Rockbox

Updated Polish translation.

Revision 58bf7c7e6f.

The iPod freezes at the boot logo.

Additionally, I upgraded my iPod video to this same build, and it boots on the target.

Time Elapsed/Remaining is incorrectly displayed for long files (audiobooks):
1) Missing seconds part of remaining time and wrong centering:
Instead of “48:36 2/14 12:07:15” it shows “48:36 2/14 12:07” See attached MissingSecondsRemainingWrongCentering.bmp
2) Centered text is duplicated
See attached DuplicatedAndWrongRemaining.bmp
It should looks something like “11:38:29 2/14 1:12:10”

Seems text is properly displayed only when left and right part (Elapsed and Remaining time) need the same amount of space. So basically if both elapsed and remaining time can be expressed as h:mm:ss - everything is OK. See attached Ok.bmp. But if elapsed mm:ss and remaining h:mm:ss or vice versa - formatting is wrong.

I’m using a slightly modified standard Cabbie2 WPS (attached) and use the following format string for Time Elapsed/Remaining: %al%pc%ac%pp/%pe%ar%pr

https://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/12980 might be related

Note: I have put the OS as “Eros Q / K” but actually I’m using a Surfans F20, which runs the same version of Rockbox however.
Build: 1d39261338-220528 (rockbox-aigoerosq-20220530.zip)

To reproduce:
- Install Rockbox (the hosted port) on this player
- Observe that scrolling through a long list of files (whether by using the wheel or holding fast-forward) works smoothly
- Go to settings > General Settings > Display > LCD Settings > Backlight Fade In, and set it to “No” - Observe that scrolling now works sluggishly, and almost grinds to a halt after holding fast-forward for a few seconds

Bug report copied from demon_slayer’s post: https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,53858.msg250472.html#msg250472

*PANIC*
TLB refill handler at 0x800272fc! [0x4]

My rockbox version is 2f71571c0a-220515. It doesn't happen all the time 
but seems to happen when I eject and remove the USB from the M3K. I am 
able to turn off the device then reboot back into Rockbox.

This crash comes from https://github.com/Rockbox/rockbox/blob/master/apps/tree.c#L659.

Update
It happened again but with a slightly different message

*PANIC*
TLB refill handler at 0x8007c970! [0x720065]

This is in lcd_alpha_bitmap_part_mix in lcd-16bit.c so it’s probably the same tree browser bug, or at least closely related.

Although reported on the M3K I suspect this will be reproducible on all players.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enter the file browser
2. Plug in USB and then unplug it
3. Select something in the file browser

This is very very low priority, but I thought I’d let you know that in Rockbox Utility version 1.5.1 the native name for the Slovak language is incorrect. It should be ‘Slovenčina’, but the user interface displays ‘Slovakscina’ instead. I have noticed this little error in 2 places - in the combobox where you can select the voice file you want to download and install; and in the voice file creation dialog.

By getting rid of duplicate untagged entries, PF also over-eagerly eliminates
all but one album with a valid artist_idx of 0 when building its album index.

If you have more than one album with the same title but by different album artists,
only one of them is going to be displayed in PictureFlow

Regardless what setting is selected when it comes to displaying file extensions, file name voicing always spells out the full file name (including the extension as well). Visually it all behaves as it should, but it would be nice if file name voicing/spelling followed the user experience of sighted users as long as possible.
This is on an XDuoo X3II, but this does not feel like a player-specific issue to me.

I think I’ve discovered a bug.
If the option ‘Keep Current Track When Replacing Playlist’ is enabled, using the new ‘Play Shuffled’ function found in the ‘Current Playlist’ sub-menu can result in faulty behavior, in case there’s a track currently playing. Normally when you replace the playlist during playback, skipping to the next track will jump to the first track of that new ‘replaced’ playlist, but with this new ‘Play Shuffled’ function the focus/position can end up being on the very end of the playlist and thus skipping on to the next track does not do anything. It doesn’t happen every single time and to be honest I don’t really understand what’s going on here, but it happens more often than not. The playlist gets shuffled every single time though.

Now Rockbox stays in USB Storage mode after iPod being ejected as removable device. Apple OS behaves better: ejecting iPod puts it into the normal mode (with its interface available). Please make Rockbox behave the similar way.

Hello, I am uploading the following patches for revision and testing:

- Android support for devices newer than KitKat 4.4, based on the work of hp30 from http://hp30.blog.fc2.com/

- Cabbie v2.0 support for 1080×1920 resolutions by me (@gama)

- Cabbie v2.0 support for 1280×800 resolutions.

Tested on: Sony Xperia F5121, Android 6.0.1 and Sony Xperia XZ2, Android 10.0. UPDATE: Lenovo Y3T-X50f tablet, Android 6.0.1.

Tested successfully as of commit: e8faf2f2

IMPORTANT: With commit: 6dcbf7ff77b0596c3317a76097e8b0c1c2f8158a, a floating point error occurs when changing volume!.

Setup Development environment:

I am using Windows 10 using WSL2, Debian distribution.
After installing wsl2 debian, I followed the rockbox development guide to install necessary packages.
(https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/LinuxSimpleGuideToCompiling)

Installed android ndk-r10e to /usr/lib/android-sdk/ndk/android-ndk-r10e using sdk-manager
Installed latest android sdk to /usr/lib/android-sdk

If you want to test on android, export enviroment variables before running configure:
export ANDROID_NDK_PATH=/usr/lib/android-sdk/ndk/android-ndk-r10e
export ANDROID_SDK_PATH=/usr/lib/android-sdk

General notes:

To test cabbie 1080×1920 theme, you can use sdl or android builds. If you want to test on android you need to apply the hp30 patch too.

I have added svg and xcf sources to the patch. I tried to reproduce the original cabbie v2 feel, but some gfx colors are not accurate. Feel free to modify them.

The hp30 patch contains mostly hp30’s work, used with his permission, so please give credits to him/her.
You can easily find the changes searching for ‘hp30.blog’ in the sources.

Known issues:

- The cabbie theme needs a proper wps_backdrop file with gradient like other targets have, but I could not create a 16 bit background that looked good on my phone. So I hope someone can do it.

- The android patch needs lots of testing and revision. I managed, with my current japanese level, to some extent, tanslate and follow hp30 blog. And I have successfully tested his changes on my phone. But there are still many “untested” features of rockbox that need to be checked.

- Plugins, specially, need to be tested one by one. For now I simply made small modifications to build them.
- On my phone I cannot see rockbox playback controls in the notification area widget.
- If you pause the music and return to home screen the app will be terminated.
- rockbox status bar shows very small icons and font text.
- A bigger resolution icon for the app is needed.
- I have not tested other android ndk or sdk versions.
- Volume is set to max at startup. I think it would be good to set it to 50 - 75%, but didn’t found where initial settings are defined.

[UPDATE 01] - Added link to 1280×800 cabbie theme. It was relatively easy to create it with attached xcf and svg files, so If you like, more theme resolutions can be created for other android devices. Please use v1.1 patch and apply after other two patches.

By Mauricio Garrido @gama

When I long-press on a directory if a track is currently playing or paused, there’s no ‘Clear list & play shhuffled entry in the ‘Current playlist’ submenu - only ‘Clear list & play next’. On the other hand, when playback is stopped, both entries appear in the ‘Current playlist’ submenu. Interestingly enough, these are the only 2 entries available there when the player’s in that state.
This is on an XDuoo X3II running build e8faf2f2ad-220212.
As I can’t tell whether this is an X3II only issue or not, I left the operation system combo box on ‘All players’. Hope that’s OK.

Dear developer,

Here I encountered a problem. After the installation of rockbox, I restart the ipod 3gen. What I get is after the apple logo, there is just a blank white screen with back light on, nothing can be seen. But I tried to restart again to apple system, it has no problem.

I put the same disk into another ipod 3gen, everything goes normal. And put the disk back to the first one, it went white screen.

Would you please help to give some advice? What I guess is might be the contrast issue, but I can see nothing on the white screen, so I can’t try to verify it.

simple fixes.

I have recently performed a clean install of Rockbox on my Sandisk Sansa e200v1 including the bootloader.
Now I have 2021-10-05 version of bootloader and switching to original firmware using the Left button displays only displays some info - see boot.JPG.
Then fades to white followed by black screen (see fade.JPG), and you either have to take out the battery or wait for it run dry.

Uninstalling Rockbox + bootloader restores the ability to boot original firmware; and installing Rockbox + bootloader again leads to same result - inability to boot original firmware.

New here.

Woke up this morning and tried to put some new music on ROCKBOX’d iPod Classic 6 V3.15

Unable to connect to Laptop - when I looked for USB mode nothing there in General Settings/System as per manual.

The way that USB Mode - Ask is currently implemented is buggy and especially so on native ports.

There are three separate issues:

• Doing the yes/no dialog from the USB thread makes button input misbehave because get_action() is not designed to be re-entrant and the main thread is very likely blocked in get_action() at the time of the call.
• The yes/no is run as soon as a cable is inserted and blocks the USB thread - on native ports this prevents transfer completion events from being delivered which prevents USB from working at all.
• Native ports will probably have to behave similar to Android and come up in a charging only mode by default. After getting user input, the player needs to soft disconnect from the host so it can change its USB descriptors; support for this will have to be added to each USB driver.

Designing around the 3rd case might be a good idea, eg. have USB come up in one mode by default and then have a usb_mode_switch() call which the UI thread can invoke to enable or disable different drivers. On hosted ports this would translate to setting a new USB gadget configuration via sysfs. On native ports it would trigger a reconnect to get the OS to re-read the descriptors.

Copying speed is less than 1 Mb/s in 2021-11-08 dev build. In 3.15, it was up to 5 Mb/s and higher.

I have a modded iPod 5.5G: the HDD has been replaced with the combo: Micro SD card + Micro SD to SD converter + SD to CF converter + CF to 1.8 CE ZIF converter.
With the latest (20211108) dev build, most times I connect the iPod to the PC I get USB device not recognized error. In Far manager HotPlug devices list iPod is displayed as “Unknown USB Device (Configuration Descriptor Request Failed)”.
If Settings - General Settings - System - USB Mode is set to Ask it is almost guaranteed that I get this error on connection (in fact, I never get succeed with that option set at all). Sometimes I also get “*PANIC* null ctrl req DC:0007bf30 sp:000f34d0 A:00066e68 bt end” when I press Select to enter Mass Storage mode.
And even if the connection succeeds the behaviour is different from the normal one: first iPod is displayed as “Rockbox media player Eject Removable Disk (D:)” in Safety Remove Hardware and Eject Media icon list and only in a few secs it changes to “Rockbox media player Eject <ipodname> (D:)”.

The issue is surely bound with the mod as the same iPod with HDD has no such issue at all.

First, thank you to all the developers for all their continued hardwork on the amazing Rockbox!!

I am having an issue with the FM Radio function on the iPod 5.5g. I installed the latest dev build (11/6/2021).

I have to pause/play a station for it to “reset” in order to actually hear any station. For example, I can be tuned to 102.7 FM (a real station), and it will just give static, unless I press pause and play again. It will then tune correctly and I can listen to the station. This seems to be a bug.

Second, recording from FM radio doesn’t work correctly. As soon as I hit record… it records a second of FM and then goes to silence (I changed the source beforehand to FM) and this can be seen in the sound spectrum analyzer dropping as well. No idea why, which sucks as this was one of the main reasons why I bought the iPod FM dongle.

Is there any way to look into these bugs and perhaps fix them in a future build?

It would be nice to have a graphical bootloader, a la GRUB on desktop computers, for devices that support dualbooting Rockbox with the original firmware (OF).

Currently, this is “supported” on the iPod 1G - 5.5G, iPod mini series, and the iPod nano 1G (and Sansa e200v1?) by https://github.com/crozone/ipodloader2, as well as the iPod Classic 1G - 3G and iPod nano 2G (and 4G?) by https://freemyipod.org/wiki/EmCORE#emCORE_boot_menu. Perhaps there are replacement bootloaders for other Rockbox-supported media players as well, but I’m not aware of any.

Currently, dualbooting with the OF is done by holding down a key to boot into one firmware or another while powering on the device. However, I believe it would be much more convenient to have a graphical interface to choose which firmware to boot, rather than having to remember which key boots which firmware.

Whether this is possible on most players, I do not know. Personally, I’m interested in implementing it in the Sansa Connect Rockbox bootloader myself, but my skills are not quite there yet.

Recreate: Pick an option that gives you the option YES (center button) or NO (any other)- like “Erase dynamic playlist?”- and only the center button seems to be registering.

Recreate:
1. Fresh install with latest build.
2. Let database do it’s thing
3. Turn on “Load to Ram” Database setting
4. Listen and wait for HDD spin down…..and wait..and wait…

There is an effort to generate open licensed test files for various FLAC configurations here: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=121478

Testing these on a Clip Zip using current git, most files decode perfectly, but the following fail:

File 29 uses the largest allowed blocksize (16384) File is skipped

File 30 uses non-standard blocksize 13456 File is skipped

File 31 uses only 32th order predictors File is skipped

File 34 is upsampled to 192kHz, uses blocksize 16384, 32th order predictors only, maximum LPC precision and maximum partition order File is skipped

File 42 is 6.1-channel Hard crash

I did not test the other higher channel count files, so some of them may be affected by the same bug as #42.

Skipping some of these files may be necessary for memory reasons (have not checked), but crashing on the 6.1 channel is definitely a bug. I’ve attached #42 since it is relatively small and represents an actual crash. The rest can be downloaded from the above link.