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flj^:
Having many problems with my (4 gig) nano and rockbox. They are as follows:

1: Database - When I try and update the database (manually or automatically), the number of entries it finds goes up well past 500; I have less than 200 audio files on my ipod. I do not use iTunes at all, I simply drag and drop files into organized folders on my ipod. Why is it finding so many more entries?

2: Playback - Whenever I go to play a file through the database, i get a dialouge that says "searching - xx", where the time will be anywhere from 30 - 170. Why does it take so much time, if any, to start playing a song? Also, if shuffle is on, another dialouge pops up and says "Shuffling...", and sits there for an additional 5 seconds before the song starts. I have the database set to load to ram on startup.

3: Buttons - It takes way to many button presses for things to be selected/activated, usually once to turn the LCD backlight on and than anywhere from 2-5 to get any sort of response from the player. Never had this happen with the normal ipod software.

4: Computer Connected - When I plug my ipod into my computer (over usb 1.0) while the ipod is booted up in the rockbox firmware, a nifty little USB cable rendering will show up on the screen, but within 2 seconds the ipod reboots and then goes back to the standard ipod software ("Do Not Dissconnect", etc). How do I get it to not do this?

5: Battery Life - My battery lasts for about 8.5 hours when fully charged, compared to 14-15 i got when using the standard ipod software. I have every power related setting set to as low as i can handle ( e.g. backlight stays on for only 2 seconds, shuts off on hold), but the battery still dies significantly sooner. All of my music is vorbis encoded (q 3.0) in ogg containers. What gives?

saratoga:

--- Quote ---4: Computer Connected - When I plug my ipod into my computer (over usb 1.0) while the ipod is booted up in the rockbox firmware, a nifty little USB cable rendering will show up on the screen, but within 2 seconds the ipod reboots and then goes back to the standard ipod software ("Do Not Dissconnect", etc). How do I get it to not do this?
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Since theres no USB mode in rockbox yet, you probably don't want to change this.


--- Quote ---5: Battery Life - My battery lasts for about 8.5 hours when fully charged, compared to 14-15 i got when using the standard ipod software. I have every power related setting set to as low as i can handle ( e.g. backlight stays on for only 2 seconds, shuts off on hold), but the battery still dies significantly sooner. All of my music is vorbis encoded (q 3.0) in ogg containers. What gives?

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Search.

Gorilla:

--- Quote from: flj^ on July 15, 2007, 05:12:11 PM ---1: Database - When I try and update the database (manually or automatically), the number of entries it finds goes up well past 500; I have less than 200 audio files on my ipod. I do not use iTunes at all, I simply drag and drop files into organized folders on my ipod. Why is it finding so many more entries?

2: Playback - Whenever I go to play a file through the database, i get a dialouge that says "searching - xx", where the time will be anywhere from 30 - 170. Why does it take so much time, if any, to start playing a song? Also, if shuffle is on, another dialouge pops up and says "Shuffling...", and sits there for an additional 5 seconds before the song starts. I have the database set to load to ram on startup.

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1. The same thing happens to my iPod.  The only thing I can think of is that the database also scans for album covers, pictures, etc.

2. Try enabling Directory Cache in addition to Load to Ram.

bascule:

--- Quote from: Gorilla on July 15, 2007, 05:48:07 PM ---1. The same thing happens to my iPod.  The only thing I can think of is that the database also scans for album covers, pictures, etc.

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I believe that is correct. Database scans *all* files, but obviously only stores the music ones :)

You shouldn't be able to create a playlist using the database that has more than your number of *music* files in it.

sadffffff:

--- Quote from: flj^ on July 15, 2007, 05:12:11 PM ---3: Buttons - It takes way to many button presses for things to be selected/activated, usually once to turn the LCD backlight on and than anywhere from 2-5 to get any sort of response from the player. Never had this happen with the normal ipod software.

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can you tells us anything about the audio files you are playing? file type? bitrate? etc
i dont notice any lag at all on my 4gb nano while playing music, other than the lag associated with turning the hold switch off.

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