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Slow track skipping
the Puck:
Hey there. Excuse me for clogging up the forums with a question I could possibly answer with reading the docs or just searching a bit - normally I would do that, but it's summer over here and I get out as much as I can.
I just quickly grabbed rockbox for my Ipod (cant remember right now whether its first or second gen, but I thought it wouldn't make a difference right now) because I just hate how that thing behaves originally. Ill spare you the details about what I hate.
Anyway. I just put all my mp3s in the music root folder (dont laugh - thats how I like it), set the limits to accept all those files in one dir - and weeee off we go.
A quick "wweeeeee off we go" was the whole purpose of this exercise.
Now skipping a track can take, I dont know, maybe 30 seconds? My bet is on the whole "one big folder" thing, if the music was in a lot of smaller folders, it would work a lot better, I guess, amirite?
Hints? Suggestions? Ways to deal with that (ideally, I want one big folder AND quick skipping, if that's even the issue)?
Either way, thanks in advance.
saratoga:
Is the disk spinning up while you wait those 30 seconds? If the track isn't buffered when you try to skip to it, you'll have to wait for a spin up and buffering, though I'm surprised it takes that long.
the Puck:
Yeah, I figure its a buffer thing and has to do with data being shoveled from ye olde harddrive upon startup. If I give it a while and just listen (dunno, 3 or 4 tracks worth of time), I can skip a few tracks just fine before I hit that point again where the drive starts to shovel like a 80 year old coal miner.
It's actually a bit of a coincidence I even know that that ipod used to put the tunes in a lot of smaller folders it caches. but even if you skip over one whole of those folders (pod creates them itself) a new one is loaded up pretty quickly. Short version: original firmware is really really fast and responsive (and nicer to my battery life, too). However, IIRC there's not a lot of "randomness" or rather a lot of fake randomness when it comes to shuffle.
I still like that not-being-a-princess-about-that-data-transferring-thing attitude of rockbox a lot more than the need to synchronize my ipod with my collection - via itunes on top of that. bleeeurgh. But getting back quick and responsive button feeling sure would be nice.
Oh and btw... 30 (sometimes even a bit more) might be the extreme case, but it surely was not an exaggeration. I'm seriously trying to get help here.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: the Puck on July 19, 2009, 12:35:55 PM ---It's actually a bit of a coincidence I even know that that ipod used to put the tunes in a lot of smaller folders it caches. but even if you skip over one whole of those folders (pod creates them itself) a new one is loaded up pretty quickly. Short version: original firmware is really really fast and responsive (and nicer to my battery life, too). However, IIRC there's not a lot of "randomness" or rather a lot of fake randomness when it comes to shuffle.
--- End quote ---
Its not about the folders, its just that if you're using the OF, its likely buffering the tracks in the order you're skipping through them. I'm not really clear whats going on with rockbox, but it sounds like you've managed to skip through tracks that have not been buffered.
the Puck:
But it's really really easy to do that, even when I'm not skipping a lot of tracks. Sometimes it's enough to skip two tracks and the problem starts. It does it with or without shuffle.
Is there a setting I could have screwed up so the buffering doesnt work properly?
Or Is my harddisk just THAT crappy (i mean, in terms of mp3 players that thing is ancient...)? I dont know whether or not a defrag will do anything, I'll quickly check it. (I quickformatted that thing, installed rockbox and put the music in the root folder).
Maybe some wild guesses or blind shots I can try just to alleviate the problem a bit?
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