derekcfoley
14th February 2007, 01:48 AM
Has anyone else tried to use their xda exec/jasjar/universal in the car as a music player while using tomtom5. I've been doing this for years with various editions of the xda, using the headphone output to a cheap under dashboard amp - but am getting a bit frustrated with how my old setup doesnt seem to work as well with the xda exec(wm5) and tomtom 5.
I've found that tomtom 5 seems to "hog" all the cpu usuage, which means that whatever music player being used that is running in the background - e.g. windows media or mortplayer for example, it is impossible to have constant playback while tomtom is running onscreen, when each track ends there is a massive delay before the next track starts (sometimes never).
I have noticed though, that if a route is planned on tomtom, then the screen is pressed, then the windows button, and task switching back to the player, that the music player then goes to the next track ok, as long as it is displayed, and tomtom does seem to keep running in the background... but I'd rather see the map display than the player controls!
In the past I did find it useful to map the hardware buttons to each program, but again, it doesnt work unless the animated display on tomtom isnt running - so its damned fiddly. The old hardware buttons on the xda2s were so much easier to press without looking at them, being more tactile. But the exec generally is so much better its such a shame after upgrading my killer app setup now doesnt work seamlessly... what makes it even more of a shame is that recently I got a really cheap 4gb sd card which means there's lots of music to listen to on long journeys.
Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this priority issue? Are there any tools or tweaks that can make tomtom 5 run with less cpu priority?
Otherwise I guess I'll have to resort to buying a cheap sd based mp3 player for the car and some kind of audio mixer under the dash (groan) its so frustrating when this could be perfect if it only worked seamlessly, my old xda2s had no such problems with this setup :(
Regards
Derek
I've found that tomtom 5 seems to "hog" all the cpu usuage, which means that whatever music player being used that is running in the background - e.g. windows media or mortplayer for example, it is impossible to have constant playback while tomtom is running onscreen, when each track ends there is a massive delay before the next track starts (sometimes never).
I have noticed though, that if a route is planned on tomtom, then the screen is pressed, then the windows button, and task switching back to the player, that the music player then goes to the next track ok, as long as it is displayed, and tomtom does seem to keep running in the background... but I'd rather see the map display than the player controls!
In the past I did find it useful to map the hardware buttons to each program, but again, it doesnt work unless the animated display on tomtom isnt running - so its damned fiddly. The old hardware buttons on the xda2s were so much easier to press without looking at them, being more tactile. But the exec generally is so much better its such a shame after upgrading my killer app setup now doesnt work seamlessly... what makes it even more of a shame is that recently I got a really cheap 4gb sd card which means there's lots of music to listen to on long journeys.
Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this priority issue? Are there any tools or tweaks that can make tomtom 5 run with less cpu priority?
Otherwise I guess I'll have to resort to buying a cheap sd based mp3 player for the car and some kind of audio mixer under the dash (groan) its so frustrating when this could be perfect if it only worked seamlessly, my old xda2s had no such problems with this setup :(
Regards
Derek