Re: Archos is dead; Long live Archos

2020-07-24 Thread John DeArmond via rockbox-dev
days of battery life. BTW, I have  a factory-new, complete with seal, Jukebox that I've decided to sell.  When I buy something I really like, I go right back and buy a 2nd one just in case.  The Jukebox with my mods is so rugged that I never needed it.  So now someone else can enjoy the Joys of the Jukebox :-)  Asking $70. John

Re: Straw poll on wiki replacement

2020-06-28 Thread John DeArmond via rockbox-dev
ckBox, anything posted to the site must be proctored to scrape off the errors.  Letting just anyone make edits is the path to as sorry a product rife with errors as wikipedia. John

Re: Rockbox hosting

2019-10-22 Thread John DeArmond via rockbox-dev
he sources.  I'm not sure about a one click file storage package but if one is not available, one can shove one over using SFTP, modify it as needed and bring it online. Tech support is superb.  Never had a problem we didn't get fixed promptly. John

Re: Multiboot Bootloaders

2017-10-09 Thread john via rockbox-dev
from their sd card As I own at least one Sansa with defect flash I appreciate this very much. cu John

Re: iriver H320 freeze after ATA power down

2016-12-09 Thread John via rockbox-dev
Hi Felix > The only detail that I don't remember exactly whether I had this > sleep-and-never-wake problem only with the original firmware. With the H320 that's easy to answer: The original firmware doesn't even boot with CF. cu John

Re: Informal poll, change to git?

2011-05-31 Thread John Morris
the choice of Subversion or Mercurial, for example. I have no issue with any of the well known DVCS's, but what's does Rockbox gain by switching? Subversion seems to be working just fine right now, and a change would take a lot of work by somebody. Regards, John.

Re: FS#11931 - Do a short rewind when playback is paused

2011-05-09 Thread John Morris
(pressing the pause button), but added it at Sideral's suggestion. It works better than I anticipated: listening to an audio book while doing household chores and my wife asks me something, the rewind recovers the gap between removing the 'phones and pressing pause. John Morris

Re: Crossfade options

2009-11-24 Thread john
nger fading, I would switch to "Auto track change only". Thinking of that another thing comes too mind: Different fading setting for every kind of skip. For example, auto skip would do a longer fade than manual skip. Just brainstorming, seems like overkill too me. Thanks again John

Re: Crossfade options

2009-11-20 Thread john
faded manual skips. I don't foresee any objections to this, > but I thought I'd ask. This opens up another possibility: If you eliminate the unneccessary delay, maybe I would use the "Always" option again. No need to predict this deeper now, however. But you see: You solved one ugly behaviour in two possible ways. Yeah, and they can be combined, too. Thanks. cu John

Re: SD Card BUS royalties on a new hardware

2009-04-10 Thread john cooper
oSD socket will add less than US$1 to the BOM cost. The PCB footprint even including mounted card isn't much greater than a 56 pin TSSOP flash part yet provides the trivial upgrade/replacement option as above. -john -- john.coo...@third-harmonic.com

Re: SD Card BUS royalties on a new hardware

2009-04-10 Thread john cooper
ce point. SMD packaged surface mount SD devices as well exist. So in the case your widget is supporting an external user accessible SD media slot, a scheme will already exist to communicate with SD. Adding on-board SD would therefore pose no added interface requirements on the system. -john -- john.coo...@third-harmonic.com

Re: need to pay royalties for using USB on a new hardware?

2009-04-10 Thread john cooper
VID. -john -- john.coo...@third-harmonic.com

Re: [OT]: Replacing drive in iHP-140

2008-01-25 Thread john
> Speaking of which, any news on the ZIF adapters? Ordered, first samples should arrive next week. cu John

Re: IDE to ZIF adapter available, Iriver with 80GB MK8009GAH

2008-01-05 Thread john
hd sectors. But doesn't that mean that the USB mass storage drivers of all operating systems must also support the special 1k boundary of the MK8009GAH? Or do they do already? I guess this issue already has come up with the ipod 5.5, but I could not find any information about it. cu John

Re: IDE to ZIF adapter available, Iriver with 80GB MK8009GAH

2008-01-04 Thread john
ort the MK8009GAH in the future. cu John

IDE to ZIF adapter available, Iriver with 80GB MK8009GAH

2008-01-04 Thread john
nger try to develop one by myself. Secondly I would like to integrate the special 1k boundary adressing of the MK8009GAH drive into all platforms, that have a PATA connector (IDE and ZIF). Anybody wanting to help, as I did only very small patches in the rockbox firmware before? cu John

