Rockbox

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 APE 24/44.1 with harsh noise in different parts of the track. If you decode APE file to WAV using the codec console, then there are no problems. So the matter is in the player’s APE decoder.

At 24/48 everything is fine.

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

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 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?

Click on the music file and die

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.

Bug exists in the DEV builds for, at least, Sansa Clip+, Sansa Fuze+, and iPod Video for at least a year, although I cannot confirm this as I've only just now tracked down the problem. The issue was discovered because imagemagick occasionally selects 1x2,1x2,1x2 as the chroma sampling factor when converting an image.

To recreate this bug, convert any image using imagemagick to a JPEG with that chroma sampling factor and attempt to view it in Rockbox. What you will see is a nonsensical image to the size of the original JPEG. Any desktop image viewer, like eyeofgnome, renders the picture correctly.

I've also included a sample Rockbox logo generated in the faulty fashion along with this bug. To create it, run this command in a Unix-like with imagemagick and curl installed: 'curl -J -L "https://www.rockbox.org/rockbox400.png" | convert - -sampling-factor 1x2,1x2,1x2 -quality 100 folder.jpg'

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.

Creative ZEN simulator build 9d0c0e3-170115
Creative ZEN device build 8fec364f6-170125

Steps:

(Asing attached config.cfg)

1 Set Settings, Playback Settings > Shuffle to Yes
2 In Files, enter a folder of tracks and press Select to play
3 Go up to the folder itself, press long select > Current playlist > Insert Last
4 Press long select > Current playlist > Insert
5 Press long select > Current playlist > Insert
6 Go to Now Playing > Current playlist > View current playlist

Expected: Four copies of the list, all shuffled

Observed: One copy of the list, shuffled, followed by three not shuffled: http://i.imgur.com/Emldcdt.png

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KANEkz0zRZ8

Creative ZEN simulator build 9d0c0e3-170115
Creative ZEN device build 8fec364f6-170125

Steps:

(Using attached config.cfg)

1 Ensure Settings > Playback Settings > Shuffle is No
2 In Files, move to a list of tracks and press Select
3 In Files, move to a different list of tracks and do long Select > Current playlist > Insert
4 View the playlist e.g. http://i.imgur.com/xR0WMQm.png 5 Set Shuffle Yes and then Shuffle No
6 View the playlist

Expected e.g. https://archive.is/41khH#selection-1007.0-1007.44 , https://archive.is/nypDH#selection-1079.0-1092.0:
Playlist order restored.

Observed: Playlist changed, but not restored - http://i.imgur.com/DBW9wSI.png

Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_s27g_FwXg

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.

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

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

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?

Create silence in Audacity program (Generate → Silence). Convert the wav file to ogg vorbis file. Put into the sansa clip+ player wav and Ogg files. Turn on the equalizer and set 32 hz, 64 hz, 125 hz in the 0.5-2.0.
Turn on maximum volume. Listen to the silence of wav file. Absolute silence. Listen Ogg Vorbis file - hear the noise (like the wind). It’s bug with only ogg vorbis. mp3, flac, mp4 is absolute silence.
On a musical files it’s additional noise. Ogg vorbis is economical of disk space. Testing on a sansa clip+ with 2GB.

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)

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.

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 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.

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 use the attached custom WPS that displays the active Replaygain value and type next to the track number.

When playing mpc files created by foobar2000 with the tracknumber/totaltracks tag format, if the track# is 10 or higher and the applied gain negative (as in the attached mpc), mangled characters are displayed between the gain value and type, eg:

10/12 -2.00 dB *gibberish* (Album)

This is reproducible with the latest simulator build d0fffd6-150104 but I only recently noticed the issue and don't know when it began. I have an old sim build 935d8be-121229 and it works correctly there.

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

## This was tried out with Sansa Fuzev2 simulator version d392da8-140922, built from git on a 64 bit Linux system ##

I discovered something which seems to be a bug somewhere in the place where WPS get interpreted or rendered.

When I use a scrolling line just after a line containing sublines, the scrolling line stops scrolling as soon as the sublines change the first time.

Below are steps to reproduce it on the UI simulator for the Sansa Fuzev2. I think it also works without using a clear configuration. I haven’t tested with a real device, only with the simulator.

Attached are a .wps-file showing the buggy behaviour (’scrollline_after_sublines_bug.buggy.wps’), and a .wps-file working correctly (’scrollline_after_sublines_bug.workaround.wps’), which are the same files as quoted below.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

(0) Use Sansa Fuzev2 simulator version d392da8-140922, build from git on a 64 bit Linux system.

(1) Use a clear configuration, so erase

    .rockbox/.playlist_control
    .rockbox/config.cfg
    .rockbox/nvram.bin
    .rockbox/database.ignore
  in your 'simdisk' directory.

