Rockbox

The settings submenu with the playlist viewer settings like “show icons”, “show indices” and “track display” to select between file name only and full path for playlist entries is not available in the playlist viewer menu in the Android version.

So these settings cannot be changed.

This happens in all version I tried until now (latest was a12b2a5).

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"?

Current developer build (2012-06-10), on Sansa Clip Zip
While audio is playing, connecting USB and disconnecting it again causes a splash with message “Error accessing playlist control file”. Sometimes followed by a hard crash (like undefined instruction).

Initial analysis shows that the problem occurs in playlist.c:get_filename. An lseek in the playlist control file fails. This lseek fails because the file descriptor (fd) was closed during USB connection. On receiving a SYS_USB_CONNECTED event in apps/misc.c, function system_flush() calls playlist_shutdown().
So the playlist subsystem seems to have been de-initialised during USB connect, but not completely, causing problems when the playlist subsystem resumes during USB disconnect.

This is reproducible on the simulator.

The version 3.10 is stable and everything works fine, but since I upgraded to the last version 3.11 or the daily build the ipod crashes and I can't mount the device in the computer, the charging doesn't work either.

Player Type = Sansa Clip+ (not available in chooser when submitting).
Release = 3.11.2

Recording at 48kHz results in audio that is 2.35% too fast. I believe it is recording at 49155Hz instead of 48000Hz. Recording at 44.1 kHz does not have this problem.

I have verified by putting 2 identical Clip+ in front of me, one set to rec at 44.1 other at 48.0. When playing back audio (on PC) difference in pitch is (barely) audible. And the audio falls out of sync as recording progresses (in video editor).

For now I’ll be happy to only record at 44.1kHz, but maybe 48kHz recording should either be fixed or dropped from Clip+ options.

Rockbox crashes when stopping playback of ogg vorbis files. This happens both, when I stop playback through long pressing the play button or simply if the last track in the current playlist is finished. It does not happen when stopping playback of mp3 files. Pausing does not cause a crash, only stopping does.

I reported this problem already in  FS#12669  which was closed since it was asserted to be fixed, but it wasn't and isn't fixed for me.

The bug occured in version 688302a of 04/08 13:15. All earlier versions (tested back to bb0e4cc of 04/05) are working and later versions are crashing. I just tested current version e5d6e42 and Rockbox still crashes.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S running Android 2.3.7 (CyanogenMod CM7.2.0)

I'm running Rockbox 3.11.2 on a Sansa Clip+.
I followed these steps:
- go to the Main Menu
- Files
- long press on <microSD1>
- Playlist Catalogue
- Add to New Playlist
I tried to save the playlist with a long press of the select button (not sure of the button's actual name; it is the button in the middle of the 4-way controller and the one that is usually used to select the highlighted option). I was returned to the Files menu. The playlist did not get saved, and there was no error explaining why.

As a result, I spent a long time assuming that long press of select was a "cancel" action, and tried short and long presses of every other button trying to save the playlist.

Workaround: instead of accepting the suggested filename, remove the "<" and ">" characters from the auto-entered filename ("/Playlists/<microSD1>.m3u8") to be able to save the playlist.

Suggested fixes: The filename suggested by Rockbox should not include "<", ">", or other un-saveable characters. In addition, if the user tries to save a file with invalid characters, a warning or error message should be posted (like the "Cancelled" message that briefly pops up when the power button is pressed to exit from the set-filename screen).

I’ve been using the latest dev builds everyday for iPod Nano 2G and still encountering “Swapped Channels” on Playback (e.g. Left Channel → Right Headphone / Right Channel → Left Headphone).

Used latest build 5785cfb-120625

Settings such as "eq enabled" and "replaygain type" do not apply to a playing track when selected from shortcut menu, although the setting does appear to have changed when checking in the settings menu. The audio remains unchanged when changing the settings. However, when changing the same settings via the settings menu they function correctly (e.g. audio noticeably changes from loud to quiet after a few seconds).

