[bookport] Re: Bookport equivalent of Blue Screen of Death

  • From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:19:37 -0400

We need to get that file.

>>> ahart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:41:02 AM >>>
I was just about to report the same issue.  I have some music encoded 
in MP3's.  I don't rememebr how it was encoded, but I believe it is
vbr.

There are certain MP3 files I have which crash Bookport producing an 
error message 100% of the time.
What happens is the following.
I have file advance turned on.
I play my music files.  When particular files are reached, the 
Bookport plays the file but at the end, it does not move on to the 
next file.  Instead, it says
"firmware error in apap.c at line 753.  Press 0 to reset Bookport."
or something like that.  I am not sure that "apap.c" is correct, 
because I had the speech rate cranked up and couldn't slow it down at 
this point to hear it more clearly.

What I did find, is that if I leave BP alone for a good long while, 
or I press DEF, it saves my settings so that when I press 0, i don't 
have to re-enter all my settings again.

If I start playing that same file again, BP will crash with the same 
error message when the file as finished playing and before the next 
one starts.  This happens without fail on the same files every time.

If I turn off automatic file advancement, this problem never 
occurs.  It seems to have something to do with the change-over from 
one file to another.  Perhaps it could be a buffering 
issue?  Actually, in terms of timing, it's not clear to me whether 
the crash occurs at the end of the current track, the beginning of 
the next track or at some point between them.

I am using the latest release version of Bookport, I think that is 
2.2.0.0.  alas, I left the  jolly BP at home, so I can't double-check 
the version number at the moment, but it is not the new beta.

If it would help, I am happy to send someone at APH an mp3 file which 
causes the problem.  I just need to know how to make it available.

Cheers,
Andrew.

At 20:57 03-04-2006, you wrote:
>         Hello.  I was listening to an audio file the other day, not
touching
>the Bookport, when, it said:firmware error in app.c at line 737, 
>press the 0 to
>reset book port
>
>         This was with Firmware 2.1.0.28, after 4700 minutes, or about
78
>hours, of spoken minutes time.
>
>         I'm not going to worry about this occurrence, but thought I'd
mention
>it, for the record, so that if others encounter it, they'll know it
>happened to others.
>
>By the way, pressing 0, reset the bookport to factory defaults, I
plugged
>in my preferences again, and continued on my audio way, so I don't
think
>this was a problem with my flash card.
>-Brian




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