Thank you very, very much for the recent buffering fixes that have fixed the file skipping issue I was experiencing earlier this year. Auto change dir is working as well. It's a preliminary report, but these changes look fantastic and file skipping forward and backward may even be faster than ever before.
I think (apologies if I'm incorrect) Nico_P was primarily responsible for these changes so a special thanks to him.
r17157 on iPod 5.5G 80GB with 12000+ .ogg files at -q7 -q8 and some at -q10, dircache ON.