Repeats same footage on long audio files...

[perceptionist]

I have an ipod Nano 1st gen 4 gig with Rockbox Version 3.6

My primary use of my ipod is for listening to a radio show I record on my PC then transfer to the ipod.  The show averages approx 5 1/2 hours.

The issue occurs after a few hours of listening (I pause and resume during this time as necessary to interact with co-workers).  The player will eventually begin rewinding about 2 or 3 minutes and replay it over and over. 

The first time I noticed it, I didn't really think anything of it, I just restarted the show and fast forwarded to the spot I left off and it played fine for the remainder. 

It happened again the following day 3 hours into the show.  The next day it happened 3 1/2 hours in.  Then today it happened again about 4 hours 15 min into the show.

If I let it go, it will continue to repeat the same 2-3 min section.  Something else I found odd,  the timer will continue to progress as if nothing is out of the ordinary, I watched it repeat 3 times and the timer did not reflect the repeating, it just kept steadily counting.

So far it has happened once every show 4 times that I can remember, prior to that I was still figuring out Rockbox and inadvertently skipped to the next track during shows and had to restart the show and find where I left off which is probably why I did not experience the issue... since then I've discovered the "prevent track skipping" feature which I love!

I've never had this issue before Rockbox.  I will continue to monitor the occurrence and report here if it helps troubleshooting.

I realize most folks don't listen to one single audio track for hours, so I imagine this is not an issue with the typical music listener.

Does anyone know of this happening?  Could it be a new undiscovered bug?

Oh also the files in question are Mp3s.

[Yotto]

I've noticed this before in podcasts, though it's never been minutes so much as seconds. I always figured that the shows were encoded poorly so the timer was off a bit from actuality and something about pausing/stopping would cause it to set correctly, which was "wrong" from my perspective.

I never really gave it much mind and can't even think of the last time I noticed it. I'll pay more attention now.

[perceptionist]

Ok well I have been paying attention and the problem really doesn't seem to follow any pattern other than it occurs during longer tracks usually over an hour.

I managed to get through half the shows since my last post with no issue and the other half with the problem described above.  It has been occurring at random times between 1 hr into the track and 3 hrs into the track.

Each time the only way I have found to make it resume normal playback is to reset the ipod and sometimes it will eventually happen again but not always.  Sometimes when I reset it will play back fine but all the text on the screen is all garbled up but then after resetting again it is totally cool.

Anyone else experience this?  Is there a fix?