Originally Posted by
apastuszak
Ok, let me follow up with the testing I did. To be clear, I am not looking for a fix to make the app work with a 15 year old piece of tech. I just want to record this to see in case anyone else runs into this problem.
I used dBPowerAmp to convert a FLAC album that is 16/44.1 to AAC using the VBR setting and setting the slider all the way to the right to get the equivalent of 320 kbps. I did this to Dark Side of the Moon, because my previous solution would cause my iPod Video to reboot when the first track ended.
I copied this same album over to an iPod Classic and it did not reboot. The iPod Classic has more RAM, so I assumed that the issue may be related to that. I used dBPowerAmp to convert the same album to vbr AAC, but this time I set the slider to 256K AAC and synced those files over to the iPod Video, and again it rebooted. The same files DID NOT reboot the iPod Classic, and I did get gapless playback.
So, then I converted the same FLAC album using XLD to 320K VBR, by moving the vbr slider all the way to the right. I synced those files over to the iPod Video and they did not reboot the iPod and they played gaplessly.
So there is something about dBPowerAmp and the iPod Video that don't play nice together.
Like I said, I didn't buy dBPowerAmp to do batch conversion. I did it to do CD ripping. And I don't expect you to spend resources to try to solve a problem for a 15 year old device. Just wanted this noted to save someone a headache.
If you want me to send you fines, I can post them somewhere, if you're curious, but I don't think this is worth anyone's time.