ARCHOS box rock - Manual

Picture HD size Model Name Version Name 5GB, 6GB,10GB, 20GB Jukebox 5000, Jukebox 6000, JukeboxStudio 10, Jukebox Studio 20 player 6GB, 10GB,15GB, 20GB Jukebox Recorder 6, Jukebox Recorder10, Jukebox Recorder 15, JukeboxRecorder 20 recorder 20GB Jukebox Recorder v2 recorderv2 20GB Jukebox Recorder F...

software. Enabling Speech Support (optional) If you wish to use speech support you will also need a language file, available from http://rockbox.haxx.se/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceFiles/ . For the English language, the file is called english.voice . When it has been downloaded, unpack this file and co...

1 YOUR JUKEBOX Throughout this manual, the buttons on the Jukebox are labelled according to the pictures below. There are minor cosmetic differences between Jukebox Recordermodels, but the buttons are in approximately the same position whatever the model. Jukebox Recorder Jukebox Player Rockbox auto...

2 FILE BROWSER Recorder file browser Player file browser The file browser helps you navigate through the files on your Jukebox, entering foldersand executing the default action on each file. To help us differentiate files, each fileformat is displayed with an icon. You can select which file types ar...

2.2 FILE MENU Recorder file menu Player file menu This menu operates on the file that was selected in the browser at the time ON+PLAYwas pressed to enter it. It can also be accessed by holding down the PLAY key for ashort while. It offers the following options: Open with: Runs a viewer plugin on the...

Queue next: Queue track(s) immediately after current playing track. Queue last: Queue track(s) at end of playlist. You can insert a track, directory or playlist even if nothing is currently playing. In thiscase, a new playlist is created with only the selected tracks and then play is started.Note: T...

SELECTED OPTION PLAY/STOP FUNCTION filename Moves the cursor left (STOP) or right (PLAY) within the filename character bar Moves the character bar to the next (PLAY) or previous (STOP)character. BACKSPACE PLAY deletes the character before the current cursor position DELETE PLAY deletes the character...

3 WHILE PLAYING SCREEN (WPS) Recorder’s WPS Player’s WPS The While Playing Screen (WPS) displays various pieces of information about thecurrently playing MP3 file.The display contains the following information by default: Recorder Status bar: Battery level, charger status, volume, play mode, repeat ...

3.2 PEAK METER (RECORDER ONLY) The peak meter can be displayed on the While Playing Screen and consists of severalindicators. For a picture of the peak meter, please see the While Recording Screen onpage 23. The bar: That is the fat horizontal bar. It represents the current volume value. The peak in...

1 INTRODUCING THE MAIN MENU Recorder main menu Player main menu This is the screen from which the rest of the Rockbox functions can be accessed. It isused for a variety of functions, which are detailed below. You can access the Rockboxmain menu by pressing MENU (player/studio version) or F1 (recorde...

2 RECORDING (RECORDERS ONLY) 2.1 WHILE RECORDING SCREEN Recording Screen Recording F2 screen Recording F3 screen Entering the “Recording” option in the Main menu launches the recording application.The screen shows the time elapsed and the size of the file being recorded. A peakmeter is present to al...

Source Choose the source of the recording. This can be microphone, line in, or SPDIF(digital). For recording from the radio on the FM recorder, see page 25 below. Note: you cannot change the sample rate for digital recordings. Channels This allows you to select mono or stereo recording. Please note ...

3 FM RADIO (FM RECORDERS ONLY) FM radio screen This menu option switches to the radio screen. The keys are:BUTTON FUNCTION LEFT, RIGHT Change frequency in 0.1 MHz steps. For automatic station seek, holdLEFT/RIGHT for a little longer. UP, DOWN Change volume PLAY (EXPERIMENTAL) freezes all screen upda...

4 BOOKMARKS The bookmarks menu allows you to create and manage bookmark files. Create Bookmark While playing a track, use this option to save your current position within the track so that you can return to it at a later time. Bookmarks are saved on a per folderbasis i.e. all of the files in the sam...

Recursively Insert Directories If set to ON then, when you insert/queue a directory in Dynamic Playlist, allsubdirectories will also be inserted. If set to ASK then you are prompted aboutrecursive insertion when inserting a directory. 6 BROWSE PLUGINS With this option you can load and run various pl...

1 SOUND SETTINGS Recorder sound settings Player sound settings This menu offers a selection of sound properties you may change to improve yoursound experience. Volume The sound volume your music is played at. Although settable range is 0-100%,many units don't produce audible output below 40%. Bass T...

