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Subject: Re: buffering problem with some MP3's

Re: buffering problem with some MP3's

From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: 2005-01-10

xcopy@club-internet.fr wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have seen that Rockbox have problem buffering with some MP3's.
> Specifically, MP3's encoded in VBR with the Lame encoder and the No gap
> option active.
> The play back stops for about a half second every two minutes, actually
> when the hard drive spin down.
>
> I don't have this problem with MP3's which don't use the nogap encoding
> option, unfortunatly, I have encoded many of my CD's that way.

This is probably because the nogap files have no Xing header. You can
create one with the vbrfix option in the ON+Play "Open with" menu.

Linus

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