[Bug 92055] Player should cache songs in advance of playing them

[Matthias Welwarsky]

Hi,

I've briefly read through the comments on this bug. I think the best way to 
handle buffering is within the play objects. You just have to tell it how 
much memory it is allowed to buffer. This will solve the problem of the disk 
spinning up too frequently. Also, you can apply this concept to video 
playback quite easily.

I don't know how amarok or juk work internally, but it seems sensible to 
assume that there's some kind of playback engine that knows what song is 
going to be played next (even for a shuffled playlist).

You can even go and buffer more than one song in advance, by having a list of 
playobjects for the next N songs. Doing it that way, the disk would only have 
to spin up once every N songs - but believe me, it does not matter much, in 
terms of power consumption.

regards,
 matthias


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