last post by bigpilot on April 28, 2025, 03:20:45 AM »

My Sansa Clip Zip works vastly better with Rockbox and I'm so glad I took the time to install the sofware (took me about an hour or so, even though I'm a computer and electrical engineer ).

I had the latest 1.1.21 firmware on my Clip Zip yet it would often freeze after the playback of a track. Worse still, it would keep running and draining the battery unless one would push the power button for 10 seconds to power it down. Also, the startup time was ridiculously long (Rockbox starts in 1 or 1.5 seconds) as was the shutdown time. In addition Rockbox will allow me to use larger MicroSD cards than the 32GB supported by the Sandisk firmware. 32GB is getting a bit cramped.

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Rockbox General Discussion / Who the hell is "Solomon Peachy"?

« Last post by bigpilot on April 28, 2025, 03:16:16 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?

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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Recommendation for Digital Output?

« Last post by bigpilot on April 28, 2025, 03:06:32 AM »

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.

I've purchased this player and it's half the price of the one for which Rockbox software is available. The software of this player is far from perfect and would benefit from a Rockbox port.

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!!

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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Improved sound quality

« Last post by bigpilot on April 28, 2025, 03:02:06 AM »

My own experience with digital audio is that timing's extremely important for the sound quality. I've made my own Digital Audio Player and I've noticed the same difference there.

I find it fascinating that the same FLAC files played on the same hardware but with different software can result in substantial sonic differences.

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Rockbox Utility / Re: http error ssl handshake failed

« Last post by rojomx on April 27, 2025, 10:51:48 PM »

Installing libssl from here worked:
wget http://nz2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.1_1.1.1f-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libssl1.1_1.1.1f-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb

This workled perfectly for me. I have an iPod Video 5th gen and using Linux Mint 22.1. Thank you very much for posting this. 

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Rockbox General Discussion / Re: Recommendation for Digital Output?

« Last post by speachy on April 27, 2025, 09:38:01 PM »

I'm looking to buy a Rockbox-compatible DAP with a digital output (SPDIF) and am looking for recommendations.

As far as I'm aware, the only rockboxable players with a built-in digital output are the iriver H1xx and H3xx series.

Some of the hosted targets *might* have the drivers to utilize USB-attached sp/dif dongles, but even if they do, you'll need to make a custom rockbox build that pick the correct audio device, properly configures it, and generally does the right thing during various runtime circumstances.   (Doing all of that properly can be surprisingly complicated; rockbox is built around he assumption that the audio hardware is fixed, always available, and can't get unplugged out from under it.  which is a very real problem with USB...)

Meanwhile; this isn't something that can be easily "modded" onto a device that wasn't designed for it; you'd most likely have to replace the device's DAC with something that can directly speak sp/dif, and alter rockbox to utilize it. (In theory some of the DACs on various devices could have an sp/dif mode, but you'd still have to wire up the necessary circuitry to handle it.  and of course, alter rockbox appropriately)