Offer new options to show elegantly your entries in any playlist/dynamic playlist viewer. This is especially important if you dual boot an iPod with Stock OS and want to sync with iTunes; with this very popular setup, file names are obfuscated which results in any Rockbox playlist viewer difficult to enjoy, and it was a long standing issue reported by several Rockbox users over the years. The only way to show the title was to open a contextual menu on each song to get infos about the selected song, which is a very long and anti-ergonomic process to understand what is on your current playlist/randomized playlist. The idea of this patch is to provide new alternatives that the user can select. I personally selected the Title & Album view which provides excellent readability.
This patch was built with performance in mind using lazy loading to load one by one the tags then cache a string and use the little cache as much as possible to make scrolling in the same area as smooth as possible. Performance remains very acceptable even on an iPod 4G with its original hard drive. Using a real compact flash with my iPod Mini 2G reduces the latency even more.
Those new options are disabled by default because they impact noticeably the scrolling performance and are less relevant if your files are decently properly named.
Unfortunately, the search feature in a playlist will need to continue to use the raw filename because reading the tags for a whole playlist is a performance disaster. This works decently while viewing just because I made a code that load those one by one as much as possible.
I focused also on testing that the opening of the playlist viewer UI remained fast, and loading one by one with lazy loading allows to get very little overhead in this regard.
Change-Id: I00d9c802e29f8372447813b035bbae207a016467
The idea is that a theme or whatever could use this to provide visual
differentiation (eg "George's iPod") between multiple
otherwise-identical players..
Defaults to an empty string.
Added to the manual but there is not a way to set this through the
menus yet.
Change-Id: I1cff6b19d621dd6207b4b82eed67741ce2da0ef1
A set of new tags for themes that allow them to display a quickscreen item's name or value like what is displayed on the default quickscreen.
There are 8 tags in total, 2 for each direction or "item".
One type of tag displays the setting name, while the other displays the setting's value.
All tags output an "ERR" string if no valid setting is found for that item.
Quickscreen Item name tags: %QT, %QR, %QB and %QL.
Quickscreen Item value tags: %Qt, %Qr, %Qb and %Ql.
Change-Id: Ia08ba5940e38065e051a0aefa2cff142c9e58684
The database or playlist catalogue can now be set
as the browser that is launched when pressing
ACTION_WPS_BROWSE on the WPS, unless another browser
has more recently been opened.
Previously you'd always have to exit the File Browser
first, after the player had been restarted, which is
annoying for users who prefer the database.
The playlist catalogue has become part of the MRU
browser list, so pressing ACTION_WPS_BROWSE after
selecting a track from a playlist in the playlist
catalogue will now take you back there.
Settings menus have been slightly restructured.
- Eliminated "Set WPS Context Plugin" and "Hotkey" menus
from the General menu
- Added "What's Playing Screen" menu in Settings-General
with option for setting default browser. The "WPS Hotkey"
and "WPS Context Plugin" menu options have been moved to
this menu.
- "File Browser Hotkey" is now part of the File View menu,
which means it is accessible from the browser's context
menu as well.
Overview of resulting menu structure in Settings->General:
What's Playing Screen
Default Browser
WPS Hotkey
Set WPS Context Plugin
File View
(...)
File Browser Hotkey
Change-Id: Iaa3619a791c20ce3562a1efd2cf90c72933b729a
EQ settings are actually an array of 3 ints. I added a skin parameter
token that allows specifying which array element to use.
So instead of this now-incorrect syntax:
%St(0,0,-,-,image,eqbar.bmp,vertical,setting,eq band 1 gain)
You would use:
%St(0,0,-,-,image,eqbar.bmp,vertical,soffset,2,setting,eq peak filter 1)
(the 'gain' is the third element in the eq setting array, thus soffset 2)
Change-Id: Ibda712ab87759efb45420566c967742bcefb513b
Includes ipod video (5G) and earlier models, sansa c200 and others players not capable to decode AAC-HE.
Allows to play backward compatible files as AAC-LC.
Change-Id: Ic9f5c0f255d9a4308c3414d402f8f27f4328ca94
Add a new setting,
database path: /path/to/folder
to change where the database files are stored, which allows it to
be shared by multiple builds when using multiboot. This avoids the
need to maintain a separate copy of the database for each build.
This setting can only be set from the config file; it has no menu
option yet (due to lack of a GUI to pick the directory).
