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Offline Taslow

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Quick Technical Question
« on: January 16, 2008, 02:50:19 PM »
Hopefully some of your more Rockbox-savvy techies can answer a quick question that's been bothering me: How come I can delete files that are actively playing on my player? Does Rockbox take the command then delete the file as soon as I'm done playing it? Or is the song "buffered" up ahead of time so it can continue to play one last time even after the source has been deleted?

I apologize if this is in the manuals or out of place, I just didn't see it anywhere and was wondering about the actual mechanism.
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Offline bascule

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Re: Quick Technical Question
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2008, 02:52:08 PM »
Yes, it's buffered. Depending on your player and the size of songs, about 7-8 songs ahead.

[Geeky info]
Whilst playing, go to [Main menu] > System > Debug (Keep Out!) > View buffering thread
This will tell you how many tracks are buffered (and lots of other interesting info)
[/Geeky info]
« Last Edit: January 16, 2008, 02:54:57 PM by bascule »
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Offline Taslow

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Re: Quick Technical Question
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2008, 02:56:35 PM »
Excellent. Thanks for the freakishly quick response. I've so far heeded the "keep out" warning, but maybe we'll do a little digging now that I've learned from experience that you can always start over with a system restore.
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Offline AlexP

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Re: Quick Technical Question
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2008, 02:58:01 PM »
If the songs were not buffered, battery life would be terrible as we would have to continually spin the disk (clearly not nearly so important on flash players).
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Offline bascule

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Re: Quick Technical Question
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2008, 03:00:49 PM »
Yeah, most of the stuff in there is just read-only technical info, so you can't do much harm. It's a very, very little bit like Windows' Task Manager
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