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Audio playback through Exec speakers: Hardware issue?

I recently upgraded from the XDA II to the XDA Exec.
I'm experiencing a recurring (about every 5 seconds) glitch when using WMP to play back audio files (standard .wav files), stored on an SD card, through the Exec speakers. Playback through the earphones is fine.
I've tried another Exec and the speakers problem is still there, making playback of SD audio files through the Exec speakers unusable. This was never a problem with the XDA II.
I'm just wondering is this a problem with *all* Execs or is there something I've overlooked. If anyone out there has experienced smooth playback of audio files (from an SD card) through the Exec speakers I'd be grateful to hear.
Thanks in advance.

i use WMA files without a problem from SD card. why use WAV? aren't they huge? maybe you're not listening to music then.

i use a wave file as a sms alert on my jasjar and sometimes it sounds like it is stuttering. But only like 25% of the time that a sms comes thru. The file is stored in the device it self and not on a sdcard. thought that it might be related to the amount of programs running in the background.

Audio playback on Exec
Thanks a lot for replies.
skywriter said:
i use WMA files without a problem from SD card. why use WAV? aren't they huge? maybe you're not listening to music then.
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I've tried both WMA files and WAV files: same Exec speaker playback problem (recurring glitch) with both. Interesting to learn that you don't have this problem with WMA files on your device. Is the Imate device identical in every hardware respect to the Exec? As yet I haven't come across, or heard about, an Exec which plays audio smoothly (from an SD card) through the Exec speakers.
Re. WMA vs Wav vs MP3 I occasionally use WAV because, while admittedly the file size is very large, the WAV format, being uncompressed, preserves the CD quality of the original (i.e. stereo, 16-bit sample resolution, 44.1kHz sample rate).
wh1t3w0lf said:
i use a wave file as a sms alert on my jasjar and sometimes it sounds like it is stuttering. But only like 25% of the time that a sms comes thru. The file is stored in the device it self and not on a sdcard. thought that it might be related to the amount of programs running in the background.
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It's playback from an SD card that concerns me as I'd like to be able to store favourite tracks (and possibly my whole audio collection) as WMA or WAV files on an SD card, especially as SD capacities increase to 4GB and 8GB ......

I'd be very grateful if someone with an *O2 XDA Exec* wouldn't mind trying the following and reporting on if it worked for you:
1) Put an audio file (mp3 or wma or wav) on to an SD card
2) Insert the SD card into your Exec and play the audio file back through the Exec speakers using Windows Media Player
Thanks in advance.

Just tried some mp3's from an SD card on my Exec.
They play fine - no glitches, but quality from the speakers leaves rather a lot to be desired. I normally use earphones.
Reteb

Thanks a lot Reteb. Much appreciated.

Tried some mp3 & wav files on Exec, no problems at all. They all play fine over the speakers.

Many thanks Reteb and Yen for testing SD-based audio playback through the Exec speakers. I'm going to go back in and get another Exec and hope for the best! At least I now know that, whatever the problem was, it's not a hardware issue across all Execs.
For the record this is exactly what I did:
1. I put some audio files (wav and wma) on to two different SD cards (a Sandisk card and an SD card I bought from Expansys). There was nothing else on the SD cards.
2. I tried both SD cards in my XDA II. No problem with playback of the audio files (using WMP) through the XDA II's speaker.
3. I then tried both SD cards in *two* Execs. No problem with playback through the earphones but a recurring glitch when playing back the files through the Exec speakers.

Hey I did also and had no problem and infact before now from last 4 months I've been listening with XDA Exec (O²) speakers and never noticed any problem except it doesnt have enough BASS as I'd like to have rest is fine !

Music skips?

Ive loaded a few cds worth of music on my memory card and the music skips with htc audio manager and wmp. IIRC I ripped these at a high variable bit rate.
Any suggestions?
I was thinking of a bluetooth stereo headset but it isnt worth the cost if the music is just going to play this poorly.

I tried playing one of the files directly from the device, still skipped

Now this is odd.
I googled music skipping and ran across a review that mentioned turning on airplane mode to stop the music skipping when sprint was searching for a network. I tried that, music ran fine, then turned airplane mode off, got the replog.exe error I get every now and then and the music still played fine.
I repeated airplane mode on,off got no replog error and still playing fine so far. I'll try it when I'm out and see if there's a difference.
Would making the pagepool size larger help?

argggh - already skipping on another song before I can even get out the door.
and now my storage card is reading gibberish again so audio manager cant detect files
** turns out that airplane mode doesnt always turn on when you click it. Now that I verify the signal meters have an x it appears to have eliminated the skipping.
Is there a solution that doesnt turn the phone and bluetooth functions off?

aikidoka-mks said:
argggh - already skipping on another song before I can even get out the door.
and now my storage card is reading gibberish again so audio manager cant detect files
** turns out that airplane mode doesnt always turn on when you click it. Now that I verify the signal meters have an x it appears to have eliminated the skipping.
Is there a solution that doesnt turn the phone and bluetooth functions off?
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What are you using to play these songs? What other programs do you have installed? I used to have a similar problem. At the time I had PCM keybord was installed and running and using HTC AudioManager. Changing the PCM keyboard to another input method would fix the problem. I think with the new version of PCM keyboard I don't experience that anymore.playing listenning to music. Also Install anewer version of HTC AudioMnanager.
Definitely get the BlueTooth headset. its excellent.

SultanH said:
What are you using to play these songs? What other programs do you have installed? I used to have a similar problem. At the time I had PCM keybord was installed and running and using HTC AudioManager. Changing the PCM keyboard to another input method would fix the problem. I think with the new version of PCM keyboard I don't experience that anymore.playing listenning to music. Also Install anewer version of HTC AudioMnanager.
Definitely get the BlueTooth headset. its excellent.
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I've had the problem with WMP and HTC audio manager. I contacted Sprint and they said it was a known problem and HTC is working on it and they would notify me when that fix was available. We shall see.
It plays fine for music at work. I just need an 8gb card and bluetooth headset. I'm liking the jaybird but we shall see, it's going to be awhile before I can toss down the coin.
ps. I use touchpal

Maybe not the headset. Do Podcasts or streaming audo do the same?

use android?? (if i did somehow get you to use android, go with nand, sd card method sucks)
pro's: more games, apps, widgets, music works, etc
con's: no mms, suckish camera, can't really play videos (do they play fine in winmo?)
those are the only ones i have

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After I unlocked my phone I am having problems with my headphones. Unable to hear music using the HTC headset adapter. Got it from ebay. Used it with my xv6900, so I know it should work. Also when I use the Windows Media Player to listen to music, it takes 5 seconds to switch tracks. Don't know if i have a bad sd card or what. Anyone have problems with this.
Any comments or suggestions much appreciated.
Thanks.

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