Rockbox with no gui

[MarcGuay]

3) create a playlist of all your tracks (see manual or do it on a computer)

and it will resume playing that playlist when started.

With a Rockbox generated playlist, how would it react to having songs added and removed from the drive?  Wouldn't the playlist still have an entry for it, point to... nowhere?  And not contain new songs without updating it manually?

[bascule]

True, but if the OP wants the player to auto-resume a shuffled playlist of all tracks and for that playlist to automatically be updated when music is added/removed, then there is no easy way to do that.

This is because, although the database can auto-update on start, there is no config option that allows auto-resume of a database selection (such as 'All Tracks').

If this is what the OP wants, then the only practical way is using voice solely in order to navigate to the database and select 'All Tracks' when the player starts.

Or, I guess, every time music is added/removed, you would need to manually re-create the existing playlist of all tracks, keeping the name the same, so the auto-resume would pick up the new playlist. I'm not sure if this would screw up the playlist_control functionality, though...?

[Chronon]

This is because, although the database can auto-update on start, there is no config option that allows auto-resume of a database selection (such as 'All Tracks').

Sure, but couldn't you edit a custom tagnavi_custom.config so that the top database listing already applies a filter that generates all tracks?  Then if you have your start screen as the database you only need two keypresses to have your shuffled playlist back.  No uncertain navigation required.

I guess it's a decision over whether auto-resume is more important to the user or auto-update.

[bascule]

I guess it's a decision over whether auto-resume is more important to the user or auto-update.

Exactly right. I did think about the custom database option, but it appeared that auto-resume was the most important factor. Still, given that the OP hasn't been back on the forum since shortly after posting, we may never know...

I stand corrected.

[contractartist]

This is great! Thanks for your help...I did get it up and running with voice.....However I am still in want for a trimmed down version of rockbox, with less menus, and settings, just basic audio playback.......This would be good for those people who own music players without a funtioning or present LCD screen.......This would add new life to what would seam a dead device, or simplify playback for those who want a "no frills" custom firmware . So please tell me some .cfg options... I've already read the manual, now I'd like some info on how to set auto database update on start, and a default start directory......I did not see thease options in the PDF.....and thanks again!

[MarcGuay]

Search for "auto update" and "start screen".

[Chronon]

Also, did you check out the CustomConfigFile wiki page that I linked to on the first page?  That should have a complete list of the possible settings you can specify.

[siber_cat314]

Although this seems to be resolved, I have an additional option, if you want to mess with the source.
If you define AUTOSTART in the compile, Rockbox will look for autostart.rock and run it at boot. If that plugin, say, searched the player for all audio tracks, put them into a playlist, and set that as the current playlist, then started playback, then Rockbox would do exactly what the original poster asked.