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ROCKBOX "HOLD" FEATURE

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EJECTING REMOVEABLE DRIVES

What you do best is, under properties of the drive in windows in the device manager, while drive connected, turn off write cache und yu wont need to eject anything anymore. Just pull the cable. Of course, not while doing copy operations ;)

TALKING ROCKBOX

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:01:34 -0400
Subject: RE: Jukebox Recorder 20

Hi.

To activate the talking menus on the Archos, you first need to download the daily build of rockbox. This is not the stable version 2.2, but a later build, and is available at

http://rockbox.haxx.se/daily.shtml

Make sure to download the build for your unit, whether Player, Recorder, FM Recorder, or Recorder V2. Then install it as you would any other version of rockbox. Extract the .zip file to the root directory of your archos. You should now have a .rockbox directory in the root directory of your unit. Make sure that you have a file called archos.mod file (player), or ajbrec.ajz (recorders), in the root of your archos. This file is the actual firmware file. The .rockbox directory contains plug-ins and configuration information. Now download the english.voice file from

http://joerg.hohensohn.bei.t-online.de/archos/speech/voicefont/

The voice file is either crystal.zip or mary.zip. Crystal.zip is the AT&T voice Crystal speaking the prompts, while Mary.zip is Microsoft's Mary voice speaking. The Crystal voice is natural but sometimes mispronounces things, the Mary voice is robotic but has good pronunciation.

Make a langs directory (if such a directory doesn't exist already), inside the .rockbox directory on your archos and put the english.voice file into that. That is, the path to the english.voice file should be

j:/.rockbox/langs/english.voice

Assuming your archos is assigned drive letter J. Now disconnect your archos as usual, turn it on, and hit menu. You should have talking menus.

Now, you'll need to get your directories and file numbers spoken or spelled.

There are three ways to get the directories talking. You can have them announced by number (folder 1, folder 2, etc), have them spelled audibly, (M U S I C), or have them announced through recorded clips. To have them announced by number or spelled, simply change the setting in menu />general settings/> voice. There's an option called "voice directories". You can set it to off, numbers, spell, on enter, or while hovering. The last two options relate to voice clips, but the first three don't need voice clips.

If you want your directory names spoken as words, rather than spelled or given numbers, you need to know that rockbox doesn't have any TTS capabilities. It wants to see a file called

.dirname.tbx

in the folder. That .dirname file contains the name of the folder in MP3 format. One of the rockbox programmers has released a script to create these .dirname.tbx files automatically see

http://rockbox.haxx.se/mail/archive/rockbox-archive-2004-03/1349.shtml

to get that script and

http://www.mp3-tech.org/software/encoders/lamewin32.exe

to get the lame executable which it requires. Install lame, copy lame.exe and the mp3clipgen.vbs script you get from the first link above to the same directory, then run the mp3clipgen.vbs script. You will be asked to enter the folder where all your music is stored. Enter the path to your jukebox (make sure it's connected). That is, if your jukebox is drive letter J:, enter

j: and hit enter. The script should, in a few minutes, give you a success message.

Disconnect the jukebox and reboot it as usual. You'll need to set the voice directories option alluded above to while hovering or on enter, depending on whether you want your directories spoken when you enter them with play or right arrow, or as you hover over them.

To get names or numbers spelled or spoken for your files, you need only set the "voice files" option in the voice submenu of the general settings submenu off the main menu to either spell or numbers. Your files, as you go through them with the arrows, will either have their names spelled or numbers spoken for them.

HTH Aman