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Starting Development and Compiling / Re: Switched to Android and programmed my own player

« Last post by Frankenpod on Today at 02:41:01 PM »

The concept makes me again think there ought to be such a thing as a meta-playlist or nested-playlist, i.e. a playlist-of-playlists.  Similar to the idea here, but possibly allowing playlists to be sequenced in different orders or shuffled.  To get really silly I suppose one could have unlimited levels of such a structure, but hard to imagine any use-case for that.

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Repairing and Upgrading Rockbox Capable Players / Re: Sansa e200 series wheel problem

« Last post by clutch on Today at 01:01:06 PM »

Thanks Cronon, when I read contacts I figured I had a chance.  My E200 has been skipping since I bought it off of ebay.  I *thought* it was optical, learned that it is mechcanical.  In a nutshell, remove back cover, remove screws for front cover, get down to looking at metal detail that clips on in four places.  Use fine tweasers or a very small screw driver to pop that off.  Clean conducting surfaces with some deoxit5.

Mine is now fixed.

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Other - Installation/Removal / Re: Help with Installing Rockbox on a HifiWalker H2 with Stock Firmware 1.8

« Last post by Alice1337 on Today at 08:15:10 AM »

Okay, so the issue was me incorrectly renaming the update file. I took the instructions quite literally and renamed it update.upt which I'm guessing made it so it was actually named update.upt.upt which probably explains why the player wouldn't recognize it. Anyways, it's been fixed and I'm gonna enjoy this firmware.

Thanks guys!

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Starting Development and Compiling / Re: Switched to Android and programmed my own player

« Last post by rokboxyo on September 08, 2024, 10:43:27 PM »

Pardon the offtopic question, but how would you make such an "auto-DJ script"? New to rockbox and curious how such a thing would work.

It's just a script that changes the playlist after a certain time elapsed. Record the time and switch to a different playlist after the end of the current song.
I need this because I have many different playlists with different genres/moods and I wanted to not have to choose the playlist myself when I start driving, and playing the same playlist endlessly gets boring

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: Sansa C200 dies trying to use the EQ

« Last post by saratoga on September 08, 2024, 07:40:09 PM »

The c200v1 is only fast enough for maybe 4 or 5 EQ bands for most audio formats. I'd expect the V2 to be able to do all ten but I've never tested.

Since a lot of those bands overlap you could probably make that more efficient by using fewer bands. You've also got strongly positive gain so make sure you aren't clipping.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: can't get AAC to play on agptek rocker and on sansa clip zip

« Last post by saratoga on September 08, 2024, 07:36:16 PM »

.aac (raw AAC transport stream) and .mp4/.m4a (mpeg4 AAC audio) are both supported but the file extension must match the file contents. If you put the wrong file extension then the wrong decoder will be loaded and the file won't play.

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Audio Playback, Database and Playlists / Re: can't get AAC to play on agptek rocker and on sansa clip zip

« Last post by bahus on September 08, 2024, 05:40:14 PM »

Yeah it might be extension related. Does it play if you simply rename extension to "mp4" or "m4a". If it fails check also if it shows valid track information (open context menu on file -> Show Track Info ).

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Rockbox Utility / Re: ipod does not mount

« Last post by speachy on September 08, 2024, 09:08:08 AM »

I think it's fair to say opinions vary on whether it's _necessary_ to put it into original firmware mode (or disk mode) to transfer music to it

It isn't -- As long as you're using a nightly built from within the last month or so.

(And due to the nature of the underlying problems that led to this corruption, it _will_ eat itself under normal operation too, especially if the database is involved)

I can't even remember if the drive is _supposed_ to mount when it's in RB mode, as I never do it that way.

It is by default, but that can be changed in the settings.

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Rockbox Utility / Re: ipod does not mount

« Last post by Frankenpod on September 08, 2024, 04:27:30 AM »

Didn't know it would do that.  i tried holding both sel and menu and get put back to rockbox each time but i figured it out.  So unless i'm misunderstanding i put it to itunes mode to load music and rockbox to listen.  Thank the kind people who helped.  I am still considering modifying the ipod and am at the pc builder level more or less but this suggests that i could ruin the device

I think it's fair to say opinions vary on whether it's _necessary_ to put it into original firmware mode (or disk mode) to transfer music to it, but it's what I always do, and it seems safest (and fastest).  If your computer isn't mounting the drive at all in RB mode you might as well just use OF mode.  I can't even remember if the drive is _supposed_ to mount when it's in RB mode, as I never do it that way.

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Rockbox Utility / Re: ipod does not mount

« Last post by bluebrother on September 08, 2024, 02:51:40 AM »

Please see the manual: https://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-ipod6g/rockbox-buildch3.html#x5-290003.1.3

Generally I recommend to NOT restart the player by holding Menu + Select to restart the player -- you only need this if you're running the Apple firmware, since that doesn't fully shut down the player. Rockbox shuts down the hardware, so you can simply shut it down, then press select to power it on again.

Also, during the power on sequence the Apple bootloader shortly waits for some key presses that you can use to switch into Apple disk mode (though you have to hard-reset the player to get out of that)