Specifications

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Cache) is enabled. Update now includes that check whether dircache has been

enabled or not.

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

Note: Unlike the Auto Update function, Update Now will update the database

regardless of whether the Directory Cache is enabled. Thus, an update using

Update now may take a long time.

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 files in dir browser setting

(Settings → General Settings → System → Limits) in order to view long lists

of tracks in the ID3 database browser.

There is no option to turn oﬀ database completely. If you do not want to use it just

do not do the initial build of the database and do not load it to RAM.

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