General questions from a newbie.

[Steph86]

Hi all,

I didn't really know where to post this as I am new to this forum and rockbox in general.  I have a few questions relating to different topics so I thought it best to post here.

I purchased a damaged 80gb 5.5g ipod video from ebay, and decided to mod it into the 240gb version.  The hard drive arrived and I installed it successfully. When I tried to install rockbox 3.5 i got the *panic* error message so then I looked into things further and realised I had use a custom build version of rockbox.

I managed to read up and get version 3.4 by "nugged" working but i'm still having a few problems. 

1) was I supposed to use 64mb version or 32mb version?
2) I can't get the player to continuously play the next artist after one has finished?
3) flac files work but sometimes a track will play then after a certain length of time it will just skip to the next track, however if I go back to the beginning of that track and forward past that point it plays fine.
4) I have an ape track which is one complete file and has an accompanying cue file, when i load it it works fine as in splits the no playing bar into tracks, but when it plays, it will play maybe 7 seconds of the track and then pause for like half a second and then continues again.  It continues to do this, its as if it can't hold enough in memory.
5) Does anyone know if there is a 3.5 build which has been re-built to work with the 240gb version, I don't know how to compile it myself. maybe this will fix all the problems.

Any help with the above would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Regards
Steph

[saratoga]

I managed to read up and get version 3.4 by "nugged" working but i'm still having a few problems. 

Keep in mind, if you use an unofficial build, we usually don't support them in this forum.

1) was I supposed to use 64mb version or 32mb version?

If your player was originally an 80GB, then probably 64MB.  If the 64MB build works for you then its fine.  If it doesn't, you probably have a 32MB player.  A 32MB build will work on either.

it it works fine as in splits the no playing bar into tracks, but when it plays, it will play maybe 7 seconds of the track and then pause for like half a second and then continues again.  It continues to do this, its as if it can't hold enough in memory.

Your player is too slow to play all APE compression formats.  If you want to use APE with it, you'll need to use the faster compression levels, otherwise it'll skip.

[Steph86]

Hi Saratoga,

Sorry I never knew they weren't supported, thanks for the reply anyway.

What would be the advantages/disadvantages over using 32mb version over 64mb?

How likely is it to fix the problems i'm having with the flac files and any ideas of why I can't get it to do continuous playback with the database? I have looked in the manual and can't see anything about getting it to play continuously except for the following:

"If you have the Auto-Change Directory option set to Yes, Rockbox
will move on to the next directory on your hard drive. If the Auto-Change
Directory option is set to No, playback will stop when the current directory or
playlist is fnished."

I have done this but it still doesn't work.

Thanks again for all your help and prompt reply.

Regards
Steph

[saratoga]

What would be the advantages/disadvantages over using 32mb version over 64mb?

Well if you have a 32MB player and you use a 64MB build, after about 30MB of audio buffering playback will die pretty quickly.  Otherwise it just lets you buffer a little more audio into memory at a time.

[Steph86]

Thanks,

Is there anyway be it software/hardware check that I can do to check what version I have?

Regards
Steph

[torne]

Yes, install the 64mb build, and if it crashes whenever you start playing an album that has more than 30mb of files then you don't have 64mb of ram and you need to use the 32mb build

[Steph86]

Do you mean 30mb per file? or 30mb for the whole album as individual files?

[saratoga]

Do you mean 30mb per file? or 30mb for the whole album as individual files?

Both.  Just try to decode more then about 30MB of compressed audio.