Gaps DURING Playback

[bassface]

Hello,
I've been using Rockbox on my 2GIG nano for a while, and I think its the only real good software for that iPod hardware ;-)
But I have one problem that's really messing me up: during playback I always get short gaps of 1s ... this happens 2 or 3 times per file ... and I really don't know how to solve this. It happens with long and short files, with mp3 vbr, cbr and with ogg. I tried smaller Playlist- and Dir-Sizes, I reformated the filesystem .. no help. BTW: the gapless playback for 2 files works great! And if the player stucks during playback, it's not possible to press a key or so.

Does anyone know what to do?

bye,

Stefan

[mnhnhyouh]

I am going to guess that you have either a peakmeter on your wps, or the equaliser on. Turn the latter off, or delete the former, and you should be fine?

h

[Beto]

its ur equalizer

u messed up while messing around with it

[mnhnhyouh]

Just turning the equaliser on is enough to cause gaps as present. Just leave it off, until the devs start to optimise the iPod port.

h

[bassface]

yeah, I got the equalizer on. Its very important for my that the nano sounds not like a $10 discount mp3 player. I recognized that when setting the cpu boost level to 10 reduces the gaps ... I don't really know what that boost means, but it works a little ;-)

[Jon_]

Hmm i had this problem before, try resting your settings, if that doesn't work mess around in the settings > playback area.

[Chronon]

That's weird.  It seems like I can apply EQ to my nano without causing skipping.  I haven't tested extensively, though.  (I mainly use my 5G).

[Llorean]

Because the Nano has a much smaller screen, it has a little more elbow Room than the 4G and a lot more than the 5G so it's possible that some bitrates of some formats can get away with EQing, especially if you don't use all the bands (as I believe it only uses resources for the active bands.) The Grayscale iPods may also be able to do it.

[travishayes89]

actually i have had some succes on my 5g with an EQ  just mainly with wav files though  so its still a mixed package

[RotAtoR]

actually i have had some succes on my 5g with an EQ  just mainly with wav files though  so its still a mixed package

I would suspect FLAC and WavPack might also work well with the EQ since they don't require much CPU to decode either.

[travishayes89]

i think one of the files i tested might have been flac, all i know is that the formats that work with the eq on the ipod are lossless

[Chronon]

Because the Nano has a much smaller screen, it has a little more elbow Room than the 4G and a lot more than the 5G so it's possible that some bitrates of some formats can get away with EQing, especially if you don't use all the bands (as I believe it only uses resources for the active bands.) The Grayscale iPods may also be able to do it.

Okay, that makes a lot of sense.  I can definitely apply EQ with the nano, even with mp3 and AAC files.