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Subject: Re: getting to WPS from Resume on Startup

Re: getting to WPS from Resume on Startup

From: Glenn Ervin <GlennErvin_at_cableone.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:06:23 -0500

Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:
> Glenn Ervin wrote:
>> * I think this is the trouble I have been having.
>> If Rockbox was going to behave like the problems I have been having,
>> I think I would dump it.
>
> Sure, go ahead. Or even better, read the manual.
>
>> The problem is with my iPod video, 3-19 build, is in trying to get
>> to a file from the file list.
>> I must have resume on start-up on, and in the old menus, it worked
>> fine, but now, it seems to prevent me from going into "files" and
>> moving to a file, and simply pressing the "play" button.
>> I mean, I can get to the file, but when I press play, I get some old
>> bookmark.
>
> Come on. You are supposed to use SELECT when starting a file from the
> file brower, not Play. The Play button is used for resuming the
> playlist. It has been like this since the first time we ported Rockbox
> to the iPod, it is nothing new that came with the Main menu.
>
> This is clearly described in the manual, and I have repeatedly told
> the same thing in this very thread.
>
> I'll repeat it:
>
> To play a file in the file browser: Press SELECT
> To resume the playlist (or go to WPS): Press Play
> To use Rockbox: Read the manual
>
> Linus

* I admitt that I did not read the entire manual, but the main thing I
focused on was the key layout, and at least for a while, before the new
menus, play did play the file from the file browser.
And believe mek, I did try the select button.
Maybe I am not tapping it fast enough.
Glenn
Received on 2007-03-25

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