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[MikeO]

Hi

Just of academic interest 

I am set up to play from memory rather than disc, how does it work does it copy the entire album into memory before starting or is it something more tricky to keep a buffer full to a specific level.

The reason I ask is that I see a long gap on 24/96 files which obviously are quite big . Copying a 24/96 Album into memory is quite a chunk, imagine a double album like Tommy or the like

If the PC is RAM limited in some way does it adjust how it does it ??

Cheers

Mike

[Matt]

Memory playback loads the playing file to memory in the first few seconds of playback.  From then on, there's no disk activity (since it's in memory).

[MikeO]

Thanks Matt

I guessed that much , how does it then handle the second , third tracks etc and keep it gapless ??

Mike

[Matt]

I guessed that much , how does it then handle the second , third tracks etc and keep it gapless ??

Each track is loaded as it starts.  It takes the thread just a few seconds to get the whole file loaded into memory.

[JimH]

It also depends on the speed of the drive.  A NAS would be slower, for example.