Subject: [ rockbox-Feature Requests-645604 ] Power on/off slaved to external power - msg#00183

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Feature Requests item #645604, was opened at 2002-11-29 01:45
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Category: Battery
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Power on/off slaved to external power

Initial Comment:
Using the Rockbox in a vehicle would be enhanced by
allowing the presence of power on the DC IN/charger
port to control the on/off status of the Rockbox.

Auto-off:
The unit should store a bookmark at the current playing
position (as is done currently with a manual shutoff) and
shut off when power is removed from the DC IN port
(corresponds to vehicle ignition off). It seems that this
is feasible, looking at the code in powermgmt.c.

Auto-on:
When power is reapplied to the DC IN port
(corresponding to vehicle ignition on), the unit should
automatically power-up. The resume mode (as
currently implemented) should determine if the unit
begins playing automatically or prompts the user to
continue. I'm not sure if this is feasible, but it seems
like the unit can detect charger insertion (the recorder
shows the "Charging ..." screen and charging is
currently controlled by software on the recorder), so this
might be possible.

Notes:
The Auto-off feature is much more important than the
Auto-on feature. It is easy to forget to turn the unit off
when leaving a vehicle, possibly draining the batteries to
full discharge unintentionally. Also, any hope of
bookmarking your location is lost if the unit keeps
playing without anyone in the vehicle. Auto-on would be
great, but I'm much more likely to remember to turn the
unit on when I start driving (the silence from the vehicle's
audio system is a dead give-away that I've forgotten to
do something).

Additional features:
This option must be configurable.
It would be nice if a configuration file could automatically
be loaded when playing on external power vs. playing on
internal power. This would allow a "Vehicle.cfg" file to
be selected automatically when plugged into the vehicle
power; a "Battery.cfg" could be loaded for internal power
use. This would allow settings to be automatically
changed to support the use of the vehicle sound system
vs. headphones (less bass boost needed in the vehicle,
for instance), font changes (bigger font, less lines
desired in the vehicle), and even eventually default
playlist selection (driving music in the vehicle, maybe
even to the point of selecting a morning drive-to-work
playlist in the AM and a thankfully-the-day-is-over
playlist for the trip back home in the PM).

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[ rockbox-Bugs-645476 ] Scroll & Playlist tags in WPS

Bugs item #645476, was opened at 2002-11-28 15:32 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439118&aid=645476&group_id=44306 Category: MP3 playback Group: Release 1.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Scroll & Playlist tags in WPS Initial Comment: I tried the following wps file: %s%fp %fbKb %fsKB %s%ia %s%it %s%id %pn - %pp/%pe %pc/%pt - %pr %pb %pm The lines 2,3 & 4 do not scroll. The Playlist Name is not shown on the 5th line. Congratulations for your hard work. I discoverd Rockbox only this morning and I will stick with it ! Jukebox Recorder 20 ROM: 1.24 Mask: 0x0102 USB: positive ATA: 0x200 PR: positive Freq: 11.0592MHz patrick.bernard@xxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439118&aid=645476&group_id=44306

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[ rockbox-Feature Requests-614704 ] Delete from disk while playing

Feature Requests item #614704, was opened at 2002-09-25 16:19 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439121&aid=614704&group_id=44306 Category: Playback/playlist Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Roland (kaylog) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Delete from disk while playing Initial Comment: About half a year ago, i posted the following to Archos-Support - no answer so far.... will try my luck here :D - I listen to many voice messages with my jukebox, which, mostly i only have to listen once and so, i want to delete them exactly after hearing or even while hearing - it's a little bit like that "oh, it's john on the answering machine, but he already phoned me at work, so i don't have to listen the whole message to the end - click...del... - I also put gigabytes of musik on my jukebox. Since i want to "sort out" all that crappy songs and "build" my favourite collection just by deleting the songs i don't like: the existing "delete"- feature of the jukebox is not really well suited for this (and the above) purpose ! Deleting a mp3 from the jukebox currently is: - too much "fiddling with the knobs" (too "menu-driven") - paying too much attention for what you do and to do it right (need to look on the display) - after deleting archos jumps to the beginning to the folder, instead of playing the following mp3 - so you have to browse again....... What i really miss is some sort of "special hotkey combination" so that i can delete the actual played mp3 "blind" - i.e., without looking on the display and without interruption to browse to the next mp3 again (the next after the deleted one) As i can see, there is some hope, that this feature will come to reality with rockbox !? :D regards Roland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-11-29 02:47 Message: Logged In: NO That's exactly what I want too! Rockbox is basically useless to me without the ability to delete files. That's a pity, as it looks much better than the buggy Archos firmware. -Jon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-11-04 17:27 Message: Logged In: NO Yes, since my favorite use of my archos is in my car i can't browse any menu while driving (--=fast), so a special hotkey will be REALLY great ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: ed wilson (anomaly16) Date: 2002-10-17 07:05 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=164715 would like this too.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439121&aid=614704&group_id=44306

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[ rockbox-Patches-645763 ] Improvements for numeric battery icon

Patches item #645763, was opened at 2002-11-29 17:23 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439120&aid=645763&group_id=44306 Category: charging Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Markus Braun (malle) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Improvements for numeric battery icon Initial Comment: This patch shows a blinking "CHG" if the battery icon is numeric and rockbox is charging the batteries. Also this patch moves all the "blinking" code from status.c to icons.c. Matches Feature Request #642930. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439120&aid=645763&group_id=44306

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