2.00 final.
Hijack 416
fid_sift latest
max_fid v7
empire

Playing empeg on shuffle, I heard the player skip. It did this several songs ago as well, but I thought it must have been a bad mp3. Attached is the captured Hyperterminal output.

Looking at the data, it looks like the player is rebooting or trying to reboot while doing something else?

But the player was only stuttering the audio for short periods of time - not enough for a crash and reboot.

Earlier it HAD rebooted itself (after I tried to insert a track into a 22,000 track running order). Is it possible that the reboot messages were caught in a buffer? I did not launch hyperterminal until after that reboot had taken place.

Man this stuff is dangerous!

After editing the config.ini, my player wouldn't boot up. Perhaps the larger reservecache + a 22,000 track playlist was too much for the player to get going. It was caught on "Loading Music Databases" and "Building Database". I could not ftp into the player, but a serial connection was working. The "rebuilding" one confuses me a bit. I never let it finish rebuilding, but that was never a problem.

TeraTerm Pro does not receive files (or if it does, doing a search on my computer for "config.ini" showed nothing after doing a "sz config.ini" on it). So, I had to go back to Hyperterminal, send the config.ini to my PC, edit out the reservecache line and send it back to the player. Typed "exit" and player booted up fine! It didn't even ask me to do a database rebuild.

Thank you Tony for the FAQ. It had been a while since I had used zmodem to send fijles. Doing the needed ro, rom, rw, rwm and chmod went great too.

Guess I need one of those RAM cards now!

Quite welcome.

The increasing stutter followed by a reboot was always a sign on my Mk1 of insufficient memory which could usually be sorted by adjusting the cache size.