1  Introduction
1.1  Welcome
1.2  Getting more help
1.3  Naming conventions and marks
2  Installation
2.1  Before Starting
2.2  Installing Rockbox
  2.2.1  Automated Installation
  2.2.2  Manual Installation
  2.2.3  Finishing the install
  2.2.4  Enabling Speech Support (optional)
2.3  Running Rockbox
2.4  Updating Rockbox
2.5  Uninstalling Rockbox
  2.5.1  Automatic Uninstallation
  2.5.2  Manual Uninstallation
2.6  Troubleshooting
3  Quick Start
3.1  Basic Overview
  3.1.1  The player’s controls
  3.1.2  Turning the player on and off
  3.1.3  Putting music on your player
  3.1.4  The first contact
  3.1.5  Basic controls
  3.1.6  Basic concepts
3.2  Customising Rockbox
4  Browsing and playing
4.1  File Browser
  4.1.1  File Browser Controls
  4.1.2  Context Menu
  4.1.3  Virtual Keyboard
4.2  Database
  4.2.1  Introduction
  4.2.2  Initializing the Database
  4.2.3  The Database Menu
  4.2.4  Using the Database
4.3  While Playing Screen
  4.3.1  WPS Key Controls
  4.3.2  The WPS Context Menu
4.4  Working with Playlists
  4.4.1  Playlist terminology
  4.4.2  Creating playlists
  4.4.3  Adding music to playlists
  4.4.4  Modifying playlists
  4.4.5  Saving playlists
  4.4.6  Loading saved playlists
4.5  Hotkeys
5  The Main Menu
5.1  Introducing the Main Menu
5.2  Navigating the Main Menu
5.3  Recent Bookmarks
5.4  Files
5.5  Database
5.6  Now Playing/Resume Playback
5.7  Settings
  5.7.1  Sound Settings
  5.7.2  Playback Settings
  5.7.3  General Settings
  5.7.4  Theme Settings
  5.7.5  Manage Settings
5.8  Playlists
5.9  Plugins
5.10  System
5.11  Shutdown
5.12  Shortcuts
6  Sound Settings
6.1  Volume
6.2  Bass
6.3  Treble
6.4  Balance
6.5  Channels
6.6  Stereo Width
7  Playback Settings
7.1  Shuffle
7.2  Repeat
7.3  Play Selected First
7.4  Fast-Forward/Rewind
7.5  Anti-Skip Buffer
7.6  Fade on Stop/Pause
7.7  Party Mode
7.8  Auto-Change Directory
7.9  Constrain Auto-Change
7.10  Last.fm Log
7.11  Cuesheet Support
7.12  Skip Length
7.13  Prevent Track Skipping
7.14  Rewind on Pause
8  General Settings
8.1  Playlist
8.2  File View
8.3  Database
8.4  Display
8.5  System
  8.5.1  Battery
  8.5.2  Disk
  8.5.3  Limits
  8.5.4  Line In
  8.5.5  Car Adapter Mode
8.6  Startup/Shutdown
  8.6.1  Start Screen
  8.6.2  Idle Poweroff
  8.6.3  Sleep Timer
8.7  Bookmarking
8.8  Language
8.9  Voice
8.10  Hotkey
9  Theme Settings
10  Plugins
10.1  Games
  10.1.1  Dice
  10.1.2  Flipit
  10.1.3  Jackpot
  10.1.4  Rockblox
10.2  Demos
  10.2.1  Credits
  10.2.2  Cube
  10.2.3  Logo
  10.2.4  Mosaique
  10.2.5  Snow
10.3  Viewers
  10.3.1  Shortcuts
  10.3.2  Search
  10.3.3  Shopper
  10.3.4  Sort
  10.3.5  Text Viewer
  10.3.6  Theme Remove
  10.3.7  VBRfix
10.4  Applications
  10.4.1  Battery Benchmark
  10.4.2  Chess Clock
  10.4.3  Disk Tidy
  10.4.4  Keybox
  10.4.5  Lamp
  10.4.6  md5sum
  10.4.7  Metronome
  10.4.8  Random Folder Advance Configuration
  10.4.9  Resistor Calculator
  10.4.10  Stats
  10.4.11  Stopwatch
11  Advanced Topics
11.1  Customising the User Interface
  11.1.1  Customising The Main Menu
  11.1.2  Loading Languages
11.2  Configuring the Theme
  11.2.1  Themeing – General Info
  11.2.2  Themes – Create Your Own
11.3  Managing Rockbox Settings
  11.3.1  Introduction to .cfg Files
  11.3.2  Specifications for .cfg Files
  11.3.3  The Manage Settings menu
11.4  Firmware Loading
  11.4.1  Using ROLO (Rockbox Loader)
11.5  Rockbox in Flash
  11.5.1  Introduction
  11.5.2  Terminology and Basic Operation
  11.5.3  Initial Flashing Procedure
  11.5.4  Updating the Rockbox Image in Flash
  11.5.5  Restoring the Original Flash ROM Contents
11.6  Optimising battery runtime
  11.6.1  Display backlight
  11.6.2  Anti-Skip Buffer
  11.6.3  Audio format and bitrate
A  File formats
A.1  Supported file formats
B  Theme Tags
B.1  Status Bar
B.2  Hardware Capabilities
B.3  Information from the track tags
B.4  Power Related Information
B.5  Information about the file
B.6  Playlist/Song Info
B.7  Playlist Viewer
B.8  Runtime Database
B.9  Hold
B.10  Virtual LED
B.11  Repeat Mode
B.12  Playback Mode
B.13  Current Screen
B.14  List Title (.sbs only)
B.15  Changing Volume
B.16  Settings
B.17  Alignment and language direction
B.18  Conditional Tags
B.19  Subline Tags
B.20  Text Translation
B.21  Bar Tags
  B.21.1  Options
B.22  Other Tags
C  Config file options
D  Menu Overview
E  User feedback
E.1  Bug reports
  E.1.1  Rules for submitting new bug reports
E.2  Feature ideas
  E.2.1  Rules for submitting a new feature idea
  E.2.2  Features we will not implement
F  Credits
G  Licenses
G.1  GNU Free Documentation License
G.2  The GNU General Public License