MP3 stops playing (buffering) any hel´p?

[Guest OKrinke]

Hi,

I´ve the problem, that many mp3s are stocking evry 10-40 seconds for a while. The phone then shows buffering...

The y are sampled between about 80-128 bits.

???

Thanks

[Guest HelloDave]

I used to have this problem - I think it might be that Media Player can't handle anything with a bitrate much higher than about 70kbps without a bit of buffering! I gave up and converted everthing to wma - 64kbps wma ~ 128kbps mp3 and they take up a lot less space on your SD card too!

It's not really a solution, but it's the best workaround there is at the moment! The cynical person would say it's M$ crippling mp3 playback so that everyone uses wma instead. Not that i'm cynical...

[Guest kevlar]

I have read here a few times to keep bitrates down> I have only just bought a 128mb card, and so haven't experimented, but I have a full album in 160kbps on my card, and it plays faultlessly. It may be because I have removed the shortcuts in the startup folder, therefore there ' shouldn't ' be anything else running. As I said, the tracks play fine.

Kevlar

[Guest Moony1234]

how do you remove the shortcuts in ur startup folder?

[Guest kevlar]

Just move them to your pc through active sync. Warning though, no one has confirmed either way whether this may cause a problem. I haven't had any problems yet.

Kevlar

[Guest Wizard]

I put a 400kbps WMA on my SPV the other day and the handset failed to handle it at all, the poor thing nearly choked. So I tried a 192kbps and that was better, but the sound quality dropped a little and sometimes it broke up, but it played OK.

But what's weirding me out is I just put a 32kbps WMA on here (created through Media Player 8 on XP) and it breaks up a whole bunch at the start. Thankfully it's fine once it gets going, but it stops at about four points within the first few seconds of play. It's incredibly irritating.

The phone is advertised as a digital music player but to be quite honest that claim is laughable given:

a) you need to drop the quality to get them to play at all

:D even having done that they sometime break up

c) the heaphones are dreadful

d) the headphone socket is non-standard so plugging decent ones in isn't too easy

I was going to pick up a 256mb card for the phone, but I'm not sure it's worth it given how badly this phone handles audio files.

I have these in my StartUp folder:

AddContact

coldinit

CWTimeOut

eloff

EzPushRouterRegister

Orange Support

SmsClassZero

Usbcnect

What do they all do?

I also notice Dockware keeps popping up, but only when the phone is in the cradle. How do I disable it? I'm curious why it keeps running when it dosn't seem to be listed in the StartUp folder.

The SPV is much better than I expected, but it's a bit v1.0, i.e. rough around the edges. I am very much looking forward to the next upgrade to see what arrives.

Wizard

[Guest rikmartin]

Dockware is disabled within its own setup/preferences

the option is "start automatically"

Thanks

[Guest Wizard]

I don't seem to have an options screen, only choices for how it is displayed not when it runs. I'm running the eval, not the full version. How do I get to the options?

Wizard

[Guest OKrinke]

Hi, I found out that 128 kbps sampling works very good.

Others (80, 96,...) are making problems.

Be carefull with removing in the startupfolder,

I couln´´t start the phone anymore...

Bye

[Guest Wizard]

If I use higher bit rate music files, they jump a lot. I understand that by lowering the bit rate I can get them to play without jumping. However even with lower bit rate files, they still seem to jump at least once towards the start of the file.

Wizard

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

i'm too broke to get a new sdio card yet so i'm still on te 8meg O one. managed to squeeze 6 mp3's on as 56kbps .wma's. i get some breakup, usually only once per cycle of play though. all in all i'm pleased with my phone's media capabilities

i know it has its bugs and such, but before peole start complaining they should rememberby definiition its "A mobile phone with PDA functions", not the other way round, when full support for features like this should be expected....

[Guest yatpeak]

That's unusual, all my WMAs on my SPV have a bitrate of around 400kbps and it plays them fine.