[Robster1958]

No one talks about it anymore; i guess we have all given up. Do any of the new iPods have crossfade playback ability.?

If not, what are the reasons given for having that capability only on iTunes itself??


Rob

[iCol]

I believe the audio decoder chip in the iPod runs at only 80Mhz to preserve battery life, cross fading would probably take a hell of a lot more processor power, and as such we would see iPod battery performance going down considerably, as well as production costs of the unit going up.

The reason iTunes can do it is that it has a lot of system resources to play with, and now power usage concerns. Thats the difference between a computer, and a hand-held consumer electronics device.

[GORDYmac]

I don't know, iPod is starting to look more and more like a palmtop to me. There must be hardware constraints, as said earlier, because they've thrown everything else in there.

[tooki]

80MHz is plenty to do a crossfade: remember that it wouldn't even need to be rendered in real-time: it could be rendered in the background in the CPU, plopped into RAM, and then just sent to the audio chip when the time came.

Considering how infrequently crossfades are done, adding them would have a negligible effect on the battery, at worst.

It would take no extra components, so it would not raise production costs.


Frankly, I can't understand why Apple hasn't done it already.

tooki


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