Rockbox’s file viewer has a global sort setting.

It would be nice to have a default global sort setting, but also persistent per-directory sort settings.

For my use-case, it makes sense for me to sort my podcast directory by date, but I wouldn’t want that to affect my music directories, which should play files sorted by name.
Whenever I wish to play music, I need to go back to the general settings, and change the sort settings. And when I’m done and wish to listen to podcasts, I have to change it again.

On my X3, it triggers the MIPS equivalent of a segfault. (directory has 792 entries, tried to access it with only 500 allowed)

Rather than crashing outright, I think it would be better to detect this and somehow error out gracefully?

Playing 320K MP3s pauses often in Version 3.15 and daily build 7d00533 also UI becomes unresponsive
Version 3.14 or older does not reproduce the issue in either 44 or 48khz sampling rate and same sound options
Is not reproducible under OF or Version 3.15 running on IPOD 6G
seems to be a cpu usage issue as compiling a version of rockbox with much higher than stock CPU clocks seems to alleviate the issue to an extent but there is still occasional pauses that is not present after reverting to 3.14 and stock 80 mhz clock speed.

Right now if the voice file fails to load, there’s a splash message but blind users won’t be able to see it.

(usually this happens because they upgraded rockbox without upgrading the voice file too)

It would be useful if we could embed a failsafe voice file, containing only that one prompt, so the user will know what is going on.

Just English for now, though ideally one for every language we support.

(Oh, and a pony too. Please?)

Hello there,

When I reboot my Rockboxed iPod nano second generation, it changes the time +5 hours.

Does anyone know why this can be? Thanks

Reported Version: 3.15 not 3.14

Hello,

I am using a "SanDisk Sansa Clip+" and it seems that currently it is not possible to remove quickscreen entries when they are set, you can only overwrite them.

In the manual chapter "3.15 Quick Screen" has to be adapted, once this function has been implemented.

It would be very nice to have this possibility!

-Ramon

Whenever screendump is enabled,It gets a panic error.
Error Message:
*PANIC*
Stkov usb
pc:080739ac sp:080f5458

The volume settings are bypassed and is at max volume when the plugin is started. Even when putting it at -60DB it still has sound. After exiting and relaunching the app,the volume is maxed again,regardless of volume settings.

Please refer to forum post for full exchange: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,52518.0.html

In summary playing ALAC will crash the unit, other codecs not as much. My reasoning is (as contained in the forum post):

Converting some of my ALAC collection to FLAC to test has given excellent results = no crashes. I am suspicious of the ALAC decoder; watching the VIEW BUFFERING THREAD there seems to be consistency:

OGG/MP3/FLAC/WAV: CPU Frequency goes up to 124 until pcm: becomes full, then drops to 45mhz and pcm: hovers (it is always active) near the top of 100%. Upon track change the cycle starts again (124mhz until pcm: becomes full). I don't seem to get crashes.

ALAC: CPU Frequency goes up to 124 until pcm: becomes full, then drops to 45mhz and pcm: quickly goes down (takes about 2 seconds) to 75%, then cpu switches to 124mhz to get pcm: back up to 100%. This goes on constantly (cpu high - low cycle) while a single track/file is playing. I am now believing this cpu going up and down constantly gives me the crashes. Note on crashes: I don't know when they will happen, sometimes after a minute or two, sometime after 10 minutes , there is no pattern I can tell.

I am trying to build Rockbox for Sony NWZ-380 from Git repo, commit ce0b31d87db3c4c1c1bfb535c50770d33e9c4aaf.
arm-elf-eabi-gcc version 5.4.0, ARM binutils 2.30.
Everything goes smooth until just the latest step where this happens:

… LD duke3d.ovl
LD bmp.ovl
LD jpeg.ovl
LD png.ovl
LD ppm.ovl
LD gif.ovl
LD rockbox.elf
/usr/libexec/gcc/arm-elf-eabi/ld: section .ARM.exidx VMA [00000000600a9548,00000000600a954f] overlaps section .bss VMA [00000000600a7f20,00000000600ff773]

I'm using Rockbox on my NWZ-384 for a couple of years now and there were no problems building it in the past. I also was very glad that NWZ-380 port reached stable status in 3.14,
but now something seems to be broken (not terrible it seems, just requires some adjustments to the linker scripts but still).

