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Open Source jukebox firmware for the Archos Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, Recorder V2 and FM Recorder MP3 players Website: http://rockbox.haxx.se/ Rockbox version 2.3 Manual release date 2004-1 2-06 Copyright © 2004 Christi Alice Scarborough, 2003 José María García-Valdecasas Bernal & Peter Schlenker.
Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED................................................................................ 7 PART 2 THE ROCKBOX INTERFACE.................................................................. 11 1 YOUR JUKEBOX.........................
1.9 SNAKE 2 (RECORDER ONLY)........................................................ 44 1.10 SOKOBAN (RECORDER ONLY) ....................................................45 1.11 SOLITAIRE (RECORDER ONLY) .................................................
8.3 RISKS....................................................................................... 75 8.4 REQUIREMENTS......................................................................... 75 8.5 FLASHING PROCEDURE....................................
PART 1 GETTING STARTED.
Welcome This is the manual for Rockbox. Rockbox is a replacement firmware for the Jukebox Studio, Recorder and Ondio players made by Archos. It is a complete rewrite of the software used to make the Jukeboxes play and record music, and contains many features and enhancements not available in the original firmware supplied by the manufacturer.
Pictur e HD size Model Name Version Name 5GB, 6GB, 10GB , 20G B Jukebox 5000, Jukebox 6000, Jukebox Studio 10, Jukebox Studio 20 player 6GB, 10GB, 15GB , 20G B Jukebox Recorder 6, Jukebox Recorder 10,.
software. Enabling Speech Support (optional) If you wish to use speech support you will also need a language file, available from http://rockbox.haxx.se/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceFiles/ . For the English language, the file is called english.voice . When it has been downloaded, unpack this file and copy it into the lang folder which is inside the / .
PART 2 THE ROCKBOX INTERFACE.
1 YOUR JUKEBOX Throughout this manual, the buttons on the Jukebox are labelled according to the pictures below. There are minor cosmetic differences between Jukebox Recorder models, but the buttons are in approximately the same position whatever the model.
2 FILE BROWSER Recorder file browser Player file browser The file browser helps you navigate through the files on your Jukebox, entering folders and executing the default action on each file. To help us differentiate files, each file format is displayed with an icon.
2.2 FILE MENU Recorder file menu Player file menu This menu operates on the file that was selected in the browser at the time ON+PLAY was pressed to enter it. It can also be accessed by holding down the PLAY key for a short while. It offers the following options: Open with: Runs a viewer plugin on the file.
Queue next: Queue track(s) immediately after current playing track. Queue last: Queue track(s) at end of playlist. You can insert a track, directory or playlist even if nothing is currently playing. In this case, a new playlist is created with only the selected tracks and then play is started.
SELECT ED OPTIO N PLAY/STOP F UNCTION filename Moves the cursor left (STOP) or right (PLAY) within the filename character bar Moves the character bar to the next (PLAY) or previous (STOP) character.
3 WHILE PLAYING SCREEN (WPS) Recorder’s WPS Player’s WPS The While Playing Screen (WPS) displays various pieces of information about the currently playing MP3 file.
3.1 KEY CONTROLS Key controls for the WPS (RECORDER): KEY ACTION UP/DOWN Volume up/down LEFT (quick press) Go to beginning of track, or if pressed while in the first seconds of a track, go to previous track LEFT (hold) Rewind in track RIGHT (quic k press) Go to next track.
3.2 PEAK METER (REC OR DER ONLY) The peak meter can be displayed on the While Playing Screen and consists of several indicators. For a picture of the peak meter, please see the While Recording Screen on page 23. The bar: That is the fat horizontal bar.
4 QUICK SCREEN MENUS (RECORDER ONLY) F2 Quick Screen Menu F3 Quick Screen Menu Rockbox handles function buttons in a different way to the Archos software. F1 is always bound to the menu function, while F2 and F3 enable two quick menus. F2 displays some browse and play settings which are likely to be changed frequently.
