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to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data1of your audio les, select Database (see section 4.2 (page 25)).

3.1.5 Basic controls

When browsing les and moving through menus you usually get a list view presented. The navigation in these lists are usually the same and should be pretty intuitive. In the tree view use Down and Up to move around the selection. Use Select or Right to select an item. When browsing the le system selecting an audio le plays it. The view switches to the \While playing screen", usually abbreviated as \WPS" (see section 4.3 (page 28). The dynamic playlist gets replaced with the contents of the current directory. This way you can easily treat directories as playlists. The created dynamic playlist can be extended or modied while playing. This is also known as \on-the-y playlist". To go back to the File Browser stop the playback with the Power button or return to the le browser while keeping playback running using Select. In list views you can go back one step with Left.

3.1.6 Basic concepts

Playlists

Rockbox is playlist oriented. This means that every time you play an audio le, a so- called \dynamic playlist" is generated, unless you play a saved playlist. You can modify the dynamic playlist while playing and also save it to a le. If you do not want to use playlists you can simply play your les directory based. Playlists are covered in detail in section 4.4 (page 32).

Menu

From the menu you can customise Rockbox. Rockbox itself is very customisable. Also there are some special menus for quick access to frequently used functions.

Context Menu

Some views, especially the le browser and the WPS have a context menu. From the le browser this can be accessed with Long Select. The contents of the context menu vary, depending on the situation it gets called. The context menu itself presents you with some operations you can perform with the currently highlighted le. In the le browser this is the le (or directory) that is highlighted by the cursor. From the WPS this is the currently playing le. Also there are some actions that do not apply to the current le but refer to the screen from which the context menu gets called. One example is the playback menu, which can be called using the context menu from within the WPS.

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