I have an iPod 4G Grayscale (model A1059) running Rockbox 3.14 with an Apple FM remote (model A1187). The remote part works ok (Play/Select and Fwd/Rev buttons work - volume control is separate due to it being connected to the line out, but works).

However, the radio menu does not show up in the main menu when connected. Not when I boot with the remote connected, not when I connect it after booting, and not if I go to a different menu and then back.

In the debugging menu, it simply says that the FM tuner hardware is not found.

I am sure that this used to work at some point. Are there known regressions?

I primarily use my unit for audio books while driving, but the latest build (as I write this) won't play one of the files properly. It tries to start, stuck at 0:00. Trying to seek hangs the player altogether, requiring a hard restart.

I've recreated this problem on a flaky Clip+ and an AGPTek Rocker.

The 'file' tool identifies it as: ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]

Here's what mplayer has to say (while playing it back properly):

[lavf] stream 0: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang eng

Click on the music file and die

Rockboxutility barfs while creating talk files if it encounters unpronouncable charicters (japanese kanji) and does not continue afterwords resulting in talk files not being copied to the player.

[talkgenerator.cpp:156 INFO] voicing: "シマシマ" to "/tmp/talkfiles/952b0e2854336082e41fb0ef8ef8dc97.wav"
[ttsfestival.cpp:188 INFO] Voicing "シマシマ" → "/tmp/talkfiles/952b0e2854336082e41fb0ef8ef8dc97.wav"
[rbsettings.cpp:162 INFO] GET U: "festival-client/path" "/usr/bin/festival_client"
[ttsfestival.cpp:194 INFO] Client cmd: "/usr/bin/festival_client –server localhost –otype riff –ttw –withlisp –output \"/tmp/talkfiles/952b0e2854336082e41fb0ef8ef8dc97.wav\" –prolog \"/tmp/RockboxUtility.zowYwG\" - "
[:0 WARNING] QProcess: Destroyed while process ("/usr/bin/festival_client") is still running.

/
The result of this is an invalid wav file wich the the encoder bails out on and the process aborts.

[talkgenerator.cpp:235 INFO] encoding "/tmp/talkfiles/952b0e2854336082e41fb0ef8ef8dc97.wav" to "/tmp/talkfiles/952b0e2854336082e41fb0ef8ef8dc97.talk"
[encoderrbspeex.cpp:82 INFO] Encoding "/tmp/talkfiles/952b0e2854336082e41fb0ef8ef8dc97.wav" to "/tmp/talkfiles/952b0e2854336082e41fb0ef8ef8dc97.talk"
[encoderrbspeex.cpp:103 ERROR] Error: invalid WAV file
[ttsfestival.cpp:29 INFO] Destroying instance

I suggest ignoring failed encoded files and continuing encoding and copying the files that suceeded.

I think commit 1654efc31339972d0e6bd41a499fcffc0a45822e introduces the following error:
storage_init in firmware/storage.c does not return an rc error code in case !CONFIG_STORAGE_MULTI
because its discarded here:

#else /* ndef CONFIG_STORAGE_MULTI */
+ STORAGE_FUNCTION(init)();
+#endif /* CONFIG_STORAGE_MULTI */

+ storage_thread_init();

   return 0;

Rockbox starts with remote, but doesn't respond to button presses except turning backlight on with build 6039eb05b-180313.
It works with deaeb73-161114 though.

I use a 64 GB MicroSD card in my Clip Zip and the stock firmware recognizes it. Rockbox recognizes it in the debug disk info screen and when connected to a computer via USB, I can read and write it through rockbox. However, when I try to access it or when I just check the regular rockbox info, rockbox does not show the SD card, nor can I play music from it.

The bug is also present in the current development version and is overall very similar to this one: https://www.rockbox.org/tracker/11798

I tried reinstalling rockbox and reformatting the SD card, but nothing worked.

Daily build c6d5cd7-170907

An idle power off can occur in recording mode. When it does, data loss occurs. This has already bitten me a few times.

