Topic: Rockbox status update

[petur]

Maybe some of you know we're having a Rockbox developer conference right now in Berlin (ending in about an hour I think), and I figured I'd post a status here about the recording related stuff.

The general consensus is that recording has been looked upon as not really a priority in the past, and that we will take it a bit more serious. The recording screen will get its transformation to the viewports system and then the remainder of the REP will get added in again.

Don't expect this to happen tomorrow already, but at least there will be no more internal discussion about it when somebody wants to commit it

More info on the developer conference can be found here.

And many greetings from Berlin!
Peter

[sunjan]

Good luck to you guys, T+!

[rsimms3]

Wow!  You guys are like a corporation, Steering board and everything.  That is wild.  The pictures really put into perspective how much dedication and organization there is around Rockbox.  +T Petur.  Even ordering pizza is high tech for you guys. 

[petur]

ordering pizza by showing the selection with a beamer was just a practical thing to do

I now also have an h120 for testing 

[George]

You know, all the major audio manufacturers that make portable players and recorders should hire the rockbox team...you guys are incredible.  +T

[rastasean]

The general consensus is that recording has been looked upon as not really a priority in the past, and that we will take it a bit more serious. The recording screen will get its transformation to the viewports system and then the remainder of the REP will get added in again.

Well its about time you slackers did something worthwhile. Gosh, I mean my iriver 120 can't do 96K recordings yet!
haha

just kidding.
I've only had my 120 for a couple months and I am absolutely amazed at the dedication the rockbox team has put into making software for a device 90% of the population can identify for a small portion of the population (tapers).

Keep up the great work!

[blastroknow]

I thought I would chime in some thanks for the work on Rockbox and Petur's exceptional taste in beer as well.  I scanned through some of the conference highlights {glad to see so many devs with Iriver H1X0 devices!} but I didn't see any iphones.  Are you guys going to do a Rockbox app you could sell?  I would pay for flac playback on an iphone.  I suppose that wouldn't be in the spirit of open source, though.  I never got to play with the REP in previous versions so I'm looking forward to seeing those features in future builds.

Either way thanks to all you devs for the hard work us regular folk around the globe can enjoy.

[Scooter]

just throwing in my thanks to Petur and the rockbox guys!!

[petur]

I thought I would chime in some thanks for the work on Rockbox and Petur's exceptional taste in beer as well.  I scanned through some of the conference highlights {glad to see so many devs with Iriver H1X0 devices!} but I didn't see any iphones.  Are you guys going to do a Rockbox app you could sell?  I would pay for flac playback on an iphone.  I suppose that wouldn't be in the spirit of open source, though.  I never got to play with the REP in previous versions so I'm looking forward to seeing those features in future builds.

We have a GSoC (google summer of code) project running to create a 'Rockbox as an application' build. I don't know about iphones, but it will run on certain smartphones.

[petur]

Status Update:

I just committed a first redesign of the recording screen. It now uses the user font and is split between a fixed top part and a list below.
This means bigger fonts and peakmeters

To try it, just install the 'current build'.

Comments, suggestions,... are welcome

[rsimms3]

I loaded it onto my h120 and found the gain controls all wacky.  They aren't fluid.  It would jump like 5db up or down, then go in incriments of .5 fluid, then jump like 10db again.  I will visit the Rockbox site for more info on this build and how to make the peak meters bigger.  I am still using an old REP build from Oct. last year which has yet to fail me and don't see a whole lot of reason to upgrade. 

[Chuck]

Great news, petur! Great news about the REP being incorporated too. Thank you, so much petur! The Rockbox developers are incredible. +T's on this thread!

[petur]

I loaded it onto my h120 and found the gain controls all wacky.  They aren't fluid.  It would jump like 5db up or down, then go in incriments of .5 fluid, then jump like 10db again.  I will visit the Rockbox site for more info on this build and how to make the peak meters bigger.  I am still using an old REP build from Oct. last year which has yet to fail me and don't see a whole lot of reason to upgrade. 

The peakmeters now have the same height as the font, so if you increase the font size, they will grow as well. I'm still looking at a way to make the peakmeters variable height, partly because I already got one complaint that they are too big now Can't please everybody it seems

Regarding the gain change: I'll have to test this on my h120, it works quite as it should on my h320

[batchain]

I loaded it onto my h120 and found the gain controls all wacky.  They aren't fluid.  It would jump like 5db up or down, then go in incriments of .5 fluid, then jump like 10db again.  I will visit the Rockbox site for more info on this build and how to make the peak meters bigger.  I am still using an old REP build from Oct. last year which has yet to fail me and don't see a whole lot of reason to upgrade. 

The peakmeters now have the same height as the font, so if you increase the font size, they will grow as well. I'm still looking at a way to make the peakmeters variable height, partly because I already got one complaint that they are too big now Can't please everybody it seems

Regarding the gain change: I'll have to test this on my h120, it works quite as it should on my h320

From time to time I still use my H320 for recording so I'm am thrilled to finally see the system fonts you set show up on the Recording Screen. Thanks petur!

[petur]

I loaded it onto my h120 and found the gain controls all wacky.  They aren't fluid.  It would jump like 5db up or down, then go in incriments of .5 fluid, then jump like 10db again.

Just tried on my h120 and I can't reproduce this. Are you keeping the joystick left/right or nudging it for each increment?
For some reason the gain doesn't update if you keep it pressed too long - it only updates again when you release. If that is your problem, I'm checking it