These are the basic commands that can be sent through the serial port (might work with the USB port but haven't tested it) to control your empeg.
q - Drop to Shell r - Restarts Player [ - Switch to empeg channel ] - Switch to radio = - AUX Input s - Full Screen On/Off (CD-MD CH button) + - Volume + - - Volume - x - Volume + z - Volume - C - Play p - Previous Song F - Fast forward B - Rewind K - Loudness down L - Loudness up <space> - play W - pause \ - Sleep On/Off f - Seek? v - Next Vis b - Seek? n - Next Song 1-9 FM Preset . - FM Down ; - FM UP ` - Radio preset store O - FM presetContributed by gandolf
The following directives may be placed into the empeg player's
configuration file, /empeg/var/config.ini
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[Startup]
ReduceCache=n
n
= number of chunks to reduce the cache by (dev. max 48)
[output] timecodes=1
Timecodes & FID numbers outputted to serial port.
[display] caching=0
Disable disk activity icon.
[serial] car_rate=n
Set serial port speed while docked to n
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FIDs are made of 28 bits - ie the object number, plus 4 bits at the bottom which refer to the type. *0 is the actual object data - in the case of a playlist, this is 4 bytes per playlist entry which is simply the fids of the items it contains.
The *1 files are the tag files, which are plain text and have fields, eg:
type=tune length=xxxxx title=Country House artist=Blur genre=Indie year=1997
(length refers to the length of the *0 file). User tags currently can't be added with the software (actually... maybe on the linux stuff) but are stored and preserved by downloaders (pc & linux).
Contributed by Paul