rockbox/www/digest/log.t
Jonas Häggqvist e5e08c7ee5 The future is not here yet...
git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@6319 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657
2005-04-19 11:29:43 +00:00

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NEWSDATE(2005-04-15)
ITEM The iRiver remote LCD driver is
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/pub/Main/IriverPort/remote_lcd.jpg",
now working) - thanks to NAME(Rick La Charité), NAME(Christian Gmeiner) and
LINUSN for this progress.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2005-04-12)
ITEM LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/digest/", Rockbox Digest) is now active
again.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2005-04-10)
ITEM The iRiver bootloader has now
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverBoot", been tested)
with the 1.65 firmware from iRiver.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2005-04-05)
ITEM Trigger recording has been
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2005-04/0050.shtml",
added to CVS). Thanks to NAME(Philipp Pertermann) for his work.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2005-02-10)
ITEM A bunch of people have now tested the iRiver
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverBoot", bootloader).
A few bumps, but no bricked players!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2005-02-08)
ITEM LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxShots", Evidence)
of Rockbox
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverBoot", booting) on
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverPort", iRiver).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-12-23)
ITEM Rockbox v2.4 is LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/download/", released).
ITEM The LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxManual",
Rockbox 2.4 manual) is out.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-12-17)
ITEM Rockbox started from
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/FlashingRockbox", flash ROM)
finally available for players.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-12-16)
ITEM The LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxManual",
Rockbox 2.3 manual) is out. Thanks go to Christi Alice Scarborough for her
outstanding work!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-11-09)
ITEM Some downtime due to planned server maintenance (replaced a harddisk).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-11-01)
ITEM The site was down nearly four days due to hardware failure while the
admins were away.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-10-26)
ITEM Rockbox v2.3 is LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/download/", released).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-10-26)
ITEM iRiver progress: the LCD driver
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverPort#Writing_an_LCD_driver_",
is working)!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-10-05)
ITEM Call for help: We need information from Ondio owners for our
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ArchosOndio",
Archos Ondio port).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-10-01)
ITEM Touchdown! The Coldfire BDM wiggler is working on the iHP-120 target!
Time for some sweet GDB debugging...
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-09-24)
ITEM We finally have rockbox.org, thanks to Jeff at Misticriver.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-09-13)
ITEM Call for help! Please donate your broken iRiver iHP-1xx to the project!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-07-08)
ITEM Good news for Windows users! You can now install the
LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml", daily builds) with an installer
executable. Thanks to Christi Scarborough for that.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-06-17)
ITEM We now have a LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/twiki", Wiki) for the
documentation. Feel free to join the documentation frenzy!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-05-07)
ITEM The CVS repository has LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/cvs.html", moved)
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-03-14)
ITEM Rockbox can LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/lang/", talk) to you
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2004-03-11)
ITEM Version 2.2 is LINK("http://www.rockbox.org/download/", released)
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(28-nov-2003)
ITEM Rockbox now finally runs on the Recorder V2.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(03-nov-2003)
ITEM LINUSN revamped the file split feature so it always splits on MP3
frame boundaries. As a bonus, the Play key can now be pressed to start a new
file during recording.
ITEM LINUSN applied a bunch of nice patches, like Line-In activation on
Players, a VU meter plugin, a NIM game for the Player, plus a few bug
fixes.
ITEM The Chip8 emulator has finally been added to the CVS!
ITEM Recording with flashed firmware is finally stable
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(28-aug-2003)
ITEM Can Rockbox be made to
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0784.shtml",
play WAV) files?
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(22-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(Jesús Rodríguez Marcial) posted his brand new translation of
Rockbox into
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0576.shtml",
Galego).
ITEM BAGDER and
LINUSN posted a re-worked
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0584.shtml",
suggestion) previously posted about how to remap the keys of the Recorder
versions of Rockbox. Discussions followed.
