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Author Topic: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more  (Read 1741 times)

akhunaton

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Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« on: November 20, 2013, 01:22:14 pm »

Why is it using so much? I have seen it up to almost 2 gigs. It is dragging my computer down.  ?
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Re: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2013, 01:23:28 pm »

Did you turn on memory playback?  Does memory usage change if you minimize MC?
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Re: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2013, 01:30:30 pm »

Yes I had the play from memory checked before and then unchecked it and saw no difference in memory but then I just restarted MC and it appears to be in effect now. Thanks for your help.

Still not sure why playing one song with the play from memory option checked would cause 1 gig of ram to be used.
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Re: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2013, 01:55:42 pm »

Because it decodes the compressed file to PCM, and that's what is stored in RAM.
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Re: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2013, 02:01:34 pm »

ah. I see. thanks
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Re: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2013, 02:07:21 pm »

I don't understand the point of this feature (because I understand how a circle buffer works), but people seem to like it for whatever reason.

MC can output bit-perfect audio either way, so as long as your sound device isn't incredibly broken, this setting should have no impact on sound quality.
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Re: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2013, 02:55:21 pm »

Using a lot of RAM, should not slow down your pc, some projects I made go to 12GB RAM usage
easily without slowing down my DAW. How much memory do you have inside your pc?
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Re: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2013, 02:58:09 pm »

I have 12 gigs of ram. My page file came into effect then my System drive was at 100%. The computer was very slow.
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Re: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2013, 03:01:10 pm »

I don't understand the point of this feature (because I understand how a circle buffer works), but people seem to like it for whatever reason.

MC can output bit-perfect audio either way, so as long as your sound device isn't incredibly broken, this setting should have no impact on sound quality.
This is why I would like to see the option for file caching to return, rather than decoded audio. It takes up far less memory and actually fixes a problem - disk/network access interfering with playback.
Adding the option to cache the upcoming track as well as the currently playing one would really help too.
 
And for what it's worth, memory playback actually causes playback errors for me in MC19. Whenever I play DSD tracks it always skips somewhere in the second half of a track.
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Re: Media Center 19 uses 1 gig of RAM or more
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2013, 03:44:50 pm »

I don't understand the point of this feature (because I understand how a circle buffer works), but people seem to like it for whatever reason.

MC can output bit-perfect audio either way, so as long as your sound device isn't incredibly broken, this setting should have no impact on sound quality.

If you are willing to read a couple of pages that explain the point of this feature, and how - in terms of real electronics - it can make a small and very subtle impact on sound quality, let me know.

Hint - all sound devices are incredibly broken - despite doing a fair job in spite of it.
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