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Rockbox FAQ
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Q. What is a FAQ?
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A. A rare small animal of the specius 'Textius Electronicus'. It is know for
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its helpful attitude and vicious misspellings.
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Q. What is Rockbox, what is it's purpose?
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A. The purpose of this project is to write an Open Source replacement
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firmware for the Archos Jukebox 6000, Studio 20 and Recorder MP3 players.
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Q. I want to write code for my Archos, how do I proceed?
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A. Well, you have two options. If you are a member of SourceForge then
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you can request to be added to the developers list. If you would like to
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remain anonymous, then please feel free to submit patches for consideration
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to the project.
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Q. Okay, so how do I submist a patch?
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A. Run: "diff -u oldfile newfile" against the file(s) you have changed. Then
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mail the output to any member of the development team and we will take it
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under consideration. (Please remember that not all submissions are
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accpeted.)
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Q. I want to join the development team, but don't have a SourceForge account,
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what should I do?
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A. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/account/register.php and create an
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account for yourself.
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Q. Do you have a mailing list?
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A. Sure do! The list is rockbox@cool.haxx.se. To subscribe, you need to
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send a message to majordomo@cool.haxx.se with the words "subscribe rockbox"
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in the body.
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Q. Great you have a mailing list! Is there anyway for me to catch up on
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past posts?
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A. Check out the archives at: http://bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox/mail.cgi
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Q. What is this "SourceForge" you keep mentioning?
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A. http://www.sourceforge.net
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Q. Can the changes or the software that Rockbox suggests or offers
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possibly damage my Archos Player?
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A. All firmware mods that are presented are still highly experimental.
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Try them at your own risk. We offer no garuntee that this software, or the
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hardware modifications we show, will not damage your player or void your
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warentee.
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Q. I want to see what the inside of my player looks like, but I would really
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like to avoid voiding my warentee. Is there anything you can suggest?
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A. Well Bj<42>rn Stenberg was kind enough to void his warentee so you don't have
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to. Take a look at his dissection of the player at:
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http://bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox/mods/disassemble.html
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http://bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox/mods/disassemble2.html
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Q. What exactly are you trying to achieve with this line of development?
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(A.K.A. whats your purpose for being here?)
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A. Well, some of the ideas that have been presented/discussed for the future
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that we would like to see would include (in no particular order):
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- No pause between songs
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- Mid-song resume
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- Mid-playlist resume
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- No-scan playlists
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- Unlimited playlist size
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- Autobuild playlists (ie: "all songs in this directory tree")
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- Auto-continue play in the next directory
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- Current folder and all sub-folder random play
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- Full disk random play
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- REAL random
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- Multi song queue
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- Faster scroll speed
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- Archos Recorder support. Most of the hardware is the same,
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but the display and some other things differ.
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- More cool features with the wire remote control (including
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controlling your Archos from your car radio (req hw mod))
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- Support playing of other files types (ie: Ogg Vorbis support)
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- Support for megabass switch (req hw mod)
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- Player control via USB
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- Memory expansion?
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Note: Just because something is on this list, does not mean that it is
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technically feasible. (But hey we can dream) And something not
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being on the list does not mean it isn't a neat idea. Bring it to
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the list.
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