Re: Strong Cryptography

2007-11-22 Thread Neon John
a corresponding program for host computers were also available. On-the-fly encryption would be ideal but I could live with post-recording encryption as long as the encryption over-wrote the "plain text" audio sectors. John -- John De Armond See my website for my current email address

Re: Iriver with 160GB drive

2007-10-30 Thread john
shops and forums and might be highly inaccurate. But it looks like there is currently no drive on the market with 160GB that will work in an iriver. But maybe the H120 can be upgraded to 80GB. cu John

Re: Iriver with 160GB drive

2007-10-30 Thread john
uros or about $100 in the US with more or less unlimited stock, prices falling. cu John

Re: Iriver with 160GB drive

2007-10-30 Thread john
rives, no such drive seem to exist beyond 60GB. cu John

Re: Iriver with 160GB drive

2007-10-30 Thread john
am not capable of programming that. cu John

Re: Iriver with 160GB drive

2007-10-30 Thread john
Hi * Linus Nielsen Feltzing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [071030 11:41]: > john wrote: > >I wonder if just plugging a 80GB drive into an Iriver might work. I > >guess, the boot loader of the IPOD has been patched for the 80GB > >drive. But what about the boot loader for the

Iriver with 160GB drive

2007-10-30 Thread john
ns me up, what does work and what needs to be done, until I order and adapt an 160GB drive. Someone willing to help within the software department? Thanks John

Re: Rockbox 2.5.1 for Archos Machines Updated

2007-01-05 Thread Neon John
On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:43:53 +1300, Tom Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:57:31 -0500, Neon John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Now if you'd just give me a one-key keyboard lock Say, a >>long push of F3 or something like th

Re: Rockbox 2.5.1 for Archos Machines Updated

2007-01-05 Thread Neon John
Tom, I've used your version since it came out and like it a lot. Especially the non-persistent function key menus. Glad you're doing this. Now if you'd just give me a one-key keyboard lock Say, a long push of F3 or something like that. John On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:05:42

Re: Volume control in the digital domain

2006-11-10 Thread john
ad a short look at it and saw that the work is already done. Rockbox really means big fun. cu John

Re: Volume control in the digital domain

2006-11-10 Thread john
. Multiplying every pcm sample by a factor based on volume and replaygain, just before it is stuffed into the pcm buffer. Would someone please direct me to the relavant code parts? Thanks. cu John

Volume control in the digital domain

2006-10-15 Thread john
additional computing power. But for various setups the advantage would be great, if the player is connect via digital link to an external amplifier.And the quality penalty should not be audible when this feature is used reasonably. thanks, John

Re: Option rework (was: Re: my next crazy idea... rework the menu system)

2006-08-24 Thread john
ion a unique ID (numeric or by name) and just read the menu tree from harddisk, so every user can arrange this at will. Then, I`m sure, in a few month some smartass will write a patch, that tracks menu action and rearranges the tree dynamically based on user behaviour. And I will love it. :-) cu John

AC3 pass through

2006-07-24 Thread john
the digital link. Of course most useful for 5.1 stuff, as I doubt, that an external amplifier with mp3 decoder exists. And even if it would exist it would run an propietary protocol. wouldn`t it, sigh? cu John

Replaygain: New beta version of unix tagger

2006-05-31 Thread john
erge this, so you would practically lose the artist information. Thanks for all comments and improvements, John replaygain_tag.sh Description: Bourne shell script replaygain_tag_recursive.sh Description: Bourne shell script replaygain_functions.sh Description: Bourne shell script

Re: Replaygain: Creating tags the easy way

2006-05-23 Thread john
n by mp3gain are useless for rockbox and you have adjusted loudness ones and forever, so you cannot switch between track-, album- and no-gain on the fly, without manipulating the file again via mp3gain. cu, John

Replaygain: Creating tags the easy way

2006-05-21 Thread john
t pop music in a playlist and listen to full albums as an entity the other day? Is just everyone using foobar2000? I hope someone can give me a hint, whether I should go ahead and extend mp3gain or if I did just miss the required rockbox companion program. Thanks for your answers, have a nice day, John

Re: feature request: battery cycle counter

2006-05-09 Thread Neon John
On Sat, 6 May 2006 10:39:28 +0200, "Manuel Dejonghe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 5/6/06, Neon John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I presently group my NiMH batteries into sets of 4, each with a serial >> number and unique color code, somewhat like resistor

feature request: battery cycle counter

2006-05-05 Thread Neon John
ycles on a pack in a year. Such a feature would make keeping up with the pack lives much easier. Thanks, John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.johngsbbq.com Cleveland, Occupied TN Don't let your schooling interfere with your education-Mark Twain

Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-18 Thread Neon John
out. After 2 years that wore both sides out, we settled out of court. The settlement is confidential but I can say that I was neither harmed nor made rich. This was a case where they came into our offices, baited us to the conference room, then held us captive while they stole the equipment out of

Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-18 Thread Neon John
game and the markedly inferior implementation called "Bejewled" marketed by PopCapGames." If you're going to have a disclaimer, might as well make it absolutely truthful. :-) John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.johngsbbq.com Cleveland, O

Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-18 Thread Neon John
anyone gripes is the sure way to have to be constantly responding to every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes along. Just say NO. John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.johngsbbq.com Cleveland, Occupied TN Don't let your schooling interfere with your education-Mark Twain

Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-18 Thread Neon John
letely different. The only thing in common between these two is the underlying theme of the game and that isn't copyrightable. This is the perfect opportunity to draw a hard line in the sand. No changes, no disclaimers, no nothing. Leave it like it is and send this guy packing. John --- Joh

Re: Fwd: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Neon John
p the reflexive caving-in to every Tom, Dick and Harry that screams "infringement" and send this guy packing. John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.johngsbbq.com Cleveland, Occupied TN A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

mp3_encoder.c does not compile with cygwin

2006-04-06 Thread john
; } Under *nix ^M are ignored, so most probably no problem there. Stripping the file for example with # sed "s/Finest Music Player Firmware//g" mp3_encoder.c >mp3_encoder.c.okay will fix that issues and the result cleanly compiles. cu John P.S.: Anyone may fix that giving credit to whoever she wishes. ;-)

Re: h120 weirdness

2006-04-06 Thread john
browser, giving you the illusion of an empty drive. In that case: Just click and hold A-B to check. > I really have a feeling I could have installed any version and fixed > the problem. Me too, but I really do not know, if updating the firmware resets this configuration option. cu John

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-10 Thread Neon John
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:23:41 -0500, "Michael E. DiFebbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Neon John wrote: >> When one spends months in daily contact >> with lawyers one tends to get a good education on the subject matter >> at hand. >> >> O

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-10 Thread Neon John
. OK, you can go back to playing internet.lawyer now. John On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:17:15 -0500, "Michael E. DiFebbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Neon John wrote: >> But I repeat, this is all an irrelevant tempest in a teapot since the >> ONLY thing the maintainers

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-09 Thread Neon John
ove the infringing code. Period. I don't expect them to change their positions because now pride is involved. What I do hope happens is that future contributors want to remain anonymous will simply use fake names and be done with it. John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.johngsbbq.com Cleveland, Occupied TN A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-09 Thread Neon John
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:38:56 +0100, Andreas Stemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Neon John wrote: >> I have a number of reasons why I don't want my real name associated >> with software. The major one being that since I live in the Lawyer's >> Paradise, I

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-09 Thread Neon John
edit. I have a long and successful career in business and that is more than enough. John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.johngsbbq.com Cleveland, Occupied TN A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-09 Thread Neon John
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:01:25 +0100, Tomas Salfischberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >Neon John wrote: > >>Even though I use my real name in places like this I don't think I'd want it >>plastered all over the net in software. >> >>

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Neon John
y list. I debate with myself at least once a week whether to set up a dev environment and do the things I want done. What brings me back to rationality is that I don't want to have to maintain a separate code fork indefinitely. I think that you guys need to take a serious re-think on this se

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Neon John
but in this case since the goal is noble and there is no harm to be done, do it. John On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:58:23 -, "gl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the project >leaders are not willing to accept c

Re: The Rockbox International Developers Conference 2006

2006-02-17 Thread Neon John
Hey, if y'all want to move the conference to Cleveland, TN, I'll donate the BBQ and other fixins. :-) John On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:19:14 +0100 (CET), Daniel Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > >> We thought we'd g

Re: IPod video?

2006-02-01 Thread john
t least I noticed there was a meeting with the rockbox developers. cu, John

Re: IPod video?

2006-02-01 Thread john
Hi! > undocumented propriority chip proprietary? cu, John

Re: Putting the user in the loop (Was Re: len0x: apps settings.c, 1.310, 1.311)

2005-11-04 Thread Neon John
is is a common development tool for desktop software. One could quickly compile statistics as to which key sequences are used the most and then UI changes made to cut down on the strokes of the most frequently used commands. John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.johngsbbq.com Cleveland, Occupied TN