I posted last week reporting large gaps of silence between tracks. I updated rockbox and the problem vanished...temporarily. It came back, with a vengeance.
I am running a late daily build (last week, I don't know the number). I have an ipod video 30g. As far as I know, I am not running anything like crossfade, etc.
Here is specifically what happened today.
I went to the gym. I quickly put together a playlist composed of 4 songs. I am not too familiar with rockbox yet, so it took me a while to figure out how to make the playlist play. When I first tried to play the tracks, the player would not cooperate. I could navigate menus, but there was no sound at all.
I rebooted (using holding the play button). The playlist was saved, so I tried playing it again immediately. The first two songs played with no problem. The third song had a 30-ish second gap before it played. The 4th song had a smaller gap, but midway through the song, the audio stopped, the display dumped me to the main menu, and the player froze. I was forced to do a hard reboot.
After rebooting, I just chose an album (NiN oh yeah) and played it. It played with no trouble. No gaps, no nothing.
As far as I can tell, the problems arise when I ask the player to access music in different folders. I was using mp3/mp4 tracks located in my own directory structure. I was not using a database.
I can easily reproduce this problem by modifying settings. If I try to change skins, audio or system settings, I generally have to restart my ipod to coax it into playing music.
I'm worried my hard drive is ****ing the bed. What do you think?
I really appreciate the help, and the hard work that goes into this project.
-weazil