Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:29:49 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: MP3 skippety skip skipageness |
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On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Craig Schlenter wrote:
>> >Interesting, it seems to have worked ok for this mornings alarmclock of 5 >> >metallica mp3s started with crontab. (yes this is what it takes to wake me >> >up in the morning) Everything sounded fine. >> >> If you're needing 5 metallica MP3's to wake you up, perhaps it >> skipped during the first 1-4 and you slept through it. >> >> I just played the entire Ride the lightening album in MP3, and it >> skips too. I tried mpg123 and a couple other programs. Still >> skips. > >The only thing that works properly for me is either x11amp or amp-0.7.6. > >amp-0.7.6 was compiled to do realtime stuff and has to run as root.
I tried several mp3 players - all seem to skip to some extent. None of them ever skip except very occasionally on a busy system in 2.0.x. So therefore it is definitely something wrong, and not an issue with a maxed out system or some such.
>All the other players I've tried skip to some degree. When playing a mp3 >from cd I have the odd skip as the cd spins up, amp reads some stuff, >the cd spins down, amp wants to read more and skips while the cd spins >up and so on ... irritating.
Suggestions for your CD problem:
cat the file to /dev/null prior to playing it. It may likely stay in buffer cache. You might also want to try out a program that changes your CD's spindown timer if the drive allows it. Alternative to that, you can write a small script which runs every X seconds which accesses a random sector on the CD.
>I wrote a little read-mp3-into 5 Meg buffer thing and then pipe into amp >/proc/self/fd/0 (or is it 1?) which worked quite nicely for that. The >code for that seems to be gone now as I trashed my one drive but it >shouldn't be hard to write something like that again.
I wrote the above having not read your whole message first. ;o) May I ask how you trashed your drive? Was it a 2.2.x bug, or just an accident?
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