ITEM NAME(idc-dragon) called for
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0596.shtml",
early adopter needed for player flashing).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(21-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(Druzina Dobravec) brought a
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0530.shtml",
Slovenian language file) as
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/lang/", language) number 20.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(13-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(Bernhard) offered a
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0381.shtml",
good advice to windows people using Archos). He says
LINK("http://www.ct.heise.de/ct/03/16/links/208.shtml", DevEject) is a good
thing.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(11-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(Todd Lowe) was searching for
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0345.shtml",
external battery pack options for FMR).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(9-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(Magnus Holmgren) managed to improve the speed of the ROLO quite a
lot with his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0325.shtml",
descrable in assembler fix).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(8-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(doctor23) brought up the always-hot topic of
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0283.shtml",
Should I Buy a Recorder or FM Recorder?). The same issue was also brought up
by NAME(Brad) five days later in his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0374.shtml",
JBR vs FMR? Which one is better) mail.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(6-aug-2003)
ITEM One of those interesting threads on
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0196.shtml",
should you really buy a JBFMR20?).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(5-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(idc-dragon) posted that he
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0142.shtml",
needs some Player firmware version insight for flashing). There might be a
flashable player in the future if he gets sufficient help!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(4-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(Gadi Cohen) brought a patch that now offers
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0074.shtml",
working hebrew) for Rockbox.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(3-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(CombThins) brought a thought-through suggestion on
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0051.shtml",
how to support nested playlists).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(1-aug-2003)
ITEM NAME(idc-dragon) got a bunch of
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0001.shtml",
SST39 flash chips) he offered in case anyone feels like "patching" their
units to become flashable.
ITEM BAGDER
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0006.shtml",
announced UCL built in regular build process). So if you install 'uclpack'
properly, running make as usual will build you a .ucl file for flashing as
well!
ITEM NAME(Remo Hofer)
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-08/0013.shtml",
suggested) we move the fonts to .rockbox/fonts/ and the languages to
.rockbox/languages/. The suggestion got some support from various people.
ITEM BAGDER fixed daily-zips to include full download packages including most
of everything users want, in one single zip archive.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(31-jul-2003)
ITEM NAME(David Reis) posted about his new
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-07/1520.shtml",
favourites rock).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(29-jul-2003)
ITEM NAME(Thomas Paul Diffenbach) announced his intensions of a
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-07/1402.shtml",
battery run-time test) with his new code for longer run-time.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(21-jul-2003)
ITEM Starting today, BAGDER has modified the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/daily.shtml", daily build) scripts to create a
full zip archive for each day's daily build, including everything (all fonts,
all languages, all plugins, some docs, and the sokoban levels).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(18-jul-2003)
ITEM LINUSN fixed yet another FAT bug that could cause problems when writing
data. (It would make a false "disk full" message appear.)
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(17-jul-2003)
ITEM The eternal but boring discussion
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-07/0840.shtml",
Forum vs. Mailinglist) was again brought up and discussed at length. None of
the core developers are in favour of letting any forum replace or take over
the main development mailing list. You're all free to start or use whatever
forums you want.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(16-jul-2003)
ITEM NAME(Svante T) proposed somone makes a
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-07/0755.shtml",
Rockbox Desktop Tool). I think the consensus from the following discussion
was that it would be cool... Now, does anyone want to write it too?
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(9-jul-2003)
ITEM NAME(Jörg Hohensohn) released his first
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-07/0306.shtml",
Rockbox in flash). Full docs and instructions followed. These instructions
are now also available on the LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/docs/flash.html",
rockbox web site). This posting caused havoc and lots of activity on the
list.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(3-jul-2003)
ITEM NAME(Jörg Hohensohn) announced that
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-07/0110.shtml",
Rockbox runs from flash). It booted up and resumed music in 3 seconds!!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2-jul-2003)
ITEM NAME(Hardeep Sidhu) committed his code that introduces
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-07/0068.shtml",
dynamic playlists) to Rockbox.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(29-jun-2003)
ITEM ZAGOR added the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-06/0707.shtml",
plugin system). Multiple plugins were added really quick.
ITEM BAGDER (digest author) is on vacation!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(20-jun-2003)
ITEM The CVS service of Sourceforge is currently not functioning very well,
and since Rockbox uses it extensively, the project, web site and associated
scripts suffer from this...
ITEM NAME(Tony Agee) once again recycled the question
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-06/0572.shtml",
Why doesnt Archos buy/use RockBox software?)
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(19-jun-2003)
ITEM LINUSN committed code that fixes the full-disk problem.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(16-jun-2003)
ITEM NAME(Margin Borus) wrote about
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-06/0429.shtml",
Free HD space and PANIC). Rockbox does not always show free disk space
correctly because it relies on the fs info block, which windows seems
notoriously bad at doing, and Rockbox does not deal with full disks properly
ITEM NAME(Andreas Stemmer) brought updates to FAQ entry 74, regarding digital
I/O on Archos.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(12-jun-2003)
ITEM ZAGOR once again brought up the subject of the "
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-06/0334.shtml",
Red Led Dead)" error and testing...
