Contents

1  Getting started
 1.1  Welcome
 1.2  Getting more help
 1.3  Naming conventions and marks
2  Installation
 2.1  Prerequisites
 2.2  Installing Rockbox
  2.2.1  Introduction
  2.2.2  Choosing a Rockbox version
  2.2.3  Installing the firmware
  2.2.4  Installing the boot loader
 2.3  Enabling Speech Support (optional)
 2.4  Running Rockbox
 2.5  Updating Rockbox
 2.6  Uninstalling Rockbox
3  Quick Start
 3.1  Basic overview
  3.1.1  The player’s controls
  3.1.2  Turning the player on and off
  3.1.3  Starting the original firmware
  3.1.4  Loading music onto the player
  3.1.5  A quick tour
 3.2  Menu overview
4  Browsing and playing
 4.1  File Browser
  4.1.1  File Browser Controls
  4.1.2  File Menu
  4.1.3  Virtual Keyboard
 4.2  Database
  4.2.1  Introduction
  4.2.2  Initializing the database
  4.2.3  The Database Menu
  4.2.4  Using the database
 4.3  While Playing Screen
  4.3.1  WPS Key Controls
  4.3.2  Peak Meter
  4.3.3  The WPS Context Menu
 4.4  Working with Playlists
  4.4.1  Playlist terminology
  4.4.2  Creating playlists
  4.4.3  Adding music to playlists
  4.4.4  Modifying playlists
  4.4.5  Saving playlists
  4.4.6  Loading saved playlists
  4.4.7  Helpful Hints
5  The Main Menu
 5.1  Introducing the Main Menu
 5.2  Navigating the Main Menu
 5.3  Recent Bookmarks
 5.4  Files
 5.5  Database
 5.6  Now Playing/Resume Playback
 5.7  Settings
  5.7.1  Sound Settings
  5.7.2  General Settings
  5.7.3  Manage Settings
  5.7.4  Browse Themes
  5.7.5  Recording Settings
 5.8  Recording
  5.8.1  While Recording Screen
 5.9  FM Radio
 5.10  Playlist
 5.11  Plugins
 5.12  System
 5.13  Quick Menu
6  Sound Settings
 6.1  Volume
 6.2  Bass
 6.3  Treble
 6.4  Balance
 6.5  Channels
 6.6  Stereo Width
 6.7  Crossfeed
 6.8  Equalizer
 6.9  Dithering
7  General Settings
 7.1  Playback
 7.2  Playlist
 7.3  File View
 7.4  Database
 7.5  Display
 7.6  System
  7.6.1  Start Screen
  7.6.2  Battery
  7.6.3  Disk
  7.6.4  Time and Date
  7.6.5  Idle Poweroff
  7.6.6  Limits
  7.6.7  Car Adapter Mode
 7.7  Bookmarking
 7.8  Language
 7.9  Voice
8  Recording Settings
 8.1  Format
 8.2  Encoder Settings
 8.3  Frequency
 8.4  Source
 8.5  Channels
 8.6  File Split Options
 8.7  Prerecord Time
 8.8  Clear Recording Directory
 8.9  Clipping Light
 8.10  Trigger
9  Plugins
 9.1  Games
  9.1.1  Blackjack
  9.1.2  BrickMania
  9.1.3  Bubbles
  9.1.4  Chessbox
  9.1.5  Doom
  9.1.6  Flipit
  9.1.7  Jewels
  9.1.8  Minesweeper
  9.1.9  Pacbox
  9.1.10  Pong
  9.1.11  Rockblox
  9.1.12  Sliding Puzzle
  9.1.13  Snake
  9.1.14  Snake 2
  9.1.15  Sokoban
  9.1.16  Solitaire
  9.1.17  Spacerocks
  9.1.18  Star
  9.1.19  Sudoku
  9.1.20  Wormlet
  9.1.21  Xobox
 9.2  Demos
  9.2.1  Bounce
  9.2.2  Credits
  9.2.3  Cube
  9.2.4  Demystify
  9.2.5  Fire
  9.2.6  Logo
  9.2.7  Mandelbrot
  9.2.8  Mosaique
  9.2.9  Oscilloscope
  9.2.10  Plasma
  9.2.11  Snow
  9.2.12  Starfield
  9.2.13  VU meter
 9.3  Viewers
  9.3.1  Chip-8 Emulator
  9.3.2  JPEG viewer
  9.3.3  MPEG Player
  9.3.4  Rockboy
  9.3.5  Search
  9.3.6  Sort
  9.3.7  Text Viewer
  9.3.8  VBRfix
 9.4  Applications
  9.4.1  Battery Benchmark
  9.4.2  Calculator
  9.4.3  Chess Clock
  9.4.4  Clock
  9.4.5  Dice
  9.4.6  Disk Tidy
  9.4.7  Metronome
  9.4.8  Stats
  9.4.9  Stopwatch
  9.4.10  Text Editor
10  Advanced Topics
 10.1  Customising the userinterface
  10.1.1  Getting Extras
  10.1.2  Loading Fonts
  10.1.3  Loading Languages
  10.1.4  Changing Colours
  10.1.5  Loading Backdrops
 10.2  Configuring the WPS
  10.2.1  WPS – General Info
  10.2.2  WPS – Build Your Own
 10.3  Managing Rockbox settings
  10.3.1  Introduction to .cfg files.
  10.3.2  Specifications for .cfg files.
  10.3.3  The Manage Settings menu
 10.4  Firmware Loading
  10.4.1  Using ROLO (Rockbox loader)
A  File formats
 A.1  Supported file formats
B  WPS Tags
 B.1  Status Bar
 B.2  ID3 Info
 B.3  Power Related Information
 B.4  File Info
 B.5  Playlist/Song Info
 B.6  Runtime Database
 B.7  Sound (DSP) settings
 B.8  Virtual LED
 B.9  Repeat Mode
 B.10  Playback Mode Tags
 B.11  Images
 B.12  Alignment
 B.13  Conditional Tags
 B.14  Real Time Clock
 B.15  Other Tags
C  Config file options
D  User feedback
 D.1  Bug reports
  D.1.1  Rules for submitting new bug reports
 D.2  Feature requests
  D.2.1  Rules for submitting a new feature request
  D.2.2  Features we will not implement
E  Changelog
 E.1  What’s new since v2.5?
F  Credits
G  Licenses
 G.1  GNU Free Documentation License
 G.2  The GNU General Public License