Rockbox

I’m having weird problems with a 160Gb 6G Classic (yes I know it’s unsupported/unstable).

With emcore and rockbox it works fine. Connecting it to my computer the USB works as expected and everything is great (copied 100Gb+ of music to it with no trouble).

However… when I connect it to either of my cars (via USB), the iPod shows the USB screen for a few seconds then goes back to the Rockbox menu and locks solid. It then needs a MENU+Select to reboot it.

Using a USB flash drive in both cars (different head units) works fine and I can navigate around the filesystem and play music. I did notice that the flash drive was partitioned, not ‘superfloppy’, so I setup my iPod with 1 partition and stuck rockbox on that…. didn’t make any difference though.

Someone suggested that the head units (Kenwood and OEM Jaguar) might be detecting the device as an iPod from the USB ID and then ‘doing something special’. So I compiled my own rockbox from git source changing the USB ID and VENDOR to 0001. I then verified the change by doing a lsusb on my Linux box and the ID showed as 0001:0001.

Sadly this makes zero difference to the iPod’s behaviour when connected to my car(s).

Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m happy to recompile, grabs logs, insert code etc

Here’s the rockbox-info.txt from the one I built:

Target: ipod6g
Target id: 71
Target define: -DIPOD_6G
Memory: 64
CPU: arm
Manufacturer: s5l8702
Version: 189148eM-130128
Binary: rockbox.ipod
Binary size: 646268
Voice format: 400
Actual size: 646260
RAM usage: 1755172
Features: accessory_supply:backlight_brightness:crossfade:dircache:headphone_detection:hold_button:hotkey:lcd_bitmap:lcd_non-mono:lcd_color:lcd_sleep:morse_input:pitchscreen:quickscreen:rtc:swcodec:tagcache:tc_ramcache:charging:usb_charging_enable:wheel_acceleration:lineout_poweroff:large_plugin_buffer:albumart:disk_storage:scrollwheel:usb_power:usbstack:hardware_click
gcc: arm-elf-eabi-gcc (GCC) 4.4.4
ld: GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303
Host gcc: gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) 4.4.3
Host system: Linux

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

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

%px tag does not behave properly with large files. When playback reaches the time 11:55:50, then the %px resets (starting to show 0).
It’s more extensively described here: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,42661.0.html

Using the %pL Tag (in WPS) in order to simply display it or use it in a conditional tag (like in the “analog” theme yields very high values (let call it spikes) - where they should not be, while the bar-type peak meter is working fine.

Within the simulator, everithing is running smooth, as far as I could see.

I tried to have a look at the sources but that’s too much at the moment.

Does somebody have a clue ?

Regards

  Ralf

When displaying %mp in a theme while playback is stopped, the value 0 (zero) is displayed.

However, to test for “playback stopped”, one has to test:
%?if(%mp, =, 1)
That is, one has to test for (index + 1) in order to return true for any given enumerator index number.

Same problem when testing for an arbitrary number. Example:
%?if(%ss(0, 2, %St(font), number), =, 15)
returns true when the font is set to “14-Nimbus”, and false when the font is set to “15-Adobe-Helvetica”.

When testing a %tag that holds a numerical value though, it works as expected:
%?if(%pv, =, 0)
returns true when volume is set to 0dB.

Fixing this would likely break all existing Rockbox themes. One solution to this, would be to require new / updated themes to include some specific code that “acknowledges” the new behavior.

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

Rockbox crashes after USB unplug.

Hi!

I’ve found very important bug in Rockbox 3.7, witch my be dangerous for both the player and the memory card (if present).
It turned out that Rockbox doesn’t react to very low battery level while voice or FM radio is recorded. It causes damage to the recorded file when finally hardware falls due to lack of energy. This corrupted file is absolutely unreadable.

(Confirmed this in 4c6c8cd-130926, discovered in build from several weeks earlier)

If ‘Voice Menus’ are enabled, entering the Recording menu will freeze the player…usually before the entire screen is redrawn. Although I can still hear the sound the mic is picking up, the player is locked up, and removing the battery or super-long-pressing of Power is required.

