Slight blip at start of MP3's

[garbage]

Hi,

On my PMP-120, I get a slight blip for about half a second at the start of 50% of my songs. I asked the people I bought the unit off and they suspected it may be to do with the file size as the unit apparently has an 8MB memory buffer. I've checked the file sizes and there doesn't seem to be any relation between the MP3's that have the blip and their respective file size. By the way, I don't get the blip on the MP3's when played on the computer.

The MP3's are encoded at 128k using Exact Audio Copy and LAME's recommended settings.

Does anyone know what else might be causing this?

Regards,

Han.

[SimonD]

What encoder are you using?? I haven't experienced this myself but I know of people experiencing the same thing on the Archos units, no reason why it does it but I am wondering if it's something to do with the codec and the encoder?

Try seeing what happens if you use DBPowerAmp to reencode the file into say an WMA format, at least if it works on the PiMP correctly you know it's a codec issue rather than a unit issue.

[garbage]

I'm encoding it using LAME's recommended settings. Do you think it is anything to do with using variable bit rates?

Regards,

Han.

[SimonD]

Yes, I have found that generally the devices (Archos in this instance) don't like VBR, try changing it to CBR and giving that a go instead.

[iops]

yeh; kewl idea ppl

[garbage]

Hi guys,

You were right. I've re-encoded my whole CD collection in CBR and I no longer get that blip.

Thanks for your help!

Han.