Also, while displaying "debug info" on the wps, I noticed that %rg (replaygain value in dB) DOES change when the replaygain is changed via the shortcut menu, even though the audio doesn't change. (Both %rg and the audio change when the same setting is changed via the settings menu).

NB Some settings DO work, such as bass and treble.

Problem noticed on Sansa Clip Zip (build 2f1da04-120627), UiSimulator of Sansa Clip Zip (build fa17cb9M-120627).

Experienced Results:
I have 2 folders(lets call them FolderA and FolderB) each containing audio files.
FolderA and FolderB are both on the root of my drive
Neither one has a database.ignore file in it.
I go to settings → general settings → database → update now
All files are added to the database as expected
…But i realize i dont want FolderB to show up in the database.
I add a database.ignore file at /FolderB/database.ignore
Then I go back in and update the database again(settings → general settings → database → update now)
all of my audio files still show up in the database(including the ones in FolderB with the database.ignore file)

Expected Results:
After adding the database.ignore file to FolderB and updating the database(settings → general settings → database → update now) the audio files in FolderB should no longer appear in the database

Summery:
Any files in a folder containing a database.ignore file should be removed from the database on update

Rockbox Info:
Build Version: daily / e3cddc2-120701

Daily build: c413591-120705 and earlies.
When I connect powered down my Fuze V1 and disconnect from USB, it hangs displaying USB screen. I must hold power switch for several seconds to power off player. Tested on two different machines with windows7 x64. When I connect powered on player everything works perfectly.

I upgraded my Sansa Fuze V1 (AMSV1) from the current stable release 3.11.2 to Daily build (ad46064-120710). With Rockbox powered on, any attempt to connect USB to my WinXP fails. The USB icon is displayed briefly, followed immediately by the white screen - Undefined Instruction at 0000003C. This is repeatable. Recovery is via a power down.

Note: the USB connection works fine with the current stable release 3.11.2 and this is the first daily build I have tried,

When playing FLAC audio tracks, they are no longer playing gapless. There seems to be about a half second gap between tracks.

iPod Video 5G
Rockbox 3.11.2 / r21506
Bootloader 2010-05-25T22:02:55

Issue is present even when using default theme and font; Docked or not docked.

I tried increasing the buffer and that had no affect.

If you add a tank or a plane on a field the strenght does not increase at any time ( as expected ). E.g. place a tank on a field with a farm.

The Bug is located in superdom.c in lines 438 - 457

static int calc_strength(int colour, int x, int y) {

  int a, b, score=0;
  for (a = -1; a < 2; a++) {
      for (b = -1; b < 2; b++) {
          if ((b == 0 || a == 0) &&
              (board[x + a][y + b].colour == colour)) {
              score += 10;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].tank || board[x + a][y + b].farm) // <-- this is the BUG
                  score += 30;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].plane || board[x + a][y + b].ind) // <-- this is the BUG
                  score += 40;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].nuke)
                  score += 20;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].men)
                  score += (board[x + a][y + b].men*133/1000);
          }
      }
  }
  return score;

}

The Bug should be fixed by using this lines instead :

static int calc_strength(int colour, int x, int y) {

  int a, b, score=0;
  for (a = -1; a < 2; a++) {
      for (b = -1; b < 2; b++) {
          if ((b == 0 || a == 0) &&
              (board[x + a][y + b].colour == colour)) {
              score += 10;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].tank)
                  score += 30;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].farm)
                  score += 30;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].plane)
                  score += 40;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].ind)
                  score += 40;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].nuke)
                  score += 20;
              if(board[x + a][y + b].men)
                  score += (board[x + a][y + b].men*133/1000);
          }
      }
  }
  return score;

}

When trying to start RockDoom on the iPod Classic, Doom appears to load normally until the iPod crashes and says "Prefetch abort at 71D0BF24 FSR (domain 0, fault 5)". Build ver. 8abdd9b-120902

