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Wrathernaut:
I've been running various builds of rockbox for a while and I've been a bit disappointed with the responsiveness.

My previous players were a Rio Riot and a Rio Karma, both of which could skip forward and backward without delay. My Gigabeat F40, however, seems to take it as a suggestion when I skip ahead or back, sometimes changing as you'd expect, other times updating the WPS screen and taking 3-5 seconds to actually start playing the next song. This has been pretty consistent with the various builds I've used.

This most recent daily build (23 Jan 08) has been quite bad at resuming play, sometimes skipping the current audio file, sometimes just going to a random spot in the one that was playing.  I was previously using MadCow's build, with the fast resume, and it never failed to resume properly (about 5sec faster) when resuming from power off.

Are these experiences typical?

Phalangees:
The hard drive has to start up the new set of tracks need to be loaded up to the buffer. That is what takes the time and yes it is normal. The original firmware did pretty much the same thing except the wps updated immediately but the new track still had to load up.

When you do skip a track and it goes to it immediately, it is because the track is already in the buffer and the hard drive doesn't have to start up.

Strife89:
But my Sansa (which has a flash drive) has been experiencing this as well. In the original firmware, this was almost nonexistent. I understand that there would be some lag, but often the delay is around 3, maybe 4 seconds.

hoho:
I use a Sansa e260 and noticed same behaviour, its not as bad when your skipping to next track, then its pretty fast, but if you skip backwards its very slow.

Wrathernaut:
Okay, so the sluggishness is pretty common, but what about this skipping the song that was playing and jumping to the next one on "Resume Playback" (Sometimes, but more often than not)?

Did I just get a bad daily build, or is this common?

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