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The Rockbox Manual
for
Toshiba Gigabeat F Series
rockbox.org
December 23, 2008
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2 Rockbox http://www.rockbox.org/ Open Source Jukebox Firmware Rockbox and this manual is the collaborative e ort of the Rockbox team and its contributors. See the appendix for a complete list of contributors.
c 2003-2008 The Rockbox Team and its contributors,
c 2004 Christi Alice c Scarborough,
2003 Jos e Maria Garcia-Valdecasas Bernal & Peter Schlenker. A Version r19569-081223. Built using pdfLT X. E Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
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Contents 3 Contents 1 Introduction 9 1.1 Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.2 Getting more help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3 Naming conventions and marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2 Installation 11 2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3 Instal
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Contents 4 4.2.3 The Database Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4.2.4 Using the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.3 While Playing Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.3.1 WPS Key Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.3.2 Peak Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.3.3 The WPS Context Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4.4
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Contents 5 7 Playback Settings 48 7.1 Shue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 7.2 Repeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 7.3 Play Selected First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 7.4 Fast-Forward/Rewind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 7.5 Anti-Skip Bu er . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 7.6 Fade on Stop/Pause . .
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Contents 6 10.1.6 Dice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 10.1.7 Doom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 10.1.8 Flipit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 10.1.9 Jewels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 10.1.10 MazezaM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 10.1.11 Minesweeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 7 10.3.8 Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 10.3.9 Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 10.3.10 Text Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 10.3.11 VBR x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 10.3.12 ZXBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 10.4 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents 8 B.1 Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 B.2 ID3 Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 B.3 Power Related Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 B.4 File Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 B.5 Playlist/Song Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 B.6 Runtime Database . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 1. Introduction 9 1 Introduction 1.1 Welcome This is the manual for Rockbox. Rockbox is an open source rmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players. Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and ecient than your device's stock rmware while remaining easy to use and customisable. Rockbox is written by users, for users. Not only is it free to use, it is also released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which means that it will always remain free both to
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Chapter 1. Introduction 10 channel for Rockbox is #rockbox on irc://irc.freenode.net. A bunch of helpful developers and users are usually around. Just join and ask { if someone knows the answer you'll usually get an answer pretty quickly. More information including IRC logs can be found at http://www.rockbox.org/irc/. We also have a web client for joining the rockbox IRC channel so there is no need for you to install additional software to your computer. If you think you have found a bug please
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Chapter 2. Installation 11 2 Installation 2.1 Overview There are two ways of installing Rockbox: automated and manual. While the manual way is older, more tested and proven to work correctly, the automated installation is based on a nice graphical application that does almost everything for you. It is still important that you have an overview of the installation process to be able to select the correct installation options. There are three separate components, two of which need to be installed i
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Chapter 2. Installation 12 2.2 Prerequisites Before installing Rockbox you should make sure you meet the prerequisites. You may need some additional tools for installation. In most cases these will already be available on your computer, but if not, installing some additional software might be necessary. USB connection. To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your computer. For manual installation/uninstallation, or should autodetection fail during automatic installation, you
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Chapter 2. Installation 13 Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility Prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux and MacOS X are available at theZRockboxUtility wiki page. Warning: When rst starting Rockbox Utility run \Autodetect", found in the con- ! guration dialog (File! Con gure). Autodetection can detect most player types. If autodetection fails or is unable to detect the mountpoint, make sure to enter the correct values. The mountpoint indicates the location of the player
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Chapter 2. Installation 14 Installing the rmware 1. Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section. 2. Connect your player to the computer via USB as described in the manual that came with your player. 3. Take the .zip le that you downloaded and use the \Extract all" command of your unzip program to extract the les onto your player. Note: The entire contents of the .zip le should be extracted directly to the root b of your player's drive. Do not try to create
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Chapter 2. Installation 15 Starting at the root directory of your player browse into the directory GBSYSTEM and from that into the subdirectory FWIMG. These directories are hidden. Make sure that you have con gured your browser to show hidden les or you may be unable to see FWIMG. In that directory you'll nd a le called FWIMG01.DAT. This too may be hidden. Rename the le to FWIMG01.DAT.ORIG. Make sure you spelled that name correctly as it is needed for booting the Toshiba rmware. Now c
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Chapter 2. Installation 16 overwrite les, choose the \Yes to all" option. The new build will be installed over your current build. Note: If you use Rockbox Utility be aware that it cannot detect manually installed b components. 2.6 Uninstalling Rockbox 2.6.1 Automatic Uninstallation You can uninstall Rockbox automatically by using Rockbox Utility. If you installed Rockbox manually you can still use Rockbox Utility for uninstallation but will not be able to do this selectively. 2.6.2 Manual Unin
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Chapter 3. Quick Start 17 3 Quick Start 3.1 Basic Overview 3.1.1 The player's controls Throughout this manual, the buttons on the player are labelled according to the picture above. Whenever a button name is pre xed by \Long", a long press of approx- imately one second should be performed on that button. The buttons are described in detail in the following paragraph. Additional information for blind users is available on the Rockbox website atZBlindFAQ. ¸ Hold the player with the screen on top a
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Chapter 3. Quick Start 18 docking station and nally on the right hand side of the bottom of the unit is a mini USB socket for connecting directly to USB. Finally on the right hand side of the unit are some control buttons. Going from the bottom of the unit to the top there is a small round A buttton then a rocker volume switch with of the Volume down button below the Volume up button. Above that is are two more small round buttons, the Menu button and nearest to the top of the unit the Power bu
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Chapter 3. Quick Start 19 1 to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data of your audio les, select Database (see section 4.2 (page 25)). 3.1.5 Basic controls When browsing les and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented. The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive. In the tree view use Down and Up to move around the selection. Use Select or Right to select an item. When browsing the le system selecting an audio le plays it. The v
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Chapter 3. Quick Start 20 3.2 Customising Rockbox Rockbox' User Interface can be customised using \Themes". Themes usually only a ect the visual appearance, but an advanced user can create a theme that also changes various other settings like le view, LCD settings and all other settings that can be modi ed using .cfg les. This topic is discussed in more detail in section 11.3 (page 137). The Rockbox distribution comes with some themes that should look nice on your player. Note: Some of the the