On my newly purchased (but used) Archos Internet Tablet 70 250GB with Android Version 2.2.? (Froyo) I installed the daily build of rasher. Everything works so far, but playback of MP3 (mostly 160 Kbit CBR and ~200 Kbit VBR) pauses briefly every 2 to 3 minutes. I just reformatted the drive, which now has ext3 and that seems to end the pause which I got on FAT32 after ~4 Seconds of every new song, but every 3 minutes or so the playbacks stops for about a second - very annoying. Don't tried other codecs as I don't own any files other than MP3.
I was in the developers menu during one of this pauses, looking at the list of the contributors. The old names fly away to the right, but this was frozen also during this one second timespan - as if the rockbox-process was paused entirely or so.

So far there's still two problem which have never been fixed on Android:
1.When opening Rockbox, its volume bump to max automatically whatever it was when last quit;
2.On most HTC(and probably other) devices one can't use physical volume keys to adjust. Volume bars in WPS and SBS work well however.

Hopes the fixes!

  Nowadays there're more and more Android devices hit the market with higher and higher definetion. Therefore, we need to compile Rockbox with higher definetion.
  Though we can compile and run Rockbox fluently, it doesn't always work as we expected. Sometimes it can't load background image/WPS/SBS or it'll even stop singing. I did a lot of test and comparison between builds with different version and  definition and find out that it's the lacking of buffer which disturbs Rockbox working normally.
  Big tracks, images and WPSs/SBSs and maybe other can cause the buffer lacking. We have bigger and bigger RAM for apps now but Rockbox always can't get enough buffer to hold the data. Hope fix!

I have some stereo files that need to be encoded as two independent channels with no lossy stereo coupling. I encode these files by passing "–uncoupled" to the Opus encoder, e.g.

opusenc –bitrate 64 –framesize 60 –uncoupled example.wav example.opus

The lossless flac version of a sample of such a file prior to encoding can be downloaded from
http://kyle.tk/binaural-beat-sample.flac

If I do not pass the "–uncoupled" option to the encoder, the resulting Opus file plays with no trouble on my Sansa Clip+. The sample of this encoding is at
http://kyle.tk/binaural-beat-sample-64k.opus However, if I pass the "–uncoupled" option, sample at
http://kyle.tk/binaural-beat-sample-64k-uncoupled.opus Rockbox only plays a cacophony of chirps, scratches, squeaks and garbled noise, and no hint of the original sound is detectable.

Note: I have only been able to test this on a Clip+, as I own no other Rockbox player that is capable of playing Opus files at this time. Hopefully someone can confirm this problem on other targets, but for now, I have been able to reproduce it 100% on the Clip+, and I can confidently point to "–uncoupled" as the encoder option that results in an unplayable file.

Sansa Clip Zip has big problems with Lossless files. BIG.

1) Flacs skips randomly, at every encoding level (5 or 8 it's the same) and it's impossible to reproduce this issue when I want. It skips to the next track randomly
2) Ape files stops to reproducing and makes a really big noise, this after 30 sec. or 3 min… or nothing at all.
3) Wavpack files, sometimes, stucks for 0.5 seconds and then, it continues to play. It happens to Fast encoding, or Normal encoding, it's the same.
4) AAC files make little noises and, sometimes, crash Rockbox.

Flac and APE problems, I'm sure, occurs from ages, I bought Clip Zip months ago and these problem occurred for every build and ofr every Rockbox release.

I don't think that my player's broken. These problems were previously posted by other people.

I think that the testing of builds were made too hastily, there are too many problems with lossless files. I can understand APE that requires an expensive decoding, but FLAC files couldn't have these problems :(

This is a reopen of issue #1 of  bug 7354  (http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7354)

SETUP:
HW: sansa clip+
SW: 8687b98-121001

CD's ripped as wav/cue with EAC 1.0b3 then converted to FLAC w/embedded cue with cuetools 2.1.4; used accuraterip to confirm good rip.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR:

loading a flac w/embedded cue would display markers within the track and allow forward/back skipping within the track.

