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Toshiba F Series manual Running Rockbox, Updating Rockbox, Enabling Speech Support optional

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Chapter 2. Installation

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Starting at the root directory of your player browse into the directory GBSYSTEM and from that into the subdirectory FWIMG. These directories are hidden. Make sure that you have congured your browser to show hidden les or you may be unable to see FWIMG.

In that directory you’ll nd a le called FWIMG01.DAT. This too may be hidden. Rename the le to FWIMG01.DAT.ORIG. Make sure you spelled that name correctly as it is needed for booting the Toshiba rmware.

Now copy the le FWIMG01.DAT you downloaded to that directory. Make sure the spelling is correct.

Warning: After installing the bootloader you need to power-cycle the player by doing	!
the following steps. Failure to do so may result in problems.

Eject / unmount USB drive and unplug the USB cable.

Unplug any power adapter.

Hold the Power button to turn o the player.

Slide the battery switch located on the bottom of the player from ‘on’ to ‘o’

Slide the battery switch back from ‘o’ to ‘on’

2.3.3 Enabling Speech Support (optional)

If you wish to use speech support you will also need a voice le, English ones are available from http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml. Download the \voice" package for your player and unzip it directly to the root of your player. You should now nd an english.voice in the /.rockbox/langs directory on your player. Voice menus are enabled by default and will come into eect after a reboot. See section 8.8 (page 62) for details on voice settings.

2.4 Running Rockbox

Remove your player from the computer’s USB port. Unplug any connected power supply and turn the unit o. When you next turn the unit on, Rockbox should load. When you see the Rockbox splash screen, Rockbox is loaded and ready for use.

2.5 Updating Rockbox

Updating Rockbox is easy even if you do not use the Rockbox Utility. Download a Rockbox build. (The latest release of the Rockbox software will always be available from http://www.rockbox.org/download/). Unzip the build to the root directory of your player like you did in the installation stage. If your unzip program asks you whether to

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Toshiba F Series manual Running Rockbox, Updating Rockbox, Enabling Speech Support optional

