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.

[aspalaasn]

Originally Posted by 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.

How did you connect it to your car speakers?

[ckl_88]

Originally Posted by aspalaasn

How did you connect it to your car speakers?

My car has both a cassette deck and an aux input jack. I used the usb headphone adaptor that came with the Touch and got a male-male headphone cable and plugged one end into the Touch adaptor and the other into the aux jack. That's one way. The other way is through the cassette deck. I got a cassette "thing" that has a headphone cable coming out of it so all you need to do is insert the fake cassette and the plug the cable into the touch headphone adaptor.

both work fine for me but I primarily use the aux jack.

I've used the FM Transmitter, but the audio quality sucks and there is too much interference... one time I was listening to music with it and then all of a sudden, some indian music started playing... I was like WTF? Turns out the car next to me was also transmitting using an FM Transmitter and coincidentally was using the same frequency. I guess his transmitter was more powerful than my cheapo belkin.

My next car will have bluetooth capability so I will probably use bluetooth when the time comes.