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(11-jun-2003)
ITEM BAGDER mention his intentions to commit the bookmark patch code soon.
This was later postponed due to how this functionality collides somewhat with
NAME(Hardeep Sidhu)'s dynamic playlist feature...
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(10-jun-2003)
ITEM ZAGOR added more intervals to the time split feature for recording.
ITEM BAGDER committed
NAME(Robert Hak)'s work on making Sokoban load the game levels from disk,
which saved almost 30K of memory.
ITEM The demos are now re-enabled in the builds.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(8-jun-2003)
ITEM NAME(Owen Sebastian Hofmann) offered his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-06/0223.shtml",
virtual file structures) patch, that allows us to browse lists as if they are
directory trees.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(6-jun-2003)
ITEM Please friends, to unsubcribe from the Rockbox mailing lists, use
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/", the instructions). You followed them to
subscribe, and the process to unsubscribe is very similar!
ITEM NAME(Uwe Freese) announced his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-06/0193.shtml",
new ABSync release).
ITEM NAME(Steve) posted an innocent
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-06/0144.shtml",
question) which lead to a long and tedious discussion on mp3 playback using
high bitrates and whether or not that causes skips. No 320 kbit mp3 should
cause skips on Rockbox. Period. If you know any that do, please report!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(5-jun-2003)
ITEM Romanian and Czech translations were added. 19 languages supported now!
ITEM After another day with patch cleaning, we applied the code that allows
hiding of icons and changing boolean config items take effect
immediately. We're down on 16 open patches now.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(4-jun-2003)
ITEM ZAGOR and
BAGDER had a "Patch Tracker Cleaning Day". We sat down
together and went through the patches one by one, starting with the oldest
ones. This resulted in 20 closed patches, leaving 25 open ones at this
moment.
ITEM NAME(Thomas Paul Diffenbach) patch for new id3v2 parsing (plus genre and
composer support) was added.
ITEM NAME(Dave Jones) code that enables recordings split based on a set timer
was applied.
ITEM NAME(Magnus Holmgren) and
NAME(Mats Lidell) provided the patch for the status bar code cleanup
that ZAGOR and
BAGDER polished and committed.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2-jun-2003)
ITEM NAME(Kjell Ericson) fixed a weird bug in the keyboard code for players.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(1-jun-2003)
ITEM LINUSN went on a bug-hunt and could close three
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/bugs.shtml", bug reports) within 20 minutes.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(31-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Kjell Ericson) did some more improvements on his jump scroll
feature and later it was also fixed to get saved properly.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(30-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Hardeep Sidhu) announced his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/1023.shtml",
Dynamic playlist patch).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(29-may-2003)
ITEM
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/1002.shtml",
where are the demos?) They are currently disabled in the daily builds due to
space reasons. When that problem is sorted out, they will be re-enabled
again.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(27-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Jean Boullier) posted some
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0894.shtml",
financial information) about Archos 2002 results.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(25-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Thomas Paul Diffenbach) posted his suggested
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0870.shtml",
modifications on genlang), to support lists easier/better.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(22-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Roland)
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0810.shtml",
announced) his updated
LINK("http://rockbox.my-vserver.de/win32-sdk.html",
minimalistic rockbox sdk for win32).
NAME(Roland) boasts >500 downloads of
the previous version. Get it and post your comments!
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(21-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Kjell Ericson) is looking for comments on his new
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0756.shtml",
jump scroll feature for players). Experimental binary available for download.
ITEM NAME(Frank Incensed) asked the list if others also have experienced
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0739.shtml",
problems with Archos on Windows XP), and several guys joined in and explained
that they too experience crashes or other weird behaviors.
ITEM NAME(Garrett Derner) announced his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0767.shtml",
text viewer with word wrap and scrollbar) and he is welcoming all feedback
you can give him on his effort. You also find
LINK("http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=740697&group_id=44306&atid=439120",
his patch in the patch tracker).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(20-may-2003)
ITEM ZAGOR committed code that now finally makes the remote control
functional even while the keylock is activated in Rockbox.
ITEM Is it possible to "protect" ideas and intellectual properties produced
for Rockbox, or will companies be able to steal/borrow our ideas?
NAME(ds2list)
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0703.shtml",
brought up the subject).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(19-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Jörn Hohensohn) announced his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0604.shtml",
Survey for Rockbox in Flash) based on his changes previously mentioned
here. Do check them out and post your findings!