PART 3 THE MAIN MENU.
1 INTRODUCING THE MAIN MENU Recorder main menu Player main menu This is the screen from which the rest of the Rockbox functions can be accessed. It is used for a variety of functions, which are detailed below. You can access the Rockbox main menu by pressing MENU (player/studio version) or F1 (recorder version) key.
2 RECORDING (RECORDERS ONLY) 2.1 WHILE RECORDING SCREEN Recording Screen Recording F2 screen Recording F 3 scree n Entering the “Recording” option in the Main menu launches the recording application. The screen shows the time elapsed and the size of the file being recorded.
Source Choose the source of the recording. This can be microphone, line in, or SPDIF (digital). For recording from the radio on the FM recorder, see page 25 below. Note: you cannot change the sample rate for digital recordings. Channels This allows you to select mono or stereo recording.
3 FM RADIO (FM RECORDERS ONLY) FM radio screen This menu option switches to the radio screen. The keys are: BUTTON FUNCTION LEFT, RIG HT Change frequency in 0.
4 BOOKMARKS The bookmarks menu allows you to create and manage bookmark files. Create Bookmark While playing a track, use this option to save your current position within the track so that you can return to it at a later time. Bookmarks are saved on a per folder basis i.
Recursively Insert Directories If set to ON then, when you insert/queue a directory in Dynamic Playlist, all subdirectories will also be inserted. If set to ASK then you are prompted about recursive insertion when inserting a directory. 6 BROWSE PLUGINS With this option you can load and run various plugins that have been written for Rockbox.
PART 4 CONFIGURING ROCKBOX.
1 SOUND SETTINGS Recorder sound settings Player sound settings This menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to improve your sound experience. Volume The sound volume your music is played at. Although settable range is 0-100%, many units don't produce audible output below 40%.
Auto Volume (Recorder only) Auto volume is a feature that automatically lowers the volume on loud parts, and then slowly restores the volume to the previous level over a time interval.
For most users, the defaults should provide an improvement in sound quality and can be safely left as they are. For reference, the defaults Rockbox uses are: Setting Value MDB Strength 50dB MDB Harmon.
2 GENERAL SETTINGS Recorder general settings Player general settings 2.1 PLAYBACK OPTIONS This menu is for configuring settings related to MP3 playback Shuffle Select shuffle ON/OFF. This alters how Rockbox will select which next song to play. Repeat Repeat modes are Off/One/All.
Fade on Stop/Pause This setting enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop playing a song. Fade is a progressive increase or reduction of volume, from your set volume to 0, and inverse. ID3 tag priority ID3 tags in an MP3 file contain information about the artist, title, album etc.
For further information about the WPS see page 17. For information about editing a .WPS file see page 66. LCD Settings This submenu contains settings that relate to the display of the Jukebox. Backlight: How long the backlight shines after a key press.
Volume Display: C o ntrols whet her the v olume i s dis played as a graphi c or a numerical percentage value on the Status Bar. Battery Display: C ontr o l s wheth er th e bat tery charge stat us is di splay ed as a graphic or numerical percentage value on the Status Bar.
Deep discharge (Non-FM recorders only) Set this to ON if you intend to keep your charger connected for a long period of time. It lets the batteries go down to 10% before starting to charge again. Setting this to OFF will cause the charging to restart on 95%.
Note: the device must be rebooted for the settings to take effect! Max playlist size: Option to configu re the maximum s ize of a pl ay list. The playlist size can be between 1000 and 20000 files in steps of 1000.
2.5 BOOKMARKING Bookmark on Stop Write a bookmark to the disk whenever the stop key is pressed. If playback is stopped it can be resumed easily at a later time. Load Last Bookmark When this is on, Rockbox automatically returns to the position of the last bookmark within a file when it is played.
