Ipod Being Accessed Unnecessarily?

[Gregory Meyer]

On 7/13/08, Martin Aumueller <aumuell at reserv.at> wrote:
>
>  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.
>
I don't think phonon has anything to do with it, since it is just an
abstraction layer between the sound systems and the applications.  It
probably depends on what backend phonon is using more than phonon
itslef.