I got an Sandsik e280 (refurbished buy.com) recently and installed rockbox (r17087 080412) into it. It works great most of the time and thanks for you guys great work.
Here is a problem:
I have a few big directories. The tree structure is /music/x/y, /music/x/z, where y, z has 300-400 mp3 files in each. Each of mp3 file is about 5-minute mp3 in 128kb/s or 64kb/s of a few audiobooks. They are not been tagged well, so each of them are belong to their own album with a common artist though. The problem is that when I navigate in with "file" function and play from the middle, say the 200th file, it gets into the play screen and the screen shows "play", but it does not play actually, no sound, the progress bar does not move either. It does play if I start from the first though. I wait a few minutes and it does not start. I can consistently produce this problem.
One exception is that I can create a playlist from the middle, then play the playlist. Sometimes it works. But it refuses to play if I fast forward a few clips right after the play.
I guess it is some problem with the cache. So I enabled the directory cache in the setting. (The player has a few hundred Mb left and the status show it uses about 20M for cache.) And it shows "file buffer full" at first. I have to increase the default file number from 500 to 1, 000 to get around. (I do not have more than 400 files in one directory at first, why 500 not work?) After this, the problem disappear most of the time. But occasionally it happens. I cannot consistently reproduce it. I can mostly play from the bookmark created from the last playback. But occasionally there is problem too.
Thanks again for this great software and I hope to hear from your diagonalizes soon.
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