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

  • From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:59:02 -0400

Andrew:

I got the file, thanks. It looks like a pretty normal 192 KBPS MP3
file, the same kind I normally use. This will help us track down the
problem.

Rob Meredith

>>> ahart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/05/06 04:09PM >>>
Rob,


As the file is over 5 MB, I have sent it to you via YouSendit.  If 
you don't receive the E-mail, please let me know.

Cheers,
Andrew.

At 13:08 05-04-2006, you wrote:
>Andrew, if you could do one of the following:
>
>1. Give me all of the known parameters of the MP3 file. Bit rate,
>sample rate, CBR/VBR status, MPeg Level, and such.
>2. Send me the file which crashes. If its too big to send with
regular
>email, use www.yousendit.com and send it to my email address.
>
>I would be glad to see what is going on.
>
>Rob Meredith
>
> >>> ahart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/04/06 10:41AM >>>
>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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