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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Blind user needs help with iRiver H320Re: Blind user needs help with iRiver H320
From: richie c <richcav_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:41:57 -0400 are the h320 and h340 still beeing sold? Rich Cavallaro Check out my podcast at http://richcav.webhop.org or just add http://richcav.webhop.org/wp-rss2.php to your pod catching client check out my live journal at http://www.livejournal.com/users/richcav skype richcav aim: misterchip1014 msn/windows messenger/email: richcav_at_verizon.net or richcav_at_gmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jani Kinnunen" <jkinnunen_at_pp.inet.fi> To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 1:24 AM Subject: Re: Blind user needs help with iRiver H320 > Thanks, Ian! I appreciate your help. It was very helpful. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ian douglas" <id_at_w98.us> > To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> > Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 8:25 PM > Subject: Re: Blind user needs help with iRiver H320 > > > >> 1. Could someone tell me what does the other buttons do on the unit and > >> when > >> they should be used? Please describe them in left to right order. > > > > top left: power on, play and pause > > if your unit is set to recharge via USB, tapping this key twice will turn > > the unit on for PC connection mode. Note that in this mode, the USB > > charging shuts off and you begin to drain the battery. > > If you are currently playing or recording something, it will pause the > > recording until you hit play or record again. If you are currently playing > > a track, it will pause then start playing where you left off. > > > > Top right: record button > > In radio mode, or recording mode, it will record the radio station you're > > tuned into, or start recording from the microphone or the line in, > > whichever you have your unit set to. > > If you're in music playback mode, the record button is also your > > repeat/shuffle mode setting, ie: repeat/shuffle all songs alphabetically, > > repeat or shuffle this directory/folder only, etc. > > In music playback mode, holding this button in will let you choose a > > different mode: music, radio, record, text, pictures. You use the > > left/right/navi button to select your mode from there. > > > > Bottom left: power off and stop > > This button stops all playback and recording of whatever you're doing. It > > can also be used to escape navigating files. Holding the button for a few > > seconds powers off the unit. > > > > Bottom right: A-B button > > In music playback mode, this will set a bookmark called 'A'. A second > > press will set a new bookmark called 'B' and will loop from A to B > > constantly until you tap the key a third time or stop the playback, etc. > > Holding this key in during music playback lets you set the equalizer by > > tapping the key again and again, rock, classic, user eq, bass, > > SAS,TrueBass, etc. Once you've selected a new EQ mode, just leaving the > > unit alone will keep that selection chosen. Note that an EQ setting can be > > done during playback. > > When playback is stopped, pressing this button will load any m3u playlists > > that you have created on the unit. You can scroll through them using the > > up/down and navi buttons. > > > > You of course have found the up/down navigation keys which adjust volume > > in playback or radio mode, but just to the left and right of the navi > > button are left/right navigation keys as well ... holding them in during > > playback will generally skip through a track like rewind and fast-forward > > buttons. > > > > holding in the navi button in some modes will put you into the settings > > and configuration modes such as turning off the resume mode, tuner region, > > etc, usb charging mode, etc. There are quite a few settings in here, so I > > won't go into all of them. > > > >> 2. How I can listen the music I've just transferred? Could someone > >> explain > >> the needed button presses? > > > > As soon as the unit is powered up, press the 'navi' button, and this will > > put you into the file/folder mode, where you can browse for your music. > > Use the up/down keys to scroll and when you highlight a folder, pressing > > the 'navi' button will open that folder and show you those files. > > > >> 3. Is the bookmark function (or whatever it was)turned on by default? > > > > Yes, if you simply power the unit on, it will resume playback where you > > last stopped it. Unfortunately, powering off the unit forgets which > > shuffle or repeat mode you were in, or which playlist you were listening > > to - it simply puts you back at the same track and position where you left > > off. > > To turn the resume mode on or off, power the unit on, hold the center navi > > button in for two seconds, tap the center navi button once, tap it a > > second time, press the right or left navigation key, then press the center > > navi button again then press the stop key (lower left) to exit > > configuration mode. > > > >> 4. I'd like to record a radio program with the FM radio and the recording > >> function. How that can be done? First the radio should of course be tuned > >> into the correct frequency. > > > > Power the unit on, then hold the top-right button, record, press the right > > navi button once, then press the navi button. From there, pressing the > > left/right navi buttons will scroll through your saved stations. If you > > press the navi button once, it will turn off the 'preset' mode, and then > > the left/right buttons will let you scan one frequency at a time (97.1 to > > 97.2 to 97.3 etc) Holding the left or right button will put it into scan > > mode - press the opposite button to stop it - that is, if you held the > > right button to scan up into the higher frequencies, press the left button > > to stop it. The scanning will scroll from one end of the frequency range > > to the other in a continuous loop. Once it finds a station, tab the A-B > > button (bottom right) to put it into "save the preset" mode, then use the > > left/right buttons to navigate the number of the preset you want to save > > it as. > > > >> I really hope that Rockbox would work on this unit > > > > From what I understand, there are quite a few of us waiting for this. > > > >> Are there any estimations when the first version of Rockbox > >> would be released for this unit? > > > > From the rockbox web site: > > > > Will Rockbox be released for the H300 series? When will it be ready? > > > > Short answer: when it's ready. > > > > Longer answer: In mid-August, Linus Feltzing started the process of > > tracing the circuitry of the H3xx series to create a schematic for it. The > > schematic was required before Linus could hook up a BDM wiggler to write a > > Rockbox bootloader for the H3xx series. As of 18 August 2005, he estimated > > that he would have a prototype bootloader for the H3xx series completed in > > "weeks." On 24 August 2005, Linus ran his first BDM wiggler session on his > > H320. Thus, progress is being made on the H3xx bootloader. > > > > What does this mean? On the H1xx series, it took approximately 6 months > > from the time that a bootloader was written until music playback was > > possible on the player. Just two and a half months later, a huge amount of > > progress has been made, but Rockbox for the H1xx still has not been > > formally "released" and there are still some features that need to be > > implemented and bugs that need to be corrected. What it does mean that > > those who are coding for the Rockbox project will soon be able to work on > > the code for the H3xx series on the player itself and adapt existing code > > for the idiosyncracies of the H3xx. It is likely that the timeline for the > > H3xx series from bootloader to music playback will be significantly > > shorter than it was for the H1xx series because of the similarities > > between those two players. > > > > Bottom line: this news should not be read to say that there will be a > > functional version of Rockbox for the H3xx series within weeks. However, > > it does mean that progress is being made, and that the rate of progress > > will probably increase in the relatively near future. > > > > > > So from their own web site, I'm guessing 6-8 months from August 2005, so > > *maybe* sometime early next year, but that's just my own personal guess > > and hope. I've been watching Rockbox for a number of months now just for > > when they'll start to support the H300 series of players (H320 and H340). > > > > Hope all of this helped. > > > > ian > > > Received on 2005-10-16 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |