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Ignoring Directories During Database Initialization

You may have directories on your player whose contents should not be added to the

database. Placing a ﬁle named database.ignore in a directory will exclude the ﬁles in

that directory and all its subdirectories from scanning their tags and adding them to the

database. This will speed up the database initialization.

If a subdirectory of an ‘ignored’ directory should still be scanned, place a ﬁle named

database.unignore in it. The ﬁles in that directory and its subdirectories will be

scanned and added to the database.

4.2.3. The Database Menu

Auto Update If Auto update is set to on, each time the player boots, the database

will automatically be updated.

Initialize Now You can force Rockbox to rescan your disk for tagged ﬁles by using the

Initialize Now function in the Database Menu.

Warning: Initialize Now removes all database ﬁles (removing runtimedb data

also) and rebuilds the database from scratch.

Update Now Update now causes the database to detect new and deleted ﬁles Unlike

Initialize Now, the Update Now function does not remove runtime database

information.

Gather Runtime Data When enabled, rockbox will record how often and how long a

track is being played, when it was last played and its rating. This information can

be displayed in the WPS and is used in the database browser to, for example, show

the most played, unplayed and most recently played tracks.

Export Modiﬁcations This allows for the runtime data to be exported to the ﬁle

/.rockbox/database_changelog.txt, which backs up the runtime data in ASCII

format. This is needed when database structures change, because new code cannot

read old database code. But, all modiﬁcations exported to ASCII format should

be readable by all database versions.

Import Modiﬁcations. Allows the /.rockbox/database_changelog.txt backup to be

conveniently loaded into the database. If Auto Update is enabled this is per-

formed automatically when the database is initialized.

4.2.4. Using the Database

Once the database has been initialized, you can browse your music by Artist, Al-

bum, Genre, Song Name, etc. To use the database, go to the Main Menu and select

Database.

Note: You may need to increase the value of the Max Entries in File Browser

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