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Faulty playback on Ipod Nano 4Gb 1st Gen
maraz:
I'm having similar troubles again (as previously addressed in this thread). I was using a over-a-year-old build and bootloader, and when I upgraded to current, pretty much everything went haywire. It might work flawlessly through the day, it might play but skip (like a broken mpeg stream skips) a LOT or it might just crash with a data abort or some other message when starting playback.
Anyway, I tried the official iPod firmware today (and upgraded to 1.3.1 :-[ ), which worked fine, playback and all, so I'm kind of starting to think that this isn't a hardware problem for me. I reinstalled Rockbox (with current build), and presto, codec errors and crashing. Once I managed to get it playing with the 20070726 build recommended earlier, but when I switched to another font (the one I've always used, nedore-9, with iCatcher), it started crashing again, exactly the same way as previously - it loads the background image for the theme and immediately crashes.
I don't know what to say... help? :'(
Edit: Interestingly, everything seems to be working right now. Running r13990.
Edit 2: Nope, still skipping.
tvg:
maraz, r13990 does not skip, really. You shoud better 'reinstall' it: delete .rockbox folder and install again, also try to reformat the ipod. 13990 plays well, i think.
Llorean:
Just because it works well for you is no guarantee it works well for everyone. All of the revisions work well for me, but clearly they don't for most of you.
Suggesting someone reformat their iPod is almost always pointless, there should be very few (if any, ever) occasions where this is necessary.
ji_2345:
hey guys...first time poster and at the risk of sounding like a complete noob I am having the same problems with this rockbox thing. I keep getting massive audio glitches from playback of mp3 files, and wma files either won't play, or will play for 20seconds then skip track and keep skipping tracks until i turn the thing off. I also get a lot of data abort errors and something about an instruction error? sorry but I dont know much about this stuff. The database is always recommitting itself and leaving out tracks and stuff. The funny thing is everything else works fine. Doom works fine and so do the demos and stuff...its just the playback that seems to be not working. I used the current build with the latest ipodpatcher...I dunno what the bootloader is so I just assume I have the latest one...I have changed back to my ipod software atm but I really digged the advance features of the rockbox like the eq and stuff...I want to get it working :(
webjockey:
I would like to say that it also happens to me (I also have a 4GB iPod Nano 1st Gen about a year old)
Sinc I have no FLAC files, I cannot test them, but, the mp3s, the more compressed they are, the worse the playback, I am currently listening to a 192mp3 and it is doing pretty well, the glitches are very few, there is no skipping, and the time doesn't flux.
But, previously, I was playing a 249mp3 and the time was becoming faster and slower, there were frequent glitches etc. etc. No skipping though and I didn't get a data error (although, it is worth noting that I did infact geta data error for the very same song on a daily build, all the other songs work well) That was when I switched to the current build. All the songs start well, and sometimes, they play flawlessly, even the aforementioned 249mp3 (just to note its Animals - Nickelback, not that its necessary to know ;D ) plays well. I just wanted to add my two cents, and it seems to me its the compression that is doing this. please comment, I really like Rockbox and don't really want to switch back :-[
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