Contents

rockbox.org December 23 The Rockbox Manual for Toshiba Gigabeat F SeriesRockbox Contents 5 The Main Menu Contents 10.1.11 Minesweeper Contents Toshiba Gigabeat F Series The Rockbox manual1 Introduction 1.1 Welcome1.2 Getting more help 1.3 Naming conventions and marks 2.1 Overview 2 Installation2.3.1 Installing RockboxAutomated Installation Prerequisites2.3.2 Manual Installation Page 2.4 Running Rockbox 2.5 Updating Rockbox2.3.3 Enabling Speech Support optional 2.6 Uninstalling Rockbox 2.6.1 Automatic Uninstallation2.6.2 Manual Uninstallation 3 Quick Start 3.1 Basic Overview3.1.1 The player’s controls 3.1.2 Turning the player on and o 3.1.3 Putting music on your player3.1.4 The rst contact 3.1.5 Basic controls 3.1.6 Basic concepts1ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc 3.3 Charging 3.2 Customising Rockbox4.1 File Browser 4 Browsing and playing4.1.2 Context Menu 4.1.1 File Browser ControlsPage 4.1.3 Virtual Keyboard 4.2 Database 4.2.1 Introduction4.2.2 Initializing the Database 4.2.3 The Database Menu 4.2.4 Using the Database genre 4.3 While Playing Screen4.3.2 Peak Meter 4.3.1 WPS Key Controls4.3.3 The WPS Context Menu Page 4.4.1 Playlist terminology 4.4 Working with Playlists4.4.2 Creating playlists 4.4.3 Adding music to playlists 4.4.4 Modifying playlists 4.4.5 Saving playlists 4.4.6 Loading saved playlists4.4.7 Helpful Hints 5.1 Introducing the Main Menu 5 The Main Menu5.6 Now Playing/Resume Playback 5.2 Navigating the Main Menu 5.3 Recent Bookmarks5.4 Files 5.5 Database5.7.3 General Settings 5.7 Settings5.7.1 Sound Settings 5.7.2 Playback Settings5.10 System 5.9 Plugins5.11 Quick Screen 6.1 Volume 6 Sound Settings6.5 Channels 6.2 Bass6.3 Treble 6.4 Balance6.7 Crossfeed 6.8 Equalizer Bands 1-3 Peaking lters Peaking EQ lters boost or lower a frequency range centered at the center frequency chosen. Graphic equalizers in home stereos are usually peaking lters. The peaking lters in Rockbox’s EQ lets you adjust three dierent parameters for EQ bands 1 through 3. The \center parameter controls the center frequency of the frequency range that is aected as described above. The \gain parameter controls how much each band is adjusted, and works as for the low shelf lter. Finally, the \Q parameter controls how wide or narrow the aected frequency range is. Higher Q values will aect a narrower band of frequencies, while lower Q values will aect a wider band of frequencies 6.9 Dithering Playback Settings 7.1 Shue7.2 Repeat 7.6 Fade on Stop/Pause 7.3 Play Selected First7.4 Fast-Forward/Rewind 7.5 Anti-Skip BuerPage 7.10 Beep Volume 7.9 Replaygain7.11 Auto-Change Directory 7.14 Cuesheet Support b b b b7.12 Pause on Headphone Unplug 7.13 Last.fm Log7.15 Skip Length 8 General Settings 8.1 Playlist8.2 File View Only unknown types Only the extensions of unknown letypes are shown Chapter 8. General SettingsO The le extensions are never shown On The le extensions are always shown8.4 Display 8.3 DatabaseToshiba Gigabeat F Series Chapter 8. General SettingsStatus Bar Enables or disables the status bar at the upper side The Rockbox manual8.5.2 Battery 8.5 System8.5.1 Start Screen 8.5.4 Idle Powero8.5.3 Disk8.5.8 Button Light Brightness 8.5.7 Button Light Timeout8.6 Bookmarking 8.5.6 Car Adapter Mode8.7 Language 8.8 Voice Chapter 8. General Settings The Rockbox manualToshiba Gigabeat F Series 9 Theme Settings Foreground Colour Sets the colour used for text and icons Chapter 9. Theme SettingsReset Colours Resets the LCD display to Rockbox’s default colours Background Colour Sets the background colour for the display10.1 Games 10 Plugins10.1.1 Blackjack 10.1.2 BrickMania Displayed PowerChapter 10. Plugins the paddle. Look out for the bad ones Special items10.1.3 Bubbles 10.1.4 Chessbox 10.1.6 Dice 10.1.5 Chopper10.1.7 Doom Page 10.1.8 Flipit 10.1.9 Jewels 10.1.10 MazezaM 10.1.11 Minesweeper 10.1.12 Pacbox pacman.5e 2791455babaf26e0b396c78d2b45f8f6 pacman.5f 9240f35d1d2beee017195653b5e405 pacman.6e 290aa5eae9e2f63587b5dd5a7da932da pacman.6f 19a886fcd8b5e88b0ed1b97f9d8659c0 pacman.6h d7cce8bd9563b133ec17ebbb6373d4 pacman.6j 33c0e197be4c787142af6c3be0d8f6b0 10.1.13 Pegbox 10.1.14 Pong 10.1.15 Robotndskitten 10.1.16 Rockblox 10.1.18 Sliding Puzzle 10.1.17 Rockblox1d10.1.19 Snake 10.1.20 Snake 10.1.21 Sokoban http//sokobano.de/en/levels.php 10.1.22 Solitaire 10.1.23 Spacerocks 10.1.24 Star 10.1.25 Sudoku When you play Sudoku on paper most people like to mark numbers in cells that are possible candidates for the cells. This can be done with the scratchpad, shown as separate column. Change the number under the cursor to the number you want to put on the scratchpad and press the scratchpad button, the number will then be added. If the number was already on the scratchpad it will get removed again. The column is stored