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Contents

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  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
 4.5  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  Quick Screen
 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
 6.7  Crossfeed
 6.8  Equalizer
 6.9  Dithering
 6.10  Timestretch
 6.11  Compressor
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  Track Skip Beep
 7.11  Auto-Change Directory
 7.12  Constrain Auto-Change
 7.13  Pause on Headphone Unplug
 7.14  Last.fm Log
 7.15  Cuesheet Support
 7.16  Skip Length
 7.17  Prevent Track Skipping
 7.18  Rewind Before Resume
 7.19  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  Use Shortcuts Menu Instead of Quick Screen
  8.5.5  Keyclick
 8.6  Startup/Shutdown
  8.6.1  Start Screen
  8.6.2  Idle Poweroff
  8.6.3  Sleep Timer
 8.7  Bookmarking
 8.8  Automatic resume
 8.9  Language
 8.10  Voice
 8.11  Hotkey
9  Theme Settings
10  Plugins
 10.1  Games
  10.1.1  Blackjack
  10.1.2  BrickMania
  10.1.3  Bubbles
  10.1.4  Chessbox
  10.1.5  Chopper
  10.1.6  Dice
  10.1.7  Doom
  10.1.8  Flipit
  10.1.9  Goban
  10.1.10  Invadrox
  10.1.11  Jackpot
  10.1.12  Jewels
  10.1.13  MazezaM
  10.1.14  Minesweeper
  10.1.15  Pegbox
  10.1.16  Pong
  10.1.17  Reversi
  10.1.18  Robotfindskitten
  10.1.19  Rockblox
  10.1.20  Rockblox1d
  10.1.21  Sliding Puzzle
  10.1.22  Snake
  10.1.23  Snake 2
  10.1.24  Sokoban
  10.1.25  Solitaire
  10.1.26  Spacerocks
  10.1.27  Star
  10.1.28  Sudoku
  10.1.29  Wormlet
  10.1.30  Xobox
 10.2  Demos
  10.2.1  Bounce
  10.2.2  Credits
  10.2.3  Cube
  10.2.4  Demystify
  10.2.5  Fire
  10.2.6  Fractals
  10.2.7  Logo
  10.2.8  Mosaique
  10.2.9  Oscilloscope
  10.2.10  PictureFlow
  10.2.11  Plasma
  10.2.12  Rocklife
  10.2.13  Snow
  10.2.14  Starfield
  10.2.15  VU meter
 10.3  Viewers
  10.3.1  Shortcuts
  10.3.2  Chip-8 Emulator
  10.3.3  Frotz
  10.3.4  Image Viewer
  10.3.5  Lua scripting language
  10.3.6  Midiplay
  10.3.7  MPEG Player
  10.3.8  MP3 Encoder
  10.3.9  Search
  10.3.10  Shopper
  10.3.11  Sort
  10.3.12  Text Viewer
  10.3.13  Theme Remove
  10.3.14  VBRfix
  10.3.15  ZXBox
 10.4  Applications
  10.4.1  Battery Benchmark
  10.4.2  Calculator
  10.4.3  Chess Clock
  10.4.4  Disk Tidy
  10.4.5  Keybox
  10.4.6  Lamp
  10.4.7  Lrcplayer
  10.4.8  md5sum
  10.4.9  Metronome
  10.4.10  Random Folder Advance Configuration
  10.4.11  Resistor Calculator
  10.4.12  Stats
  10.4.13  Stopwatch
  10.4.14  Text Editor
11  Advanced Topics
 11.1  Customising the User Interface
  11.1.1  Customising The Main Menu
  11.1.2  Getting Extras
  11.1.3  Loading Fonts
  11.1.4  Loading Languages
  11.1.5  Loading Backdrops
  11.1.6  UI Viewport
 11.2  Configuring the Theme
  11.2.1  Themeing – General Info
  11.2.2  Themes – Create Your Own
  11.2.3  Info Viewport (SBS only)
  11.2.4  Additional Fonts
 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  Optimising battery runtime
  11.5.1  Display backlight
  11.5.2  Anti-Skip Buffer
  11.5.3  Replaygain
  11.5.4  Peak Meter
  11.5.5  Audio format and bitrate
  11.5.6  Sound settings
A  File formats
 A.1  Supported file formats
B  Audio and metadata formats
 B.1  Supported audio formats
  B.1.1  Lossy Codecs
  B.1.2  Lossless Codecs
  B.1.3  Other Codecs
  B.1.4  Codec featureset
 B.2  Supported metadata tags
  B.2.1  Featureset for generic metadata tags
  B.2.2  Featureset for codec specific metadata
  B.2.3  Limitations of metadata handling
C  Album Art
 C.1  Limitations
 C.2  Where to put album art
D  Theme Tags
 D.1  Status Bar
 D.2  Hardware Capabilities
 D.3  Information from the track tags
 D.4  Viewports
 D.5  Additional Fonts
 D.6  Misc Coloring Tags
 D.7  Power Related Information
 D.8  Information about the file
 D.9  Playlist/Song Info
 D.10  Playlist Viewer
 D.11  Runtime Database
 D.12  Sound (DSP) settings
 D.13  Hold
 D.14  Virtual LED
 D.15  Repeat Mode
 D.16  Playback Mode
 D.17  Current Screen
 D.18  List Title (.sbs only)
 D.19  Changing Volume
 D.20  Settings
 D.21  Images
  D.21.1  How to display the album art
 D.22  Alignment and language direction
 D.23  Conditional Tags
 D.24  Subline Tags
 D.25  Text Translation
 D.26  Bar Tags
  D.26.1  Options
 D.27  Other Tags
E  Config file options
F  Menu Overview
G  User feedback
 G.1  Bug reports
  G.1.1  Rules for submitting new bug reports
 G.2  Feature ideas
  G.2.1  Rules for submitting a new feature idea
  G.2.2  Features we will not implement
H  Credits
I  Licenses
 I.1  GNU Free Documentation License
 I.2  The GNU General Public License