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Database results are sorted alphabetically using the formatting string.

This does not work if the menu item line does not contain any additional filters other than the required 'title'.

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6661.msg127575#msg127575

Example:
%format "fmt_artist_title" "%s - %s" artist title

This works as expected:
"All tracks" → genre → title = "fmt_artist_title"

This does not:
"All tracks" → title = "fmt_artist_title"

In the second example, the list is sorted alphabetically by 'title', ignoring the formatting string.

This is a placeholder task for my work on updating bits and pieces of the manual(s).

I’m noting where deficiencies lie and then I’ll attach updated text files (or proper LaTex diffs if I can get it to work) as and when they’re done

Flashing/BootBox:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=15422.msg119593#msg119593 New WPS syntax: (I’m hoping someone else will beat me to it!)
Calling selection-specific context menus from the Main Menu (probably best in the missing $3.3 Menu Overview
$4.4 - Working with Playlists: (Again, I’m hoping someone else will beat me to it!)

Done:
$4.3.3 - Playlist indicies option:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=8715.0 Putting music on the player:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14000.msg104870#msg104870 Change Pre-requisites section around and more explicitly describe putting the player into UMS mode
$3.1.1 Player controls - change second Scroll Forward to Scroll Back
$4.1.3 Virtual Keyboard - Add details of creating/using your own:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=LoadableKeyboardLayouts $4.2 - Insert Link to Custom Database Wiki page
$5.10 - Update links to Playlist Catalog information
$7.3 - Verify that Show Path option also modifies Database titles
Use of fixed.cfg
‘Bookmark Actions’ context menu
20080623
$10.4.6 - Configuring disktidy:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=17199.msg127123#msg127123 $7.1 - More detail on Crossfade options:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6726.0 iconsets
coloured filetypes

This bug occurs when playing back a file and choosing to delete it from the WPS context menu while it is still playing.

If a trackchange occurs between choosing a file for deletion and actually pressing the 'Yes' option, the *new* currently playing file is deleted, rather than the one originally selected for deletion.

For example using the following playlist:
a.mp3
b.mp3
c.mp3
d.mp3

If b.mp3 is playing and a few seconds before the track ends, the user selects [context menu] > Delete

The screeen displays:

Delete?
b.mp3

SELECT = Yes
Any Other = No

Wait until c.mp3 commences playback, then press SELECT

The screeen displays:

Deleted
c.mp3

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=16785.0 refers.

Modify the keymap for the virtual keyboard for the scrollwheel targets (ipod, Sansa etc.) to allow scrollwheel to move left/right instead of up/down and for that scrolling to wrap-around from one side to another, moving up or down a line at the same time.

Forum topic http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=16157.0 refers.

Patch to make the disktidy plugin remove the Folders that the Sansa Original Firmware writes every time it is started (i.e., for USB access)

As detailed on this wiki page (http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SandiskE200BatteryMeasurements), the battery_bench plugin does not work correctly on the Sansa e2x0 series.

When I run the plugin, it outputs this message to the log (file attached):

-Skipped 1722 measurements from 00:00:23 to 11:00:05-

The file contains exactly 1000 readings, the same as the quoted buffer size. The M/DA reading also looks screwed up.

I am assuming the problem is the fact that it’s a flash player and the problem is somehow associated with an inability to skip some readings between disk accesses, as the ‘disk’ access functionality is not the same as a hard disk player.

This results in losing the readings from the buffer at the beginning of the test and only retaing the last 1000 readings (approx 5 hours-worth in my test).

I would presume the plugin is affected by the same behaviour on other flash-based players.

I’ve also attached a patch file (with fix code as per the Wiki page mentioned above) to make it easier for others to fix the plugin and run their own battery tests.

When setting a rating for a song using the WPS context menu, the behaviour is as follows:

LEFT keypress - no action
RIGHT kepress - increment rating by one (which wraps to zero above 10)

Intuitively, LEFT should exit the context menu as per all other context menu entries.

Alternatively, it should decrement the rating by one.

I see no reason why LEFT should not exit the menu, given that it currently does nothing.

If it decremented the value, then it could be confusing for some users to have to navigate up or down in the menu list to then use LEFT to exit the menu.

