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Subject: Re: Rockbox skips through Ogg files

Re: Rockbox skips through Ogg files

From: Alex Meyer <rockboxmailinglist_at_ameyer17.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:10:04 -0600

Matthew Reath wrote:
> I have rockbox installed on an IAudio X5 20gb and when I select an Ogg
> file to play it just skips through all of the songs and then displays
> (root). Like it started to read each one but just moved onto the
> next. These were all converted MP3 files. I converted the files .wav
> and then to .ogg.
>
> I can plug the iaudio into the computer and play all of the ogg files
> of off the player using VLC or cplay.
>
> Is there a special bitrate or anything that Ogg files need to be in
> for Rockbox to play them?
I'd bet your files have id3 tags instead of and/or in addition to the
standard Vorbis comments.
Also, it's not a good idea to transcode lossy files.


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