seperatly for every cell on the board. The stored values can be displayed inline as small 10.1.26 Wormlet Page The Rockbox manual Chapter 10. PluginsCrashed This indicates that a worm has crashed against a wall Hints10.1.27 Xobox 10.2.1 Bounce 10.2 Demos10.2.3 Cube 10.2.2 CreditsFigure 10.27 Demystify Demystify is a screen saver like demo 10.2.4 DemystifyUp / Down Add / remove polygon Power Quit Chapter 10. Plugins10.2.6 Logo 10.2.5 Fire10.2.7 Mandelbrot The Rockbox manual 10.2.8 MosaiqueChapter 10. Plugins Figure 10.30 Mosaique10.2.9 Oscilloscope 10.2.10 Plasma The Rockbox manual 10.2.11 SnowChapter 10. Plugins Figure 10.33 Have you ever seen snow falling?Figure 10.34 Stareld 10.2.12 StareldUp / Down Increase / decrease speed SelectChange colours Power Quit Chapter 10. Plugins10.2.13 VU meter 10.3 ViewersExample MyMusic/collection/song.mp3TABMy favourite song 10.3.1 Shortcutslfo/chip8/CHIP8.htm 10.3.2 Chip-8 Emulator10.3.4 Midiplay 10.3.3 JPEG viewer10.3.5 MPEG Player html 10.3.6 PPM viewer10.3.7 Rockboy 10.3.8 Search 10.3.9 Sort10.3.10 Text Viewer The Viewer’s Menu Quit Exits the plugin On has a scrollbar by default, until toggledO has no scrollbar by default, until toggled Chapter 10. Plugins10.3.12 ZXBox 10.3.11 VBRxPage 10.4 Applications 10.4.1 Battery BenchmarkSeconds As time, it shows time passed in seconds. Nothing special, it is there because it is free and maybe someone might want to make graphs with seconds 10.4.2 Calculator 10.4.3 CalendarWARNING! Image not found 10.4.4 Chess Clock Power SetupPower Power10.4.5 Clock Page 10.4.6 Disk Tidy 10.4.10 Metronome 10.4.7 Keybox10.4.8 Lamp 10.4.9 md5sum10.4.11 Random Folder Advance Conguration The Rockbox manual 10.4.12 StatsChapter 10. Plugins Figure 10.42 The stats-plugin10.4.14 Text Editor 10.4.13 StopwatchPage 11.1.2 Loading Fonts 11 Advanced Topics11.1 Customising the User Interface 11.1.1 Getting Extras11.2.1 WPS General Info 11.2 Conguring the WPS11.1.5 Changing Filetype Colours 11.1.6 Loading BackdropsExample ?mpStopj%PlayjPausejFfwdjRew Example repeatExample ?it%t8%s%itj%s%fn%?ia%t3%s%iaj%t0 11.3.1 Introduction to .cfg Files 11.3 Managing Rockbox Settingswps /.rockbox/car.wps lang /.rockbox/afrikaans.lng 11.3.2 Specications for .cfg FilesExample Example configuration file volume bass treble balance time format 12hour volume display numeric show files supported11.3.3 The Manage Settings menu 11.4.1 Using ROLO Rockbox Loader11.4 Firmware Loading A.1 Supported le formats A File formatsc1000 to -c3000 les de A.2 Supported audio formatsB WPS Tags B.1 Status BarB.2 ID3 Info B.4 File Info B.3 Power Related InformationB.7 Sound DSP settings B.5 Playlist/Song InfoB.6 Runtime Database B.10 Playback Mode Tags B.11 Changing VolumeB.8 Virtual LED B.9 Repeat ModeB.12 Settings B.13 Images B.15 Conditional Tags B.14 AlignmentB.17 Other Tags B.16 Real Time Clocko, on, unknown, view C Cong le optionsdisable autoresume if phones backlight lters rst keypresstagcache Appendix C. Config file options o, 200ms, 300ms, 500ms, 1, 2 5min, 10min, 20min, 45min, 90min4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 30, 1min D.1 Bug reports D.2 Feature ideasD.2.1 Rules for submitting a new feature idea D User feedbackD.2.2 Features we will not implement E.2.1 New features E.1 What is new since v3.0?E.2 What is new since v2.5? E.1.1 New featuresAppendix E. Changelog ? 2007-06-17 Custom letype colour feature introduced? 2006-11-06 Pitch adjustment in semitone steps ? 2006-10-05 FM radio region settingE.2.3 New codecs supported E.2.2 EnhancementsThe Rockbox manual Appendix E. Changelog? AIFF ? FLAC ? ALAC ? Wavpack ? Shorten ? Monkey’s Audio Other codecs ? SID ? MOD ? NSF, NSFE ? SPC ? MIDI ? SAPF Credits Appendix F. Credits The Rockbox manualToshiba Gigabeat F Series Appendix F. Credits The Rockbox manualToshiba Gigabeat F Series 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS G LicensesG.1 GNU Free Documentation License PreambleAppendix G. Licenses The Rockbox manualToshiba Gigabeat F Series 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY 2. VERBATIM COPYING4. MODIFICATIONS Toshiba Gigabeat F Series O. Preserve any Warranty DisclaimersAppendix G. Licenses The Rockbox manual5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE ADDENDUM How to use this License for your documents8. TRANSLATION 9. TERMINATIONAppendix G. Licenses The Rockbox manualToshiba Gigabeat F Series G.2 The GNU General Public License GNU General Public LicensePreamble Terms and Conditions For Copying, Distribution and Modification In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program or with a work based on the Program on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License Page No Warranty End of Terms and Conditions Appendix How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs