Support and General Use > Audio Playback, Database and Playlists
sporadic, random playback freezes on Gigabeat
michael.conner:
I've had it happen 4 out of 5 times with folder-based playback. The time it happened last week with the mono mp3 file I'd created a playlist by adding the file itself. Shuffle was off, as was repeat.
Llorean:
That's very strange. I've been using my Gigabeat quite a lot since I got it (it's replaced my old primary player, at least until I install a new battery) without any freezes at all.
Do the freezes occur when nothing is happening, or is there anything about the freezes that is consistent (maybe it happens regularly a short time after you've been in the menu, or after you've had music playing for a while so it might be near a rebuffer?)
I have no idea right now so I'm trying to explore anything at all that might be a relationship between the freezes.
michael.conner:
For me, it's pretty much been while nothing was happening, but the circumstances have been different each time. Today, I was listening to an album while working and it was probably 5 tracks into it, so it may have been near a rebuffer. Last week, it froze about 6 minutes into a podcast I was listening to in bed, so nothing was happening -- but the podcast itself was only about 18MB, so the entire thing would be in the buffer already, I assume. The very first time it happened, I'd just started an album by hitting play inside a folder... it barely got 2 seconds into the song before it stopped and became unresponsive.
I use my Gigabeat anywhere from 2-5 hours per day, and it's been pretty rock solid except for these seemingly random crashes. Weird.
michael.conner:
If it helps at all (don't know if it would or not, since it played correctly the next day), this is a file that the Gigabeat crashed on:
http://media.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/mp3/315/bsg_ep315_FULL.mp3
Mad Cow:
I don't think the file matters, I've had mine crash in the plugins menu before. I'm pretty sure it's caused by rockbox accidentally sending a bad signal to the processor or some important piece of hardware and causing it to malfunction.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version