__________ __ ___. \______ \ ____ ____ | | _\_ |__ _______ ___ | _// _ \_/ ___\| |/ /| __ \ / _ \ \/ / | | ( <_> ) \___| < | \_\ ( <_> > < < |____|_ /\____/ \___ >__|_ \|___ /\____/__/\_ \ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ Release notes, version 1.3. August 28, 2002. General changes since 1.2 ------------------------- - Persistent settings - Resume, including playlist resume and mid-track resume - Remote control support - Increased battery life - No playback gap between tracks (if they are aligned) - Fast forward/reverse in-track - Improved battery charging - Configurable disk spindown timer - Turning on/off shuffle while playing a list now works as expected - Balance sound setting - Option to show/hide hidden files - Bugs fixed Player-specific changes since 1.2 --------------------------------- - Sound distortion problem fixed (again) - USB icon used Recorder-specific changes since 1.2 ----------------------------------- - Clock setting - Improved button sensitivity - New game: Wormlet - New USB mode graphic User interface -------------- Press PLAY to enter a directory, start playing an mp3 file or start playing an .m3u playlist. When playing a file, the id3 tags Artist, Title and playback timers etc are displayed on the "WPS" screen. Press ON to toggle the WPS display and go back to the dir browser. The file remains playing. Press ON again to get back to WPS. To stop playback, press Player:STOP / Recorder:OFF while in the WPS. On the Recorder, OFF also stops playback in the dir browser. The Player cannot stop playback while in the dir browser. Press Player:MENU / Recorder:F1 to enter the menu. There are a few settings and a Version display screen. Press Player:MENU+STOP / Recorder:F1+DOWN in WPS mode to enable key lock. Playlists --------- Files ending in ".m3u" are assumed to be playlist files. The supported file format for playlists are plain text: One file path per line. Both back- and forward slashed are supported, as well as drive letters (which are simply ignored). Lines starting with # are considered comments and thus ignored. Playlist files are limited to max 10000 entries. Entry 10001 and above are ignored. A menu option selects whether to play the list in shuffled order. Directory playback (clicking PLAY on an mp3 file in the dir browser) also uses playlist options such as shuffle and repeat. Resume ------ The resume feature will resume playback at the point where you last shut off your unit. On players, the exact position is stored by pressing PAUSE and letting it save to disk before shutting down. If this is not done, the resumed position will be where the disk was last spun. Recorders do not need to press PAUSE before shutting down, since they store the resume position in their RTC RAM. Resume also handles playlists, and even shuffled playlists. You will return to the point in the playlist where you shut down. Also the order of the playlist is the same. Performance ----------- We have tested with bit rates from 32 to 320 kbit/s and sample frequencies from 11 to 48 kHz. If you experience skipping, please report it! Limitations ----------- There are a number of limitations that may be addressed in later versions: - Max 400 files in a dir, and max "dir size" (sum of all filenames) 16KB - No dir/file indication in Player dir browser - Playlist repeat is hard coded to "Repeat all". Bug reports ----------- If you find that one of the supported features misbehave, please file a bug report on our web page. Do not report missing features as bugs, instead file them as feature requests. License ------- All files in this archive are subject to the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING in the source tree root for full license agreement. Contact ------- Please direct questions, comments and other feedback to the mailing list. See the web page for subscription instructions: http://rockbox.haxx.se Credits ------- Rockbox is a collaborative project with many contributors: Björn Stenberg Originator, project manager, code Linus Nielsen Feltzing Electronics, code Andy Choi Checksums Andrew Jamieson Schematics, electronics Paul Suade Serial port setup Joachim Schiffer Schematics, electronics Daniel Stenberg Code Alan Korr Code Gary Czvitkovicz Code Stuart Martin Code Felix Arends Code Ulf Ralberg Thread embryo David Härdeman Initial ID3 code Thomas Saeys Logo Grant Wier Code Julien Labruyére Donated Archos Player Nicolas Sauzede Display research Robert Hak Code, documentation, sarcasm Dave Chapman Code Stefan Meyer Code Eric Linenberg Code Tom Cvitan Web design Magnus Öman Font Jerome Kuptz Code Julien Boissinot Code, Sound research Nuutti Kotivuori Code Heikki Hannikainen Code Hardeep Sidhu Code Markus Braun Code Justin Heiner Code Magnus Holmgren Code Bill Napier Build fixes George Styles Code