Rockbox Scrolling

[cmoneyr]

Well, I've had an iPod since Christmas, 30gb Video iPod, and just heard about Rockbox today and installed it. Got all setup, everything works great. The only real complaint I have is that scrolling through my 5k songs is tedious at best with no acceleration, I haven't even been able to get past the "B's" without giving up from boredom. So my question is, is there a good build out there with accelerated scrolling? Or some kind of fix I may be missing? What do you guys do about this?

[mnhnhyouh]

I set up a nice filetree.

I have this sort of structure...

! Music/A-C/Ani DeFranco/(2004) Educated Guess/14 - Bubble.mp3

The ! makes sure the Music folder is at the top.

There is an accelerated scrolling patch out there, but it has yet to be incorporated into the daily builds. I am unsure as to why.

However, if you go to the Unsupported Builds sub-forum, on the Rockbox forum you will find Senab's build, which does, I think, include it.

<edit>

Just been looking, it has been commited, you find it like this,

Press Menu
General Settings
Display
Scrolling

and in there are a bunch of options

If you want to know what they all mean, I can strongly recommend the manual, which comes as a pdf or online as html, see here

http://www.rockbox.org/manual.shtml

</edit>



h

[Brownsound]

@mnhnhyouh: I had a look at that but none of the settings seem to have any affect on the scrolling, it does affect how some of the lines scroll from side to side. But i haven't noticed any others, do you use this?

[cmoneyr]

Those settings seem to be for text scrolling across the screen, but I did find a fix for my purposes. I'm using TagCache to browse my music so I did some reading and found a suitable tagnavi_custom.config to use that seperated the artists and albums Alphabetically.

#! rockbox/tagbrowser/2.0
# ^ Version header must be the first line of every file

# search sub menu
%menu_start "search" "Search by..."
"Artist" -> artist ? artist ~ "" -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album" -> album ? album ~ "" -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Title" -> title ? title ~ ""
"Filename" -> filename ? filename ~ ""
"Score" -> title = "(%3d) %s" autoscore title ? autoscore > ""

# artists sub menu
%menu_start "byartist" "Artists A-Z"
"Artist @ A" -> artist ? artist ^ "A"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ B" -> artist ? artist ^ "B"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ C" -> artist ? artist ^ "C"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ D" -> artist ? artist ^ "D"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ E" -> artist ? artist ^ "E"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ F" -> artist ? artist ^ "F"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ G" -> artist ? artist ^ "G"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ H" -> artist ? artist ^ "H"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ I" -> artist ? artist ^ "I"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ J" -> artist ? artist ^ "J"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ K" -> artist ? artist ^ "K"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ L" -> artist ? artist ^ "L"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ M" -> artist ? artist ^ "M"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ N" -> artist ? artist ^ "N"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ O" -> artist ? artist ^ "O"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ P" -> artist ? artist ^ "P"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ Q" -> artist ? artist ^ "Q"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ R" -> artist ? artist ^ "R"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ S" -> artist ? artist ^ "S"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ T" -> artist ? artist ^ "T"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ U" -> artist ? artist ^ "U"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ V" -> artist ? artist ^ "V"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ W" -> artist ? artist ^ "W"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ X" -> artist ? artist ^ "X"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ Y" -> artist ? artist ^ "Y"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Artist @ Z" -> artist ? artist ^ "Z"  -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title

# albums sub menu
%menu_start "byalbum" "Albums A-Z"
"Album @ A" -> album ? album ^ "A"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ B" -> album ? album ^ "B"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ C" -> album ? album ^ "C"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ D" -> album ? album ^ "D"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ E" -> album ? album ^ "E"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ F" -> album ? album ^ "F"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ G" -> album ? album ^ "G"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ H" -> album ? album ^ "H"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ I" -> album ? album ^ "I"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ J" -> album ? album ^ "J"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ K" -> album ? album ^ "K"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ L" -> album ? album ^ "L"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ M" -> album ? album ^ "M"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ N" -> album ? album ^ "N"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ O" -> album ? album ^ "O"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ P" -> album ? album ^ "P"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ Q" -> album ? album ^ "Q"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ R" -> album ? album ^ "R"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ S" -> album ? album ^ "S"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ T" -> album ? album ^ "T"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ U" -> album ? album ^ "U"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ V" -> album ? album ^ "V"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ W" -> album ? album ^ "W"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ X" -> album ? album ^ "X"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ Y" -> album ? album ^ "Y"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Album @ Z" -> album ? album ^ "Z"  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title