ISSUE:
Some tracks I am unable skip to using next/back or rewind to the start of using back.
If I listen to the whole preceeding track then the display updates correctly as it goes.

I've tested this with a handful of CDs, and given the previous bug, this appears to be a general issue with flacs/embedded cuefiles.

Sans Clip V2

24bit 96000 Hz 6 Channel (5.1) FLAC files skip to next song after 30 seconds. 30 seconds is an estimate because my screen is broken, so I can’t see what’s happening. I downloaded a daily build 3 days ago, but I think it’s a buffering issue. Flac is 8181 kbps (says Foobar).

It’s the first time I tried these files, so I don’t know if they ever worked, or ever will.
If they never will work, I’m sorry for reporting this.

Thank you all for your time and efforts.

Rockbox Info: Version: 3.12

Device: iRiver H140, 80GB Toshiba MK8009GAH 8mm 1.8" IDE HDD 8mm

BUG: Repeatable, Consistent.

Additional Information:
1. To verify that I had a good installation of the 3.12 version of the Rockbox firmware working, I have reformatted, and re-flashed rockbox 3.12 two seperate times after initially encountering this, duplicating this behavior. So it doesn't seem to be a bad firmware flash.

Expected Behavior:

1. Player should Power On and boot properly every single time the bootup sequence is initiated correctly (Play Button pressed when Player is in a Powered Off state).

Buggy Behavior:

1. Player Powers Up, then locks up (i.e. "crashes") during bootloader sequence, requiring a hard reset, and upon second boot, finally Powers On and boots properly, bringing up a functional session of the Main User Interface. This is repeatable, and consistent.

Bug Symptoms & How To Repeat:

1. Consistently the Player will lock up during first "boot" sequence. The bootloader will usually reach the text stage, and sometimes crash here. Sometimes the bootloader will get through the text stage and reach the Rockbox Logo and then crash here. The Main User Interface is never reached upon first "boot" sequence.

2. The result of the first "boot" lockup (i.e. "crash") requires that I reset the Player by inserting a paperclip into the Reset hole (on the bottom plate of the Player) and triggering the button hidden in there. This Powers Down the Player, and Resets the Firmware, leaving the Player ready to be Powered On again.

3. Upon the second "boot", the Player will "boot" and the bootloader will make it past the text stage, the Rockbox Logo stage, and then spin up the HDD properly; the bootloader will not lock up the firmware, and behaves 'normally', finally resulting in a completed boot up sequence with the Main User Interface coming up (as a user would expect). The Player is now ready to use.

this is ordinary mp3 file.
I think it was name problem, renamed to simple.
Still not play.
Player Sansa Clip+ (not found in bug report menu)
Rockbox 3.12 (not found in bug report menu)
Standard firmware has no problem with this.
Good luck!

It is 16Mb size so I put it to my dropbox
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17669498/rockboxbug/08.mp3

Player: Sansa Clip+
FW: Rockbox 3.12, official stable build, but it happens on older versions too

While playing some FLAC file, RB skips to the next track automatically. I know there is a lot of similar bugs, but this is unique:)
Firstly, the problem is repeatable on my Clip. Skipping is always at one time, e.g. 00:19 for one file and 01:40 for other one. I think that these files are stored on corrupted part of SD card. OK, if it's corrupted then I have to buy a new one, but when I switch to original Sansa Clip+ firmware it play normally! At problematic places (00:19 or 01:40) there is a little 'click', but it continues to play. My conclusion is: if original FW handles such a files on bad memory, Rockbox should has workaround also.
Files are OK, when I copy them to internal memory, Rockbox plays continuously.
I didn't notice skipping of MP3 files on the same SD card, only with FLACs.
Computer players (e.g. AIMP) plays FLACs from this SD without any problems.