ITEM NAME(Stevie Oh)'s provided patch that improves VBRfix on files bigger
than 16MB was committed.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(18-may-2003)
ITEM As a follow-up to NAME(Mark Spooner)'s mail about the original FM
sounding better than Rockbox, LINUSN brought a new
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0563.shtml",
test image) for people to try and to say if it sounds
different/better/worse. The first reports have not clearly identified a
winner.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(17-may-2003)
ITEM LINUSN fixed the bug that made a bad voltage level show at startup
ITEM NAME(Jörn Hohensohn) added flash manufacturer ID to the View HW Info
screen in the debug view.
ITEM LINUSN added a "Save ROM Contents" menu option to the debug menu. If
selected, it'll dump the contents of the ROM in two files in the Archos' root
directory named "internal_rom_*.bin" (where * is replaced with the address
sequence of the dump)
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(15-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Mark Spooner) thinks his music
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0479.shtml",
sounds better with the original Archos firmware).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(13-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Jörg C. Pochmann) says he want his scrolling files names to
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0430.shtml",
start scrolling from end of filename), and a few other ideas followed...
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(12-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Jean Boullier) wrote up a
LINK("http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jmb-data/Help-JBR.txt", help text) for people
to be put on the Archos and read using Rockbox.
ITEM NAME(Gonz) brought up the subject wondering if Rockbox could be made to
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0385.shtml",
sort the files to show playlists first).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(11-may-2003)
ITEM BAGDER made another fix on the daily-build scripts in an attempt to make
them work better even when the sourceforge CVS is this unreliable.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(9-may-2003)
ITEM LINUSN announced the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0334.shtml",
removal of the 400 entries limit) in directories. The 10000 entries for
playlists were also made customizable. The 400-limit was the last entry in
the LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/docs/features.html", Feature Comparison
Chart) Rockbox didn't beat Archos at.
ITEM LINUSN also made the code enable ATA STANDBY when going into USB mode,
which seems to make the disk spin down when idle, when used on some operating
systems...
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(8-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Boris Maras) brought up the good old subject of
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0302.shtml",
searching for songs) in Rockbox, and he's building this on top of the patch
provided already by NAME(Stefan Meyer).
ITEM NAME(Josh) asked the list about tools that would
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0306.shtml",
auto-sync songs when connected). Ipod is said to have such a software and it
is said to please users there. (My note: but then, ipod users like everything
Apple says is good for them.)
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(7-may-2003)
ITEM It seems we haven't had the daily builds updated properly the last
couple of days. The anonymous cvs update used in that process is notoriously
shaky and fails pretty often, but now it seems to have tricked us for several
days in a row...
ITEM NAME(Danan) introduced his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0235.shtml",
audio thumbnails) patch, that makes your Archos play a specific mp3 when you
enter a directory, and thus improves "blind" maneuvering.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(6-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Alan C) mailed in about his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0240.shtml",
battery voltage problems) that truly show weird behaviors on his unit. Is it
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0254.shtml",
a Rockbox issue)?
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(5-may-2003)
ITEM LINK("http://www.haxx.se/who.html", The Haxx guys) invites you to join
us to a LINK("http://www.haxx.se/home/snaxx/", pub evening) in the Swedish
capital Stockholm on June 5. (Inivitation link is in Swedish)
ITEM Learn how NAME(Dave Jones) made it possible to make
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0194.shtml",
3+ days recordings) with his Archos.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(3-may-2003)
ITEM LINUSN committed the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0105.shtml",
first code for FM tuner) support on the FM Recorder.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(2-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Stevie-O) presented his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0090.shtml",
new menu design) suggestion (with binaries).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(1-may-2003)
ITEM NAME(Mike Holden) brought a very
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0008.shtml",
technical report) on his findings in the search for the Red Led Death.
ITEM There's now a mailing list setup. By subscribing to it, you'll get the
latest items off this digest sent out by mail on a weekly or biweekly basis.
The name of the mailing list is 'rockbox-news' and you find all the details
on the regular LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/", mailing list page).
ITEM I heard a rumour from a person who actually has listened to radio on his
FM Recorder running Rockbox...
ITEM Lots of people shared their views in the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-05/0026.shtml",
single play mode) thread, and it evolved slightly into a "can we really add
every imaginable feature to Rockbox"-discussion.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(30-apr-2003)
ITEM LINUSN made the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/1320.shtml",
disk spin down faster) while recording.
ITEM NAME(Roland) requested comments on his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/1313.shtml",
switch icons on/off in dir-browser patch).
