File size limit?

[GSV3MiaC]

I managed to pretty much lock up the player (cycling he power saved it) by trying to play a ~70+MB .ogg file (80 minutes of CD, at 128 kb/s) .. not sure whether the problem was the pure size (be easy to duplicate with .flac, no?) or whether it was the fact it was huge and .ogg (and concatenated from a bunch of smaller files, as it happens).

After a restart, the player went back to track 1 of folder 1, so I assume it noticed it was screwed (on my G3 it would just have keep retrying and rebooting forever, so some things have improved).

This was firmware 1.12, so maybe they fixed it. Not sure I want to experiment - someone else try a big file!

[slawson]

I've just discovered a similar problem on my D2. I've just encoded an album as one ogg file, size just over 100Mb. I used foobar2000 and encoded to an album image with cuesheet. Played back on my D2, but after finishing the first track, it locked up and all I could hear was a high pitched whistle until I held the power slider on the 'ON' position until it powered off.

I then encoded the same album as a single file without the cuesheet support and this played back fine.

Could you have the same problem on the i7?

[GSV3MiaC]

Nope, I didn't have a cuesheet - this was just a bunch of tracks by one artist joined together (to make a 79 minutes file). Ripped separately, and joined later. All the shorter ones work OK .. actually even 79 minute ones work OK, but in Q=0 .ogg, which is only 64kb/s so the file size is a lot smaller. .. although the I7 does go into 'long ponder' mode when you start to play one (takes a while for the track details to display right).

That was all with firmware 1.12 .. maybe it is fixed. Maybe.

[Sirocco]

Has anyone discovered a limit for mp3 files? I listen to a recorded radio program, mp3 format, that takes up about 220 MB per file. Should this play on the Audio 7?

[GSV3MiaC]

I've been playing around some more, and I'm beginning to think it is not a file size limit on the I7, but rather it objects to some (but only some) of my .ogg files which have been constructed by concatenating short .ogg files together.

Maybe when you glue together more than 8 or 9 pieces, suddenly the I7 no longer feels like playing them (it just sits there, locked up, saying 00:00:00 out of 00:00:00, and not displaying the album, artist, or anything)? Other software players (on the PC) have no trouble with the file, and Mediamonkey is happy to play the version from the I7 memory, so it is just a firmware or hardware issue.

Reconverting the file (from .ogg q=-1 TO .ogg q=-1) marginally changes the file length, but after that (so far) the offending file is willing to play on the I7.

[Sirocco]

Can you concat the files into an MP3 file? I only use MP3 files and have never had a problem - I've used Nero to edit or create some of my MP3 files. MP3 seems like a popular standard - how did you make the choice to NOT use MP3?