Music stuttering on the Droid A855

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. put a .flac file on the sdcard
2. start andless
3. select the file and play

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The file plays, but there is a stutter if you do anything on the phone.  I
use Rockbox on my Cowon D2+ and the flac file I'm using doesn't do that. 
Unlocking the phone causes stuttering.  It's just annoying more than
anything. It doesn't matter if it's plugged in or not.  

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
andless 1.2.1
DroidMod build 164 (1.0), 

Please provide any additional information below.

Could this have anything with the priority set on the program itself?  I
mean, I could understand the stuttering if it didn't have the resources. 
But flac shouldn't take that much more processor power. I've converted this
flac to a 500kb ogg file, and it doesn't skip.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bra...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2010 at 6:57

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HI, same thing on HERO ( rom 2.1 behero 1.3.5 )
Modaco 3.2 it's ok . Where can we change priority ?

Original comment by moz4r...@gmail.com on 15 Apr 2010 at 2:17

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I just installed Meridian player as well, and played the same flac file with 
it, and
I'm getting the same skipping.  I don't know if they are using any of your 
code, but
it's worth a look.  I can't rate the app in the Market, as I realize that flac 
is
still an on-going thing... but I would be much appreciative if you could check 
this
out.  I am willing to send debug data or help test if you'd like.

Original comment by bra...@gmail.com on 15 Apr 2010 at 6:21

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Same problem on a Vodafone 32b HTC Magic, original Donut 1.6. All ok if I stay 
in 
Andless (selecting tracks and cue´s) but starts stuttering if i do anything 
with the 
phone. In my case,if i try Meridian Player with the same tracks i don´t get 
the 
stuttering.
Thank you very much for your player¡¡¡¡

Original comment by night...@gmail.com on 1 May 2010 at 12:25

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UPDATE:  Install Cyanogenmod 5.0.6.2, andless still skips, sometimes worse than 
with
droidmod.  Installed SetCPU and set the system to "Performance" and it seems to 
help
a little.  In my last post, I said that "unlocking the phone causes 
stuttering", I
meant when the lock screen is up and I swipe my finger across the screen the 
music
stutters...

Original comment by bra...@gmail.com on 1 May 2010 at 2:52

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I'm on a rooted droid (bugless beast) 2.1, and I get the same stuttering as 
above.  I
think it's less about absolute processor speed than latency, because I can 
overclock
to 1.0 GHz and that makes no difference in the stuttering.

Any action at all causes the stutter, from unlocking, to sliding home screens, 
to
opening another app.

Original comment by ParsonsM...@gmail.com on 17 May 2010 at 2:13

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I did some test and at least, the native library is not in cause, because the 
version 
of Meridian Player which use this library do not suffer about lag. It could be 
a design 
issue in the application or more probably the service itself... And proc speed 
do not 
change anything about that. I noticed that event on a 1.5 rom, there is some 
lag on my 
hero when I try to unlock the screen or do something else.

So this is not a special 2.1 issue, I think it's general and 2.1 has just 
increase its 
effects...

Original comment by blema...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2010 at 8:57

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I installed Cyanogenmod 5.0.7.0, and it has native FLAC support in the media 
player.
 No skipping.  All of my files "just work" in the native media player.  Please
continue working on andless, and make me want to come back and try it again in 
the
near future...

Original comment by bra...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2010 at 9:02

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Same problem (HTC Incredible with stock rom), perhaps it has to do with buffers 
that 
are too small or are not being updated fast enough?

Tried changing the server thread's priority from Process.THREAD_PRIORITY_AUDIO 
to 
Process.THREAD_PRIORITY_URGENT_AUDIO with no effect whatsoever...

Original comment by whiplash...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2010 at 4:11

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Update: arbitrarily increasing the buffer size by 8192 bytes 
(andless/jni/main.c:42) by 
simply adding the line "config.buffer_size+=8192;" before the malloc didn't 
help the 
situation.. still some stuttering... perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place?

Original comment by whiplash...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2010 at 6:21

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It seems the current Meridian Media Player Pioneer 0.18.2 works without 
stuttering. At least on my HTC Hero with villainROM 6.1. andless is stuttering. 
Wonder what they have modified to fix it.

Original comment by oledalga...@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2010 at 10:09

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Just updated Meridian to 0.19.0 and the stuttering problem is reduced, but 
still there. I'm running an HTC Incredible with a stock rom. I'll have to ask 
him to see what he did.

Original comment by whiplash...@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2010 at 3:14

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Same problem in a Vodafone HTC Legend using Android 2.1 :(

Original comment by soyunpla...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 6:02

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same on htc hero, default ROM 2.1... imho it started happening since some 
upgrades, didnt used for a month and now stuttering...

Original comment by sporhin...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2010 at 7:12

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Same here Legend 2.1

Original comment by CPSCruis...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2010 at 10:28

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same on My Wildfire 

Original comment by mei...@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2010 at 6:06