2.7 VOICE Voice Menus This option turns on the Voice User Interface, which will read out menu items and settings as they are selected by the cursor. In order for this to work, a voice file must be present in the /.rockbox/lang/ directory on the recorder.
PART 5 PLUGINS.
Plugins are little programs that Rockbox can load and run. Plugins have the file extension .rock. Most of them can be started from the main menu if you put them in the /.rockbox/rocks directory. Press PLAY on them to start them. Viewer plugins get started automatically by "playing" an associated file (i.
KEY ACTION PLAY Play STOP Exit the game 1.3 MNESWEEPER (RECORDER ONLY) Minesweeper plugin The classic game of minesweeper. Use the UP and DOWN keys to select the required percentage of mines to set the difficulty then press the MENU key to begin. The aim of the game is to uncover all of the squares on the board.
1.5 PONG (RECORDER ONLY) Pong game The world's first arcade game comes to Rockbox. This is a "tennis game" for two players. The left player uses LEFT and F1 to move and the right player uses RIGHT and F3. The aim is to prevent the ball leaving the screen.
1.7 SLIDING PUZZLE (RECORDER ONLY) Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game. Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the whole picture. Key controls: KEY ACTION UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT Moves F1 Shuffle F2 Change the picture OFF Stop the game 1.8 SNAKE (RECORDER ONLY) This is the popular snake game.
In game A, the maze stays the same, in Game B after an increasing number of apples eaten the maze is replaced by a new one. 1.10 SOKOBAN (RECORDER ONLY) Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowded warehouse with a minimal number of pushes and moves.
between the filled circle, which can take “o”s, and the filled square, which is used as a mobile wall to allow your filled circle to get to places on the screen it could not otherwise reach. The block cannot take "o"s. Keys: KEY ACTION ON Toggle control F1 Previous level F2 Reset level F3 Next level OFF Exit the game 1.
Game controls: Players MODES PLAYER 1 PLAYER 2 PLAYER 3 0 Out of control Wit h no pl ayer tak ing p art in t he game all wo r ms are o ut of control and steered by artifi c ial stupidi ty.
Game over The game is over when all worms are dead. The longest worm wins the game. Pause the game Press the PLAY key to pause the game. Hit PLAY again to resume the game. Stop the game There are two ways to stop a running game. If you want to quit Wormlet entirely simply hit the OFF button.
Hints Initially you will be busy with controlling your worm. Try to avoid other worms and crawl far away from them. Wait until they curl up themselves and collect the food afterwards. Don't worry if the other worms grow longer than yours - you can catch up after they've died.
2 DEMOS 2.1 BOUNCE (RECORDER ONLY ) The bounce Demo This demo is an analogue clock screen saver with “Rockbox” bouncing across the screen. Key controls for this demo are: KEY ACTION F1/F2/F3 Enter.
2.3 GREYSCALE (RECORDER ONLY ) Greyscale This is a demonstration of the Rockbox greyscale engine which supports graphics on the Jukebox. Press OFF to quit the demo.
2.6 MOSAIC (RECORDER ONLY) Mosaic This simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the Jukebox. Press STOP to quit. 2.7 OSCILLOGRAPH (RECORDER ONLY) Oscillograph This demo shows the shape of the sound samples that make up the music being played.
2.8 SNOW (RECORDER ONLY) Have you ever seen snow falling? This demo replicates snow falling on your screen. If you love winter, you will love this demo. Or maybe not. 2.9 VU METER (RECORD ER ONLY) VU meter This is a VU meter as a plugin. It has two needles for the left and the right channels.
3 VIEWERS Viewers are plugins which are associated with specific file extensions. So you can't execute the plugin directly, but “play" the associated file. 3.1 CHIP-8 EMULATOR (RECORDER ONLY) The Chip-8 Emulator allows you to play many old chip8 games found on the Net.
