====== Rockbox in Your Car ======
2016-06-22

I'm using in my car a small music player, the SanDisk Sansa Clip+. I replaced the original firmware with the open firmware called [[http://www.rockbox.org/|RockBox]] Version 3.12, since 3.13 made problems on booting. 
Old versions can be found [[http://download.rockbox.org/release/|here]]

Some settings are needed, to make it the perfect player for audio books in a car. 

===== Automatic Power On/Off =====

The player is connected to the board power supply via a USB-charger, which is switched on and off with the ignition of the car (this depends on the type of your car). 

RockBox has a dedicated setting for using in a Car, which powers the player on, when charging starts: \\
**Settings - General Settings - System - Car Adapter Mode: ON**

This must be combined with automatic power off:\\
**Settings - General Settings - Startup/Shutdown - Idle Power Off: 10 Minutes** or similar

and the auto-resume on power-up: \\
**Settings - General Settings - Startup/Shutdown - Start Screen: Resume Playback**

===== Settings for Audio Books =====
If we want to switch between audio books, bookmarks are very useful:\\
**Settings - General Settings - Bookmarking - Bookmark on Stop: Yes – Recent Only**\\
**Settings - General Settings - Bookmarking - Maintain a list of Recent Bookmarks: YES**\\
**Settings - General Settings - Bookmarking - Update on Stop: YES**\\
**Settings - General Settings - Bookmarking - Load Last Bookmark: YES**

To give us some time to get into the audio book again, we do a rewind of 40s:\\
**Settings - Playback Settings - Rewind Before Resume: 40s**

To give us the possibility to replay the last seconds, perhaps to understand a difficult or important sentence better, we use the Pause/Play button for this: \\
**Settings - Playback Settings - Rewind on Pause: 15s**

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