(2) Start the rockbox UI simulator

(3) Change the theme to ‘rockbox_failsafe’, i.e. in the menu, do the following:

• ‘Settings’ → ‘Theme Settings’ → ‘Browse Theme Files’ → ‘rockbox_failsafe.cfg’
• ‘Settings’ → ‘Theme Settings’ → ‘While Playing Screen’ → ‘rockbox_failsafe.wps’
• ‘Settings’ → ‘Theme Settings’ → ‘Radio Screen’ → ‘rockbox_failsafe.fms’
• ‘Settings’ → ‘Theme Settings’ → ‘Base Skin’ → ‘rockbox_failsafe.sbs’

(4) Use the following .wps-file as the “While Playing Screen” skin:

=⇒ # Two sublines:
Text1;Text2
# A long line, scrolling:
%sA very long text which is meant to scroll because it is longer than the screen is wide.
# Another line of just text (Not needed to reproduce the bug, but if it is swapped with the long line above, the long line scrolles correctly):
Textline.
#### Here the following Bug appears:
# When the Line ‘Text1;Text2’ changes the sublines the first time, the subsequent line stops scrolling. It happens when the sublines change; as when you use ‘%t(5)Text1;Text2’, the scrolling stops only after 5 seconds, when the sublines actually change.
⇐=

Workaround:
(4a) Put the scrolling line not directly after a line with sublines. The following .wps as the “While Playing Screen” skin works:

=⇒ # Two sublines:
Text1;Text2
# Another line of just text. Needed to make the long line scrolling correctly:
Textline.
# A long line, scrolling:
%sA very long text which is meant to scroll because it is longer than the screen is wide.
#### Here the bug does not appear, the long line scrolls corretly. But when the long scrolling line is put just below the line with the sublines, it stops scrolling as soon as the sublines change for the first time.
⇐=

Hi, thanks a lot for all of your coding efforts, support, etc. I noticed that the WPS layout changed slightly after installing the latest dev build.

===

Problem: An unexpected indent appears in the WPS after installing the latest dev build on a Sansa Clip+. Please see attachment for an example.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 3.13 with Blind theme
2. Play some tracks to see WPS
3. Upgrade to latest dev build
4. Play some tracks to see WPS
5. Problem occurs here: there’s an extra indentation after the “{current track number} / {number of tracks in playlist}” text, at the bottom-left of the screen.

Player: Sansa Clip+
Rockbox version: 1879de7-140525
Binary: rockbox.sansa
Size: 582384

Additional: Possibly related to #12953

http://web.mit.edu/mgg6/www/cover.jpg

This file is correctly decoded and displayed in the Fuze+ simulator, but testing on device results in playback stopping. Interestingly, nothing crashes, playback just stops. In theory we should be able to decode this, the resizer does not need to load more than a few lines of the image at once, which should easily fit in memory. Alternatively, if it is too large (or rather wide given that its decoded line by line) for the available space, it should probably just be rejected.

I am having a couple of problems with Rockbox on my iRiver H140.
The first issue is that all my songs in the files folder are displaying only in the order
that they were uploaded onto the machine. If I go into the settings and choose to display
Artists in alphabetical order it doesn't have any effect! I am left to endlessly scroll through
the names or listen through the iriver player which doesn't play WAVs or FLACs so i can't access everything.
Secondly, if I start up and resume playback of an album it doesn't then allow me to access the files folder when I navigate to it. I have to then restart my player and go to files from there. If I later come out to the main menu and choose Files, or any folder for that matter, it won't open. It's really frustrating. Any ideas of a fix?

http://www.konscience.de/wp-content/uploads/kns017-maertyrer-gegen-copyright.m4a

The current build as well as 3.13 report and then fail:

parsing /kns017-maertyrer-gegen-copyright.m4a failed (format: ALAC)

However, foobar reports:

Codec profile : AAC SBR

Which is likely correct given that the bitrate is far too low to be ALAC.

The manual offered by Rockbox Utility is not necessarily the version that accords with the installed (or to-be-installed) program.

E.g. select Release 3.13, and the Manual offered is http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansafuze.pdf not http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.13/rockbox-sansafuze-3.13.pdf .

http://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20140124#15:41:22 says this is a bug. Since the user does reasonably expect a manual to accord with the program, I too think this is a bug. Whether it is a design bug or code bug, I cannot guess.

Note: this task says Operating System: All players but only because the actual player, Sansa Fuze, is not offered. Though this issue may indeed apply to all players.

I tested this on a clip+ (3.13) and creative zen (rev cc64d9e), so assuming it’s the same for all devices.

Following setup:
- ReplayGain is configured to “Track if Shuffle” - “Prevent clipping” is set to on/off, does not matter

How to reproduce:
- make a copy of any RG scanned file which has track/album gain and peak tags
- remove the peak tags _only_, leaving gain tags intact

Expected result:
- player should be able to adjust the volume, but not prevent clipping

Actual result:
- player does not apply neither track not album gain.

