Ipod Being Accessed Unnecessarily?

[Martin Aumueller]

On Saturday 12 July 2008, Alejandro Wainzinger wrote:
> So, iPods make a clicking sound when the hard drive is being accessed.
>  In Amarok 1, I only hear this at the beginning when the database is
> loaded, and on song change.  In Amarok 2, I hear it fairly constantly,
> even if no songs are being played on the iPod.  Is there something,
> like the cover fetcher for instance, constantly trying to update
> itself and therefore accessing the iPod?  I'm concerned with this as I
> don't want unnecessary hard drive use for obvious reasons.
>
> Secondly, and maybe this question goes to aumuell et al, when I play
> songs on A2 the iPod shows the icon of two arced arrows spinning
> around, as if it's constantly being read off of, whereas in A1 this
> usually only happens on track change.  Is something different about
> the way files are played in A2 as opposed to A1?

I'm sorry as I cannot comment on this: I don't really know A2. I could just 
imagine that Phonon handles playing differently than e.g. the xine-engine. 
Perhaps xine reads the whole track on song start, whereas Phonon could read 
audio data just as it is needed, in small batches. That's the only idea I 
have.