The Playback Settings menu allows you to configure settings related to audio playback.
Turning shuffle on will cause Rockbox to randomly re-order the playlist. Thus, to shuffle all of
the audio files on the player, you first need to create a playlist containing all of them. For more
information on creating playlists refer to section 4.4.
Options: Yes/No.
Configures settings related to repeating of directories or playlists.
Options: Off / All / One / Shuffle / A-B:
Note: If you have the Auto-Change Directory option set to Yes, Rockbox will move on to the next directory on your hard drive. If the Auto-Change Directory option is set to No, playback will stop when the current directory or playlist is finished.
To set the Start Point (A) press Power + Prev. Setting the End Point (B) is done accordingly using Power + Next. To reset the markers press Power + Play.
This setting controls what happens when you select a file for playback while shuffle mode is on. If the Play Selected First setting is Yes, the file you selected will be played first. If this setting is No, a random file in the directory will be played first.
These settings control the speed and acceleration during fast forward and rewind. The setting FF/RW Min Step controls the initial speed and FF/RW Accel controls the acceleration.
This setting controls how early Rockbox starts refilling the music buffer from the hard drive when playing. A longer Anti-Skip Buffer helps prevent skips in music playback if Rockbox has trouble reading from the disk. This can happen if the player is knocked, shaken or jogged heavily while Rockbox is trying to read the hard drive.
The anti-skip buffer can be set to various values between 5 seconds and 10 minutes.
Note: Having a large anti-skip buffer tends to use more power, and may reduce your battery life. It is recommended to always use the lowest possible setting that allows correct and continuous playback.
Enables and disables a fade effect when you pause or stop playing a song. If the Fade on Stop/Pause option is set to Yes, your music will fade out when you stop or pause playback, and fade in when you resume playback.
Enables unstoppable music playback. When new songs are selected, they are queued at the end of the current dynamic playlist instead of being played immediately. Pausing and stopping playback is disabled as well as skipping songs and launching plugins.
This section controls the behavior of the crossfader. The crossfader, when enabled, smoothly
fades one track into the next. This can occur in two situations: an automatic track
change or a manual track skip. An automatic track change occurs at the end of
the track, moving to the next track in the playlist without user intervention. A
manual track skip goes to the next track immediately when the appropriate button is
pressed.
Options for crossfade settings are:
Note: The rules above apply except in the instance where Fade Out Delay plus Fade Out
Duration is less then Fade In Delay (which would create a gap in the audio). In this case, the
Fade In Delay is reduced to eliminate the gap.
The graphic below illustrates how the different settings work in practice.
This allows you to control the replaygain function. The purpose of replaygain is to adjust the
volume of the music played so that all songs (or albums, depending on your settings) have the
same apparent volume. This prevents sudden changes in volume when changing between songs
recorded at different volume levels. For replaygain to work, the songs must have been
processed by a program that adds replaygain information to the ID3 tags (or Vorbis
tags).
Options for replaygain are:
Controls the volume of the beep that is heard when skipping forward or backward between tracks. The beep is disabled when set to Off.
Control what Rockbox does when it reaches the end of a directory. If Auto-Change Directory
is set to Yes, Rockbox will continue to the next directory. If Auto-Change Directory is set to
No, playback will stop at the end of the current playlist. Using the Random feature requires
you to first generate a folder list via the Random Folder Advance Configuration plugin (see
section 12.4.19).
Note: You must have the Repeat option set to No for Auto-Change Directory to function
properly.
Note: This feature only works when songs have been played from the file browser. Using it with the database may cause unexpected behaviour.
If enabled and you have set Start File Browser Here to a directory other than root, Auto-Change Directory will be constrained to the directory you have chosen and those below it. See section 4.1.2.
Enables logging of your played tracks for submission to http://www.last.fm. This service was
formerly known as Audioscrobbler. When you enable this option, you’ll have to reboot to start
the logging. The log-file is called .scrobbler.log,and is to be found in the root directory of
your player.
Note: See LastFMLog for a further description, and for tools you can use to submit your Last.fm log.
Enables reading of cuesheet files for played tracks. If a cuesheet is found for a track, track markers are displayed on the progressbar and it is possible to skip between the tracks within the cuesheet. Also the information found in the cuesheet file will replace the information from the ID3 tags. When you enable this option, you’ll have to reboot for it to come into effect.
Cuesheet files should have the same file name as the audio file they reference, except with the extension .cue. This file can either reside in the same directory as the audio file (checked first), or within the .rockbox/cue directory.
The contents of a cuesheet file can also be embedded within the metadata of an audio file. There is currently support for the FLAC tag/ Vorbis comment CUESHEET or the ID3v2 TXXX CUESHEET tag.
Designed to speed up navigation when listening to long audio tracks, Skip Length changes the behaviour of the Prev and Next buttons so that they skip by a given time instead of skipping to a new track. The Skip to Outro option changes the behaviour so that the buttons skip to just before the end of the track, so that the last few seconds are played before the next track.
If this option is enabled, the ability to manually skip tracks is disabled in order to avoid accidental track skips. It does not prevent changing tracks if a track ends, which can be achieved by combining this option with Repeat set to One
When restarting a track or a bookmark, a short rewind can be done before the playback is started. This can be useful when listening to speech material, to help remember what was being said just before playback was stopped. The size of the rewind can be set to various values between 0 (off) and 60 seconds.
Note: This option does not apply to resuming a paused track. Use the next option for rewinding on pause.
Note: The actual rewind distance may differ a little from the requested value, depending on the file in question.
This option rewinds the current track by a small amount whenever it is paused (not stopped). The amount to rewind can be set between 0 and 15 seconds.
This is the sampling frequency used for the rockbox playback engine. Audio at a different sampling rate will be converted to this sampling rate prior to mixing using a cubic Hermite polynomial resampler.
Note: For best quality and battery life, select the sampling rate used by your audio. This is typically 44.1kHz.
Note: Opus files are always 48kHz.