Steps to reproduce (on battery, not charging):
1. Execute Settings > Manage Settings > Reset Settings
2. Set Settings > General Settings > Startup/Shutdown > Idle Poweroff to 1 minute
3. Reboot
4. Go to Recording mode
5. Note current Volume and Gain settings and then change them to something else and note the new settings. Don't start a recording; just leave it in “stop” mode (*not* record or record-pause).
6. Wait for automatic power off
7. Power back on and check recorder settings

Expected: Settings are what they were after being changed.
Actual: Settings reverted to what they were on boot.

This can cause the loss of entire recordings, too:

8. Go back to Recording mode.
9. Wait until just before Rockbox would power off, then start a recording (if the display goes to sleep, it comes back on a bit before powering off; start the recording as soon as it comes back on).

Expected: Recording is done as usual
Actual: Rockbox powers off anyway, without warning, less than a minute into the recording. The recording is lost (or if the file is there, it's unplayable; maybe this depends on the recording format used).

Dear Rockbox, long story short after doing update to the latest daily build c6d5cd7(2017-09-11), after playing music for around 30-40 minutes the screen start to freeze cannot scroll or select anything on the screen even turn it off is not possible but after few seconds it turn off by itself and can be turn on normally after that.

After upgrading from 3.13 to 3.14, when playing most of the ogg vorbis files in my library, a "beeping" sound sporadically occurs.

The sound is random (2 consecutive playbacks of the same track will beep on the same time).

All the files played fine with 3.13.
MP3 files play just fine (I have not tested other formats yet).

Possibly interesting facts :
Vorbis files with a lower bitrate (<100kpbs) seem to be less subject to this beep.
It seems beep never occurs when screen is on.

Today I've experience something which IMO should not happen.

I recorded vian the built in micro on my Sansa e200 v1, paused the recording (not stopped!). In this state, I plugged USB cable. After that, there was the following text in the system font on the display, and the player did not respond to any keys. It had to be restarted via very long pressing at On/Off.

The text is:

*PANIC*

usb_storage_init_connection
(): 00M
pc:0006B878 sp:000D3538

  A: 00069978
  A: 00069F80
  A: 0005326C

bt end

I've reproduced this three time in a row.

I have the official version 3.14 installed.

I downloaded this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrb0dHKJBR4 using the youtube-dl python program. The file plays and seeks correctly in foobar2000 and MPC-HC. But, on my clip+, whether I seek 10 seconds or 10 minutes into the file, it ends up playing a position of the file previous to the one displayed. For example, if I seek 50 seconds forward from the beginning, it will play the file from the start, while the screen still displays as if it's playing from 50 seconds onwards. Seeking to the end of the file will have it play a section from about 2 minutes earlier than it should be, while the time display and music will continue until 1:14:20, with the file actually being 1:12:46.

I did not hear the files being played slower than they should be, so it seems it's only an issue when seeking.

I've confirmed this happens on every AAC file downloaded by youtube-dl, and that re-encoding the same file to AAC using NERO encoder makes the problem dissapear.

For a couple of months my Sansa Fuze v2 has been crashing randomly when playing music. Most of the time I just get a white screen with an error message. The last message I got was :

'undefined instruction at 0006DC8C'

(I think that last number varies at each crash)

This didn't happen with v3.13, but it's been happening with every daily build I've tested IIRC.

It doesn't happen very often so it's hard to reproduce. I listen to music in public transports about twice a day and this happens not more than once a week. It seems to happen more often when the battery is low (less than 10%). It generally happens early in a playback session, when the first or second track is played.

Sometimes I don't get a white screen, but the program freezes and some parts of the interface are surrounded with white frames. I don't know if it's the same bug or if it's unrelated.

Note that I'm always listening to music on a microSD card, and I haven't tried on the main memory.

PS: I chose "Sansa Fuze+" in the OS list because I couldn't find Sansa Fuse v2.

