Quieten down harddisk

The Stickie · 15th August 2003, 13:02

I don't really know wether this post is in te right place (maybe it should be in development).

Is it possible to make winamp load several mp3's (or other media) into RAM, so that winamp doesn't have to acces the harddrive after every song?

The idea is that if this should be possible, the harddrive could be put in standby by windows (and become a lot more silent).

Idea I (and others) had before: copy the media to a ramdisk and play it from there (but not possible with several gigabytes of music files).

DJ Egg · 15th August 2003, 15:20

MP3:
Prefs -> Plugins -> Input -> MPEG Audio Decoder -> config
General tab: Full file buffering (increase this value)

OGG
Prefs -> Plugins -> Input -> Vorbis -> Decoder -> config:
Decoding tab: Checkmark "Buffer full files from disk"

etc

General buffer/prebuffer settings
Prefs -> Plugins -> Output -> WaveOut (Win9x/NT4) / DirectSound (Win2k/XP) -> config

The Stickie · 15th August 2003, 16:16

that's right, I knew that, but the whole thing is in that way you can buffer 1 file.... where I would want to buffer like 50 files (I have enough ram available most of the time).
In that way winamp could play up to a few hours without accesing the harddrive. Best would be a plugin or something like that that monitors the memory usage and accordingly buffers files into RAM (so that if you're doing nothing except playing mp3's (or other), winamp "caches" files to RAM, and plays it from there)

DJ Egg · 15th August 2003, 16:18

Yeah, sorry, you'd need a plugin or something to do that.... ?!

The Stickie · 15th August 2003, 16:31

yep, strange isn't it ?

The thing is I have a beatiful machine for playing my music, but those files are on a 40Gb Maxtor which creates such noise when spinning up... if the disk could go in standby after a minute(windows can do that

) and winamp could cache about 100-200 Megs, it would play for a few hours without having acces to that disk...

trust me; I'm not the only one with this crazy idea

15th August 2003, 13:02	#1
The Stickie Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3	Quieten down harddisk I don't really know wether this post is in te right place (maybe it should be in development). Is it possible to make winamp load several mp3's (or other media) into RAM, so that winamp doesn't have to acces the harddrive after every song? The idea is that if this should be possible, the harddrive could be put in standby by windows (and become a lot more silent). Idea I (and others) had before: copy the media to a ramdisk and play it from there (but not possible with several gigabytes of music files).

15th August 2003, 15:20	#2
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	MP3: Prefs -> Plugins -> Input -> MPEG Audio Decoder -> config General tab: Full file buffering (increase this value) OGG Prefs -> Plugins -> Input -> Vorbis -> Decoder -> config: Decoding tab: Checkmark "Buffer full files from disk" etc General buffer/prebuffer settings Prefs -> Plugins -> Output -> WaveOut (Win9x/NT4) / DirectSound (Win2k/XP) -> config Playlist -\|- Twitter

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DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Yeah, sorry, you'd need a plugin or something to do that.... ?! Playlist -\|- Twitter

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15th August 2003, 16:16	#3
The Stickie Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3	that's right, I knew that, but the whole thing is in that way you can buffer 1 file.... where I would want to buffer like 50 files (I have enough ram available most of the time). In that way winamp could play up to a few hours without accesing the harddrive. Best would be a plugin or something like that that monitors the memory usage and accordingly buffers files into RAM (so that if you're doing nothing except playing mp3's (or other), winamp "caches" files to RAM, and plays it from there)

15th August 2003, 16:31	#5
The Stickie Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3	yep, strange isn't it ? The thing is I have a beatiful machine for playing my music, but those files are on a 40Gb Maxtor which creates such noise when spinning up... if the disk could go in standby after a minute(windows can do that ) and winamp could cache about 100-200 Megs, it would play for a few hours without having acces to that disk... trust me; I'm not the only one with this crazy idea