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What does RockBox do to hardware?

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jdong:

--- Quote from: michael.conner on January 02, 2007, 11:55:58 AM ---
What kind of inefficient HD use do you suspect Rockbox does?  

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I've noticed on my 5.5G iPod that if I skip 5 songs while playing a playlist, Rockbox can take around 2-5 minutes to refill its buffer and spin down the HD, while stock firmware gets its buffering done in a matter of seconds.

This may be one case of inefficient HD use, and if the disk is really kept active for 5 minutes while the wearer is, say, jogging, I suspect it may make some kind of impact in the overall life of the unit.

And with the iPod, I think the most concerning aspect is the reduced battery life. Rockbox uses the battery about twice faster than stock firmware, and those additional charge cycles will have more impact on the unit's life than any other effect.

J2383:

--- Quote from: jdong on January 03, 2007, 01:10:13 AM ---I've noticed on my 5.5G iPod that if I skip 5 songs while playing a playlist, Rockbox can take around 2-5 minutes to refill its buffer and spin down the HD

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I've had that happen as well. Are you playing large files when that happens? Mostly all I have on my RockBox are all my 100+ Mb FLAC files I copied from various CDs. I assumed it was because they were so large that it took longer to refill the buffer.

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