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hdd spin-up causes gap in .ogg-playback in h120

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torne:
Just collecting codecs/etc is not likely to track this problem down. More specific information is almost certainly needed: we need an exact procedure to reproduce it. If you are just playing mp3/ogg/etc you are doing more or less the same thing as the vast majority of users (including me) so that's not really enough.. (I haven't had any gaps).

Do any of you know how to use the buffering status debug screen? Can you set the anti-skip buffer to a long time (such as five minutes) and then watch the debug screen while that time approaches, and see what happens? When there is five minutes of data remaining, it should spin up the drive, and then start to refill the buffer at that point. Specific observations on what happens here, and when the skipping occurs in this sequence, might help us track down what's going on.

Yotto/kpapr1: you need to try increasing the anti-skip buffer setting. If increasing that setting a little makes the problem go away, then your disk just spins up too slowly for the default value and you do not have the problem being discussed here. There is only a bug if the problem persists when the anti-skip setting is already set very high.

kpapr1:
I have found this: If I set anti-skip to 15s then the problem is not solved. HOWEVER, if I also set the spindown time to 20s then the problem is gone. Can you peole try it and see if this works for you, too?

Thanks

Costas

***************** UPDATE *****************

It also works with spindown time of 16s but NOT with 15s or less

torne:
Does it matter what you set the anti-skip buffer time to? i.e. if you put it back to 5 seconds, but leave spindown on 20 seconds, does that work?

kpapr1:
No, I tried it and it doesn't work. It has to be 15s, it will probably work with more, but not with less.

torne:
The interesting thing is that the spindown time is supposed to be irrelevant while buffering. The disk does not spin down while buffering is in progress, and when buffering completes the disk spins down immediately regardless of time.

What about if you set the anti-skip buffer to something larger, like 1 minute, but leave the spindown on 20 seconds? I'm wondering if perhaps it is not correctly inhibiting the automatic spindown...

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