Songs Freeze during Playback

[MarcGuay]

It just happened again to me.  Took a bit longer to kick in this time but still, same issue.  Stopping mid-song, skipping to next track displays (root) instead of ID3 tags, cannot skip backwards before the song which is stuck.  "Shutting down..." screen sticks and a hard shutdown (Power for 15 seconds) must be done.

Sansa e280
r15460-071104

For the record I was playing a FLAC file when this happened, which would make it related specifically to FS#8074 but I get the feeling FS#8077 is the same thing and may also need to be reopened.  

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Looks like it's been deaded.  Send some love to lostlogic.

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/8074

[riksweeney]

I'm getting this problem when playing songs with revision r15468-071105 on my iRiver H120

I first tried playing an ogg and the playback froze after 1 second. I reset it with a pin and tried again with the same result (with the same ogg file). I then tried an MP3 and that worked OK. A bit later on I tried a different ogg file and that played from start to finish without a problem.

The original ogg still freezes after 1 or 2 seconds but I can just hold stop to shutdown Rockbox.

Edit

Just tried with another ogg file and it stopped playing less than a second in, so I had to reset it.

[cocopugg]

It just happened again to me.  Took a bit longer to kick in this time but still, same issue.  Stopping mid-song, skipping to next track displays (root) instead of ID3 tags, cannot skip backwards before the song which is stuck.  "Shutting down..." screen sticks and a hard shutdown (Power for 15 seconds) must be done.

Sansa e280
r15460-071104

For the record I was playing a FLAC file when this happened, which would make it related specifically to FS#8074 but I get the feeling FS#8077 is the same thing and may also need to be reopened.  

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Looks like it's been deaded.  Send some love to lostlogic.

http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/8074

Yep, exact same problem, and I was simply playing mp3s. Same issue, takes longer to freeze than previous build, and need to do long button press in order to shutdown and reboot.

[ONE_HUMAN]

Anyone else been experiencing freezing in other areas?  For example, my Sansa e280 is suddenly freezing when I try to Browse Themes.  I never once had that issue before.

[ToneDeF]

I updated to r15460-071104 yesterday.  

Today I played over 100 MP3s flawlessly from three different playlists for just under 8 hours straight.  However, at the 8 hour mark, playback froze 51 seconds into a 3 min 26 sec song.

I also noticed when after my first playlist of the day completed, I selected "Resume Playback", and instead of displaying "Nothing to Resume", it instead played back the last three seconds of the last song from the playlist.

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Debug Buffering thread:

pcm: 0/529200
alloc: 27919784/27932752
real: 27916735/27932752
usefl: 7921/27932752
data_rem: 3656664
track count: 1
handle count: 10
cpu freq: 30MHz
boost ratio: 0%
pcmbufdesc: 0/21

[MarcGuay]

It didn't get fixed until r15469.  Keep updating, yo.

[ONE_HUMAN]

The constant freezing and the new button mapping on the Sansa was enough to make me delete it and revert to an earlier build.

[bloodbath]

What version do you have?  I didn't have any problem yesterday.  I was using version r15466.  I just updated today, so we'll see if it has been resolved completely as was mentioned.  By the way, when were the buttons remapped and how are they different from previous?

[Chronon]

Check out the Announcements forum.

[ONE_HUMAN]

What version do you have?  I didn't have any problem yesterday.  I was using version r15466.  I just updated today, so we'll see if it has been resolved completely as was mentioned.  By the way, when were the buttons remapped and how are they different from previous?

The main difference for me was the relocating of the Menu button from the Power/Menu button to the Down button.  I actually didn't get to play around with it too much because of the freezing issue.  For now I'm going to stay with an earlier build.  I like build r15236-071021 because that was the first one to address disabling the database rebuilding when connecting with USB.

[MarcGuay]

I like build r15236-071021 because that was the first one to address disabling the database rebuilding when connecting with USB.

If I'm not mistaken that was something done by the bootloader update, not Rockbox itself.  

[Llorean]

It was the bootloader update that did it, and that wasn't the beginning of disabling database rebuilding, that was simply an update to improve that feature (fix some problems with it, and add a newer firmware version that was supported).

[ONE_HUMAN]

Yes, I'm referring to this:

20 Oct 17:08
Barry Wardell

bootloader/main-pp.c [diff]
rbutil/sansapatcher/sansapatcher.c [diff]  

Support database rebuild disabling when USB is connected for all e200 OF versions. Some people may have to update the OF (to any version they want) using sansapatcher before it will work. This just ensures that the NVPARAMS are in a good state and we can be sure where to look for the rebuild flag. The c200 OF doesn't reboot before rebuilding the database, so our trick won't ever work there.

A day or so after that a newer version of sansapatcher was available... I believe it was the 0.5 update at the time.  Or maybe even 0.6, because as I recall it came out right after.  I don't really remember.  Not important.

[AlexP]

I believe it was the 0.5 update at the time.  Or maybe even 0.6, because as I recall it came out right after.  I don't really remember.  Not important.

It is fairly important, as only the correct version will work as you expect.

The point is that you don't need to stick with an old build for this feature, as it is in the bootloader not a build.

[MarcGuay]

Getting back on topic:

Looks like it was a bit premature to say it was fixed, I noticed some new freezing patterns yesterday.  Flyspray here: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/8113.