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["Michael G." <commodore128@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Yes indeed, I'm all too familiar with this problem and yes it's very 
irritating.  As it turns out, it's actually pretty easy to fix.  Just change 
your .WPS theme to something other than the default .WPS files that are 
included with Rockbox. I changed mine and it fixed the problem.  It also fixed 
the other problem I was having with music skipping.  As far as that goes, you 
need a theme that  doesn't display a peak meter on the display while your music 
is playing.  I mentioned this in a previous post.  These were WMA files that I 
converted to MP3.  For some reason, any track that was formerly a WMA file 
would skip during playback.  However, when I changed the WPS theme, the 
skipping stopped. Coincidently, changing the theme also resolved the problem of 
the player freezing up on me when I tried pressing stop or pause.  Like you, 
this didn't happen to me all the time, but it was frequent enough to get me 
annoyed. I can't say for sure if it's the peak meter that was causing the 
freezing up problem, but changing the theme did fix it. You need to go to the 
Rockbox web site and find where the WPS files are listed for your particular 
music player.  Download a few and install them onto your player.  You might 
have to do some trial and error to see which     WPS file does the trick.  For 
my Iriver H10, I installed the thomasv1 theme. A sighted friend looked at the 
display and he told me the display was turned to a monochrome display.  It's 
not the prettiest thing to look at, but I don't much care how the display 
looks, just as long as it works.  Try this out and see if  it fixes the problem 
you're having.

Michael

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Heath Brown 
  To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:46 PM
  Subject: [blindipod] Rockbox


  when I am playing a song with Rockbox and I hit the play button to pause 
whatever song I am listening to, it no longer speaks to me the menus or folder 
and file names.  Also when I hold the play button for a couple of seconds to 
stop playback, Rockbox freezes, it doesn't do this every time but more often 
than not.  Are there any ways to fix this?
  Thanks,
  Heath