Release Rockbox as an app

[thomasjfox]

New rockbox pnd has been uploaded.


Changes:


- Update to rockbox 3.10 code base:


http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes310


For game music fans: Rockbox now supports AY, GBS, HES, KSS, SGC, VGM and VGZ game music formats.


Enjoy!

 

[EvilDragon]

Wooot, awesome, thanks

 

[PokeParadox]

Woop... time to update my video game music on my pandora! ^_^

 

[_David_]

and it plays Amiga modules beautifully

 

[thomasjfox]

I started a poll about shoulder button support in the "Development Section":

 

[jottt]

2 Things I like to point out:


1) Friend of mine found a theme that looks very nice on the Pandora and works very well with fingers:


http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=70f93f2kuaqc9dooeqchjhi002&/topic,14177.msg184394.html#msg184394


2) Pressing "C" still crashes the system. Or...not really crashing. It goes back to the menu and disables any input, besides Reset via Pandora + On-switch. Music keeps playing.

 

[MarioPandio]

Hi jottt, a new theme sounds good. Any pointers as to how to get it going?


I've tried the AW_SqueezeWVGA file and tried placing either the theme .cfg file in /rockbox/themes and the icons /rockbox/icons and the .wps .sbs etc, as that dialog box suggests in the post linked and also tried replacing the entire appdata/rockbox folder with the one inside that download. Despite browsing to the theme settings section of rockbox I cant get it to show up as a choice of theme


Have I chosen the wrong download?


edit : to ask about download choice.

 

[jottt]

Themes installation is not quite intuitive, I admit It was covered somewhere here in the thread by thomasjfox. Maybe it's best to put that information on the repo as well.


Everything (that is usually in ".rockbox") has to go to:


./appdata/rockbox/.config/rockbox.org/


Usually there is not much in there from the start. After extracting the theme it should look like this and Rockbox should be able to find it.


./pandora/appdata/rockbox/.config/rockbox.org/backdrops/


./pandora/appdata/rockbox/.config/rockbox.org/fonts/


./pandora/appdata/rockbox/.config/rockbox.org/icons/


./pandora/appdata/rockbox/.config/rockbox.org/themes/


./pandora/appdata/rockbox/.config/rockbox.org/wps/

 

[MarioPandio]

Thanks. I had indeed missed both of prior explanations by yourself and thomasjfox. Time for reading glasses methinks

 

[thomasjfox]

New rockbox pnd has been uploaded.


Changes:


- Add support for L/R shoulder buttons


Enjoy!

 

[Binky]

Nice! This should be awesome when combined with the new power management

 

[budweiser]

This is AWSOME works great

 

[jottt]

Hi Is there a chance that FM-Radio support will be possible in future?

 

[PokeParadox]

New rockbox pnd has been uploaded.


Changes:


- Add support for L/R shoulder buttons


Enjoy!

It's both nice and annoying... now my tracks skip accidentally unless I hold the Pandora in my hand. Any chance of hold switch support?

 

[Ian J]

New rockbox pnd has been uploaded.


Changes:


- Add support for L/R shoulder buttons


Enjoy!

Would it be possible to add the ability to hear the audio when scanning?


Also can anyone recommend some themes or EQ files?

 

[jottt]

Also can anyone recommend some themes or EQ files?

Check my post a bit further up. This theme looks quite nice (I think) or the other Windows mediaplayerish theme a couple of pages ago.

 

[slaeshjag]

New rockbox pnd has been uploaded.


Changes:


- Add support for L/R shoulder buttons


Enjoy!

It's both nice and annoying... now my tracks skip accidentally unless I hold the Pandora in my hand. Any chance of hold switch support?

That would first require the SDL lib on firmware to be modified to generate events for it. Or using Xlib for that.

 

[thomasjfox]

That would first require the SDL lib on firmware to be modified to generate events for it. Or using Xlib for that.

I played around with "evtest" yesterday and it looks like I can keep the SDL input handler and just add another "thread" to read the input events from /dev/input/eventX.


Only annoying thing is that the kernel sends a lot of key events if the hold switch is triggered, so I'm not sure if it will hurt power consumption.

Would it be possible to add the ability to hear the audio when scanning?

I don't think rockbox does this on any target. You could ask on the rockbox IRC channel or on the rockbox forums though.


Cheers,


Thomas

 

[thomasjfox]

It's both nice and annoying... now my tracks skip accidentally unless I hold the Pandora in my hand. Any chance of hold switch support?

I have a build up and running with hold button support. The new code will need some restructuring,


so I won't push a build to the repo until it's upstream.


There's also an alternative: Rockbox could use the 'h' key for hold.


Actually the code for that just needs to be enabled. Would that be enough?


Might be even easier than to fiddle with the hold button and accidentally switch off the pandora on unlock.


(happened twice to me B) )

 

[jottt]

Might be even easier than to fiddle with the hold button and accidentally switch off the pandora on unlock.
(happened twice to me

Shouldnt that only activate sleep? Well...still annoying, when you want to listen to music. Accepted


Probably gone missing in the thread:


Any news on the C-Button-Crash or the radio-request?