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6 FEATURES WE WILL NOT IMPLEMENT
This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do. View it
as the opposite of a TODO!
Record to WAV (uncompressed) or MP3pro format!
The recording hardware (the MAS) does not allow us to do this
Crossfade between tracks!
Crossfading would require two mp3 decoders, and we only have one. This is not
possible.
Interfacing with other USB devices (like cameras) or 2 player games over USB
The USB system demands that there is a master that talks to a slave. The Jukebox
can only serve as a slave, as most other USB devices such as cameras can. Thus,
without a master no communication between the slaves can take place.
If that is not enough, we have no ways of actually controlling the communication
performed over USB since the USB circuit in the Jukebox is strictly made for disk-
access and does not allow us to play with it the way we'd need for any good
communication to work.
Support MP3pro, WMA or other sound format playback!
The mp3-decoding hardware can only play MP3. We cannot make it play other
sound formats.
Converting OGG->MP3
The mp3-decoding hardware cannot decode ogg. It can be reprogrammed, but
there is too little memory for OGG and we have no documentation on how to
program the MAS' DSP.
Doing the conversion with the CPU is impossible, since a 12MHz SH1 is far too slow
for this daunting task.
Archos Multimedia support!
The Archos Multimedia is a completely different beast. It is an entirely different
architecture, different CPU and upgrading the software is done a completely
different way. We do not venture into this.
Others may do so. We do not.
Multi-band (or graphic) equalizer!
We cannot access information for that kind of visualization from the MP3 decoding
hardware.
Support other filesystems than FAT32 (like NTFS or ext2 or whatever)!
No. Rockbox needs to support FAT32 since it can only start off a FAT32 partition
(since that is the only way the ROM can load it), and adding support for more file
systems will just take away valuable ram for unnecessary features.
You can partition your Jukebox fine, just make sure the first one is FAT32 and then
make the other ones whatever file system you want. Just don't expect Rockbox to
understand them.
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