Very often when listening to long podcasts the Music Player stops (pauses) at around 35-45 minutes into the file and flashes an "memory full" error. NB for the same file it always stops at the same point. When I check the memory status I have seemingly plenty free, 3 - 7MB. I can sometimes work around it by fastforwarding to 1-2 minutes after where it stops and it will continue to play. Has anyone else come across this problem?
E70 1.0610.05.07 30-05-06 RM-10 (It's an APAC model and Nokia are too lazy to bring out an updated firmware).
All S60 devices (not N70) have always some memory problems. See if you have some background open applications and close them. if is only the music player running, that should not occur.
nj7 wrote:All S60 devices (not N70) have always some memory problems. See if you have some background open applications and close them. if is only the music player running, that should not occur.
If the app was designed correctly then if I have enough memory to start playing the file then it should play all the way to the end regardless of how long the file is.
Anyway, the problem doesn't seem to be related to the amount of free memory. Here's what I did:
1) Free memory, about 6MB. Start playing an hour long podcast, it stops at 36m:16s. I have to close and restart music player then fast-forward to about 37m then it continues to play to the end.
2) I reset phone, free memory about 19MB. I start playing a different one hour long podcast. It also stops at 36m:16s. The only programs I have running is Y-Browser (which I use to select the file to play) and music player itself.
I'm quite surprised that nobody else has come across this problem.
I get the same problem using the MMF version of OggPlay. The MMF version uses the phone's builtin decoders for formats such as MP3. So it's definitely a bug in S60v3.
If you convert the file to ogg (and use OggPlay to play it) do you get the same problem?
OggPlay has no problems playing the same files converted to ogg. Also the Alon MP3 player has no problems playing the original mp3 files either - but Alon has other terminal problems such crashing whenever opening a folder/playlist containing more than a few files.