Contents

1  Introduction
 1.1  Welcome
 1.2  Getting more help
 1.3  Naming conventions and marks
2  Installation
 2.1  Overview
 2.2  Prerequisites
 2.3  Installing Rockbox
  2.3.1  Automated Installation
  2.3.2  Manual Installation
  2.3.3  Enabling Speech Support (optional)
 2.4  Running Rockbox
 2.5  Updating Rockbox
 2.6  Uninstalling Rockbox
  2.6.1  Automatic Uninstallation
  2.6.2  Manual Uninstallation
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  Starting the original firmware
  3.1.4  Putting music on your player
  3.1.5  The first contact
  3.1.6  Basic controls
  3.1.7  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  Peak Meter
  4.3.3  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
  4.4.7  Helpful Hints
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  Manage Settings
  5.7.5  Theme Settings
  5.7.6  Recording Settings
 5.8  Recording
  5.8.1  While Recording Screen
 5.9  FM Radio
 5.10  Playlist
 5.11  Plugins
 5.12  System
 5.13  Quick Screen
6  Sound Settings
 6.1  Volume
 6.2  Bass
 6.3  Treble
 6.4  Balance
 6.5  Channels
 6.6  Stereo Width
 6.7  Crossfeed
 6.8  Equalizer
 6.9  Dithering
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  Crossfade
 7.9  Replaygain
 7.10  Beep Volume
 7.11  Optical Output
 7.12  Auto-Change Directory
 7.13  Last.fm Log
 7.14  Cuesheet Support
 7.15  Skip Length
8  General Settings
 8.1  Playlist
 8.2  File View
 8.3  Database
 8.4  Display
 8.5  System
  8.5.1  Start Screen
  8.5.2  Battery
  8.5.3  Disk
  8.5.4  Idle Poweroff
  8.5.5  Limits
  8.5.6  Car Adapter Mode
 8.6  Bookmarking
 8.7  Language
 8.8  Voice
9  Theme Settings
10  Recording Settings
 10.1  Format
 10.2  Encoder Settings
 10.3  Frequency
 10.4  Source
 10.5  Channels
 10.6  Mono Mode
 10.7  File Split Options
 10.8  Prerecord Time
 10.9  Clear Recording Directory
 10.10  Clipping Light
 10.11  Trigger
 10.12  Automatic Gain Control
 10.13  AGC clip time
11  Plugins
 11.1  Games
  11.1.1  Blackjack
  11.1.2  BrickMania
  11.1.3  Bubbles
  11.1.4  Chessbox
  11.1.5  Chopper
  11.1.6  Dice
  11.1.7  Doom
  11.1.8  Flipit
  11.1.9  Jewels
  11.1.10  MazezaM
  11.1.11  Minesweeper
  11.1.12  Pacbox
  11.1.13  Pegbox
  11.1.14  Pong
  11.1.15  Robotfindskitten
  11.1.16  Rockblox
  11.1.17  Rockblox1d
  11.1.18  Sliding Puzzle
  11.1.19  Snake
  11.1.20  Snake 2
  11.1.21  Sokoban
  11.1.22  Solitaire
  11.1.23  Spacerocks
  11.1.24  Star
  11.1.25  Sudoku
  11.1.26  Wormlet
  11.1.27  Xobox
 11.2  Demos
  11.2.1  Bounce
  11.2.2  Credits
  11.2.3  Cube
  11.2.4  Demystify
  11.2.5  Fire
  11.2.6  Logo
  11.2.7  Mandelbrot
  11.2.8  Mosaique
  11.2.9  Oscilloscope
  11.2.10  Plasma
  11.2.11  Snow
  11.2.12  Starfield
  11.2.13  VU meter
 11.3  Viewers
  11.3.1  Shortcuts
  11.3.2  Chip-8 Emulator
  11.3.3  JPEG viewer
  11.3.4  Midiplay
  11.3.5  MPEG Player
  11.3.6  Rockboy
  11.3.7  Search
  11.3.8  Sort
  11.3.9  Text Viewer
  11.3.10  VBRfix
  11.3.11  ZXBox
 11.4  Applications
  11.4.1  Battery Benchmark
  11.4.2  Calculator
  11.4.3  Chess Clock
  11.4.4  Disk Tidy
  11.4.5  Keybox
  11.4.6  Lamp
  11.4.7  md5sum
  11.4.8  Metronome
  11.4.9  Random Folder Advance Configuration
  11.4.10  Stats
  11.4.11  Stopwatch
  11.4.12  Text Editor
12  Advanced Topics
 12.1  Customising the User Interface
  12.1.1  Getting Extras
  12.1.2  Loading Fonts
  12.1.3  Loading Languages
  12.1.4  Loading Backdrops
 12.2  Configuring the WPS
  12.2.1  WPS – General Info
  12.2.2  WPS – Build Your Own
 12.3  Managing Rockbox Settings
  12.3.1  Introduction to .cfg Files.
  12.3.2  Specifications for .cfg Files.
  12.3.3  The Manage Settings menu
 12.4  Firmware Loading
  12.4.1  Using ROLO (Rockbox Loader)
A  File formats
 A.1  Supported file formats
 A.2  Supported audio formats
B  WPS Tags
 B.1  Status Bar
 B.2  ID3 Info
 B.3  Power Related Information
 B.4  File Info
 B.5  Playlist/Song Info
 B.6  Runtime Database
 B.7  Sound (DSP) settings
 B.8  Hold Switches
 B.9  Virtual LED
 B.10  Repeat Mode
 B.11  Playback Mode Tags
 B.12  Changing Volume
 B.13  Settings
 B.14  Images
 B.15  Alignment
 B.16  Conditional Tags
 B.17  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  Changelog
 F.1  What is new since v3.0?
  F.1.1  New features
  F.1.2  Enhancements
 F.2  What is new since v2.5?
  F.2.1  New features
  F.2.2  Enhancements
  F.2.3  Bug fixes
G  Credits
H  Licenses
 H.1  GNU Free Documentation License
 H.2  The GNU General Public License