N900 Music FAIL December 17, 2009
Posted by a1291762 in : Uncategorized , trackbackMy new office is noisy (bugs in trees outside the window) so I’m trying out the N900 as a music player because it’s got noise-canceling earphones.
The earphones feel good in the ear and the silicone cap seals out noise quite effectively. However the clicker is too heavy so you need to have it anchored on your shirt or it’ll pull out the bud. The plug is non-standard (too long) so it doesn’t work in a regular device. I might consider getting a pair of regular earphones like this. I do seem to “hear” anything that touches the cord which can be a bit annoying.
Anyway, the earphones weren’t the worst of it. It turns out the mighty N900 can’t handle playing back my puny 128k MP3s properly. At first I used the media player widget on the home screen but that resulted in the music skipping quite often. Removing that widget from the home screen and actually launching the media player stops most of the skipping. Now it seems to only happen when something specific happens to the phone rather than every now and then. While playing music the whole phone runs many times slower than it usually does. This makes the usual “did that tap get registered?” problem much worse. The N900 will happily queue up taps so you have to be really patient if you try to do anything. I ran top but nothing is chewing up all of the CPU. Probably a latency/buffer problem. This thing uses PulseAudio and that’s widely regarded as a piece of crap.
So N900 as a music player? FAIL.
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