Android: How to adjust how much of a song is buffered?

[tschan]

Hi,

following situation: Lets say my bandwidth is 64 kbit/s and I set the max bitrate to 32 kbit/s. Theoretically I should be able to listen to my music without interruptions.

But the app is downloading almost 700 KB of the song before it starts playing it. At this bitrate that means it buffers around 2,9 Minutes which is way to much and which makes conitnuous playback quite difficult.

After one song ended the app does not immediately starts playing the next, because it has not yet downloaded the 700 KB.

So is there a way to limit how much of the song is downloaded before playback starts with regard to the set bitrate? Like I tell the app that it should only buffer 1 minute and at 32 kbit/s it only downloads 240 KB before it starts playing it.

That would be really great.

[kermit22]

I may be wrong about this, but it always seems to me that it depends on my connection speed. When I am on a fast 3g connection it will only buffer 100k or so but when I am on a slow 1X connection it will download over 500k. Again, this is just from casual viewing of my buffering and I may be imaging things.

[tschan]

Well, I don't know. My phone is connected with HSDPA but my connection gets artificially limited to 64 kbit/s and I experience the above problems.

It is actually quite annoying to not be able to listen to your music without interruptions although all the necessary data is already on the phone.

Is there any way to circumvent this?