ITEM NAME(Johan Vromans) provided his suggested Q73 for the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/docs/faq.html", FAQ), named
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/1337.shtml",
Help! My recorder crashes when I copy files to it!).
ITEM Okay okay, I've already received a whole bunch of mails already,
expressing support for the weekly-digests-by-mail idea. Thanks. Please allow
me a few more days and I'll set it up and annouce it accordingly.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(29-apr-2003)
ITEM Would you like to get the digest mailed out once per week or perhaps
once every two weeks? If so, mail LINK("mailto:rockbox-digest at haxx.se",
rockbox-digest at haxx.se) and tell me. If I get a few interested people,
I'll setup a mailing list and mail out plain text versions. If not, then I'll
be happy with the HTML and RSS versions.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(28-apr-2003)
ITEM ZAGOR called out for a
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/1232.shtml",
Brute Force Bug Hunt) in an attempt to track down the "red led dead" problems
that have haunted Rockbox the last couple of months. Join in and help!
ITEM BAGDER made the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/digest/digest.rss", RSS
feed) validate fine, to make people happier. I even added one of those
bragging buttons to the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/digest/", main page).
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/1233.shtml",
Discussions) followed on how to write proper RSS stuff.
ITEM NAME(Mikkel Moe) brought translation number 17 to Rockbox: Norwegian.
ITEM NAME(Brent Geery) started a
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/1257.shtml",
discussion) on why there aren't more settings to control the MAS for
recordings.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(26-apr-2003)
ITEM NAME(Alexandre Belloni)
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/1122.shtml",
re-iterated) the issue of supporting the ext2fs or other file systems in
Rockbox. Your friendly editor likes to point out the good old
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/docs/nodo.html#9", NODO) document that explains
this.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(24-apr-2003)
ITEM BAGDER attempts to produce an
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/digest/digest.rss", RSS feed) for this digest
thing.
ITEM Several standard-builds of Rockbox now excess the maximum image size of
200K...
ITEM The "caption backlight" works on Player models too now.
ITEM NAME(Magnus Öman) brought the inverted cursor to the recording screen
as well.
ITEM The demos are now disabled globally to reduce the image size to start
working again.
ITEM LINUSN fixed a message-display problem that caused some playlist loadings
to go nuts.
ITEM NAME(John Hudak) expressed his confusion with
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0959.shtml",
using his Archos on a Mac), and he later posted
LINK("http://www.watervalley.net/cgi-bin/bb/YaBB.pl?board=Archos&action=display&num=1051203117", this summary) at watervalley.net. Other postings on the
thread by NAME(Wesley Simon) and NAME(Michael OQuinn) indicated that John's
problem may very well be due to a faulty Archos.
ITEM LINUSN
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/1018.shtml",
yelled for help) about the PANIC problems that have been reported on various
recordings, as the problem is likely to be more filesystem-related rather
than recording-related.
ITEM A
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/1039.shtml",
long thread) adressed a possible flaw in the FAT driver and how it deals with
short names vs long names, but no consensus has yet been reached on this. It
seems that Microsoft's own specs differ on some details...
ITEM NAME(c s) mentioned his work on getting
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0996.shtml",
automobile ignition to stop play).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(23-apr-2003)
ITEM ZAGOR committed his fix that now makes the status bar on Recorders only
get updated when information actually has changed.
ITEM ZAGOR announced his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0921.shtml",
linux-kernel patch) for improved FAT performance on Linux, expected to be
especially appreciated by USB 1.1 users. One measurement during testing
showed a cutback in time for the first copy from 52 seconds to 0.2...
ITEM ZAGOR added the "caption backlight" feature, which switches on the
backlight just before a song change, and keeps it lit for a backlight-timeout
period into the new song.
ITEM ZAGOR made the remote control's keys distinguishable from the ordinary
keys, so that they can now be used even though keylock is enabled.
ITEM BAGDER announced the presence of this digest on the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0922.shtml",
mailing list) and on the
LINK("http://www2.funmp3players.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=6597&forum_id=8&Topic_Title=Rockbox+Digest&forum_title=General+%2D+Jukebox+Player%2FRecorder&M=False&S=True",
funmp3players forum).
ITEM BAGDER posted his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0946.shtml",
suggested new keymapping) for Rockbox Recorders to the list.
ITEM BAGDER committed playlist code that reduces the number of times the
playlist is opened and closed, and it might make it slightly faster to skip
forward to next song in a playlist.
