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One thing to keep in mind about long tracks
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Jun 25, '04 02:08:18PM

Anytime you have an audio file that is either longer in length, or larger in size than the iPod's RAM buffer will hold, you force the iPod to read this file off its hard drive, which will cause the battery to drain much faster. It could also cause the iPod to skip.
 
What a lot of people don't understand is that the iPod does not stream audio off its hard drive, but instead reads the file into RAM, and plays it from that. If the file is too large to load into RAM, it only loads part of that file, and then has to access the hard drive.

Personally I just live with the small pause as the iPod loads the next track.



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One thing to keep in mind about long tracks
Authored by: marky on Jun 25, '04 11:49:29PM

This is a good point. However, if you are only playing 5 minutes of a 60 minute track will the iPod still need to load the entire track? Just wondering.

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One thing to keep in mind about long tracks
Authored by: nat5an on Jun 27, '04 03:40:49PM

In my experience, the iPod loads as much into RAM as it possibly can to minimize the amount of time it has to spin the hard drive. It seems to load all of the current song (or as much as it can), and then the next few songs that will be played (if there's space available), assuming no user interference. Thus you may see that if you skip a song or two, the next song will start playing immediately, but if you skip several songs, you'll have to wait for the song to be loaded into RAM. Of course this effect will vary greatly with the size of the audio files.



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