Change-Id: Ide7b3ccdd84abb62b52f900421bd3d101773e093
Useful feature for audiobooks. To rewind from the end of the previous track - press rewind at the very beginning of the current track. So if you are in the middle of the track - first rewind till beginning then release and press rewind button again (Playback Settings -> Rewind Across Tracks option should be enabled)
Fixes FS#13290
Change-Id: I5d7f06f64ad76d1e8f7827fe594ccca5f621769d
Updated version of the patch originally by user cockroach
UNTESTED
Ipods?, Iriver H10,
I do not own these players so YMMV
https://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/13193
Change-Id: I7924837f582cc5c49ee68c186d6822f577f65147
Tested with my SansaClip+. I don't think this will need extra battery
but let me know if I am wrong.
Change-Id: I287dae134113e0f8a138af68f5087b8ea45b0f4c
Large embedded album art can cause pauses during
playback or when skipping between tracks, especially
on older devices, but embedded art is currently loaded
even when separately stored smaller image files would be
available.
A workaround is to remove large album art from the
metadata of files.
This now adds a setting to either turn off loading of
album art completely, or to prefer loading the album art
from a separate image file and thus ignore the embedded
versions.
Change-Id: I22fb581abf56072e35e6c29d72e553747ec1a96a
In addition to the existing behavior of pausing
after each song, this adds options to pause
after playing current:
Album,
Album Artist,
Artist,
Composer,
Grouping / Work, or
Genre.
Allows you, for example, to only listen to the
remaining movements of a classical work
without having to purge your playlist of any
upcoming songs.
Change-Id: If18f4a5d139320026cc5fcc9adf29dd8e4e028a8
The sort order of numeric lists can now be changed with the
new "List Order" setting. It defaults to ascending for most
scrollwheel targets and descending for all others, matching
the old hardcoded behavior.
Change-Id: I4866f04ec5995158edf9e40badf7f661b3ddea81
Also keeps display from lighting up before shutdown,
which reduces distractions, especially at night and
when the sleep timer is used by allowing the
screen to remain dark.
Change-Id: I1c2d1966f6fb9766532adf01e8828876a871857f
Limit for devices with more than 8MB of memory had
previously been increased from 300 to 500 bytes
for individual fields, and to 1800 from 900 bytes for
buffer containing all fields.
See a8846e3
Change-Id: I63305c50f6f486ad321664babdb94052ea9209a9
Allows user to decide whether scrolling lists will wrap around
to the opposite end after the first or last item has been reached.
Change-Id: I22156812cf4c857ddc4b6c48c1cef013b1985260
Options to add shuffled tracks and to queue tracks in the
Current Playlist Submenu can now be hidden, or the latter
can also be put into its own submenu.
Users can customize this in Settings by going to
"General Settings - Playlists -> Current Playlist" and
choosing from "Show Shuffled Adding Options" (No / Yes)
or "Show Queue Options" (No / Yes / In Submenu).
Allows for the paring down of the set of choices to
a minimum of the 4 more common ones for adding tracks
to a dynamic playlist (coming from the current total
of 11).
Defaults have been set so that users have to actively
modify their settings to notice any difference, which
makes it unlikely that anybody's workflow would be
negatively affected by this change.
Change-Id: Ibe48fc4da2c79f54cd7272df8e1e3ba9955203e5
HAVE_LCD_BITMAP is now redundant.
lcd_bitmap is always-on in features.txt so manual and lang strings
don't have to change
Change-Id: I08eeb20de48099ffc2dc23782711af368c2ec794
Modified version from ticket, taken from Igor Poretsky's tree, and
further modified to incorporate feedback.
Change-Id: I9284497d53a0247a51739d29fdc1db5fbbebfadc
Added to config_file_options.tex, sections for gigbeat and fuze+
sensitivity settings, also fuze+ touchpad deadzone setting.
Change-Id: I9bba52ca0ca5525e6a6fb337f6940d11571ee06a
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.rockbox.org/954
Tested: Benjamin Brown <foolshperson@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>
Use %x9(id) to draw an image in the whole current viewport using the
9 segment drawer (which draws the corners as normal and *tiles*
the middle segments to the needed width/height).
Future work is to make it scale instead of tile
Change-Id: Ic3ed1cad93f96091694801eb442e0da5a2401203
Update %?pv description to better describe the
conditions it returns
Change-Id: I6be4d5293aa6816ae35d743b172fe324d7dc6d12
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.rockbox.org/367
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Gordon <rockbox@jdgordon.info>
