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
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
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
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
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>
- this patch add all general sections of the manual for the fuze+
- also correct some typos
Change-Id: Idd28675f48c0d01079d8fa01d68d3238ad2a54ce
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.rockbox.org/116
Reviewed-by: Dominik Riebeling <Dominik.Riebeling@gmail.com>
Adds an option under settings > general settings > system to allow
the user to have the shortcuts menu displayed instead of the
quick screen. (option is "shortcuts instead of quickscreen" in the .cfg)
Change-Id: Id679b461c40ac617629422736d1509384364084d
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.rockbox.org/199
Reviewed-by: Marek Salaba <marek.salaba@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Gordon <rockbox@jdgordon.info>
When enabled, if the user has set "Start File Browser Here" (config.cfg:
start directory) to anything other than root and "Auto-Change Directory"
is set to "Yes" or "Random", the directory returned when an auto change
is required will be constrained to the value of "start directory" or below.
Change-Id: Iaab773868c4cab5a54f6ae67bdb22e84642a9e4b
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.rockbox.org/182
Reviewed-by: Nick Peskett <rockbox@peskett.co.uk>
Tested-by: Nick Peskett <rockbox@peskett.co.uk>
This makes the sleep timer persistent, so that the duration is remembered
across reboots. Additionally, it adds a setting to automatically apply
it at boot.
Flyspray: FS#10849
Author: Nick Peskett
git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@30777 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657
This option allows accessing the card slot from "dumb" USB hosts like some car
audio systems that do not handle multi-LUN devices.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@30489 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657