3.5 SEARCH (ALL MODELS) This plugin can be used on playlists. It searches through the playlist that it is opened on looking for any occurrences of the string entered by the user. The results of this search are saved to a new playlist, search_results.m3u within the same directory as the original playlist.
Navigation Recorder key controls: KEY ACTION UP Page-up ( one screen up) DOWN Page-d own (one screen down ) LEFT Top of file ( Narrow mode) One screen l eft (Wide m o de) RIGHT Bottom of file (N arrow.
4 APPLICATIONS 4.1 BATTERY_TEST (ALL MODELS) Recorder battery test Player battery test This plugin simulates normal power drain by spinning up the disk and reading a big file once ever 90 seconds (or thereabout). Each spin up also writes the battery level to a log file.
KEY ACTION PLAY monthly LEFT weekly RIGHT annually ON one off STOP exit 4.4 CHESS CLOCK (PLAYER ONLY) Chess Clock The chess clock plugin is designed to simulate a chess clock , but it can be used in any kind of game with up to ten players. Setup First enter the number of players (1-10) (press PLAY to continue).
4.5 CLOCK (RECORDER ONLY) Clock This is a fully featured analogue and digital clock program. Key configuration KEY ACTION F1 Help F2 Start / Stop stopwatch F2 (Hold down) Reset stopwatch F3 Options Pl.
4.6 EURO CONVERTOR (PL AYER ONL Y) Euro converte r This plugin converts euros back into pre- euro currency. The country for which is does this is selectable by pressing the MENU key. The LEFT and RIGHT keys move the cursor between the digits and the PLAY and STOP keys increase and decrease the current digit.
4.10 SPLIT EDITOR (RECORDER ONLY ) When recording an mp3 file, it is common practice to start the recording a little bit early and stop it a little bit late to ensure all the desired sound is recorded. This results in recordings that contain extra snippets of sound and the beginning and end.
At the top of the window a time value is displayed. This is the point in time within the song at which the split point indicator is positioned. (4)The l o cator Another vertical bar represents the position locator. It moves along as the song plays. In contrast to the split point indicator it has no triangles at the ends.
Controls in the split editor RECORDER ONDIO FUNCTION OFF ON/OFF Quit plu gin LEFT/RIGHT LEFT/ RIGHT Move t h e sp lit point indic ator UP/DOWN UP/DOWN Zoom in / out PLAY MODE Play fr om the split pos .
4.11 STOPWATCH (ALL MODELS) Recorder stopwatch Player stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times. Keys are as follows: KEY ACTION PL AY Start / Sto p the tim er MENU Save t he .
PART 6 ADVAN CED TOPICS / REFERENCE.
1 CUSTOMIZING THE USER INTERFACE 1.1 LOADING FONTS (RECORDER ONLY ) Rockbox can load fonts dynamically. Simply copy the .fnt file to the disk and "play" them in the directory browser or from the Main Menu > General Settings > Fonts. If you want a font to be loaded automatically every time you start up, it must be located in the /.
File Location Custom WPS files may be located anywhere on the drive. The only restriction is that they must end in .wps. When PLAY is pressed on a .wps file, it will be used for future WPS screens. If the "played" .wps file is located in the /.
%pe : Total Number of Playlist Entries %pm : Peak Meter (Recorder only) - the entire line is used as volume peak meter. %pn : Playlist Name (Without path or extension) %pp : Playlist Position %pr : Remaining Time In Song %ps : Shuffle. Shows 's' if shuffle mode is enabled.
