Specifications

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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. WPSes may display
information incorrectly if your files are not properly tagged, and you have your music
organized in a way different than they assume when attempting to guess the Artist and
Album names from your filetree. See section C (page 176) for the requirements for
Album Art to work properly. See section B.1 (page 170) for a list of supported audio
formats.
3.1.4. The first contact
After you have first 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 38)). To browse the files on your player, select Files (see section 4.1 (page 22)),
and to browse in a view that is based on the meta-data
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of your audio files, select
Database (see section 4.2 (page 26)).
3.1.5. Basic controls
When browsing files 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, Right or
Play to select an item. When browsing the file system selecting an audio file 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 modified while playing. This is also known as “on-
the-fly playlist”. To go back to the File Browser stop the playback with the Long
Play button or return to the file 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 file, 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 file. If you do not want to use
playlists you can simply play your files directory based. Playlists are covered in detail
in section 4.4 (page 33).
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ID3 Tags, Vorbis comments, etc.
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