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Subject: Re: Rockbox skips through Ogg files

Re: Rockbox skips through Ogg files

From: Matt Reath <mpreath_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:44:33 -0600

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 12:10:04AM -0600, Alex Meyer wrote:
> 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.

You can download an example Ogg from
http://giancola-reath.homelinux.org/ogg.zip

User: ourguest
Password: guest

I only have one ogg file in it at the moment.

-Matt


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