I meant the the auto detect in the Rockbox Utility not the USB mode in the system settings of the player. Sorry to be a bother and waste your time, I thought it might be just a simple thing I was doing wrong that could be answered here.
Ahhh, well . . . now that’s something completely different!
When installing an unstable build, you can’t use the installation options on the “Quick Start” tab. Go to the “Installation” tab instead to install the bootloader, then Rockbox. You’ll need an unmodified copy of the Clip+ firmware for Rockbox Utility to patch for the first step.
I don’t recall reading anywhere that you can’t use the Quick Start tab on unstable builds (well at least there’s no mention of it in the instruction manual). Anyways, I sucessfully installed it using the Installation tab as you suggested. Thanks for for your help gwk1967.
I installed Rockbox onto an old Clip V1, and my current Clip+ at the weekend. This is a great piece of work.
I’m having great fun at the moment, being able to speed up my audiobooks without pitch-shifting.
Couple of niggles: The Updater app won’t allow original firmware more recent than 01.02.09.
I also had a heart-stopping moment when the Clip+ crashed during a database update, and I couldn’t see a way to revive it for a while, and was convinced I’d bricked it (I was “bricking it” too). Holding the power button for a good 15-20s brought it back from the dead.
Also, I’m still looking for an easy shortcut back to the While Playing Screen.
The Sansa firmware uses the Home button to toggle betweem the menu and the playback screen, but in Rockbox it toggles between the main menu and the previous screen, so I have to move through the menu and select “Now Playing”.
Also, I’m still looking for an easy shortcut back to the While Playing Screen.
The Sansa firmware uses the Home button to toggle betweem the menu and the playback screen, but in Rockbox it toggles between the main menu and the previous screen, so I have to move through the menu and select “Now Playing”.
You can set up Rockbox to display the ‘Now Playing’ screen upon start-up, instead of the Main Menu.
We haven’t really figured out what we want to do with the Clip+ keys yet. Right now its just using the clip keymap, which I think is mostly borrowed from the e200, so some of the keys are a bit odd.
I also had a heart-stopping moment when the Clip+ crashed during a database update, and I couldn’t see a way to revive it for a while, and was convinced I’d bricked it (I was “bricking it” too). Holding the power button for a good 15-20s brought it back from the dead.
I had a scare myself where I thought I bricked it. One of the first things I tried after installing Rockbox was the Cuesheet function. I was playing a flac file which had a cue sheet, skipped to the 2nd song everything was fine, skipped to the 3rd song and the player completely froze. No matter which button I pressed nothing happened (including the power button). I finally held the power button down for what seemed like a minute and it came back. That’s one thing that ■■■■■ about not being able to pull the battery out to do a reset.
I have tried rockbox now because of this thread and I like the options it provides, but the playback quality suffers heavily. I have lots of jumps during playback of my ogg-files. It sounds like those old vinyl records when they were damaged (cpu too weak ?) and overall sound quality seems worse than the original firmware. Battery runtime is much better though, almost double.
@ogg_ardent wrote:
I have lots of jumps during playback of my ogg-files. It sounds like those old vinyl records when they were damaged (cpu too weak ?) and overall sound quality seems worse than the original firmware. Battery runtime is much better though, almost double.
Can you elaborate on this? I’ve never heard of it, and its not a CPU issue:
as I said, it sounds like a broken vinyl record. I can rewind back and have the same “jump” on the exact same place. If I reload the file (select it again in the playlist) the jump is gone. It happens randomly about once in 3 songs and is safely reproducable for me (just playing some songs …).
All my files are 208kbit and 224kbit cbr ogg and are located on a 16gb toshiba card (class 4).
This doesn’t happen on the sansa firmware.
I have replaygain active, crossfade and lifted bass a bit, but will try without those. I will also try another card.
as I said, it sounds like a broken vinyl record. I can rewind back and have the same “jump” on the exact same place. If I reload the file (select it again in the playlist) the jump is gone.
So it sounds like the file is copied into memory corrupted, but if you reload it, the file is read correctly on the second try. Try the internal memory and see if that works any better, it could be the SD card glitching.
Also, which build are you using (give the exact revision number)?