Quick Technical Question

[Taslow]

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.

[bascule]

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]

[Taslow]

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.

[AlexP]

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).

[bascule]

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