Re: lack of responsiveness
> Why not buffer some (as in enough (tm)) seconds of the next song on the > playlist? We do, in fact we often buffer several whole songs ahead, but as you near the end of the buffer, before rebuffering has happened (to save battery it's not constantly filled but empties and refills), or if you have large FLAC files, or if a user skips often, then you can still experience a delay.
Re: lack of responsiveness
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:37:44AM +0200, Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: > >There is a lack of responsiveness when skipping songs. I'm listening > >music, press next key and the hdd have to start up. The old songs is > >still playing. I've no info what happens, so I press next button again. I > >think this is quite confusing. > > I agree completely. The music should stop immediately to provide feedback. Why not buffer some (as in enough (tm)) seconds of the next song on the playlist? Just a suggestion along the way, I am not currently using a hd player but I think the Rio Karma I owned a while ago was very responsive when switching songs (the HD only powering up afterwards). Simon
Re: lack of responsiveness
This is exactly the reason I'd like to see the "beep" replaced by a generic keyclick. The point is to indicate to the user that their keypress has been recognised. I put a patch up at http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7307, but it needs resyncing. There didn't seem to be much interest it the idea at the time (i.e. it's felt worth committing), but I'll revisit if others think it's useful. I certainly do! I suspect that stopping playback to improve perceived responsiveness probably wouldn't respond as quickly as you'd like anyway. -- pondlife
Re: lack of responsiveness
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:37:44AM +0200, Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: > David wrote: > >There is a lack of responsiveness when skipping songs. I'm listening > >music, press next key and the hdd have to start up. The old songs is > >still playing. I've no info what happens, so I press next button again. I > >think this is quite confusing. > > I agree completely. The music should stop immediately to provide feedback. Well, there is the beep option which one can turn on, if feedback is desired. Stopping playback would just introduce few seconds of unnecessary silence. Then skipping multiple tracks would not sound very comfortable. Perhaps the beep should be relative to current volume (if it already isn't). So beep_volume would be beep_volume_factor * current_volume_factor. Perhaps a new option (quiet) could be added to the beep volume setting; IMHO strong is already strong enough for everybody. -- Tapio
Re: lack of responsiveness
David wrote: There is a lack of responsiveness when skipping songs. I'm listening music, press next key and the hdd have to start up. The old songs is still playing. I've no info what happens, so I press next button again. I think this is quite confusing. I agree completely. The music should stop immediately to provide feedback. Linus
