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This patch removes the Repeat:Shuffle setting, and always reshuffles the playlist when Shuffle is set to yes and Repeat is set to All.

The rationale behind this is that a user would rarely want to shuffle the playlist the first time only and always repeat the same sequence afterwards. Rather, one would either play the playlist in order and repeat in the same order, or shuffle the playlist first and always reshuffle.

Setting combinations affected:
- Shuffle:Yes && Repeat:All

before: shuffle the playlist but repeats the same sequence
after: shuffle the playlist and reshuffles when the end is reached

- Shuffle:Yes && Repeat:Shuffle

before: shuffle the playlist and reshuffles when the end is reached
after: this combination is replaced by Shuffle:Yes && Repeat:All

- Shuffle:No && Repeat:Shuffle

before: reshuffle when the end is reached
after: rarely used combination, not available anymore

All other combinations are not affected.

The patch contains some comment fixes and some code simplification as well. We also have to handle a special case in the patch.

This is an attempt to automate the setting of $PATH in tools/rockboxdev.sh, tools/configure and the generated Makefile.

The directory prefix of the cross compilers is stored in ~/.config/rockbox.org/RockboxCompilerPrefix. As the default path (in tools/rockboxdev.sh) is /usr/local, if that file is empty, then $PATH won’t be modified. Otherwise, the value stored inside that file will be read, the target platform type appended, and lastly /bin appended. The resulting string will be appended to $PATH.

This patch doesn’t break existing configuration. But it’s most probably incomplete, so please provide feedback on which files need to be modified as well.

The database hangs when doing initialization if there is no music file on the player.

How to reproduce:
1. Install Rockbox.
2. Put some music files onto the device.
3. Initialize database.
4. Reboot.
5. Remove all music files from the player.
6. Initialize database.

This font is part of the WenQuanYi Project at [1]. It’s in Chinese, but there’s an english page at [2]. This font is similar to the WenQuanYi Unibit font (FS#9059) and focuses mostly on ASCII and CJK, but I’m also posting this font for inclusion because this one has different point sizes, like for example the nimbus, Sazanami and ProFont fonts already included in Rockbox. With the different point sizes, especially lower point sizes, this font is great for small screens such as my iPod Nano.

I’m attaching some screenshots of this font under various point sizes and weights. I’ve also taken screenshots with the simulator to show how it would look like in Rockbox.

Additionally, this font is available from the original website at [3]. There is also an online README file at [4]. The source BDF files are available from the project’s SourceForge page at [5], and the BDF files I’m attaching come from the source package at [6].

According to the project[4], this font is a derivation of older free fonts and enhanced with bitmaps made by online users. As such, it is licensed under the GPLv2 with a font embedding exception[4]:

[quote]
** GPL v2 license with font embedding exception:

As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this
font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into
the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting
document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This
exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the
document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you
modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of
the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to
do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
[/quote]

It’s up to Rockbox developers whether to strip off this exception. Either way, the font is compatible with Rockbox’s license (GPLv2).

Links:
[1] http://www.wenq.org/ [2] http://wqy.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/enindex.cgi [3] http://www.wenq.org/index.cgi?BitmapSong [4] http://www.wenq.org/index.cgi?Hero_README [5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/wqy/ [6] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wqy/wqy-bitmapfont-bdf-gb18030-0.9.9-0.tar.gz?modtime=1194227675&big_mirror=0

This font is part of the WenQuanYi Project at [1]. It’s in Chinese, but there’s an english page at [2].

I’m adding this font because:
1. Currently there is no good Chinese font for Rockbox.
2. The best Chinese font (unifont) has unevenly sized Chinese characters, while this font has uniformly sized Chinese characters.

The attachments contain screenshots of the simulator, to show how this font would look like on the iPod Nano. I’ve also attached a screenshot using the Unifont font to show the uneven sizes of Chinese characters, for comparison. I don’t know about other languages, but I’d think other CJK languages work better in this font as well, due to the merging of WenQuanYi Bitmap Song.

According to the project[3], this font is made by combining the GNU Unifont (GPL), WenQuanYi Bitmap Song (GPL) and Fixed-16×8 (Public Domain) fonts. The maintainer of GNU Unifont also acknowledges this fact at [4].

This font is licensed under the GPLv2 with a font embedding exception[3]:

[quote]
** GPL v2 license with font embedding exception:

As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this
font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into
the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting
document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This
exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the
document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you
modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of
the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to
do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
[/quote]

I don’t mind either way, but it would be up to Rockbox developers whether to strip off this exception. And either way, the font is compatible with Rockbox’s license (GPLv2).

The font I’m attaching is a modified version (and only the bdf); you can download the original version from [5]. My modification is:

— wqy-unibit.bdf.orig 2008-06-01 04:47:36.839752214 +0800
+++ wqy-unibit.bdf 2008-06-01 05:01:51.031748178 +0800
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
CHARSET_ENCODING “-1” CHARSET_COLLECTIONS “ASCII ISO8859-5 GB2312.1980 BIG5-0 KSC5601.1989-0 JISX0208.1997 ISO10646-1” ENDPROPERTIES
-CHARS 46443
+CHARS 46444
STARTCHAR uni0000
ENCODING 0
SWIDTH 500 0

This is because convbdf will emit a warning “Warning: DWIDTH spec > max FONTBOUNDINGBOX” when converting the font. This is because there are actually 46444 STARTCHAR entries, but only 46443 glyphs – the character “mu” is encoded as 181 and 956, with the exact same glyph. The generated .fnt file is exactly the same with or without my modification.

Additionally, this font is quite big so it’s a bit big on the screen of the iPod Nano. But it would be great on larger screens. Please take a look at the screenshots in the attachments.

Links:
[1] http://www.wenq.org/ [2] http://wqy.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/enindex.cgi [3] http://www.wenq.org/index.cgi?Unibit_README [4] http://www.unifoundry.com/unifont.html [5] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wqy/wqy-unibit-bdf-1.1.0-1.tar.gz?use_mirror=osdn