I've attached movies that presents the bug on 2 different tracks. Hope it helps.
http://youtu.be/0e4Xf8rKTh0 http://youtu.be/zl4LX4wEwlI

I recognize some problem with USB support.

When I’m connecting my player first time, it’s work correct - computer’s mounting device propertly. BUT When I disconnecting it, turn on playing and while music is still playing I’m connecting player once more - Rockbox is crashing and give information about “unidentified instruction at… “. Now player looks like dead - I must reset it and Rockbox start correctly.
When I’m not turning on songs - all works fine.

Sorry for my english…I’m still learining It

when rockbox startup, a loud popping sound will be produced to the output

if plug off the headphone before startup, and plug in on after startup, the popping sound also produced;

if plug it before startup and hear the popping, then re-plug the headphone will not hear any popping again(until i restart the rockbox)

I am working on adding album art support for FLAC and Ogg files. FLAC looks straightfoward, but there is a design problem with Ogg.

https://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment#Cover_art

The struct containing the image and associated data is base64 encoded. I can't just set id3→albumart.pos to a location in the file like all other supported album art formats (and FLAC). Obivously I could allocate memory for the decoded base64 data, but it would have to be deallocated later to prevent a leak.

On IRC, nick_p suggested: "how about adding a new id3 struct element id3→albumart.base64_encoded=true and decoding it when needed on the fly?" This sounds like a good idea, with one issue: it's not the album art alone that is base64 encoded, but the data struct described here:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block_picture

I can test to see if I can parse the beginning of the base64 block, then set the pos pointer to the middle of of the block (with the id3 struct addition) and see if it will still decode.

The remaining time estimate shown under System>Rockbox Info reports just “0h -1m”.

The battery indicator on the status line works OK… maybe it’s just a display bug?

The Clip Zip's text viewer does not bookmark anymore. When holding down the Submenu and Select keys (which according to the manual sets a bookmark), no bookmark is created, and the screen flashes between the context menu and the text file instead. This bug has been confirmed by skip252 here: [ http://anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?p=629493&posted=1#post629493 ].

Rockbox build is the latest dev build at the time of filing [62de15f-130103].

As the title suggests, fun things like: https://plus.google.com/102855057878446061693/posts/FkQ4wQZb8VD can happen in this instance.

Initially reported here: http://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20130113#07:14:49

[Saint]

When my Fuze+ is charged and it's still connected to the charger, it seems it keeps toggling between charging and discharging.

I think the problem is that it reacts to some voltage to stop charging. When it's charging it measures up to 4.35 V. But when it stops charging it changes to 4.25V, and says something like 96-99% charged, and which point it changes to charging again, and so on.

So it's basicly toggling between charging and discharging very often, and I don't think that's very good for the battery. Once it's charged it should stop charging as long as the charger is connected. (This might apply to other devices too.)

This was with version 2ef7a54-130111

Kurt

%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

Sometimes my Clip Zip gets in a state where I can resume playback after booting it but then it doesn’t let me seek anymore (seek thingy still moves but then jumps back to where it was, playback is totally unaffected which in this case is bad of course). I also can’t pause or skip. I can go back to the main menu but I can’t move the cursor or go back to the WPS. When I go into the playlist by long-pressing down, the list usually appears but is not functional although here I can usually move the cursor up and down (sometimes I only get a kind of frame but rendering freezes at that point). Trying to shut down lets the “shutting down” popup appear but that’s it.

I seem to remember that going via “recent bookmarks” once was a workaround but in the current state this doesn’t work either.

This broken states persists between shutdowns (or well, switch-offs more like since shutting down doesn’t work). I also tried to recreate the playlist but that didn’t help either so I’m currently stuck with a player that will play but I can’t it make change what to play. I will also have to listen to the same podcast over and over again since no new resume position is saved.

The build I use is 42a725f.

Oh and sorry I didn’t choose the right player. Couldn’t find any Sansa Clip in the list in fact :/

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

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!!