During my testing, I was able to randomly get it to -not- lock up, but it was like a 1 in 50 occurance…tried all formats/sample rates/etc. When ‘Voice Menus’ is -disabled-, all formats/rates/etc work fine.

Thinking it was a problem with my config that I’ve been using for years, I tried with a clean config.cfg (well, deleted and let it regenerate), and narrowed the cause down to the spoken ‘Voice Menus’ being enabled.

I’m using the latest Dev build for the Fuze+. SanDisk Sansa Fuze+ 5ef1e2d. Same issues experienced in v3.12 stable.

The screen, for lack of a better term, jumps when navigating in upside-down mode.

http://youtu.be/dRfiBtMx2to

According to the manual, to exit the EQ settings page you press the back button on the fuze+. This doesn’t work. I tried all key combos and none work.

Alarm wakeup doesn’t work reliably. It is unclear whether the setup is wrong or the wake up is. It might be that the player wakes up before time because of a small press on the power button and thus somehow forgets about alarm.

HI, is there a way that you could add a “Single”
playmode, so it stops after playing one song, instead of
repeating all, or repeating single? That way, it could also
be used as an “auto-off”, where it shuts off after one
song. Also, and maybe this isnt possible, but you could
have an option to play X number of songs and then stop,
where the X is configurable.

All settings should be listed there (even more so settings which cannot be set through the UI), but root menu order is only described in advanced_topic/main.tex as of now.

I have a Sansa e260 player and currently Rockbox 3.11.2 running on it.
I got a shuffled playlist with all of my music in it (added to the playlist using the insert function and reshuffled afterwards). When I want to listen to one or more specific songs, I enqueue them with the queue function (in play mode select song, album etc. from database → context menu → Current playlist → Queue).
This works fine in most cases but when there had already been a queue that ended the song before, the song that I want to enqueue is placed before the currently playing song (which is the first song not any more part of the former queue) instead of after it.
If I use the feature "Queue next" the song, album or whatever is correctly placed after the currently playing song. After having used "Queue next" once, other songs enqueued with the "Queue" command may be also placed correctly at the end of the new queue. I believe to remember some strange behavior though when in that case the song was also incorrectly placed as described above.
I tried mp3 and ogg files and the behavior was the same regardless of which file format was used. It also doesn't matter if the song is played from the player's memory or from micro SD card.
As soon as the second song after the queue is playing, enqueued content is correctly placed after the currently playing song again.
I have experienced this behavior for a long time now and with different Rockbox builds on my player.

To reproduce the behavior:
1. Have a reshuffled playlist (created using "Insert" command, then selecting "Playlist" → "Reshuffle" from the wps context menu) with some songs in it
2. Listen to one of these songs which is not the first or last one in the playlist
3. Enqueue a song from your database via the context menu (This song should be placed directly after the currently playing one)
4. Play the enqueued song (or a part of it)
5. Play the next song in playlist
6. Now enqueue another song (This song should now be placed directly before the currently playing song in the playlist)

I have hardly any programming experience at all but it seems to me that somehow there exists some sort of marker that indicates the end of a queue and that this marker is not erased immediately after a queue ends but "one song too late"?

After upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1, the “Beep” sound (enabled in Settings / Playback Settings / Beep Volume) now sounds very distorted and fuzzy.

It sounds this way on any setting. Strong, Moderate or Weak and with the player’s volume on any setting. It definitely sounded like a normal clean beep with 3.0

This is on an 80gb Ipod 5.5 with Rockbox r19569-081223

I’m not sure if this should be under “Music Playback”, as I don’t seem to hear the distortion and fuzziness when playing mp3’s.

Mike

as3525
Version: 91b52a1-120122

Running on Sansa clip zip, unable to play the following .ogg file (I can't try it on other Rockbox versions, maybe someone can?). Works fine played any other way.

www.quik.clara.co.uk/Wontplay_inrockbox.ogg

(too large to attach directly)

Build 21245

I have ''Start Screen' set to 'Resume Playback'.

When connecting the Ipod (from OFF) to the PC the Ipod boots and USB mode starts but also playback (the play > sign is display on the title bar).

The Ipod is not shows and not mounted on the PC.

On disconnecting USB I get 'data abort' and have to hard reset.