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toxaco:
Hello Rockbox community,

this is my first post, so excuse me if it's not in the right place.

I finally got around to installing Rockbox on my ipods 3rd gen 40gb and 4th gen 20gb and feel like a fool for not doing it years ago!

the problem i'm having is that when i try to play 24bit 96kHz flac files on my 4th gen ipod photo it can't play for more than 5 seconds without skipping! It kind of feels like when you try to stream video off the internet and it buffers all the time due to not enough bandwidth.

I would have put it down to the ridiculously high kb/s of a 24 bit flac, BUT i bought a iriver H140 especially to put rockbox on and this plays the same 24bit 96kHz files without problem!

I've only just tried this out tonight and i don't have my 3rd gen ipod to hand to try them out on, so it may just be down to the fact that i have a duff ipod!

Any feedback gratefully accepted!

toxaco

saratoga:
Get a faster player, turn off things like eq, or don't use such needlessly high sample rates.

toxaco:

--- Quote from: saratoga on May 17, 2013, 10:27:48 PM ---Get a faster player, turn off things like eq, or don't use such needlessly high sample rates.

--- End quote ---

Fair enough! I just wondered if anyone else had come across the same problem!

and you were right! turning off the eq did the trick!

i have an audiophile mate who swears by 24bit i'm a newb regards to rockbox and i want to convert him!

THANK YOU!

gevaerts:

--- Quote from: toxaco on May 18, 2013, 12:03:06 AM ---i have an audiophile mate who swears by 24bit i'm a newb regards to rockbox and i want to convert him!

--- End quote ---

Then you shouldn't be using rockbox. We only do 16 bit, and I doubt many of the players we run on can do more anyway. Also, rockbox will downsample everything to 44.1kHz.

MikeyL:
I have the same problem with my ipod mini. With eq on, no matter what type of eq, it kept skipping every few seconds of playing flac, with eq off, it's fine. It happened to my ipod classic on apple firmware, some of the songs buzzed annoyingly, with eq off, its ok, till I hard reset it and reinstall the os, then it seems ok. Weird!

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