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why can't rockboxed ipod can't handle *.APE ?

post #1 of 7
11/30/09 at 3:25pm
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Hello all!

Curious, my rockboxed ipod 4g can't play ape files without a lot of skipping. All encoded forms of APE, not just the heavily encoded ones.

I can't find anything elsewhere on the net about this. Has anyone else experienced this? Are there some crazy settings that would help this? Some sort of fragmenting issue?

thanks!

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post #2 of 7
12/1/09 at 3:46pm
Monkey's Audio is CPU intensive on decoding, and some compression modes do not play back in realtime on portable players.
Read: SoundCodecMonkeysAudio < Main < Wiki

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post #3 of 7
12/1/09 at 4:53pm
Converting them to flac will help.

That's why I use flac. Even the simplest of players (even the sansa clip) can play it.
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post #4 of 7
12/1/09 at 6:43pm
my S9 and D2 always handled APE decently,
well, the D2 interface slowed to a crawl, but still pleyd RT,
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post #5 of 7
12/2/09 at 2:01am
The D2 and S9 are newer players of course and have more powerful CPUs. I wouldn't doubt that they are better at APE.
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post #6 of 7
12/2/09 at 11:29am
I just wish my iPod could handle rockbox...
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post #7 of 7
12/2/09 at 12:15pm
i wish all of my players would 'run' rockboxx. the amp3 would be a very nice player with rockbox
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