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Rockbox Changelog

What's new in Rockbox 3.14

May 2, 2017
  • Supported devices:
  • Ipod Nano 2G is restored to stable following USB improvements.
  • Sansa Fuze+ is now stable
  • Sony NWZ E360/E370/E380 are now stable
  • Creative Zen Mozaic, Zen X-Fi, Zen X-Fi 3 and Zen X-Fi Style are now stable
  • Samsung YH-820, YH-920 and YH-925 are now stable
  • Philips GoGear? SA9200, GoGear? HDD16x0 and HDD63x0 are now stable
  • Core:
  • Improved file system and database performance
  • Configurable screen lock and backlight options
  • Battery life on AMS v2 devices (Sansa Clip v2, Clip+, Clip Zip, and Fuze v2) is approximately doubled
  • Greatly improved USB support on the Ipod Nano 2G, Ipod Classic, Sansa Clip v2, Clip+, Clip Zip, and Fuze v2
  • New higher quality volume compressor DSP with configurable attack time
  • Improved support for older iPod accessories
  • Improved touchscreen lock on touch targets and devices and enabled locking from FM radio on all devices
  • Enabled configuring the master sampling rate to either 44.1k or 48k
  • New high quality resampler based on Hermite polynomials
  • Fixed memory corruption with radio album art
  • Improved video playback on iPod 6G
  • Support for recording and limited accessories on the iPod 6G
  • New DSP effects including Haas effect surround sound, perceptual bass enhancement, and fatigue reduction
  • Codecs:
  • Add support for album art in FLAC files
  • Improved parsing, seeking and performance when decoding Opus files
  • Improved performance decoding SPC files on ARMv5(+)
  • Improved parsing of mp3 files with mis-formatted album art
  • Improved parsing of very long mp3 and WMA files
  • Improved support for VGM files
  • Plugins:
  • New 2048 game
  • New periodic table plugin
  • New "xworld" interpreter for the game "Another World"
  • Improved metronome plugin
  • Add a "ghost piece" in rockblox for some targets
  • New port of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
  • New rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) speed-reading plugin (speedread)
  • New one-time password manager plugin

New in Rockbox 3.13 (Mar 9, 2013)

  • Supported devices:
  • The Sansa Clip Zip is now a supported device
  • Unfortunately some serious issues with USB support forced us to downgrade the Ipod Nano 2g to unstable, so it isn't included in the 3.13 release. We hope to add it back in a future update. For now 3.10 is available, or there is the option of using a development build.
  • Core:
  • Fix cache handling on portalplayer devices and re-enable ATA DMA leading to improved disk performance
  • Improved keymap on the radio screen for the Clip series of players
  • Expanded EQ to 10 fully parametric bands with new presets
  • Deleting files in the active playlist now works as expected
  • Codecs:
  • Add support for playing Opus files
  • Add support for 16 bit floating point WAV files
  • Fix some glitches when stopping and restarting WMA files
  • Plugins:
  • Add support for viewing GIF files
  • New math functions in the calculator plugin

New in Rockbox 3.12 (Oct 18, 2012)

  • Supported devices:
  • Unfortunately some serious issues with USB support forced us to downgrade the Ipod Nano 2g to unstable, so it isn't included in the 3.12 release. We hope to add it back in a future update. For now 3.10 is available, or there is the option of using a development build.
  • Core:
  • Bookmark enhancements - G#177
  • Ability to display the shortcuts menu instead of the quickscreen - G#199
  • Sleep timer enhancements - G#201
  • New crossfeed algorithm: Meier crossfeed
  • Enhance playlist handling on removable media - G#270
  • GUI to select which directories are scanned into the database.
  • Support for cp1252 ("WinLatin") default codepage - G#209
  • Fix memory corruption when loading some themes - FS#12639
  • Codecs:
  • Fix click sound when seeking in WMA Standard files

New in Rockbox 3.11 (Apr 4, 2012)

  • Supported devices:
  • The Sansa c200v2 series is now stable
  • Unfortunately some serious issues forced us to downgrade the Ipod Nano 2g to unstable, so it isn't included in the 3.11 release. We hope to add it back in a future update.
  • Core:
  • Allow customisation of the main menu (see Advanced Topics section of the manual)
  • Sansa Clip (+,Zip) players can now return to WPS using the Home key FS#12288
  • Initial RDS support for Si4701/Si4703 tuner (clip zip) FS#12370
  • USB enabled on Sansa AMSv2
  • iPod hardware clicker FS#5111
  • User shortcuts in the main menu FS#12251
  • Implemented GUI boost (timed out CPU boost during scroll activity) for a more responsive GUI. For now on scroll wheel targets only. FS#8668
  • List icons and theme images can now have alpha information embedded, i.e. be transparent, using 32bit ARGB bitmaps. This removes the need for the magic magenta (#FF00FF) transparency, but this is still supported.
  • List icons can now be arbitrarily sized, removing the old 24x24 limitation, and saving RAM for the default 12x12 icons.
  • Codecs:
  • Support multichannel flacs including downmixing to stereo FS#12443, FS#12371
  • Plugins:
  • The rocklife plugin has been moved from games to demos. After upgrading you can safely delete .rockbox/rocks/games/rocklife.rock

New in Rockbox 3.10 (Dec 12, 2011)

  • Core:
  • Add a setting to "hide" the internal drive on devices with software USB and a card slot, to improve compatibility with e.g. some car audio systems that can only access the first drive.
  • Backdrops and theme images (fonts followed on 2011-09-24) are now dynamically allocated, making up substantial RAM savings.
  • All lists can now be drawn using the skin engine to give themers much more control of the whole look (and feel) of the UI.
  • Revamp on disk playlist managment, make the catalog more useable.
  • Fully-functional audio mixer enabling independent, stereo audio channels.
  • Codecs:
  • Add support for the new game music formats AY, GBS, HES, KSS, SGC, VGM and VGZ (FS#12176).
  • Add support for embedded album art with ASF tags (FS#12218).
  • Add support for embedded album art with APEv2 tags (FS#12196).
  • Performance optimizations for Ogg/Vorbis decoding.

New in Rockbox 3.9 (Jun 29, 2011)

  • Core:
  • Major rework of playback engine (FS#12069)
  • Rework WM8758 configuration to reduce popping during statrtup and optimize THD and SNR (FS#12154)
  • Fix issues with iPod nano 2G displays caused by too low voltage supply. (FS#11911)
  • Significant SD card compatibility improvements on AMSv2, particularly for devices with the newer SD controller variant (FS#11870)
  • Add support for embedded album art in MP4/M4A files (FS#12009)
  • Line-in recording on the MPIO HD300
  • Support for nice looking anti-aliased fonts added (FS#8961)
  • A new translation, US English, has been added, as well as updates to many other languages. Rockbox 3.9 is released fully translated to 6 languages and with 22 additional languages at more than 95% completed.
  • Keymap: Holding any button during USB insert now forces charge mode
  • Allow a short rewind when playback is paused (FS#11931)
  • Logical-OR for tagnavi_custom.config, allowing more powerful song-database queries (FS#12095)
  • Remove track-number generation heuristic from database (FS#12107)
  • Codecs:
  • Implement more robust MPEG header parsing for better playability of mp1/2/3 files (FS#12007)
  • Performance optimizations for several audio codecs. (FS#11268, FS#12113, FS#12115, FS#12117)
  • Optimize tremor for faster decoding of ogg/vorbis on tagets with no special iram buffer. (FS#11268)
  • Major rework of m4a parser to reduce memory consumption and enhance playability on low memory targets (FS#8923)

New in Rockbox 3.8 (Mar 3, 2011)

  • Core:
  • Added support for embedded album art (currently limited to mp3/id3v2 and jpeg)
  • Upgraded Coldfire compiler giving an overall speedup on Coldfire based targets (iaudio m3/m5/x5, iriver h100/h300, mpio hd200/hd300).
  • LCD speedup for the iPod nano 1G and iPod Photo/Color port (FS#11843)
  • Major LCD speedup for the iPod nano 2G port (FS#11807)
  • Automatic resume of incompletely played tracks (FS#11748)
  • Playback supports all samples rates on iPod nano 2G.
  • Implement LCD sleep and core voltage scaling for iPod nano 2G to improve battery runtime.
  • New 20 pixels high font '20-Artwiz-Snap' (FS#9633)
  • Make iPod fm remote work on iPod nano 1G by enabling line-in monitoring, also enabled on iPod nano 2G, Color and 4G (FS#11559).
  • Two new translations, Croatian (FS#11884) and Latvian (FS#11967) have been added, as well as updates to many other languages. Rockbox 3.8 is released fully translated to 16 languages and with 10 additional languages more than 95% completed.
  • Plugins:
  • Pong plugin now supports single-player mode, with the CPU controlling the opponent (FS#5855)
  • New MikMod based module player plugin.
  • All image viewers have been merged into a Universal Image Viewer.
  • MPEG video playlist (FS#8607)
  • Codecs:
  • Optimize ATRAC3 substantially for ARMv5E? and ARMv6 targets.
  • Optimize Ogg Vorbis.
  • Optimize Wavpack on Coldfire.
  • Optimize AAC+ on ARM targets.
  • Optimize MP3 on all ARM9 and later targets.
  • Small optimizations to many codecs (AAC, MP3, WMA, APE, MPC, etc) on ARMv6 targets.
  • Support decoding flac files with 192k sample rate.
  • Fix a number of issues decoding AAC-HE files
  • Fix crashes decoding APE files.
  • Fix several issues decoding AAC and ALAC files due to bugs in the MP4 parser.
  • Fix encoding mono and low sample rate files with the MP3 encoder

