Hesitation/temporary freeze - Page 2

oekundar · 03-07-2005, 11:38 AM

SAScooby...that sux...I don't really want to go through and delete songs. My other point is it was not doing this with my previous version of frodoplayer 1.08 and I find it hard to believe that the installation of FP changes the MP3s...just a thought...it may in fact be Skin related as you mentioned....

SAScooby · 03-07-2005, 12:12 PM

me too
deleting songs sux, my thoughts are also on skins....perhaps a font or odd character issue .... need to find a pattern here

Curiosity · 03-07-2005, 03:55 PM

Eek! I'd hate to have to delete songs. Try re-encoding it. Just load the song into an editor and save. Or use MP3Gain to adjust the gain a little. Also, I have trouble with my Hitachi drive sometimes. It loads files slower after a while, so I just make a copy of all the MP3s and delete the originals, then rename the new folder to the old name and it's zippy again. It just gets slow if the files stay in the same place. Dunno.

ZenerDiode · 03-08-2005, 08:55 PM

maybe it's a subaru thing

actually i'm just bumping to get more exposure....still haven't figured it out. I've tried a bunch of different skins....no help... I really don't want to reencode my music. I don't think it's that though, cause the song that was messed up would play fine later on when i come back to it after skipping around to other songs

Curiosity · 03-08-2005, 09:17 PM

That's really starting to sound like hard disk access problems because it's taking a long time to load the first time, then while it's cached it plays fine. Just copy it to another folder, delete it, then move the copy back. That puts it on different sectors of the disk, it's just not visibly any different and no data actually changes.

The slow down is probably due to the disk having to read a few sectors several times to get a correct checksum which is a little bad.

ZenerDiode · 03-09-2005, 01:54 AM

yeah, that's what i thought a first. did that...didn't help. then i went out and actually bought a NEW with twice the capacity. didn't help. blah. this sucks.

Curiosity · 03-09-2005, 11:14 AM

Ooh, this could get expensive fast. It just sounds like it has to be hardware since it's not consistent, but then again WMP or the mp3 codec may have a bug (as if it doesn't have enough). Is the file really huge or super high bitrate? Anything really different about it?

ZenerDiode · 03-09-2005, 12:04 PM

nope...the file is pretty normal. every one of my mp3's were ripped and encoded with CDex/LAME encoder. funny thing is, everything is hunky dory in Centrafuse and RR...go figure. Maybe I'll just wait for Take 4

ekip · 03-18-2005, 04:00 AM

I also have this same problem with mp3's.

I just think has anybody installed that CD/Ex to carputer and tried that? If there isn't just a good codec for wmp10 to handle?? i will try that at home tomorrow, and if no one else has tried it i'll tell result's

Specs from system
Via Epia m800
WinXP sp2
wmp10
All codecs from frodos site.
369MB system memory with 133MHz
200G harddisk with 2MB cache
Via's own soundcard

prometheusg · 03-20-2005, 09:37 PM

Same problem here...

I think this must be something WMP or Frodoplayer is doing. I don't think it's the mp3 files because they play fine in other media players and systems. Similarly, I don't think it's a hardware issue because the files play fine with different media players.

Not sure how the visualizations work. Even if they are not visible, are they still in memory and executing some of their code? If so, maybe every few songs, they try to recalculate some values or do some processing? I know I can't run the visualizations at full screen because they look like crap (2 - 3 fps).

It also seems like it might be caching something every few songs. Some WMP logs or something? I wish I knew!

My Specs:
M10k
512 Mb Ram
2.5" 20Gb hard drive - 2Mb cache
WinXP
Frodoplayer 1.09 tk3
djScript's YAFP skin (LCDN.ttf font)
WMP 10

frodobaggins · 03-20-2005, 10:23 PM

What vis are you all using ? Maybe there is a commonality.

prometheusg · 03-21-2005, 12:43 PM

I haven't touched wmp 10 since I installed it, so I'm "using" the default one, whatever it is. I never actually use it, so I have no idea what it is...

hunka27 · 03-26-2005, 05:14 PM

I have the same problem.... has anyone fixed this yet? It really is so annoying....

frodobaggins · 03-27-2005, 07:47 PM

try changing your FrodoPlayer shortcuts to

cmd /c start "runhigh" /high "c:\program files\frodoplayer\frodoplayer.exe"

prometheusg · 03-29-2005, 02:05 PM

Didn't work for me. Still stutters on starting random songs.

It's not as bad as before, but it's still definitely there