ITEM BAGDER made keyrepeat in the X11 simulator start working.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(22-apr-2003)
ITEM People discussed the chance of adding a feature that sorts files in the
dir browser according to the ID3 track number tag, and NAME(Chris Holt)
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0882.shtml",
explained) how it would be a painfully slow process and that renaming the
files to have them prefixed with the track number is the only sane way to
accomplish this.
ITEM NAME(Thomas Paul Diffenbach) mentioned
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0888.shtml",
his patch) that will allow a specific piece of the path name to get cut off
from the dir browser display.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(21-apr-2003)
ITEM NAME(Jeff Peterson) missed the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0864.shtml",
FM tuning functions) in Rockbox for the FM Recorder, and correct, they are
not supported by any Rockbox code yet.
ITEM NAME(Paul van der Heu) pointed out the recently annonced
LINK("http://www.audio.philips.com/index.asp", Philips HDD100) portable mp3
player.
ITEM LINUSN added an option to record files with the "bit reservoir"
disabled, thus making recorded files to get edited (using external mp3
editing tools) easier and better.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(20-apr-2003)
ITEM NAME(Jörn) questioned the
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0799.shtml", current use of F2 and F3) and several other guys seemed to agree.
BAGDER
intend to post a completely redesigned keymapping suggestion
soon... NAME(Jörn) made the scroll and status bar ON/OFF possible to set
using the menu.
ITEM NAME(Brent Geery) says no hardware player on the planet
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0820.shtml",
supports ID3 v1.2) and suggested Rockbox to be the first. Mixed emotions
followed, but the general feeling seems to be that it shouldn't be hard to
add code for, only slightly unnecessary.
ITEM
LINUSN made mono recordings do a better Xing header. Later
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0923.shtml",
verified to work) by
NAME(Jörn Pochmann).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(19-apr-2003)
ITEM NAME(Stefan Meyer) submitted
LINK("https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439120&aid=723682&group_id=44306",
his patch) that introduces file search in Rockbox.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(18-apr-2003)
ITEM NAME(Thomas Paul Diffenbach) brought up the subject of
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0755.shtml",
Rockbox 2.3 roadmap and plugins). Further explained in that thread, we plan
to have Rockbox support loadable plugins to reduce footprint and allow a
virtually unlimited number of functions and features.
ITEM NAME(Daniel Nguyen) started an avalanche by
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0733.shtml",
suggesting) that mailing list mails should use a [ROCKBOX] prefix in the
subject lines. Various mail filtering arguments, tips and hints followed.
ITEM NAME(Jos Laake) found an
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0748.shtml",
odd recording bug) that
LINUSN fixed almost immediate. It turned out to be a
Xing header problem.
ITEM NAME(Lee Donaghy) posted a nice repeatable way to
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0693.shtml",
crash rockbox) with his mp3 song. This turned out to be the ID3 info funtion
using a too small buffer for the first loaded frame.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(17-apr-2003)
ITEM NAME(c s) announced his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0699.shtml",
Alternating WPS Lines) proposal, with patch and mods available.
ITEM NAME(BoD) inroduced his
LINK("http://www2.jraf.org:8042/tmp/jwpsbuilder/jwpsbuilder.html", WPS editor
applet) to the the list.
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(16-apr-2003)
ITEM NAME(Magnus Öman)'s "inverted cursor" patch was applied by
LINUSN. There's a new setting in the display section for enabling it.
ITEM NAME(Thomas Paul Diffenbach)
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0655.shtml",
reminded us) about his ID3 tag parsing code patch number
LINK("http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=706111&group_id=44306&atid=439120",
706111) and explained how it parses genres.
ITEM Does the FM Recorder <i>really</i> support digital in (SPDIF)? LINUSN
hasn't found any connector for it on the PCB, but NAME(Gonz) received a LINK(
"http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0679.shtml",
reply from Archos) that claims it does... he followed up with a later
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0696.shtml",
report) and even later his
LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2003-04/0752.shtml",
reported success).
ENDDATE
NEWSDATE(15-apr-2003)
ITEM 2.0 was LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/download/", released). Much
rejoicing.
ITEM The all LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/manual/manual.pdf", new pdf manual)
deserves a special mentioning. NAME(Jose Maria Garcia Valdecasas Bernal) made
a huge effort with that one.
ITEM Numerous fixed LINK("http://rockbox.haxx.se/bugs.shtml", bug reports) on
sourceforge were closed.
ENDDATE