···11-Q1. What is this NODO document?
22-A1. This is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply
33- cannot do on the Archos. View it as the opposite of a TODO!
44-55-Q2. Record to WAV (uncompressed) or MP3pro format!
66-A2. The recording hardware (the MAS) does not allow us to do this.
77-88-Q3. Crossfade between tracks!
99-A3. Crossfading would require two mp3 decoders, and we only have one. This
1010- is not possible.
1111-1212-Q4. Interfacing with other USB devices (like cameras) or 2 player games over
1313- USB
1414-A4. The USB system demands that there is a master that talks to a slave.
1515- The Archos can only serve as a slave, as most other USB devices such
1616- as cameras can. Thus, without a master no communication between the slaves
1717- can take place.
1818-1919- If that is not enough, we have no ways of actually controlling the
2020- communication performed over USB since the USB circuit in the Archos is
2121- strictly made for disk-access and does not allow us to play with it the
2222- way we'd need for any good communication to work.
2323-2424-Q5. Support MP3pro, WMA or other sound format playback!
2525-A5. The mp3-decoding hardware can only play MP3. We cannot make it play other
2626- sound formats.
11+A current list of the features we will not implement is kept on the wiki:
2722828-Q6. Converting OGG->MP3
2929-A6. The mp3-decoding hardware cannot decode ogg. It can be reprogrammed, but
3030- there is too little memory for OGG and we have no documentation on how
3131- to program the MAS' DSP.
33+http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/NoDo
3243333- Doing the conversion with the CPU is impossible, since a 12MHz SH1 is far
3434- too slow for this daunting task.
55+Additional information is available here:
3563636-Q7. Archos Multimedia support!
3737-A7. The Archos Multimedia is a completely different beast. It is an entirely
3838- different architecture, differnt CPU and upgrading the software is done a
3939- completely different way. We do not venture into this.
4040-4141- Others may do so. We do not.
4242-4343-Q8. Multi-band equalizer!
4444-A8. The MAS only offers the standard bass/treble settings and we can't do
4545- anything about it.
4646-4747-Q9. Support other filesystems than FAT32 (like NTFS or ext2 or whatever)!
4848-A9. No.
4949-5050- Rockbox needs to support FAT32 since it can only start off a FAT32
5151- partition (since that is the only way the ROM can load it), and adding
5252- support for more filesystems will just take away valueable ram for
5353- unnecessary features.
5454-5555- You can partition your Archos fine, just make sure the first one is FAT32
5656- and then make the other ones whatever file system you want. Just don't
5757- expect Rockbox to understand them.
5858-5959-Q10. Add scandisk-like features!
6060-A10. It would be a very slow operation that would drain the batteries and take
6161- a lot of useful ram for something that is much better and faster done
6262- when connected to a host computer.
6363-6464-Q11. CBR recording!
6565-A11. The MP3 encoding hardware does not allow this.
6666-6767-Q12. Change tempo of a song without changing pitch!
6868-A12. The MP3 decoding hardware does not allow this.
6969-7070-Q13. Graphic frequency (spectrum) analyzer!
7171-A13. We can't access the audio waveform from the MP3 decoder so we can't
7272- analyze it. Even if we had access to it, the CPU would probably be too
7373- slow to perform the analysis anyway.
7474-7575-Q14. Cool sound effects!
7676-A14. Adding new sound effects requires reprogramming the MAS chip, and we can't
7777- do that. The MAS chip is programmable, but we have no access to the chip
7878- documentation.
77+http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/NoDoDiscussion