Anyone using iGO 8

[ckl_88]

I've been experimenting with IGO8 for a couple of weeks now. I'm planning to go on a road trip soon and I decided to try a few things. What I want to do is hook up the Touch to the car stereo and listen to music while navigating.

First thing I did was launch Audio Manager and started playing music. Sounded great through the car speakers. Then I launched IGO8 and chose a destination. It took about a minute and a half for a lock and then Susan TTS notified me over the music of my next turn. Working great so far. The song was playing fine and the 3D map view was smooth and accurate.

Then the next song started to play. About 10 seconds in, it started to skip. It's like somebody was repeatedly pressing the pause/play button every second or so. Then I put IGO8 to the background and the music started to play fine again. As soon as I restored IGO to the foreground, the skipping started again. It only seems to skip when the map is displayed. If I go into the settings, the song plays fine, but when I exit and go back to the map display, it skips.

It appears that IGO8 takes a lot of CPU power to run in map display... Enough to affect the performance of background apps.

I know for a fact that the song is a 192kbps mp3 whereas the previous song was only 128kbps.

So my question is whether there is anything I can do to IGO8 to reduce the amount of CPU usage (something in sys.txt?) or if anyone knows how to adjust the priority of background running apps?

Thanks.