TortOS v1.5.0

The Pixel 2's side lights show the battery. The four lights on its side were lit the whole time it was on; now they mean something. While it charges, a bar fills up from the bottom, starting from a light for each full quarter it already has, and a full battery holds all four. Below 10% on the battery, the bottom light flashes red every five seconds. Press L2 and R2 together, outside a game, and the lights flash the level. The rest of the time they're dark.

Tidy names. Albums from some downloads come named like Artist.-.Album.2015.MP3 with tracks like 01..Song.Name.mp3. Open the album's folder on Over The Hare's page (Down To The Wire's on the Pixel 2) and press Tidy names: the page shows every rename first, the folder taking the album's name and each track keeping its number, and nothing changes until you press Rename all. A name that would land on one already there is skipped, never overwritten.

Muse shows those names as words anyway. On the shelf, names with dots or underscores for spaces read as words, and an album's leaves off the artist in front, the release year and words like MP3 and 320kbps, so an album looks right before it's tidied, or if it never is.

Muse plays MP4 files. An .mp4 is the same kind of file as an .m4a, often with nothing but sound in it, and now plays like one. A video in one plays its sound.

Renaming keeps what goes with a name. Rename on the page, on an album or a book, takes its cover, what Album Art remembers of it and the book's place along to the new name, and renaming a book's file keeps the place in it.

Also:

• Down To The Wire makes the cable connection fresh each time it opens, so a computer that had dropped the Pixel 2 finds it again without a restart.
• MENU > Controls on the Pixel 2 lists L2+R2 on the shelf's page.
• The text in the transfer page's buttons sits in the middle of them.

Updating from an earlier version

With the TortOS Installer, choose Update. On the Pixel 2 that's how the side lights arrive, with the new system. By hand on the Brick, copy the zip's TortOS/, .tmp_update/ and trimui/ over the card's, replacing what is there. Copying the zip's Roms/, Saves/ or Bios/ over the card's replaces them, games and saves included. On the Pixel 2 the installer is the only way that keeps the games: writing the image by hand erases the card.

New install

With the TortOS Installer, choose the device and Fresh install. By hand, as in the README: the Brick uses TortOS-v1.5.0.zip, the Pixel 2 TortOS-v1.5.0-pixel2.img.xz. TortOS-v1.5.0-pixel2-sources.tar holds the source of the open-source software in the Pixel 2 image, and SHA256SUMS the checksums of all three files.

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