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Difference/relationship between Buffer lenght and Read-ahead

I store my music (mostly FLACs) on an external hard drive. If I leave the player paused in the middle of a song, come back minutes later and press play the song will play for a second, stop for two while the hard drive wakes up, and then resume as usual.

Both of these options were left as default on my foobar2000 installation (output > buffer length 1000ms, advanced > playback > buffering > read-ahead for local files and full file buffering up to (kB) : 0).

What are the differences/relationship between these two, and what would be the best option/course of action to prevent this behavior?

Re: Difference/relationship between Buffer lenght and Read-ahead

Reply #1 –
When I was using a similar set up I would just increase the output buffer length to 7000-8000ms. Increasing the buffer length will increase the amount of ram being used by foobar if that is a possible area of concern.
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Re: Difference/relationship between Buffer lenght and Read-ahead

Reply #2 –
Quote from: MetaPixel on
What are the differences/relationship between these two
Output buffer contains data after decoding and passing DSPs. Read-ahead buffer contains undecoded data read from file.

Re: Difference/relationship between Buffer lenght and Read-ahead

Reply #3 –
Quote from: MetaPixel on
what would be the best option/course of action to prevent this behavior?

Make sure this setting is checked:
    Advanced -> Playback -> Prevent hard disk sleep while playing

Re: Difference/relationship between Buffer lenght and Read-ahead

Reply #4 –
Quote from: A_Man_Eating_Duck on
When I was using a similar set up I would just increase the output buffer length to 7000-8000ms. Increasing the buffer length will increase the amount of ram being used by foobar if that is a possible area of concern.
Yes, 5000ms were enough to make the problem go away. Thank you for the info.
 

Re: Difference/relationship between Buffer lenght and Read-ahead

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Quote from: PleasantSounds on
Quote from: MetaPixel on
what would be the best option/course of action to prevent this behavior?

Make sure this setting is checked:
    Advanced -> Playback -> Prevent hard disk sleep while playing

Enabled this a month ago, but on my experience it seems to only prevent sleep... while playing, though it seems like the appropriate behavior.