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catawompus:
I have an H340 with the latest current build installed. Sometimes, when I start playing a new album (and only then, never in the middle of an album) there's a short interruption, sometimes two, at the beginning of the first song. It doesn't happen with all albums and it doesn't always happen with the same album. Any ideas what could cause this? Thanks in advance!

bassistguy:
I had the same problem with my Gigabeat F60, and my "fix" was enabling Directory Cache, that way it doesn't have to load song data in to memory at the beginning of each song (I'm assuming that's what was causing the pauses).

Llorean:
Please research what features do *before* trying to explain them to others.

Directory cache caches filenames and paths to files. It makes browsing files easer, and because it maintains a list of all the files in your player, can make certain operations a bit faster. One thing it won't do, though, is affect buffering in any significant manner. When you start buffering, it loads several songs (approximately 29MB) into memory. This means that only every few songs does it need to rebuffer (and thus re-access the disk). Meanwhile, while it's buffering, the load should be pretty constant whether dircache is on or off.

If enabling dircache fixed it, it's not because "it doesn't have to load song data into memory", as it'd be impossible to play songs without loading them first.

catawompus:
Llorean, do you have an explanation for my problem?

Llorean:
No. If I'd had an answer, I would've said it.

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