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Music Playback in Rockboy

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redblade8:

--- Quote from: Llorean on March 18, 2011, 04:43:21 PM ---Rockboy already allows you to listen to music on some players where it's possible. Since you don't mention which player you have, I don't have a guess as to why it's not enabled on yours, but there's probably a reason it's not possible.

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Wait...this is already possible on some targets? Hmm...I need to see if my Sansa e280 can do this :P
.mid/.midi files being played doesn't take up much cpu so if music + rockboy on my sansa is not possible that should?

gbl08ma:
Rockbox doesn't even support MIDI playback properly... it's one of the "codecs" (I don't think we can call that unfinished implementation a codec) that consumes more CPU and performs really poorly, at least to my honest knowledge.

saratoga:
The main issue is probably IRAM (fast, internal RAM).  Both rockboy and codecs use IRAM to speed things up, but obviously only one at a time can be stored in it.  For players with no IRAM, this obviously doesn't matter.

torne:
MIDI is actually pretty expensive to play, you have to manipulate samples and mix them in realtime...

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