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New -- Playing files from memory
Frobozz:
Is the reason for playback from memory to reduce potential jitter? Reduce potential latency glitches? Reduce HD noise? It all seems rather strange and doesn't make sense to me given how operating systems work and all of the other stuff that is going on in a computer. I don't see it being harmful at all to playback, but I'm not understanding what the benefit(s) could be.
CadErik:
--- Quote from: Frobozz on July 16, 2009, 08:25:08 pm ---I don't see it being harmful at all to playback, but I'm not understanding what the benefit(s) could be.
--- End quote ---
Yeah me either - the disk activity to read flac files or any other lossless format should be negligible.
Erik.
benn600:
Ultimately I think the best solution would be to read everything from solid state, ultra fast memory. I guess it couldn't hurt! But like I said, I would consider enabling it all the time just so *any* hard drive wouldn't have to be scanning for data constantly all the time. It would look between songs every few minutes rather than all the time.
MGD_King:
In my testing I've discovered that there's not as much hard drive activity lights using this feature, nor is there as much network activity lights on my switch when connected to a media server. While the average user may never realize those little things, I think it makes MC more effecient by reading from memory, especially if MC can load up 3 or 4 lossless files (or a whole album of MP3) ahead of time and read it that way. Think of it as a 256 MB buffer for MC. I think it would be cool to be able to select what size of memory you could use for this feature so if you have 4GB of memory, let MC use 512MB.
Matt:
The early builds of this features could cause tagging problems.
Information here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=52955.0
Fix here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=52956.0
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