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Rockbox FAQ
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Q. What is a FAQ?
A. A rare small animal of the specius 'Textius Electronicus'. It is know for
its helpful attitude and vicious misspellings.
A. A rare small animal of the species 'Textius Electronicus'. It is known for
its' helpful attitude and vicious misspellings.
Q. What is Rockbox, what is it's purpose?
A. The purpose of this project is to write an Open Source replacement
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Q. Okay, so how do I submist a patch?
A. Run: "diff -u oldfile newfile" against the file(s) you have changed. Then
mail the output to any member of the development team and we will take it
under consideration. (Please remember that not all submissions are
accpeted.)
under consideration. (Please remember that all submissions are not
automatically accepted.)
Q. I want to join the development team, but don't have a SourceForge account,
what should I do?
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Q. Can the changes or the software that Rockbox suggests or offers
possibly damage my Archos Player?
A. All firmware mods that are presented are still highly experimental.
Try them at your own risk. We offer no garuntee that this software, or the
Try them at your own risk. We offer no guarantee that this software, or the
hardware modifications we show, will not damage your player or void your
warentee.
warranty.
That said, we have not been able to damage any of our units by modifying
only the firmware. You can accidentally password protect your harddisk,
but there are ways around that.
but there are ways around that. (See below.)
Q. I want to see what the inside of my player looks like, but I would really
like to avoid voiding my warentee. Is there anything you can suggest?
like to avoid voiding my warranty. Is there anything you can suggest?
A. We have a collection of photos of both the player and recorder. Look at
http://bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox/internals/
Q. What exactly are you trying to achieve with this line of development?
(A.K.A. whats your purpose for being here?)
A. Well, some of the ideas that have been presented/discussed for the future
that we would like to see would include (in no particular order):
A. Firstly, we wouldn't start something like this if we didn't simply enjoy
it profusely. This is great fun!
Secondly, we feel the firmware is lacking some features and contain a
number of annoying bugs that we want to fix.
Some ideas would include (in no particular order):
- No pause between songs
- Mid-song resume
- Mid-playlist resume
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- REAL random
- Multi song queue
- Faster scroll speed
- Archos Recorder support. Most of the hardware is the same,
but the display and some other things differ.
- More cool features with the wire remote control (including
controlling your Archos from your car radio (req hw mod))
- Support playing of other files types (ie: Ogg Vorbis support)
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the list.
Q. I tried one of your firmware files and now I can't access my harddisk!
When I turn on the jukebox, it says:
When I turn on my jukebox, it says:
Part. Error
Pls Chck HD