Skipping/Stuttering - FLAC to MP3 On-the-fly

[vak01]

I use SVETA to send MP3, Alt Standard, files to my RIO ce2100 unit. I store music files as FLACs on my pc.

I have noticed that IF on-the-fly conversions are used (rip to ram), the final MP3 files skip and stutter as well as sometimes conclude and then a small piece of music concludes again (hard to explain, simply weird).

OTOH, if I simply rip from CD directly to MP3, things are OK. One simple test, not definitive, I went from dbconvert from FLAC to MP3 and I THINK things went well.

Question: Is there a current problem with SVETA FLAC to MP3 convert on the fly system?

Or more likely, I'm doing something stupid.

[LtData]

First, what are your mp3 settings?
Second, what OS are you using?
Third, what are your system specs (CPU speed and type, RAM amount)?
Fourth, are you using the latest dMC beta and Sveta beta?

[vak01]

MP3 = alt preset standard using supplied LAME converter from dbconvert
OS = XP Pro SP1
CPU = athlon xp 2400+, 512MB ram, NO OC.
Using LATEST and greatest software suite from dbpoweramp

[Spoon]

It is likely your portable cannot play Preset standard, try converting that file manually (with dbpoweramp), play it on the pc and send as is through sveta explorer.

What is your portable player?

[neilthecellist]

It says what he uses in his first post, a RIO ce2100 unit

[vak01]

It is likely your portable cannot play Preset standard, try converting that file manually (with dbpoweramp), play it on the pc and send as is through sveta explorer.

What is your portable player?

RIO ce2100

Alt Preset Standard can be played. Performed manual conversion to both Alt Preset Standard and Alt Preset Insane with perfect playback.

To reiterate, the "on-the-fly" conversion from FLAC to MP3 renders the resultant mp3 file corrupt. If that file is played on ANY mp3 player, including the db amp player, the file skips, jumps locations, and effectivly plays a jumble of the song. It may or may not stop in the middle, it may or may not stop at the end correctly and then start playing from a random spot in the song's middle, or it may simply skip certain portions. It's almost like the on the fly conversion process gets confused when putting the converted pieces back together into an mp3 file.

Getting very frustrated with my purchase but willing to try a few more things.

[Spoon]

You are testing this by returning the mp3 file back to the pc, and it skips on the pc?

[vak01]

You are testing this by returning the mp3 file back to the pc, and it skips on the pc?


Yes sir ...

also tested it on a SANDISK 1GB (non-HD player). As a matter of fact, when the SANDISK was installed on the same pc, using the same db/sveta system, on the fly conversion from FLAC to mp3 demonstrated the identical difficulties; skipping and jumbling. Both the ce2100 and the SANDISK 1GB show up as explorer drives so they both use the same sveta "driver".

Also installed the db/sveta software system on another PC (just in case hardware was the problem). Same difficulties ... jumbling and skipping.

Weird, huh? :headbang:

[LtData]

It may be due to the fact that the transfar rate is insufficient as compared to the speed the file is being encoded.

[Spoon]

Speed shouldn't matter when encoding mp3, it is encoded and sent to the memory (after encoding). Have a look in c:\temp\ (or for xp in documents & settings\username\temp) just as the file is being sent to the flash disk there is a temp copy there, do a copy and paste it somewhere else and see if it has skips.

[vak01]

Speed shouldn't matter when encoding mp3, it is encoded and sent to the memory (after encoding). Have a look in c:\temp\ (or for xp in documents & settings\username\temp) just as the file is being sent to the flash disk there is a temp copy there, do a copy and paste it somewhere else and see if it has skips.

OK, but has anyone else had this problem??