Files containing only gain tags but not peak tags come from converting lossless → lossy and transferring gain info (since peaks will be different for the lossy file, peak tags are omitted.) With 11db of volume difference on some tracks, it’s impossible to not notice that. I am not sure why applying RG requires peak tags in rockbox, foobar2000 handles peak tag-less files without issue. Any chance to change this behavior to not rely on peak tags?

The 2bit greyscale LCD drivers ignore the current viewport’s drawmode. This makes you unable to draw icons with a non-clear background.

The LCD is highly unreliable: sometimes it displays dots and sometimes it stays black.
Example:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13462.0;attach=6384;image

Latest version of rockbox installed on both Sansa e200 2GB and Sansa Clip Zip 4GB. (3.13) Sorry, release 3.12 was the only one available in the reported version pulldown.

Windows 7 Pro 16GB RAM, i5-2500K, 3.3GHz/ 3.6 GHz, 64-bit. 7.3 Windows Experience Index. OS is otherwise stable and up-to-date.

Blue Screen of Death only happens when I try to connect first one Sansa Device via USB to Windows, transfer mp3’s or update a theme, unplug it, then connect a second Sansa different device. It doesn’t matter whether I start with the e200 or the Clip Zip or vice versa. Upon immediately connecting via USB with the second device, I get a BSOD. I have two e200 devices. It can happen sometimes even when I connect first one e200, then the other.

I can disconnect and reconnect the starting device (for instance the Clip Zip) as often as necessary, but if I want to connect to the e200 (for instance to update a theme), I have to reboot the computer in order to avoid the BSOD.

It seems that operators are discarded when used in a tagnavi.config (or tagnavi_custom.config) format line condition.

For example,

%format “fmt_abtitle” “*%s - %02d:%02d” title Lm Ls ? playcount > “0” & lastoffset == “0” %format “fmt_abtitle” “%s - %02d:%02d” title Lm Ls Now if we used “fmt_abtitle” instead of “fmt_title” in the default tagnavi file, we would expect all tracks with a playcount greater than 0 and lastoffset equal to zero to be prefixed by three asterixes (*). Instead ALL the tracks with a playcount greater than zero are prefixed, leading me to think that the & lastoffset == “0” part is discarded. If I make the following change:

%format “fmt_abtitle” “***%s - %02d:%02d” title Lm Ls ? lastoffset == “0” & playcount > “0” %format “fmt_abtitle” “%s - %02d:%02d” title Lm Ls

Now all tracks with a lastoffset equal to zero are prefixed, which again proves that the and operator was clearly ignored and unparsed.

I would like to leave my player charging overnight and have it resume playback in the morning to wake me.

My player remains on when charging and cannot be turned off.

The alarm does not resume playing if the player is already on when the alarm time passes.

I suspect this probably applies to all players, mine is a Sandisk Sansa Clip+.

Rockbox info says v. 3.13 - the stable build grabbed by RockboxUtility, which this bugtracker doesn’t seem to know about yet.

Version: 3.13

Variable ‘tmp’ on line 565 is possibly not initialised (found by cppcheck).

The MENU key is mapped to close the Chip8 emulator, so mapping it to a Chip8 key is pointless. This makes some games unplayable.
This may affect other iPod models, I don’t know.

This is basically a documentation update. For several years I generated accessibility voice files on my devices. Then one day I was reinstalling and it would generate a lot of the voice files but die from a weird error. For more than six months I combed the manual and the forums, trying to figure out what had changed, trying to debug it myself. Eventually I stumbled across the problem. I had noticed the “install on player” option in Rockbox Utility and started generating voice files while running from the player. Once I switched back to running Rockbox Utility by launching the utility from my regular PC disk, everything worked again. I again looked for any warning about this in the manual, and didn’t find anything.

The simplest fix is to include something about this in the section on accessibility and generating voice files.

Another fix, probably not worth it, would be for the voice files to use system tmp space for intermediate files. I suspect that the recursive generation of talk files on player ends up in some infinite regression as it generates talk files for temporary files.

This probably happens on all players, but I only experienced it on the iPod Nano 1st Gen.

Rockbox Daily Build rev 085c10 (2013-01-30)
120gb 7G iPod Classic.

When I connect my rockboxed iPod Classic via Line Out (Apple Dock or Fiio Line Out Adapter) I’m getting heavy distorted with clipping an low volume sound. Headphones out its working while connected to the dock.

Same reported in the mailing list (http://www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2012-10/0006.shtml). Stock firmware, and rockboxed iPod Video (5.5G) working with the same setting.

I have no programing knowledge, but I’m willing to help!!