Release Rockbox as an app

[gruso]

jfoxrockbox maybe.


[edit] This comment looks pretty dumb on a new page by itself.

 

[jottt]

> Implemented RTC support. Now the last.FM scrobbler file contains timestamps


Now we only need the Pandora to actually keep it's time correctly Mine is horribly off after a couple of restarts.

 

[Miner49er]

This is great news!


Could this be compiled to run in the framebuffer in order to run using a really thinned down OS? Or would the benefit be marginal?

 

[Esn]

New rockbox release is out:


- Implemented RTC support. Now the last.FM scrobbler file contains timestamps


Also shows a small clock in the upper right corner of the menus


- Working sleep timer


- Working idle power off


- Support for anti-aliased fonts (not in use yet)


- Update to latest rockbox SVN code


Regarding the occasional audio pop/click issue:


It seemed fixed at first and it still occurs sometimes.


This needs further investigation/an ALSA based audio backend.

Where is the download link? Is it in PND form?

 

[jottt]

Where is the download link? Is it in PND form?

I think it's here: http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,6,343 It was updated shortly before the post.

 

[quadomatic]

If we want to download a theme, is there a particular player that I can download themes from?


btw: The UI is amazing...and I love Rockbox's customizability with sound settings...crossfeed, compressor, equalizer...

 

[bipton]

Wow this is exciting! I have an Archos 5 IMT with the developer firmware on it. I loaded this onto the Angrstrom image and was able to bark it off but no files would play. I appreciate you porting this to arm linux.

 

[thomasjfox]

If we want to download a theme, is there a particular player that I can download themes from?

Most themes are depending on the screen size. The Nokia N900 and the Pandora both share a screen size of 800x480.


There was one theme posted for the N900 here:


http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66896&page=10

btw: The UI is amazing...and I love Rockbox's customizability with sound settings...crossfeed, compressor, equalizer...

Yep, it brought the fun back listening to music after my empeg died

 

[jottt]

Bugreport:


If I press "C" on the keyboard, rockbox freezes (I can close it via Pandora-Icon). If I access the config via songbrowser (pressing back until root), I can access it.

 

[Ratfink]

Looks great! When I get my Pandora, this will definitely be one of the first programs I put on it. I have Rockbox on a Sansa Fuze (v2, so no USB currently) and am absolutely loving it, so combining all the greatness of Rockbox with the Pandora will probably create a Black Hole of Win (level 100) and suck up everything in the universe.


I can't wait to try it!

 

[ljones]

Is there a way to enable recording at all?


ljones

 

[jottt]

did you manage to change theme? i downloaded two from maemo community, but they don't appear, appdata doesn't seem to have a themes folder

Themes work fine. I tested the one thomasjfox suggested. Looks nicer than the cab-theme, but a bit too windowish for my taste (makes me feel uncomfy . Where did you find more?


I extracted it to


.\appdata\rockbox\.config\rockbox.org


Subfolders: wps, themes, icons, backdrops.


I *think* to show up in "Themes" that theme has to have a *.wps in wps. or a *.cfg in themes. Not sure which but it works.

 

[Bosbeetle]

I've tried it and its nice but I'll stick to audacious.


I just love to have lists of songs with all details for easy showing, I tend to pick a song when I see it instead of go searching for it.


One feature I miss on almost all players is shuffle by album (Or I am not looking!) is it somewhere in rockbox where I didnt find it?


(I would love to have a foobar2000 on the pandora but thats not going to happen probably)

 

[thomasjfox]

did you manage to change theme? i downloaded two from maemo community, but they don't appear, appdata doesn't seem to have a themes folder

Rockbox checks two folders for themes, one is the main "share" directory


and one in the appdata directory. Try looking for this:


"appdata/rockbox/.config/rockbox.org/themes/"


If the "themes" folder doesn't exist, try to create it.


The "appdata/rockbox/.config/rockbox.org" folder also contains


the settings file and the music database.

what about keyboard full support? it's hard to use the on-screen keyboard, search could be integrated with now-playing

If someone add's that to rockbox, I'll happily push out a new Pandora build


I guess this will happen sooner or later... more of a later...


Cheers,


Thomas

 

[thomasjfox]

Is there a way to enable recording at all?


ljones

Recording isn't currently implemented for any of the Rockbox-as-an-application (RaaA) ports.


Cheers,


Thomas


PS: I don't seem to get email notifications for this thread,


even though I'm "watching" it. Odd...

 

[thomasjfox]

One feature I miss on almost all players is shuffle by album (Or I am not looking!) is it somewhere in rockbox where I didnt find it?

You can do this with a plugin:


http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/PluginRandomFolderAdvanceConfig


It creates a list of folders and you can set the auto-change mode to "random".


Unfortunately the plugin seems broken on RaaA ATM as I don't think


I have 90.000+ folders on my N900/Pandora. Guess it's a symlink


issue with the /proc filesystem starting over and over again.


Cheers,


Thomas

 

[thomasjfox]

New rockbox release will be out soon:


- Fix premature idle shutdown after last track finished playing


- Update to latest rockbox SVN code


Cheers,


Thomas

 

[Nintendo]

Sweet as brah! Thank you.

 

[thomasjfox]

The new version can now be found on milkshake's app store:


http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=all&cat=Audio&s=new


The file should also appear on dl.openhandhelds.org once it's verified by ED B)

 

[Nintendo]

Thank you.


And, what's new in this version?