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Hey guys,

I noticed that recently that Canola has been stuttering a lot with audio playback... it only happens in glitches, but is starting to be real downer. For example, 10 seconds into a song it wi-il-ll stu-tt-er, and then again about another minute into it. I'm using VBR MP3s encoded at around 320kb and am playing off a class 4 16GB card in the "external" n800 slot.

I don't have anything running except Canola and a couple of small apps like Advance Backlight and a load-watcher applet. (The load-watcher applet doesn't show anything unusual.)

Any thoughts on what I could do to help improve performance? Should I reformat my SDHC card into a recommended way... cluster size, for example?

Thanks!
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* cricket. cricket. * No thoughts? No tips? Am I asking the question in the right place?

I'm having similar issue, but I'm not convinced it's Canola's fault.

I agree with you. I'm running the OS from my internal card, but my MP3s are stored on the external SD card. So, I tried playing a set of MP3s on the internal card, and the stutter got worse.

Things seem to also have got worse when I installed the screen rotation debs.

If there's no solution found here, my next test is to completely reflash. Then test Canola from the internal flash memory and then on the internal card (newly refreshed.)

I kindof had the same issue.

What did I do, "chkdsk -r -f 'SDHC'"

Seemed to do the trick for me. My flash was dying.

Also could be too many songs in the library. The more I seem
to fill up my SD card, the longer Canola seems to skip some, takes forever to open one in shuffle mode and some skip as you have mentioned.

Depending on whether Canola is using the GStreamer or Mplayer backend, it would be worth playing your stuttering files directly with these apps and see if they still stutter. This would narrow it down to a file or media player problem vs. a Canola problem.

Hey guys ---

A quick update. As you know, I've been running off the OS off the internal SD card. Last night, I booted up via the built-in flash and installed Canola there. WALAH... no more skipping. From this, I can at least deduce there is no issue with the external SD card where my MP3s are stored... also deduce that the number of MP3s aren't affecting overall playback.

However, my flash install has limited software installed. So, it has yet to be seen whether it is another package causing this or the internal SD card itself that was causing performance issues. I *DO* know that all media players contained within the SD install exhibited the stuttering. (Thanks for the tip, Lardman.)

Also, before moving back to the internal flash, I did play around with the .atabake/config file... explicitly calling out "mp3 = oms" and likewise, but it did not fix anything.

For you guys experiencing this stuttering, are you booting from internal flash or SD card? That would help narrow it down to either the card or another package.

Thanks!