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amey01:
Thanks - yes, the buffer is filled often (about every second song) but that's not the problem; the problem is that when the buffer is filled the disk doesn't turn off unless I press "Pause".

I'll try turning the EQ off.

Adam.

Mikerman:
Ok, I doubt this is your issue, but you mentioned the size of your drive, and I recently had a large-drive cache experience:

Recently, my iRiver iHP-140 fell to a hard floor and the 60 gb drive I had put into it died.  (Sigh.)  I still had the player's original 40 gb drive (since wiped clean of data), and put that back into the player for the dead drive.  I then copied my back-up of some (a small percentage) of the player's files back to the newly-installed drive, including the Rockbox files.  (A pause for this commercial message:  back up your player's files.)

Turned the player on, and all was well, but:  the hard drive starting turning continuously.  I mean, it still was turning after 20 minutes.  And then after 45 minutes.

I couldn't figure this out and feared that there was other physical damage to the player, and then thought to switch back to the original iRiver firmware--no hard drive continuous spin issue.  And then I thought of the Rockbox directory cache feature, which I had on.  I turned it off, and:  no hard drive continuous spin issue.

What I then figured out was (my working hypothesis):  I had had over 43 gb of files on my 60 gb drive (about 500 CDs of music).  When I replaced that drive with the clean 40 gb drive, but then loaded back onto the drive my Rockbox back-up files and only a small percentage of my music files, the cache went into operation and saw that my drive's contents now were different than before, and it started to catalog the current contents, including by deleting the record of the no-longer-available contents; because of the size of the earlier drive and the earlier amount of its contents, that would take quite a bit of time.

And lo and behold, I left the player alone (with directory cache on) and after an hour of hard drive activity, the hard drive stopped spinning and I'm back to "normal" hard drive activity since . . . .

ryran:
This sounds similar to an issue I used to have due to the font I was using (too big for the glyphcache). I doubt it's your issue, but it's worth ruling out. So what font are you using?

amey01:
Thank you but no - it has nothing to do with browsing the menus - menu browsing is fine. It is playing music!

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