Fwd: Ipod Being Accessed Unnecessarily?

[Matthias Kretz]

On Sunday 13 July 2008 23:27:32 Ian Monroe wrote:
> Basically the question is: does phonon-xine work all that differently
> then the Amarok 1.4 backend (which was a very simple xine client
> implementation)?

It might be that there are subtle differences, but I can't imagine any that 
would have this effect. To find the cause you could try to play the files with 
xine-ui, kaffeine and e.g. dragonplayer. If it indicates that phonon-xine is 
the problem then perhaps strace would be the best tool to find out what 
happens...

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Martin Aumueller <aumuell at reserv.at>
> Date: Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Ipod Being Accessed Unnecessarily?
> To: amarok-devel at kde.org
>
> 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.

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