2 GENERAL SETTINGS Recorder general settings Player general settings 2.1 PLAYBACK OPTIONS This menu is for configuring settings related to MP3 playback Shuffle Select shuffle ON/OFF. This alters how Rockbox will select which next song to play. Repeat Repeat modes are Off/One/All. "Off" means...

2.5 BOOKMARKING Bookmark on Stop Write a bookmark to the disk whenever the stop key is pressed. If playback isstopped it can be resumed easily at a later time. Load Last Bookmark When this is on, Rockbox automatically returns to the position of the last bookmarkwithin a file when it is played. If se...

Plugins are little programs that Rockbox can load and run. Plugins have the fileextension .rock. Most of them can be started from the main menu if you put them inthe /.rockbox/rocks directory. Press PLAY on them to start them. Viewer plugins get started automatically by "playing" an associat...

1.5 PONG (RECORDER ONLY) Pong game The world's first arcade game comes to Rockbox. This is a "tennis game" for twoplayers. The left player uses LEFT and F1 to move and the right player uses RIGHTand F3. The aim is to prevent the ball leaving the screen. The player that loses theleast balls w...

1.7 SLIDING PUZZLE (RECORDER ONLY) Sliding puzzle The classic sliding puzzle game. Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the wholepicture.Key controls: KEY ACTION UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT Moves F1 Shuffle F2 Change the picture OFF Stop the game 1.8 SNAKE (RECORDER ONLY) This is the popular snake game. ...

In game A, the maze stays the same, in Game B after an increasing number of appleseaten the maze is replaced by a new one. 1.10 SOKOBAN (RECORDER ONLY) Sokoban The object of the game is to push boxes into their correct position in a crowdedwarehouse with a minimal number of pushes and moves. The box...

between the filled circle, which can take “o”s, and the filled square, which is used as amobile wall to allow your filled circle to get to places on the screen it could nototherwise reach. The block cannot take "o"s.Keys: KEY ACTION ON Toggle control F1 Previous level F2 Reset level F3 Next ...

Game controls: Players MODES PLAYER 1 PLAYER 2 PLAYER 3 0 Out ofcontrol With no player taking part in the game all worms are out ofcontrol and steered by artificial stupidity. 1 2 keycontrol on JukeboxLEFT: turn leftRIGHT: turn right - - 4 keycontrol on JukeboxLEFT: turn left UP: turn upRIGHT: turn ...

Hints Initially you will be busy with controlling your worm. Try to avoid other worms andcrawl far away from them. Wait until they curl up themselves and collect the foodafterwards. Don't worry if the other worms grow longer than yours - you can catchup after they've died. When you are more experien...

2 DEMOS 2.1 BOUNCE (RECORDER ONLY) The bounce Demo This demo is an analogue clock screen saver with “Rockbox” bouncing across thescreen. Key controls for this demo are: KEY ACTION F1/F2/F3 Enters Bounce configuration options UP/DOWN Moves to next/previous option LEFT/RIGHT Increases/decreases option...

3 VIEWERS Viewers are plugins which are associated with specific file extensions. So you can't execute the plugin directly, but “play" the associated file. 3.1 CHIP-8 EMULATOR (RECORDER ONLY) The Chip-8 Emulator allows you to play many old chip8 games found on the Net. Itmodifies Rockbox, so fil...

Navigation Recorder key controls: KEY ACTION UP Page-up (one screen up) DOWN Page-down (one screen down) LEFT Top of file (Narrow mode)One screen left (Wide mode) RIGHT Bottom of file (Narrow mode)One screen right (Wide mode) ON-UP One line up ON-DOWN One line down ON-LEFT One column left ON-RIGHT O...

4 APPLICATIONS 4.1 BATTERY_TEST (ALL MODELS) Recorder battery test Player battery test This plugin simulates normal power drain by spinning up the disk and reading a big fileonce ever 90 seconds (or thereabout). Each spin up also writes the battery level to alog file. The test stops when battery lev...

KEY ACTION PLAY monthly LEFT weekly RIGHT annually ON one off STOP exit 4.4 CHESS CLOCK (PLAYER ONLY) Chess Clock The chess clock plugin is designed to simulate a chess clock, but it can be used in anykind of game with up to ten players. Setup First enter the number of players (1-10) (press PLAY to ...

4.5 CLOCK (RECORDER ONLY) Clock This is a fully featured analogue and digital clock program. Key configuration KEY ACTION F1 Help F2 Start / Stop stopwatch F2 (Hold down) Reset stopwatch F3 Options Play Select clock mode UP Enable idle power off DOWN Disable idle power off RIGHT Enable backlight LEF...

4.10 SPLIT EDITOR (RECORDER ONLY) When recording an mp3 file, it is common practice to start the recording a little bitearly and stop it a little bit late to ensure all the desired sound is recorded. This resultsin recordings that contain extra snippets of sound and the beginning and end.Unfortunate...

