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Playback issues - iPod 5.5G 80GB

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thesi:
I did some more testing on the skipping problem. I created a text only WPS with album art support. Using this WPS I get the same skipping issues as in WPS which are heavily skinned using bitmap files. I guess the skipping is only related to the AA display. Interestingly it also skips when there is no AA in the directory. I guess there is a problem in the way the AA is included into the WPS.

I will attach my WPS code in case somebody wants to do some testing.

--- Code: ---%wd
%Cl|10|10|100|100|
%pb|6|0|320|145|
%s%?C%?ia
%s%?C%?id
%s%?C%?it
%s%?C%iy




%ac%?mp

%al%pc %ac%pp of %pe %ar%pr



%ar%fb %?fv%fc
%al[%cH:%cM] %ar%?pv%% %| %bl%% (%bt)
%C

--- End code ---

Sherv:
I have a severe case of this problem which is driving me nuts. I have an 80gb 5.5 iPod running build r15988 and I use the "Bloodstain" theme. Whenever I turn the device on, as well as during random songs thereafter, there is a period of time where playback is plagued with skips roughly 2-4 seconds apart, each skip lasting less than a second to a second and a half. This can continue on for upwards of 1 minute and half. I realize that the initial flurry of disk activity is related to Directory Cache (I have it set to "On") as well as committing the database to RAM, but nonetheless this skipping occurs much later on.

I have noticed that there is always some form of disk activity associated with the skipping, and oftentimes, although not always, the device becomes unresponsive to any input, be it changing the track, pausing, or even changing the volume. The device resumes normal behavior (no skipping and no freezing) for a variable amount of time before the problem resurfaces.

I have run thorough disk checks and have found no bad sectors or corruption. Most of my albums have album art but the theme, bloodstain, does not display it in any form.

What puzzles me is that I haven't seen any other post directly related to this at the frequency I experience it, leading me to believe it may be a hardware issue, but as far as I can tell there's nothing wrong with the device itself. Changing the anti-skip buffer has absolutely no effect, nor does changing the harddrive spindown time.

Any help?

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