I’m using 42a725f, and after frequency scaling implementation, sometimes the player slowdown extremely, being unusable (don’t stop playing, only small gaps in audio occur).
Less frequently, the player freezes.

I noticed it’s happens more frequently if the device is just powered on, and hits play. If I wait a few seconds before resuming play, the freezes are less frequent.

- How often does this happen?
* Frequently, about 2 o 3 times a day (4 hour average playback time, with several shutdown/boot in the middle)

- playing which file format (mp3, ogg, flac, mpc, etc…)?
* Confirmed with mp3 and flac

- which lcd is your device?
*st7783

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.

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.

Key lock (activated by pressing Power in the WPS) deactivates when music playback stops (end of playlist). The keypad then becomes active again. It shouldn’t get activated until Power is pressed again.

Changing “Enable EQ” setting does nothing until the player is restarted. However, selecting an EQ preset does enable the EQ and take affect within a few seconds. With the new 3.13 presets I am working around this issue by simply selecting the “Flat” EQ config file to “Turn Off” the EQ. I have tried stopping playback and skipping around to other tracks forcing the buffer to refill. That doesn’t work.

I don’t know when the bug was introduced except that testing 3.11 on my Gigabeat F proved it WAS NOT present in 3.11.

I have verified the bug in 3.13 on all of these targets, so at this time I’m saying this affects all players.

Confirmed on Fuze v2, Clip v1, Clip +, Clip Zip, Gigabeat F

Version: 3.13

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

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.

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.

Playback halts.
No error screen appears – screen seems to stay where it is when freeze occurs, i.e. WPS or back light off.

Tested multiple audio formats.

Does not occur if no head phones are plugged in.

If you play a song for a bit at low volume (tested -14dB) before raising the volume, it is okay.

To reproduce:
Find a loud, bass-heavy part of a song, and halt playback right there.
Set volume to 6dB.
Set bass to 14.
Resume playback.

Usually freezes in less than a second when I do that.

RB version:
33f3af2-130523

This may be all players; I have only had experience with the Sansa Clip+ and Clip Zip. On version 3.13 the Automatic Resume feature works inconsistently, especially on the 2nd+ file of a playlist.

In version 3.11.2, the feature worked correctly on my Clip+. If I paused the player and the player turned off due to the timeout, when I turned the player back on and pressed the “Home” button or “Resume Playback”, the entire playlist would be back in place and playback would resume at the spot I paused. If I was 30 seconds into the third file in a playlist, playback would resume at that point. When that file finished, the next file in the playlist would start. Pressing “Previous” or “Next” would play the previous or next file in the playlist.

In version 3.13, this feature does not always work correctly. In fact, it rarely works correctly when playing a file that is not the first file in a playlist. Some times it works fine. Most times when I try to resume playback, it instead plays the beginning of the first track in the playlist. Some times when that happens, if I manually navigate to the track I was in when I paused, it will resume that track from the correct position rather than starting it over from the beginning.

This behavior is seriously agitating. I use my player to listen to multi-hour podcasts broken into separate files for each hour. If I get a phone call and pause my player I expect my player to automatically shut itself off after a few minutes, and it does. When I start the player again, I want to be able to pick up just where I left off. On versions prior to this, I could. In 3.13 it does not work 9 out of 10 times.

In FAT, file name can have max 255 characters (not bytes).
A file name that have 255 characters(contains many multibyte characters) is listed in File menu, but playback can’t.

Using patched firmware\include\file.h as a test, MAX_PATH 260 up to 520, rockbox can playback the long name file.
But, changing theme causes PANIC.

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.

After playing a few opus files (~128 kbps) the system becomes so unresponsive that it cannot decode the file in real time, and the device cannot respond to any input within a reasonable timeframe (have to hard power off).

This does not occur when you set the cpu frequency beyond the highest setting in the debug menu!

To reproduce:
play opus files in a playlist with normal cpu scaling
on beginning of 2nd or 3rd file, system will become unresponsive.

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.