Controls in the split editor RECORDER ONDIO FUNCTION OFF ON/OFF Quit plugin LEFT/RIGHT LEFT/RIGHT Move the split point indicator UP/DOWN UP/DOWN Zoom in / out PLAY MODE Play from the split position F1 MODE+LEFT Enter the save dialogue F2 MODE+UP Toggle loop modes F3 MODE+RIGHT Toggle logarithmic / l...

4.11 STOPWATCH (ALL MODELS) Recorder stopwatch Player stopwatch A simple stopwatch program with support for saving times.Keys are as follows: KEY ACTION PLAY Start / Stop the timer MENU Save the current time (and keep going) STOP Quit the stopwatch 64 Rockbox User Manual

1 CUSTOMIZING THE USER INTERFACE 1.1 LOADING FONTS (RECORDER ONLY) Rockbox can load fonts dynamically. Simply copy the .fnt file to the disk and "play"them in the directory browser or from the Main Menu > General Settings > Fonts. If you want a font to be loaded automatically every tim...

File Location Custom WPS files may be located anywhere on the drive. The only restriction is thatthey must end in .wps. When PLAY is pressed on a .wps file, it will be used for futureWPS screens. If the "played" .wps file is located in the /.rockbox folder, it will beremembered and used afte...

%< : Display a '<'%| : Display a '|'%> : Display a '>'%s : Indicate that the line should scroll. Can occur anywhere in a line (given thatthe text is displayed; see conditionals above). You can specify up to 10 scrollinglines. Scrolling lines can not contain dynamic content such as timers...

peak meter dbfs (on, off) (on = dbfs, off = linear) peak meter min (0 - 89) [dB] or (0 - 100) [%] peak meter max (0 - 89) [dB] or (0 - 100) [%] statusbar (on, off) scrollbar (on, off) volume display (graphic, numeric) battery display (graphic, numeric) time format (12hour, 24hour)font (/path/filenam...

Example File volume: 70bass: 11treble: 12balance: 0time format: 12hourvolume display: numericshow files: supportedwps: /.rockbox/car.wpslang: /.rockbox/afrikaans.lng 4 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BINARIES There are 3 different flavors of firmware binaries from Rockbox website. CurrentVersion, Daily Builds a...

archos.mod (on the player version) or ajbrec.ajz (on the recorder version). Note that Archos firmware can only read the first ten characters of each file name in thisprocess, so don’t rename your old firmware files with names like archos.mod.old andso on, because it’s possible that the Jukebox will ...

Second, you need an in-circuit programmable flash. Chances are about 85%that you have, but Archos also used an older flash chip which can't do the trick.You can find out via Rockbox debug menu, entry Hardware Info. If the flash infogives you question marks, you're out of luck. The only option for fl...

the proper file) and F3 to actually program the file. This takes maybe 15 seconds, waitfor the disk to settle again. Then press a key to exit the plugin. Flashing boot loader in 3 easy steps Install the Rockbox binary in flash All the above was necessary only once, although there will not be any obv...

1 FEATURE COMPARISON CHART FEATURE ROCKBOX ARCHOS ID3v1 and ID3v2 support Yes ? Background noise during playback No Yes Mid-track resume Yes No Mid-playlist resume Yes No Resumed playlist order Yes No Battery lifetime Longer Long Battery time indicator Yes No Customizable font (Recorder) Yes No Cust...

2 SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS FILE TYPE ACTION Directory The browser enters that directory .mp3 Rockbox takes you to the WPS and starts playing the file .m3u Rockbox loads the playlist and starts playing the first file .ajz/ .mod ROLO will load the new firmware .wps The new WPS display configuration will...

3 BUG REPORTS If you experience inappropriate performance from any supported feature, please file a bug report on our web page. Do not report missing features as bugs, instead file themas feature requests (see below).For open bug reports refer to http://rockbox.haxx.se/bugs.shtml Rules for submittin...

6 FEATURES WE WILL NOT IMPLEMENT This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do. View it as the opposite of a TODO! Record to WAV (uncompressed) or MP3pro format!The recording hardware (the MAS) does not allow us to do thisCrossfade between tracks!Crossfading would req...

7 CREDITS People that have contributed to the project, one way or another. Friends! Rockbox User Manual Björn Stenberg Linus Nielsen Feltzing Andy Choi Andrew Jamieson Paul Suade Joachim Schiffer Daniel Stenberg Alan Korr Gary Czvitkovicz Stuart Martin Felix Arends Ulf Ralberg David Härdeman Thomas ...

8 GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2, November 2002 Copyright © 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. PREAMBLE ...