After upgrading from "Version: 33856d9-161111" to "Version: 6436c6e-170211" Resume Playback from the main menu does not work. Here are the steps taken to verify the problem:

Running Version: 6436c6e-170211… Reset config
Using default settings, enabled Shuffle via Shortcuts
Started playlist; track identified as 1 of 5330
Skipped ahead to the 5th track
Paused @ 1:01
Forced shutdown
Enabled Hold switch
Waited ~1 min., then booted via disengaging Hold switch
Clicked Resume Playback… resumed on the same first track (1 of 5330)
This behavior occurred every time I attempted to Resume Playback.

Restored previous version (Version: 33856d9-161111)
Rebooted
Reset Settings
Using default settings, enabled Shuffle via Shortcuts
Started playlist; track identified as 1 of 5330
Skipped ahead to the 5th track
Paused @ 1:01
Forced shutdown
Enabled Hold switch
Waited ~1 min., then booted via disengaging Hold switch
Clicked Resume Playback… resumed on the fifth track @ 1:01

FWIW: No Bookmarking used (never have). Database not initialized (never use it).

Creative ZEN device build 8fec364f6-170125

Steps:

1 Clear Running Time
2 Shutdown, to ensure Running Time clear takes effect
3 Launch Rockbox
4 Record wall clock time
5 Leave running for a few hours
6 View Running Time and compare with elapsed time on wall clock

Expected: Running Time equal to elapsed time
Observed: Running Time less than elapsed time by 2%

Note: battery_bench.txt times accord with elapsed time.

Pure i20 does not charge the iPod classic with OS rockbox.
I feel like Rockbox can not recognize interface pure i20 (drivers?)
Through Pure i20 will not play music even if it is in the installed Rockbox in the iPod.(only apple Flash = possible charging/playing via Pure i20)

I own Ipod classic 6G 160GB (flashed rockbox)

Voicing of menus will work fine on the default font. However, if 08-Namil is used, the voicing dies upon reboot.

See also http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,51408.0.html .

When playing music sometimes crackling sound exist but after 5-6 secs playing it dissappear
i tried to update until the last rockbox firmware (ver.b045e4d date 2016-11-01) the problem still there

but if i boot to mango (stock fw) no crackling sound remains

Device : Ibasso DX90

Affected versions:
RBUtil V1.4.0
git version 2a2800b528010320ca504a39106806ec21f0220 (2016-10-12)

rbutil fails to build bootloader. Tested for Iriver H1x0 and H3x0 platforms.

Progress window shows:

Adding bootloader firmware file
Error in patching: reading firmware failed

Terminal output shows:

[httpget.cpp:230 INFO] Get URI “http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/iriver/bootloader-h300.bin”
[httpget.cpp:200 INFO] Request started
[httpget.cpp:148 INFO] Request finished, status code: 200
[httpget.cpp:151 INFO] Data from cache: true
[bootloaderinstallbase.cpp:71 INFO] Downloading bootloader finished, error: false
/tmp/qt_temp.U16458: Resource temporarily unavailable
[selectiveinstallwidget.cpp:195 INFO] continuing install with stage 1
[selectiveinstallwidget.cpp:197 ERROR] Last part returned error.
[selectiveinstallwidget.cpp:214 INFO] All install stages done.
[rockboxinfo.cpp:27 INFO] Getting version info from rockbox-info.txt

Fired up gdb and debugged the git 2a2800b5280103… build:

The failure is in function mkboot_iriver in mkboot.c line 98:
Line 98:

  i = fread(image+16, 1, len, f);

len is calculated as 2636272.
But file size of /tmp/qt_temp.U16458 is only 2621440, resulting in a short read of 2621424 bytes. So error condition “i < len” fires and function returns without building bootloader.

I tested this on two different gentoo systems. It worked on one, but failed on the other. Both are more or less up to date, but have one significant difference: 32bit vs 64bit system.

The system that did compile and run perfectly uses:
gcc i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.9.4 (len=2636272, file size=2637824)
The system that failed uses:
gcc x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.9.3 (len=2636272, file size=2621440)

So, the failing rbutil creates a temporary file that is too short. I didn’t debug deeper to find out why.

cu
John

Hi,
I've been using the development version of Rockbox in my ipod classic 6th generation for about two years I think, but from some time, like a month or two, I'm experiencing playback issues as the track I'm listening suddenly skip forward or backward, or even jump for a few seconds on another mp3 file inside the ipod I was just listening before. I don't think is a ipod issue because I can listen the file inside the ipod with my computer player without problems.

