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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: More Responsive Track SwitchingRe: More Responsive Track Switching
From: Noah Smith <midblue_at_carolina.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:19:15 -0500 "Linus Nielsen Feltzing" <linus_at_haxx.se> wrote in message news:42139C3C.9080706_at_haxx.se... > Noah Smith wrote: >> Is that necessary? Wouldn't it be possible to refill the main buffer and >> just leave the prebuffer where it is, and allow it to be depleted? > > And what if you skip to the next song before the prebuffer is depleted? As someone else mentioned, most of the delay is because of waiting for the harddrive to wake up. By the time you skip two tracks in a row, the harddrive will hopefully have had enough time to be active again. Then rockbox would presumably discard whatever was left of the prebuffer, and then fill both buffers back up with new information. Also, if the prebuffer is kept as short as possible, say 4 or 5 seconds, then perhaps this won't be too much of an issue. People usually have to hear at least a few seconds before deciding to keep or skip a track. Even in times that the tracks were switched quickly and the prebuffer had to be partially discarded, it could still possibly be faster than the current way, because of the harddrive's head start in spinning up. Noah _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-02-17 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |