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HorstIriver:
The playback volume of the FM tuner is too low, much lower than with the iriver firmware. A bug was filed July 17, but it got low priority, and it hasn't even assigned so far. My personal opinion is that the main purpose of a player is to produce sound, so sound related problems should not being tagged 'low priority'. I wrote a new bug report, containing a detailled description, but I got an e-mail that one of the Rockbox project managers denied to deal with that problem. I have to admit that I am a bit disappointed by that reaction. Rockbox already has so many features, optical gimmicks, etc. I use the tuner very frequently, so to me this is a major drawback. What else can I do to persuade the Rockbox crew that this problem should be fixed?
PS. I couldn't find a better forum to post this topic, so sorry in case this is not the appropriate forum.

Horst

bluebrother:

--- Quote ---A bug was filed July 17, but it got low priority, and it hasn't even assigned so far.
--- End quote ---
Please browse the tracker a bit. You'll soon find out that only a few tasks are actually assigned to someone. A task sits as long as someone picks it up but this doesn't necessarily correlate with its priority or an assigned dev.

--- Quote ---My personal opinion is that the main purpose of a player is to produce sound, so sound related problems should not being tagged 'low priority'.
--- End quote ---
The problem is to decide which "bug" has to give what priority. In that case this isn't a big problem as (a) Rockbox main purpose is to play audio, and that means audio files like mp3 and ogg, not playing radio and (b) it actually works. So the bug you filed is simply a quirk that's a bit annoying but at least it works.
There are a couple of outstanding audio file playback issues, and as most users want their players to playback audio files and not radio they are pretty much more important. Speaking for myself, I even don't want my player to have a tuner. As I can't buy the player without I simply don't use it.

--- Quote ---I wrote a new bug report, containing a detailled description, but I got an e-mail that one of the Rockbox project managers denied to deal with that problem.
--- End quote ---
This isn't correct.
In detail: I closed you bug report as it actually was a duplicate. You should have gotten a notification mail about that from Flyspray. As you posted a nice description of the problem I added a note to the other task yours was a duplicate of in case someone wants to read another (i.e. your) description. Now the submitter of that original task requested your task to be reopened. As there is a task open (and actually the task of the guy who requested yours to get reopened) his request is completely ununderstandable to me. That request got denied (which should be clearly from the notification mail about that). (You can find this out by looking at the history of your task)

--- Quote ---I use the tuner very frequently, so to me this is a major drawback. What else can I do to persuade the Rockbox crew that this problem should be fixed?
--- End quote ---
Nothing.
The thing is that rockbox developers work in their spare time and don't get paid, thus they work on bugs the way they like and according to their meaning of what is important and what isn't. Also, IMO this isn't a real bug simply because it doesn't affect the functionality. If you want to have this fixed quickly go ahead and work on it yourself. There are always a couple of friendly devs on IRC you can ask for help.

Don't forget: this is open source. Take it or leave it. If you don't like the current state start working on it yourself. Or use some (most probably) paid alternative.

HorstIriver:
Bluebrother, I didn't want to sound disrespectful or critizise any of the Rockbox developers. I did search for a duplicate before I wrote my bug report, but the Flyspray search engine couldn't find any. In fact, it doesn't even find 'FM', and searching for 'radio' did not reveal the earlier bug report you were talking about. Someone who had worked on the FM receiver part has added stations that can be named and saved, that is a great feature, so my impression was that supporting the FM receiver had some importance. When I go on a business trip or travel, I usually want to listen to both, my personal mp3 collection, and news from the local radio stations. I agree with you, Rockbox is developped without getting paid for, it is a hobby. But if the general rule for using Rockbox is: 'Take it as it is, or drop it', why do we have forums in which we can discuss about it? It is not only your reply to my quesion. The delayed-response-of-the-stop-button-thread is not very encouraging... sometimes it reacts immediately, without any delay, sometimes it ignores short presses at all. So it is either a bug, or, if the delay has technical reasons, it doesn't work reliably. Raising the volume of the radio is, most probably, writing a different value into one of the registers. Much easier than implementing a system of 32 named and saved stations. OK, maybe the person who implemented that feature will find some minutes to fix it  8-)    

Febs:

--- Quote from: HorstIriver on September 03, 2006, 07:44:34 PM ---But if the general rule for using Rockbox is: 'Take it as it is, or drop it', why do we have forums in which we can discuss about it?
--- End quote ---
You left out the most important part of Bluebrother's post:  "If you don't like the current state, start working on it yourself."


--- Quote ---Raising the volume of the radio is, most probably, writing a different value into one of the registers. Much easier than implementing a system of 32 named and saved stations.
--- End quote ---
And you are absolutely welcome to submit a patch to fix it, particularly if it is as easy as you believe it to be.

Llorean:
I can rather easily understand how "The volume is lower on FM" got a low priority, since a simple solution is to turn up the volume.

My experience here is that the volume level is fine on FM. I haven't compared it to the iRiver Firmware's volume on FM, but is it possible that your station is quiet?

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