This is on a Gigabeat, but AFAIK applies to all targets.

Gigabeat F20 r13755
Autoscores displayed in the WPS (%ra tag) are missing the last character, so I get:

Autoscore Display
100 10
99 9
84 8

The code where I think it is displayed from in /trunk/apps/gui/gwps-common.c looks OK to my untutored eyes…

case WPS_TOKEN_DATABASE_AUTOSCORE:

          if (intval)
              *intval = id3->score + 1;

          snprintf(buf, buf_size, "%d", id3->score);
          return buf;

Topic http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=11470.0 refers

I’m running a Gigabeat F20 with the latest bootloader (21st April 2007) and whenever I use the bootloader USB mode (device off; plug in USB; power up device) I find it does not restart correctly.

Using either WinXP or Win2k, I do the ‘Safely Disconnect’ operation, which causes no change on the Gigabeat screen (but I don’t know whether it should) and then when I unplug I just get blank screen with the backlight permanently on and no buttons functioning. It requires a battery switch-off to reset it.

As requested by Llorean as part of a wider UI improvement project, I’ve had a go at reworking the tagnavi interface. Not hugely, but adding some new tags that have been incorporated in the Database recently and adding a bit more functionality.

Please try it and comment here, as I’d really like to know what you think and would like to get it right.

I’m also hoping I’ve done the patch thing correctly. It’s my very first time trying to do a diff…

EDIT 2007-03-27: This diff is now out of date. I’ve attached tagnavi.config files instead.

The Nano, H10 (both targets) and X5 manuals are missing the Rockboy section in Plugins.
Rockboy was ported to these targets on 6th Feb 2007, but never, apparently, added to the manuals.

The Wiki PluginIndex page also needs updating, but the table is being produced from a DataTable that I do not know how to update :(

This refers:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=9217.msg71000#msg71000

Ever since the August 2006 button changes commit and up to and including my current build (r12667-070307), the Text Editor has not worked correctly on my iriver H120.
According to the Manual (§ 9.4.9), when in 'Line Edit' (?) mode, i.e., not the virtual keyboard character edit mode, the Record button should delete the whole line.
This does not work.
All other functions work as described.
I have no idea if this affects any other targets.

The 'Import Modifications' entry (4.2.3) needs the following additions (between *): Import modifications.
Allows the /.rockbox/database changelog.txt backup
to be conveniently loaded into the database.*If AUTO UPDATE is set to ON,*** this is performed automatically
when the database is initialised.

Refers:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=9177.0

The Database ‘Initialize Now’ function description in the manual states that it also triggers an automatic import of previously exported Database modifications (database_changelog.txt).

My H120 has never, to my knowledge, done this and I’ve confirmed that it does not do it on my current build r12604M-070304 and has not on any of my recent updates.

It is also occuring for another user as noted here: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=9177.0

Miika, I’ve assigned this to you as you have done all the recent Database updates/commits. Please feel free to change that if this is not a problem you wish to deal with.

I noticed (using a custom_tagnavi file selecting by year) that I had a lot of tracks listed with a year of “0”. As all my music is well tagged, I was looking for some differentiation as to which ones were causing the problem.

My tracks are a roughly 70/30 mixture of .ogg and .mp3, with varied bitrates from different sources and ripped/tagged with different applications.

I re-initialised the database and then set up two simple tagnavi selections, one for all tracks with Year == “0” and one for all tracks with Year != “0”.

To my surprise, it neatly divided my entire music collection into .ogg in the Year == “0” playlist and .mp3 in the Year != “0” playlist.

It appears, therefore, that the DataBase initilisation does not correctly read the year tag from .ogg files.

Since the WPS code was modified to allow an arbitary number of enums, the resolution of the simulated battery level is not precise enough to test all possible enums.

Simulated battery level steps need to be increased to 1% resolution to allow maximum number of enums in the WPS.

When using the ‘Search by year’ option in TagCache and selecting an artist from the list, the album list returned contains all albums by the artist, whatever their date.

For example, if I search for ‘1984’, then select U2 from the artist list, I would expect to see only ‘The Unforgettable Fire’, but I see all U2 albums on my player.

Discussed here:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=4252.0 http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=4066.0