{"id":494,"date":"2008-12-24T00:06:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2008-12-24T00:06:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:06:36","slug":"rockbox-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/12\/24\/rockbox-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockbox 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After three months of work since the last release, we manage to keep the schedule and ship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/download\/\"><strong>Rockbox 3.1<\/strong><\/a>. The list of news since 3.0 include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A bitmap scaler was added to Rockbox, which means that album art no longer has to be pre-scaled to the correct dimensions on your computer. See <a class=\"twikiLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/twiki\/bin\/view\/Main\/AlbumArt\">AlbumArt<\/a> for more information.<\/li>\n<li> The calendar plugin which has existed for the Archos units for a long time is now available on all devices equipped with a clock.<\/li>\n<li> The spacerocks plugin which was removed from version 3.0 due to a major bug has been brought back.<\/li>\n<li> Optimised MP3 decoder on dual-core targets, giving several more hours of battery life in most situations.<\/li>\n<li> Optimizations for AAC and APE decoding<\/li>\n<li> Backlight fading is now available on most targets.<\/li>\n<li> When recording in mono, you can now chose between recording the left or right channel, or a mix of both.<\/li>\n<li> It is now possible to configure which items are shown in the Quick Screen.<\/li>\n<li> Several new features were added to the WPS syntax<\/li>\n<li> The build system received a major overhaul. This only matters for people who compile their own builds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course you can find a more detailed list in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/twiki\/bin\/view\/Main\/MajorChanges\">MajorChanges<\/a> wiki page, and the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/twiki\/bin\/view\/Main\/ReleaseNotes31\">release notes for 3.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My personal contribution has been very tiny this time around and I&#8217;ve basically just built the release builds and admined the distributed build system somewhat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"Rockbox\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/rockbox400.png\" alt=\"Rockbox\" width=\"400\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three months of work since the last release, we manage to keep the schedule and ship Rockbox 3.1. The list of news since 3.0 include the following: A bitmap scaler was added to Rockbox, which means that album art no longer has to be pre-scaled to the correct dimensions on your computer. See AlbumArt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/12\/24\/rockbox-3-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockbox 3.1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,8],"tags":[95,416],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-politics","category-rockbox","category-tech","tag-release","tag-rockbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}