Archos media player - some files don't play

[Steve Grace]

David Fletcher wrote:
> My son bought an Archos 3 Vision a couple of days ago.
> 
> I used rsync to copy a bunch of ogg files ripped from CDs using grip, over the 
> network from my desktop, and onto the Archos. What we find is, some of the 
> ogg files will play just fine on the Archos, and others don't. It just 
> says "Play error" and skips off to a different file. I've been using all of 
> these files on my old iRiver T60 for ages with no problems.

Dave:

I don't have an Archos, but I noticed something similar with the cheap 
"chipod" I used for a couple of years. Ogg files encoded at quality 
level 0 played fine, whereas about half of the files encoded at quality 
level 3 (the default) did not.

Steve