New in Rockbox 3.7 (Nov 2, 2010)

  • Core:
  • New skin format requiring all skins to be updated, see SkinBreakingChange for details.
  • Sansa Clip v1 and v2, Clip+, Fuze v2 and Ipod Nano 2g are now stable release targets.
  • Sansa Fuze v1 and E200 v2 now have usb support enabled.
  • Ipod Video 32MB and 64MB builds are now merged into one unified build.
  • Ipod 4g through 5.5g, Ipod Mini and Ipod Nano 1g now have usb support enabled and can charge via usb.
  • The "Charge during USB connection" option now has a "force" setting.
  • Backlight brightness setting for Ipod 4g/Color/Photo.
  • Wheel acceleration and repeats for Ipod 1g-3g and Ipod Mini 1g.
  • New "Update on stop" setting for bookmarks.
  • Line out support for Fuzev1 and e200v2
  • Updated ARM compiler and switched to EABI resulting in large memory savings on some targets
  • Greatly improved pitch accuracy on Sansa e200v2, Fuze, Clip and Clip+
  • Increase maximum volume on the Fuze v2, Clip v2 and Clip+ to maximum allowed by the hardware
  • Plugins:
  • New lrcplayer plugin.
  • New shopping list plugin --- shopper.
  • New Resistor code calculator plugin.
  • Sudoku plugin now saves the scratchpad state.
  • Game sounds in Pacbox.
  • Improvements and optimizations for PDbox.
  • test_codec now properly benchmarks on all targets, not just those with > 16MB of RAM.
  • Codecs:
  • Support for WMA Pro codec.
  • Optimizations for FLAC, MP3, Vorbis, AAC-LC, AAC-HE, TTA, Cook, Atrac3 and WMA.

New in Rockbox 3.6 (Jun 4, 2010)

  • Core:
  • Packard Bell Vibe 500 is now a release target.
  • Upgraded/replaced hard disks are now supported on all disk-based players (except Archos). Drives over 137GB and drives with large physical sectors are both supported.
  • Skin support in the radio screen
  • Rewind before resume option added
  • Bookmarks now store pitch and speed info.
  • Hotkey support
  • Histogram in recording screen. Only iriver h1x0/h3x0 for now.
  • Multifont support.
  • Plugins:
  • New features in the text viewer plugin: global settings, per-file settings, header and footer, font selection, multiple bookmarks
  • FFT - a frequency analyzer plugin.
  • New Alarm Clock plugin.
  • Codecs:
  • Support for Musepack SV8. Integration of decoder library v1.3.0.
  • Support True Audio codec.
  • Support Sun Audio codec, Vox(Dialogic telephony formats), and Wave64 codecs.
  • Support SMAF codec.
  • Support for Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Yamaha and other's ADPCM in WAV/AIFF
  • New iMDCT library that improves battery life while playing Ogg Vorbis, WMA, AAC, ATRAC3, Cook, and AC3
  • Rockbox now supports playback of ATRAC3 audio in WAV/AT3 containers.
  • ATRAC3 playback is realtime on ARM and Coldfire targets.
  • Rockbox now supports playback of ATRAC3 audio in Sony OMA container.
  • Support for floating point PCM in WAV and AIFF.

New in Rockbox 3.5.1 (Mar 7, 2010)

  • Rockbox 3.5.1 fixes a bug that causes playback to pause for about a second every now and then while rebuffering. See FS#10919 - playback pause on rebuffer for details.
  • If you do not encounter this bug, then there is no reason to upgrade from 3.5; there are no other changes

New in Rockbox 3.1 (Dec 24, 2008)

  • The MP3 decoder was optimized, giving longer runtime on dual-core targets.
  • A bitmap scaler was added, meaning that album art no longer has to be prescaled to the right size.
  • A configurable quickscreen, backlight fading, and a calendar plugin were added.
  • The WPS syntax was updated.
  • Many bugs were fixed.

New in Rockbox 3.0 (Oct 2, 2008)

  • Lots of new targets, lots of new codecs, and loads of new features were added.