%< : Display a '<' %| : Display a '|' %> : Display a '>' %s : Indicate that the line should scroll. Can occur anywhere in a line (given that the text is displayed; see conditionals above). You can specify up to 10 scrolling lines.
balance (-100 - 100) channels (stereo, stereo narrow, stereo wide, mono, mono left, mono right, karaoke) shuffle (on, off) repeat (off, all, one) play selected (on, off) resume (off, ask, ask once, on.
lang (/path/fi lename. lng) wps (/path/fi lename. wps) autocreate bookmarks (on, off) autoload bookmarks (on, off) us most-recent-bookmarks (on, off) talk dir (off,number, spell, enter, hover) talk fi.
peak meter dbfs (on, off) (on = dbfs, off = linear) peak meter min (0 - 89) [dB] or (0 - 100) [%] peak meter max (0 - 89) [dB] or (0 - 100) [%] statusbar (on, off) scrollbar (on, off) volume display (graphic, numeric) battery display (graphic, numeric) time format (12hour, 24hour) font (/path/filename.
Example File volume: 70 bass: 11 treble: 12 balance: 0 time format: 12hour volume display: numeric show files: supported wps: /.rockbox/car.wps lang: /.rockbox/afrikaans.lng 4 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BINARIES There are 3 different flavors of firmware binaries from Rockbox website.
archos.mod (on the player version) or ajbrec.ajz ( on the recorder vers ion). Note that Archos firmware can only read the first ten characters of each file name in this process, so don’t rename your old firmware files with names like archos.
fi r mware t hat i s bac ked up as part of this procedure. T his tool wi ll only be needed onc e, and c an be viewed as "f o rmat ting" t h e flash with t he desired image st ructure. The second one is called rockbox_flash.roc k and is used to reprogram o n ly the second image.
Second, y ou need an in -circuit prog rammable flash. Chances are about 85% that y ou have, b ut Archos al so used an o l der fl ash chip which can't do the tri c k. You can find out via Ro ckbox deb ug menu, entry Hardwar e Info. If the flas h info gi ves you question mark s, you'r e out o f luck.
the proper file) and F3 to actually program the file. This takes maybe 15 seconds, wait for the disk to settle again. Then press a key to exit the plugin.
_norom firmware files. The vast majority of Jukeboxes all have the same boot ROM content, differentiation comes later by flash content. Rockbox identifies this boot ROM with a CRC value of 0x222F in the hardware info screen. Some recorders have the boot ROM disabled (it might be unprogrammed) and start directly from a flash mirror at address zero.
APPENDICES.
1 FEATURE COMPARISON CHART FEATURE ROCKBOX ARCHOS ID3v1 and ID3v 2 supp ort Yes ? Backgr o und n oise duri ng pl aybac k No Yes Mid-tr ac k resu me Yes No Mid-playlist resume Yes No Resumed playli st .
2 SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS FILE TYPE ACTION Directory The browser enters that directory .mp3 Rockbox takes you to the WPS and starts playing the file .m3u Rockbox loads the playlist and starts playing the first file .ajz/ . mod ROLO will load the new firmware .
3 BUG REPORTS If you experience inappropriate performance from any supported feature, please file a bug report on our web page. Do not report missing features as bugs, instead file them as feature requests (see below). For open bug reports refer to http://rockbox.
5 WHAT'S NEW SINCE 2.0? Changes in version 2.3 General changes since 2.2 Spoken menus, filenames and directories Support for Archos Ondio File type associations and "open with.
Configurable max playlist size (default: 10000 files) Remote control now works while keys are locked Car mode: Pauses and resumes playback with charger power loss and restore Caption backlight: Briefly turns on backlight during track change Battery meter is more accurate during the first minutes after boot Automatically detects modified archos.
6 FEATURES WE WILL NOT IMPLEMENT This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do. View it as the opposite of a TODO! Record to WAV (uncompressed) or MP3pro format! The recording hardware (the MAS) does not allow us to do this Crossfade between tracks! Crossfading would require two mp3 decoders, and we only have one.
Add scandisk -like features! It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done when connected to a host computer. CBR recording! The MP3 encoding hardware does not allow this.
7 CREDITS People that have contributed to the project, one way or another. Friends! Rockbox User Manual Björn Stenberg Linus Nielsen Feltzing Andy Choi Andrew Jamieson Paul Suade Joachim Schiffer Dan.
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