@RFB - glad to see it helped
@Frobozz
Don't see why it would be a bug. There would still be some music data retained, memory read or disk-read. You are never really reading from the HD in real time anyways, just a lot more resources are dedicated to "buffered" playback.
When reading from memory, I forget how much >1gb I think, and you go to sleep mode, that song will still be retained after the bookmark. Although, how should I say this and be politically correct, .... lets just say that a lot of people think that their is some reason why memory playback will increase SQ. Normal playback is not accessing hard drives in real time anyways, so its extremely debatable (euh subjective?) that no disc access means better juju for the digital signal. The devs included this because a lot of people wanted this option, not because of a "better" bit perfect stream.
Regardless hard drive "noise" or interference, which ever opinion you have, is not really an issue in a portable that is going to spin up its drives anyways coming out of sleep mode. And most of the time you don't have dedicated laptops for music, you are working on them when you listen. So the arguments for memory playback don't really exist and you are reducing the RAM available for other things on the laptop. Maybe it would help if accessing slow networks or videos not stored locally,
maybe The DAC working asynchronously also does not mean necessarily better, it does mean that the clocks in the DAC chips aren't required to have the same "sophistication" (ok very simplified
) to deal with jitter and noise as it is pulling the information it needs not having everything pushed to the DAC. High end dacs do use this more and more as with good discrete dacs resulting in extremely low jitter coupled with good separation/isolation between the analogue and digital streams.
I really like the guys at Schiit. They have a real sense of humour, and are always trying to make the best things for the price. This might help them to know about this.