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docking station and nally on the right hand side of the bottom of the unit is a mini USB socket for connecting directly to USB.

Finally on the right hand side of the unit are some control buttons. Going from the bottom of the unit to the top there is a small round A buttton then a rocker volume switch with of the Volume down button below the Volume up button. Above that is are two more small round buttons, the Menu button and nearest to the top of the unit the Power button, which is held down to turn the player on or o .

3.1.2 Turning the player on and o

To turn on and o your Rockbox enabled player use the following keys:

Key

Action

Power

Start Rockbox

Long Power

Shutdown Rockbox

 

 

On shutdown, Rockbox automatically saves its settings.

If you have problems with your settings, such as accidentally having set the colours to black on black, they can be reset at boot time. See the Reset Settings in section 11.3.3 (page 139) for details.

In the unlikely event of a software failure, hardware powero or reset can be performed by holding down the battery switch until the player shuts o or reboots.

3.1.3 Putting music on your player

With the player connected to the computer as an MSC/UMS device (like a USB Drive), music les can be put on the player via any standard le transfer method that you would use to copy les between drives (e.g. Drag ’n’ Drop). The default directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (album art searching, and missing-tag fallback in some WPSes) uses the parent directory of a song as the Album name, and the parent directory of that folder as the Artist name. While les may be organized however you like, the ZAlbumArt wiki page explains the requirement for Album Art to work properly, and WPSes may display information incorrectly if your les are not properly tagged, and you have your music organized in a way di erent than they assume when attempting to guess the Artist and Album names from your letree. See section A.2 (page 141) for a list of supported audio formats.

3.1.4 The rst contact

After you have rst started the player you’ll be presented by the Main Menu. From this menu you can reach every function of Rockbox, for more information (see section 5.1 (page 37)). To browse the les on you player select Files (see section 4.1 (page 21)), and

The Rockbox manual

Toshiba Gigabeat F Series

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Toshiba F Series manual Turning the player on and o, Putting music on your player, Rst contact