There some way I can check older development revisions for the classic? It appears that it doesn't show in the dev build link on the site because is not fully supported. Thanks

I'm having a shutdown issue after using my 6G ipod Classic in the car. After I have turned off the car the ipod will automatically enter a paused state but when i either hold play to shutdown or wait for the idle shutdown it will hang showing the shutting down… text and never turn off. when I manually shutdown the ipod (hold play button) down after using the ipod in the car you can hear the HD spin up and after 4-5 second hear the HD park (click) but still feel the ipod vibrating like the HD is still spinning, the text shutting down… is shown and just stays there and drains the battery. the only way to shut it down it hold menu and select.

In car is a Dension gateway G300 (ipod is connected and controlled with a dock cable, can use car controls to change tracks on ipod apple firmware and rockbox)
I'm currently using using build adaba2b-160820
Installed and tested with both the beta and stable installers from https://files.freemyipod.org/~user890104/bootloader-ipodclassic.html

Rockbox doesn't speak in the FM mode with voice configured. I tried it in my local language (spanish) and in english with same results. Apparently it is not a problem of the translation, because sometimes (only 2 or 3 times in at about one year that I'm using the player) the player speak some words. This works correctly in release version.
My actual version is 0f89b04, but it happend in all dev versions.

Previous song and Fast Backward are unable to work

When playing music sometimes crackling sound especially when playing bass

Back button does not work, and sometimes the same function as the forward button.
Rewind button does not work
Of course, I am talking about are the physical buttons，Touch buttons are working properly。

Hi,
I’m trying to record myself playing the guitar using my old, trusty FuzeV2 (both a very old version - sorry didn’t wrote it down but had to be at least a couple of years ago - and today’s version 87229a4). Recording parameters as follows:

Trigger: Repeat
TrigType: New file
Prerecord Time: 1s
Start Above: -22dB
for at least: 1s
Stop Below: -26dB
for at least: 1s
Presplit Gap: 1s (don’t really understand what it does from the manual, but it says it usually has to be the same value of the Stop Below Time, so…)

Recording starts correctly when noise is detected according to conditions; then apparently it correctly detects the silence and stops the recording. But immediately the ‘Repeat Trigger’ parameter kicks in and _immediately starts a new recording_. At this point, the trigger status and the recording status aren’t matching anymore. The recording screen shows the recording file size growing, but the Trigger status is ‘Ready’. I have confirmed that on the actual file on disk the silence is meanwhile recorded.

Did I understand any of the parameters wrong or has anybody else the same problem?

Revision a8758c9 and Stable (3.13)

If you use the Hold Switch to Lock Keys and remove it again to unlock, buttons doesn't work.
Move around with finger at touchpad work. After this bottons work without problems.

Short:
Start Rockbox
Move the curser over Settings (Example)
Move Hold switch to Lock
Move Hold switch to Unlock
Press Middle Button (Doesnt work)
Move around on Touchpad
Press Middle Button (work)

Use of the sleep timer deactivates the idle power off. Both should be independent pathways to shutdown. The Idle Poweroff should initiate shutdown if there is no playback and no keypress inside the indicated time. The sleep timer only is to use keypresses. However, the actual behavior is for the sleep timer to disable the idle poweroff. This is a bug. Instead of either or it (If … else if) should be two "If then .. If then" constructs.

The benefit is that you can save battery life if you leave the device on while player, or if you get interrupted. Currently, you can only do one.

To replicate:
use sansa clip, latest version. Set idle power off at 1 minute and sleep timer at 30 minutes (default). Play then pause for two minutes. Press volume button and note unit is on instead of off.

Expected sorting by artist name, then by album and then by track number, but now all songs by all artists sorting by track names in alphabetical order.

Heyup,

I’ve recently updated the build on my zip and the radio volume is greatly reduced. It`s very noticeable since I use a passive speaker connected straight to the player (top volume required). Volume of file playback is unaffected.

Here’s someone describing the same issue-
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74910

Same symptoms including (notably) normal volume in the recording screen (gain=0), and region settings make no difference.

I have no note of which build I had before the update but it was from around the end of 2014. Looking thru the changelog yielded no clues.

trunk 983c808-150717

First, thanks for existing …

I just bought a 8GB Sansa Clip+ and had issues when trying to listen 24 bit Flacs, which was instantly solved using RockBox. Well, the issue I’d like to report is that it freezes when I plug it into my Mac while having the SD card on it; to avoid this I have to remove the SD card, but this is kind of unconfortable.

Any advise?

Thanks in advance

The following link to example.m4b file which I can’t open in latest rockbox build (4c4c645) on my sansa clip+ and sansa clip zip:
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/KeHt/tmu5sr9YR

I can open it on my computer without any issues.

On my iPod Classic (160GB), the hold switch is not being detected anymore by Rockbox.
Switching the hold switch does cause the buttons to stop responding and vice versa, but Rockbox is unaware of this event and continues to act as if it didn't happen. My backlight won't turn off when I switch hold like it's supposed to, and I can't exit plugins that have a hold switch activated menu like RockBoy.

I am using build c3c2c91, I just updated today.
This bug has been present since as early as January, and I am aware that a task already exists for it, but it's buried deep because the poster marked it as Low severity.

The manual says in page 31 chapter 4.3.3. that you can get to the Playlist Viewer Settings from the Playlist Viewer Menu (which should probably be named Playlist Viewer Context Menu), but there is no such entry on the actual player. Just via the settings menu from the main menu.

Rockbox version 3.13
Wenn I delete a file being played, it continues to play (which is OK for me). But when I rewind in this file while playing, Rockbox hangs and does not respond to any key presses. The screen light stays on. I have to press the hard reset or wait until the battery is empty.

This also sometimes happens when I press fastforward, but it always happens when pressing rewind.

Desired behavior:
- Preferred: permit rewinding/fastforwarding (and really delete the file only after stopping the replay)
- ignore rewind/fast forward; alternatively
- skip to the next file immediately after deleting.

Thanks for reading, and please contact me if you cannot reproduce this! I have a Iriver H140 and I must say that all my recordings are in wavpack (recordings made using SPDIF-IN), so I do not know whether this also happens with other file formats and with other players.

-Stefan

when i pressed the fm radio it’s. but when i press off it sounds like it’s still on and beeping. i’ve got all the settings of for beeping and it’s still on the fm radion i mean. this weird bug i know. please do fix this bug thanks

I have Rockbox (Development version Revision 9a5f7ce). Rockbox music playback was crystal clear, however after few days of use, a constant static background hiss/static noise can be heard.

I was recently renaming some of the music files on my Sansa Clip+ MP3 player using my computer. Some of the renames were as simple as changing the case of some of the letters in the filename, from uppercase to lowercase. After I disconnected my device, I noticed that there were duplicates of certain entries in the database. Upon further investigation, I realized that all of the entries that were duplicated were the files that the names of which I had renamed by changing the case of the letters. After I discovered this, I tried to rename a file in this manner using the device. When I tried to save the file with the new name, the screen showed a box that read “Rename Failed.”
Apparently, at least for Sansa Clip+, RockBox has a problem with renaming files by changing the case of the letters. Let me know if any other RockBox devices have this problem as well.

There is an ALAC playback problem in daily builds (since 2014-11). The playback somethimes works for one song but then crashes and shows ALAC file details as "? kbit/s", "0 MHz", "0 MB" and nothing happens when I press the Play button. After reboot the problem occurs again. It makes the ALAC playback impossible.

Now I'm using revision 9cb9f76M-140326 with patches from aroldan:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b5xbw6cp4ikfxwn/MjELjmDNJ_

With this build there are no ALAC playback problems.

Hi.

I noted a strange bug on mpio hd300 player. 2/3 of the times ,when i lock the player with HOLD ON button, and return to HOLD OFF, the volume keys do not work anymore,however, the others keys works OK (menu, FF,REW,PLAY and REC). only after a reset, these keys (volume) works again.

The release of RB is 3.13

I try other releases, from 3.11 to 3.12, and the problem is the same.

thanks