Irreproducible bugs are annoying.
I’ve fscking had it with rockbox.
For reasons that totally escape me, I am utterly unable to play oggs I’ve encoded since maybe November of last year in successive versions of rockbox. Not all ogg vorbis files are affected; some play. Most do not. When they don’t, the iRiver barfs...in recent Rockbox builds, it shows “No file!” errors. (previously, rockbox would simply stop....no explanations.)
Why am I fussed? I actually thought rockbox was a pretty good set of replacement firmware. The stock firmware plays all my files, no matter how I mess with them, but somehow, rockbox continues to be temperamental.
No one else seems to have been able to reproduce my bug, and this drives me up the wall, because I can’t reproduce it, either. There was a line, apparently, that said “oh, well, you can’t play anything encoded after $date in Rockbox, sorry.”
In a fit of pique, I deleted a lot of non-compliant files on my local backup. (NOT the iRiver). I think I’m just going to declare defeat, rsync everything back to the way it was, and carry on using iRiver’s firmware.
For reasons that totally escape me, I am utterly unable to play oggs I’ve encoded since maybe November of last year in successive versions of rockbox. Not all ogg vorbis files are affected; some play. Most do not. When they don’t, the iRiver barfs...in recent Rockbox builds, it shows “No file!” errors. (previously, rockbox would simply stop....no explanations.)
Why am I fussed? I actually thought rockbox was a pretty good set of replacement firmware. The stock firmware plays all my files, no matter how I mess with them, but somehow, rockbox continues to be temperamental.
No one else seems to have been able to reproduce my bug, and this drives me up the wall, because I can’t reproduce it, either. There was a line, apparently, that said “oh, well, you can’t play anything encoded after $date in Rockbox, sorry.”
In a fit of pique, I deleted a lot of non-compliant files on my local backup. (NOT the iRiver). I think I’m just going to declare defeat, rsync everything back to the way it was, and carry on using iRiver’s firmware.