[valthainos]

Well... my friend got a Sony DCJ01KITCS pcdp recently and I am still in awe at what it does: it will stop spinning the disc yet keep playing the song. WHY!? Is there some kind of flash memory in there that gets song data and just plays it back through that. I am going to try and stick down the cd-closing tab so that I can open the casing and keep the cdp playing. When the cd has stopped I'll open up the case and remove the disc, and see what happens

I'm pretty sure I won't even get to do this 'cause of you guys and your vast knowledge. Ah well... any comments would be appreciated.

 

[dokebi]

It buffers the song into its memory for mp3 music to save power. It won't do this with audo cd's.

 

[myself, aka me]

Sure it will. For 40 seconds, in between skip protection buffer loading

 

[ServinginEcuador]

I noticed thatmy PCDP does the same thing. Inside is a little switch that allowed me to turn off the buffering. This supposedly helps sound quality, so if you can do so, do so. The newer units can buffer as much as a minute of music that's read ahead, so while the music is playing it shuts down the spindle and saves power. Another reason the new units last longer on their battery life.

 

[Basshead Jazz]

In MP3 mode, the CD will spin continuiously when using the AC adaptor, while using battery power the CD is designed to stop to reduce power consumption.

Hope this helps.

 

[Joe Bloggs]

I set my G-protection setting to 1 ('low') and while it spins audio CDs continuously (small uncompressed buffer doesn't allow enough cache time to stop spinning the CD) mp3 CDs still stop spinning--no need to worry about this degrading quality as mp3s are very compressed already and the cache can store a long period of mp3 music as it is.