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[forresto]

I would like to commit 20mb of ram to the buffer, about 20 minutes of -q 4 oggs, so that the HD does not need to be accessed all the time.

As of now, the maximum buffer size is 5 seconds.

In the future, can we set the buffer to be much larger?

PS great product

[michel]

I second that. Sometimes I have three simultaneous "playing now" (media server and two clients) so I would like reduce HD head moves using a little bit larger buffer.

[Zoner]

Also, a smarter buffer.  I haven't played around much with this in MC9, but in most programs the buffer is "dumb" in that if you have a 20-second buffer, then the song starts playing 20 seconds after you hit play.  This is of course ridiculous - the song should start (and stop) instantly, and the buffer should fill in the background to a limit of X seconds.

[KingSparta]

>> so that the HD does not need to be accessed
>> all the time.
this is not a good reason, and really is no strain on the HD

a better reason is to maybe overcome some problems some systems may have from time to time.

a 20 meg buffer is a bit overboard

[nila]

Not if you have 1Gig of DDR Ram like me King

My system is always busy with a LOT going on and frequent hard drive reads and writes. I dont mind commiting this much to keeping my soul calm from my lovely music!

[forresto]

Less HD access is a good reason if you want to consume less battery juice.

And I second the smart buffer comment.

[forresto]

Less HD access is a good reason if you want to consume less battery juice.

Like an ipod...