# titles sub menu
%menu_start "bytitle" "Titles A-Z"
"Title @ A" -> title ? title ^ "A"
"Title @ B" -> title ? title ^ "B"
"Title @ C" -> title ? title ^ "C"
"Title @ D" -> title ? title ^ "D"
"Title @ E" -> title ? title ^ "E"
"Title @ F" -> title ? title ^ "F"
"Title @ G" -> title ? title ^ "G"
"Title @ H" -> title ? title ^ "H"
"Title @ I" -> title ? title ^ "I"
"Title @ J" -> title ? title ^ "J"
"Title @ K" -> title ? title ^ "K"
"Title @ L" -> title ? title ^ "L"
"Title @ M" -> title ? title ^ "M"
"Title @ N" -> title ? title ^ "N"
"Title @ O" -> title ? title ^ "O"
"Title @ P" -> title ? title ^ "P"
"Title @ Q" -> title ? title ^ "Q"
"Title @ R" -> title ? title ^ "R"
"Title @ S" -> title ? title ^ "S"
"Title @ T" -> title ? title ^ "T"
"Title @ U" -> title ? title ^ "U"
"Title @ V" -> title ? title ^ "V"
"Title @ W" -> title ? title ^ "W"
"Title @ X" -> title ? title ^ "X"
"Title @ Y" -> title ? title ^ "Y"
"Title @ Z" -> title ? title ^ "Z"

# decades sub menu
%menu_start "bydecades" "Decades"
""-> artist ? year == "0"                    -> album -> title = "%02d %s" tracknum title
"sixties"   -> artist ? year >= "1960" & year < "1970" -> album -> title = "%02d %s" tracknum title
"seventies" -> artist ? year >= "1970" & year < "1980" -> album -> title = "%02d %s" tracknum title
"eighties"  -> artist ? year >= "1980" & year < "1990" -> album -> title = "%02d %s" tracknum title
"nineties"  -> artist ? year >= "1990" & year < "2000" -> album -> title = "%02d %s" tracknum title
"2000ties"  -> artist ? year >= "2000" & year < "2010" -> album -> title = "%02d %s" tracknum title

# main menu
%menu_start "main" "Browse by..."
"Artists A-Z" ==> "byartist"
"Albums A-Z" ==> "byalbum"
"Titles A-Z" ==> "bytitle"
"Genres"    -> genre    -> artist -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Decades" ==> "bydecades"
"All Artists"   -> artist   -> album  -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"All Albums"    -> album    -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Browse by Year"     -> year ? year > "1000" & year < "2008" -> artist -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Most played tracks" -> title = "(%3d) %s" playcount title %sort = "inverse" %limit = "100" ? playcount > "0"
"Never played tracks" -> artist ? playcount == "0" -> album -> title = "%02d. %s" tracknum title
"Best tracks" -> artist ? playcount > "1" & autoscore > "85" -> album -> title = "%02d. %s (%3d)" tracknum title autoscore
"List played tracks" -> title = "(%3d/%d) %s" autoscore playcount title ? playcount > "0"
"Search..." ==> "search"

# And finally set main menu as our root menu
%root_menu "main"

That's the config I used, seems to work great for me since I don't really feel like deleting all my songs from itunes and reloading them for rockbox right now. Not a fix for the slow scrolling, but makes it far more manageable.

Oh btw, this is not my config file by any means, I found it off the rockbox forums so all credit goes to whoever created it.

[mnhnhyouh]

My bad, those settings are for scrolling the information on the WPS. Sorry.

h

[Brownsound]

lol no problem mnhnhyouh, thanks cmoneyr I'll try that out now.

Edit:

Wow that sure makes things easier. One thing though, does anyone know how to add an "all tracks" option? I tried modifying it but haven't managed to get it to work. Just so it shuffles through all my other songs too. Thanks

[cmoneyr]

Brownsound:

If you go under the "All Artists" menu there should be an All Tracks option I think.