Ipod Being Accessed Unnecessarily?

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Gregory Meyer <greg at gkmeyer.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yep, its just a question if phonon-xine does things differently. I've
forwarded the question to phonon-backends.

Ian