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Option: preload whole track to RAM

Open Soukyuu opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

This is something foobar2000 allows and I find useful with libraries hosted on a network share. Basically, you have an option (under playback tab) to enable preloading files to RAM shortly before the player jumps to the next track, with a text box to specify the maximum size of a file to preload in MB.

In my experience, on cabled network it allows to cache even lossless files without any pause inbetween tracks. Main scenario is to avoid audio dropouts in case the network goes down for a short period of time, or after resuming from sleep (the remote server usually has invalidated your file handle by then).

Soukyuu avatar May 08 '16 12:05 Soukyuu

If this is not possible, then maybe allow some of the cache settings to be changed, from what I can see it's about 500KB currently.

kevinlekiller avatar Sep 16 '16 12:09 kevinlekiller