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New MC22 feature: Play album from memory?

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Blueline:
What does this mean

Memory such as Ram
Memory such as SSD (JRiver move files to an SSD disk before playing Music)

Can you clarify this

JimH:
It means that the file(s) are loaded into RAM before playing them.  Some people think that minimizing disk access during playback improves the sound. 

RD James:
I don't see how it would affect the sound quality at all.
The larger benefits of the proposed changes to v22 are that it will use your RAM more efficiently, can reduce power consumption (allow drives/network connections to sleep), and should eliminate pauses when skipping/seeking.
It will hopefully reduce CPU usage during playback compared to recent versions of JRiver too.

Of course this all depends on implementation. I'm looking forward to when this is in.

Blueline:

--- Quote from: JimH on July 16, 2016, 12:10:11 pm ---It means that the file(s) are loaded into RAM before playing them.  Some people think that minimizing disk access during playback improves the sound. 

--- End quote ---

Perhaps useful for those playing via network or Local HDD, I use SSD to oprative system and SSD to Music Archive.
I guess I have no need for this.

RD James:
RAM is still significantly faster than an SSD and sleeping the drive still matters if you're on a portable device.
I suspect that most people are storing their media on hard drives or NAS devices rather than locally-attached SSDs.

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